Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Boucher

It appears that Intel's significant shortfall in Europe is company-specific, although the exact cause of the shortfall is still unclear.

Russ Sonaty

He likes to be involved although he is over there. They like that he talks to them. It gives them something to work for.

Stephen Richer

Having these three resorts back in business will attract thousands of day trip customers, some of our meetings business, and many tour groups. Although we still will be far short of our previous room inventory and meeting space, we know that the demand to visit our destination is high and that business will take off with the reopening of the Imperial Palace, the Isle of Capri, and the Palace.

John Moody

Having obtained control of the New York Central, the Hudson River, and the Harlem railroads, Commodore Vanderbilt now decided in the summer of 1867 to go after the Erie, of which Drew was nominally in possession, although no one knew when he owned a majority of the stock or when he was temporarily short of it.

Brian Campbell

He's a complete player now. He's not just a guy that goes down and scores highlight-reel goals every time, although all he seems to do is score highlight goals. He's a great penalty killer, he's everything. You look at Timmy now, and he combines everything. Now, he's a dominant hockey player.

Bill Richardson

Here was the government putting this skinny 60-year-old guy into solitary confinement for nearly a year. I have come to realize that it was wrong and I should have spoken out more, although I did try to influence the Justice Department on their incarceration of Lee.

Mike Harding

Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them.

Richard Greene

His short- and long-term memory seem to be good and he is talking and has been for about two weeks ... although fairly quiet given that he had some serious problems in that area for about six weeks.

Scotty Bowman

Hockey is its own game. It's completely different than all other games, although it's getting way too close to soccer.

Andy Cerroni

Jake Wagner had one of his better games for us on Thursday. He's beginning to gain more and more confidence with each game.

Leon Panetta

Just when we should be getting ready for the 21st century, our education system is beginning to fall down in terms of preparing our students for that future.

Neal Cotts

I think in our case it's come together pretty well. I think Ozzie instilled that from the beginning in spring training, that we're going to be together six months and make the best out of it.

Will Durant

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I havenot had time to remake the world.

Joseph Brown

It begins with one voice and builds with other voices. The collective crescendo is just now reaching a volume where we are all hearing and understanding.

O. Singh

I always feel comfortable here, it's a lot like my home in Fiji. I was too far back to make any difference today, but I'm pleased with the way I've started my year. I wish I could have won at the Mercedes. That one was disappointing, but this is still a good way to begin 2006.

Keith Hembre

Growth should decelerate through the final three quarters of the year and once that happens inflation pressures we've seen will begin to ease. That should lead to a more benign tightening cycle, which won't be threatening to the financial markets,

Thomas R. Insel

Neuroscientists talk a lot about brain circuits. In fact, the word 'circuit' is probably misleading. We do not know where most circuits begin and end. And unlike an electrical circuit, brain connections are heavily reciprocal and recursive, so that a direction of information flow can be inferred but sometimes not proven.

Stephen Slifer

What we worry about is that some of the decline in the stock market can spill over and begin to erode confidence. If the stock market takes out Sept. 21 lows, people are going to worry that something's wrong -- I can see the headlines -- and I wonder what that will do to people.

Paul Scheuring

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw something like 'Prison Break,' colon, and a few other words. But it's not going to be 'Prison Broke.

Anthony Zinni

I would say we're within a week or so. We're ready now but there are a few more pieces to put in.

Michael Lloyd

I would say up until the recent few weeks, it looked like CSX might be doing a better job, now the shoe may be on the other foot, ... I'd be more worried about CSX going forward than Norfolk Southern.

Greg Shivers

Katie did much better in that game. Her pitching has really picked up the last few games.

John Gibbons

I talked to him today about a few things and I hope he got the message. You see guys on the other side like (Derek) Jeter and (Gary) Sheffield get down the line.

Joseph Beninati

There are such very few large-scale opportunities in Greenwich.

Daniel Woodrell

I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder.

Dani Shapiro

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

Rick Hackman

Here at the PUC, we see a kind of gathering storm. Here in the next few months, you will be seeing some sobering utility bills.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Billy Beane

Ken did a great job for us. We've always said that. He was a good enough manager for us to want him back before, and he's still a good enough manager to come back.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Carolina Herrera

Keep in shape: if you look good, you will feel confident.

Willie Anderson

Just one thing. Coaching. We got good coaching. It's that simple.

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Stuart Freeman

We've been thinking that the Nasdaq, as an index, would likely outperform a lot of the other indexes this year. It's a lot about secular growth. We're seeing growth in technology. And for the most part, it's been a tech year.

Paul Polzin

We've got to go back to the 1970s to get three strong years of 4 percent growth.

Preston Beckman

I think we're relieved and a little shocked that it's showing such growth this year. For us, having maintained the ratings we had last year would have been a plus.

Joe Lieberman

I think what we've learned is that when growth occurs, it occurs in the private sector,

Eric Schmidt

I don't know where (Chinese) revenue growth will be, but it will obviously be large.

Benn Steil

He made some mistakes on the growth side.

Ruben Studdard

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

Samuel Smiles

True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.

Richard DeKaser

I think the market is responding now to a perception of the increased possibility of recession, which I do not see.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Tina Olson

There aren't a lot of obvious places to just go and increase rates.

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Ty Cobb

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

Osama Hamdy

Our research shows that people may have a better outcome losing weight if they increase their intake of lean protein.

James McHenry

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.

Madelyn Flannagan

If you don't think that's enough, you can increase it.

Jonathan Murray

If you opt into the plan, the first year, you're going to see an increase of 19.4 percent of the $100 -- so that's $119.40. So, you can see the first part of the program, you're much better opting in.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Justin Gray

I think (the fans) are going to talk about it all the time just because they know probably what we could've done with the team from last year. But that's last year.

Peter Currie

It is fundamentally different from the last time we restated, primarily because the scope is a lot narrower.

Marthen Manu

Last night one person was rescued, the rest have been picked up today.

David Price

Last night he painted the picture of the night he was going to have.

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Ron Atkinson

Scholes is very influential for England at international level.

Sarah Palin

I don't like local, state or federal level of got mandating anything in our lives , in our families, and in our businesses, unless it comes to saving lives.

Vince Young

My confidence level is a tremendous high.

William Vickrey

Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.

Samantha Barks

I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

Wolfman Jack

My existence went up about 12 levels of intensity.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

John Sebastian

You're seeing it go down to more moderate homes.

Barton Gellman

As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.

Gijs de Vries

Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

I'm only going to play if I'm 100 percent fit,

Dave Thomas

In my class, there were about 50 percent students there.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

Sadaharu Oh

I'm 100 percent sure. I spoke to him recently and told him we really want him to be a part of our team.

John Tortorella

I'm getting tired of the 25 percent rule. It's deflating.

Gennady Onishchenko

And 92 percent of them are drug addicts.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

William S. Burroughs

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'