Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rachel Platten

I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.

Robert Putnam

It can be heard even above the roar of a helicopter, which is important if you want to tell people anything. That's the problem with bullhorns ? over a helicopter, they can't really understand what you're saying.

Dan Shultis

He knows the game so well, he's above and beyond any player on the floor. He's almost like having a college player on the floor.

Richard Butler

What we've got to be certain about above all is whether it came from a country supporting these terrorists as a matter of policy, such as Iraq, which we know has made this stuff, ... And there's a credible report not fully verified that they may indeed have given anthrax to exactly the group that did the World Trade Center.

Scott Smith

Here at KGH we do between 2000 and 3000 mammograms per year, and each year we find five to ten cancers. According to the above national statistics, we can expect to find one - to two additional cancers per year, and find them earlier - in Stage I rather than in stage IV or V.

Todd Boyd

He's a Chicago guy, explosive to the basket. He has a certain style the way he does things. At this point, though, it's not about being the best basketball player. As great a player as Tim Duncan is, he's not going to sell any shoes. He doesn't have that persona. It's about standing above the crowd. Just being a good guy and clean-cut guy is not going to do it.

Stephen Briggs

Gold seems to be struggling to get back above $555 -- the halfway point between the high and the low.

Zach Hall

I think you'll find that (both policies) go above and beyond national and state standards. . . . I believe we are setting a new standard that the rest of the country and the world can follow.

John M. Smith

There is a feeling, I think, that many sectors in the market have reached what I would call decent levels, slightly above fair value, and an element of caution is coming through in certain areas.

Salvatore Satta

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.

Albert Dunlap

It is obvious the company no longer felt it had a legal basis to pursue its defenses without Al,

Steve Bennett

Intuit had another solid quarter. We beat consensus estimates for pro forma profitability. Our Quicken Loans mortgage business was profitable for the quarter and grew revenue on a year-over-year basis for the first time in four quarters.

Milos Forman

If you look at the natural dispositions of the economies, a union does not make sense. Their economy has an agricultural basis and ours relies a great deal on tourism.

Michael Berry

If you look at the larger companies in the industry, it's a year-round business. It's really a hospitality industry on a year-round basis and we're in the ski business from December to March.

George Young

If you know firefighters like I know firefighters, a voluntary basis means I will put it in my locker and I will think about it ... maybe.

Alan Rifkin

If you look at the four hurricanes last year, which had combined insured losses of $23 billion, both Home Depot and Lowe's benefited by about 100 basis points on their same-store sales,

Art Hogan

I think 50 basis points (one-half percentage point) is a credible consensus estimate for what the Fed does (at its March 20 meeting). Unfortunately, over the last five or six tumultuous trading days, we've talked ourselves into the fact that the Fed cares about equity valuations, but that's not the case.

Michael Holland

I think 50 basis points is built into the market price structure,

Ted Manning

I think it's a great concept. It's something unique to the market and something that hasn't been done before. I think they've created a niche people are going to understand.

Michael Cohen

I think it's a giant waste of money. I don't see a huge (environmental) downside to it, but the science still doesn't show whether it actually works. If they can create another 1.1 million acre-feet of water, that's a huge amount. I wish them luck.

Billy Donovan

He created and made some things happen. He made some very timely 3-point shots when they were trying to make a run.

Gilbert Arenas

He (Davis) bailed me out a little bit. Because then I'd have had to try and create and finish over a big man, which I probably would have done.

Eva Saint

He left it to me to create the character. Sometimes he would have a comment, and it was always right on the mark. Hitchcock worked the same way.

Jared Leland

What you have here is an equal protection issue. There is a trend in land use to prefer entities that create tax revenue and jobs.

Paul Parker

What will reinvent Alpine is if we create too many rules, create too much of a scene that obscures the value of a very cool, elegant, free sport.

Bob King

What we want to do is create a reference guideline.

Mike O'Cain

What we want to create with SSF is doing it the sportsmanship way.

George Bernard Shaw

We throw the whole drudgery of creation one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction

David Shearer

We can do food aid. We can do job creation. But taking over a health ministry is not something that we're equipped to do.

Craig Parker

Was Jesus sleeping? There are mysteries of your wisdom and creation that we don't understand.

Miyavi

It's really important to create something, like with my creations as a musician. Just let it flow. Focus on how to deliver message to audience. Don't get ego.

Robert Brown

Creation purged o' the miscreate, man redeemed, / A spittle wiped off from the face of God!

Hugh Roberts

They are not parties in the Western sense, they are creations of the regime,

John Challenger

not a good indication of stronger job creation to come.

Kevin Bardsley

It just flooded back to me that he saw God's creations differently than we did, ... He saw the little things.

Steve Stanley

At the same time, notwithstanding the lack of job creation, the economy is generally strong.

Peter Davis

Relevance to Alzheimer's? I don't know, ... It's a nice piece of work in the snail model, but any possible link to Alzheimer's is currently obscure.

Richard Wilson

If there's a frustration about the Rosebud season this year, it's that there's not enough Friday nights to screen all the good stuff that's currently available.

Brian Jones

We are currently over the Sahara Desert. We are positioning ourselves to enter the Gulf Stream.

Thomas Ferguson

The next denomination in the series will be a new $10 note, ... We are currently working on the design and expect to unveil it in the spring of 2005.

Ed Pinckney

It's sometimes embarrassing when these guys come back, because he makes such a big thing about them being part of the program. They really respect the fact he integrates what they've done with the guys that are currently here.

Ralph Brown

It'll employ about 275 jobs. My estimate is that Wal-Mart will displace about 100 jobs that are currently here, so we'll have about 175 jobs net.

