Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Price

I have expressed my regrets to the City. We made some mistakes out here and had some erosion problems.

Paul Nolte

I don't expect to see a sharp movement in stocks -- it will be a gradual erosion over time.

Richard Holloway

There are many strengths in modern society, but one of its weaknesses is the breakdown of many of the old structures and networks that supported people in times of crisis and need. Whenever we lose a strengthening element in society, we need to replace it with alternative systems as quickly as possible. Befriending schemes are a crucial part of this process, because they fill the gap that social erosion has left in the lives of so many vulnerable people.

Robert Smithson

One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.

Twyla Tharp

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

Wendell Berry

The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.

Peter Doyle

All those names on that list actually reflect kind of a margin of safety where even if the investment pieces don't pan out, you're likely to do well or not sustain a permanent erosion of capital. So that's what we've been focusing on,

Ethan Harris

It's not a question of a sudden explosion in prices. It's more an erosion of the low-inflation psychology.

Alistair Graham

does not imply any erosion of the rights of Orangemen in Portadown.

Ricky Mathews

I think it's great that the governor is focusing so heavily on preparation.

Tommy Dolde

We talked about the hype with Penn Hills. But I also talked to our team about Connellsville's traditions. We're not focusing on Penn Hills. We are focusing on ourselves.

Frank Martin

We are focusing on maximizing our revenue streams through product innovation,

Mark Kelleher

I think that's the No. 1 issue that people are focusing on.

Hanna Salonen

I went (back) to Finland, and stayed there and the only thing I was focusing on was how I wanted to come back.

Rick Comley

We maybe looked a little tired tonight, but I thought our kids never panicked, and got a hard-earned win in overtime. It is so important, particularly at this point of the season, to get points on the road. We got one win, and now its time to start focusing on getting another one tomorrow.

Vince Young

I didn't want that to happen, ... I started focusing in more on sports.

Jeff Suppan

I don't feel like I'm laboring, ... I'm just concentrating on that one pitch and letting things happen. I'm trying to use the defense. I haven't really thought about (start to start). I'm just focusing on the now.

Zina Garrison

I am focusing on the team I have, in my mind they are the top team.

Judy Genshaft

I would say that the Legislature and the people of Tampa made a very savvy investment 50 years ago.

Joseph Lisanti

What is a dividend but your payment as an owner of the company? If you don't get that, then the only way you can profit from your investment is to sell all of it or part of it.

Trevor Manuel

It is something that we should be able to release very very soon. We owe it to the people who need to make a long-term investment in mining in this country.

Harvey Pitt

We meet with lots of people ... we meet with representatives of many investment groups,

Nathaniel Smith

I'd like see the the party give strong arguments for more investment in post-secondary education. What's a better place to do it than in Halifax, where there are so many students?

Todd Pratt

He has been great, ... This is what the organization made that investment for.

Viviane Reding

Our policy is to encourage investment and promote freedom for industry to innovate.

Warren Buffett

The value of market esoterica to the consumer of investment advice is a different story. In my opinion, investment success will not be produced by arcane formulae, computer programs or signals flashed by the price behavior of stocks and markets. Rather an investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.

Warren Buffett

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

John Davidson

I think in the near term, over this summer, the market is likely to stay in this range. There's a lot going on right now.

Michael Slater

Itanium won't be relevant for PCs until 2003 at the earliest, more likely 2005,

Seth Shostak

Diminutive worlds are more likely to be rocky, and lapped by oceans and atmospheres. In the vernacular of 'Star Trek,' these would be M-class planets: life-friendly oases where biology could begin and bumpy-faced Klingons might exist.

Pamela Falk

Historically there have been compensation programs, not restitution. In other words money, not give them back the property. And that's most likely what's going to happen.

Tim Ruskell

I was a likely target, ... It was really no big deal.

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.

Mark Collins

I think this particular time, it's more likely we'll be successful.

Ben Halliburton

I think we are likely to remain in a trading range for some time.

Lawrence DiRita

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

Ken Hill

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

Jarrius Jackson

He did his job. He prepared us. He did a lot more teaching this year because we were a young team. We have to listen more and do our job.

Rudi Johnson

He listens to what I tell him to do.

Taylor Momsen

My whole thing is feel free to hate me - I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.

Daniel Woodrell

I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.

Walter Pater

He seemed to those about him as one listening to a voice, silent for other men

Roy Johnson

I think it should never have been listed in the first place,

Kim Gandy

We told him what he needed to hear. And I think our messages were received. The vice president shared some of his ideas, listened to ours and offered to have an ongoing dialogue.

