Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josh Fox

The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.

Joshua Shapiro

The big question now is how much companies will be able to raise prices for finished products to offset the hit to profits from higher unit labor costs.

Bill Maris

Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money.

Peter Cardillo

As long as the economy doesn't go into a recession, I think these (smaller) companies will continue to outperform large-cap stocks,

Ted Arrington

As long as people are raising private money in big numbers to finance expensive campaigns, you're going to have big contributors who have special interests controlling the outcome, whether it's video poker or the hog farmers or tobacco companies or the trial lawyers.

David Moskowitz

As potential patients, we would want these companies to make incremental improvements. Without it, we would end up only with first-in-class products that are not as good as they could be.

Mike Ross

As people move in, companies follow them. We're fortunate that we're in the right place at the right time,

Bradley Belt

As long as companies remain in operation with ongoing pension plans, they have a legal obligation to meet their funding requirements.

Patrick Brogan

As long as investors keep bidding up the price of the long distance companies on speculation that there might be an acquisition, it actually makes an acquisition harder to complete,

Jose Maria

As far as we can, I hope and desire that they are soon out of prison.

Robert Clarke

Our desire is to be involved in a series as we view as the pinnacle and the premier open-wheel racing series, ... and see that as maybe a priority over the need to have competition.

Mike Baker

Our effort and desire were there throughout the game. We just weren't very smart with some things we did.

Alphonso Jackson

Of the families I talked to, 90% of the families have no desire to go back, ... But that's not what I'm hearing from Texas. It's a whole different perspective.

Dave Dickson

North Americans do have a higher desire for very soft tissues.

John Wiley

The monkey had grown into a full-fledged gorilla. This was our goal all along, and we played with a desire to win.

Tom Fitton

Dean's political aspirations and his desire to prevent anything from ruining them are not sound arguments for secreting such an enormous quantity of government documents from the public.

Joseph Smith

The study demonstrates that low-income workers overwhelmingly desire to save, and many do, despite financial challenges.

Joe Browne

Some people, you can tell if they want it bad. He always was a kid who wanted to be a good player. He had that will and desire to play. Everyone around the pool room saw that.

Shannon Schonrock

As long as we're winning, it doesn't matter. It's great to see different people step up on any given night. And it makes us hard to prepare for because you don't know who to focus on. A lot of our numbers are down, minutes-wise, but it makes us that much tougher knowing that we have so many people that can contribute.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Bryant H. McGill

When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.

Rue McClanahan

Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant.

Michael Nutter

Our economy grows from the middle out, not the top down.

Naeem Wahid

People are unwinding growth expectations and interest rate expectations,

Ray Rund

People are taking this as a signal. In this case, it's kind of pro-growth stock. The Nasdaq has the most growth stocks, and when interest rates stabilize, or go down, people start to think of growth as being worth more.

Terrence Gabriel

People feel the growth is there whether you push rates up to 6.50 percent or 6.80 percent.

Steve Richards

People grow and mature as human beings, and the same is true for musicians.

David Manning

Of the various alternatives, this one was the growth story more than any others.

Nalani Boon

Oh I feel so invaded, you know, it's like a personal affront. You've worked so hard to get things to grow well and healthy, in a healthy manner, and it's gone.

William Shakespeare

No profit grows where there is no pleasure taken

Michael Johnson

Somebody's planting a lot of marijuana out there, and it's not local people just growing it for personal use, ... These people are growing to make a profit. A big profit.

Robert Warren

So that makes it even all the more important that we find these kids who again, are sometimes misdiagnosed as having growing pains or tendonitis,

George Vecsey

Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.

Keith Morris

Realistically, the population is only growing in Avondale,

Nina Norman

I've seen a lot of growing pains. They could have really contributed to the team.

Joe Given

It was a nice growing perk for her. I told her location is everything. In that situation, she didn't miss one pitch.

Mike Olson

It was about what I expected. We have some growing to do, but it was a nice start.

Qiu Xiaohua

The service sector was hard hit, growing just 0.8 percent.

Jose Gonzalez

I speak Swedish, it's my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Steve Brown

Quite a number of the signatures were not registered voters. You have a set of rules, and everyone should play by the same set of rules.

Tony Russa

You're watching the number and go '10-9-8' and get to one and you're going to celebrate? Zero is when you celebrate. That's what we're doing to do.

Dennis Clay

You shouldn't have anything without a title and every part off the vehicle should have a serial number on the receipt that you got with it.

Roebalin Bustamante

You see the standing water, this is the number one hole.

Elaine Rubin

You're going to see many more partnerships, and for a number of different reasons. The underlying reason is that we're getting smarter and more competitive.

Hines Ward

You only get a number of opportunities to make big plays, and that was a big play.

Ashley Scott

I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Richard Jerram

I think the overall picture is quite positive,

Pat Murphy

I'm disappointed overall in the play of the weekend.

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Willie Randolph

When you don't get calls, then you don't pitches where you want them to be. But overall he pitched pretty well.

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.

Ron Bonjean

The speaker is making it a top priority to get that done.

Mike Claffey

We've taken that on because it's a priority for safety reasons.

Steve Squyres

For Spirit, the priority has been to reach a safe winter haven.

Jakaya Kikwete

I will make sure research and development is a top priority in agricultural development.

Gary Snyder

The first priority is just to get them registered,

Edgerrin James

They just signed a new guy, so they are working to get better. As long as it is a priority ten it is all right.

Gregg Williams

Cod and halibut tend to co-mingle quite a bit.

Bill Rodgers

I usually get side-aches when I am really tired and or when I am not quite warmed up.

John Pilger

Quite frankly, they just haven't been doing anything lately.

Fran Townsend

Quite frankly, I think we did quite well.

Brad Childress

Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore.

George Ryan

I've never seen anything quite like the site I saw here.

Gil Dufour

We have quite a lot. I think we have ten or twelve colors. The varieties of blue, the varieties of red and of burgundy.

Ashley Wagner

The SoCal weather can't be beat, but I just haven't quite been able to embrace the lifestyle.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

If you eat like crap all the time, quite frankly, you're going to feel like crap.

Ambrose Bierce

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

William Shakespeare

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.

Daniela Ruah

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Samuel Liles

We're a small congregation, but we're not going to let this turn us around.

Richard Carlson

Don't Stress the Small Stuff--and it's all small stuff,

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

Michael Thun

Even though it's a small amount, it's an important milestone.

Sean Maher

We all at the time thought it was a small Cessna something that was doing a tour.

Stacia Rustad

Toward the end they spread the margin, but that was not until the end of the game. We just have to work on the small things that we are not doing well right now.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.