Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stella Young

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

Nick Vandewalle

Defense has been the key for us throughout the playoffs. We were able to able to keep (MCC) in check, and that allowed me to use some reserves in the second half.

Chris Wilson

Dealing with young people, it's always a new experience. You never know if they're ready until they get out there. As long as they play with great effort, I'm happy. The injuries have allowed us to give some guys opportunities.

Chris Duhon

Compared to this, things like my new contract don't mean that much, ... There are bodies floating in the water. A lot of houses have been destroyed. When all of this is over in another week or so and people are allowed to go back home, what will they go back to? It's a tough situation to handle.

Graeme Cox

Companies are hamstrung under the way they are allowed to operate. You have to just do your own thing. There will be opportunities to bid for work and to get a slice of the pie.

Mark Shapiro

Coco and Grady have similar skills, and we're extremely excited about Grady's future. Coco profiles best as a center fielder, which allowed us to be opportunistic and get a whole lot of value for him, which, in the end, was too much to turn down.

Mark Walters

Coach drew up a couple of plays in the huddle that allowed me to create a little more space.

Steven Drucker

Developing the technology was quite a complex challenge. The automated camera control wasn't too tricky. The automatic connection that allowed people to connect to the games as they were played was more difficult. But the most difficult was video distribution. Eventually we realized that a distributed model with no centralized server was the best route.

E. P. Thompson

Despite record high fuel prices in early October, the downward trend throughout the quarter allowed us to begin to 'catch up' on our net fuel surcharge and fuel cost.

John McMillin

Even if the auction does not go to where some people expected it to, the stock had a great run up. I just don't see a lot of upside at this point.

Michael Ostrovsky

Bidders could get away from the auction for days and weeks at a time and put their energy elsewhere.

Akihiko Inoue

Twenty-year bonds have risen too far given the auction tomorrow. Traders are likely to try and back up the yield to closer to 2 percent for the auction.

Greg Isaacs

Today, most of us think about eBay as an auction site, but a third of the items that transact on eBay are actually fixed price.

Celso Senise

There is some short-term concern in the market that the auction could be delayed.

Christoph Rieger

We've got a lot of supply so that's putting Treasuries onto a bearish footing. People aren't expecting a good result from the auction and in the short term yields can push higher.

Richard Thalheimer

We will auction one-of-a-kind items, some of our newest Sharper Image Design products, as well as established best sellers.

Andrew Brenner

Those that thought the central-bank buying would not be there for the auction have been proven wrong.

McGregor Scott

This was the most internet bidders we've ever seen at a Ritchie Bros. auction in Ohio.

Randy Petersen

As a result of people buying tickets so often, there's not much room for people cashing in their miles.

Chase Carey

People don't buy technology, they buy content...You have got to have content that is married to (technology).

Alan Ramsey

People around here think we're mostly a wood company. But economically, we're a plastic company. We buy more plastic, in dollars, than we do wood.

Helen Roberts

People are very, very, very kind and frequently buy my meals for me.

Michael Gough

People buy a game because they like the game and they want to play the game. And there are certain characters in games that people like, obviously. I don't know if a certain character's voice or lack of a certain character's voice can cause somebody to buy or not buy a game.

Chris Corrigan

Originally Toll wanted to buy that through Pacific National,

Michael Terpstra

Oh I am gonna buy an island I am gonna buy an airplane. In reality, gee, not a fan of flying, and I do not really like water.

David Joy

Normally, you buy back a lot of stock when you don't think there's any reason to invest in your own company, ... Parsons hasn't ruled out Icahn's suggestions, but it's clear he wants his flexibility.

Richard Williams

Normally, big viruses are good news for the anti-virus companies. The scarier, the better, since that's what motivates people to buy patches in the first place.

Pat Garner

Our customers have come to expect a high level of service from the Motley Fool.

Richard Harmon

Our customer is one that wants to live the Big Event.

Leigh Sparks

Department stores are not really out of fashion, but they will struggle if they don't provide what customers want.

Ken Golden

Anything that is good for our customers normally bodes well for John Deere.

Bill Miller

The start of production and the first shipment to a customer represent significant milestones for MED. There is still much to do but we look forward to 2006 with confidence.

Maria Gonzalez

The skiers would come in here and it'd be really busy. Now it's just local customers and no tourists.

Zach Nelson

Salesforce.com and other CRM solutions would be really useful if they actually had customer data stored. But they only have prospects. There's no way to make a prospect into a customer unless you tie together ERP and CRM.

Richard Levy

This is a tremendous opportunity to shape the legal industry's technology vision. It is a pleasure to work with a talented engineering team focused on customer satisfaction.

Jacob Arabo

Your wife will be very happy, ... If she's not, send her back. One thing about our company, customer satisfaction is guaranteed.

Kara Swisher

It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

Meg Whitman

Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce

Gillian Anderson

I've got huge tubs full of stuff that I can sell on eBay. If there are people out there that are interested, I want them to come my way and buy my jackets and hats and scripts that are signed by everybody.

Harry Ponfil

If eBay wants to get a hold of you, it will pop up when you sign in there.

Mike Oliver

I wouldn't be surprised if some of it's showing up on eBay in some fashion, ... Some of that stuff can get expensive.

Pierre Omidyar

The interesting thing was, I started eBay off as a hobby so it was free of charge.

David Duchovny

I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.

Derek Brown

There is no longer a perception that eBay has few meaningful competitors.

Sam Davis

Once we got a lead, we said make them come out and guard you. Once they opened up the floor, our perimeter play is pretty good and our kids are smart. We did a great job of running our offense in the fourth quarter.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

John Tavares

I've been able to handle the pace, ... I've got four goals in four games so I feel pretty good. Obviously today wasn't a great day, but hopefully I can come back next week and have a good one.

Main Street

I used to walk down there on the Fourth of July,

David Jones

Then all of a sudden, in the fourth quarter the other team's back in it.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Ozzie Guillen

I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Chris Raso

I've been watching these girls since they were in fourth grade. I knew what stride they could play at. I thought four years ago that we could possibly get to this level.

John Perry Barlow

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

George McGovern

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

Sally Ride

Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!

Marcel Proust

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

Jerry Only

It's not how many tickets can we sell, it's where do we want to play, not where should we play to make the most money. We don't really care about that.

Edwin Louis Cole

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.