Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daren Beaudo

Knowing the impact area and getting it cleaned up, to us, is in a sense the most important thing.

Jon Lindhout

Just the vision of a revitalized Bellingham waterfront will make this place a desirable area for boaters. A new marina would also be big deal for the local boating industry, which plays an important role in this economy.

Douglas Porter

I suspect there will be enough positive news in other areas to persuade consumers there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that the economy is moving to better times, but it will be a gradual process, and confidence may be flat in the next couple of months.

John Eade

I think investors should be ready to buy on the dips, particularly in long-term focus areas like technology or health care.

Bruce Schneider

I think in general things are getting worse, not better. There are lots of little victories. Spam is one of our industries shining victories. But there are lots of areas where we aren't doing very well.

Kjell Bondevik

It can perhaps seem that this area is plagued by an endless string of crises and that it's impossible to do anything. Then I say that a human life is a human life... and we're obligated to help.

Alireza Jafarzadeh

It can carry a nuclear warhead and it allows the regime to reach areas in far distances,

Adam Dunn

He used to come into the weight room with about 35 of his people and work out. We talked about the football team and how I was doing and if I still live in the (Houston) area where I lived. It was small talk.

Chris Shelton

He didn't get it in as far as the first one. I just put a good swing on it. I can't quite tell you why it went out of the ballpark, but the pitch was in a good spot for me. It was in an area where I could hit it hard.

Douglas Porter

I suspect there will be enough positive news in other areas to persuade consumers there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that the economy is moving to better times, but it will be a gradual process, and confidence may be flat in the next couple of months.

John Eade

I think investors should be ready to buy on the dips, particularly in long-term focus areas like technology or health care.

Bruce Schneider

I think in general things are getting worse, not better. There are lots of little victories. Spam is one of our industries shining victories. But there are lots of areas where we aren't doing very well.

Alireza Jafarzadeh

It can carry a nuclear warhead and it allows the regime to reach areas in far distances,

Graeme Smith

He (Clark) was unbelievable. He got the ball in the right areas and got it to go both ways.

Maurice Luque

Having an engine dedicated to the valley is a step in the right direction so other units may remain in their respective areas for proper coverage.

Alex Honnold

I think it's great that so many people are enjoying climbing. I've always loved climbing; I don't see why other people wouldn't enjoy it just as much. As long as everyone does their best to respect the areas in which they're climbing, I don't see how the growth of the sport could be a bad thing.

Anibal Reluz

It could get better, but all in all, we did good. It's experience and it's the first time. We took care of all the areas we need to take care of.

Michelle Bell

I think the police have better things to do than to drive around looking in people's cars checking if they're wear a seat belt. There are other areas of law enforcement that need to be focused on.

Katherine Paterson

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Dan Castellaneta

Kids, kids. As far as Daddy's concerned, you're both potential murderers.

Shawn Trent

Kids don't want to come off the field, but we try not to start them on both sides because they get too tired. and we aren't getting as much out of them (in the late stages of a game).

Greg Moore

I wouldn't say all the pressure is on them - we're both going into the game with the same goal. If they feel like they have more pressure because they are the home team and they are in front of their home crowd, then so be it.

Mike Davis

James came to Indiana to do both sports, so ultimately the decision is his. He had a great football season, and I am really proud of him. He has a bright future ahead, and we want to do whatever is necessary to help him reach his goals.

Eric Johnson

James and I have similar tastes. We both have high tenor voices and write melodic songs. And we both really like the Kinks.

Steve Cram

I would say the decision to run both events would mean she has to make compromises,

Hanya Yanagihara

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

Jon Huntsman

Just the fact that they have taken a position on it will resonate with many both in state and out,

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Despite spending trillions of dollars and spilling the blood of thousands of Americans, we remain in servitude to Arab oil.

Bill Gray

I think that our offensive line has really started to gel, ... We have three new faces up there on the front line and they haven't played a lot of football. Despite their experience, I think that every time we step on the football field, they get better.

