Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lorenzo Codogno

As always, protectionism doesn't work. The past resistance to change has resulted in the Italian banking system being still affected by fragmentation, with plenty of small-scale players.

Paul Haggis

As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart.

Kelly Preston

As a mom, I am going through a very painful experience and my child is going through a very traumatic and painful experience. So I didn't want to say anything that could affect him later in life.

David Orton

Profitability for the quarter was affected by the lower revenue and a reduction in average selling prices for the company's board products.

Duncan Hunter

Prior to September 11, 2001, illegal immigration was considered a regional issue without national implications. We quickly learned on that day, however, that this is a national issue, affecting each and every American, not just those living in border communities like San Diego County,

Richard Hatch

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious-they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

Richard Hatch

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

Mark Hansen

Probably the most important thing in developing an emergency plan for the agricultural operation is to include the family and employees in the process. By helping to develop the plan, the other family members and employees take more ownership in making the plan work and in helping think of ways to protect the business. After all, everyone is affected if an emergency or disaster causes a disruption in operations, even if it's only for a week or two.

Marc Rotenberg

Privacy is the number one issue facing the Internet, and the need to resolve the problems created by junk mail will affect the future of the online world for many years to come.

Wayne Hudson

As far as African-American lieutenants, I believe I am the first.

Elaine Turner

As a registered nurse and community health educator, I believe that we need to do more of these types of events for people of all ages. With the technology of today, it's easy to forget the importance that exercise and healthy living play in our lives.

David Emanuel

As costs come down, we expect to see others follow suit with free services. We really believe there's a demand. It's the fastest way people are getting on line.

Grady Sizemore

As a player, you don't care about payroll, ... You believe you can compete and it's not about how much money you spend.

Joe Girardi

As a player, it?s you?re job to play when called upon. As a coach, I believe it?s your job to teach and to make suggestions. But now you have to sort through all those suggestions. It?s different.

Joe Girardi

As a catcher I believe you manage every day you're on the field.

Joe Girardi

As a catcher, I believe you manage every day you go on the field because you are an extension of the manager,

Susan Pittman

As a general principle, and at this sensitive time, we believe that dialogue is important and we encourage Egypt and Israel to maintain the closest possible contacts.

John Tauer

As a function of us wanting to believe we can cheer our team on to victory, we feel much closer to those individuals.

Carlos Borromeo

A flattening yield curve typically is indicative of the bond market's view that the Fed as being less accommodative,

Albert Einstein

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

Darmin Nasution

So, we concluded that this (merger process) is not only important, but must be implemented immediately. The move to install better trading facilities in the bond market will be much easier if we first merge the two exchanges.

Kenneth Fisher

One component of the leading economic indicators is the yield curve. Bond investors keep a close eye on this, as it illustrates the spread or difference between long-term interest rates and short-term ones.

Bill Hornbarger

Oil prices, I think, are something to keep an eye on. So far, they have not influenced the inflation data to the point where we think it should be too troubling to the bond market but if prices go a little higher, if they stay up here. I think it's something we'll have to keep an eye on.

Donald Selkin

Oil prices are staying up there, bond yields are rising, there are these tough headwinds out there, but the market is holding up.

Butch Vig

I've seen all of the movies. I'm an old-school Bond fan. Sean Connery is our band's favorite Bond. Shirley feels a kinship with him because they're both from Scotland.

Karen Stewart

It was truly our privilege. We share a bond that is truly life-changing.

Mike Lenhoff

These bond markets seem determined to convince everyone that interest rates are going a lot higher than expected.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

George Moore

A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world about us; the moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine

John B. Hood

A vast majority of the votes have to do with policy matters, for which your member has one vote out of 120. It's (a new lawmaker) unlikely to dramatically change anything.

Mike Parsons

As often does happen, new head coaches like to come in a make their marks. One of the things he wanted to do was change the helmet.

Karl Frieden

As long as Congress doesn't change the rules of the game, there's only so far the states can go.

Sung Sohn

A slight decline should not change the picture that much, ... If you look at the fundamentals, despite all the negative news, consumers are in pretty good shape. The jobless rate is pretty low, and their net worth is going up because house prices going up.

Trevor Pryce

As long as I've been here, ... I've never seen one play change a game like that.

M. Wolfe

As long as I own it, I retain the option to change the color,

Kaley Cuoco

As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.

Andrew Palmer

As overseas markets become ever more important, companies will grapple with a new set of management challenges.

James Kelleher

As other technology companies were gazing at their navels, Corning was redressing its balance-sheet sins.

