Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Peter Blatty

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.

Steven Fisher

The overseas migration hasn't affected us to the same extent it has affected the semiconductor distributors.

Gilbert Arenas

The people affected by Hurricane Katrina really need to be taken care of. It's rough. Everyone wants to help, but it's not going to be easy. We've got to realize that these people lost everything they had. For some people they didn't have food or water for days. I'm just trying to do my part and help out as much as I can. While everyone's watching on TV, they need to be helping at the same time.

Brian Kernighan

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

Christine Pelosi

Women are the majority of immigrants yet the minority of immigrant employment visas; immigrant and native born women who work in the service arena - such as domestic workers - are not valued for their work, making pennies on the dollar compared to male counterparts; and, women are disproportionately affected by family reunification policies.

Noah Feldman

In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by his own prophetic leadership. At Nauvoo, Smith affected a Napoleonic uniform and made himself into a general and quasi king of the polity he had constituted.

Klaus Baader

The acceleration of the past several months has been quite stunning, so it's not surprising to get a bit of a pause. After an unusually warm December, January was unusually cold and snowy. That may have affected production.

Kevin Harris

The affected states and the surrounding ones apparently made extraordinary efforts to get claims filed.

David Moskowitz

The American people saw unforgettably how federal, state, and local governments failed the people of New Orleans just three weeks ago. What the American people don't realize is how they've all been short-changed for the past three years. Minorities are much more affected by kidney failure than whites. There's a dialysis boom on Indian reservations.

Yahoo Serious

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Thorstein Veblen

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Todd Rundgren

Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and they wind up out of the business in 10 years.

Thomas J. Watson

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

Imelda May

One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

Ian Watson

People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

Gladys Knight

I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.

Donald Trump

I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.

Zac Goldsmith

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

Abu Ahmed

The policy makers are not serious over the issue of improving the overall strength of the capital market.

Denis Napthine

Victoria is proudly the multicultural capital of Australia; we have a diverse, harmonious community.

John C. Calhoun

Where wages command labor, as in the non-slaveholding States, there necessarily takes place between labor and capital a conflict, which leads, in process of time, to disorder, anarchy, and revolution if not counteracted by some appropriate and strong constitutional provision. Such is not the case in the slaveholding States.

William Graham Sumner

There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America.

Noah Feldman

During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and to preserve capitalism through regulation and a social safety net.

Noreena Hertz

I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences.

Robert Woodruff

The acquisition of LCI International was completed in just 88 days, and the integration of the two companies is progressing very well, with operating and capital synergies expected to be better than originally announced.

Guillermo Coria

That was the key point. There was everything in this match, a lot of turnarounds, but I knew how to capitalize on my chances.

Rob Francis

We couldn't capitalize on our scoring chances and that was the story of the game. They capitalized on our mistakes.

Ellen Key

When psychical phenomena have been as much investigated as physical, love will also receive its cumatology - that is, its science of waves. We shall follow the curves of the emotions through the ages, their movement of rise and fall, the oppositions and side-influences by which they have been determined.

Carrie Underwood

You never know what curve balls life is going to throw you and there's no way I can predict anything or make any assumptions about what the rest of my life is going to be like.

Marc Friedman

We have a healthy learning curve process. We went to music school. We've all been trained since we were 6 or 7.

Rob Babcock

We've got some good young kids and it depends on their learning curves and how quickly they develop.

Andy Chaytor

With the curve having flattened for a few days in a row, people may have taken their money out of it. There's been big selling of the 30-year bond.

Calvin Maduro

My changeup, curve and sinker were good. I'm just waiting on the fastball. I need more velocity and I know it's going to come. After I take time off and start throwing again, there's a period when you work through the shoulder soreness. I'm at that point now. I'm right on schedule for the Classic. The fastball should be there for me in Puerto Rico.

James English

We didn't show a lot of patience with the curve ball, ... We just didn't get it done.

