Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Gavin

Going forward, we expect the economy to show positive year-on-year and seasonally adjusted rates in the quarters ahead, but the 1.8 percent Central Bank estimate appears to have more downside than upside risk at the moment.

Julius James

It is a big adjustment. The higher you go the faster you have to play, the less time you have to react. You have to be mentally adjusted to the rapid changes.

Randy Mayes

I think the opposing coaches had a lot of respect for him. Biggest thing he had to get used to was playing every down and pass blocking. And he adjusted to both of those well.

Connie Clark

I thought we grew a lot mentally. We were challenged to make sure we adjusted mentally.

Debbie Ryan

I thought that we really adjusted well from the first half to the second half, which is a good indication of how well these kids do at adjusting. We did a much better job of defending penetration and we got on the boards a lot better.

Gary Barnett

I thought our defense was on the ball. We had a good plan and sort of knew what they were going to do. I thought we tackled well. They had one new formation for us, and only a couple of new plays. The kids adjusted to (those) pretty well.

Don Shows

I thought our defense adjusted real well to what Ruston was doing. Ruston looked good on that first drive, but the defense picked it up after that.

Russell Sheldon

Retail hiring between October and December was by far the smallest in years. We wonder if those 'not hired' for Christmas will 'not be let go,' as traditionally would happen, in January. If so, that will look like a gain in the seasonally adjusted numbers.

Jim Schwartz

Players have already adjusted to the rules changes from 2004. They've developed alternate techniques that can be effective but less likely to draw an illegal-contact flag.

Diane Swonk

I think the market is tired of Christmas. We've already seen the Christmas reports. As far as the market is concerned, that's old news.

Julio Ziegelmann

We're on the eve of the millennium, right between Christmas and New Year's when things should be dead, but liquidity just keeps holding out.

Marcus Trescothick

It is pretty nice to end the tour with a win. We will think of the Indian tour after Christmas.

Joe Wojtkiewicz

I thought we played awfully well together, especially coming off Christmas break.

Stockard Channing

I think we'll be gone by Christmas, ... The West Wing.

Will Ferrell

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!

Vance Havner

Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.

Robert Wilson Lynd

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.

Robert Teeter

Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation.

Tomas Flores

Holding the rate in December was just a pause.

Bonnie Henrickson

I think you have to talk about it. I think we should talk about it. We've done enough in November and December and January to put ourselves in a position to talk about it.

Sergei Kupriyanov

We are fully prepared to restrict gas supplies to Ukraine after December 31, if there is no contract.

Richard Foreman

I think that should set up a very positive picture for the December quarter, subject to execution.

Doug Short

The guys have worked hard to be in this position at the end of the year. We had a tough schedule in December and they pushed themselves to get here. We are a young team and it has worked through some tough times, stuck with it and focused on the end-of-the-year goals.

Paul Butler

Donations got off to a really slow start in December and we were really concerned.

Evo Morales

The 21st of December marks the end of the time and the beginning of no-time

Lois Lowry

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

Art Hogan

The last few weeks of December tend to be more defensive.

Foxy Brown

Jacki-O proved you far from a fighter/ ... I'm not gonna come at you, I'm gonna come at your ghost writer.

W. Hull

Keep it out of the middle of the field, take it up the sidelines as far as you can and then shoot it at the net and hope it goes in off someone.

Joe Gibbs

I take responsibility for all of it. It all rests with me. We don't have to look real far to find somebody. I'm to blame.

Steve Hammond

I think it's a first step. As far as we're concerned, we'd go for a three-buck limit.

Asa Hutchinson

I think it is very disappointing. Whenever you talk about the justice system, politics should be as far as imaginable from the outcome.

Zach Malvik

I think in the back of our minds we thought it was possible. That's just all of us being competitors and never saying we can't do it. I do think it's a surprise to all of us that we made it this far and accomplished our goal.

Karen Miller

It could be a historic vote as far as participation,

Margot Robbie

It irritates me so much the way people talk about soaps because it is far more difficult working on a soap than it is on a big studio film.

Anjessa Evans

It hurts when your season ends, but I think we took it as far as we could.

Thomas Szasz

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Howard Dean

Karl Rove breached our national security for partisan gain and that is unpatriotic and wrong.

Jill Koenitzer

I think in some ways there are more things gained through this type of day versus a traditional first day.

Patricia Mercado

What women have gained is one thing. How we have been received is another. It's not with open arms.

Bob Saveikis

I think you win and it speaks volumes, but if you win in the playoffs, that's where the respect is gained. I think, with our first time in the playoffs, we want to win whether we're 15th-seed, 16th-seed. You still have to play the games, so I don't want to say there's a lack of respect. But if you don't win, you don't gain respect.

B. F. Skinner

When he was in school and worked in the store, I think the interaction between people is really what gained his interest.

Eddy Cue

We've gained a lot of credibility in the industry in the past 2 1/2 years with what we did with songs. And that's what we're trying to mirror in the video space.

Bernadette Devlin

To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

Bronco Mendenhall

He was poised and gained confidence. I'm proud to be his coach.

Buddy Allen

I think we'd save a lot of money by hiring our own engineer. In fact, I know we would.

Howard Rubin

I'm not talking about lowering hiring standards; I'm talking about rethinking those standards.

Willie Williams

I'm hoping that we will have a process pretty soon (for hiring a new chief). It shouldn't be more than two weeks for the process to be in place.

James McElroy

This is like hiring the Ku Klux Klan to represent you in a desegregation case,

Chip Conley

Someone could be amazing at what they do, but if you don't like them, why bother hiring them?

Casey Daigle

We've talked about hiring a personal trainer, and she wants to play about three weeks to a month after she has the baby.

Gary Johnson

We are in major hiring mode. We're interviewing people every day.

Mark Johnson

We'll get a better cross-section of the community, ... We want them involved in the hiring process. Hopefully, we can get a better idea of what the public is looking for.

Andrew Tyndall

Why would (CBS) spend all that money hiring her away if they weren't hiring her because she's a superstar.

William Golding

The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by the dozen.

Bruce Babbitt

It's going to be a long tough summer, ... There's no relief in sight. We've got September and October to go.

Leon Trotsky

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

Johnny Damon

This is the playoffs right now. It's amazing. It's here already before October comes.

Vance Joy

I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

Adrian McKinty

The winters in Denver are brutal; it snows from the end of October to April.

Benazir Bhutto

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

Ben Bernanke

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression,

Don Wylie

August, September and some of October tend to be our peak months. We are seeing some volume pickup, but it's not the kind of peak we've seen previously.

Angie Myers

In retail we can't really get together at Christmastime, so we make a vacation of this.

Jeff Barker

This is a competitive business, like any other retail business. It's very important to stay on point.

Peter Cardillo

The retail sales are a real blow-out number.

Michael Beyard

The retailers want to be on the street now.

David Cook

It's time for big-box retailers to start to do the right things by their employees.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Rich Repetto

We're seeing a significant retail component. This isn't an IPO, but that's the way it's acting.

Todd Jones

The teen retailers and some of the specialty retailers were the clear-cut winners.

Sherry Cooper

This is still a very strong retail sales report,

Leroy Hood

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.

William Shakespeare

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

Rod Page

He's probably the smallest individual, other than the consumer.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Jim Rash

I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.

Catherine Jones

I was wondering that myself. I don't know.

Douglas Rice

I was wondering if we were going to sink. It was very, very wobbly and very, very dark.

Al Wolski

I was just wondering if we were ever going to get the ball.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.