Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Harper

We have seen an average increase of about 6 percent this year over last year. The growth we have seen is driving up the value of property throughout the county. Of course, you have some areas that have seen more increases than others, but just about everyone will see an increase in their taxes paid.

Chuck D.

We have to guide growth into areas where we have planned infrastructure, or the individual developer has to kick in the cost to provide the infrastructure.

David Piper

We have so many other areas with road and drainage needs, I have a problem with that. I've been working day and night to get Somerset Lane and Pine Avenue paved. You get to the north end of Pine Avenue and it looks like a Third World country.

Carson Palmer

We were better in some areas this week and worse in some areas. We still have two more games to get sharp. There's still a lot of areas we need to fix up.

Paul Horne

We've staked out as our business model to operate in those areas of the IT industry where research can make a difference, which is pretty nice for the research team.

Tim Miller

We've spread out a little bit father. We're actually going to be putting some people in areas that we've already searched. There may be a foul odor there today that wasn't there three days ago. We're actually looking in the sky for buzzards.

David Spence

We've selected those areas because that's where we think most of the demand for the service will come from,

Giancarlo Fisichella

The fact it is a street circuit means there are some traffic lines on the asphalt, so it we get any rain, then you have to choose the line very carefully because these areas are slippery. It can make for a difficult Grand Prix.

Elizabeth Morse

The problem with showers and thunderstorms is that you can drop quite a bit of precipitation in a short period of time. Half an inch of rain in 30 minutes is going to be a real problem in some of the areas where we already have standing water.

Jeff Cerefice

The creation of a BDC should result in more business for Thrifty Car Sales dealers and happier customers. Our dealers were telling us they had a need for greater traffic flow to their locations, and the business development center is designed to do just that. This is a red-hot concept in the car sales industry right now. Lots of new car dealers with multiple brands are moving to a call/business development center strategy. It takes incoming calls off the showroom floor and channels them to dedicated professionals solely focused on making appointments. We were able to leverage the assets of our worldwide car rental reservation center to deliver an extremely cost-effective, state-of-the art, full-service call center for our dealers.

Sammy Teel

We have so many different players who can be assets in so many different positions for us. It's just a matter of getting the right players in there at the right time.

David McIntosh

Very clearly, it is wrong to use government property, government assets for political purposes, ... You can't use the taxpayers' funds to help you raise money for your political campaigns. Those are two different functions.

Amy Domini

We believe that the Fund's strong investment performance and growth in assets clearly indicate that the era of socially responsible investing is beginning to dawn,

Leonard Asper

There are some high-growth assets out there that we can purchase and we can purchase using the currency that we have at a reasonably high multiple.

John Battelle

When you use Facebook, you're always logged in, and your identity and relationships - to others, to content, to apps and services - are assets Facebook can use to customize your experience (oh, and your ads).

Tomi Taterka

When you think in dollar terms, there are plenty of cheap assets out there to be bought, and that's exactly what's happening.

Mark Cuban

Time is the most valuable asset you don't own.

William Wilkinson

We are talking about assets that in some cases were purchased a decade before the fund existed. If the attorney general could prove those assets were purchased with coin-fund assets, it would be a miracle in the courtroom.

John Whiting

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

Deborah Moggach

The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down the pane, very introspective. I'm not inward-looking. I would never go to a shrink. I don't want to know what I'm thinking. I don't really like discussions in my family. It may be an avoidance thing.

John Winder

There are avoidance measures you can take, ... If you know you're sensitive to a trigger, like dust mites, cigarette smoke or animals, you can use medication, or if someone is highly allergic, he or she might consider desensitization therapy.

Michael Rich

Just as pediatricians have included health risk avoidance using nonmedical tools such as bicycle helmets and seat belts, media effects need to be included as part of the health maintenance visit.

Robert Wood

Our research shows that for some children, however, lifelong avoidance of these nuts, found in countless food products, may not be necessary.

Jill Robinson

The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.

Richard Axel

The identification of a population of olfactory sensory neurons innervating a single glomerulus that mediates robust avoidance to a naturally occurring odorant provides insight in the neural circuitry that underlies this innate behavior.

David Briggs

We'll see an avoidance of major pharma, maybe with a move toward medical technology and biotech.

Jeffrey Lipton

This is a blood avoidance program, it's not a blood elimination program. We will use blood to save somebody's life.

Colin Strother

We want to remind voters why they kicked him out to begin with.

Sharon Williams

We want to provide role models for them. We want them to develop self-esteem and feel good about who they are, to begin to learn how to set goals and how to make decisions, to begin to carve out their own identity.

Steve Sullivan

We have said from the beginning that we are taking responsibility for this incident.

Tom Daschle

We have said form the beginning that if he would work with us we could reach a bipartisan compromise, ... He chose not to, and he got beat.

Bill White

We want Houstonians to know we're prepared to receive money now, ... I have checks in my pocket and checks in my hand. The time when they can begin sending donations is now.

