Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophie Winkleman

I'm playing an Amazon warrior princess in a new radio comedy series called 'Elvenquest,' and I'm playing a Russian genius in the comeback of 'Red Dwarf.'

Tom Courtney

Has Wall Street paid too much for Amazon? Investors bid the stock up too much in anticipation of it growing faster than it's going to grow. But if Amazon keeps executing and making progress in keeping costs down, it can still work.

John Sargent

We look forward to working together with Amazon as they develop these innovative new programs to expand the market for digital content.

Jon Burnham

I do not see any earnings visibility in Amazon and in fact, I noticed how they are getting rid of some of their employees and starting to do the things that other companies that have problems do,

Rick Riordan

You sure you're not a Roman, Annabeth? Or an Amazon?

Richard Preston

Redwood rainforest has five to 10 times the biomass - that's the sheer weight of living material - of, say, deep tropical rainforest in the Amazon basin.

David Garrity

Investing in their business in order to put in place an infrastructure of the Amazon of tomorrow is becoming, increasingly, an expensive proposition. And it becomes painful, if you will, for investors to wait for that to happen.

Dan Geiman

Investors perhaps were disappointed that profits didn't beat estimates, even by just a little bit. Actually, this is the first time after eight straight quarters that Amazon didn't beat expectations.

Jeff Bezos

Internet company stocks in general are very volatile, and Amazon is definitely included in that,

Gemma Wright

What you have to look at is what has been occurring in the foreign exchange markets. They (Bank of Japan) were rumored to be significant buyers on Friday and Monday, the (Treasury) market was bid up on Friday and Monday, so there's a very big risk that they've already put that money to work.

Jessica Dickson

Going to the NCAA Tournament will help us in recruiting state kids. When they get recruited by big out of state schools I think this NCAA bid will help. We want to keep our talent and kids in state.

Paul Merson

I thought Forest's bid was quite close to his true value. The closer I get to the window closing, the more I start to panic.

Elizabeth Costello

We're on a tight timeline. We need to know what our costs will be if we're to bid on flying for Northwest or any other carrier.

Pete Carroll

We've got to make sure John David makes it back. I wouldn't count Mark out, he's done too well. Mark's gained more ground on him - he had a great spring. His bid to start has been enhanced by that.

Gert Biesmans

It is positive to see that there is sufficient interest in the company... We expect a bid in about two months.

Mia Smith

I thought the competition wen;played was pretty good. We're playing in the Central Region, which I thought was extremely competitive. But all at once, there is not a single at-large bid from the Central Region. We had the kids in the classroom to watch and we were so upbeat.n;But it was dead silence (when then;field was announced) and the silence said it all.

Vassilis Gagatsis

I think we could make a good bid alone.

Gary Shaw

It got nasty at times. In the end, it got made. I guess nobody wanted it to go to purse bid and have it be in somebody's backyard.

Jeret Peterson

It actually makes money for me rather than costs me. It's nice. It covers the cost of traveling.

Silvia Pepino

Italy needs radical reform to cut its unit labor costs and regain competitiveness, but that can be a very painful process.

Javier Bardem

There are so many movies and it's a waste of time and a waste of money. Basically, movies are made with what it costs the external debt of all Africa.

Chellie Pingree

Having started and owned two small businesses, I know what a challenge it is to keep up with the rising costs of your employees' healthcare premiums.

Peter Spina

Gold Fields had a stellar second-quarter earnings release Thursday, with a combination of a strong Rand gold price, slightly lower production costs and an increase in production to 1.04 million ounces (from 993,000).

Susan Pisano

HMOs cover more in terms of benefits, their premiums are lower and they require less in the way of out-of-pocket costs for patients.

Kay Runge

It costs us probably a third per square foot to run as the other building.

Don Phillips

It costs us more to provide transportation than what we get back, ... (But the increase in fees) will help us offset that cost.

Will Rogers

It costs ten times more to govern that it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

Tom Colby

We've given up shorthanded goals and power play goals all year long, but we had them piled on us in the same game. We just weren't executing well at that point.

Eric Etchison

I thought the other team did a good job executing with runners in scoring position. They scored a lot of their runs with two outs and we didn't.

Charli Thorne

I think we're at a point in our program where we can pretty much match up with anybody. I think we've proven that throughout the season. It doesn't necessarily mean we're going to come out on top, but it's pretty fun to be in a situation where you go into a game and it's just a question of executing your game plan.

Marvin Neals

I think we did a better job of executing our offense. We felt they were going to make a run; all good teams do that. Our job was to be sure we did not lose the lead totally.

Tony Sabatino

I thought one of the big keys is the fact we made a much higher percentage of three-point goals the second half. We did a nice job executing and finding an open guy.

Jenny DeMuth

I think we were just going in and executing our game plan, we're going to leave it on the floor. I don't think we went in thinking we needed to win.

