Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Annu Mangat

People tend to think of affordable housing as a problem that uniquely affects the poor and homeless. However, in the last five years . . . we're seeing this problem has spread to working-class people who are priced out of the market.

Tom Ryan

The national organization is the national organization. What affects Washington D.C. doesn't always reach us here,

Brad Ellebracht

Actually, it was a good exercise for us because we had to play into a strong wind, which really affects the way you have to play. We can take some things away from that.

Ron Wirahadiraksa

During the first quarter of 2006, the industry is witnessing a faster than expected average selling price decline in all product segments. Although LCD TV sales remain strong, we are experiencing greater than expected seasonal weakness in the other product segments in this period, which affects our area shipment levels.

John Stephens

Any overlay district throws up a red flag for concern and always affects value. When you have to tell people that it's in a contaminated overlay, it's going to kill you.

H. Hart

Annexations will become like a mini-trial. There are a lot of folks that don't like change. Growth affects them. Annexations will be more contentious.

Brian Schneider

Soriano doesn't just hit the ball. He affects people that are in front of him and behind him, too.

Nick Saban

Sometimes when you press, you have high anxiety, and it affects the way you perform.

Kelis

The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Although we both need each other, they really don't go together.

Iyanla Vanzant

a very powerful, although delicate, chemistry between the way Dr. Katz, Miss Britten and I work. I'm committed to this process. I'm committed to 'Starting Over.'

Philip Treacy

At home, I had seven brothers, one sister. I sewed clothes for my sister's dolls although she was grown and gone away. I was a weirdo but didn't think I was a weirdo.

Phil Davies

Progress doesn't always go in a straight line and, although it might look like we are going backwards at the moment, we just need a win to get things going. We are building our squad with a quality group of lads.

Evan Siegel

Our shows are dedicated to a more narrow target of music, and although a lot of people show up, we kind of fly under the radar.

Brian Halla

Our third quarter typically reflects a post-holiday seasonal decline in revenues. Although bookings picked up in October and November, it is too early to tell whether that momentum will carry over enough to offset the normal seasonal pattern.

Tom Gregory

Our conference is focused on helping authors be more successful in selling their books. Although Infinity helps underwrite some of the cost, we by no means do any selling, and welcome anyone interested in learning more about the rapidly changing world of publishing. Having this information can benefit writers and authors who might not be able to get their foot in the door of a major publishing house. Our mission is to help writers and authors succeed with their books. It's really that simple.

Bradley Horowitz

People can help solve these problems, ... This is the power of our user base, rather than just using brute force and algorithmic search, although this is still important.

Julian Lee

People are worried that although stocks are comfortable, there are places where supplies could be disrupted. Nigerian oil is valuable in terms of quality and location.

Jonathan Barnett

A new bridge will provide safe travel for motorists in this area of Benton County for years to come.

Helen Humphreys

Any time residents in an area have questions about an issue, we're happy to meet with them.

Dave Anderson

As an alternative I'd like to propose that we consider an ordinance that states specifically how many car spaces per residential spot. You should base that upon some mathematical formula of the living area, bedroom area or occupancy load of the house.

Greg Kelly

As a not-for-profit utility, the goal is to extend service to an area that wasn't being served.

Dan Glickman

As an industry we recognize the need for more innovation in the area of portability and copyright protection. We want people to be able to enjoy movies on various home entertainment devices without infringing on copyright laws, and we will continue to look for ways to marry those concepts so people can get movies hassle free at a reasonable cost.

Patricia Russo

as an important growth area for Lucent's global businesses and an important resource center.

Jaime Mercado

As a matter of fact, we at Palomar were called in and I know it was during my working hours to be chewed out royally because we did not have 50 people in the designated area to do the phone banking.

Mark Owen

As a family, we come into an area and my role is cushioning the landing,

Tony Davis

The bottom line is this is an area that's growing like crazy and needs more fields.

Jason Young

A service like www.concerttickets.com is greatly needed. It can be challenging for the average person to know if a ticket is real or fake. By using this service and a credit card with a licensed ticket broker you are significantly more safe and secure in purchasing tickets in the secondary marketplace.

Henry Smith

As bad as it's been the last few months, just being average wouldn't be bad at all.

Joerg Kraemer

As a result, we expect that the German economy will continue to grow by a mere 1 percent on average in the years to come, ... the German election results lower the pressure on other European countries to implement major economic reforms.

