Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salvatore Satta

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.

Albert Dunlap

It is obvious the company no longer felt it had a legal basis to pursue its defenses without Al,

Steve Bennett

Intuit had another solid quarter. We beat consensus estimates for pro forma profitability. Our Quicken Loans mortgage business was profitable for the quarter and grew revenue on a year-over-year basis for the first time in four quarters.

Milos Forman

If you look at the natural dispositions of the economies, a union does not make sense. Their economy has an agricultural basis and ours relies a great deal on tourism.

Michael Berry

If you look at the larger companies in the industry, it's a year-round business. It's really a hospitality industry on a year-round basis and we're in the ski business from December to March.

George Young

If you know firefighters like I know firefighters, a voluntary basis means I will put it in my locker and I will think about it ... maybe.

Alan Rifkin

If you look at the four hurricanes last year, which had combined insured losses of $23 billion, both Home Depot and Lowe's benefited by about 100 basis points on their same-store sales,

Art Hogan

I think 50 basis points (one-half percentage point) is a credible consensus estimate for what the Fed does (at its March 20 meeting). Unfortunately, over the last five or six tumultuous trading days, we've talked ourselves into the fact that the Fed cares about equity valuations, but that's not the case.

Michael Holland

I think 50 basis points is built into the market price structure,

Stone Gossard

J was open to our style from the get-go. They weren't expecting us to do something that was unnatural for us.

Grant Heslov

'Monuments Men' is a movie... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if you're expecting 'Transformers,' you're going to be disappointed.

Mario DeRose

I think the market is expecting a slight increase and so if they don't do anything, I think you'll see a sell-off. If it's increased more than expected, you might get a little pick-up -- but it's keeping the market a little on edge.

Mahdi Hadi

The Palestinians are expecting the new administration in Washington to take seriously the threats of the Sharon agenda.

Carl Moore

We may still be about $200,000 to $250,000 short. We're expecting some tax credits, but we may still have to do some local fundraising.

Emma Watson

He was expecting us to be professional the whole time, ... whereas before ?

Pedro Martinez

I don't go out there expecting no-hitters or anything like that. I go out there trying to make things happen, actually expecting them to hit the ball, but where I want, not precisely where they want to. That's what happened today, and I was lucky enough to be flirting with a no-hitter.

Robert Amsterdam

I am expecting nothing more than I've seen in the past,

Ron Nelson

He had a great year last year. He was real steady at shortstop and at the plate. We're expecting big things from him again.

Karen Joy Fowler

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

Jeff Reinebold

This is where I want to be. I love this program, and I love working for June Jones.

Richard Bracken

Probably until June when there is another month when there will be three pay periods.

Johnnie Cochran

It was about 10:25 p.m. on June 12, 1994, right?,

Janice Moore

We are supportive of clarifying Measure N so that our town can move forward. This will go on the June ballot.

Mike Shula

I think he could be ready to go at some point in June or July, if not earlier.

William Greene

Got married, ... June 20, day after Father's Day.

J. K. Rowling

Even the weather seemed to be celebrating; as June approached, the days became cloudless and sultry, and all anybody felt like doing was strolling onto the grounds and flopping down on the grass with several pints of iced pumpkin juice, perhaps playing a casual game of Gobstones or watching the giant squid propel itself dreamily across the surface of the lake.

Grace Napolitano

A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.

S. Hughes

I would take a pause and see how it goes. I think the big move has been made already.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Corey Kline

He can't show any moves until the semifinals.

John Woodring

He's done, so we have to move on.

Dan Evans

We just have to get the president to move it up on his priority list.

Carmelo Anthony

We've got to roll with it and just move on. Everybody's got to pick up the slack.

David Steel

We think big trends like convergence, and the move to wireless and networking, will play to our strengths.

Scott Peters

I think we need to move past that,

Javier Solana

I think we will be able to solve the problem. I think that we, all of us, will move only forward.

James Wicklund

There are so many variables to watch. With the API numbers on the way, everyone is in a wait and see attitude.

Charles Steinberg

What we have not seen in any significant numbers is people who refuse.

John Lindsey

Here, we're running into the problem of specific numbers again,

Bob White

I don't feel that their numbers and 'facts' are very accurate.

Alex Brown

I don't know that we've got his number yet.

Robert Keats

I don't know where their number comes from.

Steve Tisch

I'd be shocked if the suggestion internally to recommend two teams ever comes up. I think the numbers are too big. I think it would be an overwhelming suggestion. Over time, possibly.

Richard P. Feynman

Few people realize the number of things that are possible.

Richard J. Needham

When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising that a large number of them are unemployed.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Andrew Kohut

His ratings for being trustworthy, which were his strong point for all of his first term, have tumbled rather substantially this year.

Rich Baccellieri

I think (the point spread) would go to 3 before it went up to 4. But I think it's pretty solid at 3 1/2.

M. Thompson

I thought she was going to make a four- point difference. Turned out, it was five.

Kobe Bryant

He has been solid for us all year. Now he's putting points on the board, which is very popular with the people.

Jeremy Miller

He has the right to go to trial, but it would be a moot point by the time he did, because his shares will be gone.

William Golding

For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.

Tom Schatz

Our point is simple. These projects were wasteful before, and they only seem more wasteful because we have a real emergency,

Mike Conner

I probably should play him more. He's averaging two points every 30 seconds he's in there.

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.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

William Blake

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

Joseph Heller

Rise above principal and do what's right.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Crystal Merillat

He had to go sign up. There was no stopping him then.

Theo Holtwijk

In concept, I'm willing to sign off on it.

Adam Fritz

Their absences are excused with a signed form.

James Joyce

Signatures of all things I am here to read.

Eric Alterman

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

Joe Hurwitz

There was a sign that said, 'Church for sale' and some of the parishioners were upset.

Grant Thomas

Once he's signed off he's able to play and I take that as if he's able to play anywhere.

Margot Asquith

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Kazimir Malevich

To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.

Thomas a Kempis

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Michael English

The streetcar will always have detractors. Is it going to go away? No. Is it going to be expanded? Yes, sooner or later.

Sue Black

The sooner I can alleviate everyone's fears, the better.

George Andrews

We tried to get foam on it as soon as we could. Any spark and that whole tanker could have blown,

Roy Halladay

We tried to do everything we could to get back as soon as possible,

Chuck Palahniuk

No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

George R. R. Martin

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

Dave Peters

Of course, as soon as I say that, we'll get hit.

Nick Saban

Guys, let's get off this starting quarterback thing.

Anquan Boldin

I think we are just starting to get where we need to be.

Marcus Williams

I think that we know we're good. I wouldn't say it's 100 percent, but we're starting to see flashes.

Rob Niedermayer

I didn't want to go. I really wanted to stay. Things were starting to go well. I was pretty disappointed when I got traded.

Rick Warren

God is not just the starting point of your life; he is the source of it.

Greg Zenerovitz

Steve started a little high. He's starting to find his rhythm.

Malcolm Bird

It's (Internet TV) is only just starting to happen. It never worked before as streaming technology wasn't there - it's just like watching TV and its getting better and better.

Marsha Norman

We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy. We know that somebody has to clean it up, and that only if it is cleaned up can we hope to start over, and get better.

Antonio Banderas

I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.