Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dionne Bromfield

I wouldn't say my mother was my best friend, because that sounds odd, but we have a really tight bond and she is my friend on Facebook. Although she only goes on it to check up on me and sometimes we argue about it.

Charles Boucher

It appears that Intel's significant shortfall in Europe is company-specific, although the exact cause of the shortfall is still unclear.

John Berger

I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident. I think what I do have is a capacity to listen to the other, even if the other is an opponent. That leads, in all senses of the word, to an engagement.

Michael Vaughan

He just controlled everything in a measured fashion although he obviously had harsh words to say in the sanctuary of the dressing room. His team on the field always appeared to have a huge amount of respect for him.

Russ Sonaty

He likes to be involved although he is over there. They like that he talks to them. It gives them something to work for.

Paula Zahn

He joined the Army and would have gone to the first Gulf War, but it finished before he got there, although he had orders to go, ... He's been in Korea twice and Saudi Arabia and various other places.

Steve Patterson

He is under contract. He has refused to render his services, and so we have not paid him for his services, although we've kept him on his medical insurance.

Steve Cook

Hard work on the training ground paid off tonight, although certain aspects of our play was sloppy. If this was a blip, then it couldn't have come at a better time.

Stephen Richer

Having these three resorts back in business will attract thousands of day trip customers, some of our meetings business, and many tour groups. Although we still will be far short of our previous room inventory and meeting space, we know that the demand to visit our destination is high and that business will take off with the reopening of the Imperial Palace, the Isle of Capri, and the Palace.

Howard Davidowitz

Kmart went into bankruptcy a cadaver and it'll come out of it a cadaver,

Tim Duncan

Just like the good, old days, when I used to make bank shots. Get his name for me. I need to consult with him.

Wayne Abernathy

Katrina will be a significant test of how flexible our bankruptcy rules are. Banks have a lot of experience dealing with debtors in difficulty because of natural disasters. The first focus will be on making sure people can meet their immediate financial needs.

Joyce Chapman

I think it is important for youth to grow up giving back to humankind, and West Bank enjoys getting behind the school and supporting them.

Peter Foley

He did everything right. Rado would get a gap on Seth by running low in a turn, but Seth knew better than to drop low with him. He stayed high, where he could ride the bank fastest, and just waited until he could pass him.

Ed Perkins

Greed on the part of banks is never surprising. Fortunately, not all the cards are doing it.

Gideon Gono

Guided by the ongoing consultations the Reserve Bank is carrying out with all stakeholders concerned, as well as strong representations by the banking industry, it has become necessary that we suspend indefinitely the introduction of this proposed measure.

Zhou Shengxian

Groundwater near both banks of the river is in accordance with national standards and it's safe to drink.

Alice White

Going into Chapter 11 is expensive. The feeling is once they get out of the bankruptcy and get some of the costs of the bankruptcy paid, they'll be able to build up their portfolio and make real money.

Bob Mancini

Kitchener may be the class of our conference. Erie always has a good team. They do a good job of reloading. We'll be playing in two very tough buildings this weekend.

Daniel Kurtzer

I would suggest that we need to focus on killing terrorists instead of building democracies.

Matt Duffy

I talked to a of people and they said your freshman year is a building year.

Bruce Wisan

He wants to come back and start building and I am thrilled with that.

Drew Houston

There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.

Jerrold Post

He recounted to me that when he first saw the pictures of the bombed-out shells of the building he was really horrified.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times.

Joel Walton

I think when you look at what we want to be accomplishing, we want to be building momentum heading into the tournament. It doesn't matter who we play. Looking at the Lewis match, we want to come out with a game plan and execute that game plan, and if we do that, we build confidence in our players and in their teammates.

Hank Williams

I think the building is in very good condition,

Dick Cheney

I think the economic outlook makes tax reform, tax cuts more important than ever, ... Because it does look like the economy has slowed significantly.

Mark Dayton

There is no fair or justifiable reason to single out dairy farmers for such drastic programmatic cuts and tax increases.

David H. Koch

I think to balance the budget, probably every federal department has to take cuts in my opinion.

Michael A. Stackpole

Paying a royalty to someone for prepping an ebook is akin to paying the kid who cuts your grass a percentage of the purchase price when you sell your house. It makes no sense.

Tom DeLay

If you raise the taxes on these people, you might not have the jobs to provide, so the tax cuts are incredibly important.

Devin Aromashodu

I knew what I was getting into. Routes, things like that, making sure I'm in shape, that's what they're looking for. ... I need to get in and out of cuts ASAP. I need to be as good at that as possible.

Doug Rockel

It's unbelievable to be sitting here a year and a half after the integration and still seeing this low level of Norfolk earnings. They couldn't have done these cuts on day 1 because service was paramount. But service levels have been back up for six-to-nine months.

Stanley Collender

Even without ANWR, it will be difficult to pass. You've got spending cuts that a lot of people can't stomach.

