Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Bisio

Anyone who suggests the number is inaccurate is way out of bounds. What would we have to gain from that? We are in no position to mislead people. A lot of people have an interest in working at Wal-Mart.

Judd Gregg

Anyone who knew my father knew he was an extraordinary and special person who brought humor, energy and optimism to all his infinite endeavors, especially those involving promoting and improving his beloved New Hampshire. He will be greatly missed but always remembered.

Moshe Dayan

Anyone who has practical ideas or proposal to encourage emigration, let him speak up. No idea or proposal is to be dismissed out of hand.

William Hazlitt

Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

Marty Brown

The bottom line is that this guy doesn't belong in this league. Anyone you refer to as 'Mister' belongs in the big leagues. I think he's going to be ready for whenever the Twins want him.

Ben Reitzes

The bottom line is that the copier industry is transitioning faster than anyone anticipated. The disadvantages of a copier company heading into a networked, digital world are now being highlighted more than ever before.

Eric Holland

The bottom line is that it was a legal decision and it was made by (Bradshaw). To say anyone else made the decision is not accurate.

Tom Sherak

The bottom line is, if you don't ask, you are not going to get it. But the one thing about Hollywood is that it is very hard to bully anyone when you are asking for that kind of price.

Brian Winquist

The boys want a trophy. I think we can compete with anyone in the state. I don't see a reason why we can't.

Steven Thompson

As a unit we have to try and find ways to make things come together. We try to have fundraisers and whatever money we raise, we save because every penny counts. We seem to always be scrapping the bottom of the barrel but the bottom line is that we want to make sure that we represent the country well, competing internationally.

Carlo Ancelotti

Barcelona played well. But the match was always in the balance.

Richard Rogers

Barcelona has the best urban regeneration in Europe. They've changed 3.75 miles of rusting port and foul sand into the most beautiful beach where you can practically dive in from your hotel bedroom.

Ted Olson

Barbara would have insisted that I live my life and that I go on and do the best possible job I could as solicitor general of the United States.

Karen Meredith

Barbara is definitely the heart and soul of this school.

John O'Brien

Productivity did set the tone, and now oil's moved back up slightly, but it doesn't seem to be spiking. As a group, consumers and traders, we're getting used to the idea of $60 a barrel oil.

Robert Locke

Procter & Gamble truly sets the bar when it comes to identifying and implementing innovative retail solutions.

Bracey Barker

Our defense was barely there. We didn't have any rotation.

Doug Melvin

People didn't really take us seriously as a wild-card contender last year, whether it was because of our $42 million payroll or because we were the Brewers. But we want the expectations to be higher. We've raised the bar here.

Jiang Xiaoyu

The budget of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will not surpass that of 2.4 billion US dollars for the Games in Athens.

Liu Qi

The slogan of the Beijing Games One World, One Dream will also be the theme of the torch relay. Through the torch relay, we hope to promote the Olympic spirit of peace, friendship and progress globally and send the good wishes of Chinese people to the whole world.

Joe Lin

The Olympics in 2008 in Beijing and the World Expo in 2010 in Shanghai will ensure that the IT industry and the government will throw in their might to ensure a smooth introduction of all cutting edge communication technologies.

Liu Peng

Many people in Taiwan hope that the torch relay of the sacred flame of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can also cover Taiwan.

Rebecca Patterson

But what's more interesting is the U.S.-China deficit, especially with what's going on in Beijing just now. It's going to put a lot of pressure on the U.S. to get China to move (further on yuan flexibility), and to the extent that they don't, that's going to raise protectionist rhetoric in Congress, which I think is ultimately dollar-negative.

Evgenia Radanova

My previous opportunity of taking part in the Summer Games was a special offer from my country. I will try even harder in the coming years and try to earn the berth for representing Bulgaria in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Wang Zhizhi

The 2008 Beijing Olympics is a dream come true for every Chinese. I hope I can play as a national member.

Donald Tsang

I was in Beijing not too long ago in December and had a very thorough discussion with the President, the Premier and other senior officials.

Albert Ho

We can't be optimistic that we can persuade Beijing to change their stance. The future will be difficult.

Fauzi Ichsan

Premature rate cuts could trigger inflationary expectations that could reduce, if not reverse, the capital inflows.

Kenny Tang

The risk of a further slump of Hong Kong stocks is not great, as there is no evidence there are capital outflows in the region. Strong support remains at the mid-February low of 15,241.

John McWhorter

Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?

Roger Altman

We live in an era where the global capital markets are the super power in the world, and when they move against you as they've moved against Russia, as we've all seen in the ruble, there's nothing that can stop that.

Jim Mills

Currency trading has been one of the fastest-growing segments of the electronic trading universe in recent years. As a pioneer in this market, Gain Capital has helped drive the growth of the market and has become a highly profitable company.

Bill Gurley

I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.

Jim Henkel

At one time, 60 percent (of the income tax) went into the general fund, and 40 percent for capital improvements. Now, about 95 percent has to go into the general fund and 5 percent for capital improvements.

Jozef Straus

At present, order levels clearly reflect lower carrier capital spending and the resulting desire of our customers to reduce inventories sharply.

John Burns

Conquering himself, he has learned that he can conquer the world of capital whose generals have been the most ruthless of his oppressors.

James Hong

As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

Jim Bowers

After looking at all of the 500 pieces, I think they were either some sort of game pieces or were used for trading by Chinese workers. I lean toward the game pieces, though.

Lu Xiaowen

Aiding the needy has always been a traditional Chinese virtue.

P. J. Harvey

Ultimately what they are planning is a Chinese space station in about 2008 or so. To do that they will need to learn about how to survive on longer missions.

Jack Ma

What we are doing is to design an on-line search engine for ordinary people, not just the engineers. We are more focused and a totally search engine technology will come to the Chinese market within three to five years.

Dalai Lama

I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

Alicia Sacramone

I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day!

Porter Goss

We know that Chinese officials chose to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in the 1996 re-election of the Clinton administration. What we don't know is what they expected to gain from that investment,

Timbaland

I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Brenda Frese

Coming up to the arena, most of the players had no idea what we were doing. It showed them what we were playing for.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

J. J. Johnson

Coming off those three losses, it's nice to have a win.

David Kopp

Coming off the starts that I had, I wasn't where I needed to be. We needed this one.

Christian Fauria

Coming off the loss to Carolina, having a really tough game, we just knew this was going to be a challenge. Do we have it or do we not have it?

Paul G. Thomas

Coming off the holiday break, it seems that the Conservatives have had a series of good breaks, notably the RCMP investigation of the Liberals.