Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tommy Fabian

Deanna was mediocre when she started. But she decided after her freshman season that she was going to work her tail off at becoming the best pitcher she could be.

Mike Degory

Coach is trying to instill core values, trust. We're becoming more of a team. Eight months ago, it wasn't really like this. Will it pay off in September? I hope so.

John McFarland

The site of flags flying amid the rubble of Camille is the most endearing memory of that storm, and is already becoming a symbol of our neighbor's determination to rebuild again, ... There just aren't enough flags.

Claire Lerner

These new media toys are growing and becoming quite prevalent.

David Miles

These national distinctions validate the effectiveness of our rigorous due diligence process in delivering strong performance to investors. With both the Principal Due Diligence Program(SM) and our fund family reaching five-year anniversaries, they are becoming proven performers over the long haul.

Stephen Quinn

The selective shopper is increasingly becoming the focus at Wal-Mart.

Ted Schadler

The software industry once had the keys to the kingdom. But buyers are becoming more sophisticated. The software industry should share in the risk instead of running and gunning.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The system is rapidly losing its efficiency and credibility, ... Most former officials are watching in awe. An unknown and inexperienced movement has taken over and their incapability is gradually becoming evident.

Sasha Cohen

I've always tried to be perfect. And I need to stop trying to be perfect and worry about becoming better.

Gavin Redknap

A rebound today will allay fears the consumer sector is continuing to struggle. The improvement in the housing market should bolster consumer spending.

Brian Quinn

Do what they can to bolster their own immune system in case they can't find vaccine.

E. O. Wilson

Either the administration has some information that it has not shared with the public, or, yes, they were using the selective use of facts to bolster the decision in a case that had already been made -- a decision that had been made to go to war,

Mirko Mikelic

GM is desperate for the cash. They need it to pay out a lot of people, so they're trying to bolster their cash position.

Laurie Garrett

Measures we can take to handle pandemic flu if it emerges in the next six months are limited and bleak, but wise investments and strong science could well bolster the public health armamentarium considerably over the next five years.

Mike Mills

I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy.

Jon Daniels

He is a youthful starting pitcher with an excellent track record that includes an All-Star selection, and will bolster our starting rotation.

David Seiders

All the fundamentals remain in place, and the overall housing market continues to exhibit ongoing strength. Favorable mortgage rates, as well as strong household income and job growth, continue to bolster housing demand.

Michael Specter

By themselves, genetically engineered crops will not end hunger or improve health or bolster the economies of struggling countries. They won't save the sight of millions or fortify their bones. But they will certainly help.

Benjamin Tal

Oil has been driving up the Canadian dollar. Energy exports have boosted economic growth, and it continues to be bullish for the Canadian currency.

Alex Wong

Rumors about a merger of China's A and B markets, coupled with generally bullish expectations of further gains of China stocks, are driving buying interest in this sector.

Michael Guido

You're seeing new money put to use in the gold market. It's just the whole alternative investment, bullish mentality driving new allocations.

Thomas Lasorda

We've shown the Dodge Nitro. It's another midsize. It's another exciting vehicle. It's going into Toledo too. We're bullish in that segment. It will be great for the people in Toledo.

Bernie Sanders

The Department of Defense, the largest single energy consumer in America, is bullish on solar.

Rajiv Dutta

We are very bullish about 2006. There is the caveat related to the seasonality of the business.

Mark Mobius

We're very bullish on emerging markets right now because of valuations, ... Valuations are so reasonable it makes sense to put money in.

Jeffrey Saut

The time to be bullish was back in October.

Masayuki Senda

We are increasingly bullish on Treasuries because of where yields are. We are looking to buy more when the price dips.

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Ted Thompson

Decisions like this are never easy. They require a lot of thought and consternation, but at the end of the day I felt like we needed to go in a different direction.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Prakash Karat

The situation has changed. We just want the government to take a decision in national interest.

Graham Thorpe

The selectors have made their decision and they will be happy with the way things have gone - you can't argue,

Stephen Roberts

Productivity hasn't met the high hopes held out for it and, as a result, has pretty much dropped off the radar screen for economy watchers.

Carlos Casteneda

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you

Jane Bryant

Term rates keep dropping and dropping and dropping; it's just amazing.

Jerry Palm

Tennessee is dropping like a rock. It's looking like whichever team ends up with the higher seed (UNC or Tennessee) will end up in Greensboro with Duke.

Mike Heffernan

The rounds played is down about 5 percent this year, ... The season passes are down ... about 20 percent. But even though the number of passes sold dropped 20 percent, the number of rounds played dropped only 5 percent.

