Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Darby

It can enhance the excitement of the race. As it transfers to stock cars, and particularly applies to Daytona and Talladega, with the cars running closer together, a bump draft at the right time in the right place is not the worst thing in the world. But it has been turning bump drafting into slam drafting, because the hits just keep getting harder and harder and harder.

Rick Cohen

It applies to corporate giving as well. If you have a company that says, 'We're pledging a million dollars to disaster relief,' well, a good chunk of that is probably going to come out of what they give to some other group.

Andreas Herren

It applies to all competitions throughout the world at any level. All matches of all types are covered.

Barry Collier

He can score the ball, run their offense and he applies a lot of defensive pressure.

Sam Hunt

You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.

Mike Dawson

It in no way applies to reporters - in any way, shape or form. If a technical fix is necessary, it will be made.

Matt Kuchar

I was always taught that the first rule of bunker play is to just get the ball out. When you have a steep face in front of you, this rule applies more than ever. Here, you have to get the ball up in the air as quickly as possible.

Martti Ahtisaari

Religions themselves are... peace-loving. They can also be a constructive force in peace-building, and this also applies to the Middle East.

Matt Millen

Pay close attention. These same things he's about to tell you, it applies to everybody. It applies to the guys sitting at home. It applies to you people sitting in your seats. It applies to the guy on the line working at Ford. ... It takes no talent to hustle. That's No. 1. That's just giving extra effort, and it takes off from there.

John Krafcik

Going out to 2010, the segment stays very steady at one million, 1.1 million units, which is a chunk of the market.

Douglas Coupland

I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do.

Travis Plunkett

Rent is often the largest chunk of a family's monthly budget. So the concern would be that these families would be tempted to use money they don't have by putting it on plastic.

Hugh Johnson

Investors become very guarded at the point that they think oil prices could take a chunk out of economic growth,

DeLoss Dodds

I liked him. That was a pretty good chunk of money back then. We could have handled it, but we wanted David.

Jack Hammond

This is a large chunk of the employees' income.

Brent Spiner

Everyone I've ever known in my life, or seen, or met, or loved, or hated, is at risk of being destroyed. That's a pretty big chunk of fear, and I think that's what we are all dealing with, if we don't save the day.

Ken Reeves

Everyone's going to be looking at significant increases related to heating costs. It is going to be a significant chunk out of people's pockets and wallets.

Lisa Speer

Once this happens, it's hard not to make other states expect to get a chunk of the change.

Italian Proverb

Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number

Scott Bilker

Keep all your records. By law, the credit-card company must investigate your dispute.

Gray Davis

Just the other day, we had to pay $1,900 for a megawatt hour, which a year ago would have cost us $30, ... And the reason this company named Reliant out of Texas gave us for charging us that much money was, they said, the state's credit isn't any good.

Stephen Roelofse

I think in time they will probably make an offer (for Western Areas). I can't see them taking a passive stake in the company like that.

Eugene Christiansen

Harrah's is putting together some very, very strategic real estate. You look at that, you look at Caesars Palace and the implication is that Harrah's is: a) Making a no-brainer investment; b) Is making provision for a major expansion in its Strip presence. I look at the map; I couldn't read it any other way. That's something the company needs Å  a greater presence on the Strip.

Eugene Christiansen

Harrah's is putting together some very, very strategic real estate, ... You look at that, you look at Caesars Palace and the implication is that Harrah's is: a) Making a no-brainer investment; b) Is making provision for a major expansion in its Strip presence. I look at the map; I couldn't read it any other way. That's something the company needs Å  a greater presence on the Strip.

Dusty Baker

Harold Reynolds told me that maybe he should have gotten a Gold Glove over Bret Boone. That's pretty good company right there.

Larry Butler

Harold feels the company needed to set up an escrow reserve with a local roofing company to cover the normal percentage of defective roof warranties they issued while they were in Jackson.

George Packer

Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected.

Bill Thompson

Harrah's is a good corporate citizen, but they have priorities,

John Battelle

Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak.

Kevin Brown

There is a kind of revolution going on, on the corporate desktop.

Ethan Harris

I think we know corporate profit growth can't stay at the rate we've seen in recent quarters. They (employers) have been squeezing the work force pretty aggressively, squeezing productivity out of workers and holding the line on wages. It's a matter of how much corporate profits slow down.