Jay Wright

We've still got until the end of the month, beginning of March, until they let him make a decision. I think he's getting more realistic about it. When I have to make a decision, I'm going weigh in my decision. He's working, he's enthusiastic.

Mike Kendrick

We were beset with all sorts of problems from the beginning when we launched in Marrakech, but they were all political.

Kevin Garnett

We were a lot more conscious of him. I think, to begin with, we were probably focused on (point guard) Baron Davis more than anybody, because he makes that team go.

Kurt Ruth

We were a lot closer than we were farther away, and I'm proud of our effort. Rancho Verde is no slouch. At the beginning of the season, I knew it would be a dogfight twice. One went their way and one went our way.

Rick Parsagian

We want to pull together a solid community-based bond measure, and community input is needed to produce that.

Leslie White

We have never seen a bond proposal this big.

Masayoshi Okamoto

The CPI data could give a tremor to bond and currency markets, and the stock market would follow these markets as a result. The most influential factor would be the direction of the yen.

Tom Higgins

The problem with the Fed's focus on inflation is that it's really a lagging indicator. What you need to do is gauge what demand will be like down the road in order to determine future prices. And the bond market is focused on slowing growth.

Robert Philips

There are a lot of cross-currents going this week. Bond prices have been falling sharply, but it hasn't seemed to help stocks. Then you've got all the earnings pretty much coming in in-line but not providing many surprises.

E. Hicks

There is clearly an expectation of higher bond yields going forward. Negative sentiment towards Canadian fixed income did not shift significantly since the last survey, but then again, it would have been difficult to be more negative.

Thomas Perez

Involvement in my kids' sports teams is something I have made time for over the years. I've also been able to coach all three of them in baseball and basketball, something that has strengthened our bonds and given me indescribable joy. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Cyril Beuzit

The outlook for the bond market is still negative. The European recovery is quite strong and we've had an accumulation of hawkish comments from the ECB.

A. Hodge

Ultimately it will not have an impact, ... (The sanctions) will be counterproductive because (they) will degrade the bonds of cooperation that exist between the U.S, Europeans, Japanese and other major trading and investing countries around world.

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.

Antonio Szabo

With the weather still relatively warm, the market is unlikely to sharply focus on the bullish heating oil market that is in the works. Refiners are making gasoline late in the year.

Dennis Gartman

We remain fundamentally bullish on gold . . . for the very simple reason that there is growing disdain for currencies generally.

Kyle Cooper

Mother Nature has been an incredible bull. It's hard to imagine a scenario more bullish than we've had.

Alan Williamson

Sentiment towards bullion remains overwhelmingly bullish and further short-term gains are likely. A move up towards the February 1983 high of $509 an ounce seems the obvious target.

Mike Sanders

Political factors are helping drive oil at the moment. I'm definitely bullish in this market.

Carlos Asilis

Cash levels are very low. The bullish case is to say that money-market fund levels are very high, which means that investors have the wherewithal to rotate back into equities. My take on that is I wouldn't hold my breath.

Frederic Lasserre

News coming in over the weekend that some production facilities might take longer to recover than originally expected is lending a slight bullish tone to the market, but this may disappear during the day,

Kim Rupert

Given some of the strong data we've seen lately, it's not surprising he's bullish on the economy. There's not a lot of new news in this.

Emily Martin

Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap.

Jack White

We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player.

Mike Lero

We're still a young team. Hopefully, this carries over to next year if we get the same group out and even more kids.

Mike Marsden

Until you need the service, you don't understand and the implication of someone that's in need of help carries a long response time. When people realize it and understand it, I want to convey that message.

Matt Mullenweg

There is no moderator or ombudsman online, and while the transparency of the web usually means that information is self-correcting, we still have to keep in mind the responsibility each of us carries when the power of the press is at our fingertips and in our pockets.

Michael Phelps

When we have a home crowd like this and the excitement that we have, it carries us a long way, ... We knew it was going to be tough. The Aussies weren't going to roll over and let us dominate. That's how they are, and how they've always been.

David Olson

Mr. Page is the real story of this season. The way he carries himself, the way he inspires people. He may not always see us, but we all see him.

M. Wolfe

Motion carries and Mr. Bird's here for another six years,

Randy Smith

Mr. Cook generally carries a knife and he was that day.

Tracy Nelson

We did much better this time around than we did last year, thats for sure, ... I think we scored five points - in the two matches combined - last year.

Keith Bowman

The positive share price reaction is a result of investor perception that the sum of the parts is worth more than the current combined businesses.

David Yen

We're in a new cycle of innovation for SPARC that delivers incredible performance gains, ... Scalable high performance processing, combined with the same power consumption, footprint and price as previous generations, make the new Sun Fire servers the ideal platform for server consolidation.

Ted Rogers

When you're able to offer the customer a whole wide range of communications products, it's more attractive, ... The world is moving toward bundles and combined packaging, and not single products.

Jim Graham

When I heard that the mayor had come forward with a new parking bill, I thought 'Ah-ha, now we get to experience creativity,'? You know this is the last year of the Williams administration, and this will be the combined ... eight years of experience. But I've got to say what's lacking here is something that's dynamic and creative and out of the box.

