Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bill Richardson

And the president is basically saying, on Social Security, 'This is my issue. This is my proposal. Take it or leave it.'

James Hardway

The tick up in the unemployment rate largely had to do with the fact that we had construction workers who basically had to file because of the rain and the stormy weather. When we have inclement weather like that, construction workers are not likely to work on the site. The majority that filed came from that industry.

John Sarbanes

The super PACs have brought an element of fear into the equation. The fact that they can bring this money into the campaign, basically ambush you out of nowhere, and you'll have no way to fight back.

Michael Ward

The special prosecutor basically supported what we had told the Board of Elections all along,

Rhett Miller

The songs are depressing, but they sound happy. That's the whole trick, ... This record is more a function of being on the road for basically two years, never having any downtime or privacy. Any semblance of a normal life. So you end up writing these disjointed, disconnected songs.

Pete Carroll

The thing I like is that I'm in charge of everything, so I can structure things the way I like. I get to wear all the hats. There are a few guys in the NFL who have that opportunity, but not many. You basically have to win a Super Bowl.

Dom Capers

The thing I was the most disappointed in (Sunday) was basically the fundamentals of our team. Our tackling, our blocking, there were far too many penalties right now, it's a gut check and a character check for our team.

Shane Patrick

Defensively, it's just going to come down to tackling. When it is all said and done, that's the basis of defensive football. If we do a good job of tackling, then we'll do well.

Edvard Moser

It was quite difficult to find a place to do what we wanted, namely to study the neurological basis of behaviour and especially learning and memory, which we were particularly interested in.

Dean Breest

There are dramatic numbers of adjustments on a seasonal basis going in and out of a tourist destination like Las Vegas.

Claude Mandil

What we decided was in response to a shortage caused by Hurricane Katrina, in a situation where there was lack of spare capacity, which is much more difficult to offset without the reserve release. The prices are a signal, but not the basis for us to decide. We are convinced that they have hurt the economy since last year.

Richard Cripps

We've set up a situation where a 25 basis point (a quarter percentage point) cut is good but you're looking at a market that's desperate.

Robert Lang

Are you telling me they're going to do a new urbanist village when the center of the economy is vice? ... Casinos in Mississippi were such a pariah land use that they were not even on land. Now they're going to be the basis of a traditional community?

James Robertson

Even though I'm quite well established, it's not always easy to have a real security of income for the next two to three years. It gives me the freedom to experiment with form and style, and not just write a conventional novel. It gives me the breathing space and the time. They are trusting me on the basis of my track record to produce something of value and quality.

John Shelby Spong

My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?

Chris Phillips

We were driving down the street one day, and said, 'We gotta learn to rap if we're gonna be in music today.' I was a paralegal, she was working in a hair salon. Now we're a million-dollar-a-year business and fly all over the country. We're also going to be in Vegas on a permanent basis beginning in April, going back and forth from Phoenix every week. We'll be hooking up with that new George Clooney hotel he's building there.

Ben Johnson

The things that are working here are locally driven right now.

Brian Wilson

What they do, they do well. They are pretty goal driven and work hard.

Phil Keoghan

I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.

Ray Neidl

Fuel prices are up, and to a large extent we're being driven by fuel prices.

Evelyn Lauder

I've always been a person who is driven.

Ella Eyre

My mum is very driven and has always kept me busy... She used to say to me, 'Nobody likes a teenager. So use your teenage years to work. Then enjoy your life when you're slightly older.'

Lisa Kleypas

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.

Scott Owens

Am I (going) straight? I haven't driven in three years. My parents won't let me,

Sergio Garcia

The market is being driven by the rally in New York, but overall we have the typically thin volume for the month of December.

George Goncalves

As people read the economic numbers, they know the Fed is still there.

John Hughs

So much of this economic news has been anticipated that you're not going to get much reaction either way, to better than expected news, or to something that misses estimates,

Kathleen Camilli

The stock market could be on track for a recovery. The stock market is one of the key leading economic indicators and it tends to turn up about six months before the official end of recession. So, if in fact it stays up now, it would be signaling that the recession could be over sometime next June.

Mike Greene

This is huge for the town. We will now use this Internet utility for economic development and distinguish ourselves.

Wang Ziqiang

This is not because of foreign pressure. This is about the country's economic development.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

Sean Comey

This is not a lot to reassure the consumer. The only upside to high prices is that it should ensure a steady supply because there is an economic incentive to produce and ship it.

Mir Nasir

The miserable power situation must improve to help sustain our economic growth.

Thein Sein

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Mark Ferrulo

An oil pipeline is subject to significant oil spills.

Tetsu Emori

The supply of oil is still ongoing; most people feel there won't be a disruption, so they're taking profit now, especially after Friday's sharp increase.

William Teague

So when there were reports of an 80-foot (24-meter) wave striking an oil platform, they called it a rogue wave. We think it wasn't a rogue wave.

Peter Schiff

This is similar to the 1970s when there was a permanent readjustment in oil prices.

Jane Hirshfield

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.

Ariel Sharon

Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.

Bobby Ray Inman

Iraq is not about oil.

Bob Dylan

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

Bernie Sanders

Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

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,

Craig Swartout

The most quiet 20 points I've ever seen.

Gray Davis

Some polls have had us 20 points behind,

Maria Sharapova

It was tough. I couldn't put two points together. I was tired from my previous match, and now I need some time off.

Vicki Coleman

We'd give up three points and then we'd run three and then we'd run three and give up three. It went back-and-forth the whole way.

John Moody

What we try to do is not shut out any points of view.

Art Hogan

We were up more than 100 points yesterday, so you're seeing a reaction to that today,

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Kobe Bryant

He has been solid for us all year. Now he's putting points on the board, which is very popular with the people.

Mike Conner

I probably should play him more. He's averaging two points every 30 seconds he's in there.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Billy Donovan

I don't think anything surprises at least me any more in this tournament.

Peter Gade

Anyway, in the new system, many surprises could happen.

Franz Beckenbauer

It only surprises me that no one thought of it before.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Imtiaz Ali

Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.