Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you think of public assistance, it is in some level a large bank. We need to have a process to make sure fraud does not occur, and some people think they can get away with it. It's such a betrayal of the people who want to help out the community as a whole.

Dave Barry

If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from "The Beverly Hillbillies

If you're the gambling sort, you could get into an interest-only product and bet that the market will build equity for you.

If you want to target and reduce a fish stock, a sure bet is to make it into a fishery.

If you were to have heightened trouble at Grasberg, all bets are off.

If you put that whole package out again, I bet it would pass.

Natalie Darwitz

If you're going to the casino, I'd probably bet on the U.S. and Canada.

Hugh Johnson

If you're going to bet on economists and strategists on one hand, and the markets on the other, take the markets every time.

In the first half of last year, you had a lot of the big tours early - Madonna, Prince, Bette Midler, Simon and Garfunkel. This year it's backloaded . . . that's just the way it worked out.

Arlen Specter

If there was a telephone call where someone gave assurances about how she's going to vote in a case, you bet that's something we'd look into, ... Absolutely. It is not tolerable to have any commitments about how a nominee would vote on a case. Not tolerable.

Ravi Teja

I just trust the director and never overanalyse the script, screenplay, etc. You are just taking a bet at the end of the day, so confidence, be it on the filmmaker or the script, is all that counts.

Chauncey Billups

I just heard about it, ... I wasn't really paying attention. That's cold. Bet they won't do that again.

Clearly there had been a fourth quarter bet that technology would outperform, but they disappointed and people ran for the exits. I would say financials also disappointed.

Clearly, as a betting man, I would have to say the probability of a recession has gone up significantly,

I'm willing to bet that John Henry Kirby paid to have this house built because it was the most expensive house in Silsbee, ... It was the cream of the crop.

Robert T. Bakker

I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool.

I'll bet they felt the same way about Ibanez when he came here, ... So much for that fourth outfielder theory.

Jennifer Granholm

I'll bet the Kalamazoo system will experience unprecedented growth after this announcement.

Brian Urlacher

I'll bet I have 250 pairs. I can't throw any away because as a kid we got one pair a year. Now I order 20 pairs at a time.

Robert Esche

I'll bet if you walked over to that stick rack you'd be lucky to find three (illegal sticks).

I'll bet for a good five years there's been rumors at every deadline that I'm going to Ottawa.

Loretta Young

I'll bet even Helen of Troy had to have at least a little sunshine in her disposition.

Aaron Lowe

I owe my Gucci watch to a friend from high school. I had a bet with him a long, long time ago.

Joe Nelson

I remember telling some friends I thought he was a sure bet to make the major leagues. He was very fast, just an outstanding ballplayer.

Peter Berg

I look at Zach Braff, who did "Garden State", which was just great, and he plays a doctor on TV, and I bet he's thinking the same thing.

David Talbot

In this environment, what I want to do is take my bet away from crude oil and move it downstream. That way you've got your finger in all the pies.

I just had to hear his voice. I bet I did it 1,000 times when he was down.

I have put a bet on Wayne to be top scorer in the tournament.

Alex Rocco

I learned to bet the Red Sox, the Celtics, Suffolk Downs. I thought it was a glorious life - pull up to the doughnut shop, spread out, and plan your day.

I made a $50 bet -- a lot of money then -- with my coach that I'd win a medal. I woke up that morning and thought, 'don't get to the bottom and wish you had a second chance, because in the Olympics, you don't get a second chance.' I was so in the moment; I wanted to feel it, I wanted to be in it -- I've used that metaphor for the rest of my life.

I'm surprised. I bet you all are surprised. That's the way it goes.