Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Brown

I want badly for us to do well, because of the fans here, ... They've been phenomenal over the years.

Mark Roe

The one I had been using was letting me down so badly I drove my Porsche over it so it didn't have a chance of coming back.

Sir Woodward

Something must have gone badly wrong behind the scenes for him to have stepped down. I can see him being the sort of person who wouldn't mess around if something wasn't to his liking - or things were going on - because the job obviously becomes untenable if things are not right behind the scenes.

Candice Olson

Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin.

Samaire Armstrong

I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.

Luke Hudson

It was two badly located fastballs right there that ended up getting me. A badly located fastball to Sierra. It was supposed to be away, it came right back to the inner third. The same thing to the next hitter.

Michael Young

These cuts point to how badly impaired the profitability of the oil industry has been in the last year. It also show what an enormous cash flow pressure these companies are under.

Harry Reid

The state of the union today is that we have low-income Americans begging for their prescription drugs, and seniors are going without any coverage. The president has botched the Medicare so badly that it doesn't resemble a 'benefit' for most seniors.

Yang Yang

I skated badly tonight. I felt short of energy in the semifinals.

Howard Silverblatt

The bulge in cash is permitting companies to simultaneously finance record levels of stock buybacks and dividends,

Larry Young

People say they're going to go get cash and don't come back.

Duane Peterson

Del Norte will do whatever it takes to win. They're a very physical and tough team but we had our opportunities and just couldn't cash in. We've played in a lot of close games this year and we've won the majority of them, but this time we didn't.

Takahide Kiuchi

Companies have a lot of free cash now. That provides a big buffer.

Robert Doll

Depending on the degree to which earnings slow, the dollar declines, corporations and individuals put cash to work and a variety of other factors, we can envision a scenario where the markets decline and then rebound to finish the year in the black.

Kevin Hall

The speaker says we walked away from cash on the table. We don't need cash on the table. We need transportation improvements on the ground.

Dean Baker

I've always thought you'll have the movement in price before you'll see it on quantity side, ... As long as the price remains high, if you're a builder, you want to get the houses up in order to cash in.

Larry Rice

The mutual funds are trying to make up for a god-awful performance and they're going to put whatever cash they have to work.

Matthew Kelmon

Now Microsoft has no excuses. The cash is going to be put to work.

Andrew Palmer

As overseas markets become ever more important, companies will grapple with a new set of management challenges.

James Kelleher

As other technology companies were gazing at their navels, Corning was redressing its balance-sheet sins.

Stacey Quandt

As open-source companies continue to create pricing pressure on proprietary software solutions, it will be interesting to see how Microsoft responds subsequent to the release of Longhorn. By 2010 Microsoft will support its applications on Linux and develop an open-source strategy,

John Anderson

As one of the world's most popular online gaming companies we have a very strong story to tell in respect of our position and our future strategy for growth.

David Lindsey

That's where the real hit is. A lot of companies do not pay for dependents. They leave it up to the employees to pick up the coverage.

Bruce Lanni

Production growth for most companies has been very elusive or nonexistent. Keeping it flat is a major feat.

Tom Kilian

Product development remains an initiative in our Medical Segment. During the year we plan to continue to enhance our individual/association plans as well as review our small employer group products. We plan to explore new marketing relationships with national marketing companies and promote increased brokerage sales through electronic distribution and traditional sales.

Peter Hardstaff

Private companies only invest where they can make a profit, not where there is the greatest need.

Susan Hofer

Prior to this law, there were no requirements for companies to notify individuals about possible security issues.

Ken Lee

Demand has strengthened since July because of tax cuts and incredibly low unemployment. Sales at our stores were about 5 percent higher than the same time a year earlier.

A. Hodge

Despite the tax cuts passed by the federal government, Americans will spend more on taxes than they spend on food, clothing, and housing combined.

O. Singh

A rapid reduction to operating costs, especially through job cuts in France, may not be feasible.

Henry Willmore

And the main reason for that will be the job cuts that enabled firms to do a more effective job of holding down labor costs.

Dan Riedinger

These requirements reflect years of deliberation and represent the most effective path forward for guaranteeing major cuts in emissions while keeping electricity rates low.

Dondi McGowan

They are an extremely well-coached team, and that patience is the key. They will lull you to sleep, and those back cuts will be open, and they'll have open jumpers. Or you can become frustrated and foul. Particularly at this stage of the game, it's mental. You have to be mentally prepared to execute.

Ian Shepherdson

The rise in (confidence) is presumably a reflection of the rebound in stock prices and -- though to a lesser extent -- the further cuts in interest rates,

Michael Rothman

That they called for an emergency meeting may have raised expectations that they would improve upon the cuts made in the Riyadh pact.

Anthony Stone

There are two types of oats on the market. Traditional, which is ground either course, fine or medium or the modern method, which is cut. This is where a machine cuts the grains into small pieces.

