Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Rodrigo Rato

oil prices have become certainly a threat to the world economy.

Tom Stoppard

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

Marc Berman

Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience.

Brad Rubin

The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say.

Jerry Colangelo

I've spoken with Shawn some time ago and he certainly indicated he wanted to be a part of this thing. He's the kind of individual and player who personifies what you want to represent you.

John Buckingham

These companies have tremendous financial ratings, and certainly their dividend is secure. These are slow, stodgy stocks that are going to reward you.

John Barth

These commodity costs are still something we're wrestling with, but it also gives us opportunities to have different discussions with our customers than certainly we could have had a year ago. We're in a very good position to continue to invest in that business.

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

John Gerzema

Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.

Bruce Evers

Companies haven't assessed the damage fully and it may be that refineries stay shut for months. The European Union is moving crude and products to the U.S., but at some point it's going to have to replace that, leading to higher demand in a marketplace that is already very tight.

Chuck D.

Companies are willing to pay a higher price to be in those locations.

Boris Boehm

Companies are restructuring to make themselves fit for the future. Investors are looking for companies that are engaged in that process. It's a positive.

Joseph Beaulieu

Companies that do really well either minimize something like prices, or maximize something like luxury. It's the companies in the middle that are going to be squeezed.

John Caldwell

Companies that are reporting good results are being rewarded, but it's not really having too much of a carryover effect into other stocks,

Bud Lachel

Competition is a good thing to have, but you have to keep everybody happy.

Jim Gray

The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.

Chuck D.

It was a huge step forward for our program and our school for the type of competition we're in.

Todd Bertuzzi

I sincerely hope Steve Moore continues to progress and is back in competition soon,

Julie Withington

They also have year-round swimmers, and they give us some good competition. We expect to have another good meet.

Steve Olson

We have a pretty good shot at doing well at the regional on Saturday. We've wrestled strong competition all season, and that helps this time of the season. Realistically, I would like to think we can get eight or nine guys through, maybe even one or two more.

Paul Buck

We have pretty good competition between about 10 guys,

Eddy Cue

Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

Alan Greenspan

Competition is the necessary driving force toward delivering a superior product or service, ... We should not shy away from it.

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Michael Chambers

Real discretionary spending has been cut to the bone. That would gel with the sense we get in Indonesia of a very sharp drop in consumer durable purchases, motorcycles. If you go to electronic shops you'll see a sharp decline there as well.

Anne Sweeney

The strategic utilization of new technologies to meet consumer needs is of paramount importance to the growth of the Disney Media Networks Group.

Eric Wold

A few years ago the big question was could IMAX get Hollywood content on their screens and theaters to sign up. But studios now see the value of putting movies on IMAX screens since consumers have much better home theaters.

Carrie Johnson

the wealthy, time-strapped consumers are looking pretty good right now.

Marc Desmidt

You only have to look at consumer electronics, to look at what Samsung's doing, to worry about Japanese consumer electronics companies,

Steven Wood

This will offer some partial restraint to consumer spending.

Gary Miller

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

David Krell

When the markets get frothy they can disappear. When the markets are frothy is exactly when consumers need them.

Michael Otto

One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.

Ken McBride

We ran a first market test in 2004, and we estimated that a third of the total images -- a third of the total sheets we printed -- were in fact corporate logos.

Roger Read

Generally where you find the top guys, you find the corporate offices relocating.

John Hall

Most people see through these issues but the corporate media doesn't reflect these sentiments.

Donald Selkin

Markets are going to drift in this range ... until corporate profits and GDP (gross domestic product) start to improve.

George Carlo

If I was a CIO or corporate IT manager, I would make sure my employees used them safely; they should all have a headset,

Ken Georgetti

How much more evidence does the government need that across-the-board corporate tax-cuts are a drag on the economy?

Debora Spar

If corporate profits do go down, it's highly likely that we could see the U.S. tumble into a recession.

Shukla Bose

I'm not a trained academic. Neither am I a veteran social worker. I was 26 years in the corporate world, trying to make organizations profitable. And then in 2003 I started Parikrma Humanity Foundation from my kitchen table.

