Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Kazinsky

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

Mike Connors

Make sure I mix up my pitches and keep guys off balance and I think I'll be fine.

Ed Moyle

Make diversity too small and you increase the impact of population-level events, make it too diverse and you can reduce manageability and thereby make individual-level events more likely. Heterogeneity has to be balanced with manageability for the organization's maximum benefit.

Kevin Kyle

Luke Smith is a really good player and they have some of the same balance that we do. They have some size, a good bench and some guys who can shoot it. And they play really good pressure defense.

Dan Bartram

Lucy came out ready to play. But it was a good, balanced effort for us.

John Winters

Maintaining strong fiscal performance combined with balanced investments provides a catalyst for the private sector to continue to grow.

Mike Stock

(Lewis) wants to win so bad. He felt like he had to take over the game himself. But the reason we were here is that we've been much more balanced offensively lately.

Nicola Sturgeon

Let us put the normal divisions of politics aside. Let us come together as one country; let us seize this historic moment to shift the balance of power from the corridors of Westminster to the streets and communities of Scotland.

Leah Rush

Legislators don't want to feel their hands tied, but you've got to balance that with the public's right to know.

Robert Walpole

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

George Diller

Liftoff of space shuttle Discovery, beginning America's new journey to the moon, Mars and beyond,

Sandy Smith

Make it a priority and if you have little kids, start right at the beginning so they know there is no other way of doing it.

Connie Allen

Luckily, Chelsea hit those free throws at the end. If we would have made them at the beginning, it wouldn't have been that close, but we made them when it counted.

Tony Cox

Mailers are sensing that customers are ordering later and later, and responding by putting more catalogs in the mail at the beginning of December.

John Rooney

Let's have a good season, that's it. That's all I've said from the very beginning. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Petronius

Let us together closely lie and kiss, There is no labor, no shame in this: This hath pleased, doth please, and long will please, never, Can this decay, but is beginning ever

Randy Raper

Lenoir-Rhyne was on him from the beginning. They saw a lot in him. We played him out of position. But he's a man on wheels; he's the one we needed to do the job, and he got it done. He'll do a great job.

Madame Stael

Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Art Hogan

Sentiment on Wall Street has gotten to an 18-month low. When sentiment gets this bad, you know the bounce is pretty darn close.

Alex Tang

Sentiment in the market is still quite good thanks to a bounce in China Mobile and China Unicom.

Richard Seymour

Obviously, we don't want to be in those situations, but we have the confidence as a team that we can get the job done. We have a great opportunity of going out this week and trying to bounce back from our loss.

Tim Ruskell

No one was too sensitive, and we could say what we needed to say and bounce things off each other,

Mark Tauscher

Now we're sitting here at 0-3, there's a lot of turmoil and how are we going to bounce out of it. There's only two ways to go.

Susan Cutter

Natural systems are resilient and bounce back. The problem is when we try to control nature, rather than letting her do what she does.

Hugh Johnson

When the markets struggled for a technical bounce in the morning, that was investors sending a message that we're either heading toward an economic recession or toward a profits recession.

Al Horford

I feel like I've got my bounce back.

Carol Duncan

If only I could have got the second one. (The first one) felt good and I didn't think it would bounce off like that. It wasn't anticipated to be in that situation, but I dealt with it.

James Blanchard

Mr. Harper's hit a home run. Wilson's the quintessential Canadian - thoughtful, reserved but very strong.

Andrew Pyle

May delivered another dose of unexpected strength in Canadian job creation.

Alex Campbell

Mechanization or industrialization of this sort has really only left man with one all-important mission in life: to conquer nature.

Robert Bourassa

One can always debate questions back and forth.

Shane Doan

Obviously you want to be on the team but there's at least 100 Canadian players that could easily be on that team. The group making the selections will have a tough decision on a lot of guys.

Andrea Martin

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.

Donald Sutherland

But no, I love acting, it's a wonderful job.

Tommy Chong

No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in.

Tommy Chong

Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.

Edmund Shing

Miners have been massive in the past 12 months. The commodity bull-run has been enormous.

Morgan Stanley

We have significantly increased our short-term and long-term commodity price forecasts to reflect our expectation of sustained tight markets and ongoing deficits in 2006.

Deborah White

Funds are throwing a lot of money at all the commodities, and most of the commodity markets have been rallying.

Mark Zandi

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

Josh Stiles

I would be interested in what those Fed members who are concerned about longer-term risks to the economy say in terms of any damage from higher energy prices and commodity prices.

Gautam Adani

Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.

Bryan Cranston

I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.

Jim Wicklund

Typically, when commodity price estimates decline, so do the stocks. These are dangerous times.

Jim Mitchell

Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of.

Blake Ress

Many of the people in the legislature send their kids to private schools and I think they would defend them, defend the current system. I don't know that we've done enough research where we can defend this before the legislature or in court. If we're going to go this way we better have some facts to back our decision.

