Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Stretch

The statement was a lot more forceful than the market was expecting and that has given Asian currencies a strong boost. Japan is going to have to tolerate a stronger currency, like the rest of the countries in the region.

John Boultbee

We should be pleased to have avoided some of the heavyweights of Asian football. It's a good draw.

O. Singh

I think the HSBC Champions is going to be a really exciting fixture on our golfing calendar and with a prize fund of US$5 million, the largest in the history of Asian and Chinese golf, it is an event we all want to win.

Richard Florida

L.A. draws highly skilled Asians and San Francisco draws highly skilled gays, but D.C. draws highly skilled everybody -- gays, Latins, Asians, Africans, scientists and so on, ... The trick will be to avoid pricing ourselves out of that creativity.

David Mann

The falling rupiah ... puts general pressure on Asian currencies.

Sepp Blatter

The Iraqi footballers have overcome testing times to win a qualifying berth for next year's Asian Cup finals in China and their coach has shown a lot of courage to continue on the job,

Mahinda Rajapakse

All those who bring honor to our country at world class sports events such as the Olympic Games, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games will be richly rewarded.

Luo Xuejuan

This is my first East Asian Games gold and I'm very happy for it.

Ivor Heerden

This has the potential to be as disastrous as the Asian tsunami. Tens of thousands of people could lose their lives. We could witness the total destruction of New Orleans as we know it.

Gore Vidal

As dumb as this administration is, they don't look ahead. They don't know where any countries are. They don't know how to make deals. They don't really know much about anything. There is no plan.

Liu Jian

Countries around the world shoulder major responsibility for development.

Christopher Painter

Countries around the world are drafting stronger laws. But hackers will find the weakest link, the country with no laws.

Masiela Lusha

Many countries had a hand in raising me. I am the product of many contradicting philosophies and cultures... My entire universe is comprised of these foreign traditions. If any one of these experiences are to be ignored, I wouldn't be the same.

Jocelyn McCalla

The United States can't ignore Haiti. The two countries are stuck with each other.

Zalman Shoval

Israel is of course interested in widening its official diplomatic relations with as many countries as possible and especially Muslim countries.

Chandra Muzaffar

what we actually want to do is let the foreigners think for us. This is what we see in the rich Middle East countries where foreigners are actually doing all the thinking and they are the ones running the show.

Dambisa Moyo

Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.

Richard Boucher

We understand that conceding to terrorists will only endanger all members of the multinational force as well as other countries who are contributing to Iraqi reconstruction and humanitarian assistance.

Mike Schroepfer

Luckily we do not have any known use of this exploit, but it is fairly critical if there were to be (an attack), so this is a recommended download.

Ron Paulson

If we are not one of those chosen, then that's when we need people to start to vote. It's critical that if you can't watch, you at least find out how to vote.

Kim Edwards

'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

Mario Vargas Llosa

There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.

Jason Kreis

So far, so good. I have about a month to go before I'll be released to go 100 percent, so it's a critical time.

Jeff Bower

Shawn Nelson made some big plays at critical times and that was the key to us winning. I was happy with Dustin Almond's play and he also stepped up and made several big plays.

John C. Maxwell

we need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.

Adrienne Esposito

The Long Island Sound has become a critical and necessary economic engine to our region, and somehow the president just doesn't get that.

Gary Pollack

The markets right now are facing a critical juncture and they're trying to determine if the strong economic growth we saw at the start of 2006 will continue.

Aziz Ansari

I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.

Richard Leakey

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.

Spike Milligan

Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant

Sara Gruen

Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

Jacques Monod

What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.

John Donne

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

Charles Eastman

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Richard G. Scott

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

Bob Dylan

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Mircea Monroe

When I did that '3 Days of Normal' one, we had no budget, and we were all staying in a house in New Hampshire. There's no trailers, and it's just a family environment. There's not much of a crew; you just do what you need to do.

Bruce James

We like to invite friends and family over for dinner, listen to what they're are up to and hear what's going on in Nevada. We can't wait to get back home.

David O. Russell

'The Fighter' was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script which I had written for my son initially because my son has mood disorder.

Aubrey Peeples

Mostly, I just like to write music and spend time with my family and friends and jam.

Joshua Cohen

Books were in my family - books were my family.

Asafa Powell

Actually, I wanted to get it over with. Further on in the season, I'll try, for the record.

Simon Clarke

Perhaps it will work in Dublin, but in the further out places it will be near impossible.

Sven Friebe

Rates are going to rise, and we see potential for further upside in the euro.

Edward Murphy

We won't go any further with the VA until this process comes to some sort of conclusion.

Chris Foster

As things get refined, we'll seek further input.

Don Cooper

Mac needs to come into spring ready to get a lot of innings. I'm not going to say he's our long guy or our seventh-inning guy or a spot starter, but he is a reliever right now until further notice.

Charles Schumer

Nothing could be further from the truth, ... This is about his record.

Yu Yongding

Personally, I think there will be several further changes.

Mark Regev

No one on the Israeli side has ever said that disengagement goes further than Gaza. Let's be very clear, this was a unilateral Israeli step.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Billy Beane

I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been.

Peter Peterson

The time has come for investors to speak up.

Daniel S. Loeb

Timing is everything in this markets.

Zach Galligan

You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.

Scott Adams

I'm primarily just an investor.

Merton Miller

Diversification is your buddy.

Cody Acree

Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss

Wayne Gandy

It was the normalcy we've been looking for.

Mike Browning

You're looking at the young guys. You're not looking to win, just to get a win.

Bobby Shelton

I'm a little set back. I had no idea they were looking at retirement. I thought it would stay around for many, many years kind of like the old B-52s did.

Mike Eaves

I can tell you this explicitly, that nobody was looking at this as just a third-place game. There was a lot of pride on the line.

David Gayson

Looking back, I have this regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

R. Robinson

I wasn't really looking to score more (in the second half), but I was looking to be more aggressive.

Scott Parrish

He's not looking at the scoreboard, huh? Well, I was.

John Smoltz

I was looking forward. It was brutal. I was tested to the max.

Trot Nixon

I was looking for Baez to come after me like he normally does,

Jennifer Connelly

I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.

Richard Thaler

A company invites their employees to sign up for a plan where every time they get a raise, some part of that raise goes to increasing their contribution rate to the 401k plan. In the first company we convinced to adopt this plan, saving rates tripled.

Dwight L. Moody

The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Douglas Adams

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

Adelaide Anne Procter

Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.