Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Daly

Unfortunately, due to an injury, I am forced to withdraw from this year's inaugural Bard Capital Challenge.

Unfortunately, as we've gotten back up to the pre- 9/11 capacity levels, we've only had problems that have been aggravated and not solved.

John Brown

Two-thirds of Gulf of Mexico production and nearly 10 percent of U.S. refining capacity remained shut in

Carrie Fisher

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

Trot Nixon

Every win is big. We're a great team at crunch time, and every win is important. We capitalize to score runs.

Firms are substituting capital -- particularly high-tech capital -- for labor. They're putting smart machines on the factory floor and in the service industry. That may explain why high-tech orders for capital goods have been going up, despite the fact that manufacturers don't seem to be hiring a lot of people.

Fifty-nine points is too high for us. We need to do a better job of controlling the tempo. ..Bottom line is we have to capitalize on their mistakes and minimize ours -- and it doesn't matter if we're playing Henderson or someone from another part of the country.

Ken Fletcher

Fifteen students demonstrated their mettle and captured 18 medals.

Larry Hughes

Expectations were high because of his size and speed. A lot of people wanted him to do things he's not capable of. There are a lot of tall guys that can't play basketball.

Dino De Laurentiis

These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.

Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.

Barry Ritholtz

Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.

With a cap of four percent, how do you accommodate big numbers like that?

But our capture systems for leach water have not been perfect. We're spending a lot of money to correct that.

Muhammad Yunus

The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying that capitalist theory is wrong. I am saying that it has not been interpreted and practiced fully.

We've been on the road for the last seven weeks and were a little road weary. This team is very capable of putting up big offensive numbers. If we hit like we did tonight, I think we are unbeatable.

Lute Olson

We're the defending champs and I think we're capable of defending that championship, but there are some very good teams we're going to have to beat.

We're talking about a very captive audience. And this is one way to grab a guy's undivided attention.

We didn't feel like we played defense to our level of capability in our last game and it was a huge focus of ours to come out and do that tonight. We really locked down when we had to.

Ha-Joon Chang

To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.

The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards.

Barry Eisler

The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.

Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.

Gerald Chertavian

Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job.

Gautam Gambhir

I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.

The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.

Margaret J. Wheatley

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.

Thalia

I am so excited to have created a line that has been inspired by my culture - showing its color, its passion and its greatness - and one that captures much of my personal style.

We left a lot of runners stranded. We just didn't capitalize when we had the chance.

We left a lot of runners on base. We were unable to capitalize on some good chances.

We have confidence and capability to fulfill the glorious task of the motherland and the people.

Martin O'Malley

We have concentrated wealth and capital to such a degree that the vast majority of us don't have the discretionary dollars to make our economy go and grow.