Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Why was Barack Obama attractive to people in 2008? If you think about Barack Obama, there's all this anxiety about society, just kind of wracked by centripetal forces - the idea that the center's not holding, no one can talk to each other, the idea of a political system that's broken.

Edward Jones

Many of the leading technology companies have shown solid sales and earnings growth since the economy began to improve in late 2001. While technology earnings have continued to grow and the stocks have remained flat or even dropped, we believe the prices of many of these companies are more attractive than we have seen in a long time.

Sigi Schmid

Sebastian is a very attractive player. He has a huge pedigree in soccer and he has a strong desire to play in the States. He has the potential to be an impact player in this league.

Abraham Lincoln

Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.

Abraham Lincoln

Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood

John Wong

Medical insurance should become very attractive to middle-class families in China because they really don't want to undertake that risk themselves.

Alan Boss

M dwarf stars dominate the stellar population in the solar neighborhood, and so are attractive targets for searching for habitable planets. The models show that gas-giant planets are indeed likely to form?at distances sufficiently large enough to permit the later formation of habitable, terrestrial planets.

Bobby Jindal

One of the things that made him so attractive to voters when he ran for mayor was ... he was an outsider.

David Ferris

One attractive consumer solution is to offer a backup service.

Italo Calvino

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

Italo Calvino

Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

Kevin Mitnick

My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job.

David Stout

Machines have the power to become the ultimate interactive art-making tool. Computers are becoming postmodern blenders bringing together images, sound, and interactive, nonlinear space.

Dave Flaskas

Libby is the hottest swimmer in the world right now and is on the way to becoming a superstar, if she is not already there.

Ray Looze

Leila is at the threshold of becoming a world-class swimmer. With continued progress, she will be a force to be reckoned with at the end of the season.

Bobby Miller

Let the ice cap melt; it only reflects the heat from the sun, protecting earth from becoming just so much desert. The great grandchildren of the morons who elected and reelected George Exxon Bush and Dick Halliburton Cheney can survive, at least for a while, by killing off each other for a drink of water.

John Hewitt

Liberty Tax Service is a solid contender for the franchising industry to watch. Our growth is solid in number of new franchisees and new offices. We are establishing a visible brand name that's quickly becoming known for excellent customer service and a vibrant corporate culture.

Matthew Parry

Lower second- and third-quarter demand -- as the northern hemisphere warms, less crude oil is required for heating purposes -- will result in the already over-supplied global crude-oil market becoming increasingly bloated.

Andrew Heyward

Leslie has not set a firm timetable. But we're making good progress.

Daymond John

Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills.

Jim Collins

I feel sorry for Microsoft. If you want to hire a firm that is going to do a job better than any law firm in the country, you go to Keker & Van Nest.

Condoleezza Rice

I can tell you firmly and without any contradiction that this is a terrific list, a really good government, and we are very pleased with the names that have emerged.

Joe McGrath

From a strategic perspective, it's one of the important disciplines that the firm wants to have in its fixed-income offering.

Dave Lockett

From an organizational standpoint, there haven't been any discussions; he's still firmly entrenched (here).

Schelley Olhava

The prices for PS3 they are presenting are not necessarily accurate, and there is no firm confirmation from Sony that the launch will be later than this spring.

Jonathan Klein

I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp.

Nick Price

If we get firm conditions, it's going to open the tournament up to a lot more guys.

Alexandra Fuller

I had the constitution of a missionary.

Albert Schweitzer

The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

Albert Schweitzer

Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.

Bryan Smith

Last year, we only had a 1 percent increase in our health insurance premium.

Stanislaw Dziwisz

Many journalists who in the past have written about the pope's health are already in heaven.

Jim Edmonds

Scott's healthy and it looks like he's nice and strong. That is going to be a huge plus for us.

Elyssa Rosen

Self-regulation is not enough to protect the health of our communities.

Gillian Anderson

Motherhood has been enormously healthy for her. She's more secure.

Mike Keane

Obviously, we want Jason in the lineup but his health is the No. 1 concern.

John Steinbeck

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Michelle Davis

She's very contemplative and thinks through situations thoroughly, but can think ... very quickly as well.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Katie Brown

He cantered quickly and was just very quick.

Mike Shanahan

We try to get everything done as quickly as possible. We have to be ready for March.

Armando Iannucci

I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.

Tony Mowbray

I am surprised by how quickly he has come back,

Andrew Maynard

But the research into the risks isn't being done as efficiently or quickly as it should.

Nicole Draper

The day they were born, they immediately started having complications and quickly went downhill.

Robert Webb

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

John Heimlich

We're not saying things are hunky-dory. All we're saying is that some of the indicators we look at and some of the recent trends are promising, and that's the first time I've used that word in a long time.

Dr. Baxter

We're seeing a lot of influenza, more than in recent years. This is a very big year.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Carl McDonald

We think Aetna's results will be more than enough to sustain the stock's recent strength.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Dean Taylor

There is no secret formula; they just do things better than everyone else, ... They have scouted and evaluated their own players, and other players, better than any other team in recent memory.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

Bob Stoops

Typical of our recent classes, this one is well-balanced.

Richard Jaffe

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

Brunello Cucinelli

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

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.

Brian Hill

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

Peter Greene

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

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.

Harry Markowitz

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

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

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.

Peter Smith

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

Paul Diamond

Right now we're still in a trading bind,