Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Zillweger

Once you have mantle and fireplace installed you do interesting accessories above or on the fireplace, like the lamps, sconces. These lend a whole different feel to the room when you're done.

Paul Head

November was a month of massive extremes. We went from 70-degree temperatures in November to six days where it never got above freezing a couple weeks later.

Lee Raymond

Oil prices have remained above first-quarter levels and natural gas prices in North America have also improved, ... Early in the quarter, we have seen some recovery in most refining and marketing margins, although they remain at low levels, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.

John Steinbeck

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. And there's an opening convey of generalities. A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

John Steinbeck

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. And there's an opening convey of generalities. A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

Wendy Wright

Thank goodness there is now one less political activist at the FDA who puts radical feminist ideology above women's health.

Wendy Wright

Thank goodness, there is now one less political activist at the FDA who puts radical feminist ideology above women's health.

Phil Savage

Some were wondering if he could get above 300 pounds so this probably solidified him right at the top.

Fred Williams

Son, just take a deep breath and fire away - and above all, have fun.

Joe Rios

On one of the roadways, it appears they were exchanging gun fire and the victim suffered one round.

Peter Spina

Metal equities took a thrashing and it appears there may be more weakness in the short term here.

Ken Dunham

It actually appears to be a pretty good design.

Raymond Kelly

It appears to be a crime of passion,

Norman Siegel

It appears the police department this morning was arguing that when Channel 2 put on Captain Eric Adams, all of a sudden magically it transformed him from spokesperson for 100 Blacks into a representative of the police department.

Edward Winter

It appears the parts do match. We are doing further tests.

Nestor Aguila

It appears that the incident that occurred over the weekend didn't shake and stir the market right now.

William Perkins

It appears that the 14-year-old and a cousin of his got into it with the suspect in front of the King Hill Community Center, ... The boys fled the area and the suspect gave chase.

Vassilis Koliatsos

It appears that SSRI antidepressants rewire areas of the brain that are important for thinking and feeling, as well as operating the autonomic nervous system.

Bobby Burton

You're talking about 35 million households who watched the Rose Bowl. That was putting the Longhorns front and center in a lot of future recruits.

Lori Smith

We've seen a dramatic shift in the '80s and '90s and into this century with more political involvement by women, and I think that's a good thing.

Scott Shane

Mr. Ford's decision to pardon Richard M. Nixon for any crimes he might have been charged with because of Watergate is seen by many historians as the central event of his 896-day presidency.

Jacquie Fernandes

Everything that happened in the past we've let go, we've moved on. Ever since Central last year, this is what we've been waiting for and it's finally here, so we're trying to prove ourselves all over again. Show everybody that we've got a new side and just try to work to get back Central.

Tom Cross

To double the size of the company, we'd only need about a 4 or 5 per cent success rate, compared to about a 70 per cent success rate we've had in the past.

Stephen Atkinson

Everybody gets 78 per cent of what they've put up.

John Dick

We will open the detention center and see how many prisoners we receive from the Tribal Court before we decide whether to take contract inmates from other areas.

Rob Ritchie

We hit every target we set for ourselves for the year. We grew earnings per share by 45 per cent and finished the year at $3.30.

Campbell Newman

What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Brad Gushue

There will either be a lot a lot of sick days or a lot of TVs in offices. In Newfoundland, nothing has ever come close to this.

Alaina Huffman

I ultimately wanna do big movies, and I've been so close so many times. They keep giving my roles to girls with just a little more exposure than me.

Robert H. Connelly

It was unlike any feeling I've ever had, ... because we're so close to these Marines.

Matt Herges

It was a bomb, but that close to 500? Not for me.

Maggie Magerko

The stores we are closing are located in markets that do not come close to reaching this bottom-line housing-start benchmark.

Bruce Kovner

I started collecting just for the personal pleasure of being close to these icons of the greatest musical achievements in Western music.

Bill Bavasi

I sense things are close one way or the other. We'll know if we're in or out in a relatively short time.

Tom Kenny

I see what is curiously close to a conspiracy to devalue our land. I think it's illegal to devalue other people's land. Just because we are agricultural landowners doesn't mean we don't know what our constitutional rights are and that we won't defend ourselves.

