Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Ablin

Right now, the transparency we had with (former Chairman Alan) Greenspan is gone. We're trying to get some semblance of which way the Fed is going to go.

Cliff Manlove

I don't want it to sound as if this is all my idea. I'm just the chairman of this board. Do you want us to delay this and study it further?

Brian Kennedy

If the chairman could have loaded the family into a helicopter to go to all of these meetings and all of these parks for $5,000, he would have.

Tom Schlesinger

I would be nervous about picking an inflation-targeting champion as my next Fed chairman given the potential impact on employment growth.

Lawrence Summers

If we can do those things, we have a chance to keep this expansion going. But this is not the time to take what (Federal Reserve) Chairman (Alan) Greenspan, what six Nobel prize-winning economists have said would be a very risky course with a massive tax cut. We're not going to let it happen, ... Face The Nation.

Anthony Chan

I think these numbers pretty much put a nail in the coffin of the notion that a 75 basis-point (three-quarters of a percentage point) cut will occur. I think (Fed Chairman Alan) Greenspan will get his wish for a move at the regular meeting, but they will do a 50 basis-point (half-point) cut.

When the chairman introduced the guest speaker as a former illegal alien, I got up from my chair and yelled, "What's the matter, no jobs on Mars?" When no one laughed, I was real embarrassed. I don't think people should make you feel that way.

Carol Foreman

In the first place, the chairman shouldn't be weighing in,

Pat Neal

The chairman wanted to get our attention. He has our attention.

Al Wolski

The monkey is kinda off our back. The first win is always the most important. To be so close to it so many games prior, it gnawed at their insides and finally they got a chance to win. It's great for them.

Gary Scelzi

Running late tonight gave us a chance to run in perfect conditions, ... I know we won't have conditions like this tomorrow but we did learn that this racetrack can hold a lot more than we've been giving it.

Jeff Banks

Right now, Tyler is doing good in a lot of facets as far as pass protection. Matt's showing a different type of quickness to the hole since last year even. He's really running at a high level. And Marcus has shown some maturity. He knows everything he's doing, he's making the right reads. He's going to the right keys in pass protection. So that gives me a chance for our offense to be able to depend on him.

Richie Zisk

Realistically, when you have a chance at the end of the season to be playing for a championship -- if you get into the championship round, that's tremendous. But just to be in it at the end is what you really want to strive for. It's a lot easier to teach when you're in a competitive situation.

John Glenn

I've snuck up there and sat down a couple of times just to see what it feels like, I must admit, ... Would I like to have a chance to be in command of a flight sometime? Yes. But I think I am a little old for that.

Scott Peters

I've never seen most of the movies. A lot of them are older than me, so the class is a chance for me to see movies I probably wouldn't see otherwise.

John Groennert

It was wonderful to get out on the field and get out of that gym, we've seen enough of that. The way the weather's been predicted you'd better get outside every chance you get.

Richard Hamilton

It was weird. I really felt a sense of relief when I stepped on that floor. It gave me a chance to forget about everything that was going on off the court. I hadn't smiled all day until I got on that court.

Kris Saylor

It was a nice season opener in that we had a chance to see some good things and to get some innings for everyone on the team.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

Brandon Jenkins

I've never felt this way. I never lost this many games in my two years here. We're just a young team. We've got to get tougher.

Lynsey Addario

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

Derek Luke

That old boot-camp process. It was two weeks, but it felt like six months.

Lovie Smith

You take all things into consideration when you're making changes. We looked at everything and felt that this was the way to go.

Don James

You never felt you had to be guarded around him in anything you said. He was never out to hurt anyone.

Frank Haith

You never felt like they were rattled, even when we got the lead. BC is a really smart team. They're very experienced. They know how to play in tight situations. They've been in it.

Emmylou Harris

I didn't have any money. I had a sense of terrible loss. But what I also had was a fire in my belly. I wasn't going to go back to waiting tables. I felt I had to be better at fronting a band.

Ben E. King

I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.

Ricky Davis

You saw it right here on the stand, ... Right in front of you.

B. R. Hayden

We have a rule for that, but I don't have it in front of me,

Phil Cline

There's really only one way out and one way in. Once he's inside and by that front door, he's got them cornered.

Jorge Posada

There's nothing he could do. I'm right in front of the plate.

John Swiatek

We were learning what we were doing while we were doing it! We put a front office staff together, and we put a marketing plan together, and we just went for it.

Phil Ruffat

Two years from now we might be saying this was the perfect time to buy. But right now, nobody wants to stand in front of a freight train.

Steve Watkins

Making the team is not in the front of my mind at all. I just wanted to come in here and show them what I can do.

Dan Castellaneta

Lets just plop them in front of the TV. I was raised in front of the TV and I turned out TV

Mike Stapleton

Lower the front end. Try to keep him level. Watch the top of his head.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

Julie Stradling

I've always thought KP was a great player. She's a great passer, a great point guard and a great shooter, too. We really needed her tonight and she did a great job.

Dick Fazio

I used to sit there and look over my shoulder at Irv when he was playing and wonder, what did this guy sound like 50 years ago when he was in his 30s? He was a great musician up until the end.

Mark Tauscher

Stupidity and mistakes aside, I think we had a great shot at winning. We're stuck in a really tough spot. You need a win, you want a win and we just didn't do it.

Terri Sullivan

Southern Illinois is a great program with great coaches. They play solid softball. We just have to play our style of softball if we want to win.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.

Edgar Allan Poe

Invisible things are the only realities.

Mason Cooley

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

Martha Plimpton

During my teen years, for Halloween, I went as a registered voter.

Jay Leno

Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5 billion pieces of candy.

Erin Morgenstern

It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

Dale Petroskey

This is a historic day at the Hall of Fame. I hoped that someday there would be a woman in the Hall. It's a pretty proud moment.

Pete Rose

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

William Shakespeare

So fair and foul a day i had not seen.

Gurudas Dasgupta

The strike will go on. We're ready for a settlement, but it has to be an honorable settlement.

Peggy Corrigan

I was really shocked, very honored and very humbled. That was 30 years ago. I didn't really feel like I'd done anything special. I just did it because I loved it.

Jim Harrison

Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.

Jeff Francoeur

It's an honor playing for Bobby Cox.

Jacqueline Carey

Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland

Christian Bale

It was a great honor to be called a mo-fo by Sam Jackson.

George R. R. Martin

What would a Frey know of honor? - Sir Davos Seaworth

George R. R. Martin

I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.

Jean de la Bruyere

There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest.

Howard Zinn

Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more wars, more graves to receive more flowers on future Memorial Days. The memory of the dead deserves a different dedication. To peace, to defiance of governments.

Fred Rogers

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

Ronald Reagan

The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves.

Ron Matthews

I've just spoken with Rohan on the phone. He had just returned from a memorial service.

Niccolo Machiavelli

One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage

Benjamin Harrison

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Ernest Hemingway

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.