Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Loveman

Our newly combined company was tested early and often.

Cary Leahey

That, combined with no job growth, makes it harder and harder for the Fed to pull the trigger in an election year.

Jon Gruden

That combined is a huge factor in winning and losing.

Oscar Diaz

Our combined solution will free doctors to practice medicine rather than IT. Instead of requiring clinicians to navigate in and out of applications to find relevant patient data, our combined platform enables clinicians to sign in once, select a patient once and have the patient's aggregated data presented to them automatically.

Oscar Diaz

Our combined solution will free doctors to practice medicine rather than IT.

Tim Ghriskey

It is an oil day. Oil is over $68 now and that, combined with a very hawkish statement from the Fed, is weighing on the market. Energy prices at the gas pump are impacting consumer spending and its impact is reflected in AutoZone's earnings and Avon's profit warning.

Trilby Lundberg

I think it's over. The slightly higher crude oil prices combined with a recovery in gasoline demand is ending the retail gasoline price crash.

Tiffany Anderson

I think those things combined have helped us immensely,

Sean Cotter

I think if you combined all the home runs we hit in the last seven years, I don't think it would be as many as we've hit this year.

Terry Ragsdale

Recent labor statistics were already a concern, and another down-leg in consumer confidence seems likely.

Frank Rossi

Our last three games with Hyde have been like this. So this was nothing new. I think we are playing with confidence now.

Paul Ashworth

Such a rapid escalation in prices is sure to hit confidence and real spending hard.

Stephen Bell

Surprisingly, I think our girls have a little more confidence heading into tomorrow's round. The golf course is playing hard and we did not play our best, so to be within striking distance is a positive sign for our team.

Nicole Vaidisova

Sure, I have a little confidence after winning two titles, but everything is new here. It is new balls, a new court and different temperatures. It's very different than Seoul and Tokyo. It was a slow start, but then I got more comfortable in the second set and was able to get the win.

Shaun Pollock

Sport is a confidence game and no doubt a win will give us so much hope for the summer.

Daymond Langkow

Some of the saves he made were very timely saves and that's huge for us. It's nice having the confidence with him back there.

Nick Licari

Our team has shown that we have a lot of poise. We feel confident in what we're doing. That's a big part of this, confidence and maturity.

David Mitchell

Our running game has been struggling, and the key was to try to get on top of these guys early and work the ground game. We wanted to develop some confidence in our running game, which we did tonight.

Tatsushi Shikano

Reflecting solid consumer spending, the real estate and retail sectors are likely to lead the improvement in the overall non-manufacturing sector.

Paul Patterson

Regulators often want to see some of the synergies and cost savings from these deals come back to the consumers in terms of lower rates or limited rate increases. Usually there are some givebacks in terms of rates.

Howard Archer

Relatively subdued consumer spending, intense domestic and international competition, and high input costs continue to dampen ... the sector.

Britt Beemer

Our research on holiday gift returns shows that it's only three percent of Americans who are real jerks and they indulge in consumer fraud and return abuse. The rest of us have to deal with the consequences.

David Emanuel

Our removal of those features was because we have become focused on search for consumers and businesses, and those features were not in line with our goals.

Anthony Chan

Our own studies have shown that consumers tend to switch over to non-store outlets in times of higher energy costs .

Stephen Baker

Part of the problem Sony has had in the past couple of years is that as the consumer electronics market has changed, ... A lot of it has been about lower prices and distribution and neither have been Sony's strong points.

Jon Miller

Our new corporate identity better reflects our expanded mission -- to make everyone's online experience better. Plus, consumers in the U.S. and around the world already know us by our initials.

O. Henry

Our mission has been to enable the service providers and network operators to deploy uninterrupted video throughout the home without interfering with other consumer devices and networking environments already in place.

Lori Lucas

Our findings show that too many workers are not looking at their 401(k) savings as long-term in nature but are instead using termination of employment as an opportunity to spend this money,

David Sax

Restaurant industry sales in 2011 are estimated to have reached a record high of $604 billion, up 3.6 percent from 2010. Restaurant employment grew 1.9 percent in 2011, with some 230,000 jobs added, the strongest gain in five years.

John Silvia

Manufacturing output is up, yet employment in the manufacturing sector is down. This result suggests that the firms are producing more in the U.S., but doing it with fewer workers.

Eugene Volokh

I t is a normal part of the employment process to evaluate one's subordinates.

Ichiro Ozawa

Lifetime employment and seniority systems are indeed the safety net of Japanese society.

Stephen Roberts

It does take a lot of pressure off the Reserve Bank. It's hard to get persistent inflation without wages pressure, and hard to get wages pressure with employment easing.

Linda Howard

I have found employment documentation that was totally falsified -- that includes pay stubs and W2s,

Alan Meltzer

Greenspan showed that you can have long periods of full employment without inflation.

John Mitchell

Growth would be higher, inflation would be lower (and) employment would be higher, if we didn't have these energy prices. But it hasn't been a deal-breaker.

Paul Burke

Our leadership has been out in the communities doing what they are supposed to do -- mobilizing, organizing and preventing further roadblocks.

Madeline Albright

Our message to India and Pakistan is that there should be no further nuclear testing, no deployment or testing of missiles, no more inflammatory rhetoric and no more provocative military activity,

Adam Adelman

Optimism in the numbers will be a roadblock for further gains. The upside in tech is limited.

