Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick White

Here I hope to continue living, and while I still have the strength, to people the Australian emptiness in the only way I am able.

Virgin Blue

Having secured over 30 per cent of the Australian domestic market, we are now focused on strengthening our network, developing our product for the business market and steadily building our presence as the low-fare value-based carrier in our region,

Guus Hiddink

He's a strong, determined character and an exponent of how I see Australian football.

Tony Roche

I think it's exciting times in Australian tennis right now,

James Hogan

It is a big rally in terms of the Australian market.

Kevin Rudd

When Howard ... sends our diplomats into Washington to try and hush this whole thing up in the middle of our Australian federal election campaign, it's plain as day that they knew what the whole problem was.

Paul Donnelly

In the Australian context there have been hybrid securities for corporations for 10 years. In Europe, this is a brand new, exciting market.

Alexander Downer

In addition, I will express Australian support for international efforts to meet the pressing humanitarian problems facing North Korea.

Jim Hunt

In the 1990s, they came in here and took out all of the plants that were not native to Florida. But little by little, some trees like the Australian pines and the Brazilian redwoods have reappeared.

Vince Young

I would try to break the huddle early so I could check with Jamaal to make sure he knew who to block, ... He always knew who he had. I don't have to worry about Jamaal, he's picked up everything fast. He's tough and his speed is crazy.

Bryce Fisher

Jake is playing with so much confidence. When you're in the playoffs, you don't have that grind of the regular season and can be at your best. He's doing a great job of breaking down the other team and he's making plays.

Jim Sterk

I think it's a good thing for us. We've done it in football, and during the winter break it makes sense to do that in basketball.

Grady McCluskey

I think it's about 50-50 with (LSU) and Ole Miss right now. He said he's still committed to LSU. I guess his visit to LSU will make it or break it as far as what he wants to do." ()

Robert Foley

It breaks up into very small fragments so it is quite technically complicated to put it all back together again,

Casey Looze

It breaks my heart that she went to federal prison. This lady was so sick, so frail. It just breaks my heart.

Jim McGreevey

It breaks down the secrecy, it requires hospitals to report this information,

Lord Byron

He counted them at break of day - / And when the sun set where were they?

Ted Tollner

He couldn't break off the leg in certain directions, but he still had 50-plus catches. We have high expectations for him and think they're realistic.

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.

Richard Bernstein

Historically, S&P 500 earnings growth, on average, has been negative when the dollar has appreciated 10 percent or more in a 12-month period.

Shaun Osborne

His speech was hawkish in the sense that there would be more interest rate increases. But again, there's something for everybody in his speech, including dollar bears.

David Mozina

I think it's great news for the dollar and it will probably solidify the strong upward moves that we are seeing in today's session.

John Heisdorffer

I think it's possible. We have about a half million dollars walking into the office or by mail every day.

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.

Larry Freed

The downward trend is due to consumers' increased expectations during the holiday season, a much larger influx of infrequent visitors that may not know how to navigate a site and shipping costs, and the unavailability of prominent items like the Xbox 360 due to low inventory.

John Cridland

UK Plc feels it has gone as far as it can in accommodating tax rises that have weakened our international competitive position. The trend we now want to see is a downward one not an upward one,

Peter Beaven

This could have a downward impact on the final export figures.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke,/ Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go.

George Buckley

February might prove a more contentious decision, especially in light of possible downward revisions to the Bank's inflation and growth forecasts.

Patrick Fearon

The fact that (core inflation) has been on a downward trend for two months is more evidence that Fed policy-makers might stop raising interest rates sooner rather than later.

Paul Kurtz

Since then, we've really been on a downward slope. There are some places where we see some limited progress, but the overall strategic level of leadership -- someone who is there full time, all the time making sure programs are in place and properly funded -- that's what's lacking.

Mike Right

Since that time, it's been drifting downward ... about 10 cents. It might be time for another start up.

Lara Rhame

Markets initially seem to be focusing more on the downward revision in growth than the upward revision to the deflator.

Chuck D.

He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam,

James Perry

If the model is River Gardens, it has failed miserably.

Mike McGlone

The market failed to see a smoking gun or anything too worrisome.

Manfred Guellner

Supporters of the CDU failed to vote because of reservations about Merkel.

Thomas Doll

We failed to score the third goal and they played all-or-nothing. Maybe we were scared a goal would slip in there somehow.

Andrea Seigel

As evidenced during my failed audition, I'm a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a 'Real World' house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out.

The Grimm

After Quixote collapsed, there were about four other projects that failed to fly,

Thomas Mann

Do you know how many times campaign-finance reform failed before final passage in 2002? Many times.

Dan Duncan

Some people go through treatment more than once and some never respond to treatment. But most people put their lives together quietly, silently, anonymously. You don't see or hear from them, so we are left with gauging our impressions of treatment on those who have failed or relapsed, and that gives a grossly incomplete picture.

Madeline Albright

These people have to go back, otherwise there are no people in Kosovo,

Heikki Kovalainen

Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.

Pete Sepp

No spending reduction is easy, otherwise they would have been done a long time ago.

Reed Hundt

Isn't it only appropriate that, in return for the free use of the public spectrum, broadcasters provide something substantial, something that wouldn't otherwise be provided by marketplace competition?

John Banville

I always think that if you know somebody's name then there's something slightly fraudulent about that person. Otherwise we wouldn't have heard of him or her.

Richard Shelby

Otherwise the taxpayer is going to ultimately underwrite everybody's risk,

Hicham Guerrouj

Otherwise there is not much point in me going.

Alan Greenspan

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

Atharva Veda

We should strictly keep away from such people otherwise it will prove detrimental for our own spiritual growth.

J. C. Watts

I have friends who didn't turn 60. As you get older, your perspective clears.

Rob Halford

Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.

William Wordsworth

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

Robert Plant

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

Wayne Thiebaud

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Wesley Snipes

Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.

Wayne Coyne

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

Henry Anatole Grunwald

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

Robert Orr

This is not some technical or arcane requirement.

Scott Stewart

That type of technical analysts does not have a lot of value.

Derek Magyar

If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.

Stephen Jay Gould

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.

Sylvester McCoy

There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!

Zhang Ziyi

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

Ellen Goodman

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

Eric Rohmer

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

Eric Ripert

I don't follow the food trends.

Rachel Roy

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

Paul Anka

The thing is to be able to outlast the trends.

Lei Jun

Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.

JWoww

I dont follow trends. I set my own and I go for the extreme.

Paolo Bacigalupi

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.