Famous Quotes & Sayings

Consumers had a nice July and August. Unfortunately, they're on their own for the fourth quarter, which starts on Wednesday. Going into 2004, spending is going to be based on wage and salary growth, which needs a boost.

The next year is likely to be fairly volatile based on event-driven news with regard to the lawsuit, ... Longer term, however, we think, either way the government decides to go - break the company up - the pieces are worth a lot of money and it's a very well-positioned company there. I think investors will make money on that side. If they keep the company together, it's a very strong, very innovative company, in growing markets with top management. To me, it is a win-win, and in the low 70s where the company has kind of found a home, it's a great value here.

The next stage in our growth is for us to become a broadly based residential property services group.

The next four girls are based on experience and the time trial.

Derek Jeter

You try to get on base for him.

Kenneth Bacon

Then the international community will have to decide what to do next, based on Milosevic's activities.

Craig Foster

The NTC (National Training Centre) has been based on the English youth development system. It's a disgrace. England doesn't develop young players. I should know, I played there.

Claire McCaskill

The NRA grades senators and representatives based on their votes on gun issues - and even on issues that have little-to-nothing to do with guns.

Terry Jones

Then our code officer could write a notice of violation based on that information.

Nick Saban

The No. 1 thing is we want somebody who is going to manage the game and give us the best opportunity to be successful. We were going to make the decision based on this position based on who we felt would give us the best opportunity to win, and managing the game is a really important part of that.

Kalonzo Musyoka

The ODM is not based on political quicksand, but brings together people committed to certain ideals.

Debbie Allen

Then you give your actors broad strokes based on what your idea is for what is going on in the room and the circumstances surrounding it.

Then, when they re-surveyed in July, they came up with a new case unrelated to the investigation and that's what they based this decision on,

Carl Rogers

Then we got another letter saying, 'OK, we're back in the business. Then we started going back to Lubbock. But then about a week later, around the end of the year, we were notified that they were sending out contract amendments that in our case was going to change our base price for an autopsy -- we had a contract that was only two months old at the time -- that they were going to raise those contract costs over 100 percent.

Dan Caldwell

The nutshell version (of the lawsuit) is the statute provides that tobacco farmers will be paid $3 a pound, based on their 2002 quota.

the numerous convictions of ... fathers and day-care workers based on memories fabricated by neurotics and therapists, or on coaxed-out lurid fantasies of pre-rational children, testify to the destructive effects false knowledge can have, particularly when it cloaks itself in pseudoscientific jargon.

The numbers Visa has seen over the Friday and Saturday period are encouraging, but we will continue to watch over the next several weeks to see if the positive trends hold true, ... Based on the data Visa has seen to date, we remain cautiously optimistic that this will be a good holiday season for merchants.

The numbers in of themselves are sort of a push-and-pull. And the market, based on that, isn't doing a whole lot.

The numbers can get skewed from month to month based on what happens to sell.

Nick Saban

The number-one thing is we want somebody who is going to manage the game and give us the best opportunity to be successful. We were going to make the decision based on this position based on who we felt would give us the best opportunity to win, and managing the game is a really important part of that.

Josh Beckett

Everybody has new jokes. It's a fun time. I don't really know how to explain it. You get to play baseball for a living and get paid very well and you get to have a life. During the season you don't have a life because baseball is all day long. Here it's at the beginning of the day and then I can go play golf every day.

Bill Cowher

That's probably good news based on what we were concerned about the last couple of days.

That's part of the little things. Tonight we had the one big inning, then we just chipped away. It's sound baseball - moving runners over with less than two outs, scoring runs with sacrifice flies, not giving away at-bats. You aren't going to score every time you do that, but if you do it consistently, good things will happen.

That's part of baseball. I was mad that I wasn't doing well, but I got over it. We've been kind of down (this season), but we've been on track the past few games. We're getting better every game. We'll be ready.

Chone Figgins

That's our game and that's my job, to create havoc. If the stolen base is there, I'll take it, but it's not just stealing bases; it's going first to third and taking the extra base. We have to keep up the pressure.

Ron Gardenhire

That's our Achilles' heel all year long. We've got one of the best pitching staffs in baseball and offensively, we just can't support them. That's why we're in the position we're in in our league, our division and this Wild Card race.

That's something I've really been working on. With my speed, it's something that can get you on base a lot.

D. J. Cotrona

That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

That's the farthest he's gone, and I didn't want the game to end for him on a sour note. There's a lot of baseball left.

That's one of the best things, to be honest with you. If we go out and have a few drinks with a couple of adults, they're usually hockey parents. The kids hang around with kids who play hockey. If you think about it, our whole lives are based around it.

That injury really got me down. It took a couple of months before I started to feel better, and my spirits picked up when I was able to come back and play baseball last spring.

That is extraordinary, an extraordinary increase for all of their executives. That really doesn't make any sense based on the company's performance.

Jay Wright

That's a Big Five game, and as long as we play in the Big Five, I'm never going to have one of these games let me make decisions about my team. These games are crazy. I'm not going to be down on my guys based on what happens in these games. We just have to survive these games.