Jacques Martin

That's one of those things. He cuts to the middle and loses the puck.

Corey Dillon

I think it's a great move for me, a great move for the organization, ... I'm just happy to be a New England Patriot.

Edmund White

I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

Luiz Scolari

I think the England team has evolved, they're much better than at the World Cup,

David Givens

I was willing to give Houston a hometown discount. I would have stayed in New England if they'd given me an offer I couldn't refuse. They didn't.

Terry Edwards

I am expecting six medals and hoping for eight. Our Sport England target is eight, which is very stiff indeed but it is up to us to rise to the challenge.

Wallis Simpson

I look a hundred and weigh 110-you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

Ricky Gervais

I'm from a little place called England ... We used to run the world before you.

Kim Collins

I'm very pleased with the win, happy to come and perform in England like I always have

Jeremy Thomas

I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking for a reaction in the second half and I got it.

John Wardle

Kevin has got one and a half seasons to go so we are not silly enough to sit back and say that we are not going to do anything.

Franz Humer

I would say that we would see an acceleration (in drug sales), especially in the second half of the year, with the introduction of new products, with the acceleration also of the penetration of the oncology line in the non-U.S. markets,

Jim Boeheim

He couldn't play those last two games. I had to take him out. He played like himself in the first half and we needed that. Our offense has been terrible and we need him to get it going and we did today for the first time in a while.

M. Thompson

Half the time, we don't even notice that they're there.

Leon Cooperman

Half the stocks I picked are up and half of them are down.

Jeffrey Levi

Half of America's workers have no sick leave.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

Kevin Mench

He said he'd never seen 'turf toe' in the second toe. He said, 'Your shoes are a half size too small.

Anthony Anderson

Kangaroo Jack is the first movie I've been in where I was the star, or co-star, so this is my baby. This is the one that holds special meaning to me.

Alan Trammel

He wants to play, ... We're probably the ones who have been holding him back a little bit, but we have to.

Ted Cottrell

He knows when you have to hold back now. He's reacting a lot more to where the tackle is going and making his move, rather than preplanning like he did last year.

Sheila Nevins

I get very nervous when it's quiet, because I think it's dead. What I learned in the moment was to hold back a little before you talk.

Gore Vidal

God, no. Unless you hold office, there's no point in being there.

Colin Falls

He's just making one move and not thinking about it. I think sometimes he holds onto it and over-analyzes. He catches and makes his move (and) that opens us up on the outside.

Jennifer Schack

Hold on to your hat. The winds will pick up for the afternoon.

Josh Hall

I think that people actually just like to hold on to the map.

Tom Kennedy

To find that something could slip through, that possibly would not hold up to the test for which it was designed, it's scary.

Nicholas Burns

We are going to ratchet up the pressure step-by-step.

Chuck D.

We try to not put too much pressure on the kids. We treat it like a regular day.

Brian Giles

We've got to put pressure on them, ... They're still three down. I like our chances.

Retief Goosen

We made the putts at the right time. The pressure was always on them.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

William Vickrey

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

Wolfgang Schauble

In the EU, we agree that the pressures causing migration must be reduced.

Christopher Murray

The connotation is you're getting some kind of sexual gratification, or wanting sexual gratification, or are putting pressure on for some kind of sexual gratification, when a 6-year-old doesn't have that capacity.

Morgan Freeman

I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Michael Stipe

The future's ours, and you don't even rate a footnote now

Richard Bernstein

At the rate it's going right now, profitability will accelerate, but at a very, very slow pace, ... much slower than what's implied by valuation in the market.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

Jamie Rappaport

An astonishing success rate of more than 99 percent.

Scott Berry

And as rates go higher, that should go higher, too.

Mark Kantrowitz

It's a no-brainer at this point. You want to consolidate before rates rise,

Robert Brusca

It's a surprise -- we thought the unemployment rate would be edging up.

Simon Spurr

Spring 2010 is the second season that I'm showing the double-breasted suit. I think the right double-breasted suit is young again.

Doug Tolin

I thought we would come out and play better in the second half. But we could never really get anything going. It kind of went the other way on us.

Jim Court

I thought about it for 10 seconds or so.

Sue Donohoe

When he wanted to know what time it was, you had to get down there. You didn't tell him that it was 30 seconds left.

Jim Calhoun

We've got to take away 3-point shooting and not get fatigued by the shot clock. They make as many shots under 12 seconds as any team you're going to play.

Bruce Bainter

I went down there and it was up over the second step.

Manny Acta

I don't know Soriano as an outfielder. He is here to play second base.

Umberto Guidoni

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.

Vladimir Putin

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.

Mike Aronson

He was able to make what used to be his weaknesses into his strengths.

Richelle Mead

We all have moments of weakness. It’s how we recover from them that really counts.

Rick Riordan

We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking.

Woody Hayes

A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.

Woody Allen

Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest.

Robinson Jeffers

Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

Laurence Olivier

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

Paul J. Meyer

Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

Margaret Deland

Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!