Doug Porter

I think it's quite possible revenues will come in on the high side of expectations simply because we've had very robust corporate profit growth over the last year.

Michael Kessler

It goes all the way to the top. I've seen it from corporate vice presidents to janitorial staff.

Jeff Emerson

I think this just shows that DaimlerChrysler is an outstanding corporate citizen. They are doing their part to help us recover from Hurricane Katrina.

Jody Kielbasa

I think they want to become good corporate citizens.

Theo Kitz

We may never be able to quantify from the outside whether this strategy works. It's a question of the corporate culture at Siemens.

Suzy Pelican

Going in without a list is usually kind of a disaster for most of us. You're going on hunger and a whim and not planning well.

Davitt McAteer

Historically, investigations of mine disasters in the United States have never involved the families of the victims. That era ends today.

John Mica

There is an unquestionable need. It would have been a disaster if HUD had not granted the transfer and we hadn't had the other level of governments supporting this,

Dan Schnur

There aren't a lot of votes to be gained by overseeing a disaster relief that is handled the way it should be, but there is a political downside to not doing enough, or not doing it fast enough.

Donald Williams

Hurricanes and disasters should not be made worse by profiteering,

David Lenze

Hurricane Katrina was the largest disaster in U.S. history. It also occurred in a much-smaller state than Florida is.

Hun Sen

I don't know why we can stop the war but we can't stop natural disasters, these disasters make the people poorer and poorer,

Nic Bideau

He hasn't looked back since then (the Stanford disaster).

Stephen Hess

He has come to symbolize how unprepared this administration was for this disaster, fairly or unfairly,

Glenn Beck

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.

Clay Johnson

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

Ray Manzarek

John is going to get about a million dollars for doing nothing. He gets an equal share as us, and we were out there working. A free million bucks. That's a gig I'd like.

Mark Dobson

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

David Brazil

We've done well with their contract-in dollars and in service.

Lisa Whiting

I think a lot of it has to do with the rise in gas prices just from this week. If it's too expensive for them to get here, they're not going to want to pay the 90 or 100 dollars to stay here a night.

John Heisdorffer

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

David Curry

It grew to huge proportions ? much larger than I expected. I was kind of thinking if we could get in the neighborhood of three or four hundred dollars that would be pretty good.

Chris Paladino

It is not an option. There were no student housing dollars used towards the construction or development of the retail or of the fitness space.

Jesper Parnevik

I would say it's like Pinehurst but maybe that's giving it too much credit.

David Jones

Greenspan is giving the markets a reality check. Good for him.

Tony Wingen

He's a force. We were willing to give up some inside points as long as we were not giving up 3-pointers. We did all that we needed to do to win.

David Grant

He's got a true spirit of giving and he's a role model to many people.

Rick Warren

It comes from service. It is by giving our lives away that we find meaning, because that's the way we're wired, I believe, by God.

Tom Renney

I thought we would probably do Henrik well by giving him a breather before he went over to Europe, so it serves two purposes.

Jake Plummer

Whatever it is, we have to find a way to get over it. All I know is (that) I'm proud of the guys for hanging with me, hanging together and not giving up.

Greg Evans

Whatever honor there is in giving up, I want no part of.

Jeanine Pirro

Today is about thanking them for what they're doing in advance, giving them the support they need to go through the school year.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

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

Paul Marsh

Kinston paled a great game, and with them, it's always a battle. We didn't shoot well from the outside, but it's good to pick up that second win in a row.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Alex Winter

Knowing that it is highly competitive, and I'm not the first person to say this, but good stories do tend to get made.

Kevin Towers

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

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Jeb Putzier

It comes out to $310 million more for the players.

Jim Amos

It is significant in its impact. We do millions of packages a year with UPS.

Walt Riker

I think all the projections show this is going to be win, win, win for McDonald's, the Smithsonian and the millions of visitors who go there.

Larry Anderson

I think the $12 million is just way out of the way,

Bobby Cox

He's getting paid $12 million because he can hit.

Stephen Breyer

He says, 'I've seen 50 million paintings, I know magenta,'

Dan Newman

He may spend his tens of millions on slick TV ads, but this isn't eBay. The governor's race does not have a 'buy it now' option.

Walter Hagen

I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.