Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. Giertz

The performance of the index suggests that Illinois avoided the slowdown of the national economy that occurred in the last quarter of 2005.

Christian Stracke

Where the credit is really due is in the early part of Greenspan's tenure: being faced with the aftershocks of the Wall Street crash in 1987 and dealing with that quite well. He confronted some very serious potential crises and got us to a point where we avoided them and are better off than we might have been otherwise.

Nell Newman

After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause.

Kendall Ponder

We've avoided the issue as much as we can. It's a big game for us because we are facing Hickman, not coach Riley.

Julie King

We've avoided the fate of other bankrupt carriers. We're still in the game.

Peter Butler

We've avoided a race because it is inappropriate, and it may make you make some bad decisions. The damage is not just to the patient but the reputation of the whole field.

Joe Domino

For every megawatt of Entergy New Orleans transmission, we avoided about half our purchased power costs.

Steve Friedman

It's about time we had someone less partisan, someone who will care more about their constituents. . . . A large cost could have been avoided if he had done this before the primary. He wasted taxpayers' money.

Naomi Hasegawa

There's concern about demand for new five-year notes as signs of economic recovery raised speculation an end of easy monetary policy will come sooner than later next year. Japan avoided political chaos with Koizumi's strong victory, which provides a fair wind to stocks and a recovery scenario.

Arthur Rimbaud

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

Carlos Fuentes

chaos: it has no plural.

Walid Jumblatt

It seems that through sending weapons and men and using some Syrian workers they (the Syrians) want to say that Lebanon will face chaos as a result of their departure from Lebanon.

Correspondent Levinson

It's a sort of grim realization that they are raking in profits from the misfortune of others. They didn't seem to really mean it. It was more a way to deal with the unusual hand they'd been dealt amid the chaos of postwar Iraq.

E. B. White

A lot of people told me it got real quiet there. But it was chaos on the sidelines.

Paula Spencer

Think of the toddler years as a wacky and crazy - but short - period of time, ... Slow down and see past the chaos of it, and you'll see that good things truly do come in small packages.

David Zanotti

They're in chaos. They're as far from unity as a knife fight. They're stabbing each other in the back over profits on a proposal that doesn't have great odds of passage in the first place.

John Walls

They haven't made any big mistake yet. It's not been perfect, but chaos and confusion is par for the course.

Anik Fournier

There's chaos to the universe. But there's also drawn lines of the constellations for us to make some sense.

Hina Jilani

The possibility of preventative detention raises serious concern that such detention may be tantamount to derogation of the country's human rights obligations under international law.

Dr. Smith

The positive sign is there's more of a concern for others, as well as self, than people think.

Darrel Good

The persistence of moderate to severe drought conditions in parts of Illinois, Iowa, and much of the southern Plains increases concerns about yield potential. As usual, forecasts of summer weather conditions are not consistent at this time.

Ned Riley

The only concern I do have is I'd like to see a couple more months (of data) put together here before we declare this torrid, hot economy as into another phase of gearing down. I'm not as optimistic yet that we have slowed everything.

Mike Sherman

The only concern I have is how is he playing right now, and he's playing pretty good. So, I feel good about that.

Subodh Kumar

We are seeing a pullback on stocks because many investors are concerned with the outlook for interest rates and with the economy at the start of 2006. The rebound in oil in the past couple of days is also hurting some stocks, especially the ones related to consumer spending, such as retailers.

Alan Faneca

We've always been able to plug guys in and still be successful. There's not as much concern inside this locker room as there is on the outside.

Kofi Annan

There are concerns that if we do not make progress ... desperate people will resort to violence again,

Eric Johnson

There are concerns as to whether Ralph will continue to make headlines that are harmful to the party.

David Ricardo

But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand.

Brett Galloway

We are seeing an enormous increase in demand for wireless infrastructure.

Rick Barnes

We want him to want the ball. He's going to have to demand it. ... The worst thing he can do is be passive this time of year.

Charlotte Bronte

Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

Bernard of Clairvaux

True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.

Bill Watterson

Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Chakib Khelil

There is no need to really increase production now because the prices are stable at $25 and we are always here to meet the demand required in the market.

Brian Moss

We're so far behind, in terms of what the market demands today, that this is something that needed to be done.

Harry Reid

We're going to reform Washington, ... After years of Republican scandals and abuses of power, it's a big task. But the American people are demanding change.

Alan Greenspan

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another

David Rockefeller

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

Jack Shea

The percentages are low, no question, ... The work is leaving the workers. This outsourcing is a problem for union and non-union workers. Labor's never had it easy but we're ready to fight for workers' rights.

Louis Orr

We started the game with stops and conversions, and we started the second half with stops and conversions. ? We knew we had to make it tough for them to score. We had to stay in their faces all night. No easy baskets.

Frank Robinson

We struggled through it, and nothing ever comes easy for us.