Ryan Caldwell

For me, the learning curve took off the last 30, 40 games. There was a lot of learning, but a lot had to do with coaching.

Alan Rowe

For those not very loaned up, a flattening yield curve could start crunching their margins.

Isabella Bird

It is extremely interesting to live in a private house and to see the externalities, at least, of domestic life in a Japanese middle-class home.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen.

Elizabeth Warren

For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival.

Pedro Chequer

The alternative ... is domestic production of the medication, preferably by the government. Today we pay up to nine times the fair price.

Samantha Power

The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.

Jen Kirkman

Use your passport for domestic trips, so that way you don't risk losing your license.

Jim McCafferty

Mid-cap stocks are more domestic and much less reliant on overseas markets and overseas concerns.

Jane Liu

While the domestics are still spending far more proportionally, the numbers are not as far off as they had been. Our January sales forecast predicted that domestic automakers earned approximately 54 percent market share of new vehicle sales, and that Japanese, European and Korean automakers would earn 35 percent, 6 percent and 5 percent, respectively.

Kiran More

Whoever performs well in the domestic championships will be eligible for selection. The performance of India 'A' players will also be taken into account.

Isobelle Carmody

I do see, in some younger writers, elements and things that I have used - and I am very touched and flattered because I am part of a tapestry that is being absorbed by authors.

Randy Sell

The Pell grant has been flat for four years in a row. It is a lot of give or take.

David Cone

Clemens, Seaver, Gibson, Maddux - I just don't see myself in that category. I'm flattered that maybe it's debatable at this point.

Stephen Baker

Typically, we see flat or slightly rising prices in December, because people are usually willing to pay more.

John Milton

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would / By her own radiant light, though sun and moon / Were in the flat sea sunk.

Matt Cooke

Usually that little kicker in the flats we have them go down, that's the starting point. That's to kind of get them mentally prepared to go through the motions of keeping the skis underneath them, getting into that in-run position, that crouch position.

Uma Thurman

I'm so flattered and touched by your comments.

Jimmy Johnson

Man, before we hit the start of the race we had a flat tire. It was a really tough day for us.

Scott Gardiner

We didn't even wake up until the third period. We've been off two weeks, and it was their home opener, and they had more jump and just flat outplayed us for the first two and a half periods.

Ben Holmes

Willis is a big insurance brokerage and very profitable,

Robert Carter

Title insurance is not required by law, but it's prudent to get it, to make sure you own a property. The state, however, sets the rates for title insurance.

James Carter

He said I don't know what I'm going to do because I don't have any insurance and I said you're going to start rebuilding now, because I'm volunteering my services right now.

Kathleen Sebelius

I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.

Verna Rutherford

People are ramping up and spending insurance money on repairs being done, and they're doing it as much as they can at home.

Rick Whatley

Our road service insurance is what we are so well known for.

J. Horton

Some of the larger-ticket items needed to be looked at by the insurance company.

John Morrison

Regular Montanans are the ones who need help, not big insurance companies. We need to be passing laws with the consumers' interest in mind, not the special interests.

David Anderson

Our offense waited until the sixth inning to come alive, but at least it did and put some insurance runs on the board.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Donald Trump

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

Sgt. Delaney

I wish that the numbers were lower for this neighborhood.

John Beasley

It doesn't take many nights of temperatures in the mid-to- lower 50s to shut the maturity process down.

E. Hicks

You all are going to have to lower that camera.

Warren Shouldice

Personally, it's devastating. The scores were a lot lower than I expected. It was mine for the taking up there. If I had stuck my second jump, I could be up there on the podium.

Christopher Mecray

My sense is that the stock is going to stabilize here. You get much lower than this and it starts to get to be real overreaction.

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Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

Laurie Berger

Basically, the Web presents travel vendors with an opportunity to sell their product at a lower cost. If they can sell it at a lower cost, they can also pass on those savings to the consumer.