Stacey Quandt

As open-source companies continue to create pricing pressure on proprietary software solutions, it will be interesting to see how Microsoft responds subsequent to the release of Longhorn. By 2010 Microsoft will support its applications on Linux and develop an open-source strategy,

John Anderson

As one of the world's most popular online gaming companies we have a very strong story to tell in respect of our position and our future strategy for growth.

David Lindsey

That's where the real hit is. A lot of companies do not pay for dependents. They leave it up to the employees to pick up the coverage.

Bruce Lanni

Production growth for most companies has been very elusive or nonexistent. Keeping it flat is a major feat.

Tom Kilian

Product development remains an initiative in our Medical Segment. During the year we plan to continue to enhance our individual/association plans as well as review our small employer group products. We plan to explore new marketing relationships with national marketing companies and promote increased brokerage sales through electronic distribution and traditional sales.

Peter Hardstaff

Private companies only invest where they can make a profit, not where there is the greatest need.

Susan Hofer

Prior to this law, there were no requirements for companies to notify individuals about possible security issues.

Stephane Dujarric

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

Mohammad Akhter

As major stakeholders of U.S. foreign assistance, we are very concerned that the interests of the world's poorest remain paramount in the planning process.

Edmund Daukoru

Prices have their ebbs and flows. We are concerned that prices don't get out of hand.

David Patrick

Our defense was the difference. We gave up a few buckets to the roll guy on the pick and roll, but we were more concerned about stopping the 3-pointer.

Matthew Warburton

Our economists are increasingly concerned about the impact of higher oil prices on the wider input cost issue within the U.S. economy, and how that feeds through into inflation and consequently impacts the Fed's decision on interest rates.

Gary Hall

Our effort was tremendous. You're concerned there might be too many emotions, but our guys handled it well.

B. R. Hayden

People should be concerned about this information. That's why we want to have steps taken immediately to fix it.

Gary Garner

People seem more concerned now than they were back then.

Mark Moran

People are understandably concerned about the price of fuel because it impacts their life so directly.

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Clive Smith

As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).

Don Brash

As expected in November, growth in the economies of our trading partners has continued to be sluggish.

Dusty Baker

Back in our day, they called this 'salary drive,' ... Try and continue to have a good year and win as many games as you can win. You are playing for respectability right now. What I'm looking for is you play hard and play for love of the game and respect and try to finish as high as you can.

Hines Ward

A thousand yards? If that's how you judge me as a football player, then you need to continue judging me. Me not hitting 1,000 yards doesn't mean I'm any less of a receiver. This year, it was all about me ... playing consistent.

Richard Thompson

A thousand opinions by a court that a particular scientific theory is invalid will not make that scientific theory invalid. It is going to be up to the scientists who are going to continue to do research in their labs that will ultimately determine that.

Greg Salvaggio

As long as these investors continue to put money into our paper, does the inversion matter?

Donald Rumsfeld

As long as there remains a need to keep terrorists from striking again, a facility will continue to be needed,

Michael Chertoff

As long as the president wants me to continue to do that work and thinks I can make a contribution, I'm going to stay at my post.

Toni Sacconaghi

A workforce reduction of 10 to 15 percent (3,800 to 5,700 people) now seems more likely, but may not be enough to satisfy current investor expectations.

David Haas

The swap in principle is well-founded, but as it currently stands, some of the other processors represent higher-growth opportunities.

Bill Ayer

The steady demand for our product in the face of fare increases indicates that the market currently is less price-sensitive that it has been in the past. It also tells us that we are hitting the mark in delivering customer value.

Kobita Desai

The mobile phone market will see a growth of over 50 percent year-on-year in the next two years. The industry will have 125 million subscribers by the current year end.

Brenda Becker

We've been here since 1979. And we're taking a look at what our current residents are looking for in services. It Just felt like it was time for us to make a few small changes.

Roy Lind

The facility is just too old, and it doesn't meet all the current standards.

Sebastian Briozzo

Current moderate growth prospects will make it more difficult to deepen the still-weak stability in the region and, therefore, fundamentally improve its creditworthiness.

Rajeev Malik

Cutting the deficit next year isn't impossible, but it's not going to be easy in the current political setting.

David Gartzke

Current lease penetration rate is approximately 23.1 percent versus 19.3 percent in February of '04 and ALG (Automotive Lease Guide) stated that vehicle leasing is increasing.

Laurel Scherer

As hostile as they've been it would not be a good working environment.

Li Keqiang

As a developing country, China needs a favorable neighbouring and international environment for its modernisation.