Roseanne Roseanne

I think we're looking at a pretty strong housing market despite the fact that starts didn't rise, ... far from runaway.

Russ Yarworth

He's a very tough worker. Mentally, he's tough, despite what he might tell you. He's got a good feel for the water.

Rupert Lowe

I did not offer to stand down because of Clive Woodward's involvement and there is no suggestion of that happening despite this report. I don't know where this has come from.

Saddam Hussein

help with the legal justification for the use of force ... despite U.S. resistance.

Mike Dubbelde

Our relationship with the parents so far has been great. Despite being a new sport, the fundraising and support has really been there.

Richard Martin

In this regard, Japan stands out as the dominant threat to regional stability, despite its low share of exports as a percentage of GDP.

Willie Green

I know I've been in motor sport for 46 years and some might think it is time I grew up, but I am still here, despite smashing up my legs.

Warren Gatland

I also see my role over the next three years as developing players who can go to the highest level. We want all our NPC squad to be able to play Super 14.

Sugata Mitra

There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good teachers don't want to go, not just in the developing world but in places of socioeconomic hardship.

Tony Dungy

I think we have a pretty good team. We're still young, we still do things defensively that need some explanation at times. We play very hard, we practice well, we stay focused and those are all good signs. We have a lot of talented guys, so if you can keep that focus, we should be pretty good. I think we are developing into a good team.

Mike Moroski

He ended up having a very solid last year, played very well and we were very pleased. He just seemed to be developing week-by-week until he hurt his thumb. He was essentially playing with less than two hands.

Don Porter

having done very well in the last 10 years in developing softball not only in the international level but also in the national level.

Bill Gross

We can have a big impact not only in the U.S. , but in the developing world.

Hu Jintao

Regardless of person or political party and regardless of what he or it has said or done, we are willing to hold talks on developing cross-Strait relations so long as he or it recognizes the 'One China' principle and the 1992 consensus,

Billy Beane

Paul has seen the ups and down of developing young players and trusting the three, four years they've had in the minor leagues and discounting their first few months in the majors. Developing young players can be a lot of fun, but you've got to have the discipline to live with their mistakes and understand their trend line isn't always going to go straight up.

Jim Bowden

In the minor leagues the most important thing is developing players. The reason I want to win is I want to develop winning players. So my philosophy is you develop first, but I want to the team to win. I want the players who are prospects and developing learning how to win.

Clay Johnson

Katrina has sharpened everyone's focus on spending the taxpayers' dollars wisely.

Mark Dobson

I also want to make sure student tax dollars are spent responsibly. Regardless, they are spent on the students who pay them.

Hugh Walsh

I think (today's dollar drop) might have something to do with things heating up in Syria; the U.S. withdrawing their ambassador.

Chuck Adams

He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed.

Kamal Sharma

Investors are reluctant to take the dollar significantly higher and we are having thin markets. The market still prefers to sell the dollar on rallies.

Tom Fitzpatrick

In the near term there could be some dollar strength.

Michael Woolfolk

Interest rate differentials are supporting the U.S. dollar for the time being. Until the Fed pauses, it looks that's going to provide support for dollar bulls.

Ron Franklin

In the history of TSU, historically these expenditures have been allowed. Secondly, every dollar that was spent was the kind of expense that is an appropriate use of state funds.

Jay Monahan

If there were any dollar figures mentioned they didn't come from us.

Bashir Ahmed

What drove him to it, who pushed him to it, I don't know, ... I wish I could find out.

Michael Cuddyer

I was able to sit back on it, had a good swing and drove it over the fence.

Dave Meier

The 'Hall of Fame' says a lot that the trucks are famous and the people that drove them are famous, ... We want to highlight some people who have done some incredible things.