Robyn Archer

Quite often, if people don't want to listen to the message they will say 'Oh, but it's so musically inferior', but when you have songs that are musically sophisticated, with enormous heart and expertise and a message, that's when its hard to resist. It's great to see people of exceptional musical talent, like Paul and the musicians he works with, contributing to songs like these.

Keith Brown

It was an enormous loss, that is the one that eventually killed us.

Michael Garcia

This is an organization that used violence and threats to protect enormous profits.

Octavia E. Butler

I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

Donald Kennedy

There are enormous pressures to be extremely productive and at the top of the heap.

Mark Cullen

As stylized as he is, Doug has a sort of filter, where he can't shoot something that's not true and something that he doesn't feel is right with the character. He just does it with enormous flair and that's what we took with us in the show.

Susan Sontag

God, living is enormous!

Michael Morse

made an enormous mistake in my life: I took steroids while in the minor leagues.

Norman Ornstein

Let's face it. When you're the governor of New York and even mentioned as a presidential candidate, you're going to be under an enormous microscope.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Bai Ling

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

Arthur Koestler

Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.

Jane Goodall

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.

Jamie Dimon

If you're making all your money simply betting on interest rates, that's not a business. Flow is a business. On the outside, they look the same for a while. But when you dig into them, no, they weren't exactly the same.

Carson McCullers

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

Carol Burnett

If you see a kid in school, who is a little shy ... that's when you should reach out. When you do, you are going to open up a flower and discover something wonderful.

Alan Garner

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

Jane Austen

Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to acertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.

John Mica

What we did when we did it was necessary, ... We didn't want the industry to totally collapse.

Christine Wu

We are still positive on the industry as a whole, but I'm personally more conservative on UMC.

Steve Ballmer

We are still not getting in the manufacturing industry, ... We will provide the infrastructure that lets those in the manufacturing industry do their jobs.

Lloyd Doggett

What precedent are we setting in doing this for one industry and not for others?

Thomas Hoffman

Every time we have an accident, or have something particularly like Sago, we're back to people thinking we're the same old industry we were back in the '60s.

William Wood

But we?re talking about the same numbers. The oil industry is volatile. It?s very profitable some years and not so profitable others.

Ed Rendell

Because this is an industry that is young, it has tremendous potential,

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Mike Paul

She did research in the industry to find out what the top 12 tips are and those are the tips.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

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.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Sylvia Hatchell

This is the 11th time in the last 13 years we've played for an ACC championship. I wish we'd won all those, but just being there is an honor.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Julie Vallese

This isn't the last lead-jewelry recall you will see.

Gennady Onishchenko

The vaccine has undergone immunizing power tests, and sterility tests have been launched to last until mid-March. Then we will try it on a limited number of volunteers.

Mark Ferrulo

An oil pipeline is subject to significant oil spills.

Tetsu Emori

The supply of oil is still ongoing; most people feel there won't be a disruption, so they're taking profit now, especially after Friday's sharp increase.

William Teague

So when there were reports of an 80-foot (24-meter) wave striking an oil platform, they called it a rogue wave. We think it wasn't a rogue wave.

Peter Schiff

This is similar to the 1970s when there was a permanent readjustment in oil prices.

Jane Hirshfield

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.

Ariel Sharon

Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.

Bobby Ray Inman

Iraq is not about oil.

Bob Dylan

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

Bernie Sanders

Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.

Wally Buono

A very tricky situation. Some of the salaries are at the point of being out of whack, really out of proportion.

Pat Robertson

a vote (on the Supreme Court) that reflects his point of view.

Wendy Murphy

At what point does it really matter. This is such a strong case. The statement to the police is going to kill him, and I don't know if you need much more than that.

Greg Beals

At times, we've pressed to the point where it's tough. When you're not winning, it makes it even tougher to have fun.

Wayne Fischer

At some point in time you must ask, 'how much is enough?

Chris Horner

At some point in the future, there may be a market, but it's not like that's anything we've really factored into our planning.

Ray Giacoletti

Offensively, I'd say he's more of a point guard. Defensively, I'd say he's better off guarding a two.

Sarah Brown

No one wants to look like they are spackled. The point is to make your skin look better than it is.

Sarah Brown

No one wants to look like they are spackled, ... The point is to make your skin look better than it is.

Mark Whitaker

The bottom-line pressures at Time Inc. are no secret,

Steve Robinson

That's what we want to do. We want to put some pressure on and just run, run, run.

David Eckstein

That's what we try to do, put pressure on the other pitcher.

Paul Brinkman

This puts a lot of pressure on us. It is unfortunate, but that is the way it is. It could be pretty rough for students.

Carnie Wilson

If someone puts too much pressure on me, I will automatically rebel.

Jan de Bont

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

Jamie Redknapp

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

Ari Graynor

Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.

Billie Jean King

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.