Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Arnold

Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life.

Michael Davies

On the other hand, I think 2-to-4-percent growth is good. I was hoping for better, but I think we're finally hitting bottom here.

On margin, I'm not as close. I don't think I'm at the bottom of the range, but I also think it's noticeably not at the midpoint.

On margin, I'm not as close, ... I don't think I'm at the bottom of the range, but I also think it's noticeably not at the midpoint.

I was so excited, so worried, I lost the keys to my car, and my collector's car was in the garage, so I had to pick Joy up in my pickup truck. I found my car keys a week later; they were in the bottom of a planter in my yard. I had left them there while I was weeding.

Jimmy Johnson

I was slowly catching Matt before that last caution. I thought long and hard about what I would do if I was protecting the lead. I knew I wanted to be on the outside. I faked kind of to the bottom and he kind of bought it.

I would put our chances of qualifying at very low at the moment. We are relying on other people, and they are very unlikely to lose. We are not playing well enough at the moment, and that is the bottom line. We have still got a very tough game tomorrow - and we have got to look hard at what we are doing.

I would say 10 years ago, we were at the bottom of the scale. We've gone up to the middle of the pack. Now we are way better than states like Texas, Florida and Louisiana that have a lot worse catastrophes than we do.

But as a coach, you want those decisions. They make us a better team; that's the bottom line. We'll use them while we can.

China may well keep the pressure until they detect a U.S. bottom line but the U.S. bottom line may get harder as negotiations go on,

Martha Stewart

I love all of you from the bottom of my heart, ... and I'm really glad to be back home.

Rod Paige

I have been fortunate to devote my entire professional life to education. I meant it from the bottom of my heart when I said no child should be left behind.

I have a problem with the doctor who takes a Hippocratic oath to do no harm and a medical administrator who may or may not be a doctor, whose oath is watch the bottom line,

I feel we're not where we want to be. We're not playing that well, but we're finding ways to win, and that's the bottom line.

Fundamentally, this economy is in recovery. But we do need to bring it to the bottom line.

From top to bottom we have nine guys who can play at any time.

Chris Martin

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom would have a lot more.

I don't think we've seen a bottom but a bottoming-out process.

John Sinclair

I don't want my dad to tell me how to set the price. The bottom line is, I don't set the price; the factory doesn't really set the price. Who really sets the price? The guy on the street who strokes the check.

Mitch Kupchak

I don't think you can predict that a guy's going to go down a week before training camp and have back surgery. The bottom line is that he can't play.

For us, the I-A games are strictly monetary situations all the way. Whatever we schedule, we go. The bottom line is for finances.

For us, the bottom line is his experience and his understanding of business issues.

Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at the bottom

Global warming is a key environmental issue and a bottom line issue for the $3bn ski industry and its employees.

Today, all of our teams -- minus three or four -- are either competing for a championship or are off the bottom of the standings. We've made huge strides. We've got to do that consistently now. We're getting good in a lot of sports. Now we talk about going from good to great, so we're consistently fighting for the top.

He's a dedicated player and he'll get some important at-bats. The real key is pitching. If our pitchers can keep us in the game we will be competitive. You can't sleep on any team in the Red Division or the county for that matter. From top to bottom the county is very solid.

Go live in a trailer far, far away. That's the bottom line.

He's a killer, he gets the job done. He has no hidden agenda. He looks at the bottom line and goes from there. He's like a terminator.

David Johnson

He's got to bottom out at some point.

Historically, we have an international cachet about our city. The bottom line is that we're Saratoga Springs, New York. We are interested in international tourism, but we still have to pay our own bills.

I would say the president has the power to help us get to the bottom of this matter. And we in Congress want to do this not so much for what has happened but to prevent such a thing from happening again.

Just so many times before, we've had a lead in the bottom of the seventh and then not come away with the win. I mean, holy cow, their pinch hitter comes up with two outs and two strikes and slaps an outside fastball by the second baseman, and you go holy cow again. I mean, you think, what do we have to do to win?

Jose seems to understand the great opportunity he's been given here. And the bottom line is, I want to make sure I have the pitching to support all of the offense we've added. That remains the top priority.