Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fran Calverase

That's where the fox is in the hen house. They can make data appear how they want it to appear.

Darrel Good

Prices now appear to be settling into a trading range that may persist into the first of the calendar year.

Robertson Davies

Other-directed appears to be nothing more than a sociological term for weak-minded

Pascal Rannou

On Titan, the clouds appear in the summer time. This is opposite from Earth?when we have summer in the southern hemisphere, clouds are transferred to the north. We should spend all our days in winter on Titan, compared to Earth.

Sherry Nelson

Often the straw that broke the camel's back may be pretty little. Somebody may get upset about something that doesn't appear to be related to what's going on at the farm.

Scott Skiles

During the game, if you're an injured player, a sport coat and slacks should be a bare minimum. And you should always appear to be professional when you're entering the arena.

Bill Gates

Demands that Microsoft completely hide its Windows user interface and its Internet technology from PC users, and that we ship Netscape's competing software in every copy of Windows, all appear to benefit a single competitor at the expense of consumers,

Richard Goldstone

Companies are getting letters informing them of what allegations are likely to be made and what evidence is going to appear in the October report. They are being given an opportunity to respond to it.

Kenji Arata

Companies appear to have turned cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices, which could hit corporate profitability. Oil prices have been stable recently, but are still generally at high levels.

Andrew Collins

Banks are now recognized as providers of financial services.

Masafumi Nakayama

Bad-loan disposal is the single most important task for banks at the moment. Apparently, the market is sending a cheer to Asahi's efforts.

Hajime Yagi

Profitability at banks was not as good as we expected and retailers won't have any more occasion to register big sales until Spring.

Ben Holmes

It would be difficult to sell it with their most recent period, which is a horrible result. Goldman Sachs is probably saying that this would be a tough story to tell on the road when you have a declining business, when the other investment banks are posting record numbers.

Eido Carney

It was all grassroots, people's piggy banks and everything else.

Jim Bruene

Credit unions and smaller banks were actually quicker than most large banks to offer online services because of the relationship they had with vendors and their capability to integrate web operations into their systems at a reasonable sum. A bank like Citibank had to do a huge internal thing to get the system up.

Andrew Bell

Bond markets seem to have decided that perhaps there is a bit too much growth, not so much that they're fearful of a big break up in inflation ... but that central banks are going to keep chipping away at the foundations of cheap money.

Dom Capers

Tony Banks has been a starter in the past, and I'm sure he could start for a number of teams. We have total confidence in Tony Banks.

Dean Turner

Attackers are starting to move away form your large targets, banks etc. and are going for regional institutions and smaller business. They are also going for charitable sites, like the American Red Cross, which are the most vulnerable and trusting.

Derek Loomis

As far as designing for girls, certain designs will cross right over.

James Wolk

As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.

Pankaj Mishra

As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one sees, because of the presence of the Hindu-Buddhist past, Hindus still living there or Muslims performing rituals that are instantly familiar.

Rob Smith

The Big Ten is so competitive. You don't know where certain teams are going to be two weeks down the road. We are just going to try and clean up our game and take it one game at a time.

Joe Theismann

Back when we played, they were like molded to your head. Football players are a finicky bunch. A running back likes his leg pads to fit just right. Some players like their shoulder pads to fit a certain way. We all have our idiosyncrasies and quirks.

Richard Yamarone

As long as there is a perception that higher prices are in the tea leaves, that's a problem certainly for policy makers. And I think that's why the Federal Reserve seems hellbent on raising rates.

Jim Henderson

As long as you warm the seat for a certain number of hours, you walk out of the classroom with that certificate.

Mary Osako

As in most jurisdictions, governments are not required to inform service providers why they are seeking certain information and typically do not do so.

Colin Shaha

Ralph Waldo Emerson had this philosophy about be silly, be honest and be kind. I really try to talk to a lot of people about that on the team, and Joy is certainly all those qualities.

Jim Gillette

Some suppliers have tried to tell GM that not everybody needs to be global, not all the parts need to be global. But they just figure that's the way they're going to get the cheaper price.

Andrew Chesley

Some say it's a lot cheaper than freeways, they are but not a lot less.

Ken Williams

speculators who are looking for the paper at cheap prices.

Roustam Tariko

Russians really needed a product that would be not as strong as vodka and not as feminine as cheap sparkling wine, so Martini was a good solution.

Jim Melcher

PPI has been rising, but retailers and manufacturers haven't raised prices yet, because there is too much cheap foreign competition. If you see CPI move up, that could upset stocks.

David Tepper

The S&P 500 stocks looked cheap compared to everything else.

Sathya Baba

The same person has come to Me seeking success at the examination, then a job, then a father-in-law, then a child, then a rise in the salary, a transfer in a cheaper place and a seat in the Medical College for his son - a never ending series of wants, until at last he comes seeking My Grace for an end to worldly pursuits and for initiation into the path of spirituality.

Brian Postol

It would be cheaper for them to get into the European community now.

Matthew Simmons

It was the only way to survive the era of unbelievably cheap oil.

