Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stuart Pearce

As a young man trying to make your way in life, you feel your back is against the wall and you are scrapping against the whole world,

Joe Thompson

As it turned out, I guess that onside kick wasn't the best thing to open the half, but I was looking for some spark to get our emotion going and allow us to compete, ... We just made too many mistakes, and you can't do that against a team like this. You have to be able to play at a high energy level and with hope, and we couldn't get anything going to give us that hope.

Bob DuPuy

Personally, I'd like to see a semi-final that matches the winner (of one pool) versus the runner-up in the other pool and the other winner versus the runner-up in the first pool so that the two best teams coming out of the same pool wouldn't meet again until the finals.

Rhonda Rompola

Our slow start in the first half hurt us. We dug ourselves a hole against a very, very good team.

Wayne Grant

Our defense is playing real good right now. The punt return team gave up the touchdown. The defense played real well against Troy. They had two big plays for their touchdowns. Other than that, we didn't give up much. I feel a lot better our defense than I did this time last year.

Ryan Crawford

Our entire front row is (6-foot-2 or taller), and we put up a huge block against everybody. Most of the time when we block right, they're not going to be able to get it over with authority. It's going to be a roll shot or a tip to the corner. You've got to have guys back there who are on the same page and ready to get the ball back to the setter.

Richard Boucher

Our embassy in Beijing and our consulate general in Guangzhou have again registered our deep concerns over lack of due process.

Kevin Bannon

Again (with the UPS pick), a lot of the same kind of issues. A company with very, very good quality earnings. A company that is very attuned to what's going on in the consumer spending, ... And a company that has some pro-cyclical elements. We are talking about a pickup in the economy. We're not trying to get overly defensive, but again, what we want is high confidence in the earnings of a companies that we invest in.

Steve Christensen

Again we struggled offensively, we were out in front of most pitches. We need to be more patient and try to get deeper in the count to get a better pitch to hit.

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

Bruce Evers

Companies haven't assessed the damage fully and it may be that refineries stay shut for months. The European Union is moving crude and products to the U.S., but at some point it's going to have to replace that, leading to higher demand in a marketplace that is already very tight.

Boris Boehm

Companies are restructuring to make themselves fit for the future. Investors are looking for companies that are engaged in that process. It's a positive.

Rosabeth Kanter

I've been looking at companies that are one a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks,

Eric Karofsky

It would have been helpful if the standard was released many months ago. Companies have already done what they're going to do for July 1, 2006. But for year two, three and beyond, this standard will have real benefits.

Mark Pope

Things are looking real good for 2006. The economy is looking up. We have 29 projects going on now that represent a good mix of small and large companies that can create from five to 10 new jobs or a whole lot more.

Robert Bennett

The worst-case scenario is that the power grid goes down, that the telephone companies don't work... and other utilities, like water, will fail.

David Rose

As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.

Bob Corscadden

This is an invitation for people to get a better glimpse of who we are as a company and what we stand for.

Steve Peterson

We're a small company with 130 people, and I think we probably had 40 people get involved in that.

John Dugan

Even though we know it, and the rest of the world knows it, the company still hasn't reached that understanding, ... We're waiting to see (what happens)?if they move on those (issues), we can get something done.

Richard Appell

Even though Peter may not be here, we have a very strong consultant and construction company to get us through that. ... I will give (Lopez) a letter of recommendation wherever he goes.

Maria Jimenez

Even some employers who have called us, like one construction company owned by a Latino businessman, gave the day off to 150 workers.

Brian Hamilton

Benchmarking, generally, is far from a science. When you're talking about private company benchmarking, there are well-known limitations to the gathering and use of that data.

Esther Schreiber

Yes they are going to face vigorous antitrust litigation and I expect it to go on for a number of years but it won't really hurt the company financially.

John Connors

While we are enthusiastic about the break-through products and services the company will be delivering in 2001, we remain guarded about the near-term economic outlook and its impact on PC demand and technology spending,

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.

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.

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.

W. S. Gilbert

We have enough confidence in him that we know we can win games with him. And he knows it too.

Carlos Helu

We have enormous confidence in Colombia, enormous confidence in its government and enormous confidence in Colombia's future.

Terri Schumacher

You feel pretty good and you gain some confidence from a game like this, but you know it can turn around on a dime. They have a lot of talented, young kids at La Crosse. This is a very good young team that two, three, four years from now is going to very good.

