Famous Quotes & Sayings

Troy Aikman

In my biased opinion, if there ever was a Hall of Fame receiver, it's Michael Irvin. Why he didn't get in - I don't know why he didn't get in.

Karen Ferguson

The city residents trust in Scott Hardy that he is representing their interest as a whole as opposed to being biased and representing Ted Lockwood's interest.

Barzan Ibrahim

The general prosecution is obviously biased and wants to use everything to convict us. I demand a non-biased and non-Iraqi committee (of handwriting experts) because there is a crisis in trust between us.

Shelley Berkley

Congress must not withhold incentives to rebuild from any employer that provides good jobs and tax revenue, if we want to revive the economy of this region, ... Contrary to the biased view of some, the gaming industry must be treated as fairly and equally as any other business when Congress develops legislation to help the Gulf Coast region rebuild.

Michael Sullivan

The Dax is an index of 30 stocks and in periods of high volatility smaller indices become much harder to diversify. Also the Dax is heavily biased towards sectors like technology and insurance and those are the sectors that have been most heavily hit over the last nine months.

Wayne Evans

The perception of a growing number of our citizens is that the all-white commission is biased and doesn't care.

Brad Stone

No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.

Cody Acree

There's nothing wrong with what they turned in. It's a little narrowing of the range, biased to the upside, but it's not an inarguable catalyst.

Kim Rupert

The fact that he didn't suggest any time frame for a pause is going to leave rates biased slightly higher. People still think a yield near 4.7% on the long end is a pretty good deal.

Keira Knightley

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.

Kristin Degnan

Knitting is one of the fastest growing crafts in the business.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Chen Yonglin

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

Scott Auderer

I would say, mentally, our guys are stepping it up. We're not changing anything in our approach. It's business as usual. We're going to work to improve things here and there.

Roger Warren

Joe has developed an exceptional track record in creating and marketing a wide variety of programs and services for PGA members and the golf industry, ... Most importantly, he has a dynamic vision for the future of the PGA and our leadership position in the game and business of golf.

Tim Wilson

He knew everything about his furniture business or his development business from the ground up.

Steve Black

He jumps into the decision-making process. If you just want to run your business on your own and report results, you won't like working for Jamie.

Ariel Sharon

has no business here, he has never had any, and I don't think he ever will have.

Olympia Snowe

I think it demonstrates their effectiveness, ... It makes you realize they are critical at moments like this, as we have seen off the coast of Maine.

Jim Lee

I'd like to see some of the things that ordinary folks have. Our local folks, with their tradition of joining the Coast Guard, and the Life-Saving Service before that, traveled all over the world. So they'll have some souvenirs from Lord knows where.

Dwane Casey

He gets them in so many different ways. He is as quick as Iverson with the ball, probably not from coast to coast, but from a standstill going to the basket, he is as quick.

Brad Thor

In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of Georgia.

Tony Skinn

Being on the court is a whole lot easier than being on the bench. It's a roller coaster ride on the bench.

Flip Saunders

The first game back after a West Coast trip is always dangerous. I thought we had terrible energy and terrible passion in the first half. We seemed very disinterested.

David Feider

The impact to us is our export grain operations are essentially halted until the U.S. Coast Guard and Corps of Engineers reopens the river to ocean-going vessels. Until then, we can't unload the cargo.

John Hamm

All Nova Scotians have been shocked and moved by the terrible destruction and suffering on the Gulf Coast of the United States, ... The victims have been in our thoughts and prayers all week.

Paul Tagliabue

This is not about a football game, ... It's about the NFL and the Saints making a statement as to what we stand for as far as rebuilding in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast region.

Keith Ashdown

The only thing I think can happen is that (Congress enacts) a very large, across-the-board cut, ... and nobody is talking about that. Every major program has an 800-pound gorilla protecting it.

Bob Dole

Having been in Congress, you know that's part of our responsibility: the constituent has a problem, ... We're supposed to write back and say, 'Well I can't do anything?' That's not what they elect you for.

Jerry Reed

He's able to talk to anybody, whether it's a grass roots advocate, a member of Congress or of the (Bush) administration, ... And he not only talks but he acts.

