Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Thayer

Historically, when we see confidence decline, we have to watch and see if it shows up also affecting spending. We'll be watching closely to see ... whether the decline in confidence is more of a psychological factor or a real factor affecting spending.

Rod Parker

There is no allegation that it's affecting his performance on the bench. It really is truly only about his private conduct.

Shahid Afridi

I will concentrate on one-day cricket only because too much cricket is affecting my overall performance.

Roy Keane

I will see how my hip is bearing up in the summer. It is important to be fair to myself and the club if it is affecting me.

Dan Bowling

He was here in my office, and he was jolly and happy and talking about things affecting the county. In my service on the Board of Supervisors, I can say Donnie Lowe cared about people.

Tony Raines

I don't know what Jamie was thinking or doing. He was driving kind of aggressive all night. I think I had less to do with affecting the outcome of the Chase than he did. We'd been struggling with the brakes, and he checked up in front of me. I had no intention of wrecking him.

David Goldstein

Hedge fund investors have started affecting the fund-raising environment for private equity funds.

S. Hughes

He came in with a chest infection originally but now that has spread to his kidneys and it is affecting his other organs. He's got internal bleeding. He's seriously ill - at this point, he's fighting for his life. It's about as bad as it can get.

Julian White

Our business is booming at the moment. It's actually affecting our stock levels. It was the busiest summer in my six years here. This is the first place I've ever sold cars where no one asks about fuel consumption.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society

Jackie Borsanyi

Jacquie likes to take natural fibers and have them form a very contained universe. She uses a lot of materials that seem wild and unruly and she asks them to cooperate.

Tom Foley

Joe is a guy who is extremely prepared and extremely positive. He's a guy about relationships and about the team. If a player comes and asks him to sit down and have a few pops, he'll say, 'Let's do it.' He's a teacher who is prepared when he teaches and wants us to be prepared and get it right.

Amber Dillon

It can be through a fraudulent request for personal information. Nobody asks for personal information by email. Bank and credit card companies do not do that.

Nick Hornby

Have you got any soul?"" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.

Carl Elliott

He's a great coach, and he's going to make you better. He asks every player to believe in what he's teaching and believe in the system. He's such an exciting coach, you see him jumping on the sidelines and stuff. As a player, you like to see him get excited because he's excited for you and he wants to win, and that's been exciting for us. You just want to do what he asks.

Ty Wigginton

He's awesome. He's a very stand-up manager who lets his players control the clubhouse. All he asks in that you play the game right and play the game hard, and he respects you as a player.

Javier Solana

Whatever the United States asks for, they will be given.

Paul Hackett

Whatever personal emotions I have about Sherrod, if he asks me to help in some way, and I can help and it doesn't interfere with my own life, I will do the best to help him.

Rebecca Kirszner

Republicans can point to the past, but they can't justify the present. It is a simple fact -- lobbying is booming under Bush. Since George Bush came to town, the number of lobbyists has doubled in Washington.

Robert H. Connelly

India is a booming market and it is logical to set up operations close to the boom.

Cindy Anderson

Everybody remembers Ironton in its heyday in the '40s and '50s, that's when Ironton was booming and we've gone downhill, and we have, we've hit rock bottom, ... But if we all don't stand together, we're not going to stand back up. It's going to take all of us to put it back on track.

Shuji Sugata

It's possible that retail investors are now more interested in taking new positions in booming Japanese shares.

Michael Roth

Construction was booming last year. The market came back strong.

Peter Rainer

It's a myth that the movie business was booming during the Depression. For one thing, there wasn't as much repeat business back then. A movie came out, played theaters for a while and then that was it.

Patty Schnyder

It's great that we are so successful and that tennis is booming in our country. As for having Martina being back, it's incredible.

Patrick Blain

The desire for less fuel consumption is growing everywhere, whether it's influenced by environmental or economic concerns, due to booming oil prices.

Ken Salazar

At first glance, the President's mix of spending and spending cuts presents a fiscally tight budget. But, this proposal is ultimately what's wrong with Washington. The President is not being forthcoming about his budget or the booming deficit.

John Seaberry

It is one of our busiest days. It is a really cool and fun way to give back to the community.

Spanish Proverbs

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Susan Goolsby

That's one of our busiest nights, of course, with the kids able to ride continuously for just $15.

Michael Clayton

It's busiest immediately when school lets out. People know at the end of the school year whether they will be moving to a different city because of a job transfer.

Phil Brown

It takes us three days to get ready to deploy overseas, ... It took us only six hours to get four C-130s ready to head south. That was probably one of the busiest days we've ever had out here. But it's a challenge and we live up to our challenges.

Larry Anderson

It will be substantial. September is one of our busiest months.

Mayor Espy

They will be wider to better accommodate traffic through two of the city's busiest thoroughfares.

Jeremy Rose

Absolutely, this is our busiest time of the year.

Keith Robinson

This is about the third busiest weekend of the season for us. It's wall-to-wall people.

Keira Knightley

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.