Brian Humke

I think we want to listen to what people say; that's our job.

Steve Ward

Rendell's winning margin is black. Take that away, and he's even.

David Harris

I realize that the margins are being squeezed, ... We have a plan for that.

Mariano Rivera

I'm not perfect, and today was tough. We should have won the game, but I didn't do my job. It was just one pitch, but there was no margin for error.

Howard Davidowitz

The margins are positive, but sales are eroding,

Greg Brown

The margin is much better on used games, I'm the middleman.

Danny Nee

Nothing worked. That's inexperience. You need someone to step up and make a play. We have no margin of error. We have to be at 85-90 percent effectiveness. It might be 95 percent to win a game.

Paul Hagen

The value is marginal with other visual content.

Sue Stevens

Things can go very wrong with a margin loan.

Emma Lazarus

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Kevin McClatchy

I think it's going to be a wide-open search. I think a lot of names will pop up.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Alex Jones

It’s…it’s easy to have some little bitty website and use a fake name and sit there and…you know…talk bad about Jews all day and enjoy yourselves…uh, you know…getting your kicks ’cause you live in, you know…a…a one room apartment and your mad at life or whatever and wanna blame us…you know.

Kathryn Stockett

When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.

Richard D. James

I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff.

Anton LaVey

The only thing Christianity ever contributed to Satanism was the name

William Bango

He does not recognize any of the people who have submitted their names as MDC candidates.

Rob Zombie

There are always tons of names on a movie of people that didn't actually do anything on that film. I feel bad for the people that busted their ass because they get the same credit as someone who did nothing. It's kind of a weird thing.

Rob Corddry

I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.

Bill Watkins

I think it's more of a panic on their part, ... It's not natural, what they're saying.

Dick Thompson

H5N1 has pandemic potential but it is not a pandemic virus.

Simon Perry

It got to the point where there was panic over nothing. But don't panic, it's not going to smash anybody.

Philip Hoffman

I went (to rehab), I got sober when I was 22 years old. You get panicked ... and I got panicked for my life.

Mary Quant

I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.

William Shatner

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

Robert Towne

I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.

Robert Scheer

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

Roger Caras

It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.

Michael Rubner

Our coatings have the potential to provide the first permanent solution to the fogging problem,

Adam Marcoux

I just think it would be more professional to have permanent maps.

Harvey Mackay

Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.

Larry Sabato

It's permanent now in peoples' minds. It will be in his obituary.

Charles Jones

It's like a permanent campaign. You need to sell yourself on each policy.

Mike Ditka

Success isnt permanent & failure isnt fatal.

Neil Peart

No changes are permanent, but change is.

Rob Mullens

They don't have a permanent license, but they do get first shot.

Stephen Hess

This may be something that is not as permanent as it may look at the moment.

Jimmy Johnson

There are so many pieces to the puzzle,

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Richelle Mead

It was the most convulted, ridiculous piece of logic I'd heard in awhile... It was something I would have come up with.

Russell Baker

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Troy Polamalu

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

William Shatner

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Robert Shaw

You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.

Warren Buffett

An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.

Corey Dillon

I take (low rushing numbers) personally. That's a reflection on me.

Simon Fuller

If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.

Mike Tollin

He's at a place where he's more honest, reflective and self-effacing.

Bernie Williams

Today is a day to reflect upon our season. The day will come when I will have to make a decision, but that isn't today.

Richard P. Feynman

Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and back surfaces. In this intuitively easy analysis, the 'front surface' and 'back surface' arrows are mathematical constructions that give us the right answer, whereas .... a more accurate representation of what is really going on: partial reflection is the scattering of light by electrons inside the glass.

Russell Banks

Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.

William Whewell

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

William Wordsworth

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

William Shatner

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

Ron Hill

We've been trying to look at things with some safety,

Richelle Mead

A strange, warm feeling swirled in my chest, and for a brief moment, when I looked at him, I saw...safety

Ron Conway

By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a better world for all of us to live in.

Ron Chernow

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

Troy Polamalu

Being compared to the greatest-ever safety is pretty ridiculous. I continue to work toward that, but I'm not there and I know that.

Virgil

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

Will Smith

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.

Warren Buffett

The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.

Warren Buffett

If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.

Karen Evans

If it's useful and really needed, it will sustain itself.

Judd Terwilliger

We were never able to sustain (momentum). We'd get leads, but then they'd come back.

Paul Stone

We were never able to sustain a run.

Rick Adelman

He's in shape, much quicker. He can do the things he used to do. Now all he has to do is sustain it.