Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

David Hunter

The perception is if two products are side by side, with one labeled as chemical-free and one not, the chemical-free product will go for a higher price. The main reason Australia has implemented the use of biologicals as control agents is because of the very high market price for organic beef in the Japanese market,

Nonso Anozie

As soon as I started acting in England, I got unusual roles. Although I'm 6 foot six, and agents might standardly cast me in tough guy roles or the big guy in the back, I've been very blessed to do roles that makes them think twice about how they're gonna cast me.

Newt Gingrich

What the president should recognize is that the American people are tired of thousands of pages of regulations, of audits they don't understand by agents they can't talk with from a bureaucracy they can't control,

Meg Rosoff

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.

Jim Williams

We've walked into victim sites where the victim technical support and consultants have asked FBI agents what to do technically. But, of course, we're not allowed to help in that way.

Hubert Astier

With the Maastricht Treaty, the problem is that we need to decrease public resources in France, so we do not have enough security agents here.

John Guthrie

We're extremely busy all the time. We've got six agents that work full-time doing these cases. They're on the road literally every day, in various parts of the state, conducting these investigations,

Mark Mershon

As ridiculous as this might sound, we have real money issues right now, and the government is reluctant to give all agents and analysts dot-gov accounts.

David Chavern

There are companies being told they have tens of thousands of material financial controls that have to be attested to, which on its very face is absurd. They can't all be material.

Kelly Chesney

There are some companies that use it for a direct mail piece they have within a community.

Claire Kent

The reason companies want to go public now is that (luxury good stocks) are at record high valuations.

Cummins Catherwood

We still keep seeing better-than-expected earnings. The important part of it to me for the market is that these are core companies and industries.

Kenneth Wong

We're in discussions with retailers in the upscale category, including traditional department stores, entertainment companies and restaurants.

Patricia Chadwick

We're in a zero-price environment. What really allows companies to earn is to cut costs and be in growth sectors of the marketplace.

John Palfrey

Where it is going to be tricky is in the gray area. That's where we will earn our keep. Where it's something unethical, but maybe not illegal, we want to put companies on notice that we're going to shine a light on them.

Long Nguyen

When foreign investors enter Vietnam, they must follow the country's labor rules. If they don't, the Vietnamese government has the responsibility to enforce the law or expel the company. The government has to protect the worker. The unions that represent workers in factories of foreign and joint-stock companies are weak. They don't have the strength to stand up to the management.

Olympia Snowe

Until then, the four companies will continue their work,

Jeffrey Immelt

The reason for doing this is simple -- I want more direct contact with the financial services teams,

John Brady

We still think Tyrus will be ready to go. He did all he could do and he felt a little pain, which is going to happen. He took himself out of contact and he'll come back and try to go a little longer.

E. O. Wilson

We?re in contact with three national movie chains. One of our goals is to put a movie theater on the eastern side of the property. It?s a high priority goal.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me.

Simon Brown

What the office does in terms of the pardon process is the pardon petition is submitted with reasons and letters. We contact the sentencing judge and the attorney. We talk to the Department of Corrections, who puts together a package. We do not take a stance. Then the pardon petition is sent to the governor and the Executive Council for a decision.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

Debra Pegram

We were in contact with someone watching the game at Reynolds and we knew pretty much when the last shot was made and they won.

Allard Beutel

We're getting into contact with people. We're trying to take a head count.

Nancy Young

As we need independent verification of the information requested, please provide documents from your records and do not contact the Oregon State Fair to obtain the documentation.

Gerhard Schroeder

Whether it will be a success, I do not know. But I want to help ensure it works,

Tom Vilsack

When we find new markets for our harvest, we ensure the security of our state's economy,

James Larkin

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

Amrit Bohara

At a time when the government was getting ready for a confrontation, the rebels' announcement has helped eased the tension and ensure that there will be no violence.

Greg Bird

It's entirely possible they get that money back. We just want to ensure that money is there.

Jim Zemlin

This certification lab will increase the number of Linux applications and ensure that Linux does not fragment.

Phil Heatley

I trust that the Auditor-General will ensure a swift, thorough and transparent investigation, and I look forward to seeing the terms of reference.

Li Keqiang

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve.

Paul Bresson

As communications technologies develop, we must ensure that such progress does not come at the expense of our nation's safety and security.

Louis Navellier

As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight.

Jim Ritterbusch

What we're seeing now is that some funds had moved to the side making sure there wasn't a bearish surprise and now they are rotating back into the long side,

William Sullivan

We are also in the grips of liquidations by hedge funds and a lot of dealers don't want to see big exposures,

Ron Pearson

Therefore, a portfolio with 10 or even 15 funds is not uncommon.

Bronwyn Belling

A lot of people went into retirement with pension funds and stock market investments that they thought would serve them toward the end. They've been in for some pretty rude awakenings.

Reuben Brewer

For individual investors, the moral of the story is diversification, ... The top three funds are income funds. That says something. These are staid companies, with some bonds.