Jim Porter

People have died. Lives have been changed. Property has been destroyed. Yet, a group of trial lawyers are using this disaster, not as a reason to help the people of this state, but instead to further their own personal agenda.

E. B. White

That couldn't be further from the truth, and I say that with emphasis.

Katharina Von

Overall it is satisfactory but we hope that there will be further improvement between now and 2009.

Jim Rees

Our visitors instinctively know that he's great. But they think he's stiff, formal, lackluster, and sometimes they use the word 'boring.' Nothing could be further from the truth.

E. Hurley

Rising oil prices are being looked at as a further weight on global growth as opposed to inflationary,

Jeb Bush

We need a little further wind at the back of this economy,

Steve Rogers

Some of the manufacturing layoffs were offset by gains in retail.

Nestor Aguila

Some investors opted to pocket gains after the two-week trading halt.

Scott Kirby

Our systems are very highly tailored to what we do. You don't get any productivity gains from outsourcing.

Sukhbir Khanijoh

Overall market sentiment was boosted by the sharp gains in the regional bourses, especially rises in the Japanese market.

Toni Sacconaghi

Overall, it seems unlikely that Dell's share gains would be enough to offset the potential loss of Intel marketing monies.

Bill Vaughan

Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.

Peter Chandler

It has been a good day for the index. Toronto has held up very well and held its gains better than the Dow or the Nasdaq,

Alan Ackerman

I think gains in the market have outrun fundamentals. The move has been too much too soon. I see the likelihood of a pullback next week.

Alex Wong

Gains on Wall Street overnight and in Tokyo this morning helped the market recover.

Paul Charles

Our market share has risen to record levels on the most competitive routes in Europe.

Chris Dwyer

Stable water levels are really important for management of vegetation.

Rory Fitzpatrick

Playoffs are always a big jump. I've been through it at different levels and in the NHL.

Billy Corgan

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

Bill Sienkiewicz

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it

Benoit Mandelbrot

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Ned Yost

I think we all were (impressed). There's some reason why he has jumped three levels in a year and a half. You could see why today.

Greg Miller

He just sets new levels of expectations for himself.

Rick Bowers

Overall it was good. We had some disappointments and some surprises; it's all part of the game.

Ken Read

Overall it's disappointing. I think that disappointment is shared by the athletes. I think their expectations was they wanted to do better.

Michael Lawson

Overall it is pretty much the same procedure.

Paul Nolte

Overall it doesn't look too bad. The prices paid is a concern. We'd like to see it come down a little. It's an inflationary key.

Keith Hembre

Overall there are not a lot of surprises here.

Paul Ballew

Overall share is going to be tough for us this year.

Cassie Desmone

Overall our season was fine, but not one of our better ones. We've got some work to do in the future.

Cristobal Huet

Overall I made a lot of progress this year. I worked on the little details, the small things that make you better.

Michael Woods

Overall for the first game, we played well,

Dwane Casey

Our second quarter killed us. If we get anything at all in the second quarter, we're in tall cotton.

Eric Benhamou

Our seasonally weak third quarter was exacerbated by several factors.

Phil Jackson

Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter,

Jack Coit

I wish we could just skip that second quarter though. We get a little wrapped up in what we're doing sometimes.

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

Patrick Fearon

We've now had three straight quarters of above-average growth, and that's nothing to sneeze at.

Ariel Sharon

I have begun, with my colleagues, setting up a new party,

Gilbert Arenas

I'd been setting up my team all night, ... I'm going to win the game. That's what I do. . . . They didn't say it was going to be easy.

David Leslie

I don't think it's so much of a disadvantage setting up from scratch.

Kevin Henkes

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.

Mike Harris

She's our unquestioned leader. She does so much, whatever we need, whether it's points, rebounds, assists, setting up plays. She does it all.

Sam Aiona

There are various interpretations of the new law. It is setting us back.

Veruschka von Lehndorff

In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.

Ruby Dee

We've got the possibility of setting things right,

Stephen Friedman

To make it more meaningful, you really have to have the right class. What makes this work is the setting of the right person in the right class.

Bob Hartley

We need some big saves. The teams that are doing well in the standings are getting the big saves. You need solid goaltending.

Brian Butterfield

That was a tremendous play. Troy has been solid at third base.

Jim Schmidt

I think it was more nerve-racking for me than for Ellie. She put together 11 real solid dives.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Doug Mirabelli

He's been solid for us all year, and we need him now more than ever.

Mo Johnston

He's been very solid in the preseason and training and everything that he's done.

Lawrence Lau

He may have been transferring waste without a solid waste permit.

Paul Woods

Shannon has always been real solid for us,

David Granger

Make sure they're solid so they make you look substantial, not too slight.

C. S. Lewis

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

Carrie Underwood

I'm not the person in person that I am on stage.

Christy Austin

I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad.

James Bailey

If it's still in the trial stage no.

Arthur Ashe

There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me

will.i.am

I don't want to be on stage when I'm 57, talking about... 'Let's Get It Started.'

Peter Chan

We are not making a concert, this is not a stage musical,

A. Hodge

This stage has got a stinger in the tail.

Bill Burr

The first night you walk down to a comedy club, at least for me, I had my voice, and then I went on stage and I lost it.