Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Burdett

I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

Pat Riley

He'd average 20 points a game if he was put in that role every night and I'll be damned if I'm not going to try to put him in that role - now. You forget a little bit about how good he can be if he gets good opportunities.

Andy Roddick

He kind of wrapped some presents for me and handed it over. I was average in most regards, but a win is a win. I feel like I'm on the verge of playing well.

Bill Gleason

God really has cursed the sports fans of Chicago. It defies the law of averages when you think about it: 1908 and 1917. God didn't want it to happen. But if the White Sox ever win again, they'll probably set off a hydrogen bomb.

Dave Maguire

He's got over 800 now. so if he continues his average of more than 20 points a game, he could do it. He's a great shooter that really has a quick shot. He has the green light to shoot whenever he thinks he can make it.

Richard McCabe

I think it's all part of the bottoming out process that the market average have been going through since mid-April,

Todd Spencer

I think it's inexcusable we don't do a better job of training. The average turnover rate is something like 136 percent, so they actually lose more drivers than they're able to hire.

Rick Smith

It certainly helps with equipment. For the average player, it makes it easier to play. But, from an optimum standpoint, you need to learn to hit the ball solid, and people don't because they don't have the mechanics necessary to do so.

Larry Sabato

It is a constant struggle for most public officials between representing average constituents and taking care of the interest groups and wealthy individuals who fund the campaigns.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Tim Wilson

He knew everything about his furniture business or his development business from the ground up.

Steve Black

He jumps into the decision-making process. If you just want to run your business on your own and report results, you won't like working for Jamie.

Richard Boucher

has eroded Russia's reputation as a place to do business and eroded confidence in Russia's legal and judicial institutions.

Mark Richt

Guys like D. J. make this business worthwhile.

Ross Perot, Jr.

Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.

Amanda Lindhout

Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world.

Lyssa Jenkens

Growth will continue in education and health, which have been the only steady gainers in this century. But it is now moving into business and professional services, which holds many of the highest-skilled jobs in the economy.

Greg Brenneman

There's nothing magic about working with franchisees. What you have to do is help them improve their business.

Eleanor Groden

They will tend aphids like little cattle that they farm.

Dennis Laycraft

Because feeder cattle flow to where the feed is the cheapest, a lot will depend on what happens this summer with the weather.

Jose Pena

We are expecting more hot weather, but even if it starts raining right now, it would take a long time for grass to grow tall enough so cattle can graze it, ... We would need at least 40 or 45 days of moist soil conditions.

Billy Flahive

Gold is a hot commodity now, so more people, especially large hedge funds, are paying attention.

Tom Boustead

It is all fund liquidation, probably commodity-index related. This was a commodity flush-out.

Burton

The purpose of the fund is to invest in habit-forming small ticket items which people think they can't live without, ... That turns out to (include) liquor and tobacco. But that's not it. I hate to tell you. The No. 1 habit-forming commodity is toilet paper.

Byron Koste

It isn't like you are replacing something (industrial and office properties) that is a precious commodity at this point. Vacancy rates are still pretty high.

Takeshi Yamaguchi

Investors are worried about the outlook for commodity prices as the drops were sudden and large.

Michael Sullivan

In the last couple of weeks, two of the stronger sectors in terms of flows have been energy and materials, and so the whole commodity story is one that's been on investors' minds.

Roger Cursley

It has been struggling either side of 6,000 for a few days now but it's been a fantastic first quarter. We've had a good run, buoyed up with a combination of takeover hopes and strong commodity prices.

Karen Sack

If there is blip in production costs or commodity prices, that's another thing, ... But right now, it's so competitive, retailers can't raise prices.

Gregg Warren

I know they're going to get some relief on some of this commodity pricing, as long as oil doesn't go through $100 a barrel.

Terrence Gabriel

I think the Qualcomm report may be dampening sentiment and Compaq's report is somewhat mixed. It does seem that disappointment over the Qualcomm report is feeding into the tech stocks.

Greg Johnson

I think the opportunity for flies to pick this up may be feeding on saliva, but we're not 100 percent sure.

Mike Dwight

I think what had been described as the feeding frenzy is over. And things might slow down to merely good-to-excellent.

Mel Thomas

When we're playing well together we just want to keep getting the ball. You just keep feeding off it. We learned how well we can play, we just can't settle for anything less in the future.

Kim Newman

I've often described my book 'Anno Dracula' as 'literally, a vampire novel' - in that it battens on to other novels and sucks their lifeblood, transforming as well as feeding off them.

Eli Manning

Every game he just makes so many outstanding plays for us. Not only with his runs, but with his pass receiving. He?s our work horse and we are going to keep feeding him.

Gloria Feldt

To offer them money in a situation where it could be just feeding their habit -- it really smacks of coercion.

Rajon Rondo

I was really happy for him. I just kept feeding him the ball.

David Buckley

The government was very supportive of this project. Maybe it doesn't have immediate benefits, like housing or feeding people or giving them jobs. But turning kids onto science is really crucial.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Rocky Juarez

I think it's just a matter of time before I get a shot at a world title or an opportunity to be back on television.

Steve Parrott

I think it's a matter of, that's the market.

Charles Grassley

I think it's a matter of accommodating people who see unfair competition,

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Richard K. Morgan

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

Raymond Chandler

Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

William S. Burroughs

Too perfect to be sexually attractive.

William S. Burroughs

The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

William Shenstone

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

William Shatner

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

William Shatner

We were basically one and the same, although Jim [Kirk] was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.

William Gibson

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Catherine Deneuve

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Rick McCallum

Producers don't really publicize movies.

Wyclef Jean

I always have a producer to the side of me, and I never want to do a record by myself.