Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Campbell

As long as Amazon is showing continued strength on the top and bottom line and the overall market is picking up momentum, this stock will participate in the rally,

Jane Thompson

Probably the statue was meant to represent Hercules' ninth labor to retrieve the belt of the Amazon queen Hippolyte.

Henry Blodget

After re-analyzing Amazon's cash and liquidity, we remain comfortable with it. Amazon needs to stay on track to turn an operating profit in Q4, but as long as several key trends continue to improve, we consider a squeeze very unlikely.

Scott Devitt

The search engines have been working on book-copying strategies themselves. This is Amazon showing people it too has a pretty compelling database of book text.

Mike May

This deal is comes as no surprise. This is the last emerging category that Amazon doesn't have a stake in.

Safa Rashtchy

Competition is seriously hurting Amazon and it needs to increase spending just to keep up with the market. The picture is getting worse: more spending, steeper decline in margins.

Brad Stone

I don't think we yet know - because it's probably not big enough - what exactly Amazon does to our cities, but whatever it is, I don't anticipate retail wastelands. If anything, it's maybe a wake-up call to retailers that they just have to offer something meaningful to customers.

Brad Stone

Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, decisions are often subjective and guided by human emotions and petty political dynamics.

Brad Stone

Ultimately, Amazon is a weather pattern that disturbs everything around it.

Bud Lachel

Competition is a good thing to have, but you have to keep everybody happy.

Jim Gray

The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.

Abdoulaye Sarr

The three points will serve us really well for the rest of the competition. The road is long but it's clearer.

Colin Croft

The thinking therefore could only have been that Lara will somehow reunite the team and the region in less than a year, with approximately 20 one-day games to play before the competition starts.

Eddie Jordan

The thing that stood out to me is that Andray seems to have an excellent feel for the game, ... He passes well, he defends well, he can step out and shoot the ball. He competes on the glass. He doesn't back down on the defensive end. Those are the kinds of things you like to see from a young player getting his first taste of competition at this level.

Mauli'a LaBarre

The thing in men's volleyball is the competition is so tight. You only have so many programs. You don't have one or two good players on every team. You've got six or seven good players on every team. You've got to be focused or you'll be in trouble. That's a lesson we learned in (Friday's) match.

Mike May

The thing about winter sports that will always restrict participation and competition opportunities is weather. It's tough to go snow skiing in San Diego. Another problem is that there are only so many places you can do some of these things.

Jim Pattison

I've always believed that competition is good for consumers and good for businesses.

John Hurt

I've always felt, and I think I'm qualified to say so because I've won a few awards, that it's a terrible shame to put something in competition with something else to be able to sell something.

Charles Dickens

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

James Schneider

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

Peter Sealey

Advertisers have to find another way to deliver their message. Because of the decline in traditional media, they have to make themselves more interesting.

David Healy

A decline is not a surprise here, but the size of the decline is a surprise,

Ramon Llamas

A decline in shipments following the holiday quarter is expected of mature markets, and the handheld devices market is no different. After nine consecutive quarters of year-over-year decline, many are wondering how long this trend will continue, and whether the market will see a reverse.

Paul Rabbit

A decline at this point is not unexpected. We've pushed into territory where the market is only expecting the best-case scenario, so we're vulnerable to headline news.

John Peck

After an investigation and review of the witnesses' statements and police reports, I decline prosecution of the matter ... ,

Robert Robbins

Technology had run up so much that it's not surprising some of these would come off pretty hard. You can't minimize the possibility that technology has had a great, huge run and there will be a decline for a while.

Jami Attenberg

Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.

Bob Rose

Northwest is hurting. They're hurting themselves, and they're hurting the passengers.

Kip Carpenter

The starter is really hurting people. You're supposed to be down for 1 1/2, 2 seconds at the most. When you're down for 2 1/2, 3 seconds, it's a tough position. I tripped up and it just got my timing off.

Tommy Maddox

It was time to quit working on things and just go play. If we could stop hurting ourselves, we're going to be pretty tough.

Marsha Sharp

We got a little fatigued on the boards, and they started hurting us right there.

Michael Vick

We're not dinking and dunking the way it's supposed to be done. It may be hurting me. It may be hurting the offense.

Martin O'Malley

If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.

Stephanie Hill

I thought my back would be hurting forever, and I was nervous that I wouldn't be able to play at all (this year). And if I did play, I thought I would be in pain. I didn't think it would just go away, but it did.

Tom O'Neil

His shyness is hurting him. He is pulling out of public appearances lately and it's been widely noticed. He's been pulling back when he should be campaigning.

Andy Reid

I thought about it, yes. There was a point where he was hurting after he took a hit. He tried to run and he took a hit. So I thought about it.

Tetsu Emori

The oil market is now down because most people are taking profits after seeing a sharp increase last week.

Sergei Ivanov

Russia has no intentions to increase its military presence in the northwest.

Dan Ballister

These are the lowest increases we've done in over 10 years.

Rob Enderle

This is a potentially market-changing event. My sense is that this is going to increase Apple's market share dramatically.

Brian Hall

the utilities savings more than make up for the increase in your monthly mortgage.

Doug Tumen

You should increase weekly mileage no more than 10 percent. If you run 20 miles this week, then you should run no more than 22 next week.

Alan King

We could see a small increase as a result of that.

Rand Paul

Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.

Donna Miller

As they redo the road, property value is going to increase and increase. Now is the prime time for this area.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Larry Cox

This is not something that needs to go before the board,

Fred Felleman

The whale has always flirted with this kind of danger. It was like that old children's cartoon, 'Are you my mother?' Orcas are very social animals, and this was the only way to get his social needs met.

Carnie Wilson

We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Dan Barker

Only sinners need saviors.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Debra Winger

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

Mike Byers

That picture was taken at 8:27 a.m., May 18, 1980.

Willie Smith

Everything you can think of, he was there taking people's pictures and he was just an outstanding person.

John Shirreffs

I don't put a lot of pressure on a race. It's the big picture that counts.

Rob Johnson

I didn't understand it at all. It's not like Joe. I couldn't picture him being down there.

Anna Jones

The only thing I think about this is that it's big. I saw a picture (in the newspaper) and I wanted to see it.

Fred Dooley

He did the right thing. So, I thought it was the right thing to do to take the pictures down.

Hanna Salonen

I really want to go out there and take pictures of what I find interesting and not like, these set-ups of life.

Jessie Boylan

I know you from somewhere. I've got pictures of you.

Craig Barlow

I've got to look at the big picture here,

Gary Collins

She told me she was thinking seriously about it.

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

Jim Gillespie

We're not going to be taken seriously if we speak or we may not have a voice at all,

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!'