Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Brown

Two cents really isn't a big deal, it's the principle of it.

Tom Aldrich

The court decides whether it (a claim) gets paid and if it's five cents on the dollar, or something like that. It depends on how they reorganize the company.

Tiny Tim

I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

Boris Boehm

The weak dollar hits our economy at the worst possible moment. We had just seen the first signs of a small recovery. It hits our export-related companies.

Brad Miller

That must have been terrible to watch. We should give a dollar back to every fan.

Jim Terry

We have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in this, which is why it is so important to us.

Suzy Menkes

I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar or a euro for every time I use the word 'I,' you would be a poor person. But this is not true in general. I like the idea of being able to stand away and make a judgement.

Derek Halpenny

Towards the end of the year, we do see the dollar turning down as it loses its rate support.

Jon Brorson

We got a lot of earnings and so far so good. The trend is going to be up, frankly, because the economy is chugging along, even with $74 dollar oil, amazingly.

Bret Calhoun

We know she has a grass pedigree, but we thought she had a good shot. You're not going to get to run for a quarter-million dollars in a Grade III like this too many times. We thought she fit as well as any other horse in here.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.

Rand Paul

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

Dan McCarney

There's no question he's one of the top recruiters on my staff. He's earned this.

John Chavis

Obviously I think enough of (Mayo) to be a starter. That's what we've done, and he's earned that. I feel good about him playing.

Kyle Young

For most of our near 40-year history, we have earned in excess of 90 or 95 percent of our income. But now the job is just too big for us to handle alone.

Jacquie Fernandes

I have a spot on the team. Right now, I guess you could say I am a walk-on. But I will be treated just like any other player on the team. As far as a scholarship goes, he likes to reward players who work hard. Every player that has stayed with the program has earned a scholarship.

Troy Percival

I feel very fortunate for everything I've had. I worked hard to get it. I feel I earned it. I just wish it would have ended a little differently. I don't have any negative feelings about it at all at this point.

Dave Rose

That felt good and it is long overdue. Our guys earned it. They played hard and tough.

Mike Albring

He's made a lot of progress. He's earned his playing time.

Robert Gottlieb

In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.

Tom Megyesi

This is a good reward for all of their hard work and putting up with me in practice. The running, all of the stuff that they do in and out of practice, they earned this win.

David A. R. White

My parents... has always wanted all their kids to go to at least one year of Bible college after high school. I always knew that I was on my way to Moody Bible Institute when I graduated high school.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Curtis Armstrong

I've been going to this high school for 7 and 1/2 years, I'm no dummy.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Dave Duncan

The way we've played the last three months hasn't been up to our capabilities, ... We have higher expectations with the players we have. We should be performing better.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Jimmy Rollins

You've got to respect them. You can't just put up lollipop pitches and hope to get them out.

Mary Shelley

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been.

Rick Clunn

You're going to be making a lot of decisions, and you hope they're the right ones.

Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Elizabeth Lewis

This was the only hurricane where we had less than 24 hours notice it was going to hit,

Douglas Adams

Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

May Sarton

Now there is time and time is young.O, in this single hour I liveAll of myself and do not move.I, the pursued, who madly ran,Stand still, stand still, and stop the sun!

Ben Crane

Get it? I'm the one who started the joke! I was walking down the last fairway with Kenny Perry , and it had been a long day, and I go, 'You knew I was slow, but you didn't know I was nine hours slow!' At first he was just flummoxed. But then he said, 'Don't sell yourself short. You weren't slow today.' I went, 'Thank you.'

Doug Wood

She never went backward. But it was hour by hour.

Lord Nelson

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.

Pam Collins

People like a library with more services and more hours ....

Wayne Martin

People know that we're doing that. It's a lot of the same people, and they can watch it an hour earlier. But we take pride in providing that service.

Andrea Cook

My sons picked up trash for 21/2 hours one day. The next day, there was so much trash, it looked like we didn't do anything.

E. B. White

Its important to do things locally as well, ... impeach.

Paul Decker

We've been briefed by the local organizing people.

Azzedine Alaia

I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.

Rep. Arza

We don't want the state solving local problems, but we want to be partners in the local problem.

Edward Snowden

I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong,

Donald Trump

I have a very, very great balance sheet, so great that when I did the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue, the United States government, because of my balance sheet, which they actually know very well, chose me to do the Old Post Office, between the White House and Congress, chose me to do the Old Post Office.

Bob Herman

What I do, with the office schedule I don't schedule regular things past 2:30 p.m. - unless its an emergency. There are many time I have not been able to make practice. The office comes first.

Anne M. Mulcahy

I'm at the gym at 6, so I'm usually in my office by 7:15. And I try to not schedule a lot of meetings before 8. So I've got that first hour to get myself organized for the day and to make sure that I've structured what I want to do.

William Donaldson

Those offices have not been sitting on their hands.

Richard V. Allen

In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.

Thomas Jefferson

Public offices were not made for private convenience.

Tony Blair

My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.

Simon Sinek

The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.

Michael Perkins

She is a versatile player, and she can do a lot of different things. She can post up as a guard, and she can shoot, too.

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Bela Lugosi

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Billy Childish

I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.

Billy Bush

I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island.

Billy Connolly

I'm one of the school of people who don't do research of the reality of the thing or the unreality of the thing. In all the movies I've done, I've never done any research.

Bobby Fischer

She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.

Andre Agassi

Ten weeks ago, I didn't know where things were going to go,

Arthur Ashe

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

John Avlon

Politics is history in the present tense.

Dee Brown

We didn't play as well as we wanted defensively and offensively. We're not doing the things we want but we'll take the win. The Big Ten is a grind-it-out conference.

Anna Kournikova

It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs

Anastasia Myskina

I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing.

Rafael Nadal

Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.

Monica Seles

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

Monica Seles

I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Julia Glass

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Bob Dylan

They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Greg Aiello

We were disappointed we weren't able to work it out with him.