Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Whetsell

As Blackstone started to look at some of our assets they made an offer for the whole company which we felt was very attractive.

Scott Benesch

The cable assets are growing the fastest. There's not a whole lot of growth in the rest of the business, which is why the stock is not going anywhere.

David Bernstein

Companies can bring their own assets in the form of Java code and Web services and stitch those into this product.

Naomi Hasegawa

Deposits stopped growing and household money is heading increasingly to risk assets and will continue to do so as long as Japanese interest rates are zero.

Bernie Schaeffer

The so-called risky assets are continuing to outperform.

Madeline Albright

The struggle to reveal and deal with the full truth surrounding the handling of Holocaust-era assets is wrenching, but also cathartic, ... Only by knowing and being honest about the past, can we gain peace in the present and confidence in the future.

Steven Bangert

The strong growth in our assets under management during the first quarter sets us up for improved revenues in the second quarter.

Robert Stovall

The tech sector is where the money seems to want to flow. You can just look at last week's action, when all the averages were up, the money flows into technology, primarily in telecommunications. And even though the valuations have been high all of these quarters and still are, I guess if you want to do well in the market you've got to have some of your assets in technology, definitely.

John Whitehead

The teams bring diverse assets to the table. Some bring expertise in retail and residential developments; some offer experience in the design of large public infrastructure projects; others are best known for designing museums and cultural institutions.

Leonard Hamilton

As big a jump as he's made this year, we expect him to make a bigger jump next year.

Peter Appert

As an investor, I would love to see them increase the scale of this business. They've got the breadth and depth of management to run a bigger enterprise. The challenge is finding a market that meets their standards.

Ryan Giggs

As a young lad you go out and enjoy it, you have no fears, ... England versus Wales, a full house at the Millennium Stadium - you just don't get any bigger than that.

Brad Saindon

The brand we bring to this program is unique and something that remains to be an experiment. We will continue to be quick, but I also think you will see us be a lot bigger and stronger.

Jerry Weintraub

The budgets are much higher now, it costs more to make a movie and the kids that go to see them are into instant gratification. They want things bigger and bigger. I don't make those kind of movies. I make movies about relationships.

Lynn Sadler

The breeding population there is no bigger than that of the federally endangered mountain lion of Florida - the Florida panther,

Mark Fox

A year ago we didn't have quite as much tape as we'd like on Texas. This year is a bigger problem. That is why our preparation might be a day behind. Getting tape was difficult and they don't have a lot of games on television.

Jerod Uldall

Back in the summer, I thought this team could be special. We played some of the bigger schools and were competitive. We've come a long ways.

Don Montgomery

A worm could proliferate further and faster on the combined network. The need for security rises as we now have a much bigger network and much more usage.

Makoto Yamashita

The upside for bonds will be heavy. Unless there is a sudden slowdown in overseas economies, Japan's economy will probably extend its recovery.

Thomas Perez

Involvement in my kids' sports teams is something I have made time for over the years. I've also been able to coach all three of them in baseball and basketball, something that has strengthened our bonds and given me indescribable joy. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Hidenori Suezawa

Bonds may find it difficult to rise as stocks are looking strong toward the year-end. Japan may have stable growth next year, leading to higher yields.

Larry Baer

Bonds is making good progress and returning this season is possible. There is no reason why he won't be on the team in 2006.

Heath Gibson

Bonds had a great night and that is what we have been waiting for all season from her. She scored 13 of those points in the first quarter.

Tim Heekin

Bonds finally showed a little reversal. We put in a high on the long-terms and then dipped off of that. I think the big bond funds came in and started taking profits after the recent run. The real test will be if we can hold these levels.

David Joy

Bonds clearly got a boost from the flight to safety. But looming on the horizon are the consumer and producer price reports and the CPI is going to be the most important,

Norihisa Takao

Bonds are reacting to the drop in stocks. The machinery orders report is another plus.

Larry Johnson

Bonds aren't going to do it for this guy.

Jackie Kennedy

A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.

Ernie Zeigler

(A new attitude) had to be developed. The first year was tough. It was hard for some of the guys that had been there three or four years (under Lavin) to buy totally into that (defensive) mind-set.

David Martin

As far as donating goods, we have nowhere to put them. We have filled every warehouse they are letting me use. What we need now is monetary donations, so when people stop donating goods, we can go out and buy them.

Randy Petersen

As a result of people buying tickets so often, there's not much room for people cashing in their miles.

Scott Johnson

As a regular guy who likes to buy wine, this is going to make it easier to get the eclectic things that right now are hard to get in Florida unless you pay triple the price in a restaurant.

Kurt Barnard

As consumers become more comfortable with buying from the computer, ... and this new generation that has grown up with the computer comes of age, what we will see is huge dollar amounts of retail sales being transacted on the Web and we will see a lot of stores become increasingly Web stores.

