Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Whetsell

As Blackstone started to look at some of our assets they made an offer for the whole company which we felt was very attractive.

Scott Benesch

The cable assets are growing the fastest. There's not a whole lot of growth in the rest of the business, which is why the stock is not going anywhere.

Jimmy Tallent

During the fourth quarter, we resolved several non-performing assets, which slightly increased net charge-offs while lowering non-performing assets. Asset quality continues to compare favorably with peer banks and remains well within our tolerance levels. Strong credit quality, rooted with our guiding principle of securing loans with hard assets, is essential to our balanced growth strategy and overall success.

Janet Dickey

Defense is, for some reason, always an asset here.

David Bernstein

Companies can bring their own assets in the form of Java code and Web services and stitch those into this product.

Naomi Hasegawa

Deposits stopped growing and household money is heading increasingly to risk assets and will continue to do so as long as Japanese interest rates are zero.

Raghuram Rajan

A number of developments concern us. These include the excessive dependence of global demand on consumption, especially in the US, the elevated level of asset prices, particularly housing and the high and volatile price of oil. The downside risks to our forecast have thus increased.

James Duffy

An off-duty officer should be able to carry weapons anywhere. We're an asset to public safety.

Warren Bailey

Anything the central bank buys constitutes an asset and allows it to expand its liability of money supply.

Tasnim Aslam

As far as Pakistan is concerned we are ready to open crossing points on the five designated places at the Line of Control (LoC) on Monday.

Mechai Viravaidya

As far as my part of the world is concerned there's not even a tree,

Robert Craig

As far as I'm concerned Paul deserves the right to continue what he's doing,

John Reade

As far as we're concerned the tour is going on,

Stephane Dujarric

As far as we're concerned the planning is going ahead. We're talking to the AU.

Hiroyuki Kitakata

A series of geopolitical concerns are supporting the market.

Richard Shelton

As a poet I am not primarily concerned with intellect. I'm not that smart. I want to make people laugh and cry.

Chris Foster

As a customer I have no concern that IBM is going to back off in investment here or not come out with the next generation of technology.

Rafa Benitez

As a manager you do not want to see any player hurt. But sadly this is football and I can only offer my concern and just enjoy the victory.

Robert Jones

As directed in a letter on March 7 demanding payment of wages, arrangements have been made to ensure that all employees are paid wages owed them.

Yusli Yusoff

As petrol prices increase, the global demand for more sustainable energy sources will also rise. Malaysia is the world's largest palm oil producers and palm oil is the world's most traded vegetable oil.

Mirko Mikelic

People are very surprised that there is strong demand out there. There's still a strong housing market.

Tom Bentz

Demand is snapping right back. Even with the high prices, there hasn't been that big an impact on demand.

Eivind Reiten

Demand for energy will double in the next decade. Energy supply is fundamental to societal value.

Benjamin Franklin

The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompense

Scott Browne

Strip away inventories and the government sector, and private-sector demand really wasn't that strong -- private-sector sales were up just 0.8 percent. We're still in a transition phase and not on a sustainable growth path yet.

Ben Wood

Sony Ericsson's W800 Walkman phone and the K750 are seeing healthy demand in distribution and retail. They are in short supply at retail.

Wendy Seltzer

Rather than demanding that 60 million people sharing music files turn themselves in with a so-called 'amnesty' program, the recording industry should take this opportunity to make file-sharing legal in exchange for a reasonable fee.

John Shimkus

People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry.

Fadel Gheit

Our economic dependence on oil is much less than it was even 10 years ago. If inflation comes, it won't be as big a hit as it was in the '80s.

Ted Stevens

American dependence on foreign oil threatens our national security,

Sherwood Boehlert

This bill, more so than any provision in the recently-enacted energy bill, will lessen that dependence,

Bobby Bowden

I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God.

Richard McKenzie

This is the downside of the lack of pollution in New Zealand.

Bill Brandt

This is the downside of doing an all-debt plan.

Charles Schumer

Even if he is more likely to be a Rehnquist than a Thomas, the downside of him being a Thomas outweighed the upside of him being a Rehnquist,

Tom Schrader

We've had a lot of earnings that have been in line or better, and the Street's been yawning. If the earnings stay strong, we could hold at these levels, but any nasty downside surprise and we could see some selling.

Rose Rosetree

There's skin around the lip that's kind of a natural lip liner. This is about a gift for communicating information about how people feel, including emotions, including sexuality. It shows that they have very high standards. The downside is that each can be his own harshest critic.

Rory Robertson

Just as the market overshot on the downside in yield in May/June, the risk is that it now overshoots on the upside.

Brett Gallagher

Had they won, the upside would be significantly greater than the downside we're seeing . . . .

S. Walker

In order for the program to work it has to have some teeth and that's the downside if you're not willing to make a full-blown commitment.

Jerry Miller

It's a great day -- I'm glad to see the sun, ... The only downside is we have fewer volunteers -- people had priors plans. Right now, I have nobody to run the trolleys.

Doug Trantham

He took his traditional music that he grew up with and mountain music and elevated it up to a whole other level in terms of the quality of what he did. It's so good it can be appreciated by anyone.

Randy Johnson

I pitch and my teammates expect us to win and for me to put us in a position to win, and I didn't do that. My slider found too much of the middle of the plate. I didn't have a sharp one going down and away. Unfortunately, my pitches were elevated today, and I paid the price.