Reed Hundt

As a result of this order and the WTO agreement, we predict that the average price of an international call will drop from 88 cents today to 20 cents five years from now,

Seamus McAteer

As all carriers more aggressively promote subscription-based models, they are also testing price inelasticity by gradually inching up average pricing. To grow the market, carriers must work in tandem with publishers to provide real value for a more expensive subscription, rather than treating it as just another pricing tactic.

Brad Soderberg

The bottom line is, we didn't make shots. It's just disappointing that we played as well as we did defensively, and yet it's a 10-point loss. And we missed free throws. It's just not good enough if you want to beat good teams. You've got to play complete basketball, not just defend, not just rebound, it's got to be complete. We're either going to get it or we're going to continue to be a .500 team. We're either going to figure it out or remain an average program.

Tim Finchem

The bottom line is, we can challenge the players much more effectively with much more firm and fast conditions. As a matter of fact, in the studies we've done over the last 10 years, the difference between a generally soft course and a firm and fast golf course is an average of five shots in the winning score and about the same in terms of the overall scoring average.

Zhou Ji

The breakthrough of the key resistance of the one-year moving average delivers a positive signal to the market and could mean further gains in coming days.

Federico Estevez

Average wages in Mexico will eventually rise enough to hold people here. It will take time. But huge labor migrations have been stopped before by economic opportunities. Look at Portugal and Spain.

Charles Dickens

Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.

David Buik

Profit takers are expected to move in to the ring, not surprisingly influenced by New York's decline during the end of the day.

Henry Willmore

Profits will probably still decline in the second quarter, but at a slower rate than in the first quarter.

Carlos Hokama

Our decline was all in function of what was happening outside Brazil. But we were also with an accumulated rise of 14 percent and we needed a reason to take profits.

Brian Williamson

People are starting to wonder if this late-summer decline is for real.

James Cayne

Operating profits were up, despite a decline in net revenues, largely due to the fact that expense reductions from our margin improvement program have now been realized and incorporated into our earnings,

Jose Vistan

Normally the decline should have been much more, but the market seems to be holding. The main difference between then and now is the fact that market fundamentals today are way, way better than before.

Philip Dodge

Despite the decline in North American natural gas prices during the quarter, people generally are more positive about the medium-term outlook.

James Schneider

Despite this decline in prices, we maintained flat gross margins.

John Browning

Prices are expected to be well supported into the winter,

J. Horton

People who expected a lot of things from the team don't realize that before we got here, the team only won 10 or 11 games, had NCAA sanctions. And people wanted national championship success right away. We knew it wasn't going to be like that. We knew it was going to be a long grind and a process. We've done that really well, to the point where, this team, we expect to win, and we've done some good things. It's been a great ride.

Park Seung

Our economy, as we expected, is showing a steady recovery. Looking from the microeconomic side, exports are doing better than expected while production and consumption is good. Still, facilities investment and construction, we're unsure.

Park Seung

Our economy, as we expected, is showing a steady recovery, ... Looking from the microeconomic side, exports are doing better than expected while production and consumption is good. Still, facilities investment and construction, we're unsure.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

Robert Thompson

People expected to go in to see a movie, and it was like a guerrilla attack. No one was expecting it, especially in Manhattan.

Jakob Nielsen

People give up if the item is not found where it's expected to be,

David Ayer

Actors want to act. I think a lot of times what happens is that they're expected to bring it all. Probably because I'm a writer, I'm not telling them what to do. I just provide them with as much as I can.

Jim Aldrich

Defensively, we played well and we had some younger players come through. Five or six of these kids started as sophomores ... we expected them to be good defensively.

Tony Russa

See, that's the kind of question that will end the session faster than a pause. You got something else you want to ask? That thing was over the day after, wasn't it? There was nothing that happened.

Duane Akina

I've watched Ginn a lot, and I'm not sure I've seen a faster player in pads. We're going to be looking for him a lot, because if he finds a crease, he's gone.

Ruth Messinger

I've never seen a faster movement in my life.

Wang Jianlin

China's movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.

Deb Mandeville

She has an outside chance, but she has to go faster than she's ever gone before.

Nicholas Garganas

My feeling is that euro-area growth will pick up at a faster pace.

Shigenori Okazaki

That was a very big mistake. He should have kept everyone guessing. Now he seems to be losing influence much faster than we would have thought.

