Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Yardeni

The surprises should be on the upside. It all adds up to very good fourth-quarter numbers.

E. B. White

The theatrical community -- music and dance -- adds a unique touch to New York City. There are more than 400 small off off Broadway theaters on record.

Anne Mitchell

The text messaging really adds up. We had a tremendous bill from text messaging before we even knew it cost anything or that she (Sarah) was even doing it.

James Jones

The thing you also have to understand is that our strength is the depth of our team. When you have Matt Kyle and Ross Morin come off the bench in those spots, that just adds to our potential to be successful down low.

Michael Ryan

Advertising research is one-half frustration, one-half exclamation point, and one-half question-mark. If this adds up to more than 100 percent, it proves that mathematics and research sometimes gives confusing results.

David Strathairn

After a little while, I forgot I was watching black and white film. There's something luscious about all the gradations of gray that adds so much texture to film. It's good they didn't shoot this one in color; they would have lost all those subtleties, all those layers.

Josh Bersin

The most surprising finding in this survey is the large amount of time executives spend searching for information. At today's executive salary levels, four hours of search time can cost companies $1,000 or more per week -- not including the cost of lost opportunities, delayed decisions, or other work not completed. If you apply this estimated figure to Fortune 500 companies, the money spent adds up to $60M each year.

Bob Lutz

Adams is a pretty good back. He adds a lot to their offense. It hurt them when he went out last week.

Anders Moller

Stress is something that many patients ask about. It is a big concern, ... IVF is stressful enough, and thinking that success or failure depends on how you react emotionally just adds to the burden.

Marcus Samuelsson

Avocados have a creamy texture, making them a healthier replacement for ingredients like butter and mayo in recipes, though they do contain a surprisingly large amount of fat - a whopping 30 grams per medium-sized avocado.

Stacy Palmer

a very remarkable outpouring, but compared to the amount of need . . . there's still a fund-raising challenge ahead.

Neal Miller

A small amount of Cobalt 60 was found near the middle of the plant property in the top 6 inches of soil near the vacuum breaker valve that spilled water in 2000. The finding was reported to the NRC and IDNS and none of the cobalt 60 flowed off the property or entered the groundwater.

Cheryl Tweedy

As long as your hair's looking good and you've got a nice amount of make-up on... you've just got to throw your man on the bed and hop on! I think most men prefer to hear little breaths rather than big screams!

Chris Ware

Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.

Virginia Bowerman

Reading really does go down in middle and high school. The amount of reading kids do in those grades just goes down. There are so many clubs and sports competing for that attention.

Howard Dean

Ralph Nader has contributed an enormous amount to this country, and, for some inexplicable reason, he seems determined to wreck his legacy. I think he's hell-bent to do this.

Stephen Briggs

Prices would not be where they are if not for the huge, unprecedented amount of money coming into the market.

Andrea M. Ghez

Proof of the black hole is a tremendous amount of mass inside a very small volume. There's 4 million times the mass of our sun within a region that's comparable to the size of our solar system.

Jeb Bush

Our economy grew at double the rate of the nation. We created 1.3 million jobs. We led the nation seven out of those eight years. We were only one of two states that went to AAA bond rating. I cut taxes, $19 billion. If you do that and apply conservative principles the right way, you create an environment where everybody rises up.

Mark Bennett

People think Hawaii is paradise, it looks wonderful, they apply for a job from the mainland, they take it, they live here for a year or so -- maybe that was their intent from the beginning.

Andy Beal

Offline advertisers will no longer be content to be told that their radio ad will be heard by a potential audience size or demographic. Instead, they'll come to expect detailed reports and accountability. They'll want to know how effective the radio ad was and whether it resulted in new business. The same level of accountability that search marketers have been held to will now apply to traditional advertising. Expect the skills learned by those search marketers to be in very high demand.

Kim Moore

Depending on how we do, we will have an opportunity to apply for it a second year.

Gerhard Schroeder

An excuse that one finds the same or similar elsewhere does not apply to us,

Ron Davis

The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised.

Dale Bennett

These legislators are trying to apply common sense to a process that has gone on too long and has done nothing to actually improve I-81.

Edilberto Adan

The strategy is to apply military pressure and at the same time talk to them and communicate,

Charles Strong

The students used drafting, welding, automotive, industrial maintenance and machine tool technology to build this car. We thought, why not take all of this technology and apply it to something fascinating!

Andrew Palmer

As overseas markets become ever more important, companies will grapple with a new set of management challenges.

James Kelleher

As other technology companies were gazing at their navels, Corning was redressing its balance-sheet sins.

Stacey Quandt

As open-source companies continue to create pricing pressure on proprietary software solutions, it will be interesting to see how Microsoft responds subsequent to the release of Longhorn. By 2010 Microsoft will support its applications on Linux and develop an open-source strategy,

John Anderson

As one of the world's most popular online gaming companies we have a very strong story to tell in respect of our position and our future strategy for growth.

David Lindsey

That's where the real hit is. A lot of companies do not pay for dependents. They leave it up to the employees to pick up the coverage.

Bruce Lanni

Production growth for most companies has been very elusive or nonexistent. Keeping it flat is a major feat.

