Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Whetsell

As Blackstone started to look at some of our assets they made an offer for the whole company which we felt was very attractive.

Scott Benesch

The cable assets are growing the fastest. There's not a whole lot of growth in the rest of the business, which is why the stock is not going anywhere.

Janet Murguia

A fully bilingual young man like Zach Rubio should be considered an asset to the community.

Frederic Panizzutti

The momentum higher in gold continues. The consensus in the market is that gold will trade to between $600/oz and $800/oz in 2006. The asset relocation into gold continues.

Mary Adams

Do you think GE is going to go out of business? Do you think Microsoft is going to go out of business? You have to distinguish between the asset and the price of the asset.

Jimmy Tallent

During the fourth quarter, we resolved several non-performing assets, which slightly increased net charge-offs while lowering non-performing assets. Asset quality continues to compare favorably with peer banks and remains well within our tolerance levels. Strong credit quality, rooted with our guiding principle of securing loans with hard assets, is essential to our balanced growth strategy and overall success.

Janet Dickey

Defense is, for some reason, always an asset here.

Tammy Johnson

Definitely seeing (the police) out more, even at night, would be a huge asset to this community.

David Paulison

Dee brings a wealth of federal acquisition experience to this position and she will be a valuable asset to FEMA and the department.

Sean Connery

As far as I'm concerned, Bond is over and done with. You need a younger actor now, about thirty-five - Mel Gibson perhaps . . .

S. Walker

As a dog lover and owner myself, I knew just what this guy was going through. The bond between man and dog is enormous and has been for thousands of years.

Adam Brown

The budget situation might have had some effect on the decision-making to bring the bond back, but I don't think it was the overriding factor honestly.

Peggy Sell

Reading is a wonderful way to bond with newborns, and encouraging early reading is the ultimate goal. We want to help people in our community develop a lifelong love of learning and, maybe in the process, we can contribute a little to family bonding.

Ronald Hill

Our sense is there's not a whole lot left in the bond market because we're not worried about recession. We're certainly not worried about profits and so I think the money comes back to stocks before too much longer.

George Carter

People that oppose the bond issue do so on purely financial terms, ... Especially older people ... see themselves as being taxed out of their homes.

Alex Fraser

On the whole, bond issues do tend to pass.

Stephen Stanley

Oil is playing a positive role for stocks and the bond market today. Also, the markets are coming off a rough stretch, which makes this bounce pretty understandable.

Paul Ferley

Despite solid growth, inflation is quiet which is reflected in low bond yields.

Richard Madden

Oh, I am not naturally gifted in dancing in any way! Stupidly, I didn't go to those classes in drama school. I was like, 'I don't need that; I'll never be dancing in anything.'

Thomas Lee

Are there things we need to work on? You bet. We are understaffed here, to be honest. Some classes are larger than we want and we need to work on that.

James Cianciola

The students who I know who've taken his classes always say that he's really engaging and very provocative and thoughtful and consciousness raising and those are things that are really important.

Claire Ellis

(The students) have room numbers on their schedules that they haven't seen before, ... but they seem to be getting to their classes OK.

David Middleton

The Spanish classes are always closed because they are full of freshmen and sophomores.

Jeff Clarke

Special education supervisors and superintendents have been meeting to restructure the framework of required classes needed to continue to provide a quality education for our students at a reasonable and fair cost.

Earl Wilson

Nowadays people can be divided into three classes - the haves the have-nots and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves

Earl Wilson

Nowadays people can be divided into three classes -- the haves the have-nots and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves

John Beckman

Teaching and learning is going forward at NYU. Classes are meeting. There's very, very little disruption.

Ozzie Guillen

I talked to him as a friend, talked to him like his father, ... I said: 'You continue to do this, you're going to ruin your life. Whatever happened in the past is over. You are strong enough to turn this page on the past.'

Bob Davies

I think it's a home run as it relates to a new beginning. Lycos is on extremely firm ground with this transaction. We can continue to look at strong growth around a number of different fronts with some exceptionally strong partners.

Bob Davis

I think it's a home run as it relates to a new beginning, ... Lycos is on extremely firm ground with this transaction. We can continue to look at strong growth around a number of different fronts with some exceptionally strong partners.

James Steinberg

I think it is very important that we all remain involved, ... It is a high priority for the president and all the parties and we are going to continue to work very hard at it.

John Surma

I think it is in our interest to continue that process.

