Famous Quotes & Sayings

Britt Beemer

I think the big story of Christmas will be this shift in consumer attitudes where people felt that stores gouged them with their pricing strategy. The 30 to 40 percent discounts this year instead of the 50 to 70 percent off last year will help profits but will hurt customer loyalty in the long term.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.

Jeremy Northam

Our attitudes have changed a lot, really, and so there's a certain toughness about it.

Carl Hollis

Our attitudes are not what they need to be to get us where we need to go.

Marc Roberge

In the past, we let ourselves be limited by time or attitudes or whatever. This time I just thought, 'Why not do the best we can?'

Greg Rosenblum

In the next trial it's going to be 12 other men and women with a different set of attitudes. That's what it's going to come down to - the attitudes of the people looking at the issues and the evidence.

Allen Sinai

In the midst of a very nice business expansion, there is a kind of pall in the attitudes of Americans about how this administration is performing.

Greg Smith

Interviewing and resumes are becoming less reliable. Job skills are important, but behavior, attitudes and personality play a larger role in creating a productive work environment. These traits can easily be measured by assessments. If you hire a person with negative personality traits, then that person drives off good people and lowers productivity.

D. James

I guess we just have one of those attitudes where we know we're going into an unfamiliar territory and we have no one but us and we have to stick together.

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Kyle Hall

What we wanted to do is solve the issues for the consumers of where their pictures are going.

Gray Davis

There is no easy solution, ... But, if I have to use the power of eminent domain to prevent generators from driving consumers into the dark and utilities into bankruptcy, then that's what I'll do.

Mark Boudreaux

We sympathize with consumers paying high gasoline prices. We are trying to help public-policy makers understand what makes prices high.

Steve Kessel

We think consumers increasingly are ready for it.

Eli Harari

Today content is locked to play back on one device. Now we have the freedom to enjoy content on whatever device consumers want to use.

Brian Becker

I think we do need to move very swiftly in creating value for consumers and reacting to the economics,

Gernot Nerb

I think we can say we have turned the corner. Investments are picking up, and consumers are starting to spend money.

Ted Sarandos

I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.

Evan Wilson

I was intrigued by the opportunity to live and experience a country less well off than ours. And see firsthand the problems that plague a developing nation.

Troy Sunderland

Kish is a kid that pushes the tempo, even though he might not be as highly ranked as other guys, but he will be a guy ranked high in the country by the end of the year.

Brian France

I would vote no. Other people in our organization would like to see it. But I like distinguishing the elite division in the country with a unique way of settling the championship.

Ifzal Ali

Just look at the organized sector of the economy in a country such as India, which employs less than 10 percent of workforce, you are worrying about this when there is a multitude of people completely being bypassed.

Brian Martin

I think it's a great idea, there are a lot of different cultures in the fire departments throughout the country. It's a neat idea.

Sam Sheppard

I think it's a day for American history because if we don't deal with the mistakes of the past we can't make this country a better place.

Keith Urban

I think it just means that country is a global phenomenon.

Otton Solis

I think it is a very delicate moment for the country and we are going to wait until the end, until the electoral tribunal has processed all the votes because with such a small difference, anything can happen.

Amy Waldman

I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?

Dennis Moore

Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.

Chris Fitz

I think it's a good idea to diversify the economy and keep more of the grapes here.

Ralph Kauffman

I think it indicates that the economy seems to be growing at probably the same rate in March as it was in February.

Lorenzo Codogno

Italy's economy has become a real problem and tackling the issues head-on will require a strong government, not one that may be forced into compromises.

Ned Riley

What we have now is an economy that's slowing down, ... I think we're going to see some cyclicality to tech earnings.

Carroll Robinson

I think it's going to be hard if everything stays the same, ... If the economy drops, it's going to be even tougher.

Alan Ackerman

I think the market senses something good going on. On the one hand, the feeling is that the economy is starting to show signs of improvement. But there are plenty of skeptics around who say that feeling may be a little premature, and they are selling on strength,

Jon Burnham

I think the market is in pretty good shape right now. The economy is improving, and you're seeing investors react to that.

Alan Skrainka

I think the performance gap between the new-economy and old-economy stocks is like a rubber band; it seems to be snapping the other way. The new economy sounds very exciting, but you're still going to need food, medicine and electricity to survive.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Know how to listen and be sure that silence often produces the same effects as science.

Brian Archer

I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really understand how much the weather really effects our energy consumption and our energy supply.

Masashi Kishimoto

I watch a lot of movies, and I tend to be influenced by scenes that intrigue me, that make me want to use the same effects or technique.

Skyler Samuels

I had a great time working on 'The Gates,' and that was my first real experience doing supernatural television, working with the special effects and everything that goes into making a supernatural show.

Adam Brown

If you look at all the speakers after the last Fed meeting, they've all held to the same line: Inflation is running on the higher side of where they're comfortable, and the growth effects from the hurricanes will be temporary.

David Card

Immigrants come in and the industries that use this type of labor grow. Taking all into account, the effects of immigration are much, much lower.

