Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Taylor

For a small indigenous Caribbean chain to get to the level where it can win those management contracts, we have to start somewhere.

Manny Acta

This is the real kind of Caribbean World Series, especially having Cuba in there.

Amy Ziff

Despite trend-setting travelers spreading the word about exotic destinations around the world, many people still choose to visit the same destination year after year. Even still, international travel is on the rise, with the Caribbean and Europe leading the way for 2006.

Valerie Hudson

Purchasing a suite at Point Grace means not only owning a piece of Caribbean paradise, but also owners have the opportunity to be a part of an established property with high-levels of service.

Miguel Tejada

It was the same. In the Caribbean Series, you've got to play hard every inning and every out is important.

Zorol Barthley

Cricket in the Caribbean is steeped in tradition but we are operating in a global marketplace and we must keep pace with international standards.

Jonathan Carroll

With gas prices hitting record levels, consumers need to secure their fall and winter 2006 vacation now ... We are expecting an increase in fuel surcharges on international flights as well as domestic and Caribbean for the upcoming season. This will mark the third fuel surcharge that consumers will be subjected to in 2005 alone.

Johnny Depp

Is that savvy for you?' - Pirates of the Caribbean

Robert Miller

To become single market ready, Jamaica passed the Foreign Nationals and Commonwealth Citizens (Amendment) Act, which removed the work permit requirement for Commonwealth nationals and the Caribbean Court of Justice (Original Jurisdiction) Act, in 2005.

Michael Gallelli

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

Bill Gates

We're going to gain a lot of share here. We're going to make a lot of consumers happy.

Leo Hindery

would be one of the greatest displacements of high-quality (cable) programming -- one of the rudest things I can ever, ever imagine for consumers in this country.

Kurt Barnard

We found out, from talking to consumers and store operators all over the country, that low-dollar items went very fast. Forget about high-end items.

Jonas Persson

We find consumers very reluctant to pay for new services at all. Corporations are more willing to pay for new services. And from corporations, come consumers who have gotten used to using the services at work.

Scott Hoyt

Year over year, the data shows, this will be the strongest holiday season since 1999. But because consumers have been spending since September, there's not much pent-up demand. Consumers have already spent up demand.

Ken Woods

We're getting people to be consumers of our information. We're telling them what's going to come next and rewarding them as we go on.

Rick Dudley

At a time when rights fees are escalating and sports sponsorship as a first-tier marketing strategy requires greater accountability, it's imperative for marketers to have a tool that can truly help them harness the power of sponsorship to differentiate their brands, grow sales and engage consumers in meaningful ways.

Kurt Barnard

A terrible problem for retailers is that most stores are evoking yawns from consumers, instead of excitement. Retailers just can't keep making the mistake of taking customers for granted by selling ho-hum kind of merchandise. Consumers are looking for unusual and exciting products and they're not finding them.

Maajid Nawaz

The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.

Adi Godrej

We started the 10/10 objective in 2011, and that time, our turnover was about Rs. 15,000 crore. We would like to have a turnover of Rs. 1,50,000 crore by 2021. This will be through high growth in domestic and international operations as well as through acquisitions.

Attorney Garnati

We have scraped together the $9,500 to keep the doors open until March 31. We need a miracle to save our domestic violence program, and in turn, save women and children.

Bill Cheney

With today's report, the odds of a negative quarter of GDP (gross domestic product) growth have increased substantially.

Tsuyoshi Segawa

With the year-end and new-year retail sales showing good results, the market mirrors optimism about the outlook of domestic consumption.

Homi Kharas

As poverty comes down in the region, we are likely to see a shift in the drivers of growth from exports more towards domestic demand.

William Sullivan

They may wait until after their second-quarter (gross domestic product) report comes out because if the number is strong, trying to slow down the yen will be an uphill battle.

Salvador Zamora

It's the first of its kind in a domestic law enforcement setting.

Charles Schumer

The report is a top-to-bottom indictment of the federal government's lack of resources, focus, and expertise in fighting the domestic war on terror.

Stephen Reitman

We have moved to expectations of a loss of 100 million euros for the fourth quarter of this year from Chrysler, whereas we had previously been expecting a small profit.

Edgar Gonzalez

When we got here, we were expecting to win and we wanted to win. Right now, we are just trying not to finish in last place. Maybe we can get (a win) out of this.

Carolyn Kwan

We're still expecting one more rate increase and I think this probably should not have too much of an impact overall.

Thomas Finlan

We are also expecting several teachers to retire.

