Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Thomas

The bottom line is, if the service pay works, the constable with 15 years' service won't be too worried about promotion because it will put him above the young man who is promoted to sergeant.

Carrie Graf

Our aim was to try to keep our head above water. Unfortunately, our head was under water. But we went blue in the face, we came up for air and we're going OK now. We've learned to swim.

Lin Wood

Despite their threats and assertions to the contrary, the AJC, its attorneys and its employees are not above the law and the authority of the court,

Matthew Parry

Despite our belief that crude prices will slowly trend down over the remainder of the year, further escalation in the U.N.-Iran standoff could quite conceivably send oil to a new record above $70.

Martin Charnin

'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

Doug Kelly

A rainbow is a full circle of light centered around the point opposite the sun, but grounded we can only see the arc above the horizon. You can only see a rainbow with your back to the sun.

Ameen Rihani

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

Ann Davis

Anything from grass to bushes to wildflowers will grow in the earth above the houses about the second year after building,

Joseph Suhayda

Anything above a couple of feet per second is extremely difficult to wade in. To operate a boat in anything close to 10 to 15 feet per second is extremely difficult. Being in (that kind of) water is tantamount to being dead.

Ray Emery

As an athlete, you have confidence in yourself all the time. I didn't really realize I was going to play this long.

Laura Harper

Our confidence in overtime is out of this world.

A. Johnson

Once we didn't hit a couple of shots, for some reason our girls' confidence went down. There were shots we should have made that just rolled out tonight. East played great defense, but I thought we had some good looks.

Bob Kummer

Developmentally, we still are growing. We still need to learn how to play together and gain confidence together. But we are more hungry and knowledgeable, I think, this year.

Gabe Gross

I've always had great confidence that I can hit at this level - not only hit, but do very well at this level. Hopefully, this good start can lead to good things and a good year.

Vaughn Taylor

A day like (Thursday), you make nine birdies and it's really tough to go out the next day and do the same. I still rolled it pretty well, still have confidence in my putting. I've just got to give myself some more chances.

Kelly Scott

It was the only shot to make and we made it perfectly. We saw that spot a couple of times earlier in the game so we had pretty good confidence on how it would react. We had luck on our side with the way it reacted.

Hilary Clinton

This is not a game. This has to be a serious inquiry that people have confidence in that will help us understand what did go wrong. The sooner we know that, the better.

Nick Swisher

The way things have been going, to pull off a win like this gives us momentum and confidence. The way it happened was cool.

Ken Heebner

Open the hood of a hybrid car, and you'll see the copper wire in its electric motor.

Nick Moore

This was a short-term technical move, but might give a taste of what could happen in copper when the funds try to exit the market.

Tony Lesiak

We expect earnings to improve sequentially in 2006 predicated on higher copper and zinc price realizations.

William Adams

Plastics are being used instead of copper tube, aluminum is replacing copper conductors, steel/tin, plastics and glass are being used instead of aluminum packaging and plastics and different types of coated steel are being used instead of galvanized steel.

Toni Sacconaghi

A workforce reduction of 10 to 15 percent (3,800 to 5,700 people) now seems more likely, but may not be enough to satisfy current investor expectations.

David Haas

The swap in principle is well-founded, but as it currently stands, some of the other processors represent higher-growth opportunities.

Bill Ayer

The steady demand for our product in the face of fare increases indicates that the market currently is less price-sensitive that it has been in the past. It also tells us that we are hitting the mark in delivering customer value.

Kobita Desai

The mobile phone market will see a growth of over 50 percent year-on-year in the next two years. The industry will have 125 million subscribers by the current year end.

Olli Rehn

We should either have the constitutional treaty in force or we should decide how we amend or develop the provisions of the current treaty,

Sergey Lavrov

We think that the current situation permits us to develop this issue and do everything possible within the means of this organization, without referring this issue to other organizations now.

Derrick Brooks

This was about helping the team and putting us in the position to keep a lot of our players here that we currently have and, at the same time, give us something to go get a player that we felt could help us win a Super Bowl. That's the way it's always been when I've done this, a two-way street.

Taizo Nishimuro

The Tokyo Stock Exchange is currently implementing various reforms at a feverish pitch.

Fred Fox

Those are tracts that we think pretty much obviously have strong conservation values. Those values are protected under the current ownership and there is also public access.

Robert Jones

As directed in a letter on March 7 demanding payment of wages, arrangements have been made to ensure that all employees are paid wages owed them.

Mirko Mikelic

People are very surprised that there is strong demand out there. There's still a strong housing market.

Eivind Reiten

Demand for energy will double in the next decade. Energy supply is fundamental to societal value.

Scott Browne

Strip away inventories and the government sector, and private-sector demand really wasn't that strong -- private-sector sales were up just 0.8 percent. We're still in a transition phase and not on a sustainable growth path yet.

Wendy Seltzer

Rather than demanding that 60 million people sharing music files turn themselves in with a so-called 'amnesty' program, the recording industry should take this opportunity to make file-sharing legal in exchange for a reasonable fee.