Bill Murray

As far as the consumer is concerned, they think it's a stand-by ticket where you have to sit in the back by the toilet,

Asahi Shimbun

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

Michael Chambers

Real discretionary spending has been cut to the bone. That would gel with the sense we get in Indonesia of a very sharp drop in consumer durable purchases, motorcycles. If you go to electronic shops you'll see a sharp decline there as well.

Mark Batty

People are worried about possible net interest margin compression and credit quality deterioration, as well as slowing consumer loan growth.

Dannielle Romano

People are witnessing how interested consumers are in experiencing digital music, consuming it that way, and having the convenience of consuming it that way. It's a quickly growing, voracious audience.

Alan Greenspan

Despite the combination of somewhat slower growth of productivity in recent quarters, higher energy prices, and a decline in the exchange rate for the dollar, core measures of consumer prices have registered only modest increases,

Anne Sweeney

The strategic utilization of new technologies to meet consumer needs is of paramount importance to the growth of the Disney Media Networks Group.

Eric Wold

A few years ago the big question was could IMAX get Hollywood content on their screens and theaters to sign up. But studios now see the value of putting movies on IMAX screens since consumers have much better home theaters.

Mel Karmazin

Satellite radio is very hot and is continuing to be one of the fastest-growing products in consumer electronics history.

David Walker

As a matter of course we review our cost structure and staffing needs and levels.

Dave Esquer

Our defense has made seven errors in the last three games. I don't think we've made seven errors all year. (Ross) had a stomach flu the night before, so we were lucky that he could even pitch. It was a good effort on his part and we made a couple mistakes that cost him.

Dontell Jefferson

Of course we don't want to cost the school any money, but as a player you want to have interaction like that.

Sophie McShera

Normally, you have to wait for the costume department to help you out of costume.

Bobby Cox

Normally we don't make errors, but today we made two of them and it cost us four runs.

Roger Tamraz

Normally the prices should come down, but I don't see that because I think the cost of exploration is much higher than we expected,

John Hunter

During preliminary planning we wanted to find something that represented the species itself. It will cost $30,000, and the island residents are really taking this project on.

Rachel Carson

an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make money, at whatever cost to others, is seldom challenged.

Don Scaro

An office visit will cost whatever the insurance dictates. If the insurance dictates a co-pay then that is what they can expect to pay.

Gail Evans

The more credit you give, the better it reflects on you.

Eric Shaw

The one (interest) point you save pays for the credit insurance policy.

Cate Williams

A credit score is a snapshot of an exact moment.

Mark Greene

Some taxpayers think the credit is a loan. This credit is for low- to moderate-income working people. These individuals deserve the credit and they should take it as they would any other tax credit.

Bob Hall

Special interests feel like that it's a pay-to-play system, so they supply the cash. Different groups are using different techniques to put together large amounts of money to have it identified from their own special interest, to get some credit and to gain some advantage, not only access, but to get favorable policy.

Charles Elliott

One credit union set up in the back of the manager's SUV. The husband of an employee had a gun and provided security.

Andrew Carnegie

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it

Corey Simon

So often, our offense gets a lot of credit. They've done great things, but it's time for the defense to get a name for ourselves and play hard and be just as good as our offense.

Gary Katz

So on a $70 or $80 fill-up, if they use a credit card, I might be lucky if I'm making 2 or 4 cents.

Aziz Ansari

Whats the worst that could happen?! The worst that could happen is he could cut off your legs and use them to make stilts that look like legs!

Carl Sandburg

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

C. S. Lewis

There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

Al Yankovic

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

Al Gore

I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat.

bell hooks

The intellectual tradition of the West is very individualistic. It's not community-based. The intellectual is often thought of as a person who is alone and cut off from the world. So I have had to practice being willing to leave the space of my study to be in community, to work in community, and to be changed by community.

Austan Goolsbee

Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.

Ari Fleischer

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

Diane Abbott

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

Jim Volk

People are still very very nervous and looking over their shoulder on the domestic recovery. I think the market could come back again, though -- stocks have had a lot of resilience the last few days.

Cathy Keefe

You reach a saturation point with domestic tourism. It increases with the population, but that's about it. The growth in travel and tourism is really in the international market.

Gary Dugan

We're looking at growth which is more balanced. We're looking for this economy to move on through domestic demand.

Joe Barton

More refineries will result in more domestic production of gasoline.

Bob Geldof

If we can get the domestic heat to such a temperature, just possibly we can reach down that ladder and say, 'come on dudes, I'll give you a hand up'.

Nobutaka Machimura

I have an impression that we have taken too much time with our domestic procedures,

Trent Lott

It is a worry about maintaining a domestic industry, which I think has national security implications,

Mihir Vora

Some of the money the domestic mutual funds have raised will also come into the market now. That's one reason why the market refuses to go down.

Andriy Shevchenko

We must now concentrate on the domestic league.

Dan Starkey

(Baker) got his feet set and he hit the shot with confidence. We were fortunate we hit some big shots down the stretch.

Chuck Jordan

The thing that separates him from a lot of linemen is his mobility. He's got real good feet for a tall guy.

John Curry

I've never felt anything like that. That was the most incredible feeling I've ever had.

