Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toshihiko Fukui

Based on a recovering overall economic climate, the consumer price index, excluding fresh food prices, was at or above zero percent for the third consecutive month since October.

John McFarland

At that time, flying the American flag above the rubble of homes and businesses was a visible act of determination and became the symbol for our community's recovery, ... That same phenomenon is occurring after Katrina.

Ken Lombard

At that time, everyone was trying to figure out what you could do to make a difference. And above all else, Earvin and I were tired of waiting for someone else to do it.

D. James

At the beginning of the competition, they measured how much power was in our house. At the end of the week they will measure again and hopefully we can be at or above our original amount of power.

Vikram Amar

At one level this is a very technical, dry case about when deference is owed (to an executive interpretation of federal law). But Kennedy is trying to rise above the technicalities to make a point about executive overreaching. Kennedy likes to remind people of the big picture.

Bob Baer

At the end of the day, you can put trillions of dollars into security but these facilities are mostly above ground. A concerted attack, like they've attacked some of these compounds in Saudi Arabia, a military attack, you can't protect against it.

Patrick Thompson

At the time when we chose J. D. Edwards, some of the fundamental applications they had for our industry were head and shoulders above the competition.

Patrick Freitas

Conceptually, I'm in favor of more regulation. We go above and beyond what is required.

Nigel Cobby

Consensus was 75-77 cents, because people were expecting another profit warning, so 83 cents is above market expectations.

Richard Engel

The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.

Chris Terry

This was a big division win for us. Brandy pitched very well.

Billy Blanks

I had full rides to Nebraska, West Virginia, Marshall, Youngstown State and Pitt, ... But I struggled with my grades and couldn't play Division I.

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Alexander Herzen

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Amos Oz

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.

Steve Buscemi

I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.

Will Smith

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

Ryan Gosling

I loved growing up in Canada. It's a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up - it's very multicultural. There's also good health care and a good education system.

Wyclef Jean

Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.

Wynton Marsalis

I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.

Wolfgang Puck

I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth... It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Stephen Bennett

Intuit posted strong revenue growth and even stronger profit growth during the third quarter. The company's performance positions us to end the year on track to meet our stated revenue and pro forma profit goals.

Tim Wallace

I'm pleased with our progress. 2005 was another growth year for us.

Robin Chhabra

This has been a shock. Poker isn't dead, but the talk of 45% growth now looks unrealistic.

H. Hunt

They're the only growth industry in the military right now. But there's always a use for conventional forces.

Ethan Harris

It suggests moderate growth in the year ahead, but I don't think there's much risk of a 'double-dip' recession.

E. Hurley

It's not like they are on the brink, but the growth party is over for now.

Ryan Jacob

For many of the Internet leaders, you're paying a high valuation with only modestly higher growth prospects.

Juanita Hayes

Its one of those 'Catch-22' things. It will take on its own personality and its own growth from here.

Paul Cezanne

My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.

Keanu Reeves

Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary.

Oliver Goldsmith

Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!

Margaret Atwood

oil paints...the look of licked lips.

Kid Rock

You know how much money the oil companies have? If you need some gas, just go fill your tank off and drive off - they're not going to miss it.

Kenny Marchant

The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.

Marty Meehan

First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.

Pete Townshend

Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.

Pete Domenici

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, lets use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

Dieter Zetsche

It has performed well in the world's toughest market.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Countee Cullen

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

Cory Booker

We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.

Clive Anderson

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

Clive Owen

I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.

Clive Barker

Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all she had dreamed of. And if she would only free him he would service her - oh yes - until her pleasure reached that threshold that, like all thresholds, was a place where the strong grew stronger, and the weak perished. Pleasure was pain there, and vice versa. And he knew it well enough to call it home.

e. e. cummings

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anaïs Nin I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. George Eliot Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...

Du Mu

Roll rocks down a ten-thousand-foot mountain, and they cannot be stopped - this is because of the mountain, not the rocks. Get people to fight with the courage to win every time, and the strong and the weak unite - this is because of the momentum, not the individuals.

Douglas Horton

Strong words are required for weak principles.