Ridley Scott

'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monster. If it hadn't had that great monster, even with a wonderful cast, it wouldn't have been as good, I don't think.

Heather Graham

I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need.

Jeffrey Applegate

The risk to this new forecast is down, not up.

Alex Scott

At the start of the year, forecasts generally were for a more subdued year than we'd seen in 2004 so 16 percent is a pretty good year.

Steve Fortuna

IDC saw worldwide unit growth in 3Q of roughly 18.3 percent, while Dataquest saw worldwide unit growth around 15.2 percent. Averaging the two together puts it in the mid-to-high 16 percent range, which is roughly in line with our forecast 17 percent for 3Q.

Stephen Briggs

In all, we forecast that world lead production will grow by 5.5%-6.0% in 2006 and 4%-4.5% in 2007.

Viswanathan Vasudevan

The forecast for the full year and the first quarter has been disappointing. We will have to look into the details.

Bee Wilson

In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.

Alan Greenspan

We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.

Tom Freston

As a global media platform company, we are looking at various projects in many parts of the world.

Zhang Yansheng

The soaring Sino-US trade should be viewed in the global context.

Carlos Ghosn

Russia is an important part of our global growth strategy.

Lorenzo Codogno

Protectionism remains the major threat to global growth.

Dave Edwards

The world has become global on everything else. Why not this? ... NASCAR used to be a Southern sport. Now it's coast-to-coast.

Ian Stewart

This is symptomatic of a stronger global economy.

Matthew Davis

This isn't something we're going to solve overnight. The problems of global warming have just begun.

Lou Jiwei

There are three main pillars of China's economy. One is export, which is limited by sluggish global demand. The second is investment. In many sectors, there is already too much investment and overcapacity. The third is consumption.

Kathleen Sebelius

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

David Fields

a full-range of housing for all incomes and all people who wish to live in the neighborhood.

Judy Burkett

The statistics show that 30 percent of the housing inventory is spoken for, but that's not accurate. There's not that much inventory.

Bill Graham

Well then there would have to be housing for them to move to and we're looking at all possibilities but we obviously have to have a practical solution as well.

David Church

Lower-income housing has been a problem, and it's only getting worse.

Bereket Selassie

Housing is a huge retention issue for the military.

Gregory Gieber

Without question, the housing market has peaked out. However, I think it will be a modest decline.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

'Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.

LaJuana Wilcher

A program that does not include random testing is not very effective.

Russ Rader

Safety should not be a luxury that only comes standard on high-end models. If side airbags aren't included in a popular option package, most people won't get them.

Russ Rader

Safety should not be a luxury that only comes standard on high-end models, ... If side airbags aren't included in a popular option package, most people won't get them.

Scott McClellan

This could include flags. It could also include the awnings around the complex." ()

Winston Riley

We tried to include as many opinions as we could.

Brad Cox

We lost 37 of our 90 rental properties. Well, 38 if you include the one that burned.

Cherie Blair

If we're going to truly solve the problems of the world, we've got to share our information whenever we can and strategically include one another in or efforts.

Jonathan Cherry

She went through all appropriate levels of security to include metal detectors and security protocols.

Miles Shipside

Properties are selling more quickly and stock levels declining.

Marc Chandler

Once we got through an important technical level that triggered a lot of stops. We went through the level that the technicians thought was a bottom.

John Gallagher

Do you want performance level one or performance level two,

Dwayne Slay

The talent level is rising around here. It's going to be a surprise next year.

Eric Hecox

The most significant thing I've seen has been the level of participation.

Landon Donovan

Ten years ago, the level was nowhere near what it is today. We have an obligation to do that and most people take that seriously.

Mario Caminiti

Sometimes we just play to the level of the opposition. We can play better.

Jake Goebbert

(The state tournament) is a different level of basketball. We need to come out a little harder.

Simon Greul

I see now that I can play at this level and I can play with these guys. I'm playing my game, I'm playing well.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Steve Brown

Quite a number of the signatures were not registered voters. You have a set of rules, and everyone should play by the same set of rules.

Tony Russa

You're watching the number and go '10-9-8' and get to one and you're going to celebrate? Zero is when you celebrate. That's what we're doing to do.

Dennis Clay

You shouldn't have anything without a title and every part off the vehicle should have a serial number on the receipt that you got with it.

Roebalin Bustamante

You see the standing water, this is the number one hole.

Elaine Rubin

You're going to see many more partnerships, and for a number of different reasons. The underlying reason is that we're getting smarter and more competitive.

Hines Ward

You only get a number of opportunities to make big plays, and that was a big play.

Ashley Scott

I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.

Aditya Mittal

As our stock price improves, so does the value of the offer.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Kristine Fauerbach

The sticker price is not going to shock you.

Al Gore

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Paul Walker

As things stand at the moment, I would have said a realistic rally in the price is up to $500.

Janet Ray

The record price we see today, I believe, is not the end.

Matthew Alexy

Everything is going down: the price of the dollar, the price of stocks, the price of bonds.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Jimmie Johnson

It's just one of the risks that go with it.

Azouz Ennifar

There are risks that it doesn't work and there are risks that it works.

William Shakespeare

Thus to persistIn doing wrong extenuates not wrong,But makes it much more heavy.