George Roosevelt

About 20 minutes later, the suspects drove by and took one shot at them.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The Republicans won the women's vote in 2010. It was the first time since Ronald Reagan that the Republicans had won the women's vote. And when you look at the issues that really drove women to the Republican Party, it's been the issues related to the economy, to jobs, the debt.

Steve Dixon

When he drove there, he went up to the house, spent 12, 13 minutes in the house when no one was home,

Jimmy Johnson

When I drove by I was shocked to see the line so big, ... It's overwhelming.

Mike Scioscia

There's no question what he does for a lineup. He can make your lineup deeper. It's not going to relate to 12 runs every night, but tonight we got some runners on and drove them in. Vlad was in the middle of everything.

Helio Castroneves

What a team, what a team. I drove it like I stole it.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's economic policies would raise taxes on minority small-business owners, whose numbers are steadily increasing as a result of the President's pro-growth policies. Under President Bush's leadership, a majority of minority families are homeowners for the first time in history.

Ken Robinson

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.

Zhu Rongji

Lack of water resources is a serious limitation on the economic and social development of our country,

Robin Urbanski

Right now, the air-to-ground solution is much more economical to us.

Stephen Gallagher

Investors maintain a healthy economic growth outlook, but now with lower inflation and interest rate risks.

Jean Johnson

If you look at statistics about their economic prospects, it's not really as promising. Yet personally, they are optimistic.

Jon Nadler

In the gold trading pits, economic uncertainties are taking a back seat to uncertainties of a different nature these days.

Phyllis Martin

In Greenville, we really are studying the unmet needs of women, whether economic needs, educational, physical or emotional.

Wilson Washington

In a world littered with economic instability and job insecurities, why must we make THIS election about race... Has it not always been about that???

Phil Goldstein

What you really have is a rogue agency. So many people give the SEC such wide latitude, but they have exceeded (their) legal authority.

Georg Hackl

I'm too old to race further. I have exceeded the expiration date.

Nandan Nilekani

A big part of Bangalore's problem is that growth has exceeded everybody's wildest expectations.

Sarah Mesuch

They exceeded our expectations. They were killing us inside in the first half. We were able to adjust.

Brad Nisbet

This is the third consecutive quarter that disk storage systems revenue growth has outpaced that of the server market. However, internal storage growth has exceeded external growth in three of the last four quarters as organizations explore new technologies that increase the flexibility of storage configurations.

Cam McLeay

This just exceeded all expectations ? the things we've seen, the support from everyone.

Freddy Shepherd

We promised our supporters that we would sign a top-class striker and we have exceeded every expectation by signing Michael from Real Madrid on a four-year contract.

Michael Chertoff

That 'perfect storm' of a combination of catastrophes exceeded the foresight of the planners, and maybe anybody's foresight,

Billy Taylor

(Brown) was physical and aggressive. His intensity exceeded ours tonight.

Robert Martinez

We visited many temples and interviewed leaders. We took information from there and from the Internet and put it all together, taking into consideration the geographic area.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Billy Beane

Ken did a great job for us. We've always said that. He was a good enough manager for us to want him back before, and he's still a good enough manager to come back.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

Simon Crisford

I think we will be recommending to Sheikh Mohammed that she stays in trainer next year because there is potential for more improvement from her.

Tyra Banks

Don't make excuses - make improvements!

James Anthony Froude

Human improvement is from within outward.

Gale Kaufman

This is no surprise. All of our private tracks have shown no improvement in the governor's popularity and all of his initiatives are losing.

Skip Glover

That's a big step. That's a big improvement in this team since last year. Last year, a lot of times a team got physical with them they might be a little more hesitant, but not this time. They usually don't return what they get. They like to play their game.

Derek Schulz

That's a big improvement over anything they've done this year.

Dave Long

It's much lower than it should be. There is much room for improvement.

David Snyder

It's worth it, ... You're going to pay for it over 30 years, and I think it's an important regional improvement.