Aaron Rodgers

I think after the game it was mostly frustration - not playing as well as I'd like to, not executing like I know I can. You can see in practice, I've had a real good camp. Made a lot of strides, made a lot of plays. I feel like my knowledge of the offense has gotten better each day and I've gotten more and more comfortable. It's just a matter of transferring that into the game.

Larry Hogan

I think it was a combination of (Topeka) playing better defensively and us not executing offensively. I called some plays and we just didn't run them. It's the same kind of thing we've been doing all season.

Craig Gentry

He was hitting his spots real well and executing his pitches real nicely. I thought he had a great outing, kept them off-balance, and pitched really well for us.

Brad Turner

Jacksonville was faster and Forney was bigger, so we've seen different types of defenses, ... We feel like we can do some things.

Marcus Williams

I think it made me grow up a lot faster than I wanted to, but I needed it.

John Whitelavich

He was a linebacker last year and we were looking for a tailback and tried him there. He didn't know the plays very well, but he's learned them now and got faster over the summer. He's a tough runner.

Dan Hendricks

He can run, that's all there is to it. There hasn't been any faster horses in the races so far, and the next one there will be and it's a whole new game.

Dan Hendricks

He can run, that's all there is to it. He's got tactical speed. It's just that no one has run faster yet.

Jim Johnson

He is playing faster than I've ever seen him play.

Rick Spielman

(Greenway) didn't have eye-popping speed numbers (4.75 in the 40-yard dash). But he does play faster than his 40 time. He's going to be a good football player in this league. He's instinctive and he's tough.

Scott Davis

This was our fastest volume growth in the US for five years and we are growing faster than the market.

Michael Litzinger

He returned from a mission and got back to good form a lot faster than we expected.

Ndamukong Suh

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

Javier Solana

Just yesterday there were very significant and important demonstrations in Belgrade that are growing and growing in numbers because the very violence of Milosevic's police ... is making more and more people go to the demonstrations,

Barclay Tagg

He kept going lame. He was going through growing pains, I guess.

Jessica Sanders

He really wants to sit down and work with us, ... I think that's so important because we are growing so much.

Danny Clark

He's a smart guy. He's getting better every time he lines up. But he's still got some growing to do, and hopefully we can stunt some of his growth this week.

John Deane

I think it's a question of institutional pride of this body. There has been a growing tendency to let the president do what he wants.

Mike King

I think it should get big. It's growing pretty rapidly.

Bobby Schindler

I think you're seeing the growing support of the pro-life movement.

Akio Yoshino

There is a growing view that insurers have had their run for the short term. Money is shifting to the laggards of the markets now, such as the technology companies.

Mark Sue

I think investors are relieved about these results because there were thoughts they would have to ratchet down for this quarter.

Art Hogan

I think we'll start getting investors into the marketplace later in the first quarter,

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

Fadel Gheit

Investors need to think first, and not put money randomly into oil stocks,

E. O. Wilson

investors may be saying 'it doesn't get much better than this, so let me take some money off the table and wait until some of the uncertainty flushes out.' After that, the stocks are back off to the races again.

Maelle Gavet

Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.

Markus Steinbeis

Investors are taking profits in insurers because it (the sector) has been one of the top performers since October.

Brian Reynolds

Investors are saying, 'we're not getting as much for the risk, so we're not interested,'

John Bollinger

Investors are now realizing that their (worst fears) were overblown.

Ken Zimmerman

Keeping the matches just may be therapeutic for everyone.

Joe Schmidt

keeping pressure on the ball, controlling the opponent's set plays and team defense.

Jack Dean

Just to be within one shot of Beaufort, I'm ecstatic. When were not keeping up with Beaufort is when I'm not happy.

Stephnie Weir

There are so many examples of people who have flourished by keeping their nose to the grindstone and doing their thing. Be persistent and don't give up.

Drew Stanton

Having that (run-and-pass) threat is really nice in keeping people off-balance.

Larry Smith

It didn't make sense keeping the property industrial. It would have been underutilized that way.

Don Dunn

I was disappointed in him because he has a lot of potential. He was not playing up to his potential. He was lazy. He wasn't keeping up with his academics.

Margaret Spellings

We're on the way to keeping that promise.

Brad Ranson

I think we got the cobwebs out in the second quarter. At first, we were a little nervous. I thought the key was the second quarter, getting up by a big 10 points and just keeping the lead throughout the game.

Brian Gionta

He kept us in the game. Obviously Marty is Marty, he always keeps us in the game. There's not much else you can say about him, we're just lucky to have him back there.

Keith Richardson

He keeps switching the names of the owners on the deed,

O. Winston

He keeps getting better every week. He'll mess something up, and the next week you won't see the same mistake. The big thing is we have to give him enough time back there, and he's going to make every throw he needs to make.

Isaiah Stanback

He just keeps me working. He keeps everyone working.

Lute Olson

He just keeps getting better and better. He has tremendous poise and confidence.

Hank Haney

He just keeps getting better and better and better. I don't think there's a 'there' there.