Tanith Belbin

We're so glad to be a part of this generation of ice dancing. It's a combined score.

Peter Bauer

She had an on-the-ground understanding of the park after walking every trail, hiking every mountain and canoeing its lakes and rivers. She combined that with an incredible grasp of the park's history, its policy and law.

Jason Murgel

She combined for twenty-some points this weekend and has been shooting very well from the field.

Brian Hill

Sixty-two points combined out of their backcourt -- that's who they are.

Alan Kay

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

Djuna Barnes

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

Brad Gilbert

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

Jan Morris

It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest....

Camilla Luddington

I definitely have curves. I dont intend on losing them.

Bill Maher

I love trains. It's the only way to travel anymore where it doesn't involve a TSA agent slowly tracing the curve of my inner thigh.

Benjamin Hoff

Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them.

Demi Lovato

I'm not a model - I have curves. I find things that accentuate my body, a woman's body, and I always wear things that I feel comfortable in.

Chaske Spencer

Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.

Sean Casey

We have played well here. It's good for us. We've had a lot of years where they've dominated us here.

Mike Peterson

We want to see that fear in the running back's eyes and dominate the game,

Eric Ross

We're seeing a real resurgence in the use of wallpaper. For a while it was so out of style that many smaller manufacturers went out of business. The paint and faux finishes just dominated home design; that is no longer the case.

Jody Watley

When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever.

Pat Robertson

until they can control, dominate and then, if need be, destroy.

Frank Berry

Until now, the virtualization market has been dominated by high-end solutions consisting of software (snapshot, replication, etc.) running on high-end chassis hardware (Cisco).

Ta-Nehisi Coates

'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.

Tim Moe

Six different kids got goals so that's a positive and I thought overall we dominated play.

Allen Rossi

(Leonard) pitched great. He had his usual stuff. He dominated and kept them off the scoreboard.

Carlos Beltran

When he finally learns to exhale, and let the game come to him.

Khaled Suleiman

There are a lot of difficulties, but finally we will succeed.

Mark Adamo

When I finally found that notion of Jo, I found the structure of the opera,

Scott Skiles

We know we're not a title-contending team right now, but in the history of teams winning titles they tend to take their lumps for a little while before they finally get there.

Johnny Weir

Now the fact that people are saying, 'Oh my God, he's finally come out' - I was never in.

Louise Slaughter

Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.

H. Hart

We are pleased to finally restore a more competitive schedule into and out of Yuma.

Darin Erstad

We're happy that spring training is finally over. It's always fun to get the season under way and to keep score for real.

Julie Futch

We're gonna go all the way. We're finally in sync. We're finally rolling. It's our time.

Ian Shepherdson

Mr. Greenspan has all but ruled out a May tightening.

Bernard Baumohl

On the other hand, Greenspan seems satisfied that his tightening has had a lasting effect. He's likely to stand pat for the rest of the year.

Ben Bernanke

the policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years.

Richard Yamarone

Greenspan will take it away on Wednesday like everyone's saying here, but he's only taking it away momentarily, ... He's taking one and he's done.

David Briggs

Greenspan sparked a reaction. I guess people like to be verbally reassured that we can get through the oil prices.

David Jones

Greenspan is trying to level out this market, trying to put some two-sided risk in this market, to take some of that speculative froth out.

William Sullivan

Greenspan is suggesting that the recovery is going to be slow and that there are obstacles to a swift rebound.

Andrew Barrett

Greenspan is raising rates, and he is targeting the consumer. This is a natural reflection of what is happening out there.

Owen Fitzpatrick

Productivity has been this huge issue for the market, and people remember Greenspan highlighting it in the 1990s.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

M. Wolfe

We have never had prices so high and increase so quickly.

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Alan Meeder

When you say you get 130 or 140 high school kids together, people say you must be insane.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Cathy Hay

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

John Freeman

The real issue is how high does that threshold need to be.

Richard Brodhead

When it was offered, I thought it was highly appropriate.

Stephen Colletti

I was a very spastic kid who loved to see how high he could climb a tree. That's just the way I've always been.

Mickey Arthur

We are going to include some of the players who have done well in the local series.

Elliott Abrams

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

Jim Fowler

The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life.

Octavio Paz

An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

Twyla Tharp

Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.

Vicky Rideout

While many parents have used the ratings or the V-Chip, too many still don't know what the ratings mean or even that their TV includes a V-Chip.

Dan Landon

Send in your letters. We need to make the governor's program a statewide program that will include rural areas.

Jonathan Cherry

She went through all appropriate levels of security to include metal detectors and security protocols.

Harry Reid

Like all compromises, it includes provisions that are not supported by everyone in this body,

Tomas Transtromer

The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

Bill Joy

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.

Adam Weishaupt

The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.

P. J. O'Rourke

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

P. J. Harvey

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

Jaime Herrera Beutler

I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced.

Estelle

A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

John Calvin

dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Allison Scagliotti

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.