Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Shepherdson

Katrina and Rita effects still linger, though they are fading, ... Claims will likely rise next week as the full effects of Wilma hit, but the downward trend is very clear.

Peter Kretzmer

Jobless claims reports since Katrina, including Labor Department estimates of hurricane influence, indicate continued solid labor market conditions outside of hurricane-related distortion,

Ed Pasterick

I suspect they'll do it incrementally because there is a question of whether that is enough. But however they do it, Congress is going to provide enough to pay off whatever claims come under the program. Those are contracts.

David Chadd

He claims it's the fried food over here.

Dane Fife

He claims he's ready, but we have to see how tender it is (today). He moved well (Tuesday).

Harold Smith

He claims he can get these paintings in a half hour.

Dale Douglass

He kids me about that all the time. He claims it's his putter. It isn't.

Chester Gillis

He knows very well the kind of claims he makes have political implications. He intends for them to have political implications. He wants to influence public policy in numerous places in the world and hopefully sway the powers that be to his side, especially on so-called social issues.

Rabindranath Tagore

God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeksslaves and claims obedience.

Jed Dickerson

Just looking to see the conditions of the lake. Kind of looking to see what I can see.

David Jones

(Greenspan) cut rates three times last year, but he said that the conditions that required those cuts are no longer with us. So the outside limit to what he is going to do is three hikes. My guess is that you will only end up with a couple of them, a quarter-point at the end of this month, one in August, and maybe one in October.

Jim Taricani

his mental and emotional conditions at the time.

Robert Mellman

Historically, construction and starts have been highly sensitive to weather conditions during the winter months.

John Negroponte

I think then the conditions will be created for the most expeditious and effective delivery of humanitarian supplies.

S. Walker

It honestly wasn't ideal weather conditions for us, but the kids competed well and we had some some good results for the first meet of the year.

Vincent Boberski

I think the Fed will keep in 'measured pace.' There is no need for a major shift in the statement because economic conditions are similar to what they've been during the past couple of meetings.

O. Singh

I think the conditions today favored us. Really, it was the conditions that dictated the difficulty of the hole, and today it was perfect, so we could get it out there.

O. Singh

I think the conditions today favored us, not the holes they changed.

Rick Curran

John has suggested there is continued interest in having Bryan. We're willing to be patient. He would prefer to stay in Toronto.

Deb Mandeville

It always provides us with good look at many of our 3A rivals. We swam well there and continued to drop time in many events.

Don Roy

He continued to wrestle well. He moved very well on his feet. He hustles all the time and never slows down.

Robert Moses

He continued to be and infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy

Anita Frazier

Handheld platforms were the big story last year, and so far this year, that segment of the industry has continued to grow significantly since last year.

Sonia Levitin

Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges.

Jim McNerney

Going forward, our strong market position and continued focus on growth and productivity should enable us to deliver financial results that reflect the quality of our people and our technologies.

Peter Spina

Gold, silver and platinum started the week off on positive footing with continued excitement in the silver markets regarding the proposed silver ETF in the United States.

Matthew Parry

Gold continues to rally on continued U.S. dollar weakness, a trend I expect to continue over the next week.

John Ashcroft

I would say that Mr. Thompson and Mr. Olson are very outstanding individuals, whose records of public service, including service with this Department of Justice, are exemplary records. But those are not my announcements to make, ... Those are presidential appointments and they will require, in each case, the confirmation by the United States Senate.

Stephen Miller

Just smoke everywhere and everyone busy. The fire department running around.

Tom Walters

I think it's a great fit. (Kirk's) been really good with Department 56 and Byers' Choice.

James McDonough

I think it really puts the department on very solid footing to do its missions and do it in a streamlined and effective manner. This is a very healthy and very positive realignment.

Jerry Moran

I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.

Larry Ellison

What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.

Michael Jacobson

Having the word 'limit' sends a much stronger signal. We wanted the guidelines to include the limit of Department of Agriculture already recommends, which is 10 teaspoons a day.

Jenny Manley

He sees a discussion about moving FEMA from under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security as an excellent starting point in efforts to make the federal government more responsive in emergencies.

Joel Klatt

I think it's important to most of us because of exactly what it provides to the whole program. Obviously, the whole department gets a little national respect. Hopefully, we go down there and put together a solid effort and get recognized on a national stage where we feel we belong.

Gale Norton

These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.

Joe Walsh

I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent.

Tom Courtney

I think you're going to see a really wide range of estimates unless they help us with that, which I'm not sure they'll do.

Michael Ching

We expect to maintain our estimates at $1.05 a share for 2000 and $1.43 for 2001, so Motorola remains the most attractively valued stock in our universe, at 23 times 2001 EPS estimates.

Mark Bryant

I think a payrolls number that varies widely from estimates will shake up stocks, ... But as long as we're roughly in line with forecasts, there probably won't be much stock reaction.

John Snow

I think it's probably on the high side. I've seen other estimates more in line with a half-percent hurt to GDP growth in the third quarter and fourth quarter -- but with a pick-up of roughly that order for '06,

Ralph Acampora

In technology, I think I would go with the big ones. I'd go with IBM ( IBM : Research , Estimates ). That would be my first pick in the technology area.

Tim Ghriskey

Initially, the tax rate was a negative surprise. Estimates were at 26%.

Tsuyoshi Shimizu

The GDP figure was within our estimates and there was no surprise there. That lack of surprise may have prompted profit- taking.

Joel Gurin

Internet phone service was the first technology that worked after Hurricane Katrina. But Internet phone service won't work in a power outage and neither will a cordless phone.

John Williams

If you've got to have a hurricane, this is the kind of hurricane you want to have.

