Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Hill

Of the 59 percent of the S&P 500 that has reported, earnings are down 18.1 percent. If we add that number to estimates for the rest, we're down 22.2 percent from last year.

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Daniel Snyder

The more I heard, the more I've learned, and the more I saw, the more resolved I became about helping to address the challenges that plague the Native American community.

Gary King

StoreSense makes managing our on-line store an enjoyable and efficient task, ... That coming from guy who is not incredibly computer savvy is saying a lot. Adding a new product, picture, description, making changes to prices or any other attribute are all made simple.

Mayco Villafana

So we will be adding that to our billing records.

Steve Graham

So you're really adding to the price of the product to get it back. Is it worth getting back?

Bill Ward

Thank you to all Sabbath fans everywhere. Hopefully our induction tonight will add to the validation ... (and) hard rock and heavy metal will have an enduring and everlasting place in rock history.

Mark Fields

Somewhat slower (economic) growth, higher interest rates and volatile gas prices all add up to auto sales that probably won't outshine last year's selling rate in this new year.

Dean Baker

Saving Social Security with Stock: The Promises Don't Add Up.

Stuart Pearce

As a young man trying to make your way in life, you feel your back is against the wall and you are scrapping against the whole world,

Joe Thompson

As it turned out, I guess that onside kick wasn't the best thing to open the half, but I was looking for some spark to get our emotion going and allow us to compete, ... We just made too many mistakes, and you can't do that against a team like this. You have to be able to play at a high energy level and with hope, and we couldn't get anything going to give us that hope.

Rhonda Rompola

Our slow start in the first half hurt us. We dug ourselves a hole against a very, very good team.

Wayne Grant

Our defense is playing real good right now. The punt return team gave up the touchdown. The defense played real well against Troy. They had two big plays for their touchdowns. Other than that, we didn't give up much. I feel a lot better our defense than I did this time last year.

Ryan Crawford

Our entire front row is (6-foot-2 or taller), and we put up a huge block against everybody. Most of the time when we block right, they're not going to be able to get it over with authority. It's going to be a roll shot or a tip to the corner. You've got to have guys back there who are on the same page and ready to get the ball back to the setter.

Henning Kagermann

Against this background we are confident of our earlier expectations that we will be able to grow pre-tax profits for the current year, excluding provisions for the STAR program, by 30 percent to 35 percent and sales by around 40 percent.

Robin Bhar

Against this background, speculative buying underpinned a rise in prices.

John Cridland

Against this background firms are cutting back on their investment plans and expect the rate of job losses to increase.

Wolfgang Schaeuble

Against this backdrop, developments in Iran not just on the question of proliferation, but also on the issue of external security and the impact on life in our own country as well represent a danger.

O. Henry

Decisions are made on a case-by-case basis in the best interest of the individual. So we need to look at how much rugby any given player has had since the beginning of the year, the amount of contact, their position, plus any injury history.

O. Henry

The team showed a huge amount of character and heart out there. Maybe they wouldn't have handled it at other times.

Patrick Fearon

The survey for the final reading would have taken place over the past 10 days or so, when market volatility was particularly high, ... Because of that, the final reading very well could have come in below the preliminary reading. The fact it came in higher shows a certain amount of resilience in the consumer sector.

Kevin Murphy

So this wasn't just a slight stabbing, this was something with a huge amount of force put into it.

Richard Morris

(Santa Fe) started out very slow because we had a lot of new players but our fly half, Hulbert, is from New Zealand, and his experience made a tremendous amount of difference.

David Barr

This is a way of ensuring that inflation will no longer chip away at the amount of deposit insurance coverage.

Graham Lustig

This is a really fantastic piece for us to acquire. It's fun, tongue in cheek in mood. It's a very important work of hers and it's a good challenge for the dancers. Tharp's style is not easy to capture. It looks simple, but . . . it's actually very exact and done with a tremendous amount of speed.

Steve Capus

This is a real commitment, and we are going to do this for a substantial amount of time. I'm not going to put an end date on it because there is no way of knowing how long this is going to be needed.

Ian Smith

This is a program we've been doing for years, but as a result of the storms, Congress passed legislation to waive some of the requirements so that more people could apply. It also increased the maximum income (limit) and the amount of the home that can be purchased, so it really broadens the program.

