Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Nothaft

As a matter of fact, it looks as though 1998 will register the lowest annual mortgage rates in 30 years.

James Richardson

We are suggesting the factory itself will support 1,527 direct and indirect jobs with an annual impact of $51.5 million.

Bobby Hatfield

My wife was diagnosed with lupus 16 or 17 years ago, and that's how I kinda got involved in it. I just finished my fifth annual Bobby Hatfield Classic Golf Tournament, and happily I can report that we raised over $52,000. Through the years we've raised not only through the golf tournament, but through other charitable concerts, we've raised over $600,000.

Martin Ellis

The annual percentage increase in house prices nationally in 2005 was the smallest for 10 years.

Toni Simonetti

The annual meeting used to last eight hours. I think we've come up with a pretty elegant solution. Now we can get to the grass-roots shareholders without a lot of contrived filibustering.

David Begleiter

The annual general meeting May 4 is a date where the things will be resolved, one way or the other.

Alan Nevin

The annual demand for new homes in California continues to be in the 240,000 range, but the home building industry is able to provide only 80 percent of the total need.

Valerie Whittlesey

The annual country study program, called the 'Year of ...,' has attracted regional and national attention. Over the last 20 years, the number of international faculty and students has soared, as have the numbers of our faculty and students who have had international experiences. Similarly, the campus community has become much more diverse in its racial and cultural representation.

Tom Rex

The annual change can't stay this high. Maybe for another year, but it will have to slow.

Carolyn McLaughlin

I understand we have a lot of streets to repave and not a lot of money in the budget.

Tom DeLay

There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.

William Stewart

(Residents) have to recognize the selectmen drive the manager in this town. Budgets are not made up at the last minute . . . If you're going to make changes you have to make it at the selectmen level.

Alan Ackerman

One more solid salvo from the Fed, combined with a tax cut, could be the combustible combination to get the market going.

Jorge Sampaio

combined the public exposure it received from its musical success with the protection of humanitarian causes.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Under President Obama, we have spent more money - he has spent more money than any other president in this history, actually, the combined total from Washington up to George W. Bush. President Obama has racked up more spending, $1 trillion deficits. And it's time that he join us in this effort to get our fiscal house in order.

Patrick Casselman

The earnings evolution is definitely slowing in Europe. Combined with rising interest rates and an excellent performance over the last few months, we can expect the market to take a pause.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Eric Stern

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

Stephen Bernstein

But at least we have the federal judge saying he should be released.

Chris Henson

It's been very labor-intensive, and it's also a situation where there's been some very tight federal deadlines.

Patty Clary

It won't, because federal law protects us from variances.

Jacob Lew

It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.

Michael Chertoff

Unless it can be credibly established that a mobilizing Federal resource ... is not needed at the catastrophic incident venue, that resource deploys,

Dan Lipinski

With the overall size of the federal marketplace expanding, we should be seeing opportunities opening up for our nation's small businesses.

Peter Takirambudde

People are being terrorized by federal police working hand-in-glove with local officials and militias.

Dr. Ratard

No such outbreak occurred because of Hurricane Katrina.

Michael Chertoff

We are going to be very prepared for Hurricane Wilma.

Mitch Frazier

There is not the hurricane protection here that there once was. It is significantly compromised. The hurricane level protection we have had here prior to Hurricane Katrina will not be able to return. It will be years, not months.

John Franklin

It's not so much Katrina as a phenomenon as it's Katrina as a metaphor for what our society has become. It reflects; it's a mirror of what we've become - super-extraordinarily complacent.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Jeff Linenfelser

We put a lot of time in to get him ready. He was 100 percent ready for the fight. What are you going to do?

Pat Griffin

I'd say I spend 90 percent of my time in the Terrain Park.

John Smedley

I'd say we're about 70 percent of the way there.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Lori Anderson

We still get 100 percent of what we were owed.

Hamilton Jordan

And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

Shaun White

I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.

Michael Ian Black

The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

Tom Taulli

Seven years ago Buy.com had sizzle. But this doesn't have a lot of sizzle to it.

O. Singh

Seven shots around here is not much at all,

Mike Hathaway

I'd say right now there are seven teams (that could win it).

Walter Scott

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

David Cameron

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.