Herbert Hainer

Many of our current efforts will now focus on turning around the Reebok brand.

Cindy Clark

Several teachers also go to training all year long. Even in the summer, they go to week-long training sponsored by different groups. We want them to keep up with the current research.

Atul Lele

Momentum is on the mining companies' side, at least for the short term, as current commodities prices feed through to earnings.

Mark Levine

Mr. President, please reject the Left's current efforts to influence your selection. Your political enemies wish you ill.

Xiao Qiang

Much more relevant is current affairs, social and political news. You don't necessarily have to touch taboo areas.

John Robertson

Much more inflation. Because this government is always going to be printing its way out of its current difficulty.

Robert Gruber

Most wine importers hedge about 12 months; in other words, to the end of the current price list.

Norihito Kanai

Mazda, like other automakers, is benefiting from the weaker yen. Currently they don't have many new models, but next fiscal year starting in April, they will release new SUV models in the U.S., which should help its earnings and sales.

Isaiah Mustafa

Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what their take on my delivery is or what they think that I can do with something. So I kind of leave that to them.

Bryan Augenstein

My delivery got out of hand a little. It's frustrating but I won't let it get to me.

Frans Cloete

If a substantial proportion of the 80 000 Taxi Recap vehicles due for delivery over the next five years is to be reported in the MCV segment, we could be in for even more spectacular growth in the overall over-3 500 kg GVM market.

Giovanni Carrara

On the first or second pitch of the inning, I landed on my (left) heel instead of my toes in the delivery and my knee locked.

Paul Johnson

I got my first delivery this week since the hurricane.

Brandon Duckworth

I felt pretty good out there. Early on, I was a little quick with my delivery but then I got comfortable, settled in.

Shawn Estes

I feel very good about my delivery right now. I really haven't felt great all spring, but tonight is as good as I've felt.

Bruce Jackson

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.

Kim Gordon

I don't even know if I always entirely get what I'm trying to say right away with lyrics. I like a lot of things that are more subtext. I grew up mishearing lyrics my whole life, but somehow there's so much more, too, that's implied in vocal delivery and the music itself and the gestural quality of it.

Alafair Burke

Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.

Amy Ziff

Last year was a massive year for holiday travel. The summer kept going in that direction, and we have the same expectation for this year despite fuel costs. If you wait until November, I think you run the risk of not getting what you want or paying a whole lot more to get what you want.

Rowen Tupuivao

Mentally hanging in there despite all the mistakes, that was the key for us. We could have folded, but we didn't go to sleep. We tried to make something happen.

Stephen Brobeck

Net wealth hardly grew despite a substantial rise in house values.

Mike Walsh

Mo seems to have fared well despite his ordeal and is expected to fully recover,

David Sidwell

Morgan Stanley had a great quarter. This was accomplished despite everything the firm has been through.

Peter Cardillo

Obviously it negates the theory about Dow 1,000. What (the new milestone) tells us is people have a lot of confidence. Money is still flowing into the United States despite some question marks about inflation. Nothing has changed.

Kathy Giusti

Despite the fact that one in every two men and one in every three women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, no one ever expects it to happen to them. I surely didn't. I was an otherwise healthy 37-year-old when I was diagnosed in 1996 with multiple myeloma, the same rare cancer Tom Brokaw has.

Christie Hefner

Newsstand sales for our flagship magazine rose in the first half of the year despite a very difficult market that resulted in many of our competitors reporting year-over-year declines.

Howard Schwartz

One of things we know is that farmers learn from each other, ... This helps them share information as well as get information from us.

John Sulston

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

Jerry Miller

Single farmers need to find someone who can relate to what they do. Those people are out there. They just need to meet 'em.

Brian Bethune

The only consolation to farmers is that the price of seafood will go up further. So when production gets back on track, fish and shrimp producers can use the profits to recover their lost costs.

Hu Jia

Unlike the farmers in 'AIDS villages' who sold blood, these people are very spread out and don't know each other. They only slowly find out they are HIV positive and that there are others like them.

Brendon Smith

We do a lot to really support the local farmers and producers. We have products from about 180 local producers in our store, so we are not only selling fresher food but we are helping to support our community.

Brigadier Samarasinghe

Those farmers were working in their paddy fields when they were taken and shot.

Steve Davies

When I moved to Weiner, there the program was going but it was real weak. They had been through five teachers in four years. Kids didn't trust the program. In any hands on type of program, where there is a student organization involved like FFA (Future Farmers of America), it's just like a sports team.

Steve Davies

When I moved to Weiner, there the program was going but it was real weak, ... They had been through five teachers in four years. Kids didn't trust the program. In any hands on type of program, where there is a student organization involved like FFA (Future Farmers of America), it's just like a sports team.

