Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Anderson

We exceeded our revenue expectations for December, which positions us well for our fiscal fourth quarter. We're pleased and encouraged by the fact that virtually all of our businesses met or exceeded our expectations for December. As usual, customers shopped later than ever and results strengthened as the month progressed. Our employees capitalized on the trend with strong offers and improved in-stock positions.

Stephen Stanley

The economy has a lot of momentum. The consumer continues to do well because of the improving labor market, and businesses have a lot of cash and are getting more confident about deploying it.

Richard Rathge

The economy of the state has changed dramatically. The changing face of agriculture drove out farmers and farm families, which drove off businesses that rely on farm families.

Michael Birch

The fundamentals are still sound but the stock has been priced for all their businesses to perform perfectly and we didn't see a lot more upside.

E. Helm

This is Microsoft talking to businesses about why it's a good IT vendor and particularly why its different from IBM.

Jay Sidhu

We're not getting into new businesses that we don't understand.

Luis Rodriguez

It's not a difficult thing to fix, but if it's ignored it can cause real damage. Small businesses are especially susceptible, since their IT staffs are typically very small and are more likely to be focused on the here and now, as opposed to something that's a year away.

Byron Dorgan

Everyone expects American businesses to make a profit and I don't begrudge them that, ... But the big oil companies are now reaping an unbelievable windfall, and it's time for Congress to help consumers.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.

Michael Solomon

Technology has changed how people feel about sharing their identity.

Richie Benaud

Cricket has changed for the better ... it's because of what happened then, cricket is so strong now.

Michelle Ryan

'Bionic Woman' changed direction too much from episode to episode, which I think is why it lost momentum.

Andy Roddick

We had similar games, but he was pretty much just better at everything then. A lot has changed since then, that was a long time ago.

Gene McAteer

We went to a 1-3-1 and changed the tempo of the game. We don't use it often for long stretches, but we tried to shift the momentum.

Jim Calhoun

Those jump shots were killers. You could probably go over six, seven, eight, nine plays that changed the game.

Jeanne Salvatore

Unfortunately, there's no norm with health insurance because it's changed so dramatically.

Susan Sontag

Everything has changed and nothing is changed.

Sophie Kinsella

My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.

Justin Lane

I've been struggling, pulling my head out. The coaches have been working with me on changing to a stance where I could keep my head in better.

Marcus Tubbs

Coming here last year, I heard the fans hadn't had a whole lot to cheer for. We're changing that. We're giving back to the city, we're doing good things and we're making the fans happy. And those are the people that matter.

Edward Kennedy

The president has moved the goal posts. Americans understand changing the rules of the game; they don't like it,

Penelope Tree

Wearing the right thing, at the right moment, could actually change your life.

Jonathan Todd

Let me be clear, the Commission's position is that Microsoft is obliged to comply with the remedies imposed by the Commission's March 2004 decision, nothing more, nothing less. We are not moving goal posts, we are not changing our demands.

Kristy Curry

She was able to hit some big shots. She's just had a way of changing games for us.

Earl Blumenauer

I think this is an affirmation of the value of Public Broadcasting. I think it's going to lead this week to hundreds of people changing their wills.

Jimmy Williams

He's in love with it. As long as he's playing well and we're winning, there's no need in changing ownership.

Carol Kaplan

I can see changing the name from Carol's Linens to Sophie's Linens,

Helio Castroneves

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

Clint Bowyer

We just got loose over there off turn two, and I got sideways, but Kyle pretty much drove through me. What goes around comes around.

Chosun Ilbo

We welcome the Wards' return, but we are also ashamed. It was us who drove them out 30 years ago.

Scott Podsednik

I got a good pitch to hit and I drove it out,

Aaron Lee

He understood his economic situation. That's part of his work ethic. He knows how Stephanie struggled to get him some shoes. Part of her sacrifice drove him. He talks about repaying his mom.

Nick Lachey

I don't pretend to understand Joe. I don't know if he ever liked me. To this day I couldn't say. It was painful. Do I think Joe drove a rift between us? No. Was he an influence in our marriage? Absolutely.

Laurie Lee

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

Dave Uhrich

We were kind of wondering if it was going to impact the meet. We didn't see anything where we drove in to the track.

Kate Adie

In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

Ralph Solveen

This is really a very positive surprise but unfortunately it has nothing to do with the economy. It's only a statistical effect because many people who used to be registered as unemployed are no longer included in the numbers.

Chuck Palahniuk

Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy.

Mark Zandi

Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing.

Melinda Gates

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

Dave Edwards

People like to give to where they live, and after these episodic events they tend to give more. A lot of this has more to do with the economy than with the cause.

Brian Fabbri

All guns seemed to be firing at the same time for the economy in the third quarter.

Lou Jiwei

Everyone knows the U.S. economy shouldn't be so reliant on consumption. More investments should be made.

Alan Kral

Everyone is waiting to see if the Fed does anything, and if it doesn't, what it says about the economy over the rest of the year.

Chris Meyer

Everybody wants to go to India. It's got the largest middle-class in the world, and that means there's plenty of consumerism, the same elements that our (U.S.) economy has.

J. Horton

Somebody out there knows this man. I know his face is covered, but if it were my husband and I saw him, I would still recognize his movements and his body.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Douglas Kirkland

The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement.

Billy Joel

You see firemen, you see cops, and these guys risk their lives everyday. They do this all the time . . . to be able to see a smile on some of these people's faces -- they've gone through so much, they've lost so many of their friends.

Juvenal

The face, not the woman is the attraction.

Julianne Moore

I can only be in the sun for 15 minutes before burning. I have sunscreen on my face every day. If I'm walking on the sunny side of the street, I'll walk to the shady side. I'm too uncomfortable in the sun.

Patrick Chinamasa

The faces sitting in front of you are hungry faces,

Rhonda Jefferson

Though it looked like the same team we faced the first time, they had a lot more kills in this game then they did in the last one.

James Bell

We've got a lot of new faces there.

Bob Metz

First we need a safety net from the farm bill. It would be a safety net that we would not use every year.

David Carter

If anything should go on the historic register, this farm should. It was a showplace.

Kirk Lewis

I was from a farming town. That (background) gave me a lot of the values that I have today.

Justin Vernon

I'm just living in Eau Claire, not really leaving for much. I go to the farmers market, go to the studio, go home and play with my cats. I don't know if I've ever been this happy, which is really awesome.

John Goodman

We work hard, ... But, it does make farming more enjoyable.

Justin Vernon

I'm just living in Eau Claire, not really leaving for much. I go to the farmers market, go to the studio, go home and play with my cats. I don't know if I've ever been this happy, which is really awesome.

Mahatma Gandhi

A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.

Lynn Schusterman

Just as we rely on Israel as a continual source of inspiration and renewal, Israel relies on us.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,