Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathryn Reith

We have seen an average of 5,000 votes come in after the first count.

Ed Young

We have to get a better flow. We average 75 points per game, and we haven't had that for a while. Without Vaughn, we're missing 17 points, five assists, four steals.

Tom Cappel

We have no superstars, but a lot of better than average players. Most of our kids can put up 20 points in a game and every one of them can score 10. What is nice about this team is if somebody messes up, we don't go down. We have kids who can step up. It's a fun style to coach. There are no egos on this team. The chemistry is very good and they are really nice kids.

Joel Berg

When every fifth child in New York City lives in a home that doesn't have enough food, it is clear that New York City is facing a hunger crisis. You could fill Yankee Stadium more than seven times with these children. Such numbers should be a wakeup call for government leaders, business executives and average residents alike.

Dan Murphy

We want more people to play. We want to make the game fun for the average player. Clearly, the golf consumer likes to watch the ball hit a long way, and when they play themselves, they like to hit it a long way.

Randy Blach

We were a perfect commodity business from 1980-2000. It didn't matter if you were feeding cattle or in the cow-calf business; the average producer didn't make any money.

Charles Stross

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stanley

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

Tom Lyons

We've seen growth in the average daily rate throughout the city, from Westport to downtown, especially with an increase in convention business in St. Charles. With the new stadium opening up and development continuing downtown, we're confident we'll see growth in the new property, too.

Marc Ward

We have no basis to know whether it's a legitimate expense or not. What do any of us know about accounting? That's what we hire professionals to do.

Tom Gallagher

What these numbers have done this morning is raise a question: Does the Fed have the nerve to raise by 50 basis points (a half percentage point) next week?

Richard Cripps

We've set up a situation where a 25 basis point (a quarter percentage point) cut is good but you're looking at a market that's desperate.

Brett Scallions

The exposure will be great and plus -- it's Aerosmith! ... They're legends. It's going to be really cool. I mean, how cool would it be to be on a first-name basis with Steven Tyler?

Suzanne Collins

There's a basis for the war, historically, in the 'Hunger Games,' which would be the third servile war, which was Spartacus' war, where you have a man who is a slave who is then turned into a gladiator who broke out of the gladiator school and led a rebellion and then became the face of the war.

Stephan Pastis

The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it's constantly this fire at my heels.

Tom Hopper

I think I found that when I was doing a show on a regular basis and just acting constantly, that was when I was at my happiest.

Tony Hoare

It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and at the most unexpected times - will be the basis of revolutionary improvements in the way that we exploit the power of our future computing devices.

Sue Trinh

The outlook for rates is to the downside on the basis of the slowing growth environment. Any view that the relatively high nominal interest rate structure will be enough to insulate the New Zealand dollar is dead wrong.

Buddy Gouldsmith

We have to get a quality start out of Tabor. Our bullpen has worked hard and we need to get five or six innings out of him and only give up two or three runs.

Hugh Johnson

When you say the stock market is overvalued, you imply that the stock market is going down. But there is a touch of lunacy in every bull market -- stocks can become even more overvalued. A rational investment policy in an irrational world is suicide.

Aasif Mandvi

This was in the '70s and there was a lot of racism towards South Asians and there was a lot of hazing and bullying and racism that really probably shaped me in some way in terms of, like, wanting to get out of there.

Charles Djou

If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these strong-arm tactics.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

Charles Stross

Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface...

Thomas Lasorda

We've shown the Dodge Nitro. It's another midsize. It's another exciting vehicle. It's going into Toledo too. We're bullish in that segment. It will be great for the people in Toledo.

Titus Welliver

As an actor, I can still play a cop, but the bullets are fake, I don't have to get injured, and I'm not faced with the day-in-day-out of what cops have to deal with, which is tragic and dangerous.

Randy Bernard

What we did find was that the women were more interested in the bulls. We thought tight Wranglers would be the top reason women would go, but it wasn't. It was the bulls. So we started merchandising the bulls, and our bull merchandise outsells our cowboy merchandise.

Carles Puyol

We know how they play. They have a very closed style. It's important to score a goal, and as soon as possible. If they score first, just like the last game, it will be difficult to win.

