Famous Quotes & Sayings

Micky Ward

I knocked a lot of guys out from the seventh round on - so if I gave up, I would never have achieved what I did. There was no giving up. It's weak to give up. The easiest thing in the world is to quit.

Andy Gray

The potential savings achieved by moving to the lower-priced Aspen generic would be massive.

Piet Mondrian

The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time.

Chris Patterson

We are proud that, with the introduction of this new truck, we have achieved Sterling's vision of being a full-line provider of vocational trucks. Not only is this a logical next step in the growth of the company, but it also provides a platform for future product introductions.

S. Hughes

We are pleased with the results for the fourth quarter. We achieved record revenue and finished the year by signing an important patent licensing agreement with AMD for which payments will begin in 2006.

Vance Coffman

We are pleased with the progress achieved in the first quarter and believe we have made meaningful strides toward improving value for our customers and shareholders.

Jim Lynch

We are pleased with out performance in the fourth quarter. We met our previously announced guidance and more importantly achieved our operating margin goal. 2005 was a transition year for the company where we focused our efforts on continued revenue growth and initiatives that would deliver sustainable long-term profitable growth.

John Barry

We are pleased to have achieved this important milestone, securing an initial credit facility, for our business. This facility gives us the flexibility to leverage and grow our portfolio in a cost effective way for our shareholders. We expect the size of this facility to increase in the future.

Michael Baker

We are pleased to have achieved our financial objectives for the fourth quarter and fiscal year. We look forward to carrying the strong momentum generated throughout 2005 into our next fiscal year.

Adam Sieminski

The potential for a cyclical downturn in 2008-09 -- or sooner if we have a global economic recession -- is realistic.

Stephan Thomas

Siemens and DaimlerChrysler's results were better than expected and on the macro side, the U.S. labor market data is positive for a cyclical recovery.

Mark Mahaney

There is a steady migration of recruitment dollars going online, ... Employment figures are trading catalysts but this is a secular growth story, not a cyclical one, so month-to-month employment numbers are less and less relevant.

Peter Greene

On the Dow, you have gains in the more cyclical names versus more selling in Citigroup. You also have the Dow getting a lift from some positive short-term movement in the dollar,

Anthony Chan

More globalization means there's more pressure to increase productivity, not to reduce it. No pricing power means there's more pressure to increase productivity, not less, ... There's so much pressure to push it higher, it will be difficult for cyclical factors to push it lower.

Bruce Bochy

We've been very cyclical with our hitting. That's what has kept us from getting on a roll and a nice winning streak.

Josh Stiles

He's been wrong about what's happening with inflation for two years. He's more focused on structural disinflation forces than he is on the cyclical inflationary forces from excessive accommodation.

Peter Greene

You have gains in the more cyclical names versus selling in Citigroup and J.P. Morgan. You also have the Dow getting a lift from some positive short-term movement in the dollar,

Andrew Neff

Our point is that, like other cyclical businesses, this overcapacity has to get worked out.

Craig Venter

I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry.

Ryan Holmes

Social media, for all of its limitations, is rarely irrelevant. The stream of updates on your Facebook page, for instance, is algorithmically engineered to be darn-near irresistible.

Eron Shosteck

Automakers have engineered numerous new safety technologies into SUVs over the past several model years to prevent rollovers.

Nariman Behravesh

The Fed seems to have engineered a soft landing.

Michael Parenti

I have never seen John Kerry give anything but an engineered response.

Trot Nixon

We started off sluggish. But we fed off our fans.

Charles Lindbergh

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

David Hockney

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

Diane Swonk

We have seen a softer tone in their write-ups. I think there is a real sense that the Fed is going to stay on the sidelines.

Jason Chaffetz

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

Trevor Hoffman

When your horse is out there and pitches his butt off, my job is to nail it down, ... We would've liked to have fed off Jake's energy. The kid threw the heck out of the ball.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Larry Wachtel

We remain in a stimulus vacuum and the underlying motif this week will be the Federal Reserve meeting next week.

Wood Harris

If you overdo something, you end up typecast. You always have to expand.

John Hughs

Just as things get overdone on the upside, they can get overdone on the downside.

Tom Lynn

There was nothing to it all along. We just didn't want to overdo it.

Gary Sheffield

I took more swings than usual. I've had this before. This is what you get when you overdo it too early. It's just real tight. It will be fine.

Wayne Jones

You have to keep him out of the weight room sometimes. Sometimes you can overdo it.

Abraham Nunez

Eventually, it's going to happen, so you don't want to go out there and pressure yourself to overdo things to make it happen. We just have to sit tight, go out there and play, so whatever happens, happens.

Joe Mauer

I'm worried about our pitchers. Hopefully, they don't overdo it. But when you put on your country's jersey, a lot of things kind of go out the window. You want to do your best.

Bryant Young

He stepped up to the plate and did what he had to do without overdoing it and using it as a platform for whatever reasons -- PR purposes or whatever. I really respect that.

Nile Rodgers

If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.