Tom Kilian

Product development remains an initiative in our Medical Segment. During the year we plan to continue to enhance our individual/association plans as well as review our small employer group products. We plan to explore new marketing relationships with national marketing companies and promote increased brokerage sales through electronic distribution and traditional sales.

Peter Hardstaff

Private companies only invest where they can make a profit, not where there is the greatest need.

Susan Hofer

Prior to this law, there were no requirements for companies to notify individuals about possible security issues.

David Walker

As a matter of course we review our cost structure and staffing needs and levels.

Dave Esquer

Our defense has made seven errors in the last three games. I don't think we've made seven errors all year. (Ross) had a stomach flu the night before, so we were lucky that he could even pitch. It was a good effort on his part and we made a couple mistakes that cost him.

Dontell Jefferson

Of course we don't want to cost the school any money, but as a player you want to have interaction like that.

Sophie McShera

Normally, you have to wait for the costume department to help you out of costume.

Bobby Cox

Normally we don't make errors, but today we made two of them and it cost us four runs.

Roger Tamraz

Normally the prices should come down, but I don't see that because I think the cost of exploration is much higher than we expected,

John Hunter

During preliminary planning we wanted to find something that represented the species itself. It will cost $30,000, and the island residents are really taking this project on.

Rachel Carson

an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make money, at whatever cost to others, is seldom challenged.

Don Scaro

An office visit will cost whatever the insurance dictates. If the insurance dictates a co-pay then that is what they can expect to pay.

John Velazquez

We must have run over two or three geese. One of their feathers was in my foot. It was a delayed reaction. After she went through them, then she got scared.

Janet Callison

It's still a very devastated area. There is still so much destruction and bureaucratic red tape has delayed some of the needed help from getting down there.

Patricia Olson

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

Bill Cosby

Network executives never did understand what made our show work,

Mike Cooke

I was very surprised. I assumed, probably like most senior executives in most organizations, that I knew all of what was going on around here,

Mr Howard

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Joe Nathan

Over the last 18 months that this issue has developed, we have been talking with various IBM executives at many levels, and just had not gotten anywhere, ... We're frustrated.

Christopher Cox

Our purpose here today is to help investors keep an eye on how much of their money is being paid to the top executives who work for them. It is about wage clarity, not wage controls.

Gavin Patterson

After years of hype, delays, skepticism and then disappointment, it is a welcome relief to say that WCDMA has finally come of age. Preliminary figures show that end-2005 there were 44.42 million WCDMA subscribers worldwide, an increase of 163.62% over the 16.85 million subs registered as of Dec. 31, 2004.

Syamsir Siregar

The terrorists want to get money by kidnapping influential figures and this could include businessmen and politicians.

Jim Owens

I've never been able to figure out his motivation. We're just going to let him do what he does.

Randy Couture

The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

Tom Davies

Now it's our job to figure out why, and to make sure we are better prepared for the future.

Maurice Cheeks

Sometimes, I'm a little soft-spoken, and sometimes I yell a little bit. They have to figure out when I'm going to yell, when I'm not going to yell. I think there's a happy medium. I have to find out the little things about players' personalities, and they have to find out about mine as well.

Wayne Howell

Sometimes, the guys have to figure it out for themselves. They know our offense. They know our defense. They just had to work it out.

John Gibbons

Roy has missed nine starts so far. You figure he's good for at least four wins. Where are we with four more wins?

Jim Mora

Right now, we figure he'll be good to go Sunday night. When you're Mike Vick and your team needs you, the guy shows up - he's a great one.

Cain Jagodzinski

This group has been working hard to find their identity. I think they?re finding it now.

Bob Ward

Alisa is starting to feel more comfortable in the point guard role. She's doing a much better job of finding her scoring opportunities and finding teammates. The big thing was we settled down in the second half after rushing things too much in the first half.

Curtis Jackson

You stop thinking about the police finding out what you did. You start thinking about God knowing what just happened.

Paul Wolfowitz

You're not going to find it in a house-to-house search. You're going to find it when people start to talk to you, and we're in the process of finding the people who can talk,

John Simley

You're finding more and more stealth applications because of zoning restrictions (on conventional towers). And sometimes, frankly, they're the only way to get service into an area.

Marty Hurney

You never go in saying we've got to get this position or that position. For us, it's about finding guys who are the right fits.

Camila Alves

I have a hard time finding high boots that go up to your knee, because of the shape of my calves.

C. S. Lewis

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

Richard Hartley

What we're finding out is (restructuring) will have very little impact on those numbers.

Francis Bacon

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Andriy Shevchenko

I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.

Sophocles

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

Tacitus

We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]

Steve Guttenberg

In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.

Kazeronnie Mak

Only the misfortune understands what fortune is.And knows how to treasure it.

Graeme Souness

I am saddened at the way things have worked out. I wish the club, the players and the supporters good fortune and success going forward.

David Nicholson

My good fortune was that I married her.

Marcus Aurelius

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

Sam Davis

Once we got a lead, we said make them come out and guard you. Once they opened up the floor, our perimeter play is pretty good and our kids are smart. We did a great job of running our offense in the fourth quarter.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

John Tavares

I've been able to handle the pace, ... I've got four goals in four games so I feel pretty good. Obviously today wasn't a great day, but hopefully I can come back next week and have a good one.

