Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynn Reaser

Retailers are biting their nails because of the large decline in consumer confidence. But it remains to be seen whether consumers will vote with their feet.

John Hall

In addition, I can't criticize any station's national advertisers. It goes without saying that I wouldn't have the urge to criticize local advertisers. It would be biting the hand that feeds. I am willing to criticize fast food in the generic and insurance in the generic but I do put on the gloves when it comes to specific issues.

Kim Beazley

If there were gold medals for biting the hand that feeds you, Mark Latham would be standing on top of the dais.

Luke Clausen

I just wasn't able to catch them. My third cast was a 6-pounder. Things went downhill after that. They were just not biting as well as Friday.

Mark Reeve

All you have to do is look at the preseason articles. All they were talking about is playing Cuero. I hope they're so psyched out they're biting the goal posts.

Jim Ware

The next time that the Red Wave and other fundraising groups on campus go to the business community that's been so generous to them, I hope businesses will remind them of this. CSUF is biting the hand that feeds them.

Dave Machemer

It was one of those days where any one play, in a game that close, can end up biting you. And (Sunday), it did.

Jim Corridore

They have to realize it'd be biting off their own nose to strike, ... I'm sure the union is using the financial situation for leverage. They know they have the company over the barrel.

Bruce Durham

They got heart, and now they got their heads back in it. People were talking and saying that we couldn't do it, but we've been biting off what people have been saying and proving our point.

Andre Gide

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

Marcus Pollard

Joey had an excellent game. He really threw some good balls. When you start playing with confidence, you can do that.

Roosevelt Kiser

Josh is our leader and everything, but we had all our confidence in Chris. We knew as a offense we were going to win this game because we knew the defense was going to play until the end.

Joe DeSantis

Job shows us every day in practice that he can make his free throws. He's a freshman but we have confidence in him when he goes to the line.

Eddie Johnson

I think it's a group where we can have a lot of success. I think we can go in with great confidence and match up really well.

Gina Martin

I think it is a critical number. It's one of the first readings we get on consumer confidence post-Katrina.

Cheryl Buffo

I actually wanted her on the line. There were three players I wanted on the line and she was one of them. I had confidence in her. She stepped up and made the free-throws.

Rashad Janahi

I also wish to place on record my gratitude to our shareholders and investors for the trust they have vested in us which gives us the confidence to pursue our growth-oriented investment strategy.

Jose Vidro

He'll be all right. This team goes as far as he goes. It's early and we still have a lot of confidence in him.

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Sherwood Boehlert

Judd Road was very important in going forward with Consumer Square and The Orchard,

Scott Anderson

Job growth is the main engine for consumer spending.

Kyle Hall

What we wanted to do is solve the issues for the consumers of where their pictures are going.

Wayne Ayers

I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer continues to hang in there, and that's essentially the only thing that's going to keep the economy on track.

Gerard Kleisterlee

There is a lack of value creation, particularly around consumer electronics,

Gray Davis

There is no easy solution, ... But, if I have to use the power of eminent domain to prevent generators from driving consumers into the dark and utilities into bankruptcy, then that's what I'll do.

Mark Boudreaux

We sympathize with consumers paying high gasoline prices. We are trying to help public-policy makers understand what makes prices high.

Ted Sarandos

I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Kyle Hall

What we wanted to do is solve the issues for the consumers of where their pictures are going.

Gray Davis

There is no easy solution, ... But, if I have to use the power of eminent domain to prevent generators from driving consumers into the dark and utilities into bankruptcy, then that's what I'll do.

Mark Boudreaux

We sympathize with consumers paying high gasoline prices. We are trying to help public-policy makers understand what makes prices high.

Ted Sarandos

I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.

Attorney McKenna

Our mission is to make Washington the safest state in the nation for consumers and their personal information.

Caroline DeWaal

The message is not to do away with fish in your diet. What's needed is a shift away from high-mercury species to those with much lower levels. That should be easy to do for most consumers if they had the right information.

Jeff Arnold

The merger will give us technology to enable consumers to interact with their physician and health plan.

Laura Powell

The Internet has really revolutionized travel and travel booking. Consumers are now able to find great deals at the last minute a lot easier.