Joe Breschi

The schedule is the toughest we've had in years. The staff and players are excited about having six night games, as well as a number of great teams on the schedule. Each week will be demanding and our guys must be focused and prepared for each opponent.

John Pomfret

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

Sushil Koirala

This is not enough, the King has not addressed the minimum demands of the seven-parties alliance.

John Coffee

This is not a populist demand for reduced compensation. This is a demand for more accountable compensation that in effect allows investors to relate pay to performance.

Jan Leroy

The mood is very positive. Earnings are supportive.

William Hummer

The third quarter earnings have been fairly well received and I think there will be anticipation that fourth-quarter earnings could be better than expected,

Jim Volk

Right now the perception is we are not going to get the earnings recovery we thought we were going to get.

Takashi Ushio

Right now, the market is showing a positive reaction to yesterday's earnings results. But investors are also in something of a wait-and-see mood, as we have earnings from industrial electronics firms tomorrow.

Brian Gendreau

Practically in every quarter lately, we've had this feeling that we're at the peak, this is it, no more growth. That's why you see a lot of volatility but, ultimately, the Dow or the other indexes end up not having moved much. But one day we may see earnings growth decelerate, and it could be this year.

Walter Winnitzki

These stocks are pretty much earnings driven. If the earnings come through, I think the stocks are going to move higher and, on balance, I think we are in a healthy environment, which bodes well for stocks in this whole group.

Donald Selkin

The stocks that are benefiting most from better earnings are the small and mid-cap ones.

Rolf Elgeti

The valuations are still not a problem, earnings remain strong, M&A is still in the picture, interest rates in Europe are still not a threat, and this should help markets go higher.

Andrew Walker

This earnings increase is the highest we have seen since 1999. It has been growing much faster than inflation.

Will Whitehorn

Let me be clear, this is an estimate only,

Gary Samore

No one can estimate with any precision how long this will take,

Tim Deal

I estimate that Apple's server revenue is less than 1 percent of the company's total revenue.

Chuck D.

I would estimate about 95 to 100 miles per hour. I was able to match his speed for a short period of time to get video.

Patricia Olson

O ctober 25th, estimated before we'll have power or water or anything,

Camilo Aguirre

We estimate the first phase will take 18 to 24 months to complete.

Paul Stromberg

We estimate that we could see a further 50,000 refugees arriving.

Mark Godwin

We estimate that could keep 200 people from spending the night in jail.

Nancy Mathis

We estimate that, at the $1,000-or-less threshold amount, approximately 950,000 taxpayers will be eligible.

Michael Ching

We expect to maintain our estimates at $1.05 a share for 2000 and $1.43 for 2001, so Motorola remains the most attractively valued stock in our universe, at 23 times 2001 EPS estimates.

Ralph Acampora

In technology, I think I would go with the big ones. I'd go with IBM ( IBM : Research , Estimates ). That would be my first pick in the technology area.

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.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

John Eaton

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

China Anne McClain

On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

Wolfgang Thierse

I see no truly persuasive reasons to overturn this decision.

Archie Manning

You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Brian Brohm

That's what Mike's going to do. He's a big guy. He'll pound away and pound away.

Carnie Wilson

Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

Baltasar Gracian

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

Paul Bello

During the season, (May through July), we go through 3,000 to 4,000 pounds of ribs a week.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

John Gunter

I would've never thought that 40 pounds would make that much of a difference.

S. Walker

You don't have to be 6-4 and 280 pounds to be a kicker,'' he said.

Josh Young

I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.

Rachel Hunter

All you need is a bad angle and suddenly youre 30 pounds overweight.

Aditya Mittal

As our stock price improves, so does the value of the offer.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Al Gore

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

Paul Walker

As things stand at the moment, I would have said a realistic rally in the price is up to $500.

Janet Ray

The record price we see today, I believe, is not the end.

Matthew Alexy

Everything is going down: the price of the dollar, the price of stocks, the price of bonds.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Frank Verrastro

My sense is there's going be another price spike.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

The Mighty Hannibal

I always put dance stuff out because you have to work, man. You have to eat. You have to compromise sometimes to make it. I had to make sacrifices, and I had to raise my children.

Brian Rose

We don't think the BOJ will raise rates at all this year.

Peter Cardillo

Very well managed, ... I just yesterday raised it to a 'strong technical buy.'

Sally Field

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person.

Shawn Miller

He started to raise it and we all ran. We scattered. It was panic.

David Rosen

I didn't inquire about any costs. If I did that, I wouldn't have had time to raise money.

Walter Mondale

Mr. Reagan will raise taxes; and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

W. Clement Stone

Stand up. Raise your arms. Repeat after me: I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!

David Gregory

I will yell. If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don't appreciate, then I will raise my voice, because that's wrong.

Patrick Stump

Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.

Alfred Hitchcock

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

Richard E. Grant

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

Jean Fernandez

I always said that we had a team to target the top five.

Rob Bell

The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks." (On the "benchmarks" used by George W. Bush

Nyla Milleson

It may be the first year we play without a big target on our backs. They will like that challenge. I think it will be good.

Milton Friedman

The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did.

Ashleigh Brilliant

To always hit the target, throw a dart, then call whatever you hit the target.