Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pilar Montenegro

You always begin by thinking that it's going to go well and you're positive, but you don't know where you're going to end up. You never know if you're going to have much success or not. You never imagine.

Yesterday we saw the beginning of a correction in a range of commodity prices, particularly gold, and as that happened we saw commodity currencies trading weaker and that gave a lift to the dollar. That theme is still valid.

Yesterday was a pretty good up day, but we were well oversold, so we shouldn't probably get too excited about that. This is just the beginning of the heavy earnings results from the third quarter, and from everything we're seeing so far, the results are pretty mixed, but guidance in general is kind of cautious for the fourth quarter.

We expect 2006 to be the year that 2005 should have been. We project strong employment growth 2 percent or better that will begin to stretch many segments of the local labor force.

Don Mitchell

We entered fiscal 2006 with a focused set of strategies and optimism that during the year we would begin to recognize results from our prior year's initiatives.

Clint Bolick

We ended last year with a major victory and begin this year with a major setback.

Jim Brown

We'd worked for the previous board, ... so we knew the proper way to run the club. In the very first week, Darren Brown was paying money out with no invoices, so we began to keep a log.

We dug ourselves a deep hole. We came exploding out of it, actually, at the beginning of the fourth quarter. It looked like we had some momentum, and (Barb) Shea rimmed a 3 that would have cut it to two. Then trying to get the board (rebound), McBride made a long pass, and it was a five-point swing. We never got back after that.

Carly Fiorina

We're also beginning to see demand for our notebooks in Japan, which has been an untapped market for us so far.

We're already working with the city, and we hope to begin moving dirt this fall.

E. O. Wilson

We really worked hard from the get-go. Even though they scored (first), I didn't see our flinch. We were ready to play right at the beginning of the game and I'm really proud of the effort all the way through the game.

We really settled in and started playing better defensively. Our kids just relaxed and things began to work for us.

We finally began to find the open man and get some of our poise back that we lost in the first half.

We don't have a lot in our toolbox to begin with as far as economic development tools. This one, even though it's not used, the threat of eminent domain is always a tool for economic development.

We have stated from the beginning when we filed this that. .. it was a rate appropriate for our risk within the state of Florida.

We have some items in the museum that were donated directly by Wolf's family, ... Even though he moved to Chicago, he still returned to Clay County to hunt and fish. We have Wolf's personal hunting rifle on display, as well as unpublished photographs and even Wolf's passport from when he toured Europe and the UK. Basically, we have the museum structured to tell Wolf's story -- from his beginnings in White Station until his death in 1976. It's a tribute to his life.

We have some goals at the beginning of the year. We wanted to play with our hearts, and they did.

Kathleen Blanco

We can use the Astrodome for a place for our folks to begin to normalize their lives, ... This will help us immensely.

We'll need to see what will be involved in getting hardware back in flow and to begin processing launch vehicles for their missions.

Those of us who began working in the 1960s and '70s live to work. Our identity is wrapped up in what we do. Young people today work to live. They are more concerned about spending time with family and friends.

Those kids were the pioneers, but this team felt the same goals were realistic even though we lost some good kids. Their theme since the beginning was, 'It's our turn.' They believed that.

Those kids have gone through a lot to get where they're at now. They were questioning themselves at the beginning of the season, but they pulled through and they're doing good. We've had a great week of practice and that makes me feel 10 times better. It's been a productive week and we're ready.

Willis McGahee

Unfortunately, we had a couple of losses at the beginning of the season, but the division is up for grabs right now. New England is losing, Miami is right there. We feel like we're very competitive, and we know what we have to do when it comes to division games. We have to buckle up and get on the grind.

Unfortunately, the U.S. economy is showing signs of further slowing, exacerbated by the Sept. 11 attack. We are also beginning to see weakening economic conditions in other countries around the world. In addition, pricing pressures in our health imaging business intensified during the quarter, which combined with operational issues to reduce expected earnings for the quarter.

Peter Diamandis

You have raised a tide that will bring billions of dollars into the industry and fund other teams to compete. We will begin a new era of spaceflight.

You didn't know when they were going to start, but they began today.

You have this every couple years. You have a 10 or 11 percent decline. We've had it. It will probably go a little bit lower but this is not the beginning of the end.

Today (Wednesday), a lot of people are on the sidelines, but I think generally investors are beginning to return to the market after they were vacant in the first three weeks of the year, ... Mutual Fund inflows have shown that.

Ike Diogu

We didn't come out to play very well in the beginning and we turned it up in the second half but you know, the deficit was just too big for us to take the game.

Matt Harpring

We didn't come out to play in the beginning of the game, and we didn't come out to play after the first half. It's tough to watch from the bench, and to see your team get down, because you can't spot a good team like this 20 points.

We didn't come out at the beginning of the game with the mind set that we were going to win this game. We did a better job in the second half, but we dug ourselves a hole early on.

We did not shoot well at the beginning of the game when we had all those easy shots.

Kelly Ryan

We didn't really play that well last year. We didn't play that well at the beginning of the season at all last year. I know I'm looking to play pretty well in it this year, hopefully for first place on Saturday.