Phil Smith

I think what Sen. Specter has introduced is a very good step in the right direction and we're looking forward to Congress passing legislation to improve the safety of miners.

Greg Valliere

I think sometimes after we have this type of party, there is a hangover -- and this comes in '05, ... The new Congress in '05 will make efforts to restrain growth. They may not rescind the tax cuts, but there will be spending restraint. But between now and then, it's just a party.

Michael R. Bloomberg

I don't know what goes on on ships, ... I can tell you exactly what goes on on the streets of New York City. You are safe. People are nice. It is exciting. It is easy to get around. We have rooms reserved for every member of Congress and for every delegate.

John Pike

If you're not going to have a lunar landing until 2018, how are you going to keep people and Congress interested?

Claire McCaskill

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

Susan Bro

In response to inquiries, including from Congress, we are clarifying our position on the science.

Jim Rich

This is contrary to everything that the Marine Corps stands for,

Merle Haggard

That I'm a contrary old son of a bitch, I guess,

Ralph Lauren

All the kinds of things ... contrary to what the look is, ... I could do a high heel with a jumpsuit, or I might do a gown with a desert boot. So it's, again, the contradiction.

Gerhard Schroeder

You are playing on fears that run contrary to our interests,

Bill Thomas

Contrary to what you might read on the editorial pages, this is not new tax relief for the so-called wealthy, ... Rather, it is largely an extension of current law.

Jim Mitchell

Contrary to what the fans may think, you don't just show up, wear a striped shirt and a whistle on Friday night.

Roberto Suro

Contrary to what people might expect, the desire to immigrate is not restricted to the poor.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

Contrary to what everyone thinks, in my family, we didn't talk about politics at home.

Suzanne Somers

Contrary to what everyone thinks, I am not a fanatic. I do work out when I'm not on the road, three times a week for 40 minutes.

Peter Klein

Sugar in fruit only develops on the trees. Fruit never gets sweeter after it's picked,

David Bishop

It's very important as digital develops to keep the (retail) relationship together. Wal-Mart has a very big DVD business, and anything they do on the digital side they need to do with an eye toward their DVD business, and we need to be there with them .

Caity Lotz

I toured with Lady Gaga, and her choreographer is incredibly talented and develops some crazy routines. Lady Gaga is very involved in the dancing, too, and she always wants to have creative input. I had an incredible time with her!

Scott Hamilton

As fuel distribution develops the next few days, this should improve. The flow of gasoline and more gas stations getting electricity should improve the situation.

Mark Twain

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.

Mikhail Zurabov

Only when a pandemic virus strain develops will a vaccine be created, and it will not take long - only about a month.

Janice Min

My great hope is that a really great news story develops over the weekend,

Joe Girardi

Hopefully someone develops into that as time goes on.

Rabih Alameddine

Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally.

Dennis Moore

Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.

Chris Fitz

I think it's a good idea to diversify the economy and keep more of the grapes here.

Ralph Kauffman

I think it indicates that the economy seems to be growing at probably the same rate in March as it was in February.

Lorenzo Codogno

Italy's economy has become a real problem and tackling the issues head-on will require a strong government, not one that may be forced into compromises.

Ned Riley

What we have now is an economy that's slowing down, ... I think we're going to see some cyclicality to tech earnings.

Carroll Robinson

I think it's going to be hard if everything stays the same, ... If the economy drops, it's going to be even tougher.

Donald Selkin

I think the Fed meant to say something reassuring about the economy, but the result was very confusing.

Zig Ziglar

There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy.

Vladimir Putin

We are currently gradually stabilizing our economy.

Jose Gonzalez

I would say the vast majority are not in a day labor-type scenario. Contractors and employers have a need for good workers, and once they find them they keep them.

Richard Johnson

I think workers are increasingly going to be on their own as they plan for retirement. They are not going to be able to rely on their employers and on the government as they have in the past.

David Rouzer

I'm in favor of building the fence, and doing everything technologically to protect our borders. But the other way to secure the border, and one of the things we must do, is put in place good guest-worker programs that employers can actually use.

Paul Fronstin

It's significant when you have an employer like GM making this kind of move. It could trigger more of the same from other employers,

Dallas Salisbury

Until recently, it was an expensive and complicated thing to do because of the integration of systems that employers had to do. Now, most of these are put together with a Web-based interface and individuals are able to do most of the stuff themselves.

