Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive Smith

As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).

Don Brash

As expected in November, growth in the economies of our trading partners has continued to be sluggish.

John Roth

Nortel Networks had another quarter of outstanding growth, which reflected our continued market leadership in key growth segments, ... In particular, our optical Internet, wireless Internet, and high-speed local Internet solutions revenue grew at rates of more than 150 percent, 18 percent, and 80 percent, respectively, over the second quarter of 1999.

Michael Hughes

The momentum of the first quarter has continued into the second as signs of economic growth become more prevalent.

Todd Lewis

During the last 20 minutes of negotiation, he started responding. He had had the firearm to his head or in his mouth the whole time, but he moved it to his lap. We continued to speak with him, trying to coax him out. He finally complied without incident.

Gunter Thielen

During the first half of the year, Bertelsmann established the foundations for continued future growth, ... I am very pleased at our improved return on sales.

John Davidson

Despite the decline, the ISM report was very positive, and what you can take away from it is that the economy is continuing to expand. The question for 2004 is whether that continued expansion has already been reflected in the 25 percent returns you saw in stocks last year.

Jonathan Miller

Despite some lingering trepidation due to mixed local, national and international economic conditions, the Manhattan housing market continued to improve.

Frederick W. Smith

Despite uncertainty related to Katrina and other economic conditions, we remain optimistic about global trade and expect continued economic expansion in the U.S. and in the international markets.

Jay Zwally

The study indicates that the contribution of the ice sheets to recent sea-level rise during the decade studied was much smaller than expected, just two percent of the recent increase of nearly three millimeters a year. Continuing research using NASA satellites and other data will narrow the uncertainties in this important issue.

Sam Singer

The team is continuing to push the stadium forward.

Graham Colton

The songs seem like they are continuing to evolve, they seem like they're continuing to be written.

Alan Bollard

The most serious risk to medium-term inflation is the continuing strength of household spending, supported by a relentless housing market and rapid growth in mortgage lending,

Edgar Dworsky

Stores are continuing to make their policies more restrictive and more complicated.

Sean McCormack

So there are projects that are continuing with USAID money during this period of the interim government, but there is also a review process that is ongoing that would cover proposed or new projects." ()

Buffy Baker

Right now, they are still continuing to figure things out on their own. That is, in my opinion, just doing a better job of getting out of ourselves, and focusing more on our opponents.

Greg Aiello

The Saints represent Louisiana and New Orleans, and we are continuing to keep a focus on the region's needs and the role of the Saints in the recovery.

John Osborn

I've seldom seen the likes of this continuing fine stretch of weather.

Joe Humasti

Radford had a really good run. He skied really well despite the conditions.

Kenny Tang

Profit-taking dragged the index lower. But funds are still in Hong Kong and are helping support the index despite the pressure on stocks to trade lower after the weak showing of overseas markets.

Al Goldman

Our economy is doing well despite what is going on in Asia, and with any signs of improvement from there, it could be up, up and away for us.

Kent Early

Offensively I was more pleased with her than her pitching. She led off and went 2 for 3. She competed, despite all this (bad weather) that's going on. I'm proud of her. She's a competitor.

Gurinder Kalra

Despite the stock's strong performance in recent months, we are reiterating our outperform rating and are raising our price target from 660,000 won ($ 673.43) to 770,000 won.

David Townsend

Despite the sound of 40,000 gallons, not a whole lot of stuff was released here through that hole.

Kenny Tang

Despite the rise, there was consolidation and profit-taking after an eight-day surge.

Alan Greenspan

Despite the rise in oil prices through mid-August, inflation and inflation expectations have eased in recent months,

Alberto Ramos

Despite the recent pickup, total investment spending in the economy is still lower than the level of 2001 and, as a share of GDP...below the 1997-2000 average.

Allan Meltzer

The name that's on the economy is Greenspan. If you want to step back and say Gore's responsible, it's hard to make that connection.

Mark Knold

After operating in the mid-3 percent employment growth range for the first half of 2005, the Utah economy unexpectedly jumped upward during last year's third quarter.

Maureen Allyn

Realistically, they've done a lot already. The economy may be sleepy, but you don't need to hit it with everything you've got.

Roberto Sanchez

Things are changing. It's a local economy. In other places people don't know their neighbors. They don't know their names. People don't say 'hello' to each other. Not here.

Lawrence Lindsey

The world's problems are starting to infect the U.S. economy,

David Toung

They all had pretty good numbers this quarter. It's very simple: people have money. Jobs and the economy are doing well.

Toshihiko Fukui

The world economy is running smoothly at the moment but there is a need to see what kind of risk factors there are,

Goolam Ballim

The world economy is entering a global monetary transition that will see incremental monetary policy tightening resulting in reduced global liquidity.

Raghuram Rajan

The world economy has proved tremendously resilient over the last few years.

John Stewart

The expansion of airports is guaranteed to increase emissions.

Ian Forrester

However, in the future, IKEA will keep an expansion speed of opening one or two stores each year.

Kelvin Stokes

Katy is an expansion team, but they look tough. We've got to go in and be physical. If we go in and start slow, it could be a long night.

Anita Frazier

The real story for 2005 was the incredible expansion of portable gaming.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Richard Martin

The worker shortage is more severe this year than last and will be more severe next year.

Charles Ward

This is as much snow as we've seen in the last 15 years, and we got it all in one whack.

Richard Yamarone

This is Greenspan?s last hurrah. The swan song for the big guy.

Mike Griffin

This is going to be the last hurrah.

Patty Murray

This is not the last word on this issue,

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Dr. Seuss

And will you succeed? Yes! You will indeed!(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed).

Kristine Fauerbach

And when I have sales I promote them at 50 percent off that price.

Bob Johannessen

We could provide prescriptions, but at 100 percent state expense.

John Scales

We could only get to about 40 percent of the city, ... The remainder is still under water.

Tom Moody

We do not want to risk Chaminda (Vaas) unless he is 100 percent fit.

Brad Schneider

I'm 100 percent in support of women's rights, the right of a woman to make her own choice.

Tom Daschle

As a veteran, there is no question that I stand strongly with the troops,

Sean Avery

No question that this is a way (for the league) to do something to me,

Pete Carroll

No question it helps. I wish I had two weeks for every game.

Stephen Hess

No question about it. It is overwhelmingly the issue.

Klaus Wowereit

No question about it, it is a glitzy scene but that is also part of Berlin,

Bob Goin

The stakes are higher, ... There's no question about that.

Allen Mesch

The summer's going to be without much question very bad.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Apolo Ohno

The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he speak English?' Yes I speak English. Yes, I can.

Craig Thompson

The state of your psyche is reflected in your body.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Dwayne Andreas

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

Robert Scheer

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

Charles Parker

They called 911 and reported it to the police,

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Bill Clarke

That's where we are now. You take what they give you in this offense. That what we saw and worked with it.

Josh Rodriguez

I understood completely. If I were a coach, I'd do the same thing if I saw the stats I've had lately.

Brian Brohm

You saw once we got in there we can pretty much do anything we want to.

A. Hodge

You saw how it ended. I don't think you can say we are not able to play with them.

Carl Sandburg

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

Alan Vega

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Ilya Yashin

I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.

Imtiaz Ali

Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

Elena Roger

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

Joe Paterno

I don't think I deviated from what I'm all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.