Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Wagoner

Any time GM and UAW has something going on, we're all curious about how that may affect us,

Fadela Chaib

An outbreak of cholera, affecting probably several hundreds of people, is occurring,

O. Singh

As far as I know, the hotel project at Providence, close to the stadium, has enough cement in supply at the site. The shortage is basically affecting the small man rather than big companies.

Todd France

As far as Ronnie hurting himself, we are aware of how it could affect him. It has affected guys differently over the years and you cannot predict the future. ... Bottom line, we have always wanted to get this deal done ASAP and Ronnie has been working out very hard everyday.

Chris Warren

As far as contests go, this is the last big event of the season. It's affects us greatly. Normally, we don't get as much walk-in traffic.

Eddie Jones

As a team the increased fuel costs, naturally, affect your budget. Figure this: the transporter that we run gets about 6 1/2 to 7 miles per gallon at best, 4 1/2 at worst. Obviously, the increased fuel cost makes a considerable difference, especially with all of these trips we're making to the West Coast now.

Mark Billingham

As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons.

Brian Mitchell

As a place of some resources we had a responsibility to reach out to those who were affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Dean Duerst

As a group, I don't think it was our best effort. It is always tough to tie. It was a very exciting game and both teams could have won it. Our first-half performance was a level down and it affected the outcome of the game. We need to learn from that. We definitely came back in the second half and played with a lot more energy. It was a great battle.

Henry Hughes

Any time players have an issue or concern like this, we take a look at it. It's really not an issue from our standpoint.

J. C. Watts

Another thing we need to concern ourselves with on the coast, is the (hurricane) season is not over.

Shane Richardson

As far as we are concerned 'Mad Monday' doesn't exist,

So Taguchi

As far as the team is concerned our target will be to win the World Series. For me personally I want to establish myself as a regular in the team.

Nick Fazekas

As far as I'm concerned I don't feel we've won the thing yet. We talk about sharing the title. We don't want to have to share the title with anyone.

Felipe Alou

As far as I'm concerned he's playing (tonight). (But) everybody wants him to play in the home opener. At this hour, I really don't know. My plan was not to play him (tonight) and play him in the (home) opener and go from there.

Milan Mandaric

As far as I'm concerned he'll never die... he's been a very special friend and a very special man.

Alan Curbishley

As far as I'm concerned Darren has just got to keep in Eriksson's face. I don't mean by scoring every week or getting to 20 goals, he just has to perform well and try to improve his game. There are going to be games when he isn't going to score so he has to contribute more in other ways. If he can do that it is only going to enhance his position.

Arthur Williams

As far as I am concerned he is still a member. He hasn't resigned.

Kevin Logan

Prices played a big role here. A lot of the increase was due to higher energy prices, particularly for oil.

Ellen Russell

Our environmental standards will look at the impacts that will accrue in the U.S. due to the power lines and due to the plant operating in Mexico.

Tom Maier

Our fall in the last two weeks is due to several injuries and if we hadn't had them we might have fared better. But those are all part of the game.

Brian Billick

Anthony Wright is the starter for an undetermined period right now due to injury. Kyle Boller is our starting quarterback. If I left it open to interpretation, if I left that in a way that led to speculation that we did not have the faith in Kyle, that our faith is wavering, that was not my intent.

Kevin Kerr

The sell-off is due to all the locals grabbing profits before the end of the day, nothing more.

Peter Cardillo

The selling in financials is an anticipation of lower earnings due to a slower economy, ... From the point of view of interest rates not going up, it's positive.

Charles Corp

The significant increase in 1999 planned expenditures is primarily due to the company's plans to enhance its systems capacity.

James Lago

Technically, these stocks are due for a rebound after being oversold last month.

Bill Rodgers

Sometimes such an injury may be due to increased running, fatigue, sickness, etc and have nothing at all to do with your shoe.

Kirk Kaczor

Any time a team shows frustration it makes you feel good because you know you're doing your job.

Richard Hyman

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

Henry Stern

Any hill is a good hill, just watch out for rocks.

Raymond E. Feist

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Chevy Chase

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

James Hogg

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Vic Rimmer

Ashdown did a good job of maintaining what they had.

Terry Stotts

As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a five-year period as there had been in the history of the league, I don't know if we had a 14-game winning streak.

Greg Zipadelli

As good as we've been in the past, we've never been as good as this.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Mike Falbo

No one wants to sour the IPO market. That will make investors nervous.

Brett Gallagher

After a big up day like you had yesterday, you have to have some digestion. Once things run up by a big amount, then investors have to step back.

Yasuo Yabe

Right now the market is rather quiet, but it will be a problem when investors return after the New Year and trade volume increases.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Guy Kawasaki

You say: "I've always wanted to be an entrepreneur." Investor thinks: "I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?

Guy Kawasaki

You say: "If you sign an NDA, I'll tell you my idea." Investor thinks: "You are clueless. How can you not know that venture capitalists don't sign NDAs?

Joe Portera

The prudent investor may want to take some of their money off the table and maybe they should be looking overseas.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Mike Crinieri

We've seen a tremendous pickup (in investor interest) in the last year.

Brandon Claussen

When I walked over there, he wasn't moving. He was knocked out. He wasn't moving at all.

Ray Rice

I won't call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It's not getting up.

Isaac Newton

What goes up must come down.

Larry Smith

Chemo is chemo, but it wasn't the kind that just knocked you on your butt.

John Rainey

He stuck his neck out and knocked it out of the park.

Frank Barrett

He tilted at windmills, but he knocked over a lot of them in a variety of fields.

DeJuan Blair

That was like getting knocked out in the last second of a title fight.

Aaron McFarland

That's a very talented team. They'll do well. I'd love to say we got knocked out by the state champions.

Robert Vaden

I was open. It was like any other shot. I was open and I knocked it down.

Mark Ferrulo

An oil pipeline is subject to significant oil spills.

Tetsu Emori

The supply of oil is still ongoing; most people feel there won't be a disruption, so they're taking profit now, especially after Friday's sharp increase.

William Teague

So when there were reports of an 80-foot (24-meter) wave striking an oil platform, they called it a rogue wave. We think it wasn't a rogue wave.

Peter Schiff

This is similar to the 1970s when there was a permanent readjustment in oil prices.

Jane Hirshfield

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.

Ariel Sharon

Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.

Bobby Ray Inman

Iraq is not about oil.

Bob Dylan

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

Bernie Sanders

Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Joey Gathright

A situation like that, you just don't think about anything ... you just go get it. They were scoring runs ... we wanted to get out of that inning any way you can. You just go until the wall stops you.

Ron Gardenhire

Offensively, we didn't do too much. But we scored the runs when we had to.

Kevin Millwood

No, run support is not going to be a problem.

John Woo

I usually put the actors and the stuntmen in a real explosion, in real gunfire. They run scared, really scared,

Sergio Kindle

Some schools want me as linebacker and some want me to play running back. I'll play wherever they put me.

Justin Blalock

Something's got to give. We feel like we can run whenever we want.

Rosevelt Colvin

Once you stop the run you get teams in third-and-long, you can tee off because you know the quarterback is going to be back there.

Tristan Davis

Sometimes when I see a running back, I'm like, that could have been my touchdown.

Marcus Williams

See, he is the one running, not me.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

John Tkacik

There is no sentiment in the administration for humoring the Chinese,

Richelle Mead

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Cornelia Funke

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'