Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Bryant Quinn

Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

Dominic Monaghan

I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.

John Meyers

There has always been a choice out there. It's a matter of taking the time to see what's available. You want to be sure it's a company that's really dedicated to insurance.

George Davis

Up until now, many of these folks, these past couple weeks, have had no choices. What we want to do is return that sense of control over their lives back to them. Many of them have expressed that they don't know what they want to do.

Mark Zupan

We have a choice of being cooperative or not being cooperative. If people are just going out for their own benefit, we'll end up with an inferior outcome.

Gary Pinkel

Those quarterbacks love the shovel pass. They've got a choice to shovel it and take the passing yards or pitch it and let that guy take the yards.

Charli Thorne

This team is making me look good right now. We had no choice. We had no margin of error and, honestly, because we had seen everybody. We saw what they had, and we saw what we had, and we knew we were the better team.

Bill Watterson

(W)hen I stopped understanding math and science, my choice was made.

Lee Mendelson

We felt the show was too slow and wouldn't resonate with any segment of the audience. Even our choice of music was questionable at the time.

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Michael Chambers

Real discretionary spending has been cut to the bone. That would gel with the sense we get in Indonesia of a very sharp drop in consumer durable purchases, motorcycles. If you go to electronic shops you'll see a sharp decline there as well.

Carrie Johnson

the wealthy, time-strapped consumers are looking pretty good right now.

Steven Wood

This will offer some partial restraint to consumer spending.

Gary Miller

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

Peter Dixon

We've seen higher inflation in the course of this year than perhaps was anticipated last year when wage deals were negotiated, ... Consequently that's eroded household purchasing power, and we've actually seen very sluggish consumer demand - which has been a big surprise.

Bruce Rohde

We've seen customers in our industry aggressively reducing inventory balances, so shipment, sales and profits were lower than would be suggested by improved consumer purchases of our products.

Tony Crescenzi

The CPI is correct in measuring consumer prices, ... But it's not correct in measuring the cost of living.

John Silvia

Employment and wages are stronger and therefore, consumer spending is stronger. Housing is slowing, but not as much as we would have expected, and the price of oil is so far not having that big an impact on the consumer.

Mirko Mikelic

People are very surprised that there is strong demand out there. There's still a strong housing market.

Eivind Reiten

Demand for energy will double in the next decade. Energy supply is fundamental to societal value.

Scott Browne

Strip away inventories and the government sector, and private-sector demand really wasn't that strong -- private-sector sales were up just 0.8 percent. We're still in a transition phase and not on a sustainable growth path yet.

Wendy Seltzer

Rather than demanding that 60 million people sharing music files turn themselves in with a so-called 'amnesty' program, the recording industry should take this opportunity to make file-sharing legal in exchange for a reasonable fee.

John Pomfret

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

Sushil Koirala

This is not enough, the King has not addressed the minimum demands of the seven-parties alliance.

John Coffee

This is not a populist demand for reduced compensation. This is a demand for more accountable compensation that in effect allows investors to relate pay to performance.

Ken Starr

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

Lou Mazzucchelli

This was a strong report. Product demand is strong, the management is good. I'm very pleased with this report.

Chakib Khelil

We think that we will keep production at the same level.

Todd Holmdahl

We will wind up cost-reducing the product every year.

Hal Mumme

We haven't been as productive as we'd like. We just have to keep working.

Mark Pincus

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

John Shanahan

I think there's a lot of product swapping going on now.

Steve Mahoney

Landowners can use these products for beautification or for conservation purposes.

Rebecca Lindland

It doesn't seem to me that now is the time to play around with product names.

Marco Arment

Making a product better often requires removing features.

H. Hart

We are shooting for resuming the production in mid-September.

Natalie Kerris

We are not providing a way to run Windows within OS X.

Chris Duerksen

This is simply something you don't have right now.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Howard Hawks

I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.