Kristin Degnan

Knitting is one of the fastest growing crafts in the business.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Chen Yonglin

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

Scott Auderer

I would say, mentally, our guys are stepping it up. We're not changing anything in our approach. It's business as usual. We're going to work to improve things here and there.

Roger Warren

Joe has developed an exceptional track record in creating and marketing a wide variety of programs and services for PGA members and the golf industry, ... Most importantly, he has a dynamic vision for the future of the PGA and our leadership position in the game and business of golf.

Rodney Garner

Josh Johnson, if he takes care of his business, we expect him to be back in January.

Bill Owens

Job creation in the 21st century economy can't be business as usual. Competition is global, and it's fierce. We must aggressively support Colorado's economic pillars. Tourism and Agriculture are superb economic generators and we are all proud of these key industries.

Tom Martin

Joanie has done some incredible work here as business editor, ... I'm glad we'll be able to keep her on as an ag reporter.

Jeff Graham

It can't do anything but help. More money means more cars. More cars mean more fans. More fans mean more money. It'll be a snowball effect, which will be nice because the snowball's been going in the wrong direction lately.

John Force

The only thing that could ruin it, ... is if one of these cars doesn't win the championship.

Wayne Sorensen

What we had on site was over 120 unlicensed cars and several piles of scrap metal outdoors on the property,

James Kliesch

Having a tool to see what cars are greener and to be able to compare them is important, especially since this information is not readily available.

Mike Dawson

I think you can say they're back. During the '90s, it was SUVs. In the '80s, it was minivans. So people had moved away from the small cars. It's definitely, since the '70s, the most new small cars on the market.

Charlton Young

Last I heard, about 40 cars ... made it for the car-only cruise.

John Brooks

We've been waiting for this day and I think everyone's been rehearsing for weeks. Now it's just a matter of who does what once the new cars arrive.

Jack Curry

We took three cars, left at midnight and drove until 6 a.m., ... Everybody was leaving, and the roads were a mess.

Dilip Parameswaran

What I mean by that is that they have all the necessary skills to come up with good cars and good price.

Greg Brunner

Just making shots slows (Michigan State) down a little bit. And then we had some silly turnovers that we don't normally have. That just better fuels their offensive aggression.

Gunnar Lindstrom

It (hydrogen fuel cells) needs a major breakthrough in technology.

Ricky Craven

If we come into the race with the idea that we have to do everything we can to save fuel, there will be 36 cautions and fuel will be irrelevant,

Robert Mills

I am losing $2,600 a week on fuel that used to go toward my profit,

David Cummings

He has to be seen to be doing something and I think removing the GST on fuel excise, which is a tax on a tax, is a tangible way to show the Government cares.

Richard Baxter

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

Veerappa Moily

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

Willie Nelson

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again

Katsuaki Watanabe

In the United States people are getting more fuel conscious,

Paul Johnson

I'd like to get one win, ... I'm not thinking about getting six wins.

Richard P. Feynman

Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics.

Robert Plant

Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius.

Rohit Shetty

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

Wietse Venema

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.

Warren Farrell

Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.

David Green

You can't have a belief system on Sunday and not live it the other six days.

Brian Reinke

You can't give any team six outs in an inning.

Mike Joyce

You can't show someone how to play the drums in six weeks, but you can point them in the right direction.

Syed Ahmed

He not only sold us a building, he sold us the town.

William Kristol

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

Robert M. Gates

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

Winston Churchill

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

Brian Rolston

I'm just like, 'Exhibition game. Sold out?' ... It's unbelievable. It's a unique thing here in Minnesota. There's no question.

Steve Cohen

And 'Jack & Bobby' started two years ago, ... those 'Future President' T-shirts you see sold in airports for kids.

Maria Sharapova

All the soldiers are down and it will be whoever can get up.

Oliver Cromwell

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

Mark Kimmitt

That soldier said: 'There are some things going on here that I can't live with'.

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Hans Kunnen

The big-picture fundamentals for commodities stocks is still in place. Nothing has actually changed. The sell-off in some sectors was not warranted.

Spiros Segalas

It's making the Dow more meaningful, more representative of the stock market.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Michael Friedman

The stock trades at about 9 times its 2003 earnings,

Kate Warne

Everybody's worried that the stocks that have done so well have really overshot,

Bobby Labonte

We're going to be like the stock market. We're going to be up and down.

Brian Hill

Obviously, (CMGI) stock should be up with Lycos,

Brian Waldron

We can co-exist with soccer, absolutely. They're essentially a summer sport and we're winter. We'll make it work beautifully.

Rob Sheffield

God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after 'Meatballs III: Summer Job?' His reign as Dr. McDreamy on 'Grey's Anatomy' is proof that there's nothing we love more than giving Eighties celebs a heartwarming second stab at life.

Richard Paul Evans

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

Tyler Perry

Developing a good work ethic is a key [to success]. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.

Truman Capote

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.

Rick Riordan

She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard.

Richard D. Zanuck

I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.

Rex Stout

Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef’s ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. American women should themselves be boiled in water.

William Mapother

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.