Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Venables

Whether or not he's ready, it's irrelevant because he's going to play. There's a pecking order of what you have going into the year. He was where he was and now he is where he is. I feel comfortable with Alan and he'll be capable of helping us.

Patrick Burns

With the sheriff asleep in the office, the only way you get justice is with private lawyers like Alan Grayson willing to step up and take down these fraudulent companies. Alan Grayson showed that you can do that even without help from the government.

Associates like Alan are the reason why GEICO is so successful. They are always giving 110 percent.

Gary Neville

All our thoughts are with Alan - we've had a bad day all round.

Mark Zandi

This Administration is trying to change the whole intellectual basis for fiscal policy that Alan Greenspan enforced when deficits were large in the early 1990s. We got fiscal discipline through the idea that deficits matter. That's been flipped on its head.

It's too early to call a turn in the trend, so Alan Greenspan can't relax completely, but it's certainly the kind of report that will help him sleep better. There's still no sign of wage inflation and we seem to be heading for a soft landing: a smooth slowdown into sustainable non-inflationary growth.

It's now a seven-week contest. I left it up to the contestants whether they wanted to continue with it. I spoke with Alan first, and he said it would be best to go on with it. Then I spoke with Brent, and he agreed.

It's the rationale of not putting all of your eggs in one basket, for not betting that (Fed Chairman) Alan Greenspan can save the economy.

Graeme Souness

There was no dispute about Alan Shearer's goals today and I'm delighted for him.

Shay Given

There will be a big gap and it seems strange to think he will never play again. I have found it emotional so I don't know how he will be feeling. There is life after Alan Shearer but it will be difficult to fill the void.

Graeme Souness

There were a couple of fine goals from Michael Owen and Alan Shearer gets one as well - but there are no surprises there,

It was a lot work and time for us, but it's worth it. I learned an awful lot about music by working with Alan. When I played piano, I played a note at a time. It's nothing like what Alan does.

Ben Mendelsohn

I did 'Quigley Down Under,' which is quite deliberately placed in Australia, which is a Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, Laura San Giacomo film from '88, I want to say.

As long as Alan Greenspan's not frowning, I'm not too worried.

Joe Eszterhas

Actually, I didn't know that. I like to name my characters after baseball players. Alan Trammell of the Tigers is one of my favorites.

Anything that's considered a little off-the-menu or special is going to spur some demand. And in country, we hear a lot about the 'disenfranchised core,' whose tastes run to the traditional and who like the older sound. Those people are often big Alan Jackson fans, and there's enough Sunday morning specialty programming out there in country radio land to get some good exposure for this record.

The secret to Greenspan's success remains a secret. When the next leader of the Fed takes his seat behind the chairman's desk and opens the top drawer in search of Alan Greenspan's magic formula, he will be sorely disappointed.

A few little injuries have slowed Alan down and it's probably the right time to retire,

Lawrence Summers

The one exception was a technical matter relating to financial modernization: but there Alan simply waited until I left and then very quickly resolved the matter with Larry,

Jeff Lemire

Sometimes, if you have a lot of history with a character and a lot of affection, it's hard for you to do anything with that character. Like with Swamp Thing, for instance, I revere the Alan Moore run so much that it would be hard for me to do my own Swamp Thing. I care too much about the way it was done before.

Chris Martin

Somewhere in the world Alan McGee is having a heart attack. He said we'd never make it.

Graham Moore

Telling Alan Turing's story in a two-hour film was a tremendous challenge. It felt in some small way like our filmmaking version of breaking the enigma code.

Graeme Souness

It would be nice if Alan was to get the record. I hope he scores the winner.

This is the calmest I've been. Everyone says you win up the middle. I look out there and we're experienced. I don't worry about the outfield because Alan is there. Conor is out there and John controls it behind the plate.

Glenn Roeder

Alan won't want sympathy. He'll shake himself down, shrug his shoulders and get on with it.

Alan will work hand in hand with the new chief executive and they, with assistance from the other directors, will drive the game on in Scotland.

Rio Ferdinand

Alan will tell you he is not silly enough to think that it's going to happen overnight,

John Hull

Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is known a stochastic volatility model. This is a model where the volatility as well as the underlying asset price moves around in an unpredictable way.

Alan White and I have not as yet written anything on VAR but we have done a number of consulting projects in this area and expect to do more.

Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence.

Alan Webb is a major international force as a mile and 1,500-meter runner. As we bring back the Fifth Avenue Mile to its old glory, I can't imagine a better athlete to lead the way.

Alan was one of the first writers of our generation, of great courage and literary skill.

Michael Owen

Alan was a great help throughout and instrumental in my decision,