Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Harrold

He is the backbone of the team. Hopefully we can just do a little better in front of him.

Brian Yandle

He?s been tough to beat down the stretch. He played great. He?s definitely the backbone of that team. He really impressed me.

Travis Zajac

He's been the backbone of our team. He's come to play every night and given us the chance to win. He's a guy we can count on and look for to play each night.

Sung Sohn

It clearly tells us that consumers have and will continue to sustain and support economic growth, ... Consumers have really been the backbone of current economic growth and will continue to be a stabilizer for the balance of this year.

Steve Nicol

I think the fact that we were forcing the game and we were away from home in Kansas City, who is undefeated, kind of tells you that the backbone of team. We did make changes, we were forced into a couple of changes, but it never knocked us off our straight, we kept pushing forward. But we just never got that break in the penalty box when we needed it. It's just not running for us in the penalty box at the moment.

Glenn Reynolds

I think the bill makes a strong statement and provides some backbone regulations on how U.S. Internet companies should operate in China, but it will be difficult to enforce.

J. Taylor

Last-mile services to customers must be integrated, providing both voice and data, because the backbone is integrated, ... Modems and ISDN are too slow, and cable and wireless aren't there yet. DSL is the only complete solution for the last mile.

Leatrice Eiseman

There is a heavy use of neutral colors and smoky tones. People are being more cautious, and neutral colors have traditionally provided the backbone of a wardrobe.

Rob Simmons

We've got to help small businesses because they are the backbone of our economy. We've got to increase opportunities for everyone and we can do that by helping women and minority-owned businesses.

Martin Broughton

Keith played a critical part in restoring the company's balance sheet and returning it to a position of financial health,

Denise Ainsworth

Katie and (catcher Eryn) Richardson did a great job. Katie was hitting her spots and Eryn kept them off balance with the pitch selection.

Ken Auletta

Journalists would build in more checks and balances and welcome more independent ombudsmen,

John Donahue

It balances the overall impact, ... Quite frankly, you've got to satisfy the people who are paying the bill.

Jim Nelson

This was a good win. We got out to an early lead and were able to keep it for the balance of the game.

Larry Haverty

What you get with Disney is a low stock valuation on a company that I think will have forward earnings momentum and the strongest balance sheet the company has had in the last five years.

Walt Jocketty

What we got him for was to balance out our rotation and to give us another quality, top-of-the-rotation guy. Pitching is what wins championships. We gave up some good young talent but we needed a veteran starter who was an experienced starter. Who was a top-of-the-rotation guy. Who was used to pitching in big games like this.

Shannon Miller

Gymnastics has helped me so much, how to be dedicated to something, how to work hard to acheive your goals, also to be organized, and how to try and balance my life out. I think it's helped me in school too,because it's kept me organized and I'm always striving for a goal.

Frank Taylor

He's a balanced gorgeous horse. He looks just like Forestry.

Ben Dogra

Jon enjoyed the visit with the Jets. They did an incredibly good job with the visit. They got his attention. But his comfort level is in Philadelphia. Going into this I thought it would be between money and comfort level, in that order. Comfort level clearly proved to be more of a factor. He just decided signing with the Eagles was what he wanted to do.

Bob Dorfman

He did everything right in Turin. He was even crying on medals stand. He lived up to the hype. He's clearly comfortable on camera. You'll see a lot of him.

Gene Russianoff

He clearly still harbors a very personal grudge from the December negotiations. And that doesn't augur well for the near future.

John Remington

He clearly does not want to get in the middle of the parties and leave them worse off than they were. He will do everything he can to coerce a final settlement.

Andrew Steer

There are still 60,000 people in tents today and that's clearly unacceptable a year after the tsunami.

David Bachman

His relative status in the leadership is strengthened when he focuses on foreign policy, where he is clearly the No. 1.

Steve Thomas

His mom was in the room. I think he even mentioned, so I think that these are just clearly nothing, you know, these accusations.

Jeremy Grantham

History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.

Chris Hill

I think it's just something we heard clearly from our fans, that we were very respectful of the Ute tribe and we decided to appeal. The university has always been close to the Ute tribe. I think it's standard operating procedure to be in touch with the Ute tribe to do the right thing.

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Kyle Hall

What we wanted to do is solve the issues for the consumers of where their pictures are going.

Gray Davis

There is no easy solution, ... But, if I have to use the power of eminent domain to prevent generators from driving consumers into the dark and utilities into bankruptcy, then that's what I'll do.

Mark Boudreaux

We sympathize with consumers paying high gasoline prices. We are trying to help public-policy makers understand what makes prices high.

Ted Sarandos

I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.

James Ashurst

It gives consumers the convenience of the Internet, with the peace of mind of working with an ASTA travel professional.

Joe Ruggiero

It had that 'wow' factor. I do hope consumers embrace it as well.

Doug Heller

It has been a very strange development. Consumers are being threatened with non-renewal for filing legitimate claims.

Leigh Sparks

It has been a long time since consumers have been fooled by prices which are just under the round number,

John Bunting

I was looking at the scoreboard all night, ... You can really get mesmerized by that thing. It goes on and the fireworks continue to go off (after each score). I thought at one point they might run out of fireworks. That's a big number and, basically, I'm numb at this point.

J. Hoover

Kids have a tendency to rest on what they do well and it's human nature to continue to work on the things that you do well. But this summer, I saw him working on the things that he needs to work on to be effective at the next level. I have no doubt that he'll contribute as a freshman. He's highly competitive and he knows what he'll have to do to compete.