James Browning

A flat fee of $20 a month is unheard of.

Mark Calcavecchia

After missing so many, I had a feeling I was going to make it. That's one of my better pars of the year.

Mark Calcavecchia

After missing so many, I had a feeling I was going to make it, ... That's one of my better pars of the year.

Minnie Driver

Sometimes, if it feels right to do something, you have to do it no matter what others think.

Barbara Amiel

One always feels that not only should each speaking occasion require a new speech but also for everybody's sake including my own, a new past.

Daniel Kerr

Now I've got 3 feet of water, so I can't plant.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Paul Kenny

We held their offense to one touchdown in the first half. Things were looking good. In the second half, we lost our focus. We knew what we had to do to stop them and we would have stuck with them if we were focused in the second half.

John Steffensen

Everything I'm doing at the moment is focused towards the Commonwealth Games and running the sort of time which could help me win an individual medal.

Nicolle Rubino

We just told ourselves that we're a good team and we've got to come out like we're a good team. We were trying to stay focused after the two losses we had, and I think we did.

Tom Malone

As a punter, you get ready to go on third down. This year, we don't even get to third down very much. It's ridiculous how good the offense is. It's crazy. Some games, I didn't even punt at all.

Howard Wolfson

As a strategist, he's as good as they come. I think of guys like him and Mike McKeon as the A-team when it comes to Republican politics in New York.

Bob Howry

As a setup guy, if people are talking to you, obviously you did something bad. Otherwise you go unheard of. I guess that is a good thing.

Brian Thornton

As a senior it hurt not being out there with my team. I would have been good for something -- maybe helping out with (J.P.) Batista.

Chairon Isenia

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

Michael Boyd

As an operating airline, Independence is as good as dead.

John Connell

As a team, we've got a lot of character. I'm very happy with that. They work hard and have a history of being good students. I feel very comfortable with this group of guys.

Jim Lee

As a gamer, I like to go up and look at people's faces and see how good of a job they did.

Derek Brown

As a framework, it's about as good as it gets.

Joel Slemrod

Things that some people have come to view as income and are used to being taxed on would not be taxable anymore.

Albert Einstein

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

T. Harv Eker

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.

Ronald Reagan

The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

Ron Paul

Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.

Plautus

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

Martin Nissenbaum

In Florida, there is no income tax but there is an intangible tax, so they will be able to deduct both.

Stephen Baldwin

All the toys are gone. Everything's gone, and I'm making 25 percent of my usual income. And my wife-couldn't be happier.

Karl Marx

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Tony Gerlicz

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Jeff Cogen

As revenues have increased, Mr. Hicks has increased the payroll accordingly.

Elaine Chao

This has been an across-the-board gain, ... All that (data) bodes for increased hiring.

Mike Lomas

There will be an increased interest from visitors who want to know how to get in this club.

John Douglas

The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004,

Terry Hoeppner

We are going to have 200 motorcycles leading us down (Indiana) 37. They are going to be leading us back into Bloomington.

Sean Landeta

Up to that point, our punt team had done very well. Two weeks earlier, I was leading the NFC in punting, and I thought I was punting well, but they thought that they needed to do something to shake things up.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Steve Taylor

But I think if he's still leading the points, he'll go to Reno.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

Doug Firebaugh

The life you are leading is simply a reflection of your thinking.

Ryan Routzon

Everyone has to step up. Lucas can't be leading us all the time.

Kevin Schmidt

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

Al Leiter

It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.

Michael McLaughlin

(Dell) is positioned in a market that is rapidly going to grow.

John Patrick

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Mark Goodstein

These are all different approaches, but the market really has to validate them. ... If it's hydrogen, great. How many sales are you going to get?

O. J. Simpson

The stock market is very jittery because of the hurricane. Any positive news in regards to the storm will push the market up.

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Alfred Kugel

You really have a two-tier market with tech stocks going down and everything else going up. Part of this is because valuations in technology stocks got overdone this year and, at the same time, the Dow hadn't performed and now they look cheap.

Arthur Cashin

What the market would like to see is some sign of bottoming and that the market is reacting positively to the past six cuts. The market is heavily oversold and we have a real coiled spring here just waiting for a release.

Billy Bob Thornton

Marketing is the devil.

Larry Johnson

Don't tie up your retirement portfolio in one stock,

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Mario Gabelli

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

Hugh Johnson

It's not the stocks you pick, it's the structure of your portfolio that counts,

John Killian

We have the broadest product portfolio of any provider.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Ben Okri

I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

Jason Dufner

I don't like stress because stress stresses me out.

Janet Street-Porter

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

Janine Benyus

Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.

Jane Wagner

I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle, I found it too confining. It was just too needful; it expected me to be there for it all the time, and with all I have to do--I had to let something go.

Bruce Forsyth

A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.

Bill James

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Anyone can become a drug addict if you let yourself do it and, once you become a drug addict, you'll do whatever you have to to get the drugs. Absolutely, anybody can do it.

Eckhart Tolle

Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there" or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside. To create and live with such an inner split is insane. The fact that everybody else is doing it doesn't make it any less insane.

Charles Bukowski

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.