Max Mayfield

I just don't see any reason why this will not become a very, very powerful hurricane before it's all over.

Rebecca Watson

Before hurricane Katrina we were already in a tight supply,

David Wang

In 1969, Hurricane Camille produced a 44-foot wave by an oil rig near the storm's center,

Ross Gelbspan

The hurricane that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service,

Mike Bush

The hurricane scattered all our customers, as well as our 45 employees, throughout nine different states.

Timothy Conder

The magnitude of the hurricane season last year has people a little skittish.

Michael Leavitt

The big lesson I learned from Hurricane Katrina is that we have to be thinking about the unthinkable, ... because sometimes the unthinkable happens.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Pete Boone

I think you weigh all of the issues together, including the interview. It still may be close, but you've got to have all of the components.

Gia Coppola

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

John Powell

We have tightened just as tight as we can go including the elimination of personnel,

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Matthew Storin

Patricia Smith is a writer of extraordinary talent and this is a tragic development. We wish her well and she retains many friends at the Globe, including myself.

Takashi Sensui

Our message is this: We're prepared to do everything that's needed to make Xbox 360 a success around the world, including Japan.

Scott Shaffer

In 12 years of coaching, including nine years here, I?d never seen an overtime game. Now I?ve seen two.

Bill Reynolds

If you go back, including the Reynolds, I?m part of the Murphy?s, the McNally?s and the Cass. My sister even married an O?Brien recently.

Donald Schneider

I think the new discoveries are going to indicate that Pluto should not really be called a planet.

Pat Gillick

He's getting better. I thought this spring that he didn't indicate to me that he was that type of (one-dimensional) hitter. He indicated to me that he was a lot better.

J. Hoover

The (final) score doesn't indicate how much mat wrestling took place tonight. St. Joe's kept everything close. There were some really tight matches.

David Buik

The futures indicate a lower start with profit takers and scalpers to the fore.

Shawn Boyer

Don't be too specific about what you want to do. Indicate your interests, but let people know you're willing to try out different opportunities.

Chris Rupkey

It may come down to 59.5. This reading would not indicate a softer economy.

Sonny Jackson

All signs indicate that this was a suicide.

Alfonza Whitaker

There was no animosity, no arguing, nothing that would indicate ill-will between these parties. No intent.

Mark Regev

The repeated outrageous remarks by the Iranian president unfortunately indicate the real mind-set of the ruling clique.

Ella Wilcox

Here, on this side of the grave,Here, should we labor and love.

Michael Wasserman

I think it's a tremendous help. You've got people of all walks of life who are represented by labor unions. I think that's tremendous when you have that kind of support.

Adam Smith

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.

Will Rogers

Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us.

William Graham Sumner

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

Charles M. Schwab

In my own house, I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know.

Richard Berthelsen

If there is no union, the labor laws would not apply, so you wouldn't have a lockout.

Ashley Jones

I'm really proud of an independent movie called 'Angel's Perch' that you can get now on demand. It's a labor of love. People worked really, really hard, and it's a beautiful film.

John Wilmot

I'm sorry to see it happen. But who is going to stay in Marina on Labor Day (weekend) to watch a parade?

Patty Thayer

I would say it's one of our most important marketing pieces. It is a response to every phone call, to every reader, that we get.

Mike Johns

Just to regain that market share we had before will take some time.

Edmund Daukoru

Just rest assured, we are under obligation to the market to keep the market well supplied. We meet as often as it takes to micro-manage the short-term volatility.

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.

Alex Brown

I think the markets will probably be up,

Bill Sutherland

I think the market kind of got walloped by the Merck verdict on Friday, and this may be a reflex rally we're seeing now.

David Briggs

I think the market is trying to make up its mind,

Brett Gallagher

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

Mark Landy

I would venture that we are now outside of gentlemanly territory,

Charles E. Wilson

We've been wearing sweaters and hats. We had plastic put over the windows outside too.

Vivienne Westwood

I may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider.

Wes Anderson

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

Susan Backman

Residents can see the improvements made to the outside of the buildings.

John Emerich

Resist your time - take a foothold outside it

Sam Harris

If you're out of school sick and you're sitting outside on the porch getting some air, that's one thing.

Siri Hustvedt

In sleep, we leave behind the sensory stimulation of the outside world.

Ian Harrington

I just tried to work the outside part of the plate and stuck with that today.

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Susan Johnson

In Illinois, there are very scattered reports of true influenza.

Bob Bennett

The reports of the settlement discussions are seriously inaccurate.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Nigel Cameron

Certainly, if these reports are true, it's a tragedy for science.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Gary Mickelson

There have been reports of higher-than-usual absenteeism at some locations.

Ken Starr

I also know that there's a time and a season, and I think that time, had there been one, has long since passed.

Michael Hayes

He's crazy. He's always been like that, since we were 13, he's been the same way.

Mike Donato

He's a thoroughbred. We have worked out together since our first year here.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Robert Greene

I will say it's been a while since we've been this healthy,

Sue Thompson

He's been doing this since he was 14 - he's such a talented kid.

Vince Carter

He's been doing this since Day 1. When he doesn't do it, then we'll be surprised.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Doug Mirabelli

He's been solid for us all year, and we need him now more than ever.

Lawrence Lau

He may have been transferring waste without a solid waste permit.

Katie Uhlaender

In my training runs, I threw down solid yesterday.

Hubie Brown

In my opinion, they are the favorite, and they are a solid favorite.

Jose Bergamin

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

Clint Chamberlin

The JV got after it and had a solid outing.

David Ritchie

All this means. . . we have a really solid footing.

Mike Donahue

Once again, we had a solid third period.