Sal Souto

We've become a 24/7 society and employers are taking it out of the hide of the working people. Employers are paying them less, not paying them for the hours they work.

Brendan Barber

The reforms should recognize that employer prejudice is a key obstacle in the way of many claimants moving back to work.

Donna Green

We're actually a major employer within the community,

Jim Wall

We hear about the labor market from employers all the time so we know it is an issue, but 51 percent is a big number.

Gary Sheffield

If you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.

Alicia Sacramone

I think we could have sent three people to the Olympics and done equally well. We have a lot of great girls in our generation right now.

Carnegie Hall

He was just magic. He was equally as wonderful offstage as on.

Tom Lantos

I only hope we will have an equally charismatic and visionary leader in the future as Kofi Annan has been.

Kiaran McLaughlin

I hope this gray horse, like Giacomo, keeps improving with each race and is headed for a big performance on the first Saturday in the May. Of course, we're hoping for an equally good performance in the Florida Derby.

Keith Hembre

The historical pattern is for shocks of this nature to initially be absorbed roughly equally between lower savings and lower purchases for other goods and services.

Caroline Shepherd

Do I think she's not equally guilty? No. That is 100 percent a negotiating tactic.

Tanith Belbin

It's so incredibly wonderful to see the movement, because it's unrealistic to think that each team has equally strong compulsory, original and free (programs). Everybody has different strengths, and we're so glad to be part of this generation of ice dancing.

John Roberts

Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath.

Mike Mueller

He's a fairly reclusive fellow, and our interview is pretty fun.

Mike Holder

He's got some fairly serious injuries. He needs to get healthy. That's what we said in the press release.

John Nestor

I think it's fairly well known that the SEC for one is looking at Tyco, and looking at it very hard. When the SEC looks at any company, they are interested in talking to their auditors. And as part of their look they'd naturally be talking to us, and we'd be talking to them.

Jim Magagna

I think that's a fairly reasonable place to be.

Todd Spencer

I think we got a group with really good size and athleticism. These are big guys who can move. They've all got quick feet and are fairly agile.

Dr. Levy

I think that a lot of physicians really see drug testing as a fairly simple lab test when, in fact, it is not at all.

William Ford

If we want to do repairs next summer, we're going to have to get moving fairly quickly,

Chris Patterson

The main thing is still the humor. . . getting the jokes out there. Music is just something were fairly able at, sort of a carrier for the humor.

Chris Patterson

The main thing is still the humor . . . getting the jokes out there. Music is just something we're fairly able at, sort of a carrier for the humor.

Adriana Martinez

We are a service-oriented state and immigrant labor has been good for gaming and construction.

Jeremy Schwartz

By eliminating the lost vestige of their hardcore gaming route they've essentially opened themselves up to a wider group of advertisers.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Richard Pasch

Right now what we're forecasting is for it to become a tropical storm and move into the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Richard Gephardt

inexorably tied to Persian Gulf oil and old energy.

Peter Beutel

This is all about Tropical Storm Rita ... obviously, the last thing that this market needs is for a hurricane to hit the western gulf where it didn't hit last time.

Larry Wall

These two storms took the most destructive path over the Gulf that they could.

Roger Allen

After the last hurricane hit the Gulf of Mexico, it took six months for the oil platform to get back up and running.

Tony Nunan

The situation is unclear because output is still down in the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. refineries are having problems.

Bill Zollars

Many of the local programs funded by United Way will play an important role in helping hurricane victims who fled the Gulf Coast, and have at least temporarily relocated here.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I am so proud to be partnering with Waterkeepers, who are the voice for the Gulf Coast's waters.

J. Taylor

If all the steel is heading to the Gulf for rebuilding because of (Hurricane) Katrina, it could increase our costs.

Brian McLaughlin

I was in Pensacola, Fla., for Ivan and I just want to be able to feel like I have helped people in my life,

Patrick Hogan

(Kirby) helped people...he always wanted to help people so splitting the money up is most in the spirit of (Kirby),

Rig Veda

Knowledge increases his thinking capabilities and helps him in getting new and innovative ideas.After implementing those ideas successfully he earns wealth.

