Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm disappointed, obviously. The kids were looking forward to it. They've been on a high ever since we announced this.

I love watching the Oscars and seeing everybody saying all that 'it's an honour just to be nominated' rubbish. Then you see their faces when the split screen comes up as the winner is announced - the losers are all smiling through gritted teeth and looking as if they just swallowed half a pound of soor plooms.

Helen Clark

The ministerial lineup announced last night not only contained Speight supporters, but also was clearly unrepresentative of Fiji,

The Fed's announced an endgame for monetary policy.

The centre-left will win and revive the fortunes of an Italy thrust to its knees by the complete failure of the 'miracle' announced by Berlusconi five years ago.

The final results will not be announced before the beginning of next year because we have more than 1,000 complaints.

The company has been successful, in our view, in implementing its recently announced turnaround program.

The company's public relations people spread the word that the super-heating and cooling had produced a strangely high-quality wine. They announced to the press, 'Of course, this is a very expensive way to produce fine wines, and the Association will certainly not endeavor to repeat their success.' These wines were supposedly cased with a special label as a souvenir of the disaster.

The company officially announced that we were locked out.

The commission is investigating what is behind the statements at Farnborough fair when they simultaneously announced price rises.

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The encouraging thing is that, after a couple of days, the Yugoslav government has announced that they will be treated as POWs,

You know, the clock continues to tick. The negotiators, I think, have left things perilously late in light of the date of the summit, which was announced well in advance.

You could be approaching $80 billion in announced deals for this month.

Chris Phillips

The major reaction when EA announced their exclusive deal in December was, 'God, this is a huge loss, not just for sports games but for the industry in general,'

The key point is that the two fundamental problems which lead to Wal-Mart insuring so few of its workers is the fact they have extremely high deductibles and very strict eligibility requirements, ... Nothing that they announced today addresses either of these fundamental problems.

You've got some mergers that were announced today that are very favorable to the market. People who thought the market was going lower are finally throwing in the towel and putting their cash positions to work.

All this speculation surrounding my role in the third round of voting for the 2012 candidates is totally unfounded. I state that I did not vote in the third round - as I had announced at the time of the vote.

The hotel capital markets continue to be flush with cash, due in part to the record profits the U.S. industry will have earned in 2005. There will be several major trophy hotel sales that will be completed or announced in the first half of 2006 with more to come after.

The hope was still there until they announced the last team. But there's nothing we can do about it now. We just have to get prepared for our games in the NIT.

We are confident that these decisions are right for Mervyn?s future growth and success, and are consistent with the strategy that we announced in September 2005.

The body of the former president... will arrive in the country on Wednesday, October 19, 2005. The time of arrival will be announced later.

The blade announced by IBM is a direct outcome of collaboration with IBM for a year-plus. We're very excited their sales force will get behind that product.

Colin Baker

Nobody actually told us this was going to happen. It was just announced in the Lords last week.

The Bank of Japan had changed the policy as expected. But investors took comfort somewhat in some measures it announced to keep interest rates steady after the policy shift, especially the numerical target for CPI.

The settlement announced today consolidates and resolves a series of cases that have been pending for several years. AOL denies the allegations contained in the original lawsuit, and we've defended the cases accordingly.

This is in response to a very challenging environment. I would expect broader cuts to be announced within the sales force, marketing, general and (administration) as well as R&D over the longer run.

Kofi Annan

The negotiators, I think, have left things perilously late in light of the date of the summit, which was announced well in advance,

After three days, it got nice and calm -- until the skipper announced we had been in a hurricane, were in the eye at present and would have another two days coming out the other side.

It's basically a grand march in the auditorium. The guys line up on one side and the girls line up on the other side and when they are announced as a couple, they proceed through an arch and down the steps.

It's got a enormous room for improvement, I think, and rationalization. Just look where the stock was before they announced the merger about a year ago. And then I think there is -- there is a great hope there.

Consumer demand is expected to remain fairly healthy in 2006, especially given the further tax relief announced in the annual budget.

Dennis Hastert

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