Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Cassidy

A lot of families just do the basic backseat fight where the two siblings draw the imaginary line between the two seats and then they fight over the rest of the trip.

Scott Kessler

This is a $100 billion publicly traded company with tens of thousands of shareholders. Clearly you have a lot of shareholders that have so far taken a backseat to people who casually happen upon the Web site.

Brian Urlacher

A few years ago I was definitely hoping the three of us could have stayed together for a long time. But we've got a new thing going here, and Lance doesn't have to take a backseat to anybody.

Jim Rash

On the movie side of things, the difficulties come with so few movies being made, and when they are, it seems that it's a marketing game. Story sometimes takes a backseat to that one grand marketing idea.

Christian Camargo

My parents had a difficult divorce. My dad had to take a backseat for a few years, and my grandfather came in. He was also my inspiration for becoming an actor. I really respected him.

Richard Hastings

Management is concerned about return on invested capital and return on shareholder equity and that's the focus. Everything else takes a backseat to that.

Ryan Confer

Our music is our strong suit. The vocals take a backseat as opposed to a singer who just stands up there and sings. Sometimes, you don't necessarily need words.

Dan Castellaneta

I'm going to the backseat of my car with the woman I love, and I won't be back for TEN MINUTES.

Jay Graham

We want to show people that we're the team that everyone should be gunning for (in the Capital Hockey Conference). We want to keep distance between us and everyone else because we want to win the league. ... That's why the lapses are very concerning.

Jeanna Mastrodicasa

We are a unique community because of the university. We should capitalize on the opportunities with the university.

Justin Dew

There are certainly plenty of opportunities to put $500 million worth of capital in the hedge fund space. I think by and large Yale is looked upon as a preferred investor, and therefore I think a lot of managers would be open to having discussions with them.

Gary Capaldi

We still wanted to get an inside game, we thought that was our strength tonight. But they made plays and Tory Jackson found the open man's hands. ... They had the momentum, they had that run and we just couldn't capitalize on anything.

Megan Schwab

Whenever we get those opportunities (to score), we want to capitalize on those situations.

Mario Testino

Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It was the capital of South America; it was where the Spanish founded their empire and took over the Inca Empire and made it into a colony of Spain.

Mark Skousen

Market capitalism survived and prospered after the boom-bust industrial revolution of the 19th century, and the Great Depression and world wars of the 20th century. It will recover from the financial panic of 2008-09 and Obamanomics.

Matt Ridley

Watching those people on television made it hard to feel sorry for myself, ... That was misery - capital M.

Scott Parker

When we got a good offense going, we would lose it on defense. We couldn't capitalize when we would get a steal and run it down the floor. We're a Jekyll-and-Hyde team.

Subodh Kumar

We are seeing a pullback on stocks because many investors are concerned with the outlook for interest rates and with the economy at the start of 2006. The rebound in oil in the past couple of days is also hurting some stocks, especially the ones related to consumer spending, such as retailers.

Gerald Lucas

There are some fears about inflation but people are even more concerned about what's happening in the corporate credit market.

Matt Durgin

We're not going to make an issue of it. We're more concerned who we're playing, not where we're playing.

Donald Trump

We have a special site, a special location. We have a neighborhood that at first was concerned but now has embraced us for the most part.

Todd Jaeger

We have some chain-link fences that are kind of high in back of the high school and we're concerned about kids getting hurt, so it's kind of a double-edged sword there.

Charlie Haden

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

David Novak

There is no question that Israelis - indeed, all concerned Jews - have to continue to work out a Jewish public philosophy that truly justifies a Jewish state in the land of Israel.

Dereck Whittenburg

We're more experienced and we've got more poise. That stretch we went through, we could have won any of those games. I felt good about those four games and that's why I wasn't concerned at all.

Ron Jirsa

We're more concerned with what we're doing and how we can improve.

Scott Jones

We're seeing a divergence in the equity markets and a divergence in the tech stocks, ... Dell is weighing on hardware stocks.

Alan Rose

It's the fear there's going to be a mad rush for the exits in the equity market: that's what generates the interest in Treasuries.

John Person

This move will have a short-term negative impact on the equity markets. However, it is longer term, a positive.

Jeff Simpson

There's equity in the conference. There's a small margin between finishing second and finishing last, and that small margin is hard to define. I think we're better than our record shows, but we're playing in a very tough conference.

Chris Fox

The big reason is because being independently owned and operated gives us a lot more flexibility, from everything to fee splits to equity opportunities in the firm for our brokers.

Tyler Mason

A vast majority is equity that is already vested in the company. It's not a result of this merger at all -- 90 percent of the options that are granted to the executives would vest with our without the deal.

Membathisi Mdladlana

Once there's equity in the workplace, the law will become redundant.

Ken Scholen

A reverse mortgage is the true home equity loan.

Lauren Fine

The supposedly lack of participation by private equity firms also does not send a good signal, in our view.

Richard Jerram

The number of shareholders who have invested in returns, rather than relationships, has increased.

John Hickenlooper

The same with running for mayor. If I lost the election, I had invested about six months of my time and about $100,000 of my own money.

Steve Robertson

We've been here a long time. We've invested a lot of money, and we'd like to stay here, but we need to make a profit.

Billy Beane

I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been.

Fred Wilson

We haven't invested in the Mining Company, but I want to be friends with Scott because he knows a lot of people.

Zach Galligan

You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.

Peter Yu

Since Samsung has invested so much in LCD technology, they would be the one to make the next-generation displays.

John Trevena

He told me nobody invested in the movie. It's a high-risk investment, especially with the way movies have been flopping lately.

Pat Summitt

I think they understand there is a lot of tradition here, and there's a lot of players that are upset. I've had phone calls. That just speaks volumes to what they've invested in this program. Still, they are like family. When we lose, they lose.

Ed Moyle

Worry in a CIO reflects uncertainty in the management process.

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Benjamin Franklin

Anger and folly walk cheek by sole.

Mikir Shah

At around 80 percent, it effectively has total management control.

Vaughn Cordle

They have a right to be upset, because what management is proposing is quite dramatic.

Carol Levenson

This does not have the earmarks of a long-planned management transition.

Sam Bhavnani

It's an uphill battle, but they seem poised to be able to do it. And the reason I say that is they have a strong management team in place.

Will Holman

Northwest management has a tendency to misjudge the will of the pilots group.

Larry Haverty

Things that needed to get done, the management has done.

David Brainerd

I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.

William Shakespeare

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

Catherine Helen Spence

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

Jack Holmes

Would I like to return there? Absolutely. But it's sponsor-driven, not heart-driven.

Bill Gross

Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.

Russ Borman

We'll see them again, and we'd like to return the favor.

David Butler

They need to sell a lot of stuff to get down to the shrink-wrapped size they need to be to make a return to stockholders,

Joan Kaner

Thank heavens! There was a return to black. There was a return to a sophisticated, pulled-together look.

George Phillips

The sale of conservation easements will give them a return on their investment.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Karel Amaranth

It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.

Jane Smith

This kind of work takes too much time. Mine's all needlework.

Eido Carney

It's at least 15 years. It takes that long.

Charlotte Observer

After all, it takes 18 to 20 years to 'grow a child.'

Craig Colten

The whole thing takes a long, long time.

Tom Kloza

The wheels are in motion. It just takes a while for it to deluge into retail.

Jessica White

Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.

Hines Ward

Each and every day, Jerome is always teaching me something, what it takes to be a professional athlete. That's why I want to win it more for him than for myself.