Aaron Rodgers

I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.

Mitsushige Akino

The share prices of JFE and Nippon Steel fell after they had risen until Monday. They will not drop so much with the positive forecasts.

Tim Baker

It would help in getting a few AFL players dropping back, that's a big benefit,

Phil Brown

There would be no better man to replace Eriksson. Sam would have no problems dropping big-name players.

Alessia Cara

I was too shy to do any vocal lessons or go to choirs; I just didn't want to be seen doing it. It's something that I kept to myself. I started easing into it, and I started doing talent shows, and YouTube really helped with that, too.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Tom Lochner

Probably the most important thing was the educational process those students went through. Our role in the state symbol was to help those students have that experience.

Javier Solana

The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire,

Peter Briggs

The students get help they need, and we learn about the rest of the world by being involved with them.

Jane Mullan

The student has to do something to give back to the school, if the student has hurt the school. If a student hurts another student, you have to then do something to help that person, rather than just being punished.

William Dempkowski

The signs have a positive message and tell kids where to go for help. These steps will make a difference. We have some other things in the works to help the kids.

Jack VanDerhei

The system is set up ... not to help the consumers. It's there to help the regulators.

Nomar Garciaparra

The three of us just want to be back and be a part of it and hopefully help in any way possible, ... I think that's our mentality.

Ethan Mentzer

The suits help make us memorable and identifiable,

Mike Falbo

No one wants to sour the IPO market. That will make investors nervous.

Brett Gallagher

After a big up day like you had yesterday, you have to have some digestion. Once things run up by a big amount, then investors have to step back.

Yasuo Yabe

Right now the market is rather quiet, but it will be a problem when investors return after the New Year and trade volume increases.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Peter Peterson

The time has come for investors to speak up.

Scott Adams

I'm primarily just an investor.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).

Mo Ibrahim

Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.

Castor Pang

There are more negatives out there than anything to lift the market.

J. Horton

I wasn't sure if he was going to pitch (tonight). He tweaked his back lifting weights and it was 50-50 if he would pitch.

Jon Burnham

If not for the strong earnings, I think the market would be a lot weaker than it is. But that's not enough to lift the market out of a trading range. There's just too much uncertainty for markets to move higher.

Luk Boral

It was like a stone lifted off my back.

John Kelly

It's a pretty simple rescue. I just lower down the rigging and then lift out the sled.

Andruw Jones

They're a real solid team now, Maybe I'm not lifting enough weights.

Rosemary Mahoney

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I have a Brazilian trainer here in New York and we do a Brazilian Butt Lift workout.

Lamar Odom

We get to have a light practice, lift a little weights, have a steak and relax a little bit.

Michael McLaughlin

(Dell) is positioned in a market that is rapidly going to grow.

John Patrick

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Mark Goodstein

These are all different approaches, but the market really has to validate them. ... If it's hydrogen, great. How many sales are you going to get?

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Alfred Kugel

You really have a two-tier market with tech stocks going down and everything else going up. Part of this is because valuations in technology stocks got overdone this year and, at the same time, the Dow hadn't performed and now they look cheap.

Arthur Cashin

What the market would like to see is some sign of bottoming and that the market is reacting positively to the past six cuts. The market is heavily oversold and we have a real coiled spring here just waiting for a release.

Billy Bob Thornton

Marketing is the devil.

Bill Gurley

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

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.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Rick Warren

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Jimmy Wales

IAR is policy, always has been.

Nigel S. Wright

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

Madhavan Nair

ISRO has made all security arrangements and put on red alert. We are taking all possible steps.

Kiki Vandeweghe

for working with us to make this possible so quickly.

Sean McCormack

She raised (the case) in the strongest possible terms." ()

Pete Carroll

If I'm lucky, I can see 7-8 possible recruits at these meets.

Nick Harper

I was trying to get it as soon as possible and get to where there were no defenders, find a clearing, and score.

Asaf Shariv

We have to prepare for the worst possible scenario.

Greek proverb

It is not possible to step twice into the same river

Tomas Vokoun

I don't feel any pressure. I don't think this has got anything to do with pressure. Sometimes you just play really well, and then get in a slump. Now is the worst possible timing.

Robb Felton

I'd like to see them as soon as possible and get them out. I'm sure they're probably going crazy, they're not used to being in a kennel.

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.

Spiros Segalas

It's making the Dow more meaningful, more representative of the stock market.

Mike Gold

We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach,

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.