Jeffrey Swartz

As a company, Timberland wants to make it better and the new packaging will do just that. Our goal is to reduce our impact on the environment while engaging consumers to take action. This packaging and labeling initiative should make our industry more transparent and give consumers the information they need to make smart buying decisions.

Nestor Aguila

The buying is just too strong for that.

John Hughes

The buying is broad-based, and the movement in some of these stocks is significant, particularly for technology, ... I think we're making some good progress today. It could mean a change in tone.

David Davies

The price of a foreign holiday is a requirement to be put on the national identity register.

Linda Sherry

Be prepared for some runaround when trying to find out the fees for foreign transactions. A lot of representatives don't have a clue, so you have to be persistent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.

Madeline Albright

to talk foreign policy in the plainest possible language with the American people, so that each and every one can understand the stake he or she has in our American foreign policy process.

Valerie Smith

We want to give the money where it will have the greatest impact so the foreign governments can see how their funds are being used.

James Lindsay

With real-life foreign policy taking front and center, Gore gets pushed off the front page,

Ben Campbell

We are captives of the foreign oil cartels,

Alan Tonelson

We think in one sense (China trade policy) has consisted of the indiscriminate opening of U.S. markets but has done little to open foreign markets to U.S. goods.

William Sullivan

There was a big reservoir of foreign interest -- 65.4 percent went to indirect bidders. That is overwhelming and underscores the pressure worldwide for pension managers to better match their unfunded liabilities.

Harvey Pitt

any restrictions that we think have an impact on public investors.

Mark Fratrik

Radio has been incredibly disappointing. Satellite radio has had an impact on the traditional industry, but the big reason is the drop-off in younger people listening to radio.

Gernot Nerb

Normally, it doesn't influence immediately the assessment. For industrial companies, the impact normally is rather delayed. They don't look so much at the interest rate.

Dave Kolpak

Are they doing what he wanted? Not nearly, to the letter. But is he having a positive impact on shareholder value and wealth? Yes.

David Fassler

The study we requested would look at increased expenditures related to direct-to-consumer advertising, as well as the impact on patient safety and the overall quality of care,

Nick Rose

The terrible hurricanes in the US have had an impact on our performance in the south-eastern states,

Jose Lagos

Now is not the time, because all the considerations have not been made. The impact would be catastrophic.

John Sicher

The sale of sugar-carbonated sodas in schools is a tiny, tiny part of their overall volume. The impact is more in terms of responsibility and accountability to the consumer.

Bob Riley

These sites can have a large impact really quickly,

Atsuko Abe

You reign, I rule. That is the Japanese way.

Liu Jinping

Since then there's been no boycotts of Japanese products at all.

Steve Sawyer

The Americans, Saudis and Japanese have got what they want.

Masahiro Tanaka

I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way and do it in the Japanese way that I've been doing. Basically, I'll try to get some advice, learn the way it's done here and go about it.

John Hall

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

Brian Tracy

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

Arianna Huffington

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Desiderius Erasmus

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Edward Abbey

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Christopher Paolini

Even positive reviews would make me feel self-conscious while I'm writing.

Richard Roby

A win is a win. When you can scratch and claw and pull out a win like that in an ugly game, it's a plus.

Ricky Skaggs

This was sweet to his ears. This was what pulled me away from my toys.

Carl Weathers

When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.

Stubby Clapp

There's nothing like pulling the red and white over your head.

Brad Taylor

The tires just went sideways and pulled me into the ditch.

Howard Schnellenberger

We'll go up there and see if we can't pull off the upset of the century.

Larry Rhodes

We'll do whatever we can do to not go through Cleves, because they'll pull you over and get you.

Bible Bible

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

Duane Zauner

For us to pull that out, that was good.

Brian Chesky

Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.

Kent Evans

It wouldn't surprise me if there are more in the future,

Vance Taylor

It wouldn't surprise me if one were Target.

Jeremy Trill

Things are going very well. I am surprised how well it's going.

Michael Boyd

This is not a surprise to anyone. We've had tests like this before that have failed.

Frank Sacks

This is really groundbreaking. We were very surprised by this data.

Irv DeGraw

This is the big surprise of the day, but it's unclear why it's happening.

Brett Favre

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

Carnie Wilson

I can be a lady - surprise!

Dan Garton

Do they like what we're doing? No. Are they surprised by it? No.

H. Hunt

That was a big victory, having that provision stopped.

Demarcus Ware

There aren't any moral victories.

Chris Evert

Don’t let a first-set victory lead into a second-set slump

Brian Littrell

In every victory, Let it be said of me...My source of strength, My source of hope... Is Christ alone.

Eduardo Galeano

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Manny Pacquiao

This was very important. I don't get to Morales without a victory.

Dick Durbin

This was a victory for the American people,

Tessie Moton

Victory makes you want to keep going. When you see that you can do something in little steps, it's very motivating.