Dr. Paulos

The brace didn't function well in this environment and should have done better than it did, frankly.

Kevin Lee

a very clean, safe, loving environment to be in.

Peter Charlton

As long as there are no major shocks and the interest rate environment remains the same, I expect it to go on into the first half of 2006 at the very least.

David Minsker

The more connections students make with teachers and administrators, the better environment a school will have.

Ryan Lewis

Coming out of the Northwest and that environment to shoot hip-hop videos, it's a little atypical of a place to be, you know.

Bill Carlson

Some people just aren't as sensitive to the environment as others. The environment is one of our precious resources and needs to be protected. It's a goal that we want to be part of and, of course, have as much fun as possible.

Kent Mergler

Once you get a more stable environment with a consistently growing economy, that would favor a better return for larger quality names.

Camilo Villegas

You never know. I'm sure she's down about it. She's only 16 and she's going to keep learning. She's got a lot of pressure on her, but she handled herself well out there.

Scott Gernander

Even though we haven't seen a lot of it, I was a little disappointed at how we handled their press.

Steve Novak

We understand that any small thing like that needed to be seriously looked into. It was handled the right way.

Jason Terry

We'll sit back now and see what San Antonio and Sacramento do. We handled our business.

Tom Edwards

Two years of trying to win this race, it just didn't happen. We struggled in the conditions, they just handled it better than us.

Adam Schultz

We want to make sure things are handled appropriately and fairly.

Stew Morrill

Obviously, Nevada speaks for itself, a Top 25 team. They handled us pretty well in Logan. We played well the last time we were here. We've played pretty well in this building.

Rick Barnes

I didn't think inside we handled the pressure and the physicality of the play.

Donald Copeland

It is disappointing, but the way he's handled it shows what type of man he is. He's never made any of this about himself. For him, it's all about the team.

Wendy Cukier

The thing that I'm the most interested in ... are the demographics shifts and the differences between the sort of 15- to 24-year-olds who are going to be the workers of tomorrow and the boomers.

Melissa McCarthy

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.

Wu Yonggang

The move signals a more market-oriented interest rate system in China.

Michael Blythe

The most likely outcome is that interest rates will rise.

Takehiko Jimbo

The most important thing is when Japanese interest rates actually start to rise, and that's still a long way off.

Andre Agassi

Somebody or something has to truly represent the better interest of the sport, ... It's important for there to be resolve.

Reed Hastings

once you subscribe, our interest is purely your happiness.

Howard Gorges

Scores of investors are of the view that interest rates won't go up much higher.

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Terry Hoeppner

We are going to have 200 motorcycles leading us down (Indiana) 37. They are going to be leading us back into Bloomington.

Sean Landeta

Up to that point, our punt team had done very well. Two weeks earlier, I was leading the NFC in punting, and I thought I was punting well, but they thought that they needed to do something to shake things up.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Steve Taylor

But I think if he's still leading the points, he'll go to Reno.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

Doug Firebaugh

The life you are leading is simply a reflection of your thinking.

Ryan Routzon

Everyone has to step up. Lucas can't be leading us all the time.

Kevin Schmidt

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

Al Leiter

It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.

Michael McLaughlin

(Dell) is positioned in a market that is rapidly going to grow.

John Patrick

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Mark Goodstein

These are all different approaches, but the market really has to validate them. ... If it's hydrogen, great. How many sales are you going to get?

O. J. Simpson

The stock market is very jittery because of the hurricane. Any positive news in regards to the storm will push the market up.

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Alfred Kugel

You really have a two-tier market with tech stocks going down and everything else going up. Part of this is because valuations in technology stocks got overdone this year and, at the same time, the Dow hadn't performed and now they look cheap.

Arthur Cashin

What the market would like to see is some sign of bottoming and that the market is reacting positively to the past six cuts. The market is heavily oversold and we have a real coiled spring here just waiting for a release.

Billy Bob Thornton

Marketing is the devil.

John Wilson

Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Stephane Dion

People who have sent their delegates here want real progress, ... That's why here in Montreal, we have to get results.

Lucy Mathiak

People who feel that things are going well will vote for Juan.

Raf Simons

People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.

Bobbi Brown

People used to look out for their brothers. I'm going to look out for James.

Jay Stewart

People understand we're not deviating from our plan. We're sticking to it.

Paul Adams

People understand it's a robust role and they're comfortable with it. But we're not suggesting it (support for the mission) is so strong it can't be moved.

Josh Fox

People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set.

Greg Hymowitz

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

Lawrence Yun

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

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.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.