Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ned Rifkin

It both included things from the studio and the real world of the studio right into the realm of pictorial creations. And that step -- even though it sounds simple and looks very humorous and benign -- it was so radical at the time that it forever changed the history of 20th century art.

Al Goldman

I think the main thing that's going right for the market is that we still have a very healthy economy, with rising earnings and benign inflation. On a technical side, I think the correction ended three weeks ago. The market has been slowly recovering its sea legs. We had five days up in a row on the Nasdaq composite, and that is the reason why the profit taking yesterday. But the big picture still remains very positive,

Stephen Wright

Reasonably benign economic environment, nothing too threatening with either (political) party. . .either party coming in will still mean continuation of reasonable economic growth.

Stephen Stanley

Clearly, Fed officials are more worried about the threatening things that they see (energy spike, eroding slack, etc.) than the benign core consumer price index readings.

James Crosby

Impairments have been very much in line with our expectations. This will continue in retail terms to be a very benign credit cycle,

Stuart Hoffman

Inflation, it's been a clean sweep for July. We learned earlier this month wages were unchanged, yesterday producer prices fell again, and this morning you're right on the money, relatively benign consumer price inflation report. No problem.

Lara Rhame

Inflation is looking more benign outside of the energy sector.

Arul Chinnaiyan

Initially, we envision this new test could be used as a supplement to PSA. A physician might suggest a patient with an elevated PSA have this test before a biopsy to better determine whether it's a cancerous or benign condition. In the future, I think this could replace PSA.

Tom Higgins

The Fed's statement turned out to be more benign than people were expecting. Before the meeting, people were thinking the Fed would be more hawkish but their comments seemed to suggest that they were not overly concerned about inflation,

Paul Ballew

I wouldn't say it was driven by the March results, but our reading about where consumers are at.

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Bill Hardekopf

There are so many different options for consumers that didn't exist 20 years ago.

Ron Glaz

What we will see is that consumers will rely on multiple processes. Retail printing will grow in the short term, but at some point it will level off and decline.

Kyle Hall

What we wanted to do is solve the issues for the consumers of where their pictures are going.

Wayne Martin

Historically, any time of serious domestic economic struggle has had negative effects on the entertainment industry, as consumers re-prioritize the expenditure of their discretionary income.

Raul Vazquez

It is a digital holiday. Consumers are really responding to all things electronic.

Mark Savage

I think the lesson for consumers is?read the contract.

Gray Davis

There is no easy solution, ... But, if I have to use the power of eminent domain to prevent generators from driving consumers into the dark and utilities into bankruptcy, then that's what I'll do.

Charlie Cook

It can't hurt the president to remove himself from the current context of scandals, miscues and partisanship and put him in a statesman setting.

Paul Tagliabue

Guaranteed contracts, within the context of a salary cap, takes it away from a player who is playing and gives it to a player who is not playing.

Drew Gilpin Faust

I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.

Laura Linney

I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

Adlai Stevenson

What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Joe Banner

I think a lot of people, including myself, do and say a lot of things in the context of negotiations that tend to go away and be forgotten,

Arlen Specter

I think that it would be very, very difficult for the president to explain that, in the context of information leading up to why that would be so,

Greg Chappell

In what context he said it, nobody knows. You got to get the truth.

Arlen Specter

In the context where the Supreme Court decides, really, the cutting-edge questions of our day

James Connolly

What we have now is a university town grafted onto a declining industrial city. The standard of living here is not going to be as great.

Andrew Chetham

PCCW is facing declining revenues from its long-distance operations, but it still has a massive grip on Hong Kong's telecoms infrastructure and so it is very well positioned.

Eric Nelson

The habitat has been declining pretty heavily for the last 30 years. We're trying to reverse that as well.

Jeff Thredgold

The economy is still doing extremely well. We're declining, but declining from a high level.

David Hanson

We still have too many students 12 to 17 who are drinking excessively but we don't have an epidemic. We have a declining problem. That's the fact of it.