Brian Daugherty

They currently have one, but within a few years, we're hoping to have five or six, and expand from there. This will be a great opportunity for us to be with our family, and my wife will have the option of not working and spending more time with our boys.

Romeo Dator

They've had a very good run, year-to-date, and we're probably selling into the strength. There's no indication that there's going to be the second-half pick-up that's currently priced into the valuations.

Christopher Hill

The six parties are currently in the process of evaluating where we are as right.

Nikki Giovanni

Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears and the fearlessness.

Jonathan Ames

A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things.

Tim Heekin

It's a quiet day before Easter, and we're waiting for the bunny. You have people not wanting to make moves before a three day weekend, and you have some fears about terrorism -- with Rice speaking, and because this is a religious holiday.

Lon Anderson

There seems to be a good supply of gas. The governor's office sent out a release that there is a one-and-a-half to two-week supply of gas on hand in Virginia, so there is no reason for fears about a shortage of gas or gas lines.

Edil Baisalov

It was feeding instability and insecurity. There were these fears that after March 25 the mob would run the country.

John Donne

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees everything else

George Glynos

Oil prices tend to fuel inflationary fears, and as they fuel these fears funds so investors tend to look for an inflation head. In this situation they have looked towards gold as that inflationary head. As oil prices have gone up we have seen an increase in metal prices.

Lynn Reaser

Oil prices are still very high, but much more moderate than the worst fears of last week.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Pray God our greatness may not fail/ Thro' craven fears of being great.

Lena Komileva

The key question for the market is whether they will signal a rate hike before the end of the year.

Emo Philips

I picked up a hitch hiker. You've got to when you hit them.

Ben Simpfendorfer

This is very unexpected. The market was anticipating a hike in reserve deposit ratios.

Mitsuru Sahara

A positive CPI will reinforce the market view that a US rate hike in May will happen.

Michael Schubert

Anything but a rate hike at the next meeting (on March 2) would be a surprise.

Michelle Paver

The most remote place I've been to was in Greenland. I remember setting out for a solo hike from a small cabin, itself several hours' boat ride from the nearest settlement.

Robert Philips

The stock market initially got pretty spooked by the strong March payrolls number. At that time, the futures market was signaling no rate hike until November. Now, it's signaling August.

Ron Gardenhire

Whatever you feel -- 'Who's got your back?' like I read in the paper -- it's not about that. It's about winning. And if you don't understand that, take a hike out of the clubhouse.

Aaron Robinson

We'll find 'em, ... They're in this drainage somewhere. We might have to hike our a's off, but we'll find 'em.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Len Lichtenfeld

I suspect that there will be a significant interest in getting better tests into the mainstream.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Charles Davis

I think the perception is out there that FOI is a special interest of the press.

Eddie Campbell

I thought about this, I thought these people are ringing me about horror. I don't think I like horror, I don't think I'm interested in horror.

Sufjan Stevens

I think you should be suspicious when there's a lot of interest in what you're doing,

Sean McGowan

The people who are obviously most interested in it obviously went out and did it already. He doesn't even talk about it.

Iker Casillas

I thank Manchester for their interest but I want to remain here.

Scott Rice

Joey's a talented kid. He did a nice job on his routes.

Matt McKay

Joe did an outstanding job on Biggs. We didn't want him shooting 3s.

Galen Hall

Joe did a miraculous job keeping that squad from not splitting offensively and defensively.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Allard Baird

He comes into Spring Training where it's his job to lose.

Phil Garner

He just likes going out and pitching, doing his job and saying, 'Thank you very much,' and going home.

Randy Foye

He's a big part of what we do. If he's out for the year, we just have to come together as a team. We still have a job to do.

Brian Sears

He's a superior horse, and Brett does a wonderful job with him. I knew he'd have him in peak form. He knows how to top them off.

Claude Brown

I thought we were more disciplined than that. We made too many mistakes and had too many penalties and Steubenville did a nice job of capitalizing on them.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Brett Gallagher

I think the market is just biding its time, and we're going to have these back-and-forth days.

Howard Skolnik

We're prisons, and we're marketing what we are.

Doug Duncan

We're prepared to say the market has peaked in terms of the numbers of units sold.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Jack Baker

I think it's very positive that the market was down more than 100 points and has come back, but this is essentially a vacation week,

Mark Pervan

It had a pretty strong run, so the market is taking profits.

William LeFevre

I think this market is going to go a lot higher.

James Wicklund

There are so many variables to watch. With the API numbers on the way, everyone is in a wait and see attitude.

Charles Steinberg

What we have not seen in any significant numbers is people who refuse.

John Lindsey

Here, we're running into the problem of specific numbers again,

Bob White

I don't feel that their numbers and 'facts' are very accurate.

Alex Brown

I don't know that we've got his number yet.

Robert Keats

I don't know where their number comes from.

Steve Tisch

I'd be shocked if the suggestion internally to recommend two teams ever comes up. I think the numbers are too big. I think it would be an overwhelming suggestion. Over time, possibly.

Richard P. Feynman

Few people realize the number of things that are possible.

Richard J. Needham

When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising that a large number of them are unemployed.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Richard Bernstein

At the rate it's going right now, profitability will accelerate, but at a very, very slow pace, ... much slower than what's implied by valuation in the market.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Chuck Palahniuk

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Mark Luscombe

Generally, the unemployment rate is pretty low. I'm not sure they do at this point.

Bill Belichick

I don't rate 'em, but he's pretty good. There isn't much he can't do.

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.

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.

Alison Goldfrapp

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

Bill Bradley

In all honesty, I'd rather be speaking on Thursday night,

Kevin Spacey

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

Dryden Mitchell

It was so unorganized. ... It just got silly. We would have rather sat on that record for a year and let Geffen put it out.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

Robert Reischauer

This has to be viewed with some skepticism,