Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Bentz

The short-term trend is down. The market finds it hard to muster any upside momentum. When it became clear we weren't going to get above $60 the mass selling started again.

Eric Jacobson

The sweet spots where people have parked a lot of their money are the intermediate bond funds, with returns from the low-3 to above 4 percent. That isn't mind-blowing, but it has driven up interest in bond funds.

Elizabeth Coatsworth

The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.

Frans Cloete

The South African truck market, coming off the back of an outstanding 2005 annual result, has continued to achieve impressive monthly returns in both December and January, notwithstanding the fact that these two months normally deliver the lowest total new vehicle sales volumes of the entire calendar year. The main driver of January's excellent result was a strong surge in HCV segment sales, with this grouping of predominantly distribution trade vehicles now returning to market share levels above 20% for the first time in nearly half a decade.

Holly Brubach

I've looked at a lot of cities and could have gone anywhere, but Pittsburgh just turned out to be a cut above the others.

Rod Barnes

I've never been one to quit, not necessarily quit. I started the season with these kids, and unless there was someone above me, not allowing me to do that ... I couldn't do that.

Teri Garr

I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials...I'd say things like 'Hi Marge, how's your laundry?' and 'Hi, I'm a real nice Georgia peach'. Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress.

John Rhys-Davies

I used to fly airplanes myself, so being above the ground doesn't worry me too much.

Jan Egeland

I've already said I thought it would be well above 150,000 total. How many tens of thousands more, we don't know.

Maj. Crisp

Usually it is someone driving in the breakdown lane.

Paul Wolfowitz

The scale of the disaster is so enormous that, frankly, a big part of the effort has to go to figuring what the needs really are.

Bob Pratt

T he whole nation needs to come together and do whatever we can on all levels, so that we can help the people struck by this disaster.

Tod Martin

That's just a disaster as far as I'm concerned.

Tristan Taylor

There have been a lot of students that have become interested in helping out due to the disaster.

Lawrence Korb

What it's going to mean is some short-term gains, but a long-term disaster. You're going to have less research and development as you get down to probably four major companies.

John Hughs

We're sure not going to discourage people from helping. But we can't just send untrained people into a disaster zone.

Richard Howitt

This was the latest ghastly episode in what was a whole disaster. I'm just so glad it's ended and they have been set free,

Michael Brown

This was a catastrophic disaster, and in very disaster, there are mistakes, and it's not always smooth and pretty.

Thomas Smith

You have to remember, with a disaster like this, even the line can be a disaster.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Billy Crystal

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

Bobby Fischer

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

Ludwig von Mises

If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely.

William Stafford

So, the world happens twice --once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.

Bret Easton Ellis

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

Tracy McCormick

We had called for a widespread 1 to 2 inches of rain this weekend. This week, we're watching what happens to the remnants of Hurricane Wilma." ()

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

Joe Borowski

Everything happens in threes. It might happen again.

Ariel Sharon

Everything that happens leads to salvation, ... Even if there is destruction, in the end, redemption will come.

Joan Didion

This one is really fantastic, ... It's not about grieving. It's about what happens when people die.

Ron Wilson

We had the puck on our stick and didn't get it out of the zone. And when something like that happens at this point of the season it's inexcusable.

Douglas Adams

Anything that happens, happens.

Dr. Ratard

No such outbreak occurred because of Hurricane Katrina.

Michael Chertoff

We are going to be very prepared for Hurricane Wilma.

Richard Wright

It looked like a tsunami with hurricane winds.

Mitch Frazier

There is not the hurricane protection here that there once was. It is significantly compromised. The hurricane level protection we have had here prior to Hurricane Katrina will not be able to return. It will be years, not months.

I. Stone

Many scenarios had been run prior to Katrina years ago, and with that type of storm, the scenarios should have been taken seriously.

John Franklin

It's not so much Katrina as a phenomenon as it's Katrina as a metaphor for what our society has become. It reflects; it's a mirror of what we've become - super-extraordinarily complacent.

John Key

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

Jeff Bonde

She's always had a lot of natural speed. We're still trying to rate her.

Ross Lynch

I don't really think of myself as a heartthrob. I've got a lot of brothers, and there's a natural competitiveness between us when it comes to girls. If I said something about being a heartthrob, then they would bring me straight back down to earth!

Michelle Turner

I didn't think homosexuality should be taught as something that is natural or the same as heterosexuality.

Meseret Defar

My speed is natural and I have been training very hard.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Ryan Pease

I don't want to think about what I eat. It should become natural by then.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is anything but random.

Mickey Mantle

All I had was natural ability.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Jay Jacobs

People stumbled into the war by making mistakes.

Tom Daschle

People still would have the right to go to court,

Gary Koenig

People still want it, that's why the old stars are still doing it.

Tom Stoppard

People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Renee Fleming

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Robert Lanza

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Sherilyn Fenn

The studios have their list of five actresses and whether they're right or wrong for a role doesn't matter. It's how much money their last movie made.

Tionne Watkins

A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.

Mike Tyson

I am not a role model.

John Noble

A lot of the times, roles are chosen for us.

Randeep Hooda

I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Jane Hamilton

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

James Walsh

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.

Barry Eichengreen

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Camila Alves

A lot of times, drama around it is not for the worse but for the best in the long run. If we look at it that way, I have learned to find the best of it in most situations.

Celia Rivenbark

I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up.

Anthony Jeselnik

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

Alice Barrett

But this is called show business, not show family.

Veronica Roth

Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.

Pete Carroll

If anything, it shows that we can finish.

Joss Whedon

I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.

Jennifer Aniston

We’re all with Friends until Friends dies. If one of us goes, we all go. One of us wouldn’t leave. It wouldn’t be the show it is without each of us.

Teemu Selanne

He's not noisy. He's always the same. Never high, never low. I think that shows how strong he is mentally.

Stefano Gabbana

I don't look at fashion shows on the internet because it's too flat.

Gerard Way

If you come to one of our shows then you're a little f**ked up. That's okay. We're just as f**ked up as you