Main Street

I used to walk down there on the Fourth of July,

David Jones

Then all of a sudden, in the fourth quarter the other team's back in it.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Ozzie Guillen

I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Chris Raso

I've been watching these girls since they were in fourth grade. I knew what stride they could play at. I thought four years ago that we could possibly get to this level.

Liu Peng

During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now.

Jeffrey Archer

I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.

Kate Thompson

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

Timothy Robishaw

First, we spent hundreds of hours since January 2003 trying to characterize how the telescope responds to radio waves.

Vic Mignogna

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

Arthur Smith

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I don't love acting. How can you love something when you sit around 12 hours a day and work 10 minutes a day? I'm just doing it because it keeps me off the streets and out of jail.

Wit Ostrenko

We've had more people come in the first two hours than we did all week.

Rosann Sanders

We'll have to have summer hours year round.

Dionne Warwick

Drugs of every sort, including aspirin, are not anything I even think about.

LeBron James

Brenda was a special person to everyone, including myself. I will truly miss her being around. My prayers go out to her family, especially my little brother, Brandon.

Alex Clare

Every song I write, including 'Too Close,' always starts on the guitar.

Alfredo Alonso

When the population is over 40 million, people take notice, including advertisers and broadcasters.

Michael Schumacher

Everyone is replaceable, including me.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Mark Trakh

They are going to be scary for a long time. And I'm including this year when I say that.

Alex Gibney

There are many people, including me, who admire the original mission of WikiLeaks.

Marc Schlosser

We are seeing some very positive results in patients, including those at this center.

Chris Cichocki

Reading is unusually large for a team in this league, but it has been a problem.

Frank Whitlatch

Often times for very large gifts, there (are) naming rights attached.

Greg Ryan

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that's how we were able to get the patent,

Jennifer Ehle

The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

George Beranek

This is really pulling out the big guns. If you think about it, this is working at the margin with a very large volume, so it's going to have a very pronounced price effect.

Doug Parker

The weakness has been largely concentrated in the technology sector.

Gayle Green

That's where socio-economic status comes in. It's one piece of a very large picture.

Claude Mandil

A large proportion of the remainder will be (refined) products ... we have suggested they prioritize products,

Bob Anderson

You're just not going to see these large corporations and large jobs.

Marek Hlasko

I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.

Gbola Amusa

The ones that are lost will probably be lost for good.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Aaron Woods

Once we lost our steam supply, we were unable to recover and prevent the event that occurred on Wednesday, March 1.

Andrew Engel

I've never lost to Severna Park. Everyone says that they are the better team, but we've got to go out there and prove it every time we play.

Kevin Grace

The store manager of the Tacoma Levitz told me 45,000 people lost their money at Levitz.

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Gerard Hopkins

I see / The lost are like this, and their scourge to be / As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.

Christopher Davis

It wouldn't be catastrophic if they lost it.

Michael Davis

The money has just been piling up and isn't being allocated.

Howard Rogers

The money can then be used only for road resurfacing,

Jim Norman

Do you know how much money that saves people?

Tim Ghriskey

Delphi is weighing on the whole automotive industry. More people want to move money out of that sector, and the situation is not going to get better any time soon.

Darrell Bryan

A number of us are very upset about this slogan. By having too little money you come up with poor ideas.

DeEtta Culbertson

The state doesn't provide any money to private schools. They're deemed private businesses, private entities.

James Bland

The taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for a low-performing job. I would like to see that money go to the teachers.

Raghu Sharma

The taxpayers money is being spent on them.

Bob Hartwig

The third option is the better use of money in the long run.

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,

Tony Kennedy

The terrain is wonderful from a mountain-bike perspective.

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.

Bob Clarke

Some questions are of a personal nature, which I don't think should be documented.

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.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Shannon Bennett

The more a punter spends the better value they are getting.

Matt Mullenweg

I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Keanu Reeves

On his new motorbike: I wanted to spend some time with it and get to know it.

Steve Prentice

More than ever, what we spend on is more important than how much we spend.

Brad Smith

If we need to spend more money, we will spend more money.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

Cheryln Bennett

If you make a little money, you spend it on other things (for artwork).

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

David Lowery

Whoever did this spent a long time igniting anything they could find.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Hunter Hayes

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Astro Teller

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

Richard Sharp

It will be surprising if they do not salvage it -- 350ft of water is not that deep.

Lynn Fegley

It's not surprising in years when you have a warm burst.

Robert Heaney

It's not surprising there was a blunted response.

Steve Bisley

As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.

Rodney Brooks

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Todd Nace

We're about a week away from reopening, once we get the (insurance) settlement.

Paul Johnson

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

Sylvester Croom

This week has never been about just football; how could it be?

Albert Brooks

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

Joe Gibbs

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

Taye Diggs

On the set I never know what day of the week it is.

Ray Nagin

One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again.

Tony Abbott

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

Tommy Rettig

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Boris Yeltsin

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Auguste Rodin

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.