Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Magee

Our radio shows are scattered on satellite, and we decided to consolidate them under the Fox brand. XM was extremely interested and wanted to do it before the Christmas buying season.

Amy Cutts

Part of the purchasing decision for buying a house is an expectation of what housing prices are going to do in the future. It's true that houses are getting more and more expensive, but people are increasing their wealth in ways we haven't seen in a while.

Sandy McCullough

People have spent 10 years buying food here. We can spend one night giving it back.

Paul Parker

People like to feel they are buying of their own good judgment as a result of the information the salesman has given them

Floyd Keith

People of color need to start shopping and buying at institutions that value, promote and reflect inclusion and diversity. Student-athletes of color need to start making decisions to play where it is most likely they will have a fair and equitable opportunity to coach.

Jan Leroy

Steel stocks are cheaply valued, they're cyclical, they're very well known for their capital destruction during downturns. Now instead of increasing capacity, they're buying capacity or buying competitors.

Hiroichi Nishi

Steelmakers may see more buying on the back of higher reported profits.

Sam Stovall

Some of the restaurant companies are doing exceptionally well and I think demographics, longer term, are going to indicate that more people are going to be buying their food outside the home, rather than preparing it inside the home,

George Pipas

Some of the feedback we got was there was less traffic, but people who were there were people there buying cars and trucks.

Mary Rich

Previously, when you called the electric company, the field guy would come out to connect or disconnect you, and then it would go out on a bill. Today that same transaction could touch up to a hundred systems.

Andy Ball

Our outlook as a construction company for the next two years is very, very positive.

Carl Icahn

particularly important at Time Warner because of the difference of opinion between many large shareholders and management concerning the direction of the company and the lack of share price performance under current management.

Scott Weiss

Part of the magic of a startup is the fear of death. You have only so much money in the bank, and if you don't get to the right milestone before you run out, then the company goes under - it's over.

Bill Gates

Paul was instrumental in the creation of Microsoft and has played an important role in the success and direction of our company throughout the years,

David Litchfield

Oracle still has not released an official patch, so it is still leaving its customers at risk. It is a trivial thing to fix. If the company is still working on it, I do not understand why.

Shawn Willett

Oracle says a company could, for example, take out its BI tool and replace it with a third-party app. The question is, how practical will that be for users?

Charles Bona

Oracle has been and is a database company, and that's where the focus should stay for now.

David Menlow

People have to understand: As a shareholder, in general, they don't have any say in the company. People complain about it, but those who like what the company does will continue to view the stock as a vehicle for profits.

Michael Metz

Regardless of what the Fed does today, I think that maximum monetary stimulation throughout the world is over. We are seeing the low point of interest rates throughout the world. The next move will be upward. Moreover, I think the earnings momentum for the markets is eroding as well.

Roger Altman

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.

Ralph Acampora

Price is fact. Earnings on the other hand are estimates. You restate earnings. You never restate price.

Josef Ackermann

Our objective now is to sustain, over the cycle, this level of pretax return on equity and double-digit earnings per share growth.

Robert Campbell

Our much improved earnings resulted largely from the strength of refining margins during the quarter,

Mike Holland

People have been worried for the last several quarters that earnings were going to slow down. If in fact they don't slow down and if it looks as if there's no resumption of inflation ... it'll be interesting to see how people respond to that.

Alan Ackerman

Stay with the big stocks with the big backlog and big trend of earnings and with management that have been there before,

Peter Cardillo

Some of the good earnings reports and good guidance are reversing market psychology. In general, we're probably heading for a good earnings season.

Jon Brorson

Our forecast was for earnings to come in around 13 percent year-over-year growth, and they're on track to do it. They are surprisingly better than expected, and outlooks have been good, generally speaking.

Mina Tadros

Success is that feeling that comes after overcoming a failure, you will not feel it as long as you are not failing, so be proud of your failures, they are the path to your success

David Knapp

some great outdoor party songs, some big hits that will encourage in listeners a little nostalgia when the summer has passed, and the kind of tribal energy tracks that make people move!

Dave Rose

Our players are really engaged and encourage each other. When someone makes a mistake, they're right there encouraging them to move on and get better.

Mike Browning

Our team has shown grit all year. We have been down but we haven't been out. We figure out ways to get victories and you have to be encouraged by that.

Dean Hachamovitch

Our goal is to encourage everyone to try the product. We think that free phone support is a good way to encourage a lot of people who might otherwise shy away from trying beta software.

H. Hart

Overall I was very encouraged at the way the kids played.

