Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haruhiko Kuroda

I think the Japanese economy has recovered and it can continue to grow by two to three percent (annually) in the next several years, although such growth is not so big compared with China or India.

Heather Parker

I'll be working the register, although I'd prefer to be scooping some ice cream.

Bob Walters

Although down somewhat, the purchase market continues to benefit from strong job formation and long-term mortgage rates that have remained within range of 40-year lows.

Andes Cheng

Although Disneyland will benefit Hong Kong and southern China, Shangri-La won't be reaping the most benefit.

Tom Eagan

Although (DirecTV) extended their partnership with BellSouth for five years, it is the case that both parties can get out with a change in control.

Edward Meir

Although details have yet to emerge (prompting the White House to withhold comment) energy bulls are undoubtedly fretting.

Jimmie Lee

Although demand was about what we expected during the quarter, the average selling prices for our DRAM product line were lower than we planned. DRAM selling prices were under pressure, especially in November and December.

Robert Shillman

Although demand for our products remains significantly higher than it was in the fourth quarter of 1999, the order rate has slowed considerably from the record pace experienced in the third quarter of 2000.

Michael Dell

although Dell is executing well amid weak demand, we remain cautious on Dell given sharply lower IT spending and weakening global economies.

Any man, in the right situation, is capable of murder. But not any man is capable of being a good camper. So, murder and camping are not as similar as you might think.

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared

Ron Bonjean

Senator Kerry's comments used for campaign fund-raising purposes are simply over the top, extremely inappropriate and factually incorrect.

Terry Murphy

We are pleased to offer senior citizens the opportunity to join a national campaign that provides guidance and simple steps toward healthier lifestyles,

Henry Thomas

I understood why films were made, and if they made a lot of money, they were successful. All of these things I knew. As a ten-year-old boy, I didn't really think a lot about finances or celebrity. I always viewed films as kind of what I imagined a summer camp to be like.

Glen Murray

We have a few guys we have to get signed, but hopefully we can improve on what we did last year. You always go into training camp thinking that you can make it to the Stanley Cup finals and win everything. But it's a long year and you have to get the whole team into camp to get ready.

Ken Holland

We've got some more people at training camp we're looking at, but nobody major.

Chris Wallace

We have to let go of some really good players, people who can end up starting somewhere else in this league. We got a team full of stars. I've been talking with the guys. Hopefully, everybody comes to camp with their A game.

Mike May

When my son went to this camp in sixth, seventh and eighth grade, that's when it really hit home with him that he wanted to be a Lassiter Trojan.

Doug Miller

Being young, sometimes you don't know how to control your emotions. He'll mature. I'd take him on my team any time.

Robby Reasonover

We had to control Richland's 3-point shooting. I thought our girls did a good job of jamming their cutters. Houston County ran a similar half-court offense, so we were not taken by surprise.

Dong Tao

Will the government really hit the brakes? I doubt it. Much of the investment is following government instructions. It's in second- and third-tier cities. This is what the government wants. They've regained solid control over inflation.

Jim Furyk

Winning two years in a row, pretty much being in control of this tournament most of the way, he's the guy to beat.

John Cislo

Winning two road games puts us in position to control our destiny in getting a home playoff game. It would be good to get one at home.

Mitch Moore

Winning the district championship outright is up to us. It's always good to control your own destiny, and it'll be good to be at home for two games over spring break.

Jim Bolla

We can't control anything like that. A lot is going to depend on what happens with our RPI number and what happens with other teams.

Larry Coker

We were very efficient with our ones. I was happy with that. The game was under control in the first quarter. I would've liked to finish better. We played a lot with our second and third team. When they get an opportunity, they have to perform. They're one play away from being starters. It wasn't a real joyous dressing room.

Ray Chen

We were able to get our new silicon modulator to control the transmission of laser light, while using 10× less power than normally needed for silicon modulators.

Richard Leakey

Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

T. D. Jakes

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

Harper Lee

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

Jeremy Piven

I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.

Iyanla Vanzant

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Hugh Jackman

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.

Yiddish Proverb

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble

Marcelo Balboa

He was like a second father to me,

Richelle Mead

A man can never compete with a woman's father

Darrel Mitchell

They hit us quick like they did in the first half.

D.J. Shockley

They hit us a little bit, but that is what the SEC does.

Chris Ritacco

They hit threes all day long. They never stopped.

Jerry Eaves

They hit their shots, and that's not traditionally what they do. It was just a very tough situation for us in the first half.

Dominic Kinnear

They hit the crossbar there and that was a scary moment, but you've got to give them credit.

Tyson Cottet

They hit some big shots and we didn't.

Mark Turgeon

They hit shots, and we didn't during that stretch. We had two wide-open threes and missed them both.

Pam Tweten

It's going to be a preview of WDA. Dickinson and Bismarck are usually always here, but the rest are hit and miss.

Scott Benedict

That second one he hit, I think is the longest I've ever seen hit here. That was a no-doubter.

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that much

Debby Ryan

One of the things I love about summer is that you can wear a bikini top and put something over it and it kind of just always looks a little beach-ready, which I think is very fun.

Angie Martinez

I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station.

Roger Ebert

As I swim through the summer tide of vulgarity, I find that's what I'm looking for: Movies that at least feel affection for their characters. Raunchy is OK. Cruel is not.

Roger Ebert

There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.

Rod Stewart

You're like a cold beer, darling, on a long hot summer night.

Rod Serling

I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease.

Willem de Kooning

The point they (Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Gabo , the neo-Plasticists, and so on) all had in common was to be inside and outside at the same time ... For me, to be inside and outside is to be in an unheated studio with broken windows in the winter, or taking a nap on somebody's porch in the summer.

Zachary Quinto

I went away to this summer program after my junior year of high school. They used to have this thing called the Governor's School, and they had it for different disciplines - science, math, performing arts. I auditioned and I got accepted, and it was an eight-week program away from home. I went for acting. I was 15, and I turned 16 while I was there, so that was a seminal moment for me. It made me realize the life of it, the discipline of it, and the joy of that discipline, where it was all we did.

Zachary Quinto

I came back and decided that I wanted to go to college for acting and got my family on board. My mom, who was a single mom, was a little reticent, but I think after that summer [in the Governor's School], she saw a shift in me and realized that it was something I wanted more than just a hobby.