Howard Davidowitz

The margins are positive, but sales are eroding,

Danny Nee

Nothing worked. That's inexperience. You need someone to step up and make a play. We have no margin of error. We have to be at 85-90 percent effectiveness. It might be 95 percent to win a game.

Sue Stevens

Things can go very wrong with a margin loan.

Phil McNichol

It was an eyelash. Bode would have won and should have won by a margin that would have shocked people.

Billy Childish

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

David O'Brien

We want to be satisfied the plant's safety margin is not compromised,

Ai Miyazato

I'm a little surprised and very satisfied about (the margin of victory).

Matthew Lewis

Overall this is a high-quality set of results... and their handset margin of 25 percent is phenomenal.

James Harrison

We made a statement. We won, that was the statement we wanted. Margin of victory, stuff like that, is nice. But winning and going to the playoffs is our goal. That's what we want.

Warren Beaulah

We may just have to let him wear No. 44. I told him before the season that I have a lot of expectations for him. He hasn't quite met them.

Keith Richards

I haven't met him yet, I can't wait. I'm a Stones fan.

Gerald Myers

The first time I talked to her over the phone, and before I met her, I was thinking this is the person we want for this job. To be honest, we didn't go much further.

M. Powell

The object of the patrol method is not so much having the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

Xavier Perkins

It was just the way I was treated. When I first met him, it didn't seem like he only wanted me for basketball. It seemed like he wanted to get to know me.

Paul Ricoeur

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

Lemmy Kilmister

We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

Pete Sampras

The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.

Judy Orihuela

He's been very cooperative. We've had no problems with him whatsoever so far.

Bob Bowlsby

I never would have taken the first step if I thought I was going to risk problems at Iowa. That was an important part of this process.

Russell Crowe

If there are any problems and you do get up here and go on too long, ... Then 'hello' to my little friend.

Roy Halladay

I had some time off to rest and haven't had any problems ever since then. It's kind of disappeared this winter so that's nice.

Jon Heacock

I know they are special team problems, but they are important ones.

Shane Mosley

It sounds good, if a rematch is there. We'll have to sit down and talk about it. I wouldn't have any problems doing it.

Jeffrey Loria

They're telling us we have to solve our problems here.

Erik Morales

It's OK. He can say what he wants. I have no problems with him.

Ellen Monrad

It's the centerpiece for problems on Queen Anne.

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Yvon Chouinard

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

Mahatma Gandhi

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

James Cook

Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.

Noam Chomsky

Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

Deutsche Bank

Excluding this, pretax profit should be up 9 percent.

Pliny the Elder

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Lei Jun

We make our profits through content and services.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Waylon Jennings

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Tony Visconti

The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.

Tony Visconti

My profession is called record production.

Tony Visconti

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Vince Gill

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

Sade Adu

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.

Roy Ayers

The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.

Young Jeezy

I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Rob Thomas

There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.

Richard P. Feynman

Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.

Richard John Neuhaus

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Richard Dawkins

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

Roz Savage

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

Tre Cool

Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together.

William Albert Allard

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

Yvette Nicole Brown

Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.

Wilfrid Laurier

A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together.

Will Carleton

So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree

Vladimir Putin

Let us not forget that we have two governmental reserve funds: the Reserve Fund and the National Wellbeing Fund that represent together $100 billion.

Vladimir Putin

I would like to draw attention to the fact that we have gone from pure trade [with China] in traditional goods [energy resources, such as hydrocarbons, oil and now natural gas, petrochemicals on the one hand and textiles and footwear on the other] to a whole new level of economic cooperation. For example, we are working together on space programmes. Moreover, we are developing and soon will begin the production of a heavy helicopter. We are now tracing the plan for the creation of a wide-body long-range aircraft.

Walter Mosley

There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.

Yoko Ono

World peace is one project that we have to do together.

William Penn

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

Industry Idris

It (the volume of subsidized fertilizer) will not change.

Jason Simpson

With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.