Michael Tiemann

Overall, I am encouraged by what I am seeing.

Robert Henson

Robert is a reaction guy and as he gets older, he'll have all the other things you need. He has big-play potential. He can do it wrong and still make the play. We don't encourage it, but some people have that ability.

Carl Sagan

I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or at least acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade, and it's not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience.

Dave Duncan

I thought it was an awfully big fine for what involvement I had. I thought it was an excessive fine.

Sara Barwinski

It amounted to an excessive waste of resources and the destruction of a community.

Edmund Phelps

Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.

Cindy Sheehan

I think their use of force was pretty excessive for someone that didn't have a permit.

Hosni Mubarak

heedlessness of all values and laws and its excessive rejection of peace and challenging the world.

Jose Luis

On a number of occasions, military operations which involved excessive use of force and other violations, haven't necessarily been addressed,

Mark Swartzberg

looks excessive for the right to own a loss-making, share-losing business.

Vince Vaughn

I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.

Wole Soyinka

An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.

Jim Calhoun

Regardless of our success over the years, whatever it may be, Providence has always played us close. Providence has given us a lot of problems.

Richard Hartley

Previously, I wouldn't have given us a good grade at all. But since we have (business manager Renee Hinton) in place, we're doing a much better job. I don't know if I'd give us a letter grade.

Wang Jian

Our research showed that about one-fourth to one-third of the tickets to a performance are given to government organs without charge.

Jerry Rickrode

Our mental psyche has not been real strong. But I'll say the guys haven't given up on it. We're working hard and trying to make adjustments.

Margaret Keane

Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.

Eric Smith

Some of the requirements had given us very challenging manufacturing tasks.

Chris Klein

Our problem is holding that lead and making Houston or any other team panic when they're a goal down. We've twice now given up that lead too quickly.

Patrick Manteiga

Our staff has given them some break. This is just a group without a lot of money.

Robert Sasaki

Our scenario in 1999 is that 10,000 on the Nikkei is a given - 8,000 is possible. We think that if the market goes to 8,000 it's good. It's not going to stay there for very long.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

Paul Gallay

Our relationship with communities is growing as we work with private- land owners and planning boards.

Jane Rosenthal

Our record-number of film submissions this year reflects the growing strength of the Festival. This year's program includes a wide range of talent and perspective from around the globe.

Paul Casey

Our numbers are growing in our regular program as well.

Ron Ruff

Our laws just keep growing and growing and growing.

Nancy Todd

People learn growing up to react with anger.

Mike Shanahan

Some guys (have) got more growing to go. That's part of the season. But I thought we made some strides and hopefully it pays dividends.

Aaron Oldfield

Our boy's team is very young; we only have a handful of seniors. They are going through some growing pains.

Daniel Meckstroth

Manufacturing is growing but the pace of growth has decelerated. The outlook for manufacturing production in 2006 is for moderate growth.

Beck

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

Jeff Cheah

Stabilizing ... that is the key word that investors are reacting to.

Grant Wilson

Japanese investors are still looking to put some money to work overseas. We're still seeing those flows.

Lara Rhame

That's the nightmare that keeps a lot of investors up at night -- but I just don't think that scenario is realistic.

Mark Sue

I think investors are relieved about these results because there were thoughts they would have to ratchet down for this quarter.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Hugh Johnson

Momentum investors are looking for something that works. What works is technology.

Craig Callahan

Most people want stocks to go up all the time. We're back to normal and people don't like it, ... Investors that don't have the patience to ride through trading ranges won't be able to participate in the surge.

Dirk Becker

Many investors are speculating on a takeover offer.

Phil Zepeda

Our relief is not going to be a matter of weeks and months, but probably much longer than that.

John Phelan

Our message is that suffering years of misery to remain super-skinny is not going to have a big payoff in terms of a longer life.

David Friedman

People no longer seem shocked by expressions of overt bigotry,

Erick Young

Stars we're looking at here are prior to the formation of planets, we think, but it's not going to be very much longer in astronomical terms before planets start forming.

Eric Kuzmack

Some of the things you monitor no longer mean the same thing.

Kevin Hare

It is a slow time of the year, so I will probably not feel it until spring time. For a significant number of my customers, it will take longer for them to get to me.

Robert Williams

Jan Case, our store manager, she's been here longer than I have. She's been here since 1968. Twig Canfield has been here now for 12 or 13 years.

Bruno Seraphim

The Argentine question has in part been resolved, at least in the very short term, so shares no longer need to price in that question.

