Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Harris

That was a big part of the motivation because this was my last season and my last chance to play with a team like this.

Joy Couch

That's where the hurt is. For the rest of us, we get a chance to do it again. Losses make you stronger.

Steve Nash

Raja and Kurt are always there for us, physically and mentally. They always make it difficult for the other team and always give us a chance to win.

Teruhisa Tsuji

Propelled by strong economic indicators, the market is increasingly pricing in a chance of a Fed rate hike to 5 percent in May. The dollar looks strong.

Karen Friedman

Pronounce your words clearly and don't trail off at the end of a sentence. You want to make sure you are heard and understood. Additionally, pause to give the person on the other end of the line a chance to digest what you are saying and to participate in the conversation.

Bob Schneider

Private schools won't have a chance in that scenario. There won't be a football playoffs for us.

Steve Spurrier

Probably one or two freshmen will get the chance to play for us this year.

Curtis Sliwa

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.

Gary Mitchell

People took a chance on him (Cody) and hope he recalls that.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Allen Sinai

The staying power of the rally is the question mark. You have to remember the views held by the Fed on March 28 are not necessarily the views held when they meet next on May 10.

Hiroki Shimazu

The statement fueled market expectations that the Fed will further increase interest rates.

Christoph Bianchet

The risk of having a major sell off when the Fed starts tightening is relatively low.

Ian Shepherdson

This is great news. These are very helpful numbers to those -- including us -- who think the Fed will not raise rates next month.

William Sullivan

This is going to keep the Fed on hold.

Michael Lyons

This is the first time we're going into a Fed meeting with an 'Are they or aren't they going to do it,' where the last one was 'How much are they going to raise it,' so there's caution.

Scott Wren

This is really what we needed to keep this rally going. The Fed seems to be recognizing that there may come a time to stop raising rates, and that's very good for stocks.

Mark Vitner

The way the Fed is supposed to influence markets is through an open market policy, but they will also use the open mouth policy,

Joe Krabbenhoft

Ray finished it off with those free throws like I knew he would. I'm just glad I could help the team's goal of sending Ray out on a good note at home.

John Oliver

People really have come for a dialogue when they go to a stand-up show in the U.K. They say, 'I understand that you have now finished your little comedy monologue; now I have something to say regarding what I've just heard.

Wally Buono

The teams that finished at the low end of the totem pole, they'll get the impact players. If you're picking where we are, they're going to be gone.

Luis Aragones

The three teams are complicated. They've finished second so they must be. All three are dangerous.

Linda Cardellini

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

Sheryl Swoopes

Somebody said to me, 'Well, you went in at halftime and you had nine assists, and you only finished with 10,'

Tyler Haynes

Someone's season is going to be finished -- nobody wants that.

Steve Squyres

Once we've finished the rest of the list, we'll start the descent.

Mark Mazzoleni

Sometimes they go in, and sometimes they don't. The thing is, we finished our scoring opportunities.

Martin Freeman

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.

Josie Bissett

Any job I choose has to work with my schedule with my kids. I don't want to miss any of my time with them.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

A president must be on the job 24/7, ready for any contingency, any crisis, anywhere, anytime.

Bruce Tonjes

The staff may be talented enough to do the job. They may need different materials . . .

David Hare

The silence between us was profound. I thought it was his job to say something. Only now do I understand it was mine.

Jeff Greene

I've been a job creator. I've worked in the economy myself.

Owen McClain

I use to look for a perfect job. Now I look for any job and make it perfect for me.

Natalie Cole

I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.

Pat Ryan

I wanted someone who, that was their job, and they'd be reliable.

Jim Macaluso

It would be tough for Vegas to put odds on this thing.

Charles Bukowski

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

Robert Kiyosaki

Most people want to be rich but they do not want to pay the price, in fact there are ways of becoming rich in which the odds are in the person's favor

Anne Rice

Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!

Robert Greene

No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.

Richard Linklater

As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.

Swami Vivekananda

Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.

Ronald Fisher

If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2 per cent. point), or one in a hundred (the 1 per cent. point). Personally, the writer prefers to set a low standard of significance at the 5 per cent. point, and ignore entirely all results which fail to reach this level. A scientific fact should be regarded as experimentally established only if a properly designed experiment rarely fails to give this level of significance.

Suzanne Collins

One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Bob Mann

At that time everything seemed harmonious. We thought we had a 100 percent partner.

Stuart Freeman

We think some of these stocks have had 15, 20 percent pullbacks here and they've become attractive.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Chris Linder

Twenty to 30 percent of my work is now related to photography and writing.

David Healy

You have to praise their sense of realism, that they'll never get to a 25 percent share again. They have got to do this to survive.

Ray Wahlert

This year, it's 45 percent versus 55 percent on the steel side. In some years, it's 50-50.

Eugene White

Every day we wait puts our students at a disadvantage.

Phil Rizzuto

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win!

Mack Strong

He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers.

Nathan Vasher

If you're ready, you should run. It puts you a step ahead.

Mike Jacobs

It was a big boost. When you start off with three runs, it puts them on the defensive.