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

Bruce Evers

Companies haven't assessed the damage fully and it may be that refineries stay shut for months. The European Union is moving crude and products to the U.S., but at some point it's going to have to replace that, leading to higher demand in a marketplace that is already very tight.

Boris Boehm

Companies are restructuring to make themselves fit for the future. Investors are looking for companies that are engaged in that process. It's a positive.

Dana Gardner

Technologies are being developed at a faster and faster pace, and that disrupts companies and markets constantly. Companies will have to reinvent themselves, and they will have to do it in two years, not five. Things are better, but there will not be much of an opportunity for tech companies to sit on their laurels.

Bob McDonald

Scores of foreign companies have tried to establish themselves in Japan, and scores have failed, ... But if we can win in Japan, we can win anywhere.

Ralph Mendoza

Safety of home medication is a key health issue for governments, consumers, and sustainability-driven companies around the world.

Patricia Chadwick

Right now, we're just digesting. The market is waiting for companies to start saying that future quarters are going to look better.

Christine Lagarde

There will not be consensus and there will not be major progress (in Hong Kong),

Jonathan Joseph

Given the weaker outlook, we expect the 2001 consensus estimate of $1.76 to come down substantially.

Jan Leroy

The mood is very positive. Earnings are supportive.

William Hummer

The third quarter earnings have been fairly well received and I think there will be anticipation that fourth-quarter earnings could be better than expected,

Juergen Lukasser

What we need right now is earnings growth, and some sort of weakness in the retail sector is a threat to that.

Melissa Brown

You get it over with, get it out of the way early, and then we're on to reporting season. We've seen for the past 12 quarters or so that this has meant what's left is good news and earnings surprises have been quite positive.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

John Davidson

There are some worries about will the earnings this year support the 2-1/2 year highs that the indexes have recently reached, particularly in an environment where interest rates will be rising.

John Davidson

I think that overall we are in for a pretty good earnings quarter, and that may be a positive for stocks.

Brett Gallagher

The majority of earnings have been good, but there have been some misses and the market has reacted violently to them. This is a week that has put me on alert.

Stephen Leeb

The economy is on good footing, the earnings in the first quarter are expected to be better, but I can't see anything that's going to have a big impact on the market in the short term other than the price of oil.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Gunter Grass

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.

Bob Leib

For the last several years, as you know, we've demonstrated outstanding growth in student achievement, and it didn't happen by accident.

Andy Xie

If growth in the U.S. slows significantly, all of Asia's exporters will feel it.

Vladimir Putin

There are many issues in the global economy in general and in the western economy as well: population ageing, drop in labour productivity growth rates. This is obvious. The overall demographic situation is very complicated.

Vladimir Putin

It is very difficult to enter a single currency zone having fairly weak economic parameters and maintain a favourable state of the economy, not to mention positive growth rates. We have witnessed it not only in Europe, but for example in Argentina (nearly 10 years ago or more), when they tied the national currency to the dollar and later they did not know what to do about it.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

John O'Brien

PPI this morning was in line with what was expected, showing low inflation.

Reggie McNeal

We missed him a little bit, ... but whoever is the second man in line has to step up and play.

Angela Sarafyan

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Anthony Hopkins

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

Simon Pegg

You know what, despite my complaints about The Phantom Menace and Episode II, when Episode III comes out I'll be first in line. I genuinely love it.

Russ Grimm

And no matter how good you are you have to work at it. It's non-stop every day, every day. The best the offensive line feels is when the season starts.

Miranda Hart

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

Mary Karr

We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.

John Schneider

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

Brian Tracy

Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Jamie Redknapp

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude; you must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.

Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Edward Norton

As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.

Aristotle

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Ben Jonson

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

Eleanor Smeal

She [Carolyn Maloney] knows the financial issues, that's why we thought she was perfect because we're in a - we're in, as you know, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and I know that she'll see the whole picture.

Efraim Zuroff

Up to a quarter of the Latvian legion were volunteers.

Scott Davis

We know the quarter is going to have EBITDA down 20 percent, but that will not be a surprise to anybody,

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.