Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Heimlich

The load factors are unprecedented, and in a pre-9/11 environment, this would clearly be a boon to (higher fares). With the way things are, we are only getting a modest (fare) benefit.

Stefan Bielmeier

Accelerating world trade is proving a boon to German exports. The recovery is broadening; no doubt the optimism is warranted.

Michael Covington

It's a boon for income, but it's gotten so high so fast, we're waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Anthony Wright

It penalizes California for doing such a good job of negotiating drug prices. It was supposed to be a boon for California. Now it's created a . . . budget hole.

Roy McFarland

Wayne is having a good season and his wealth of experience is a really boon for our younger players - both on and off the pitch.

Pete Spear

An end to litigation with Microsoft is not priced into the stock. If Real gets a big payout, which Microsoft has been doing, that could be a boon for them to help fund growth,

Michael Chapman

November 14, 1996 was proclaimed David Boon Day in Tasmania, but was later overturned by the federal government as it was a ridiculous idea.

Susan Adams

It would be a great boon to the community.

Richard Kinder

This is a place where you really are what you achieve in Houston, and that's a tremendous boon to this town. I think you'll find people who have succeeded because of that kind of open culture.

Ben Dogra

Jon enjoyed the visit with the Jets. They did an incredibly good job with the visit. They got his attention. But his comfort level is in Philadelphia. Going into this I thought it would be between money and comfort level, in that order. Comfort level clearly proved to be more of a factor. He just decided signing with the Eagles was what he wanted to do.

Bob Dorfman

He did everything right in Turin. He was even crying on medals stand. He lived up to the hype. He's clearly comfortable on camera. You'll see a lot of him.

Gene Russianoff

He clearly still harbors a very personal grudge from the December negotiations. And that doesn't augur well for the near future.

John Remington

He clearly does not want to get in the middle of the parties and leave them worse off than they were. He will do everything he can to coerce a final settlement.

Andrew Steer

There are still 60,000 people in tents today and that's clearly unacceptable a year after the tsunami.

Jeremy Grantham

History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.

Doug Porter

It clearly shows that the U.S. economy is very strong and isn't slowing down. That doesn't bode well for the possibility of inflation and it doesn't bode well for the outlook for the U.S. dollar.

Vivian Stringer

I thought West Virginia really deserved this win. I think their team clearly wanted it more. They worked hard from the beginning. I think they played with a great deal of heart and determination.

Jon Gruden

I think the only difference between Culpepper and Donovan McNabb is that Culpepper is like Shaquille O'Neal back there. He's really big. This guy's a freak. He's a great player clearly in the prime of his career.

Jay Brown

He wants the place to feel like a family environment.

James Sarni

What will keep swap spreads from widening dramatically is that we are still in (a relatively) low yield environment.

Deb Patterson

I thought about the fans and how incredible it was for us to have competed in that environment. I thought about our players and just how proud I was of how tough-minded they had become as competitors and how happy I was for them. I thought about our staff and how hard they've worked.

Mary Walker

It gives our workforce a great opportunity to expand their knowledge within the normal working environment.

Daniel Nepstad

There is a notion that the presence of people can be harmful to the environment. But this is not always true.

Nina Totenberg

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

Russell Baker

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

Viola Spolin

If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Will Durant

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Robert Waters

I think it's a combination of factors like fuel prices.

Keith Greene

There are so many other factors we have to address. Homophobia is something we have to address.

Quinn Pitcock

It comes down to really guessing the right play at the right time. The defense, the will and then raw talent. Those are really the true factors when it comes down to it.

David Sims

He had a paucity of risk factors for having an event,

Jim Rink

In Michigan, we only have one refinery. The other two factors influencing our prices are that there is a lot of speculation taking place on the commodities market and that there are a number of refineries that are having to shut down temporarily to switch their production to the summer-grade gasoline blends.

Richard Church

The consumer's been out in force for several months, ... all of these factors have contributed to very robust sales at retail.

Donald Harris

It's so different this year, and a lot of factors are contributing to it.

Justin Glover

The value of the home is just one of many factors in determining rates.

Kelly Clarkson

I don't really exude that 'it' factor.

Brian Stewart

It can load any standard truck on the roads today with any standard ramp.

Toney Baker

I'm loaded with bait. I have a bait-cast rod, not too many people know how to use those.

Charles Brannon

You concentrate on the traffic. If you don't, you're going to be right next to the animal. I just go out and get it, load it and go to the next one.

Larry Coker

You can't take everybody, for whatever reason, be it you're loaded at that position or whatever it might be. They've got players who could play for about anybody. That's the thing that you see, that they have talent. That's Florida.

Brandon Flowers

We're loaded with talent down here, but if that's the coaches' decision, you have to respect that. I still think they can do pretty well down here.

Bruce Carter

That's real good. It takes a lot of the load off of me. I'm rooting for them. As long as they keep running, I'm happy.

Wanda Hartman

All of our trucks are loaded up and pulled out about 10 minutes ago.

David Russell

It's the same-old story for us. No one has taken the (scoring) load off (Dudley).

Alan Curbishley

They are exceptional. They've posed loads of questions for everyone in the Premiership, and it's up to the big teams to respond.

William Gilmore Simms

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

Sarah Fielding

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

William Hazlitt

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

Erich Merkle

I think October was the bottom. It could pick up modestly in December.

John Adams

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

Josh Bolten

These are not cuts, these are modest reductions in the rate of growth.

Mark Twain

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.