Alberto Fujimori

It is no longer a possibility or an option.

John Palmer

Part B is going to have to go up significantly next year.

Travis Reinsch

Patrick is already talking about getting ready for next season.

Linda Connolly

Pawling is the next Bedford. That's what all the realtors are saying.

Charles Hamowy

People in their 40s and 50s have to plan for the next 50 years.

Pete Carroll

Surgery may be down the road. It's not at all the time to do that. If after about two weeks he hasn't responded, then (team doctors) have to think more seriously about what the next step is.

Richard Myers

surely the next 9/11 would be right around the corner.

Chad Belville

Somehow we're going to go from being a young team this year to even younger next year. I don't know how it was possible, but it's just a fact.

Sam Paul

Some have put in a lot of time and really want to make it to the next level.

Richard Boucher

Our view is that it should be referred to the U.N. Security Council. That's where we think the next steps are.

Lori Glass

Out of 10 bouquets, we sell about nine red.

Rod Barnes

I won't have to pick up the paper and read that it's nine in a row.

Eddie Johnson

I was told if you make a run, nine times out of 10 you will get the ball. It's true.

Jack McKeon

I can teach, ... I have nine grandkids.

Chris Perry

I don't think I've had that much success. If I had nine catches for like 180 yards and two touchdowns, yeah. But you can always improve, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Larry Scott

I don't think nine is the right number for women's tennis.

Kim Ens

For us to see nine cases, that is unusual for us.

Michael Owen

He even offered to give up his number nine shirt but I have declined. Number 10 will do for me.

Jeff Bowden

He does that several times during the game. And nine times out of 10, he's right.

Brian Young

Some of the (people) actually saw a three-foot shark swimming down I-10,

Bede Griffiths

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Anand Gopal

I was living near the Twin Towers on 9/11, so I saw the attacks, and I had friends who were killed in the attacks.

Shawn Chacon

Just getting ahead. I watched Smally do it all day yesterday, and I saw how that turned out for him.

Bill Burr

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

E. B. White

That was a train wreck that we saw in New Orleans,

John Nicks

That was the first time I ever saw her distraught.

John Whiting

That's the sort of simplistic thing we'd like to avoid, ... That was a train wreck that we saw in New Orleans.

Christyne Nicholas

I think people, for the first time, saw New Yorkers unfiltered.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Drew Brosseau

It can be a mid-30s stock in 12 months.

Jim Cramer

I got a subpoena because I said that a stock was going lower.

Richard Jaffe

If we don't see Pressler departing, the stock treads water.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Brian Hill

Obviously, (CMGI) stock should be up with Lycos,

Brunello Cucinelli

I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.

Joseph Lisanti

We like it even though the stock has been weak recently.

Robert D. Hare

I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.

B. F. Skinner

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

Jason Mraz

I think these days, new artists have a tendency to try to cut corners.

Colin Mochrie

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

Emilia Clarke

I wear tinted moisturized since, on the stage, we tend to wear such heavy stage makeup.

Lleyton Hewitt

I won't be watching the women's final, that's for sure. I'm not into women's tennis any more.

Ron Eldard

I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.

Donnie Edwards

I don't even worry about that anymore. .Ê.Ê. Ten years it hasn't happened.

Joel Robuchon

I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.

Jeff Smith

He wants to get tennis going in the valley, especially with juniors.

Owen Fitzpatrick

Oracle, in terms of earnings, is influencing the market.

Susan Strasberg

There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Stephen Davis

I don't think of this in terms of winning,

Donald Sterling

I always think long term about anything. That's why I have never sold anything that I've ever purchased. And I never purchase anything that I don't think I'm going to keep for a lifetime.

Billy Bob Thornton

The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.

Ed Rendell

If I lose, I lose. Ill do it on my terms.

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Albert Schweitzer

Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.

Azzedine Alaia

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

Bianca Jagger

Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.

Bert McCracken

The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can

Arrigo Sacchi

The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.

Bill Vaughan

The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

Rachel Kyono

I think that I wouldn't be where I am today without going through the program.

Bob Gilder

I think I made more putts today than I've made all year,

Greg Taylor

I don't get up and think today is going to be 'the' day they find something. I get up every day and think that 'someday' they will find something.

Keith Faulkner

He said I look better today than I did the day we married,

Chuck D.

if they don't think he can play shortstop then they should think about trading him.

Carol Kennedy

We routinely look at any unusual trading activity.

Paul Diamond

Right now we're still in a trading bind,

Peter Smith

A lot of times you don't know who you're trading with or where.