Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have a far greater number of historic houses than 20th century houses.

(This) was followed and expanded over the centuries by many explorers, including Abel Tasman, James Cook and Matthew Flinders, all of whom played an important role in revealing the secrets of Australia's coast.

This team has a center and a forward. That team had four guards and a forward or five guards.

John Podesta

This tax cut is bloated. It uses up the entire surplus. It provides not one cent for Medicare. It provides not one cent to extend the solvency of Social Security. It will not result in paying down the debt.

This was the 19th Century equivalent of man landing on the moon.

This was by far the hardest deployment I've ever experienced. The World Trade Center was hard but it (the destruction) was in one spot. The devastation here is so immense. It's all over.

This vision for the Freedom Center should be a tribute, a celebration of those men and women who through the course of history have moved us forward in our march to freedom.

What really impressed me was that one of my friends went to a Max Ophuls retrospective at Lincoln Center and Michael Barker was there every day. When your distributor is doing that, you know it's not just a job. They really love movies.

Bill Taylor

What needs to happen downtown, I think, is for some momentum to begin. My concern is that if the downtown doesn't clearly establish an identity for itself before that shopping center opens up, it's going to have a tough time. Too often, people wait before they take action, and by then it's too late.

Austin Ligon

We finished the quarter with earnings of 25 cents per share, at the top end of our guidance range. Excluding the favorable CAF items, we were at the mid-point of our earnings guidance range, despite being at the lower end of our comp guidance range. As already discussed, we benefited from the unusually strong wholesale margins.

This whole issue is still front and center for us.

The recession was largely centered in the manufacturing sector, and that is where we continue to see the strongest signs of recovery.

There has to be concern about sustainability of growth overseas; Japan is central to that issue, ... If people are looking at fundamentals, that's the only news they have to look at this morning.

Lawrence Summers

There has not been a time in the last century where there has been so much misunderstanding of the US and so much misunderstanding by the US of the world,

There is a certain attitude, I think, in China that ... we the Chinese were misused by the West, by the outside world, for well over a century and sort of the outside world owes it to us.

There is a 12-cent per gallon normal retail markup. But usually, the profit margin is about two cents a gallon.

When I see 200 kids from all over Volusia County occupying all 24 courts at the Florida Tennis Center on Friday nights, I get excited about the future of this sport.

Jane Byrne

We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past.

Elizabeth Morgan

We saw him going into a parking lot near Robin Imaging Services (at Central Parkway at Mohawk Place).

We saw Central Lake play Brimley (a couple weeks ago) and they had over 20 offensive rebounds. We emphasized rebounding tonight and I thought we did a good job. I felt we controlled the tempo.

We knew Madison Central was going to come ready to play. We had to match their intensity. They're real excited about their first trip to the Coliseum and they had a great crowd. We had to match that.

We knew it would be a fast-paced game. That's what we like. We also know Central wouldn't be intimidated.

We kept missing some spark in January and it's been unfortunate. We need to execute better. We've lost some close ones that have put us in this position. We're one of them most talented teams in central Ohio and I expect that we'll be right back into second.

We kept hearing over and over how hard is was for them to get volunteers. But there is no central location to get information on volunteering.

We think the deal we proposed is an extremely good one. This is the deal of a century for us and Bangladesh.

Virginia Woolf

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man, at twice its natural size

Jamie McCourt

Women have a wonderful opportunity to be a central part of baseball, and if I can help reach some of them and show them how they can be a part of it, what a great responsibility." ()

Why should investors sit passively by and take a couple of cents on a the dollar. This is an extraordinarily powerful tactical weapon.

Why does the U.S. subsidize three industries of the 19th century and no industries of the 21st century?

To me, the central point with the naming issue is that Marshall thought he was Indian. Whether he was or not, maybe that doesn't matter so much.

This year we have them travelling around more than in previous years, to more than 10 different venues not counting at the King center during performances.

Gerard Butler

Ever since I was a child, I have loved being the centre of attention, but similarly, I can't remember a time in my life that I haven't battled with all sorts of quandaries, fears and weaknesses.

George Porter

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.