A. Hodge

Despite the tax cuts passed by the federal government, Americans will spend more on taxes than they spend on food, clothing, and housing combined.

O. Singh

A rapid reduction to operating costs, especially through job cuts in France, may not be feasible.

Henry Willmore

And the main reason for that will be the job cuts that enabled firms to do a more effective job of holding down labor costs.

Fred Lewis

The system is the problem. It's not the people. Whatever we paid them, it would be well worth it to cut them from being subsidized by private interests. It's wrong.

Carl Laundrie

The storm is eating up our dunes. It has cut up right next to the road.

Carole Strayhorn

It would be wrong to use this session to only cut property taxes when Texas needs long-term solutions for our fundamental priorities.

Brandon Sanderson

Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren't the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.

Aziz Ansari

Whats the worst that could happen?! The worst that could happen is he could cut off your legs and use them to make stilts that look like legs!

Ayn Rand

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

Mike Greene

This is huge for the town. We will now use this Internet utility for economic development and distinguish ourselves.

Wang Ziqiang

This is not because of foreign pressure. This is about the country's economic development.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

Mir Nasir

The miserable power situation must improve to help sustain our economic growth.

Thein Sein

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

James Gaston

You can't do right by the students in an economic vacuum,

Tom Schrader

We had such big gains yesterday that it is not unusual for us to consolidate a little bit. Then, oil's down but gasoline is up and that is counterbalancing each other. The economic news we had this morning was less than inspiring.

Lauryn Hill

I had an economic system imposed on me.

David Emery

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Cheech Marin

It was about taking the show and shining a different light on it. Each monologue was like a separate jewel that I helped thread into a necklace.

Pat Riley

I should have played him in New Jersey. I regret that. He could have helped on (Vince) Carter.

Karen Brown

I should have helped in some way. I should have put my life on the line.

Peter Diepenbrock

They all helped out on (Gordon). From top to bottom, this was truly a team effort.

Tricia Gaither

This is the first time we've had him for a whole year, and his program is one of the best. I think the sport specific things he does have helped me a lot and our team a lot.

Bruce Cunningham

This is special for him. He tried to stay with Shawn and that helped him stay focused.

J. M. Roberts

That's like saying you shouldn't nominate Roberts because he helped with Roemer v. Evans,

Kim Cattrall

I actually think 'Sex and the City' helped share how complicated it all is, to be a wife, a mother, and working, and a sexual being.

Stephen King

...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.

Ivo Daalder

He has become a symbol of our inability to solve the problems in the Balkans. We would like to get rid of him but at the same time we are not willing to take the kind of military and other measures it probably would take to get rid of him.

Tony Gerlicz

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Elaine Chao

This has been an across-the-board gain, ... All that (data) bodes for increased hiring.

Mike Lomas

There will be an increased interest from visitors who want to know how to get in this club.

John Douglas

The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004,

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Ratner

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Brian Sandoval

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

David Liston

BOI needs an acquisition to maintain its growth,

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Peter King

There is a very serious question as to why the records are not going to be maintained on American soil subject to American jurisdiction.

James McHugh

We have a message to suggest there are ways to maintain these costs.

Martin O'Malley

Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.

Andrea Hirata

The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Willie Randolph

When you don't get calls, then you don't pitches where you want them to be. But overall he pitched pretty well.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

The Mighty Hannibal

I always put dance stuff out because you have to work, man. You have to eat. You have to compromise sometimes to make it. I had to make sacrifices, and I had to raise my children.

Brian Rose

We don't think the BOJ will raise rates at all this year.

Peter Cardillo

Very well managed, ... I just yesterday raised it to a 'strong technical buy.'

Sally Field

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person.

Shawn Miller

He started to raise it and we all ran. We scattered. It was panic.

David Rosen

I didn't inquire about any costs. If I did that, I wouldn't have had time to raise money.

Walter Mondale

Mr. Reagan will raise taxes; and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

W. Clement Stone

Stand up. Raise your arms. Repeat after me: I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!

David Gregory

I will yell. If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don't appreciate, then I will raise my voice, because that's wrong.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

Richard Jefferson

It is better. It is more a stiff back, it is not spasms anymore.