Will Peterson

Knowing the way he throws can help us. But it is a different team, a different offense now.

Luke Donald

Knowing I have played well here before helps a lot.

Robert Reed

Katrina, in some sense, helped that process be a little quicker.

Pat Callahan

Just to release a rock record with very little help from MTV, and with just touring and radio, I think it's awesome. I think it did a lot better than any of us expected. But we're a touring band. That's where our roots are and we love touring. It's a lot of fun.

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

Sufjan Stevens

I think it just helps us to feel kind of unified,

George H. W. Bush

tax relief and other incentives for job-creating investment.

Marion Nestle

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

John F. Kennedy

We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

Dan Ariely

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

Rod Lache

I don't see this as resulting in anything dramatically negative. Over time, you'll see incentives rising everywhere. But it's not anything scary yet.

Jennifer Dunn

We are actually still working with Chico's, and there are incentives involved because it's very important for us to keep this kind of headquarters in this community, and we feel like Chico's has a lot to offer to the community.

David Limbaugh

Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.

Dave Van Ronk

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

Scott Storch

I think it's just sad in this industry that sometimes the pressures of being successful make you say things that are untrue.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

Erin O'Connor

In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.

Ben Wood

The industry will be lucky to get it out in 2008. Issues with rights, regulations and standards need to be overcome first.

Alan Autry

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

Bobby Frankel

I want to be the Martha Stewart of the health-food industry — without the jail.

Toshifumi Suzuki

The Japanese retail industry is totally unique. To be successful, you have to have a thorough knowledge about the market.

David Sowerby

It's more and more the sobering acknowledgement that the industry is significantly challenged.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Tom Morrissey

I think you would see full-time people have their positions reduced, part-time people lose their jobs, and some people just retire.

Toni Simonetti

We are finalizing the number of jobs cuts, ... There will be some, but not on the magnitude of those that we have already done.

Alex Jones

It's a different kind of economic recovery. The kind where bankers steal trillions and you don't have a job.

Two Chainz

Entertainment is such a great job to have.

John Carr

I'd like for our controllers to feel much more secure doing their jobs, ... They should be watching their radar scopes, not watching their backs.

Steve Purchase

He has no specific or stated plan about what he wants to do. We want to know, where's the plan, Dick? Where's the plan to keep jobs in Michigan?

Richelle Mead

Nah. I’m a consultant, of course. Everyone’s favorite nondescript yet well-paid white-collar job.

Russell Hornsby

In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Marc Holtzman

I want to rebuild this party, and I want to rebuild it long term.

Pam Dashiell

We are getting to something real so we can rebuild the community, not just a plan, but a blueprint.

Tim Cox

We have one big step to go (in the rebuilding process), and I think this is the year for it.

Terry Gray

We thought this was going to be a rebuilding year.

Mike Milinkovich

We're rebuilding our Web site at Eclipse.org and we're using PHP,

Lyle Mangum

Region 4 is tough. I think Region 1 is the toughest, but Region 4 is right after. I think our wrestlers have fared well.

Sarah Southern

Our region is crazy. The way it is, we still have a shot to be in first place.

Craig Drury

The teams in our region know he is a shooter, but I don't know if the teams up here do.

Grant McCasland

Once you win that, you concentrate on winning the regional championship.

Tim Beck

This doesn't take away from us winning the region title.

Carlos Gutierrez

only then will the region be truly reborn.

Saddam Hussein

for the sake of their own people, for the region and for world order.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Lleyton Hewitt

I think the way that the whole region really took to tennis in that week was pretty amazing.

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Andrew Zarnett

Plainly said, the (Pennsylvania) tax is too high.

Kent Conrad

It will make tax controversies more expensive, more intrusive and more inconvenient for taxpayers.

Newt Gingrich

EITC is an invitation to fraud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

James Madison

The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.

Frank Chodorov

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

John Timoney

He's being treated for a gunshot wound to the head,

Rowan Atkinson

It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.

Ted Demme

I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.

Mary Scott

No one should have been treated like that.

Terry Gilliam

He just had a different view of the film.

Robert Collier

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Dawkins

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Richelle Mead

We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?

Truman Capote

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.