Martha Stewart

I'm sure it's had effects on me, ... I may talk about it. I may not. But I think that I'm just really looking forward to what we're doing. I'm looking forward to the next few years of great productivity and great growth for this company.

Tim Hudson

In higher-risk or more pristine areas, a spill means clean-up is short-term and residual effects are much less.

James Lind

The consequence was, that the most sudden and visible good effects were perceived from the use of oranges and lemons; one of those who had taken them, being at the end of 6 days fit for duty.

Corey Held

Here I thought we were in good shape because Tyson's my ace. I ended up starting (Matt) Wagner and he had a great game, but he just got tired (in the sixth).

Jon Sundvold

It could have ended in one day if Mike Alden had said here's what happened, why it happened and what he could have done differently.

Spencer Scharff

I thought about traveling, but I ended up limiting the scope of my thesis to local resources.

Jason Schmidt

I think when I did it in L.A. the first time (on Sept. 7), I couldn't have thrown even one more pitch, ... (Saturday) I ended up making five innings. I don't know if that's progress; I don't think it's going backwards. I don't think I've made it severely worse, by any means, and now I get another week to let it rest.

Craig Smith

It is kind of funny. We started 0-3 in the ACC, we ended up the No. 3 seed, we're 3-0 in North Carolina, we won this game by three points and now we're in our third game.

Dave Gorman

Later on, after I'd met this gentleman with the interesting site, ... he found a Googlewhack of his own. I ended up going to meet that person, and that person found a Googlewhack, so I went and met that person and that person found a Googlewhack, so I kept going and going.

Luke Wilson

I went back to my high school in Texas about a month ago. I ended up spending five, six hours at the school meeting different kids.

Warren Moon

I went a different route but I ended up playing a lot longer than I thought I would or that I could.

Shawn Roberts

I was 12 years old, so auditioning for a TV show was something I didn't even think really happened. The next thing you know, I ended up booking the gig and I did four seasons on 'Emily of New Moon.' I got to learn on the job and kept going from there.

Peter Thiel

I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.

Mark Augustine

We look for in-line fourth-quarter financial results and more upbeat guidance for 2006 than Amgen provided at this time last year for 2005.

Mary Shapiro

I don't know whether they will say yes or no since there are all sorts of administrative, financial and legal issues.

Dick Cheney

He doesn't have a financial interest in the company,

Warren Farrell

Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.

Vladimir Putin

We do not have to borrow in the external market, but we have used and are using this traditional instrument in international financial relations.

Ruth Handler

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

Niall Ferguson

Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history.

Glenn Tilton

reflects the financial foundation of the much stronger, much more competitive United that we have built.

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.

Will Grace

JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?

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.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Jim Snyder

He did a ton of wrestling this off-season. He?s always done a little, but this year, he has done much more and I think it is because of the success he had last year.

Ray Allen

He didn't play the last time we were down here, so he was the new X-factor thrown into the mix and I'm sure they weren't prepared for that.

Chris Widger

He just tried to wipe the last two starts out, and he went out there and tried to start over.

Rep. Lawlor

There is going to be a public hearing, and there is going to be a vote, and, more likely than not, he is going to be confirmed.

Lawrence DiRita

It is likely we will get down to the baseline after the election,

Sen. Nass

It is likely to not be successful when we come back in January. This is a promise that may not be kept.

Herb Kohl

Well, you're likely to be confirmed, as we all know.

Robert Hill

He'll more than likely have to go to counseling, get parenting classes.

Kenneth Fisher

If you're 35, 45, or even 55 - you have a very long time horizon - 40 years or vastly more. That is you, and/or your spouse, are likely to live about that long, and you'll be investing the whole way.

Maeve Binchy

If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'

Rick Sherlund

Intel's pre-announcement will likely raise questions about the strength of Microsoft's March quarter.

Thomas Mann

His background, record and silence on a number of questions spoke volumes about his likely performance on the court.

Trudi Canavan

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction

Wentworth Miller

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

Samuel Richardson

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

W. H. Auden

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

Robert Orben

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

Robert MacNeil

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

Saul Alinsky

The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind.

Roger Moore

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

Virginia Woolf

Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

Susanna Moore

I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories.

Penny Brown

Here we are, months later, and we're still talking about the same thing,

Bob Israel

It could be six months before many dealers reopen doors,

Martin Freeman

I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.

Eddie Jordan

We've been waiting for two months for this quarter.

Phil Dow

We've got to get through that and it's probably several months before we get a turnaround in any sectors,

Denise Monteiro

We've established a visiting schedule months ago and we're going to keep it that way.

Shawn Holliday

He's been wandering around for nearly three months without a name, and today, we're going to give him one.

Roselyn Sanchez

I love what I do. When a month goes by and I'm not working, I'm miserable.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Martin Gelinas

He's awesome. He's been like this pretty much all season. Overall he's been a star out there and he's been a pleasure to watch.

Jan Dijkwel

I think it's an overall educational experience. We are now in a society where everything is communicated on a two-dimensional platform, like the big screen, television and even reading.