Earl Scruggs

He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

Shafiq Rasul

We want to show the world what is happening there. We want the place to be closed down.

Rob Morosi

The other two ramps which will be closed are from the southbound Lodge to north and southbound Telegraph.

Jeff Lyons

We started out a little flat, then kind of closed the gap, but they just kept coming at us with relentless pressure. We cut it back and they just roared right back They're just a very good team.

Herbie Hancock

When you try to define a purity as being something that's closed and limited, you're not talking about the music that I play called jazz.

Jarvis Johnson

This program was closed down because somebody felt like I made somebody mad downtown.

Brenda Zaun

The rearing site is within a portion of the refuge previously closed to public entry to protect and minimize disturbance to wildlife.

Richard Holbrooke

We're still behind. But we picked up some steam and we closed the gap.

Barry Trotz

We have to get as many points as can right now. We have to get some separation. We have a lot of teams playing each other in the Western Conference. We are going to gain some ground on someone.

Richard G. Scott

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

Wayne Morgan

We did nothing wrong. Damon Archibald did not do anything wrong. Damon did nothing illegal. He never tried to gain anything or get anything other than ascertain a good schedule for us.

Alan Greenspan

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

Richard Wallace

The potential returns for BHP are enormous, even after the gains recently.

Kim Rupert

The post-auction gains were used as a selling opportunity.

Lonnie Roberts

We're happy to be in the playoffs and have the opportunity to take it all in and gain the experience.

Elvis Picardo

This rally looks sustainable because the gains are smaller. It is not like you have a 250-point gain in one day, which is hard to keep up.

Eric Benhamou

This quarter's significant increase in revenue and improved results over last quarter reflect that we have gained traction in the marketplace and restored operational rigor.

Larry Goldstein

The one thing the market doesn't have is time and the administration reacted expeditiously this time. This was good.

Joe Veltri

We know how important the truck market is.

Sue Schneider

Ultimately, it will be legal, here, but how long it takes is uncertain. This is where the market is.

Alan Moore

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

Al Ries

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.

Al Ries

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

Al Ries

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

Akio Morita

All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

Carol Roth

The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending.

Carlos Fuentes

[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

Carl Crawford

Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

C. S. Lewis

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

Agnes Repplier

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

Agnes Repplier

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

Aasif Mandvi

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

Nicki Grossman

We have never, ever been 100 percent full. There are always rooms.

Stan Heath

We've seen some zones this year, but Texas-Pan American will play zone about 80 percent of the time.

Greg Sullivan

We've seen discounts up to 50 percent off, but those are not the norm.

Larry Matheis

We've seen a stabilizing of the market. We're not seeing 80 or 100 percent increases.

David Winters

What we do is quite different from 99.9 percent of Wall Street.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Mario Pescante

We are preparing very well but it is not possible to be 100 percent secure.

Don Davis

We usually keep it between 40 to 50 percent relative humidity, and around 65 to 70 degrees.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Jeff Judkins

Since I've been here, we've never had six teams in the (Ratings Percentage Index) top 60. I think that says a lot for our conference.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

John Hogan

If I had to predict, I would say that this year, 2005 to 2006, was probably the worst of it, in terms of the percentage increase. Things seem to have stabilized a little bit.

Greg Lynn

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

Jay Speer

There is a very small percentage of dealers we're worried about. But they can do a lot of damage.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Abdullah A. Badawi

The question is what is an appropriate percentage of the equity,

Hanya Yanagihara

Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.

Bruce Henderson

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

Drew Endy

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

Pat Monroe

Somewhere in that scope of things there was a breakdown. Specifically where, I don't know. It's a tremendous disappointment.

J. J. Johnson

The scope of this one is so large.

Jim Balsillie

It was very important to get the scope we wanted.

Nitin Nohria

Education can change the scope of an entire family

Peter Greene

My suspicion is the stock is not doing much now, it's not earth-shattering.

Brian Hill

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

Robert D. Hare

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

Joseph Lisanti

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

Brunello Cucinelli

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

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Monica Seles

What I put in the stock market, I don't have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.

Jim Cramer

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

Barry Ritholtz

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

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.

Daryl Kimball

They say, 'we're within the treaty, we're within our rights'.