Gypsy Lee

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little lower

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Alex Brown

I think markets will stay roughly where they are with the outlook slightly positive,

Douglas McWilliams

Those in the metals markets will have noticed the push into metals and I think we'll see more of that.

Hernan Cortes

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Brian Finnerty

I don't think it's the reason the markets are down, but I think it's a big weight around the market's neck. It's like an anvil.

Brian Reynolds

GM's going out to the markets to get the money and they're going to put it back into the market, so in a sense it's a wash,

Mary Schapiro

I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going,

Leon Bear

We're all related in one way or the other.

Alanis Morissette

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

Chaka Khan

If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.

Kiesza

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

Anwar Robinson

Everything I do is music-related.

Lars Peter Hansen

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

Charlize Theron

really related to that kind of strength in women.

Damian Marley

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

Amiri Baraka

You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

Antoine Lavoisier

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

Gordon Campbell

We can't look at the results we've had and say those are the results we want.

Gustav Humbert

We're very satisfied with the test results and are on target.

Brett Tomko

I thought I pitched pretty well, but I've had the same results all year,

Hariadi Wibisono

We got the results back from Atlanta, and they were positive.

Glen Taylor

I think Sam is a closer, which is what we could have used right now. Sam could do that. The results are Sam is probably having a better year than Marko is having.

Joe Escobedo

It doesn't take 18 months; it doesn't take 18 days. The results were immediate.

David Healy

I would say that's the best-ever result we've had,

Nat Friedman

We're offloading a lot of the work to the hardware. The result is things look and feel a lot smoother.

Barry Ritholtz

Returnless risk is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

William Shakespeare

Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death.

Scott Harrison

He doesn't seem very confident, talking about what he is doing after his retirement,

Diane Watson

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

David Krumholtz

I hope I'm not sitting on a bench in a retirement home talking about what was: "Oh, I worked with this guy and that guy." I hope I'm still doing it for a really long time.

Dave Barry

You must prepare yourselves, young people, because Uncle Dave's generation is getting old. We are almost ready to go to the retirement home to spend the rest of our days tapping our bedpans rhythmically in time to "easy listening" rock 'n' roll. We must pass the torch on to you, and you must grasp it, ideally by the end that is not on fire.

Charles Caleb Colton

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, and destroys. But the duties of domestic life, exercised as they must be in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female, are perhaps as necessary to the full development of her charms, as the shade and the shower are to the rose, confirming its beauty, and increasing its fragrance.

Alan Jackson

As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.

Timothy Noah

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Alan Davidson

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.

Bill Graham

We think Web services has a way to go yet.

Pranab Mukherjee

Now after arrest, within three months, the consular services will have to be made available.

Matt Rosoff

A lot of the Windows Live services are things that had already been in development by MSN,

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Connie Shade

This is where true coordination and sharing of services comes in.

Allan Hale

We're visualizing spreading it around a little bit,

Angela Ross

We're all spread out now. We just come here - it's just like she was Big Mama.

Steve McClain

Give Vegas credit. They spread us out and executed.

Georg Petersen

It confirms what we have thought for a while, that the H5N1 virus is widely spread in Indonesia.

Greg Smith

We spread things around pretty good, especially in the first quarter.

Joe Sims

We're begging. We're going after any organization that will give us money. We're spreading the word wide and far,

Jane Goodall

The more we spread the word, the further it will go and more it will change!

Daniel H. Wilson

If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.

Brooke Astor

Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.

Jason Simpson

With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.

Steve Struss

For me, personally, it was the volume of evidence.

Jerry Brown

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Industry Idris

It (the volume of subsidized fertilizer) will not change.

Johnny Thunders

The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.

Grazia Deledda

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

William Harvey

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

William Penn

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

William Shakespeare

Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

David Guterson

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

Carlos Slim

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

Agnes Repplier

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

Charles Spurgeon

A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

David Brainerd

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

Barney Frank

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.