Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martha Hill

It's the sensation of an elephant sitting on the chest, crushing it, a coldsweat and pain running up the left side of the neck and down the left arm,

Aidan White

This is a vicious witch-hunt aimed at crushing the voice of dissent.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Natalie Cole

The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.

Bob McKillop

Dials hurt us, primarily on the offensive glass. That's where his crushing baskets came.

Michael Bennet

We've got a lot of work to do: not only on education, but on the economy, on our tax code, and on reducing our crushing debt.

John Norris

We'll have another tightening or two and then the Fed can pause. Twelve weeks from now, the Fed will hopefully see inflation is not terribly different from now and is not going to risk crushing the economy with more rate hikes.

Dan Castellaneta

Life is just one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.

Tom Drohner

I think people are going to find out about her very quickly this season. She has a great swing and has been crushing the ball.

Matthew Smith

The perception that the U.S. economy is a runaway freight train is mistaken -- things are slowing.

John Davidson

The ongoing issues are the strength of the economy and whether or not the pace of the recovery is in fact slowing down. One of the important things this week will be to see the extent of the damage.

Sidney Taurel

We are seeing a very resilient economy and one that seems to be growing in every part of the world. Just about every region is growing and it's very encouraging.

Shahab Jalinoos

There are some fears that the post-war U.S. economy still finds it hard to go back into full gear.

George Rose

We're in a global wine economy now. If you're out of grapes, you're out of grapes.

David Rosenberg

When you think of all the fiscal and monetary stimulus we've had, we should have the economy growing at 5 or 6 percent. The fact that we're not is the story.

Helen Sharman

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

Patricia Russo

We have seen China's economy growing at 8-9% over the past few years and in particular within the telecom industry there has been rapid developments in technology and innovation enhancements,

Doug Porter

We have seen a string of numbers that suggest the U.S. economy is losing some momentum, which really is a perfect environment because it's not as if growth is grinding to a halt.

David Hockney

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

Trot Nixon

We started off sluggish. But we fed off our fans.

Diane Swonk

We have seen a softer tone in their write-ups. I think there is a real sense that the Fed is going to stay on the sidelines.

Jason Chaffetz

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

Trevor Hoffman

When your horse is out there and pitches his butt off, my job is to nail it down, ... We would've liked to have fed off Jake's energy. The kid threw the heck out of the ball.

Mark Vitner

There is no operating manual that says what a neutral fed funds rate is, but the Fed knows that it's higher than 3 percent,

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Larry Wachtel

We remain in a stimulus vacuum and the underlying motif this week will be the Federal Reserve meeting next week.

Amy Hill

We always get a lot of last-minute registrations. Hopefully we are on target to reach our goal.

Chris Johnson

We struggled last weekend at Jacksonville. Hopefully this will jump-start us to have a strong end of the season.

Bruce Steinbecker

We have to have a short memory and be able to come back ready to play (today). We have to learn from our mistakes, and hopefully we'll get it fixed.

Kevin Bentley

We're starting history, and we're getting this thing rolling. And hopefully we'll be able to do that for years to come.

Maureen Brunt

We're going to soak it all up and hopefully we'll do well.

Robert Shivley

We're going to reevaluate him in 10 days, two weeks, and hopefully he'll be ready to go by then.

Jim Nestor

With those two, with what they create, hopefully they're going to get a lot more scoring opportunities.

Tim Hearn

We're still short because, we've got a lot of refineries out so there's still some upward pressure there, but I think as things get back on stream hopefully we can get back to a better equilibrated pricing environment.

Matt Doherty

We've got be smarter and hopefully we'll be smarter when we get into league play.

Hiroshi Arano

Worldwide, inflation is going to be the big story next year. For Japan, that's going to be a big positive.

Bruce Alston

We're seeing a tickling of inflation in the pipeline but it's not going to be passed on to the consumer.

Adolf Rosenstock

They've been wanting to tackle upside risks to inflation for a long time and now they're seizing the opportunity.

Anirvan Banerji

There will be a time when inflation will turn around.

James Bianco

There really isn't anything in this report that suggests that inflation numbers are going to turn for the worst.

Bill Cheney

There really is no inflation at the wholesale level.

Cameron Bagrie

The risk profile for inflation is just too significant to ignore.

Stephen Halmarick

First-quarter inflation won't trigger a near-term rate hike. But the bank's statement on monetary policy in May will reinforce their inclination to raise rates, maybe even harden it up a little.

Glenn Miller

There's no question that inflation has occurred, and $75 million is not the same today as it was then. That said, from where we sit, what's past is past.

Alan Watts

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Paul Light

They've been getting slower and slower, and the vacancy rates have been climbing.

Mark Kantrowitz

It's a no-brainer at this point. You want to consolidate before rates rise,

Robert Brusca

It's a surprise -- we thought the unemployment rate would be edging up.

Michael Lewis

We probably won't need a rate rise now until September,

Douglas Duncan

Rates are going to stay at these ranges for awhile.

Tim Shaw

Rate has to be part of the solution for Florida.

Jeremy Friesen

The view on where U.S. rates go seems to be most contentious.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

Alan Watts

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary...

Alan Greenspan

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.

Alan Greenspan

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

Alan Greenspan

Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices, ... This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

Al Pacino

The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

David Viscott

If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

Bear Grylls

Without risk, there can be no growth.

Bear Grylls

If you risk nothing you gain nothing

Phil Dinsky

There's nothing terribly wrong with it. It's going to be re-formatting it and updating a little bit.

John Schneider

'Gut' was my nickname. And I was picked on terribly by many, many kids.

Mike Hargrove

I don't know that he was awe-struck, but he was terribly excited.

Oriana Fallaci

It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

Roilo Golez

I'm terribly disappointed with (Marcos). But that is her prerogative,

Nastassja Kinski

I'm not terribly consistent, and that worries me.

Anna Chancellor

There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.

Antony Gormley

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

Steve Smith

Twelve and five. That's a big difference. You can say what you want about us, but we can play.

Alice Hoffman

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

Sophia Loren

I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.

Ray Bradbury

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

George Wald

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

George S. Kaufman

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

J. D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]

Mary MacLane

I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.

Joe Riley

We're going to try it for two weeks to see if it works.

Annika Sorenstam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,

Lori White

They thought in two weeks it would be in the back of the closet.

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.