Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Nie

I think the market has enough positives to get back to the upside shortly. We need to avoid any mistakes. I think that's the catch for today. The Dow breaking 7,600 would be a mistake.

If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what REALLY throws you into a panic.

If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid looking in a mirror, because I bet that will really throw you into a panic.

If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact

J. Giertz

The performance of the index suggests that Illinois avoided the slowdown of the national economy that occurred in the last quarter of 2005.

Tony Russa

We've been really concerned the whole second half that a stretch of bad play was right in front of us and I think that's kept us pushing and we've been able to avoid it. I don't want to lose that concern even though we're starting to get healthy.

Bob Lieber

We've been real fortunate to have good kids. One thing I use as an example is how these kids find reasons to go to practice, instead of reasons to avoid practice. They find ways to set an example.

Duong Van Minh

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.

Gary Neville

Though England would have to avoid playing between February and May, clearly. Only joking. I mean, it's not going to be him, though, is it? Are we live? Oh crap.

Charles Schumer

The states have a total of $80 billion in deficit spending. What are they going to have to do? Well, they are either going to have to cut programs, which will drag the economy down, or they are going to have to raise taxes, which will drag the economy down.

The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.

Gordon Sinclair

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

Lindsey Graham

The transportation and the energy bill would have been a good place to go back and revisit for some of the spending that occurred there.

Saxby Chambliss

Let me be clear -- the Congress will be writing the next farm bill in 2007 and I am deeply concerned the (Bush) administration is using the current negotiations to reshape farm policy without the full input of Congress and grassroots support,

Octavio Dotel

One thing Billy taught me is to know how to handle the situation. I learned how to handle the situation, ... It's hard to know how to handle it.

Dick Morris

Is Bill Clinton serving as a lobbyist and public-relations guru to the government of Dubai? It sure looks like it.

J. K. Rowling

Bill, don’t look at me — I’m ’ideous.

Bobby Carpenter

We've done about 30 or so of these. Now, it's finally winding down.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Dave Palmquist

All that matters is that we are in a championship for the fourth time in five years. It is amazing.

Joe Girardi

It's possible we could take more than five starters.

Ang Lee

It's been five years since the last time I stood here. But in my mind, I've never left the independent spirit.

Dave Perry

It truly was a team effort. I thought we had a shot at top five and the guys all year were telling me they were going to be top three and get a trophy. And they did it. That's the legacy these seniors will leave.

Pat McDonald

It was good to those new guys step up and get a goal. I thought we got off to a great start. We always talk about how important the first five minutes of a period are and we had a very good first five minutes tonight.

Markku Uusipaavalniemi

It means a lot. Already now we have had over one million people watching curling (in Finland), which is pretty good from five million, so in a final, it will be great.

Matt Coleman

We had a positive season. Two years ago, this program had won once in five seasons. We've put 15 (wins) and 12 together now in back-to-back seasons.

Glenn McAninch

We had a period in the first half where we had four or five situations like that, and that makes us dangerous.

Brian Nelson

It's a good thing if Taylor only has 10 tackles. That means the other guys in front of him are doing their jobs and getting to the ball.

Asia Jenkins

It really helps having Tiffany in front with those long arms. It's really just teamwork.

Dylan Hunter

They play physical. They know our weaknesses. They want to hit us up front and hit our main guys. They rely on the power play, just like us.

Martin Tobias

They're physical. They've got some big horses up front and they play a lot of vertical football. They punish people.

Richard Petty

At least when the race starts, he'll know where they're all at because they'll all be in front of him.

Richard Petty

At least when the race starts he knows where they're all at, 'cause they're in front of him. Better to do it today than tomorrow.

Dirk Johnson

It was cool. I saw a lot of people from Montrose, and it was a lot of fun playing in front of them.

Chuck Brodsky

It was a lot of years before I got something I wanted to sing in front of other people.

Eduardo Perez

It was Doug Waechter's night. He went out there and he competed. He competed in front of his home crowd. ... He kept us in the ballgame, and that was the key.

Kathy Christie

No matter how good your intentions are, you still have to find the money. That's what states are struggling with.

M. Thompson

No matter how good the show is, a 2-inch screen is still not same as big screen TV.

Chrissie Fit

Sometimes you need a good laugh, and then there are times when you need a good cry.

Matt Mullenweg

Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on.

Lorraine Bracco

So that's been very good for us, the long hiatuses.

Pat Jones

Soquel did a good job of double- and triple-teaming her when she got the ball. They played to win.

Christopher Howell

Some were good plays on his behalf. We have to make those plays.

Delia Smith

So often much of the flavour and nutrients in vegetables are near the skin, and with a good peeler you really are only removing the skin.

Raul Rodriguez

So now we're back to square one. Hopefully we'll come out next week and have another good race. But it's not over 'til it's over.

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

John Arbuthnot

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

Libby Trickett

It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was on a completely different path in my life, I was still living in Sydney, I'm just so happy now.

Denis Conroy

Our inexperience showed a little bit. Still, I'm very happy with the effort.

Homer Simpson

Owww look at me Marge, I'm making people Happy! I'm the magical man, from Happy Land, who lives in a gumdrop house on Lolly Pop Lane!!!!...... By the way I was being sarcastic...

Wayne Krivsky

Ownership has been great. I can't say enough. I've really been happy with what I've been able to do.

Doug Stoffel

Overall, I was very happy with our level of play.

Frank Rijkaard

We did the job we had to do and I'm very happy to be in the final.

Irene Jones

We didn't care, we were so happy to get married.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

David Akers

It's not going to be easy, but I think things were encouraging. It's better than what it was last Sunday, by far.

Rusty Wallace

The racetrack said, 'You get a release from the judge, we'll let you race,'

Bobby Hamilton

I don't think you can do it with 10 races to go in trucks because we only run 25 races,

Kurt Busch

James Finch has always had pretty stout cars for the restrictor-plate races and I know we'll be very competitive at Daytona.

Henry Ford

Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.

Malcolm X

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

Mark Twain

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

Si Robertson

I'm like a fine-tuned race car. You've got to make frequent pit stops when you drink as much tea as I do.

Thom Yorke

It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people.

Thom Yorke

I want to live, breathe, I want to be part of the human race

Bobby Labonte

If we start off and we're not in the top 10, we're going to be there before long,