Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ned Rifkin

It both included things from the studio and the real world of the studio right into the realm of pictorial creations. And that step -- even though it sounds simple and looks very humorous and benign -- it was so radical at the time that it forever changed the history of 20th century art.

Al Goldman

I think the main thing that's going right for the market is that we still have a very healthy economy, with rising earnings and benign inflation. On a technical side, I think the correction ended three weeks ago. The market has been slowly recovering its sea legs. We had five days up in a row on the Nasdaq composite, and that is the reason why the profit taking yesterday. But the big picture still remains very positive,

Stephen Wright

Reasonably benign economic environment, nothing too threatening with either (political) party. . .either party coming in will still mean continuation of reasonable economic growth.

Stephen Stanley

Clearly, Fed officials are more worried about the threatening things that they see (energy spike, eroding slack, etc.) than the benign core consumer price index readings.

James Crosby

Impairments have been very much in line with our expectations. This will continue in retail terms to be a very benign credit cycle,

Stuart Hoffman

Inflation, it's been a clean sweep for July. We learned earlier this month wages were unchanged, yesterday producer prices fell again, and this morning you're right on the money, relatively benign consumer price inflation report. No problem.

Lara Rhame

Inflation is looking more benign outside of the energy sector.

Arul Chinnaiyan

Initially, we envision this new test could be used as a supplement to PSA. A physician might suggest a patient with an elevated PSA have this test before a biopsy to better determine whether it's a cancerous or benign condition. In the future, I think this could replace PSA.

Tom Higgins

The Fed's statement turned out to be more benign than people were expecting. Before the meeting, people were thinking the Fed would be more hawkish but their comments seemed to suggest that they were not overly concerned about inflation,

George Hodgson

I would sign up for the view that industrial, 'old economy' stocks could well be the next to move higher. But I don't see a definitive move until we see some of the economic data in July.

William Dunkelberg

Katrina does put a wrinkle in the outlook. But the survey data indicate strong third and fourth quarters.

Greg Schulz

Keep track of the patterns. This won't stop just one instance of data loss -- this is for recognizing ongoing issues with your security.

Sam Stovall

I think investors want to see improvement in the economic data so that the feeling is that the Fed doesn't need to lower interest rates. That in itself is a positive.

Alex Li

I think investors have their eyes onto...the host of economic data for next week, which will probably be more exciting than this week's.

Jim Zeigler

It can be a watershed district, it can be a school district, it could be another state agency. Just about anybody, if we have good samples, can submit data and we would use the data for this program. So when we talk about who's contributing, it's a really wide range of folks that are doing that.

George V. Higgins

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.

Marten Mickos

There are specific situations where an existing database is too expensive, too difficult to maintain or is for some other reason nearing its end of life. That's where migrations make sense,

Larry Ellison

We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database 12c, and our programming language brand is this thing called Java.

Dana Johnson

Knowing what I know right now, I think the Fed will probably tighten again,

Peter Cardillo

I suspect the main focus of the day will be the Fed minutes. It looks like we'll get a strong start on the strength in overseas markets, but we'll probably be trading sideways until the minutes are released.

Allen Sinai

I suspect that on Fed decisions, the president has been very much influenced by Mr. Greenspan. Greenspan and Cheney go back.

Lee Humphrey

I think it kind of lifted our team up and we fed off his energy.

Kim Maher

I think it got to the point where we just got fed up. It was a gut check.

Megan Smith

I actually think that working in the federal government, or state or local, is one of the most significant things that a technical person can do.

Barack Obama

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

Karon Bradley

He didn't look too stressed about it, so we just kind of fed off him. I talked with him a little bit. I knew.

John Lonski

He didn't give the impression that the Fed is panicking.

Fumihiko Kawano

Just talk of the hurricane weakening was enough to push up the dollar.

Julie Gerberding

I think it is really important to remember that when this hurricane was coming, we actually didn't know where it was going to go,

Ron Planting

It all starts with Hurricane Katrina. We lost about 10 percent of our U.S. refining capacity. We've taken a major hit. Distributors are having to pay more for their supplies.