Lee Byung-hun

The more I act, the harder it gets, since I feel like I still have so much to learn. Whenever I embark on a new project, it always feels like the first time. If it were easy to me and I felt like I knew everything, my acting might have been different. I think the feeling of 'newness' keeps me on my toes and concentrated.

Charlie Fink

When you start playing music when you're quite young, it's easy to stay young. And then you're touring, and you see people who've been on the road for 10 or 15 years and they just haven't grown up at all.

Rebecca Murrell

We have a standoff of witnesses. It's never easy to tell who's telling the truth.

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Lou D'Ermilio

We acknowledge it's a valuable graphic enhancement. Unfortunately, in this economic climate, we've been forced to tighten our belt, and it's an expensive enhancement.

Stephen Leeb

We are probably on the verge of an economic recovery.

Mary Farrell

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

Phil Pantano

We want everyone to understand what we've done and what we plan to do. We're talking about jobs, investment and economic opportunity.

Bill Maher

We survived the 1980's. Back then, the economic program was called 'trickle down.' That actually meant they were pissing on you. How the whole theory goes was this: 'We have all the money. If we drop some, it's yours. Go for it.'

Khalid Malik

There is no question that more can be done to mend the gap that so often triggers social unrest when economic growth on a national scale leaves the poor and disadvantaged behind.

Tom Scott

While January numbers were good and encouraging, I don't think we want to read too much into them in terms of the rest of the year. There is still a lot of negative economic news out there. I think that's reflected in the retailers' forecast for sales growth in 2006.

Edward Lazear

We would see lower levels of investment, lower economic growth, and as a result, lower wage gains.

Jon Holmes

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Madeleine Albright

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

Alan Lamb

We're snowbirds. This is a lot better fair than we have back in Michigan.

Zach Errett

We wrestled fairly well today. We wrestled at the Bo Henry Tournament last week; we wrestled really well there. Today, we didn't wrestle as good as we could've and I think the guys realize that; I think they kind of figured out that there may have been a few matches we lost that we should've won.

Tom Davis

We're still in discussions with some of the other sports. Hockey, in our judgment, has a fairly weak system.

John Anania

We're looking for a relatively good year in 2006, given that wages are up and the labor market is fairly tight.

Nicholas Carbone

We're looking for a fair method where all members of the party have a say. This is not a club.

Irma Cabriales

We're just looking for something fair to give immigrant people an opportunity to work.

Henry Berghoef

We're just interested in seeing a fair process.

Carlos Ghosn

You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.

Dick Cavett

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.

Ben Barnes

Half my fan mail comes from Japan.

Billy Higgins

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

Bill Plympton

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

Chris Roland

It seems to be working because we sold the series to France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Japan and Korea.

Sven Eriksson

It is still a young squad. Those who were in Japan two years ago are more experienced and they should be better.

Todd Jacobson

It was always a question of 'when' Japan would turn around, not 'if' Japan would turn around.

Tadashi Yanai

Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Bill Nighy

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.

Lyle Thomas

We're going to sit down later this year and come up with a list of the (water line problems) we know about that we just haven't done anything on.

Bryan Adams

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

Jon Stewart

Wow. I can't wait till later when we see Oscar's salute to montages.

Claire Tomalin

'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat.

Kathy Miller

We're not anticipating problems, other than that we're getting them later than we expected.

Don Williams

About one week ago I went to look at (the building) for light placement. I noticed the back wall seemed to be buckling. A week later I noticed it had doubled.

Larry Baer

It's just too bad. Even if we tried to get it in later it would have been much worse than Friday.

Carole Theriault

We are already seeing a transformation, where virus writing is getting more sinister and turning toward monetary gain.

Jaymie Pedigo

All prizes are monetary and range from $10 to $750.

Bobby Bentley

It's not necessarily a monetary thing, but it's a support group.

Richard Fisher

As a result, we are in a tightening phase of monetary policy,

David Dodge

There's still considerable monetary stimulus in the economy.

Sharon Stark

I think they're in trouble now if it doesn't work. There is not much more monetary stimulus that they can add.

William Poole

How long it takes to unwind from all of that, I don't know, but it ought not to be viewed as an objective of monetary policy to try to stabilize price fluctuations of that sort,

David Woo

We're unlikely to see the yen strengthening this year. Monetary policy will remain very lax.

Peter Kenyon

It's a myth to suggest it's just a monetary issue,

Arthur Ransome

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

David Foster

We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning.

Carolyn Wells

Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

Chad Whitworth

We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute.

Alan Kulwicki

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Cherie Lunghi

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

David Stern

The only record we have are your notes and your recollection.

Steve Denyes

They are still using the original notes from the symphony, but they are personalizing the arrangement and making it their own.

William Blake

The sound is forced, the notes are few!

Augusten Burroughs

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

Grant Tolbert

When he left, he said he was going to take the notes straight to his engineer.

Edgar Allan Poe

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.