David Morton

Then we wanted to get in front of the declining (enrollment).

Eric Olsen

It's like a declining balance, like a debit card.

John Donne

Where can we find two better hemispheres/ Without sharp North, without declining West?

Heather Boushey

The main reason for women's declining labor-force participation rates over the last four years was the weakness of the labor market. Women did not opt out of the labor force because of the kids.

David O'Leary

Kevin is out on Tuesday and is a doubt for Chelsea,

Jack Mesi

I wouldn't be here if I had a doubt, no matter how small. We wouldn't pursue it.

Pat Russo

Just to stick to it that long and keep at it is hard. I really enjoyed watching that, and she left no doubt about it.

Dan Marks

Karl is one of the most experienced and respected executives in television sports rights. There is no doubt that BT's new on-demand TV service has the potential to revolutionize the way sports are viewed and Karl will help us to realize that potential.

Bill Belichick

just not healthy. I'm sure it was a factor, I don't think there's any doubt about it.

D.J. Shockley

Joe's very smart. There's no doubt in my mind that Joe can get the job done just as well as if I was playing.

William Kovacs

I think in many ways, Microsoft has planted some seeds of doubt about the government's hypotheses,

Danny Morrison

He was affable, humorous, unassuming, intelligent. He didn't lead a lavish lifestyle - I doubt if he even owned his own house. He didn't drink too much. He didn't gamble. He didn't drive a flashy car. His wife never wore fur.

Eric Falt

Green TV is a truly innovative project which will no doubt influence the field of environmental film-making and research. It will eventually offer a comprehensive 'one- stop shop' for environmental TV programming -- something that has so far not been available.

Frank Boulton

John is not really handicapped. Yes, he's in a wheelchair, but he isn't handicapped. What he has done is an incredible achievement. John is the engine ? he's the guy who makes it all work. His energy is infectious. We're proud to include him as part of the Ducks' family.

Mark Rodgers

It appears, at the end of the day, there are fossil fuel interests trying to stop a renewable energy project.

Dick Riley

He used his energy and influence to get things done.

Lee Humphrey

He was big for us tonight. He's been around for five years; he knows how to prepare for games. He knows the right mindset to have, and he stays focused. Tonight he gave us great energy off the bench.

Andrew McCarthy

He knows the energy you expend from trying to get from point A to point B to point C. And when somebody lies and that throws your trail off a million miles from where it ought to be & the lie is a lot more consequential.

Alec Baldwin

harvesting our offshore winds to produce pollution-free energy is a forward-looking solution that protects public health, the environment and the region's quality of life.

Siobhan Davies

What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.

Scott Fetzer

Having them out there kind of sets the pace for the rest of the team. Their energy kind of spreads out, and other kids feed off it.

George Gero

Gold is a safe haven. We have major political problems in Iran and energy problems in Nigeria.

Sathya Baba

Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

Purnama Dharmaji

It can be turned into a powder that can be sprinkled on top of food, just like table salt.

Grant Achatz

Ultimately, the perfect meal is when those things come together - circumstance, the food, ambiance, and you're with the person that you want to be with.

Daniel Boulud

I love Italian food; it's soulful like French food. Italian food is original and homey; it's market-driven, but also can be locally sourced.

Daniel Boulud

Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.

Nancy Williams

It hurts all of the food banks. Food is costing more and it's harder to get.

Eric Wareheim

L.A. malls are so different than a 'mall' mall like we probably all grew up with that had a food court and the sword shop, the yo-yo kiosk.

Timothy Ramey

There is a lack of innovation, lack of reinvestment, and lack of news in the category. We're not recommending any large-cap food names.

Eric Schlosser

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

John Fisher

I was like, 'You're kidding me. How could I be leading, not peddling a good portion of the course?'

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Shacoi Berry

I was kind of tired and I didn't warm up that good before the first match. I got a much better warm-up in before this last match and I wrestled a lot better.

