Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Vladeck

As bad as the situation is now. it can only get worse when the economy stops growing.

Peter Power

The boycott is bad for all those concerned.

Chipper Jones

The bottom of the order didn't do too bad either.

Xavier Malisse

The calls were pretty bad today -- for both of us.

Martin Possienke

The buyback is certainly a positive for the shares, and the profitability target of 20 percent is not bad given that Schering's product portfolio does not have many new drugs with high margins.

Emily Blunt

The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.

Phil Angelides

The Bush panel's recommendations are a double-barreled blast aimed squarely at California and the middle class, ... These recommendations are good for Texas, but bad for California.

Pat Tarrant

The break was a good thing. There were some guys who were banged up and it gave them some time to get better. It was a good time to have the break. I thought we might have been a little winded. But (the break) wasn't bad for us. I think we're ready to go.

Jim Ritterbusch

The big thing was that products stocks were up at expense of crude. The good news is we're building products supplies; the bad news is crude supplies are back down toward historic low levels.

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.

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

Dr. Schaffner

People are trying to work out contingency plans to make sure there's a more equitable distribution. I'm sure it will never be perfect, but without work now, it'll certainly be chaotic later.

Takahiko Murai

Oil is certainly a factor clouding the global economy in the year ahead.

Mark Schlereth

Do you play your starters? Certainly you do. But Tony has to decide how much is enough.

Torrence Johnson

Do you have the right materials and do you the right conditions? The materials are certainly there.

Jay Young

Declining enrollment certainly pays a part. We've been in decline for several years. Finances also play a part.

Carlos Camargo

Deep-fried foods probably shouldn't be served in hospitals in the first place, but foods high in trans fat should certainly be excluded.

Jack London

days rather than weeks, certainly not months. We've got a high-speed turn on this thing.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Jennifer Pahlka

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

Jack Kozuchowski

I've spent half my life here. And they've always given me a lot of space to do what I thought I needed to do. It's been a labor of love.

Alexis Wright

I've never seen myself as a spokesperson. I've always seen myself as a worker and am very grateful for the trust that my own people have given me over the years.

Tom Fitzgerald

I've probably never given it an ample opportunity.

Orrin Hatch

It would be a national catastrophe if they can only be given to the wealthy.

Roy Barnes

It was tremendously uplifting knowing how he had given his life and was then victorious. If he didn't give his all on Calvary, we wouldn't have anything to stand on.

John Novak

The steps they are talking about seem to make sense, given the state of the supplier industry and their customers. Plant closures and headcount reductions are something they have to do if they are going to reorganize.

John McDermott

The statement was very similar to the statements he's given previously,

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Lawrence Lindsey

I would not be surprised to see 5 percent unemployment by the end of the summer. I would be surprised to see 6 percent.

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.

John Hall

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

Brian Tracy

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

Arianna Huffington

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Desiderius Erasmus

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Edward Abbey

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Christopher Paolini

Even positive reviews would make me feel self-conscious while I'm writing.

Chakib Khelil

We think that we will keep production at the same level.

Andy Bryant

We are still somewhat constrained in the chipset product line. We think microprocessors were OK,

Andy Bryant

We are still somewhat constrained in the chipset product line, ... We think microprocessors were OK.

Dennis Anderson

The uniqueness of this product provides insulation from competition.

Ken Hamlin

We had the right product at the right time.

Todd Holmdahl

We will wind up cost-reducing the product every year.

Anthony Powell

You have to be a product of the product.

Hal Mumme

We haven't been as productive as we'd like. We just have to keep working.

Tim Ferriss

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

Patrick Stump

Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.

Alfred Hitchcock

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

Richard E. Grant

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

Steve McConnell

The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project's outcome; it is to determine whether a project's targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them.

Tommy Chong

Once you're a felon you're a target.

Tom Peters

I urge you to set a tough, quantitative target for adding "differentiators" as I call them, to every service you provide.

Jean Fernandez

I always said that we had a team to target the top five.

Rob Bell

The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks." (On the "benchmarks" used by George W. Bush