Gary Thayer

Fewer people are worried about jobs right now, more people think that jobs are easy to get, and I think that's supporting confidence despite the high energy prices.

Kevin Cosgrove

Everything we do, we're playing a lot faster than we ever have. We have a better understanding of our zone concepts, our man concepts, our pressure game. Everything just goes a lot faster. The kids have confidence in what they're doing, and if you have confidence, you're able to play fast and you're able to execute.

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Carrie Johnson

the wealthy, time-strapped consumers are looking pretty good right now.

Tony Crescenzi

The CPI is correct in measuring consumer prices, ... But it's not correct in measuring the cost of living.

Heather Friedland

We will be looking to enhance the consumer versions of our product later this year with similar features.

Loren Loverde

The timing of the release will have some impact on when consumers buy, but not so much on whether or not they buy.

Anthony Chan

Next week's producer price index or consumer price index could tip the Fed in favor of a June hike if they're on the upside.

Scott Mitic

From a legislative perspective it's an interesting time now because the question is whether the federal law will give consumers more power to protect their data or less power to protect their data.

Jill Krutick

Cheese, while a consumer product, is very different than toys which can be fad-driven,

Steve Barrow

I don't think the bank's message has really changed. The one view is that if consumer demand doesn't slow down, it will have to raise rates. But the other view is that consumer spending will come down.

Jan Leroy

The mood is very positive. Earnings are supportive.

Juergen Lukasser

What we need right now is earnings growth, and some sort of weakness in the retail sector is a threat to that.

Melissa Brown

You get it over with, get it out of the way early, and then we're on to reporting season. We've seen for the past 12 quarters or so that this has meant what's left is good news and earnings surprises have been quite positive.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Ozzie Guillen

Are we missing Scotty? Yes. Are we losing because Scott's not here? I don't think so. We're losing because we're not playing good baseball.

Kym Hougham

Are they within their right to do it? Yes. Long term do I think it's a good idea? No.

Patterson Hood

a pretty good description of the things we've been writing about, the dualities of the day-to-day.

John Rash

A Prairie Home Companion' has proudly had its roots in St. Paul since the inception of the show. They have scheduled road shows, yet it's important to maintain their place of operation. It's good news for the show and St. Paul.

Natasha Leggero

Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where you can really do what you do. Everyone's on the same page, and you don't have to win strangers over as much.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Curtis Armstrong

I've been going to this high school for 7 and 1/2 years, I'm no dummy.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Rich Olson

That took the wind out of our sails. It just made the hill a lot higher to climb.

Cheng Chin

At the moment, I don't see how this can be done at much higher temperatures.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Peter Peterson

The time has come for investors to speak up.

Daniel S. Loeb

Timing is everything in this markets.

Scott Adams

I'm primarily just an investor.

Cody Acree

Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss

Kit Spring

Return on investment in PPM is increasingly uncertain.

Ron Nelson

but when somebody comes in to invest $1.2 million, you let them do what they need to make this work.

Ted Falgout

Monday morning, take every penny in your wallet and invest in oil.

Aeschylus

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Nicolas Cage

I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

Michael Schur

I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.

Eleonore Faucher

Onscreen, it has a quality like nothing else.

Steve Kellar

If we get some quality officials, we can take Waldorf.

R. Robinson

Silo is a quality team and they are very well coached.

Jerrold Nadler

The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

Jerome K. Jerome

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

Jean-Marc Vallee

You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.

James Hansen

There's no win for us in talking about this.

Dorothy Allison

I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Adolf Hitler

I don't talk for the sake of talking. I do become intoxicated with sound. When I open my mouth, it's to say something.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Anthony DeCurtis

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.

Andy Stanley

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Tommy Chong

I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans, signing autographs, and selling T-shirts.

Tom Brady

It's just part of whatever motivates guys and whatever they say. Ultimately it comes down to how well you play. What I've learned over the years, a lot of guys talk. What you need to do is go out there and play, back it up. They've been able to back it up, so that's why it works for them. Hopefully we can go out there and do our talking on the field.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Maria Mitchell

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

Claude Debussy

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

Daniel Schorr

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

Daniel Quinn

Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.

Daniel Radcliffe

Don't try too hard to be something you're not.

Conor McGregor

There's many ups and downs in the fight game.

Mignon McLaughlin

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

Kenny Rogers

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

Chetan Bhagat

Nothing soothes an upset Punjabi like dairy products.