Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trevor Linden

We have to keep things in perspective a little bit. They're (alleging that there has been) betting on football, not an uncommon thing. I don't think we should get too carried away with throwing people under the bus. It's an unfortunate situation and something that will be taken pretty seriously. Wayne Gretzky is a pretty well-respected guy and he deserves that.

Utilities are the hottest bet at the moment. Investors are mulling who will make the next acquisition or get bought itself.

Derrick Brooks

Usually, we have something bet on it. We usually have got to wear the other university's colors for about a week if your team loses.

Henry Williamson

With the dried blood stiff on my temples I climbed the hill, cursing the satanic way of men, yet knowing myself vile, for they had not known what they were doing, but I betrayed an innocent; and the tears - weak, whiskey tears - would not wash from my brow the blood of a little brother.

Peer Steinbruck

But I would bet that the euro continues to exist and that its importance as a global currency will likely increase.

Pete Rose

I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.

Priscilla Chan

We've invested in Newark's children, the schools and teachers, and these are long-term bets that need a number of years to really pan out. We've seen and learned how important it is to listen to the community and really get a sense of what they need and want. And it's a long journey.

David Einhorn

There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.

While investors aren't expecting the levels of earnings growth that you see in China, people are thinking that Japan is a good bet for both security and growth.

With oil prices back near record levels, one can bet that the Brazilians are increasing ethanol production. This means less refined sugar and higher prices.

We must all be concerned about the threats that the Shin Bet head spoke about. Israel must stop playing ping pong... and nip the threat in the bud.

When you are investing in J.P. Morgan, what you are really betting on is Jamie and Jamie's team, ... You are betting that Jamie's team of expense control czars are going to be able to fully integrate this business.

When we hit the wire I wouldn't have bet money that we got there.

When someone is going to pay $3,000 for a Windows NT or Windows 2000 license, you can bet she is going to use it. If she pays $2 or even $50 or $150 for a Linux package, that doesn't necessarily mean it is going to get used -- or it could mean it was used 1,000 times by the organization. We just don't know how to count that.

When she sings, she embodies the song in ways that many singers don't. I thought, 'I bet she can act.' And she can.

When mining is down, we've seen the cycles that forestry has a tendency to be stable. It's rare that both are down. So we try to hedge our bets to be two companies in one by servicing those two diverse markets.

There are a lot of people betting on the euro so there's not a lot of room for a further rally. There aren't any fresh reasons to sell the dollar after a big move last week.

Henry Petroski

Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

Debi Mazar

My husband, Gabriele, is a musician, and I love music, so you can bet it's a really important part of our home entertaining repertoire, even if it means Gabriele making a really good playlist for a dinner party.

Tim Schafer

What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make your bets on people.

We only scored 30 points. It was sloppy. If you would have told me that's what was going to happen, I would have bet you a million bucks we were going to lose.

Dalton Trumbo

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

Dag Hammarskjold

It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge elementary mistake, the betrayal of that within me which is greater than I--in complacent adjustment to alien demands.

But North Korea's betting with its strongest hand failed to spur its negotiations with North Korea, but instead worsened the crisis situation on the Korean peninsula.

Alison Moyet

When I saw Adele, I thought: 'I'll give it an hour before people say I was her,' just because I was fat. When you watch 'X Factor,' you can bet your bottom dollar, every single fat singer sounds like me as far as the judges are concerned. Can you imagine if they did that with every black artist?

Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, / Though I must slave for livelihood - / Think you that I would change with him? / You bet I would!

Bryan Fuller

With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an emotional charge, I bet for catharsis. I like to invest emotionally in things. And catharsis, when it touches the emotional vein, can open the doors of even those who protect themselves.

Cormac McCarthy

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

Amandla Stenberg

'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn't have any monsters or crazy fantasy in it, it's such a raw story, and I can really relate to the characters. I think it's a beautiful story.

This will certainly open up the sport to a lot of people who might not just go directly to a track to bet on horses. That's where we see significant growth opportunities.

There has been less volatility overall on these numbers, and making the big bet has not really paid off.

We said no. We're going to place our bets on the broadcast media names.