Gary Smith

I try to get into funds that are on tight, rising trends, gradually going up and up.

Russ Kinnel

It was a tough quarter, but a lot of funds are still up for the year. A little sobriety never hurts.

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

Charles Dickens

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Charles Spurgeon

What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.

Alan Paton

There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

Alan Moore

LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one – but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me.

Alan Jackson

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.

Alan Greenspan

The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.

Alan Cooper

You Don't Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!

Alan Brien

You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.

Alan Ball

When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

Paul Johnston

We want people to know we are on schedule, that June 1 (the start of hurricane season) is obtainable and it is our intention to do that.

Charles Rangel

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

Alex Penelas

worse than what we experienced last year with Hurricane Irene in that the water has come in a much shorter period of time.

Mike Trevino

We've got another 800 (adjusters) or so standing by waiting to work Hurricane Rita.

David Joy

We'll see what impact, if anything, the hurricane had on them, and it may be a harbinger.

David Beasley

Unfortunately, it looks like Hurricane Bertha is making a major turn for the worse,

Brad Cotter

With the hurricane and all some people wondered if the show was still on,

Mitch Frazier

There is not the hurricane protection here that there once was. It is significantly compromised. The hurricane level protection we have had here prior to Hurricane Katrina will not be able to return. It will be years, not months.

Michelle Mainelli

This is the time you should be paying attention. There's no reason to panic, but at this point in the hurricane season, everyone should have a plan in place.

Cynthia Bartlett

It's a family-type plaza. People will make insurance payments and then do shopping in our store and others. It's one-stop shopping.

Jerry Cunningham

They're going to get to a point where they're not on their parents' insurance any longer.

Chris Bowers

They're my kids. If you had your kid wouldn't you have insurance on them?

Chris Bowers

Read the exclusions just like on any insurance policy, but I still think it's worth it.

Kathleen Sebelius

I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.

Roy Blunt

This week ... we'll, I think under the suspension calendar, have TRIA (Terrorism Risk Insurance Act).

Bob Williams

You get your money tied up in the orchard with the machinery and supplies, and then you lose it, ... It's tough, and there are lots of questions about how much insurance will cover.

Greg Graham

What we are being told is it will not be passed on to the consumers, ... But that is up to the insurance companies.

Robert Carter

Title insurance is not required by law, but it's prudent to get it, to make sure you own a property. The state, however, sets the rates for title insurance.

Charles Stanley

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

David Ricardo

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

Charles Gounod

Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?

Carl Jung

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness

Kelly Clark

Women's snowboarding has progressed a lot. The younger riders are really pushing the limits of technical tricks.

David D. Burns

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

Jane Fonda

We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

Billy Crystal

I'm married - I've caught my limit.

Bruce Lee

Either push your limits or die.

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Bogan Durr

They need to put the receptacles back in until the university is ready to back up the policy with some enforcement.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton's policies obviously didn't work. What you have to do is look at Libya, look at anything you want to look at and to have it work.

Abraham Lincoln

My policy is to have no policy.

Donald Rumsfeld

Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.

Donald Rumsfeld

From where you sit, the White House may look as untidy as the inside of a stomach. As is said of the legislative process, sausage-making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up. Don't let that panic you. Things may be going better than they look from the inside.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Stephen Harper

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

Thad Cochran

We're going to get you what you need to rebuild this town.

Pam Dashiell

We are getting to something real so we can rebuild the community, not just a plan, but a blueprint.

Shahid Malik

This has been a tragic weekend for Burnley and we must now work to rebuild things.

Steve Capps

There's a lot (of infrastructure) that has to get rebuilt there. We would like to rebuild in Biloxi. We know the market. We like the market.

Kim Badley

For us, it is a rebuilding year. I would like to say we are just reloading, but, unfortunately, we are rebuilding.

Mark Davies

If we're going to rebuild, ... let's rebuild smart.

Tim Cox

We have one big step to go (in the rebuilding process), and I think this is the year for it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Recover, reform and then rebuild ... year of reform.

Marc Holtzman

I want to rebuild this party, and I want to rebuild it long term.

Marcia Gay Harden

With any tween, you have issues, from what they are going to wear to school, to how do you get them to speak politely, to how regularly they lose their contact lenses.

Vladimir Putin

The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information.

Lisa Brown

She does that regularly ---- she's just a solid player. She is just great. She is just all over, a well-rounded leader.

Andrew Grossman

Target and Wal-Mart simply aren't on the same scale. Wal-Mart regularly seeks to be treated differently.

Donald Judd

I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.

Greek proverb

A tomb now suffices him (Alexander) for whom the whole world was not sufficient

Judith Rodin

It’s necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work.

Adelaide Clemens

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

Stedman Graham

How can I go out there and create value?

Johnny Depp

There are 4 questions of value in life..

Philip James Bailey

The value of a thought cannot be told.

Michael Jordan

Nothing of value comes without being earned.

George Carlin

Where do we get our values from?

Frederick Douglass

Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

Julius Baer

(It is) an acquisition which we would value as 'not really expensive.