Robert Crandall

I was looking for somebody who could operate effectively and had good personal chemistry.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Brandon Perkins

I was in the right place at the right time. The other side did a good job of containing, and (the quarterback) couldn't go anywhere. I just had to go get him.

Ben Sheets

I was in pretty good shape. I don't know how you could prevent it. It seems like it could happen at any time.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Lamar Owens

I would've been satisfied with a one-point victory. But we wanted to prove that we're on a different level ... To come out and play the way we did was phenomenal.

Eddie Hoffman

I wouldn't be racing without them. At least not at this level or this often.

Gene Contino

I would say so. I don't think we're quite at that level yet but it's come along.

Kurt Browning

Just watching as a kid, I never thought I would reach this level so soon and I would actually get to do this stuff.

Greg Miller

He just sets new levels of expectations for himself.

Siobhan Finneran

'Downton' has really pushed me to a new level in my career, but it's not like I have a big career plan. They are about as useful as a birth plan; they should be burned.

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

P. J. Harvey

going on at the acquisition level and the requirements level.

Tommy Bowden

He's a tough guy. He's a mean guy. Whether those are appropriate words to say, I don't know. But again, that's how the game's played, and there's a level we need to play with defensively we haven't reached yet in those aspects.

Barry Hyman

I think it's emotional, because all the news out today is already known.

Jonathan Klein

We report the news. Fox talks about the news.

Michael Holland

I think what stocks are reflecting, especially with respect to the Nasdaq, is they've incorporated the worst news.

Dan Anderson

I was watching the news a lot on TV, and was just kind of struck by how, it seemed like every hour, something worse was happening,

R. Ingram

I watched the news and read the newspaper with my dad,

Michelle Williams

I went to sleep with the news every night,

Saifur Rahman

I don't know anything about it but I am worried like you going through the newspaper reports.

Mark Dubach

I don't know that it was easy, but it's just nice to have the newspaper here and get a win, because we were 0-2.

Rob Brown

Let's face it, we're all clones nowadays. We've all got the same archives, we've all got the same Hyundai, we've all got the same Mac or PC components, and we're all being told the same news stories globally.

Charlie Smith

Her performance really surprised me, considering she's on a taper for states.

Dave Littlefield

His performance isn't up to what we've seen in the past.

Jessie Reyes

I threw some different wrestlers in there to see how they would compete. I wasn't pleased with our performance. As a team, we need to pick it up.

Don Roy

I was disappointed with our performance in several matches. We can do better. It could be we just haven't had enough practice time.

Tim Floyd

I think what's important is how we respond to that performance the other night.

Sasha Cohen

I think it was a gift. For that performance, silver is generous.

Warren Zevon

But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

Zig Ziglar

When your image improves, your performance improves.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Platitudes and generalities can only be sustained when performance exceeds intellect.

Sam Walton

I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.

Angie Myers

In retail we can't really get together at Christmastime, so we make a vacation of this.

Jeff Barker

This is a competitive business, like any other retail business. It's very important to stay on point.

Peter Cardillo

The retail sales are a real blow-out number.

Michael Beyard

The retailers want to be on the street now.

David Cook

It's time for big-box retailers to start to do the right things by their employees.

Nancy Bray

When you work in retail long enough, you get a vibe off people. We all got that vibe off of him.

Richard Redniss

We're not going to have, post-9-11, at this location, retail uses.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Tim Anderson

I think that the stock's probably washed out for a while,

Michael Bennet

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

Seth Greenberg

Deron Washington is a wonderful kid. What he did was wrong and I can't condone it.

Jim White

It's very frightening. One day it's going to wash through and keep going.

Christopher Shays

It's kind of like Pontius Pilate washing his hands.

Linus Roache

I'd be willing to do anything. I'm not precious. I'd wash dishes.

Armstrong Williams

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Tara Miller

I use Lysol and bleach and water. And, I am always washing blankets.

David Remnick

Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.

Greg Meffert

There will be no wholesale demolition of neighborhoods without consent.