Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck D.

Historically, it's not like GM has always been a great company. It's had it's cyclical down periods. But you need to look at the import of GM, not as much a stock but as a barometer of the economy.

Will Rogers

If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

Chuck D.

The Dow is more a barometer of the economy and not so much the stock market. The photography sector isn't all that crucial to the economy.

A march is not a movement. It's a barometer for the passion. The community needs mobilization. We're in it for the long haul. If we really want successful integration, we have to do much more than march.

Matt Bennett

They serve as a barometer to let us know what issues are out there.

Steve Lawrence

This meet has some of the top teams in the state and six teams we'll see come the sectional. This was a good barometer as to where we are at this time of the season.

Geno Auriemma

It's a great barometer for not only what is happening with our team at the moment but what could happen, what might happen down the road. There are times we have played them at our place and played unbelievably well and beat them easily and I thought, 'You know what? I think this team can win the national championship.' There's times when we've played them at their place and got our heads handed to us and I left there thinking, 'You know what? I'm not sure we're a national championship-type team.

Herman Edwards

It's a good barometer of where we are as a team.

It's a real good marriage between these two teams to be able to go head-to-head the first race of the year. It's a barometer for us to find out where we're at, and we're a little bit better than what we thought we would be. I'm ecstatic. To me it's a win.

Tim Wakefield

There's been times where I've come out of the bullpen thinking I was going to throw a no hitter, and I've lasted two or three innings. So I try not to use my pre-game warm ups as a barometer of how I'm going to pitch.

The software license revenue is widely viewed as a healthy barometer of their business. I think most of us were looking for growth in the 12- to 15-percent range, and we got 9 percent.

I've always enjoyed it as a football fan. But as a market analyst, I always turn to our January barometer .

Dick LeBeau

The statistics will tell you that: They scored more points. That's usually a pretty good barometer for the effect that the rule changes had on the game for that year. The numbers, in this case, don't lie.

Copper is often perceived to be the barometer for market conditions and therefore a significant fall in copper prices could remove speculative support from other metals.

The transaction-capture piece is important, but what companies really want to get to is this information system that gives them a good barometer of where their business is at any point in time.

Richard Hastings

To be concerned about the strength of consumer spending is wise. Wal-Mart as a barometer of consumer spending is significant. Consumer spending will start to moderate off of its hot pace in the second-half of the year.

Shawn Levy

When you do a drama, you are challenged to trust your inner voice much more. Because when you put a comedy in front of even a 25-person screening, you know whether it's working or not. The barometer is overt.

Clint Hurdle

Nobody here has taken him and put him in a chair and tried to get him wound up so tight that he can't perform by breaking down his mechanics, ... We've kept things as simple as possible for a young left-handed pitcher to go out there and perform. I really believe that, at this point and time in the season, this is one of the more challenging things that's happened to him in his career. This'll be a good barometer of who and what he is.

Bill Cowher

Certainly, ... I think it's a big game early in the season. It's a good barometer for us to see where we stand.

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Flip Saunders

He's the barometer for their team. He is the heart and soul of their team. He can play three positions (shooting guard and both forward spots), and he works so hard. He is kind of like their Ben. Ben is our energy guy, and Shane is theirs.

Pat Riley

I was very conscious of (players') minutes and in the end I was very conscious of health. Today is not a good barometer to judge us.

People are going to say what they want to say. We want to follow the same barometer for all cases, and we worked hard to do that here.

Tom Petty

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.

Bayard Rustin

The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.

We've only won one game where we gave up over 60 points. That was our barometer this season. If we gave up 60 points, we weren't going to win.

Damien Chazelle

The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.

We should start getting a good barometer on the guys as far as endurance is concerned. So much of golf of battling through and being mentally tough when you're tired, and I think coming down the stretch, we're going to be tested on that.

We love the challenge. I've always been that way. It's a nice barometer for us. They may shut us out. Nobody in the gym will think we can win and that's the most fun to play a game, when no one thinks you can win.

We're not lying to the kids. We know we're not going to win the dual. What we're looking to do is to win as many matches as we can and wrestle well. We want to use it as a barometer going into the sectional.