Dave Kohnen

We like to outlet and run. But you've got to have the ball. Mascoutah has some great athletes and they made it difficult for us to control the boards. We did a better job of blocking out in the third quarter and were able to push the ball.

Denny Green

He'll be one of the best athletes they've got there. He can dunk a ball any way you want to dunk it. Absolutely. He's got exceptional speed, exceptional jumping ability. He'll be a regular gym rat.

Kevin Meyer

He knows we need to get him involved more. He is one of our best athletes and we need to find ways to keep him out on the field.

Scott Touchette

We thought we would have a pretty good chance to win the meet. We have a lot of quality athletes on both the boys and girls teams.

Sen. McKinley

The cross country thing, I think, is a real potential problem. I know a lot of high school athletes that go out for (track) just for conditioning for football the following season.

Sal Capaccio

These girls have been told for so many years that (Lemon Bay doesn't) have the athletes to compete in track and field. But they proved everybody wrong today.

Richard Quick

This is my last swimming meet as a coach, and it's kind of a strange feeling because I've wanted to be a swimming coach since I was 12-years-old, ... The biggest thing I'm going to miss is being a partner with the athletes and living their dreams. I just loved that, and I'm going to miss it a lot. But, I'm closing out this phase of my life, and I'm very excited about where I'm headed.

Keith Scott

This is like the coming-out party for track and field. Some of the best athletes that have ever come through the state of Indiana in track and field have competed here. Just the meet itself is big because it's the North Side Relays.

Mike Cowan

This is a huge win for the Wildcats. These girls are a very competitive group of young athletes who have tasted victory and hate to lose.

Amitabh Bachchan

You want to talk about the fading of an icon? You never said I was an icon in the first place. But you want to talk about it in a derogatory fashion. You say the superstar has fallen. But you've never called me a superstar ever. It's only that you use these words when you want to say something derogatory.

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.

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.

C. S. Lewis

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Janet Guthrie

It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

Deepak Chopra

Everything I desire is within me.

Roy Pittman

Discipline. Anthony has that desire to be the best.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

E. M. Forster

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

Andy Ball

The women had a fantastic season and will do even better in 2006!

Vishal Wanchoo

What's fantastic about this marriage is the two product sets are incredibly complementary.

Dan Stolz

I have a fantastic group of kids. It's an honor to win such a competitive league, but there is still a lot of work to do.

David Gill

We want to keep Ole at the club. We are going to sort that out. He has been a great player for us and a fantastic individual.

Richard Estrada

So we said, let's organize this huge march of the pueblo, of the people.

Steve Lowery

It would be very satisfying after the start I had. That would be a huge accomplishment.

Octavio Dotel

This is huge in my country. Just huge.

Richard Sullivan

This is the first time we have been able to predict such a huge improvement in long-term survival,

Terry Ryan

Last year we won 83 games, which was a huge disappointment for us. Eight, nine years ago I would have been thrilled to win 83. That's no longer the case.

Todd Whetsel

That was a huge win for our team. You don't want to have to be in that play-in game. Even if you win, you're playing Stratford in the first round and you don't want to see them in the first round.

Marty Barnes

That was a huge steal by Kyle to set all that up.

Mike Szabo

He just stepped up and made a play. That was a huge play.

Robin Pingeton

I thought Brooke was the difference. She had a little stretch in about 30 seconds that was huge for our team.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

Doug Firebaugh

The life you are leading is simply a reflection of your thinking.

Al Leiter

It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.

Kevin Connors

With Photoshop we already have the leading position in the photo-editing market. But we always see room for making it better.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Zeke Moreno

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

Mark Cooper

My players should feel embarrassed, especially the seniors.

Ryan Love

We have some players with a lot of experience.

Paul Mara

He was on his back and I don't even think he saw where the puck was and he took a swipe at it. That's why he is one of the premier players in the league.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Brett Favre

I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

Erika Yowell

We did respond saying yes, we would be interested.

David Aus

It was like, bing, bing, bing. They threw some big punches, and we just didn't respond like we have all year.

Joss Stone

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

Doris Lessing

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

Ani Difranco

i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right

Alison Lurie

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

D. H. Lawrence

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.