Gerald Steinberg

He wants to do things, he wants to continue with the disengagement process,

Eric Metz

He decided he likes it where he is. He's obviously having a lot of success, and he wants to continue with the Steelers. He's an excellent coach, and this won't be his last opportunity.

Matthew Parry

Gold continues to rally on continued U.S. dollar weakness, a trend I expect to continue over the next week.

Allan Houston

Going at this intensity is new, so I'm going to have to just continue to adjust.

Anthony Anderson

Kangaroo Jack is the first movie I've been in where I was the star, or co-star, so this is my baby. This is the one that holds special meaning to me.

Sheila Nevins

I get very nervous when it's quiet, because I think it's dead. What I learned in the moment was to hold back a little before you talk.

Gore Vidal

God, no. Unless you hold office, there's no point in being there.

Josh Hall

I think that people actually just like to hold on to the map.

Ryan Coleman

I think we're doing a tremendous job defensively. We're holding our opponents to 50 points or less, which is right where they need to be.

Jeffrey Allen

We lost one (on the road), and we could have lost this one if we didn't hold them on defense. We have to learn to win on the road a lot better.

Asma Jehangir

I did not see ill will on the part of the government, that they were holding it for themselves, or misappropriating it. But nevertheless, what they didn't understand is the need for speed. They're being bureaucratic.

Jeff Hanna

He loved it over there, and they loved him. When we went onstage in Japan, there were people holding up 'Vassar Clements' placards.

Robert Wright

If you?re in a position where you can?t remove yourself, do you really hold those kids responsible?

Will Rogers

Invest in inflation. It is the only thing going up.

Richard Yamarone

Inflation pressures are rising, but at a subdued pace.

Glenn Hubbard

Inflation pressures are quite modest in the United States. I don't think inflation will be a problem this year, or next year, even with the rate cuts.

Robert Parry

It's risky just to sit back and wait for an upward trend in inflation to show up before we do something,

Anirvan Banerji

There will be a time when inflation will turn around.

Hiroshi Arano

Worldwide, inflation is going to be the big story next year. For Japan, that's going to be a big positive.

Bruce Alston

We're seeing a tickling of inflation in the pipeline but it's not going to be passed on to the consumer.

Glenn Miller

There's no question that inflation has occurred, and $75 million is not the same today as it was then. That said, from where we sit, what's past is past.

Irene Cheung

From March, the year-on-year inflation rate will probably come off quite substantially.

Paul Otellini

I think it is going to be less than people expected. But it's probably not as poor as looking only at retail would indicate.

Frank Badillo

There is more of a risk this season that people will be less able to make payments on these offers.

Billy Hunter

When he told me that he was guaranteeing us no less $500,000 and up to a million, I said, 'Cool,'

Dave McAlindin

It has always been our philosophy that less is better.

Charles Coles

He is more than just a teacher. We're able to talk to him about things we can't say to teachers, because he is more like us and less like them.

Rob Bell

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

Yolanda King

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.

Robert H. Connelly

If you've had a turbulent August/September period, ... It's less likely you're going to get sucker-punched in October.

Mike Babcock

I liked to see less plays through the neutral zone and more plays around the net, but he (Hudler) played well tonight.

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Shuji Nakamura

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Sam Marchio

What you have to remember is he's shown he can raise the money when he needs to.

Anthony Solomon

I thought we should give the money back to the fans.

Robert Kraft

I think when you spend up to $10 million, that's real money,

Joe Kasper

Whatever this costs, it is going to save us money in the end.

Kevin Rollins

The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Jim McMahon

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Nathan Brookwood

As soon as you let up, even for a quarter or two, you're in trouble.

Efraim Zuroff

Up to a quarter of the Latvian legion were volunteers.

Luis Castillo

Hopefully, it won't take me two quarters to get going this time.

Erik Satie

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

Chris Bates

We have to wait another quarter to see if it continues.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Darrell Bricker

Harper is going to win on Monday, there's no question about that.

Helen Rowland

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Tracey Smith

I'm sure he'll be tried one way or the other. The question is how and when.

Michael Cimino

I know the market's there, ... The question is, 'How do you reach it, and how do you communicate with the end user?'

Rod Barnes

I'm not going to take those questions today.

Robert Hill

And it's really a question of how long that takes. But what I'm saying to you is I don't think that should take too long.

Nicholas Johnson

All television is educational television. The only question is what is it teaching?

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Michael Holland

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

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.