Lourdes Cowgill

He is resourceful, he is entrepreneurial, and he is engaging, so if he keeps all those talents and on the right track he should be very successful.

Sam Hunt

Football sometimes is stressful. Music is more of a kind of laid-back type, chilled-out kind of activity. It kind of keeps me balanced, I guess.

Tanya Chaplin

Her performance tonight was spectacular. She just keeps getting better and better.

Aaron McGruder

It astounds me that good, responsible white people paid for this show.

Douglas Roberts

He was being beaten. He paid a price for this.

Dave Nabity

I thought tax relief was for people who paid taxes.

Joe Gibbs

I think as much as anything it's their character. They keep fighting, and it's paid off for us.

Bob Gainey

I think it was the right reaction to the moment. We paid a price, but it wasn't too costly this time.

Marvan Atapattu

He's been doing a lot of work on his fielding and tonight it paid off in a final.

Mark Chmura

I didn't do it to grandstand. I'm being paid to render an opinion. That's essentially what I did.

Russ Adams

He doesn't talk as much as (Hudson) did. But it's all really the same techniques we're using. It's all about repetition and getting to know each other. We're out there every day before and after practice getting our work in and the work has paid off.

Zig Ziglar

When you do more than you're paid for eventually you'll be paid for more than you do.

Stephen Hadley

I would say that is some real progress.

Jerry Angelo

He just didn't progress the way we thought he would. That's the short of it. I'm sure he's as disappointed as we are.

John Bolton

I think we are still making progress. I think it is slow but it is steady,

Wayne Inouye

I think things are on track and we're very enthusiastic about the progress we've made to date. We have just started a long journey. I don't think that everything is perfect.

Ty Warren

I think we're more satisfied with the progression, and the progress we've made through the season from where we started to where we are right now. It's a whole other season that's going to start right now.

Sandy Bridgeman

I think we?re making the progress that we want to. It?s not perfect. But there are glimpses of the team we can be.

Scott Sutton

I think we're making some progress but tonight we ran out of steam in the third period,

Keith Rockwell

There is a need for them to progress here. It's a very important meeting.

Abbott L. Lowell

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

Drew Brosseau

It can be a mid-30s stock in 12 months.

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Hans Kunnen

The big-picture fundamentals for commodities stocks is still in place. Nothing has actually changed. The sell-off in some sectors was not warranted.

Jon Oringer

It turned out it was really easy to create commercial stock footage.

Deidre Hall

They are our stock and trade and it has been our collateral.

Spiros Segalas

It's making the Dow more meaningful, more representative of the stock market.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Michael Friedman

The stock trades at about 9 times its 2003 earnings,

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

Anna Brown

I really like the sheriff's street act. It's so funny,

Juan Felipe Herrera

I like marketplaces. I like train stations; I like being in trains. I like airports. I like walking down the street with a pen in my hand, writing, writing, writing.

Donnie Yen

A gesture, a smile, or just walking down the street is an expression.

Fernando Ferrer

You could go to any New Yorker on the street and they will tell you they are having an affordability crisis,

Maria Rodriguez

You've got to go to the streets to get to the table.

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

David Brooks

They're from a friend's house. Three streets away.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Martin O'Malley

I think that the S.E.C. has been pretty feckless when it comes to reigning in reckless behavior on Wall Street.

Carl Jung

Despite the fact that he no longer dressed like the big dork he did then, despite the fact that he’d swapped the nerd wear for some much cooler clothes, despite the fact that he’d let his hair go all shaggy and loose to the point where it curved down into his face in that cool guy, slightly windswept, effortless way, despite the fact that every time I looked into his brilliant blue eyes I was totally reminded of the Zac Efron poster that used to hang on my old bedroom wall, it still didn’t make it okay for him to laugh at me the way he did.

Anton LaVey

The TV set, or Satanic family altar, has grown more elaborate since the early 50s, from the tiny, fuzzy screen to huge ‘entertainment centers’ covering entire walls with several TV monitors. What started as an innocent respite from everyday life has become in itself a replacement for real life for millions, a major religion of the masses.

Robert Creeley

It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.

Robert Crais

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Rob Thurman

Every inner touch, every one of its fingerprints on my brain, burned like acid. It shredded the walls of my soul like tissue paper, it clawed its way into my very center, I couldn’t tell anymore where it began and I ended. It poured into me like a river into the sea, mixing, melding, until we were one. One. For better or worse. Until death do us part.

Richard Petty

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.

Richard Whately

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

Richelle Mead

Ah, well,ʺ said Abe, idly studying his fingertips. ʺI have it on good authority thereʹs going to be a new ‘gateʹ opening up soon over on the south side of the wall." The truth dawned on me. ʺOh lord. Youʹre the one whoʹs been doling out C4.ʺ ʺYou make it sound so easy,ʺ he said with a frown. ʺThat stuffʹs hard to get a hold of.