Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virgin Blue

Having secured over 30 per cent of the Australian domestic market, we are now focused on strengthening our network, developing our product for the business market and steadily building our presence as the low-fare value-based carrier in our region,

James Hogan

It is a big rally in terms of the Australian market.

Paul Donnelly

In the Australian context there have been hybrid securities for corporations for 10 years. In Europe, this is a brand new, exciting market.

Alexander Downer

In addition, I will express Australian support for international efforts to meet the pressing humanitarian problems facing North Korea.

Jim Hunt

In the 1990s, they came in here and took out all of the plants that were not native to Florida. But little by little, some trees like the Australian pines and the Brazilian redwoods have reappeared.

Geoff Pollard

His creativity and energy helped elevate the Australian Open to be on a par with the other three grand slams and set a benchmark for major sporting events in Australia and around the world.

Justine Larbalestier

I remember that feeling when I was a young reader: finding books that were set in Sydney with Australian characters was incredibly exciting.

Patrick Swayze

I'm looking to shoot a movie in Australia. You've got to look outside of Hollywood if you want to find people with passion. I've actually got an idea for this friendship that happens with a couple of Australian natives and an Australian guy and an American guy.

Mark Cowan

Importantly, we're taking Mark to the Tigers semi-final game on Tuesday to show him the current standard of Australian basketball.

Ed Perkins

Greed on the part of banks is never surprising. Fortunately, not all the cards are doing it.

Yoji Takeda

It gives the impression Koizumi wanted someone who has political clout and who can support his structural reforms. Merging or privatizing government-affiliated banks will be positive for commercial lenders and brokerages because it will mean more business for them.

Luis Gutierrez

Our bill ensures that national banks will be bound by state consumer protection laws, including predatory mortgage lending statutes.

Chris Hoofnagle

Retailers and banks are trying to pass a law that's much weaker.

Zeng Jun

Remember, interest paid to banks only comes back to you in the form of a billing receipt. Nothing else...

Richard Hunter

If you imagine all the speculation we've had in past months with banks, then not one is off the possible-target field. All banks are put into that play.

Jeffrey Sachs

If the whole world went into recession, all the major central banks could cut interest rates and expand the money supply.

Nicolas Schlotthauer

Indian banks will continue to keep up at a steady pace with issuance of dollar-denominated bonds, especially with demand for such paper still there.

Jeremy Sueur

I like the banks, they're cheap and there's a desperate need for income in this market and the banks offer it.

John Ruskin

It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.

Leo Nesmith

In this position, if you can't multi-task, you would struggle. Your time is divided in so many arenas.

Najib Mikati

I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.

Thelma Underberg

At one time the Legislature was pretty evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. But through redistricting, they managed to get rid of a number of women ... (who) were progressive.

Hayes Harbour

We furnished the farm house and the land. They furnished the labor and the equipment and then we divided the profits. It was a perfect arrangement.

Keith Boykin

We are part of this family, and we will not be divided by any person.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

John Davidson

There are some worries about will the earnings this year support the 2-1/2 year highs that the indexes have recently reached, particularly in an environment where interest rates will be rising.

Jon Burnham

I think the earnings are going to be better than expected, but I don't know whether the market's going to rise on that.

John Davidson

I think that overall we are in for a pretty good earnings quarter, and that may be a positive for stocks.

Laura Conigliaro

HP's fundamental earnings power highlights that this is more than just a restructuring story.

Roger Altman

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.

Robert Campbell

Our much improved earnings resulted largely from the strength of refining margins during the quarter,

Phil Roth

Investors are going to be surprised when we get a string of stronger economic stats. But we might have to get through earnings season before that happens.

Soichiro Monji

In the past, I think there had been low expectations for Kyocera's electronics parts business, so I think investors had gradually started to view it as one of the losers in the tech sector. In that sense, these earnings are a positive surprise.

Denis MacShane

He never used the phrase 'ethical foreign policy'; instead, he said there should be an 'ethical dimension' to foreign policy.

Jaime Salazar

Being hungry is something you get very used to in the French Foreign Legion,

Margaret Thatcher

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

Mark Twain

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Porter Goss

foreign policy team was all on the same page.

Colin Lundgren

Foreign investors will still get a lot of yield comparatively in the U.S., so we could see them buying.

Hideo Mizutani

Foreigners have, thus far, made a lot of money by investing in Japanese stocks which were relatively cheap.

Soichiro Monji

Foreigners are selling and it seems that Japanese investors are also getting rid of stocks because they are worried about selling by foreigners.

Rahim Safavi

We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that.

Dave Curry

There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.

Bradley Hunter

When home prices are so much higher than median incomes, it makes for an unhealthy economy.

Josh Bernoff

I thought they would start higher and work their way down. The problem is, you can't go up.

Sarah MacQuiddy

I think we'll have to push the higher ed piece.

Tong Lixin

In South Korea, short-track speed skating is the popular sport, just like the table tennis in China. The level of its young skaters is much higher than the youth in China, where the sport is only practiced in two provinces with about 300 registered skaters.

Mitsushige Akino

Higher oil prices and a strengthening yen accelerated selling.

Gregory Klump

In general, the higher end of the market is holding up much better than the lower end.

Ben Shapiro

In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in the United States.

Albert J. Nock

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

Satoru Iwata

We don't think it's necessary to do the simultaneous worldwide launch simply because others are doing this.

Michael Mosley

A lot of producers and creative types want to see you be you. Throw something else out there and show them where you would take this part. A lot of them are launching shows for the first time, so they've got a lot riding on this, too, and they want you to be their flight.

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Paul Reiser

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

Charlie Smith

Her performance really surprised me, considering she's on a taper for states.

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Jim Tracy

I think the personnel is here to get that done.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Steve Tisch

I think that's the perception and I'm not saying it's not accurate.

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

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.

Robert G. Allen

Your network is your net worth. How do you value your network? Well, if you don't value it, cultivate it, nurture it, it becomes worthless. If you do value it, it becomes priceless.

Darren Benitez

I had some songs in that I had wrote, you know, priceless to me.

Guy Quaden

The first risk is the price of oil.

Rachel Barnard

You can't put a price on that kind of publicity. It's huge.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Michael Right

It's not a question of if, but when (the price will drop).

Deutsche Bank

Take profits after a very strong share price run.

Richelle Mead

Everything Iʹd been taught about eluding someone came rushing back to my head. What I wanted to do more than anything was look around and see if I had a follower, but that would have definitely attracted attention.

Sarah Dessen

If you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's enough - more than enough, even - just to be there.

Nina Simmons

There is not really a way to stop them - if they really, really want to rush the court.

Steve Wilson

A thank-you to all of you who rushed to Kersey and valiantly searched for Sam,

Camille Paglia

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Mack Brown

We didn't want to be stubborn, ... We rushed for 145. We'll take that.

Suzanne Vega

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

Tom Robbins

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.

Mark Pellegrino

When you're up against the clock and break-outs are happening, all the time, and it's literally rushing in on you, you do what you have to do.

Bob Curran

He did shoot around with us. He seems to be fine.

Tony Oller

Let's be honest, Netflix has stepped up its game up. It seems to have a lot more of an assortment of stuff.

Hans Blix

I think it seems ... they are making an effort.

Kristan Higgins

I think it's always interesting to learn what the seemingly spontaneous one-nighter actually reveals about a character.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

Dominick Romero

I don't know what that was. Zone or man, it didn't seem to matter.

Craig Bellamy

He doesn't seem too worried about anything or overawed,

Joe Torre

He doesn't seem to be overwhelmed by it.

Yogi Berra

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

William H. Gass

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

Seth

It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.