Patterson Hood

I write a lot of songs (about the South) and will continue to, but we wanted to do a record that wasn't so specific in the geography. We're from the South, but that's not all we can do.

Tom Davis

Keeping our staff intact enables us to continue to recruit as well as teach.

Charlotte Ronson

Just watching the people on the streets of N.Y. is inspiring; there are so many styles and unique points of view. Fashion is very much inspired by the streets, has always been, and I'm sure it will continue to do so.

Lofa Tatupu

Just that success only comes one way -- that's through hard work. Just continue to try to improve on getting better and it'll happen.

Dave Wannstedt

Joe's a good player for us and Joe will continue to be a good player for us, but we need to threaten people,

Rick Curran

John has suggested there is continued interest in having Bryan. We're willing to be patient. He would prefer to stay in Toronto.

Daniel Chan

Job prospects will continue to improve. Job security has increased and this will lead people to spend more.

Ken Hill

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

Jesus Dureza

Knowing that the uncertain peace and order situation is a major impediment in attaining economic growth for the island, we are anticipating that the current peace efforts will strengthen the enabling environment for investment and growth.

James Cox

He didn't go very far. The currents there tend to pull you under and keep you there.

Kenneth Miller

Half of the current rise ... was going on anyway. But that means half of what's going on is not background. It's human induced.

Sam Brownback

Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.

Seth Shostak

It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contradicted by the data. Of course, scientists would say the supreme being hypothesis is faith, and outside the realm of science - that it's not amenable to experiment. But we currently have the same problem with the notion of parallel universes.

Mick Davis

I think the current market price is a reasonable level.

Ralph Norris

We're probably in a situation where interest rates will stay somewhere around the current levels.

Dick Cheney

To date, that hasn't happened, and therefore has been no meeting currently scheduled.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's economic policies would raise taxes on minority small-business owners, whose numbers are steadily increasing as a result of the President's pro-growth policies. Under President Bush's leadership, a majority of minority families are homeowners for the first time in history.

Bernard Baumohl

Katrina has shaken the very foundations of the U.S. economic expansion when it ruined much of America's energy infrastructure, ... While a recession is unlikely, the probability of stagflation has greatly increased with inflation moving higher even as the economy slows.

Zhang Guobao

It also delivers substantial economic and environmental results, alleviating poverty.

Ken Robinson

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.

Larry Goldstein

Goldstein said. ''There does seem to be some lessons learned. Whether they are economic lessons or political lessons, or some combination of the two, I don't know.

Tomoko Fujii

Good economic figures will surely be euro supportive. The euro-zone economy is expanding faster than expected.

Peter Cardillo

I think the market is holding up pretty well after the recent rally, ... The economic news was mixed today, and investors are eyeing Ivan and the price of oil.

Robert Robbins

I think the market is going to all-time highs. It's hard to predict when it will happen, but this is a wonderful economy, you've got great economic growth.

Amien Rais

I think the nation will be happy, will be relieved, because Suharto is the problem. So by getting rid of him, I think the nation ... will feel, you know, gratified, satisfied, happy. From then on, we can talk about economic reforms, political reforms.

Gus Faucher

Katrina will weigh on growth in second half of this year and we'll make most of that back first half of next year,

Bill Cheney

Job growth has kind of stalled out. It's a puzzle.

Mark Zandi

I suspect this is a pause and we still see a resumption of top line growth and, ultimately, better hiring in tech.

Wayne Pace

He wants it to be profitable growth, sustainable growth and responsible growth,

Jill Dougherty

He did say that it must meet Russia's national interests and also that it should not restrict its growth and social development,

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Shuchita Mehta

Growth momentum remains strong and that should lead to higher inflation and interest rates.

Zheng Jingping

It is fundamentally normal but it is at the upper end of the potential growth range and we need to take note of it.

Graham Cluley

There is going to be a real growth in 'pump and dump' spam.

Ahmed Hussein

Khartoum supports the Chadian rebels, financially, politically and militarily.

Teresa Johnson

He wants to win and we're just supporting him.

Jessica Wolf

He wanted to find his goals. We supported his choice.

Sam Richards

There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

Joe Pemberton

Her support was important to me, ... I could sense her smiling.

David Newhan

He's a teammate. You're supportive of your teammates.

Gary Larsen

We feel it's safe, we feel it's a viable technology and we're supportive of it,

Joseph Lieberman

We support a woman's right to choose, ... The other ticket does not.

Anthony Fauci

Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was.

Karen Evans

If it's useful and really needed, it will sustain itself.

Judd Terwilliger

We were never able to sustain (momentum). We'd get leads, but then they'd come back.

Paul Stone

We were never able to sustain a run.

Rick Adelman

He's in shape, much quicker. He can do the things he used to do. Now all he has to do is sustain it.

Judd Gregg

Whatever my wife tells me to do with it,

Kenny Lofton

He tells guys, 'Go out there and play hard, but have fun,'

Chris Shelton

I just think that if we play the way he tells us to play, we'll win.

Josh Groban

The honest-to-goodness answer is that Twitter tells me everything, and I have calluses on my fingers from all the mouse-clicking.

Jimmy Rushing

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

Jerome Bettis

It's been done before, so that tells you something -- it can happen. Hopefully, there'll be another one this year.

Ron Gardenhire

It's very tough. They didn't put a timetable on it, so that tells me it's going to be a while.

Ned Colletti

It tells you who he is, what he is. This is a professional.

Gary Latham

This is an active, not a passive, RFID system. It tells workers what to do with the vehicles and when.