Russell Sciandra

That would work a lot faster than the lawsuit.

Andre Agassi

It felt good, it was pain free. I've just got to run faster now, that's all.

Nicola Sturgeon

Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Jane Siberry

'The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song.

Martin Rees

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

Louis Reigel

After 9/11 there were some of these sites. It was much greater after the tsunami, and it's even greater after Katrina,

David Williams

Once you understand your inventory, then you can start integrating at a greater level.

Francesco Cossiga

Perhaps, my dear, young Mr. Gates, before putting your new products on the market with so much publicity you should have them tested for longer and with greater care.

John Curtis

The Rockies, by all estimates, will play a much greater role in natural-gas production over the next 25 years.

John Mica

What we did when we did it was necessary, ... We didn't want the industry to totally collapse.

Christine Wu

We are still positive on the industry as a whole, but I'm personally more conservative on UMC.

Steve Ballmer

We are still not getting in the manufacturing industry, ... We will provide the infrastructure that lets those in the manufacturing industry do their jobs.

Lloyd Doggett

What precedent are we setting in doing this for one industry and not for others?

Thomas Hoffman

Every time we have an accident, or have something particularly like Sago, we're back to people thinking we're the same old industry we were back in the '60s.

William Wood

But we?re talking about the same numbers. The oil industry is volatile. It?s very profitable some years and not so profitable others.

Ed Rendell

Because this is an industry that is young, it has tremendous potential,

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Mike Paul

She did research in the industry to find out what the top 12 tips are and those are the tips.

Aditya Mittal

As our stock price improves, so does the value of the offer.

Andrew Harrington

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

Kristine Fauerbach

The sticker price is not going to shock you.

Al Gore

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Paul Walker

As things stand at the moment, I would have said a realistic rally in the price is up to $500.

Janet Ray

The record price we see today, I believe, is not the end.

Matthew Alexy

Everything is going down: the price of the dollar, the price of stocks, the price of bonds.

Mark Sullivan

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

Chakib Khelil

We think that we will keep production at the same level.

Andy Bryant

We are still somewhat constrained in the chipset product line. We think microprocessors were OK,

Andy Bryant

We are still somewhat constrained in the chipset product line, ... We think microprocessors were OK.

Dennis Anderson

The uniqueness of this product provides insulation from competition.

Ken Hamlin

We had the right product at the right time.

Todd Holmdahl

We will wind up cost-reducing the product every year.

Anthony Powell

You have to be a product of the product.

Hal Mumme

We haven't been as productive as we'd like. We just have to keep working.

Tim Ferriss

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

Nathan Brookwood

As soon as you let up, even for a quarter or two, you're in trouble.

Efraim Zuroff

Up to a quarter of the Latvian legion were volunteers.

Luis Castillo

Hopefully, it won't take me two quarters to get going this time.

Erik Satie

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Kevin Rollins

The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Jim McMahon

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Scott Davis

We know the quarter is going to have EBITDA down 20 percent, but that will not be a surprise to anybody,

Mike Conway

We had fog, visibility about a quarter of a mile. It's foggy, but it's not pea soup.

Rudi Giuliani

I would have to say to myself, 'You've got to remain calm, you've got to stay focused.'

Unknown

Here's to the new husband, And here's to the new wife, May they remain lovers, For all of life.

Neal A. Maxwell

The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

Kelly Clarkson

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Ben Schott

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

Lee Ann Womack

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

Jeremy Robinson

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.

Candice Olson

I sort of went into the TV thing kicking and screaming.

Riley Wallace

The worst part about it is that payback game. And when you don't get a TV game, it doesn't feel worth it.

Todd Marks

The (Web sites) you see on TV could end up costing you something.

Dennis Farina

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Debra Messing

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

Dominic West

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

Richard LaGravenese

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

Courteney Cox

I like TV. It all depends what it is.

Alia Shawkat

You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show.

Brene Brown

There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.

Donald Trump

One of the very first things I will do is to order a thorough review of our cyber defenses and weaknesses.

Cullen Jenkins

Our strengths are not many. Our weaknesses are a lot.

Ross Kemp

If I have a weakness, it's for timepieces - if I see one I like and can afford it, I'll buy it.

Russell Simmons

A person's strength is to know their weaknesses.

Sun Myung Moon

If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined.

Michael Scott

Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength... and his weakness.

Neil Gershenfeld

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

Marge Piercy

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.