Richard Jerram

I think the overall picture is quite positive,

Chere' Moore

We swam some very smart races Thursday and overall I'm pleased with the whole team effort.

Mike Hultz

He was unbelievable. It was probably the second best, not points-wise, but overall performance I have seen live.

Pat Murphy

I'm disappointed overall in the play of the weekend.

Kevin Connors

Dart's success is reflected in the overall success of the sites we work with.

Mark Hammond

It was pretty disappointing (to lose). But overall I think that I did pretty well.

Rick Dinse

We are going to revisit those situations and those individuals we have contacted in the past,

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Alex Jones

The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.

Rodney Eade

He's been doing wrestling and competitive-type stuff for the past month.

Carl Jung

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

Carl Jung

You can’t change the past, it just is

Carl Jung

You can't go back, Ever. You can't change the past. It just is." I squint, having no idea what she's talking about. But just as I start to ask,she shakes her head and says, "This is our destiny. Not yours.

Carl Jung

You can’t go back, Ever. You can’t change the past. It just is. . . . This is our destiny. Not yours.

Carl Jung

When you think about it in the big scheme of things our time together is like a dash of spice in a big cosmic soup - important for richness of flavor but still not quite the main ingredient. The past is over. It can't and shouldn't be reclaimed. All we ever have is now anyway.

Nastassja Kinski

Just now, I've been working all the time and I don't have much of a personal life.

Roger Lemerre

It is not a personal thing for me, it is a voyage for the Tunisian team and people.

Dan Bartlett

He doesn't have a personal relationship with him.

Rob Zombie

The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.

Tullian Tchividjian

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

Will Smith

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

Vivienne Westwood

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

Ryan Stiles

I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.

Robert M. Pirsig

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

Azzam Tamimi

I actually have a moderating influence, rather than radicalizing influences,

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Yvonne Johnson

I think we need to do that rather than just talk about it.

Luigi Speranza

We look at this a temporary blip rather than a sign the recovery is fading.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Kelly Slater

I tend to do a lot better here when it's big rather than when its small.

Lois Capps

I read that in the Wall Street Journal, and I find it rather offensive,

Edmund Daukoru

In the wake of recent experience, no one is saying that this threat should be taken lightly.

Kathryn Taylor

It has to do with the recent reported suspicious surveillance attempts.

Mark McCutchen

Clarksville has hedged small amounts in recent months. They do know about hedging, they just haven't done much lately." ()

Phil Davis

Their achievements in recent years speak for themselves,

Marcelo Porto

Stocks that were most favored recently are being penalized now.

Chris Tarry

Swissair has been strengthening its relationship with American over recent months.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Duane Ackerman

During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains.

Brandon Flowers

That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.

Kevin Criswell

I thrive off of these types of situations and I can't wait to get out there.

John Tortorella

We've been through a lot tougher situations than this in our past. We will get it done.

David Francis

I think what we can say is we're watching the situation carefully.

R. Halloran

He was in a stressful situation that day.

Jonathan Vilma

I don't know what to say. I've never been in a situation like this before. It's tough, real tough.

Zeev Boim

I do not think that in this situation we can transfer the towns to the Palestinians. They are not exerting any control.

Joe Torre

He's come up in situations and you say,

Russell Hoban

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

Tracy McGrady

I know I have to keep up my image. It's all about how you handle the situation.

Paul Johnson

I'd like to get one win, ... I'm not thinking about getting six wins.

Richard P. Feynman

Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics.

Robert Plant

Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius.

Rohit Shetty

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

Wietse Venema

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.

Warren Farrell

Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.

Bruce Mantz

In six months, we put in a whole new WMS.

Jerry Kelly

I had my chances. I had probably six putts like that that I missed.

Malcolm X

If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.

Kofi Annan

The status quo cannot work.

Garry Kasparov

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

Helen Mirren

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.

John le Carre

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The status quo is working.

Chris Mack

He's a linebacker with the basketball. He's so doggone strong for a guard.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Rob Stutzman

I think we win three for sure. Everything is trending strongly our way.

Anton LaVey

In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong!

Wolfgang Ziebart

We have to be better in Japan. We're not strong enough there.

Whitney Conder

He was strong and quick. Everyone here is a tough wrestler. He just got me early. I'm not done yet.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-mail.

Mark Grindstaff

Joel is real dominant. He didn't have any trouble. He has one loss. All three are undefeated in league.

Chris Edwards

What we had in 16 acres, ... they have in three counties.

Spencer Stewart

Going 30-0 is amazing, but we want three more wins.

Clark Haggans

He's got three rings. There's nothing else you can say.

Karen Woodall

We've been trying to get that back for three years.

Phil Jackson

We stumbled and fumbled around out there for three quarters.

Robert Meyer

It is phenomenal. When we first started, it was just me and three employees. We all wore many hats.

George Williams

I think we were a little intimidated. They are 32-0... . A lot of times, we had two or three opportunities but couldn't finish.