Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giovanni Agnelli

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.

B. R. Hayden

The overall trend is downward. There are fewer toxic chemicals going into the environment, but we want to see that amount go down even more.

Wole Soyinka

If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers - I think we would see quite an explosion of African films on the world scene.

Nathaniel Branden

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

Alan Murray

That was the first time in recent memory that their estimation tools have not captured what is the current amount of risk in these businesses.

John Griffin

We have an excessive amount of paperwork and clutter.

George Schmidt

We have an equivalent amount of energy in just one gram or about a raisin-size worth of antimatter.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We have an enormous amount of great teachers out there, terrific teachers ... but we cannot get rid of the bad teachers. They're called the lemons. Each school has those lemons. And they call it the dance of the lemons, where they kick them from school to school but you can't get them out, ... What I say is, 'Let's kick them right out and let's dance them out the door rather than dancing them from school to school.'

Patrick Ryan

We have a minimum amount of risk for a really substantial reward,

Gianni Agnelli

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

Virginia Postrel

As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in use, when times get tight, they put off new purchases. What seem like small cutbacks to the end buyer translate into big swings for the producer.

Gary Meyer

The only reason we are talking about this (wheel tax) is to get a vote (for the EMS budget), and I have a real problem with that. The feeling I'm getting here tonight is that I'm buying (Williams') vote so that he'll get the Capital Improvement Plan in gear for 2005.

Phil Boyer

The pilots of tomorrow are the plane buyers of tomorrow.

Stephen Baker

The PC is much more of a mature product than it's ever been before, so it's much subject to the vagaries of the overall economy, ... When the economy slows and people retrench, they don't buy durable goods, and the PC is a big durable now.

Nikki Reed

I do feel like by buying rats from a pet store, you are saving them because if not, they would get fed to a snake or something.

Lyndell Zanotti

That was his big thing. He did that several times. He was extremely generous. He was always buying things, just doing whatever he could. He used his own money. He liked helping the kids because he didn't have any kids of his own. He was very good to the girls.

Atsuko Abe

That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. Japan must have its own resources.

Todd Rosenbluth

We have a negative outlook on the telecom-services sector, preferring smaller, rural providers and one in Canada that, in our view, have stable margins and are paying out dividends and buying back stock.

Todd Edwards

Mexico's stocks and currency did not lose as much as other markets in the region on news that the Argentine government's plan may be in trouble.

Brian Kelley

You'll see very shortly a plan to generate a currency that can generate that value for Ford shareholders.

Colen Garrow

Manufacturing will be under pressure because of currency strength. It will hold the sector back and (keep) growth from reaching its potential level.

Laurence Godfrey

We get a wide range of responses (to our phone inquiries and visits). Some people are surprised there is a fee to pay. Music is a part of the fabric of society and people forget that it is a currency - the finished product of someone's creativity. Others understand that this (music creation) is a business.

Craig Chan

From the currency perspective, there's definitely been a search for yield. The general weakness in the equity markets hasn't provided any support to regional currencies.

Rupert Stadler

For this year, there is actually no risk (from currency effects), that matches with our hedging rate.

Frank Vargo

What we want the government to do is to make it plain that currency values should reflect economic fundamentals, and governments shouldn't interfere with that.

Andrew Pyle

(It) comes down to watching the data, and data reflecting the impact of this move in the currency is not going to come out until we get into the summer.

John Faucher

We think given guidance is roughly in-line despite the negative currency impact.

Yanni

With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

Tina Brown

No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton.

Isabella Bird

Unlike many other places, Hilo is more fascinating on closer acquaintance - so fascinating that it is hard to write about it in plain prose.

Gail Carson Levine

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

Virginia Postrel

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

Yayoi Kusama

I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

Chet Faker

I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Gemma Arterton

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

Cilla Black

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

John Milton

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, / Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I thought it was very original, and I said, 'This should be a hit.' And it was. So I wasn't so much surprised as I was really pleased.

Dana Cody

We are disappointed but not surprised with the judge's ruling.

Felipe Alou

I won't say surprised but I'm kind of disappointed.

David Levine

I was very surprised in the ambulance when they started talking about e-mailing some doctor.

Andy McDonald

I think I'm the most surprised out of anyone.

Jeffrey Rea

I was real surprised to see him out there.

Arrigo Sacchi

The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.

Bill Vaughan

The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

J. Stoltzfus

Today was a make-nice day, and I think it went well.

Ted Jr.

Today was a big, big win for us.

Paul Roos

Today that didn't happen, we've got to work out why?

Thomas Froehlich

We've made an announcement today and there is no other decision.

Toni Jennings

Where we are today is about where we were two weeks after Andrew,

Azzedine Alaia

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

Bob Gilder

I think I made more putts today than I've made all year,

Stan Grimes

We've got some wagons that are worth between $400,000 and $500,000.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

E. F. Schumacher

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

E. F. Schumacher

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Henry S. Haskins

When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Daniel Borochoff

If it's worth that much, why aren't they getting the value?

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Chris Fecera

We actually renovated it so we could show about $20,000 worth of merchandise here.