Eddie Van Halen

You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.

Christy Mathewson

I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again.

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Bogan Durr

They need to put the receptacles back in until the university is ready to back up the policy with some enforcement.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton's policies obviously didn't work. What you have to do is look at Libya, look at anything you want to look at and to have it work.

Abraham Lincoln

My policy is to have no policy.

Donald Rumsfeld

Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.

Donald Rumsfeld

From where you sit, the White House may look as untidy as the inside of a stomach. As is said of the legislative process, sausage-making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up. Don't let that panic you. Things may be going better than they look from the inside.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Stephen Harper

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

Alan Moore

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

Eartha Kitt

I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.

David Remnick

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

David Hume

A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full possession of all the necessities, and many of the conveniences of life. No one can doubt, but such an equality is most suitable to human nature, and diminishes much less from the happiness of the rich than it adds to that of the poor.

David Brinkley

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

David Brin

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

Benazir Bhutto

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

Beatrice Webb

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

Asne Seierstad

There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.

Randy Williams

It provides reassurance to students they will have a safe place to learn,

Daniel Edwards

Spears provides inspiration for those struggling with the right choice.

David Morris

Flintshire provides one quarter of Chester hospitals' work - look at an atlas.

Scott McClellan

Dick Clarke, in his own words, provides a point-by-point rebuttal of what he now asserts. This shatters the cornerstone of Mr. Clarke's assertions." ()

David Linthicum

What this provides us is a quick turnaround. We get there, we get to go do the tips on the show, and we come back tomorrow.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Deborah Harkness

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

Paul Loriquet

As soon as he raised his weapon was when the shot was fired.

Richard Genthe

This is the sixth consecutive year we've raised over $6 million.

Robert Thomas

It raised our spirits up and made us feel good. It makes us ready to play.

Dinaw Mengestu

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

Howard Wolfson

No wonder Ms. Pirro raised so little money,

Victor Herrera

The rumors that Mexico's rating is going to be raised imminently are groundless.

Derrick Williams

I used to live here. It's because they raised their rents I had to leave.

Bridget Fonda

I was raised on Bruce Lee.

Brenda Strong

There's an integrity and a strength to women who have been raised in rough country.

Charles Spurgeon

We are all damaged goods in recovery.

Alan Mulally

We've incentivized people in the past to maybe turn their vehicles over, you know sooner rather than later. And in the United States with the squeeze on discretionary income and credit that even as the economy comes back there's probably more of a chance than not that it'll be a slower recovery on auto sales.

China Mieville

While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they've come by this evidence, this is the correct decision.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.

Arthur Scargill

We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.

Arthur Rimbaud

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Arne Duncan

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

Antonis Samaras

Our first goal is to stop the recession and start with recovery.

Wendy Suehrstedt

It's at that time that the big signs will change.

Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Todd Jones

The signs are there that they can do it. It's going to take a long time for them to get to that Target level.

Susanne Villarreal

That's why those signs didn't go up because somebody called and complained about them.

Tom Bentz

There are some signs that things are getting better.

Michael Redd

Those signs are the real deal. They're our standard and what we strive for in every game.

Richard Lobb

But we're not waiting for signs to show up.

Phil Garner

We just went over signs again. Just a refresher course.

M. Wolfe

I still think we could be better, though. We showed signs in the first inning of being very good. We let up after that.

Saadi Saadi

They should come up with it forthwith. The sooner they do it, the better it is for all concerned.

Bobby Bowden

It's one of those things you have to do sooner or later, and we can't wait any later,

Ryan Callahan

We know we have to win at least one here (in London) and we would like to do it sooner than later.

Marc Guggenheim

As always, things happen sooner rather than later on 'Arrow.'

Michael English

The streetcar will always have detractors. Is it going to go away? No. Is it going to be expanded? Yes, sooner or later.

Lorayne Fiorillo

The sooner you start the more flexibility you have.

Tom Glavine

The sooner you know, the more you can focus.

R. A. Salvatore

The sooner they know, the sooner you'll get paid.

Sue Black

The sooner I can alleviate everyone's fears, the better.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Kate Warne

Everybody's worried that the stocks that have done so well have really overshot,

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Rick Drake

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

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Michael Holland

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

Harry Markowitz

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

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Hans Kunnen

The big-picture fundamentals for commodities stocks is still in place. Nothing has actually changed. The sell-off in some sectors was not warranted.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

Charles Dickens

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.

Charles Dickens

Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.

Charles Dickens

The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.

Charles Dickens

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one....

Charles Dickens

It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to make him strong.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.

Charles Spurgeon

It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.

Charles Dickens

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

Alan Green

I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing!

Ed Begley, Jr.

The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper...

Ben Stiller

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

Arthur Rimbaud

I could never throw Love out of the window.

Antony Hewish

Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.

Louis C. K.

Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.

Charlotte Bronte

Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.

Charles Baudelaire

I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.