Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mallory Factor

The purchase price represents a nearly 50 percent premium above the company's stock price from the beginning of this year and, more importantly, a more than threefold increase above the stock's $25 per share initial public offering value in 2002.

Joel Sawyer

The fact that the House is now talking about spending caps is certainly a step forward compared with what they were talking about last week. But the real question for us is always where does the money above and beyond the cap go?

Rob Murray

We have a very, very young team with some good senior leaders. I thought coming into today that we could finish in the high forties, but we performed above what I thought we were capable of and that's a testament to the athletes on this team.

Bob Hill

We haven't had a power forward here since (Shawn) Kemp who can run and jump and play above the rim like he does.

Alice Walker

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

Allen Adamson

The quality of Apple's advertising is consistently above average. And more often than not, it's world class.

David Harman

Unicom at HK$16 is probably offering reasonable value. Above that it was too expensive.

David Harman

Unicom at HK$16 is probably offering reasonable value, ... Above that it was too expensive.

Pat Morelli

(Sell and Hennessy) make moves you don't see in high school girls hockey. They're a notch above everyone else.

Kevin Boyer

The win was almost perfect. It was our last conference game at home; it's nice to go out on top.

M. Thompson

The wind pattern is almost identical to the one we had when we broke the record on Lakota. We should have a fast run up the north sea to coincide with a low pressure arriving in the Shetland Islands.

Paige Patterson

This is definitely the most demanding role I've ever had. It's almost like a job. I've found myself having to do research and really work at this character. It's much harder memorizing lines when they're all in a thick Irish accent.

David Koo

This is an exceptional period of time for astronomy, because for the first time we are able to combine data from almost all of the important wavelengths.

Bill Gibson

This is really a great prize -- all the bowl games, flying on a private jet, staying in nice hotels. I'm a big college football fan so I'm looking forward to seeing some great games. I still can't believe I won. My sons put me in front of the computer almost a dozen times to register, and luck took care of the rest.

Nancy Kress

Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.

Jeff Hester

You're not just looking at shrapnel of the explosion, you're looking at a bubble. It's just this expanse that is filled with matter and antimatter electrons moving at almost the speed of light.

Jesse L. Martin

You remember what you go through as a kid, what's going to make you listen, what's going to make you respond. I held onto that. People who treated me like that when I was younger got every bit of respect and attention I could give them, because I knew that they were coming at me from almost an equal level.

Lynn Trachte

You're been waiting for so long that it almost doesn't seem real, and then, all of a sudden, you have her.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Even theories must have foundations.