Jim Fisher

We're keeping an eye on the situation. We're expecting more rain. The ground is totally saturated.

Copeland Bryan

We're expecting to see a lot of the same we saw from Utah and Purdue, that same sort of option.

Larry Baker

We're expecting to see a lot more foot traffic than usual, ... Trash bins and portable toilets will be available.

Brad Anderson

We're expecting to grow to 230 by the end of the year.

Chris Hoy

We're expecting to go home with some medals.

Charles Dickens

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

Charles Spurgeon

For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.

Charles Spurgeon

Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.

Alan Rickman

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

Alan Greenspan

Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity. Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.

Alan Greenspan

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.

Alan Arkin

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.

Al Stewart

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

Al Pacino

I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

Phil Gee

There is no plan to reduce flights out of Pittsburgh. We are pretty pleased with what we have now.

Punky Moore

What's in this for us is it gives us a new way to monitor some of our fires. You don't always want to put people in those areas, and it reduces the number of flights we have to make to get a good picture of what's happening.

Margot Robbie

It's just terrible: I miss flights all the time, more than I probably catch one.

Salahuddin Haider

They need flights to go back and it will take some time.

Michelle Duffourc

They have 13 flights a day and had 60 before the storm. They haven't come back as much as we hoped or expected.

Mike Byers

The report is false. All of the morning flights (over the southern zone) were uneventful.

Christina Monacelli

The shortest little flights are a lot (of hassle).

Tad Hutcheson

That's why we put a limit on the number of flights you can earn.

Daunte Culpepper

Dr. (James) Andrews recommended a therapist in Orlando, and I've got a one-level house here, so I don't have three different flights (of stairs). There's also no ice on the ground, because if you slip, I'll be right back in surgery. It's better for my knee to be here.

Carrie-Anne Moss

Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.

Martin George

We have seen a massive increase in fuel prices.

Ali Larijani

We have said long before that the matter of research is not part of the negotiation, research has its own meaning and it has nothing to do with producing fuel industrially.

Steve Williams

We want more from the chancellor. We are not happy with the levy on fuel tax.

Daniel Gorrell

What they've got to do is talk about fuel efficiency.

Bill Richardson

We're getting a head start in meeting the president's objectives of protecting Americans from possible fuel supply disruptions this winter,

Mike Rizzo

We're hoping to be able to offset the price of fuel ... by having more passengers ride ... instead of having to raise fares,

Connie Brown

A lot of people are rationing fuel out.

Bill Douglass

This dislocation in the Gulf is not going to go away quickly, ... For the marketer, it's a nightmare. You don't know how to price the fuel from day to day.

Brett Favre

Until power is hooked back up, until there are places where you can go get gas and you can go get something to eat, I'm better off being here.

Jeff Bell

We've always planned on gasoline being over $65 a barrel,

Brad Dean

We're not anticipating any sustained impact on tourism as long as gas prices come down to a reasonable level.

Francis Gaskins

They have high-quality natural gas there, and it's just in the right place at the right time.

John Lichtblau

They (drivers) are not going to substantially reduce gasoline consumption.

Tom Snyder

They should stay the same. Gas prices go up and down. There are no long-term projections.

Bill Richards

They say this station has pumped gasoline for over 50 years. I hope we never stop.

Jerry Taylor

It's not really a compensation for higher gas prices. It's simply a please-vote-for-me-in-November payment.

Don Rogers

It's the last holiday and I think people will be out here regardless of what the price of gas is.

Shawn Russell

We started hitting our outside shots. That opened things up on the inside.

Johnny Richardson

At first I thought it was kids playing around, but then I realized he was hitting his grandmother with a pipe.

Holly Misto

They played man-to-man and we did a better job of hitting the outlet and pushing the ball.

David Boydstun

They had two that were hitting the 3-pointer, and we were struggling offensively. We just couldn't get into a rhythm. We went back to the press, running off steals and rebounds. It looked like we took their legs away in the second half.

Holly Misto

They were hitting some long shots there at the end.

Conchita Johnson

They were hitting on all cylinders. Turnovers really hurt us, especially in the first half, and they were able to turn a lot of those mistakes into points.

Cliff Thompson

For a stretch, Nephi started hitting everything he threw up there.

Ryan Martin

I tried to use the screens and use my speed to get open or get into gaps. Once Will started hitting I just had to keep getting him the ball.

Barry Bonds

It's all right. I'll turn it around. I ain't hitting anything.

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Rep. Heaton

What we're offering is a three?year program to increase the funding.