Janet Callison

There are still vast neighborhoods of rubble and toppled trees everywhere. Even when you're standing there and looking, it's unfathomable how much has to be done, even seven months after the hurricane hit.

Todd Hunter

We sustained hurricane winds of about 100 to 120 mph for about a nine-hour period, so we have thousands of trees down within our city,

Michael Lomax

I went through seven hurricane seasons. We went through the drills.

Ray Neidl

Hurricane Katrina was probably the last straw. Nobody could have predicted 60-dollar, 70-dollar-a-barrel oil.

Jack Beven

Rita should maintain major hurricane status until landfall,

Jim Reynolds

Part of the work involved with every hurricane is to lock the place down and make it as secure as possible, and that takes time to occur.

Stuart Rose

I would think that we're probably taking back some market share back off (key rival) Next (NXTNXT) as well,

Patty Thayer

I would say it's one of our most important marketing pieces. It is a response to every phone call, to every reader, that we get.

Mike Johns

Just to regain that market share we had before will take some time.

Edmund Daukoru

Just rest assured, we are under obligation to the market to keep the market well supplied. We meet as often as it takes to micro-manage the short-term volatility.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

George Davis

I think in terms of tone it was a little more dovish than what the market was expecting.

Eric Lascelles

There are some weak spots in the report and that's what the market is responding to.

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Alex Brown

I think the markets will probably be up,

Dick Gephardt

I think the priority has to be Social Security and Medicare,

Jakaya Kikwete

I will make sure research and development is a top priority in agricultural development.

Tyler Perry

Focus on one thing, make it your priority, and stick with it no matter what!

Valerie Jarrett

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

Robert Mueller

The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

Robert Townsend

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Sarah Kay

One of my highest priorities as an educator is to be as inclusive as possible.

William Hung

Singing and entertainment are now my first priority.

Virgil Goode

The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.

Dominik Hrbaty

I was already tired after the second five-setter, it was already quite enough.

Mike Schmitt

He didn't quite make it back to the house.

Trevor Noah

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.

James Williams

I was completely speechless. I really had no idea at all, and it was quite a wonderful surprise.

Helen Clark

I think this is going to take quite some time to work through simply because the writs (final results) won't be until two Fridays' time,

Kimberley Nixon

I'm a tomboy and quite clumsy, so I'm more like the anti-sexy icon.

Mike Marqusee

He was quite serious about his own music. He let it speak for itself.

Vernell Crittendon

He was quite relieved to find that he was not going to be executed. He smiled, he nodded, he thanked me.

Rory McCann

I don't have a mortgage, I don't have a wife and I don't have kids, so I'm quite happy bumbling along.

A. Johnson

Just showing off my personality. Once I get in the end zone, that's all it is.

Bob Baffert

He just had little pesky injuries. He's showing his stuff now.

Tiki Barber

I think we have the components, but we've got to keep showing that we can win a lot of different ways, like we already have,

Hideo Kojima

The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer.

Robert Horan

He wasn't showing affection, he was killing them. Do you understand that?

Woody Allen

90% of success in life is showing up

Woody Allen

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Narendra Modi

This festival... the festival of Makar Sankranti... is our way of showing love towards nature. While global warming poses a serious threat to the world and mankind, this message of love for our environment is extremely essential.

Joseph Altuzarra

A lot of my pieces are about easy seductiveness and accessibility in terms of showing skin.

Suzanne Williamson

Just make sure you throw out the bottles,

Jim Gardner

He didn't have it and I'm not sure why.

Gar Heard

He'll be back, I am sure he'll be back.

Johnathan Joseph

He's been there. He's making sure we don't go into this thing blind.

Gary Sheffield

He's going to make sure it's done. It's always calm, but he had that look.

Tom Fisher

He's a veteran quarterback. I'm sure he'll be on top of his game.

Chance VanGundy

I thought for sure we were a top-10 team in our district.

Curtis Baham

I thought for sure we'd win after that play.

Ralph Richardson

I think we can use (the study) to make sure we're in balance,