Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Batty

The yield-curve flattening has certainly been challenging for banks. The winners and losers will be decided on how well they can generate revenues faster than expenses are growing.

Sam Roberts

It was a blast, and it made me a little star in my school when it happened, ... It's kind of funny and embarrassing now. I certainly don't go around telling people because it's silly, but someone who knew from before will tell a new group of friends, and I'll have to find the tape and play it again.

Brett Gallagher

It may have taken a little while for (3M and Lexmark) to sink in, ... Lexmark is certainly not a bellwether, but it was one of the stable names in the tech sector.

Jack Hoadley

It may be impossible for some consumers to find the ideal plan -- and it will certainly be time-consuming and difficult at best.

Don Buford

It's an individual thing. You have to want to do it in order to do it, No. 1. To be successful at it, you have to work at it and put in a little more effort. You have to put in some extra time. He certainly seems dedicated to doing that. There are a couple other young men who I've talked to who are that way.

Mike Williams

It's going to be looked at closely. We certainly can't do that all year long.

John Brady

It's good for us to be able to have good players like that, and good players don't develop like that unless you have good high school coaching. It certainly makes it a lot easier.

Karin Slaughter

I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.

Nancy Roman

Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

Li Na

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

Bill Brewer

We were 0-2 early and I wondered if we would win four games this year. But I knew we had a great tournament draw.

John McGlynn

We went with the young kids early and it's starting to pay off.

Randy Carlyle

We got down early but found a way to claw back. The one thing that this group has demonstrated all year is resiliency.

Curtis Jerrells

We got down by a large margin pretty early on the road. It's kind of hard to get back in the game.

Jeff Shaw

We have been struggling. We let a team get into the game. and when a team goes up on you by 18 points it is hard to come back. We just got in some trouble with turnovers early on and that hurt us.

Phil Garner

We had him early on the ropes a little bit. We couldn't come up with a big hit when we needed it.

Bruce Barnett

I think more than likely this is drug-related, ... We're still very early into the investigation and have a lot of people to talk to.

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Alexander Herzen

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Will Smith

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

Ellen DeGeneres

You listen to any monologue on late-night TV or just in general, to people talking, and there's always a joke at someone's expense. It's sarcasm; it's nasty. Kids grow up hearing that, and they think that's what humor is, and they think it's OK. But that negativity permeates the entire planet.

Shannon Miller

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

Hayley Williams

For me growing up, I've found that I don't really go out and party and I don't hang out - when I come home and I'm home, I'm a pretty chilled person.

Hilary Duff

I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.

Harlan Coben

I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

Hamdi Ulukaya

Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Ichiro Suzuki

That was embarrassing. If I'm satisfied with the way I played today, I might as well quit.

John Stack

That's the uniqueness of this story. We're in the southeastern part of the U.S., but we might as well be in a Third World country.

Tony Dungy

That's their style of play. I think Mike might be disappointed if they didn't play that way.

Robert Kirshner

That's very weird. But it's not unprecedented that weird things might be true things.

Riley Wallace

That's the road trip you have to look back on and think what might be if we got one, or both, of them. We'd be right up there.

Andy Fisher

That's the question all the parents would like to know. It's quite challenging. We're trying to find alternative placement for them for the rest of the year - what their options might be next year.

James Blake

I would like to think I might have taken something out of Andre's legs,

Empress Michiko

I would like to tell Sayako just what comes to my mind on the morning of the wedding, but like my mother before me, perhaps I too might not be able to say anything at all,

Brad Johnson

Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher.

Todd Bradley

I feel the time is right for me to move on to another challenge.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

Ben Horowitz

You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.

Ted Bahhur

We have to come back next week with a vengeance.

Elizabeth McGovern

Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'

Alex Wheeler

We're not out of the woods yet. It will be an interesting next six months.

Jason Schrotberger

We think the fundamentals are just phenomenal. For the next 6 months, they've got the wind at their backs.

Kris Draper

Why are you sitting next to me? Get out of here.

Elizabeth Porter

This time next week, we'll be up in the air.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

J. G. Ballard

It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.