Jeff Rubin

What we're looking at this year is an exponential increase in interest in alternative spring breaks.

Carol Evans

We're seeing a big increase in these benefits. Flexibility is the number one program parents are looking for in the workplace.

David Gray

We are already seeing an increase in milk consumption.

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

Tracey Mills

What's on the increase is kids getting on mailing lists.

Chris Williamson

As we saw last month, there were signs of increased overseas spending on UK services.

Jeff Cogen

As revenues have increased, Mr. Hicks has increased the payroll accordingly.

Andrew Zimbalist

Until the L.A. market is settled, I don't think there's any other market out there that stands a chance.

Mark Bryant

While Mark and I share the same loss, we do not share the same experiences,

Peter Cardillo

We're seeing some profit taking but a strong build-up in inventories could send the price of oil under $60 and that could reverse market psychology.

Margaret Whitman

We'll see which one of those works for us and is cost-effective and that's how we'll refine our marketing mix going forward,

William Shakespeare

The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.

David Gross

AARP does not think the solution is to regulate drug prices. We think there are market solutions.

Steve Cernak

A big part of our market is people who don't want to fly.

Patricia Chadwick

It's just another number that the market will go through.

Jim Hertel

It's as competitive a (grocery) market as you'll ever find in the U.S..

Andrew Harrington

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

Judith Miller

I used to say, 'Are you kidding?' about some prices for collectibles. I don't anymore because anything that screams its era is collectible.

Don Bowers

This is serious. By Thursday or Friday, street prices will be around $3 a gallon.

Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Cherry Hill

The prices are like the Energizer Bunny: They just keep going and going up,

Alvaro Bandeira

There's prospect that iron-ore prices will rise this year.

Peter Luxton

There's no urgency for them to do anything yet as prices are in the range they want.

Mark Sullivan

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

Jessalyn Gilsig

I sketch while I'm on set, and it's a way for me to record all of the locations I've been to. I don't keep a diary but a sketchbook.

Marian Seldes

I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.

Big Sean

Yeah, I record on voice memos. I got like 1,000-something memos. If I'm in the middle of something and I can't get it done, I'll jot it down, but I never write a rap out, ever.

Stephen Harper

When we have an election, the government's record will be back on the radar.

Carl Hiaasen

My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

Jam Master Jay

With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot.

Edwin Starr

It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

Cheech Marin

We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and then our master Satan can return!

Bo Bice

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

William Shakespeare

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.

Larry Wade

We always look at how secure the berth is and what it can withstand,

Rick Comer

Secure the ball, get it out and don't pivot with it because they're pressuring us.

Kai Holm

If we take a look at security right now, this place is probably the most secure place in the world.

Bob DuPuy

We haven't secured it in other stadium deals,

George Herbert

Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

Evan Benjamin

They got in some pretty big plays. I thought we were stout in getting them into third down and in second-and-long, but they made some pretty big plays.

Lofa Tatupu

Third downs. That's all I'm going to say.

Matthew Stafford

Third down and long is the toughest situation for any offensive coordinator in the NFL.

Robert Adler

It's the third week of outflows we've seen.

Paul Duca

It's the third time I've done it. It doesn't feel weird any more.

Chris Sanders

This is the third year I've been in business.

Jack Roush

This is the third time this week you've tried to get my goat,

Ben Roethlisberger

This is the third one. We've got one more to get. One more.

Dusty Baker

It was a tough day to be a third baseman.

Ed Helms

You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there.

Betty White

Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment

David Allen

Isn't it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They've cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, renewed old promises with themselves. My most basic suggestion is that people should do that more than just once a year.

David Knopfler

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.

Dave Barry

During the warm season (August 8 and 9), Maine is a true vacation paradise, offering visitors a chance to jump into crystal-clear mountain lakes and see if they can get back out again before their bodily tissue is frozen as solid as a supermarket turkey.

Barbara Kingsolver

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

Celine Dion

It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.

Arianna Huffington

I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation.

Dan Ariely

We don't really want a huge house, but we want the house to be slightly bigger than our neighbors, and a car that is bigger than our neighbor's, and they're going on vacation that's slightly more expensive, and this escalation happens that things got out of hand.

Charles Dickens

One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word 'necessary' is wholly foreign to God.

David Hobson

I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.

Diablo Cody

Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

Cecilia Bartoli

The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.

Carrie Ann Inaba

One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

Charles Baudelaire

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom

Bill Watterson

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

William Shakespeare

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid