Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Phillips

Joe's decision ... is a great boon for our business. Frankly, it made little sense to me that he left in the first place.

Jozef Straus

Had we not done what we did, and told customers when there was a boon that I didn't want to do it because I didn't want to fire 5,000 people, some little guy would have got the business.

Roy McFarland

Wayne is having a good season and his wealth of experience is a really boon for our younger players - both on and off the pitch.

John Cassavetes

My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.

John Challenger

We are definitely going to see downsizing. There just isn't going to be a need for people to the degree that was required in the boon years.

John Challenger

We are definitely going to see downsizing, ... There just isn't going to be a need for people to the degree that was required in the boon years.

Michael Panzner

Sure, lower rates might offer another brief respite in an environment that has seen increasing dollops of profit-warnings and negative economic news recently, but when that is all said and done, a poor operating environment is unlikely to be a boon for corporate profits -- or U.S. shares prices -- in the months ahead, ... The New Laws of the Stock Market Jungle.

Stefan Bielmeier

Accelerating world trade is proving a boon to German exports. The recovery is broadening; no doubt the optimism is warranted.

Paul Hebert

It's really a tremendous boon because there's some money going to the creation of more permanent housing units and it also provides for case management, which really increases the success rate for all of our agencies.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We have always existed in different forms - carbon, oxygen, water, heat. Maybe Heaven is this brief period when the elements realize they're alive.

Sebastian Faulks

The religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or woman to know fully and to understand the nature of our brief human existence.

Oliver North

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

Pico Iyer

Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?

Douglas Altabef

You'll see markets continue to do the Cha-Cha, moving higher, but paced by brief retrenchments. It's not going to be as good as last year, but I think 2004 will still be a good year for the stock markets.

Brett Tomko

I strayed away from the game plan. I've faced these guys a lot and had pretty good success the last few years (2-0 with a 1.50 ERA last season). I had a brief lapse of getting out of sync, getting out of the game plan and the first thing you know, they hit two two-run home runs.

Frank Robinson

Just knowing him for a brief period of time, I feel like he's going to go out there and give it 110% and he's going to put the effort in to get better on a daily basis. He's not going to go out there and just put time in.

Harlan Ellison

Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.

Hussein Chalayan

I can be working on a collection and a film at the same time. It can take a lot out of me, but the processes come from the same source. From a brief I set myself I can make a film, I can make a collection, I can make an installation.

Park Seung

The polarization between households and the corporate sector is a phenomenon seen in the course of the economic restructuring process.

Mary Rich

That was the first time that any of us knew that our plan was no longer protected. I think the corporate people knew but were keeping it quiet.

Eric Kuby

We've gotten good reports from a variety of companies, supporting the thesis that corporate earnings are going to increase in the double digits this year.

Bob Parker

We've lost a third of our corporate contributions.

Chuck D.

Valuations are getting stretched, especially in the technology sector. There may be some recovery in the economy, but the notion that it will translate into a big jump in corporate profits - the jury is still out on that.

E. Hurley

Most of the corporate money in Newcastle goes to the Knights.

Paul Browne

Members of our corporate security network informed the police department of the e-mails' existence days prior to any announcement of the threat.

Don Hays

You'll see most of the corporate earnings out of the way,

Gordon Graham

will include a significant reduction in Bell's corporate support structure.

Kate Warne

The overall tenor of the market has been very positive because the economic numbers are relaxing fears of a rate hike (by the U.S. Federal Reserve).

Jim Gallagher

The overall intention is to try to have mares reside longer in the state. That's where the greatest economic development is derived.

F. Sionil Jose

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

Roger Altman

The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. economy - not unlike a company gritting its teeth through a lifesaving bankruptcy.

Arthur Levitt

The American economy is the eighth wonder of the world. The ninth is the economic ignorance of the American people.

Bill Grant

That would be great. The more economic development you have, the better it is for the region.

Rainer Guntermann

We have a more mixed picture (and) that would have made some people rethink economic prospects maybe towards the end of the year.

Paul Hubbert

We could have another economic downturn. We need to maintain a reserve.

Mike Schussler

We know that with a lot of the strikes, if they last only a day or three, we can make up that lost production. If it lasts a week or longer we make up only some of that production. That's when it starts having economic consequences.

Geoff Hoon

My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both.

William Reddington Hewlett

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.

Keith Bailey

The police have worked endlessly, day and night, to provide us the safest environment they can at 36th and Hampton. The police can only do so much. We have lost accountability of our family members.

David Rabe

I never found a professional environment that made the production of plays efficient. Teamwork is demanded, but there are very few teams.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace.

Bill Brandt

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.

Peter Singer

If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.

Bob Miller

Usually we have to scratch and fight for nine innings of baseball. But when you play in a championship environment it intensifies our guys? at-bats.

Kim Brown

We've done festivals before. What better way to have them tell us what they think about the environment?

Gail Kelly

I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

Nawal El Saadawi

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Brian Hill

He needs to work on increasing his strength and stamina. He needs to do more (lifting weights) to become more of a presence in the low post.

Robert Williams

We started increasing power at 8:30 yesterday (Saturday) morning.

Neale Donald Walsch

I think in metaphysical terms, I would call that increasing the speed of the vibration of life.

Robert Adams

What's really increasing more than anything is that we're getting more kids to take the SAT. That in and of itself means more kids are considering post-secondary education, which is tremendous. That's what they need to do.

Wilferd Peterson

Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing its speed.

George Shiffler

PC vendors have succeeded in increasing the unit share of higher-margin mobile PCs. But this has resulted in a significant sacrifice of desk-based revenue as vendors struggle to maintain the value proposition of desktops at the low end of the market.

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

Peter Aengst

That would have set a new precedent. We've overemphasized historically the lawsuit tool.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have to obey the laws with respect to security classifications,

Rick Hind

Usually the laws are relatively weak and have been written by lobbyists for the industry.

Jeffrey Schneider

We have not been served with a lawsuit and don't have any comment.

Rig Veda

Only that person is preferred as a leader, who adheres by laws and rules.

Kenneth Langone

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

Anacharsis Anacharsis

Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In time of war the laws are silent.

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.

Source Unknown

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.

Rob Enderle

The overseas market isn't saturated like the U.S..

Chris Walker

The overall market is down a tad anyway,

Michael Carty

The path of least resistance for this market is up right now.

Sheryl Kingstone

The $500,000 offer is a very tactical marketing move.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, ... We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, going into Texas. We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Ned Riley

Today the market anticipated possible problems over the weekend. If nothing happens, we might have a better Monday than we've been having.

Victoria Strauss

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

Herman Edwards

That was something that might not have been as special to him as it was to all of us, he's not that kind of guy. He's about the team, that's what makes him so unique.

Brad Johnson

Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher.

Thomas Reid

might not be an appropriate place for him to stay.

Chuck Smith

Might be guilty' isn't enough. 'Possibly guilty' isn't enough. 'Probably guilty' isn't enough.

Eliot Spitzer

Who might or might not be my opponent on the other side of the aisle, I'll just wait and see how it plays out,

Eliot Spitzer

who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.

Kweisi Mfume

who might not like what we have to say.

Chris Morrison

Who knows? You don't know who you might draw.

Evangeline Lilly

My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.

Ashton Kutcher

When you do movies, it's you have a 3-month family and then everybody goes away and then joins another family, you know?

Greg Valliere

I think it will be months and months before you see this clarified.

Zach Galligan

An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.

Nick Saban

I wonder what this technology is up here, ... (Rewind it) to six months ago. You'd get the same answers.

Bob Straus

We don't see the type of value in the sector that we saw six or seven months ago.

Shelli Rushing

We'll have another public workshop here in three months or so to start talking about getting into more specifics about the plan. We're supposed to wrap up the plan by the end of the year.

Bill Ryden

We are really working on the perfecting part of the sport. Sometimes it takes months to fine-tune.

Dean Hachamovitch

Nine months is very aggressive, but 18 months is too long.

Barry Mann

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Robert Miller

We are in a negative situation relative to new apartments.

Nick Knight

It doesn't seem to be having a negative impact.

Thomas Kean

Unfortunately, races seem to get more negative every year,

Peter McWilliams

Positive thoughts have positive results. Negative thoughts produce negative results.

Koichi Ogawa

Fundamentally, there's nothing negative you can point to with Toyota.

Jeremy Siegel

His rating is a negative for the market. He has been a stock market-friendly president in terms of legislation.

Allen Iverson

His opinion is his opinion - and it's just that. I don't have anything negative to say about him, and I don't have anything negative to say about the situation.

David Cross

I've had plenty of negative reviews. I have my entire life.

Randol Schoenberg

The arbitrators wanted us to keep it confidential, but the news leaked.

Loesje

Will the person who stole my bike...deliver the newspapers as well tomorrow morning?

Tom Daschle

We are dismayed and we are angered at the news of WorldCom today,

William Sullivan

It doesn't seem to be news-related, it seems to be more technical.

Kelli Durham

Possibly it could be copycat, because it's getting a lot of news coverage.

Stephen Hess

Polls are a reflection of the headlines. When the news is bad, the president's numbers go down, and when the news is good, they go up,

Yoni Stern

Newspapers tell us all about our culture, even when they conflict.

Howard Kurtz

Newspapers are trying to use their own Web sites to provide 24-hour coverage, even though the old dinosaur, ink-on-paper version only comes out once a day.

Tony Ridder

For those 12 newspapers that are being sold, the uncertainty is not over, and I regret that very much.

Zach Braff

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

Wesley Ruggles

A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.

Bill Hader

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

Nicole Holofcener

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

Harry Reid

The amendments were being offered by people who didn't want the bill.

Nigel Turner

We were stuck in the 1970s in terms of our offering to our customers.

Lou Styles

We've got some offers here in town, ... Our feelers are out.

Rick Wagoner

We have to offer products people want to buy, not have to buy,

Michelle Clark

We're very satisfied. We're very pleased to be able to offer this service.

Christopher Hill

We're operating from a piece of paper now, and we'll see what we can do.

Jay Kim

From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.

Steve Donner

From that point of view, the taxpayers are well protected, and there is a risk and a reward for us operating the stadium.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

Christopher Hill

What is the purpose of operating it at this point? ... The time to turn it off would be about now.

Charles Petzold

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

Lisa Spicer

At the operating level, I think it's very possible.

Patrick Collins

At this point, we're in the red $20,000 and that's going to have to come out of our operating budget.

Linda Todd

At this time of year, we're usually operating at 90 percent.

Ron Wilson

We made a poor play on the power play and they took advantage. We could have quit, but we didn't.

Gary Parlin

(Barker) threw very poorly in practice on Tuesday.

Gerry Byrne

For the record, this is a poor decision.

Japanese Proverb

He is poor who does not feel content.

Andy Robinson

We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French.

Alan Kay

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

August Wilson

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What have they done to you, my poor child?

Carol Vorderman

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

John Eade

We're probably going to see more weakness in stock prices in the near-term,

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Mark Clare

With wholesale prices where they are, all suppliers are going to have to put prices up in 2006, and I think that is inevitable.

Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

David Briggs

I think (stock) prices have run up anticipating a recovery but I don't think the recovery's here yet,

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Brady

It has revenues and profits and a very strong pipeline,

Jim Cavanaugh

The profits there are going to be huge.

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Howard Schultz

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

Sam Bodman

There's no way that we would support a windfall profits tax,

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

David Nicholson

The merchandising is where the real profits are made,

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

Chris Perry

We don't know the rates of (reef) growth.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Brandon Flowers

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

David Hewson

I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.'

Chris Crutcher

If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.

John Torchetti

That was a team win, if I have ever seen one. Everyone from the goalie out tonight just competed. That was the word for tonight, compete.

Paul Thompson

That was ridiculous. In 16 years of coaching, I've never seen anything like that.

Piero Fassino

We have already seen after two days, that this is how it will finish.

Luis Rodriguez

We can't have standardized testing because there is no such thing as standardized child. I have never seen a standardized kid. Have you?

Bob Thompson

We'll probably find more deaths. I don't think we've seen the end of it.

John Scott

We have been travelling to the old battlefields for years and never seen anything like it before.

Tyler Oakley

You don't go to your 9 to 5 and share every story with your coworkers, and in the same way, not every YouTuber shares every story with their audience.

Monica Seles

What I put in the stock market, I don't have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

John Corcoran

We can put two and two together. That's not suggesting that there was any nefarious doings. But the stock has been under pressure.

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Peter Greene

My suspicion is the stock is not doing much now, it's not earth-shattering.

Drew Brosseau

It can be a mid-30s stock in 12 months.

Brunello Cucinelli

I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Ian Stewart

For those two reasons, his candidacy is, if not doomed, unlikely too succeed.

Charles Krauthammer

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

Bruce Kovner

If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.

Richard Perks

They'll have to come up with something after deliberating for two years, but it's unlikely to be much.

Elaine Paige

I should think it is unlikely but you never know - never say never.

Andreas Rees

It is unlikely that reform-minded politicians will have a lot to say in the new government.

Seth

It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.

Mary Douglas

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

Warren Buffett

An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you.