Sir Campbell

He could have tackled the unfair tax system. He could have made the environment a priority. He could have faced up to the pensions crisis. He could have addressed the problem of personal debt. He has declined to do any of these. This is a legacy from which it will be difficult for him to escape.

Angus Campbell

The only thing that can stop further declines in the market today is a tame ISM figure and lower oil prices,

Hugh Johnson

Hardware, software and semiconductors are the three top-performing groups right now, and there has been a decline in oil prices. These things are pushing the markets up.

Hirokaza Yuihama

I think the price decline pressure is gradually easing.

Pat Livingston

We feel hopeful there will be a reversal of decline in enrollment.

Jim Smith

The purpose of pay phones was to serve people in motion. Wireless phones now serve that same purpose, which is why we're seeing a decline in pay phones throughout the United States.

George Washington

When, in the decline of Life, I gratify the fond wish of my heart in retiring from public labors, and find the language of approbation and fervent prayers for future happiness following that event, my heart expands with gratitude and my feelings beco

Richard Jaffe

Recycling what has worked in the past is a defensive strategy that is working, and it has reversed sales declines for the retailer.

George Glynos

If you look at the historical volatilities of the rand you'll find they have declined through the year.

Angela Cummings

I always do diamonds, ... ... but I don't do large stones. I try to use non-traditional shapes.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

George William Norris

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

Bob Lewis

Having this large a turnout made it a very special day for the series,

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Malcolm Glazer

There is no acquisition that is too large for Zapata to consider,

Karen Chupka

With more than 300 mobile electronics exhibitors, the International CES is the world's largest showcase for in-car technologies.

Bob Wright

There aren't that many growing, independent Web sites that have picked up a large audience. Pretty soon, there won't be any left.

William Maxwell

The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

Sania Mirza

I love salon days to pamper myself, do my nails.

Jonathan Swift

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

Rachel Caine

I never forget,” Myrnin said in a choked whisper. “Certainly not with your nails in my throat. They’re quite an excellent mnemonic device.

Julie Garwood

She let him know how much she liked what he was doing by scoring his back with her nails and crying out with pleasure. "Oh, God." "Nay, lass. Connor.

Benoit Mandelbrot

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

Caroline Corr

Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.

Sebastian Horsley

My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.

Max Lucado

Nails didn't hold God to a cross. Love did.

Woody Allen

My relationship with death remains the same - I'm strongly against it.

Paul Wolfowitz

The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.

Neal A. Maxwell

The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

Kelly Clarkson

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

Joyce Carol Oates

You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

Theodore Dreiser

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Everything passes, only truth remains.

Alan Young

I said ... on Tuesday we are not saying anything on or off the record. That remains the position.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Glen Mason

Just when you think you've seen it all, here comes something else in football,

Ronnie Arnold

Just when you think you've seen it all.

Joe White

He didn't put them anyplace that they could be seen by children.

John DeLuca

There are so many other things for us to talk about that it just hasn't come up, ... We'll say 'How's it going?' and that's about it. By the end of the day, we've usually seen each other's work, anyway.

Naveen Chopra

What we've seen today is shocking. Ultimately it's down to how we keep strengthening our system to make it more stringent.

Tony Plath

What we've seen is a lot of pent-up demand.

Dave Leitao

He's having not only a career, but particularly this season, a year for the ages. I've watched it, I've studied it on film and now I've seen it in person.

Charles Golvin

I haven't seen any discounting from Comcast other than the short-term discounts for signing up,

Steve Pardue

I have never seen that in my 21 years of coaching. We haven't done anything like that before. I'm not sure what happened.

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Rich Lowry

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Washington Allston

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

William Hague

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

William Hague

It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.

Gary Johnson

I reluctantly vote to decertify the petition. I still think it's ridiculous, but a statute's a statute.

Gary Johnson

I reluctantly vote to decertify the petition, ... I still think it's ridiculous, but a statute's a statute.

James Hansen

I made the vote predicated on what I thought was right.

Steve Lambert

I would say that by the end of the month, we will know whether it can work.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Gary Sherwin

If you're part of the community, whether you like it or not, you're part of the brand.

Deirdre O'Kane

You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

Enrique Morones

We still don't know whether it will be a march, a strike, or a fast.

Rivers Cuomo

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.