Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Fisher

He kind of set the curve on weekly newspapers and stayed on top of innovations in the newspaper business.

Shawn Woods

There are still some hang-ups in the program; it may be less stable. And the learning curve is short, but it will still require some training.

Scott Kerr

Her learning curve is pretty quick. She picks things up rather quickly. She swims pretty straight.

Mike Sweeney

He's got the stuff to go out and win 17, 18 games, ... He's a lefty with a fastball 95-97, a 12-to-6 curve and a good change.

Scott Kirby

Historically, mortgages do not perform well in an inverted yield curve environment.

Terry Labonte

I think it's going to succeed. When you look at Roger and Troy, they've been successful in everything they've done. I think they're dedicated to making this thing work. Like I said, though, it's difficult when you first start out. There's going to be a learning curve for everybody involved here. ... These guys are going to work hard at getting this thing going in the right direction.

Jennie Finch

I threw her a changeup low and she got to it. I probably shouldn't have followed a curve with a changeup.

David Ader

It is going to follow what the nominal (Treasury) curve is doing. It's not that great of a surprise.

Ben Bernanke

I think at this point in time that the inverted yield curve is not signaling a slowdown.

Jay Brown

He wants the place to feel like a family environment.

Tom Crews

The only thing I told our guys was this was for pride and in a tough environment. The lights were on, and we responded really well.

James Sarni

What will keep swap spreads from widening dramatically is that we are still in (a relatively) low yield environment.

Bruce Arena

Having the opportunity to get a feel for the stadium and the environment here is very valuable.

Al Gough

He's got a very real-world agenda: the environment.

Gloria Bergquist

I think it's an overall trend that environmental standards and safety standards are getting tighter and tighter. When you have an event like this (Firestone recall), that raises sensitivity about getting the safest vehicle possible.

Deb Patterson

I thought about the fans and how incredible it was for us to have competed in that environment. I thought about our players and just how proud I was of how tough-minded they had become as competitors and how happy I was for them. I thought about our staff and how hard they've worked.

Kenneth Davis

The people we see here have problems we can't even imagine, ... They keep going back into that environment.

Dean Laidley

We've gone down there and failed dismally last year in a pretty hostile environment. So with that year's experience you'd like to think we go down there pretty hungry and we can win some football and make it a good, hard match.

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Dale Decker

There are SMA pavements that have been down for 10 years, and there's no rutting. It's performing well when done properly.

Charlie Smith

Her performance really surprised me, considering she's on a taper for states.

Dave Littlefield

His performance isn't up to what we've seen in the past.

Jessie Reyes

I threw some different wrestlers in there to see how they would compete. I wasn't pleased with our performance. As a team, we need to pick it up.

Rob Willman

I think we could've done a little better. I'm not down at all. But we could've performed better.

Kellie Pickler

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

Richard Pryor

I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.

Van Morrison

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

Walter Cronkite

To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. ... It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

Willard Van Orman Quine

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

Wendell Berry

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove - a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to let themselves alone. (pg. 125, The Body and the Earth)

William Makepeace Thackeray

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

Luigi Pirandello

Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.

Ovid

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

Ovid

Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.

Ovid

Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.

Oswald Chambers

The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.