Matt Sundeen

Many are reacting negatively to it. Real ID ... will have significant fiscal implications for the states.

Jerry Taylor

I feel like that is up to the fiscal court,

Steve Brice

From a local perspective they're saving a lot of money at the moment and their fiscal surplus was 15 percent last year and is going to be 14 percent this year.

Pete Sepp

From our standpoint, this is not a top fiscal issue.

Alan Greenspan

I find it utterly inconceivable, frankly, that we can have the type of potential fiscal outlook, which now confronts us over the next 15 to 20 years which, unless addressed, will not have a significant impact on long-term interest rates,

Tomohiko Taniguchi

We have not exchanged notes for fiscal 2005, but this does not mean that the money flow itself will be stopped.

Katsuhiko Machida

We want to start outsourcing within this fiscal year.

Taro Saito

The profit forecasts are rather strong, because I had thought that they might present nearly flat growth in profit in the new fiscal year.

John Robertson

We've seen a lot of override attempts, pretty much all over the place in the past three years. And the fiscal pressure is not going to go away.

William Shakespeare

May his pernicious soulRot half a grain a day!

Gregg Laskoski

We need to take it with a grain of salt when it comes to speculation of what may happen in the future.

Jeff Flake

We've got to take some of these definitions with a huge grain of salt.

Gillian Jacobs

I think you just have to take everything that happens on a TV show with a grain of salt. You sign up for a show for six years having zero idea where they're going to go with the character, so you just have to get on the ride of the show and go with wherever they take you.

Edward Livingston

I think you have to take these numbers with a grain of salt, ... What this all means is really very hard to determine.

Phil Funkenbusch

There is a grain of truth to every character, but it's overboard, which I really love.

Author unknown

I always take life with a grain of salt, ...plus a slice of lemon, ...and a shot of tequila.

Chanakya

He who is not shy in the acquisition of wealth, grain and knowledge, and in taking his meals, will be happy

Ken Beck

Land is a commodity, just like grain or anything else. And the time may come when they might want to 1031 their way out of here, too.

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Richard Garnett

Liberal justices like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg think as highly of him as someone like Clarence Thomas. I think that's a testament to the respect he enjoys.

Chris Healy

Lieberman has high marks on Iraq but he is still very much a liberal and we are Republicans.

Bob Mulholland

Look who has the highest percentage. Neither of them.

Ellen Tolley

Looks like last-minute shoppers lived up to their high expectations.

John Christiansen

Last year we had an accelerated program, so this year, to take an accelerated program to a higher level, it's safe to say that because of 318A.

Tom Davies

Last year, the winds were around 25 to 26 knots out of the north. This year, it was even higher winds, but out of the south.

Charles Greene

less respect for high standard and more interest in high enrollment.

Vince Cable

Many voters still...associate us with high taxes and big spending.

Steve Frank

Minnesotans don't know him. And so he will have a problem in terms of increasing his name recognition and visibility.

Chris Burns

She had been suffering increasing amounts of pain.

Gail Kelly

I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

Nawal El Saadawi

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

Robert Adams

What's really increasing more than anything is that we're getting more kids to take the SAT. That in and of itself means more kids are considering post-secondary education, which is tremendous. That's what they need to do.

Robert Williams

We started increasing power at 8:30 yesterday (Saturday) morning.

Neale Donald Walsch

I think in metaphysical terms, I would call that increasing the speed of the vibration of life.

Terry Chapin

I think that (packed byline) is an increasing trend when you get real large-scale issues like this. No one person knows how to put it all together.

Larry Beets

He's been effective, and his speed is increasing because he's getting used to the rotation.

Larry Fitzgerald

My energy levels are off the charts. I can run all day, I breathe well, and I sweat a lot, so the toxins and impurities come out of my body.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

Deepak Chopra

The solution is never at the level of the problem. The solution is always love, which is beyond problems.

Paul Singer

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

Source Unknown

Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.

Isabelle Arthur

Unfortunately, this route had not met profitability levels that are necessary to sustain operations.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

Alan Watts

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Rob James-Collier

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

Logan Marshall-Green

When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.

Zach Braff

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

Bill Hader

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

Nicole Holofcener

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

Chris Snyder

We've done a lot of research on it, and we don't know which way we'll go if offered one or the other, or both. We'll have to wait and see who wants us.

O. J. Simpson

You know he didn't have a caddie, so I offered to caddie.

Don MacAdam

We'd end up in the office talking hockey. He offered (to coach), and I'm not one to turn down help.

Denis Hayes

I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

Dick Thornburgh

That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

Walter Benjamin

What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Alan Greenspan

Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

Alan Greenspan

History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.

Chogyam Trungpa

The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.

David Myers

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

Cesar Pelli

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Cherry Hill

The prices are like the Energizer Bunny: They just keep going and going up,

Mark Clare

With wholesale prices where they are, all suppliers are going to have to put prices up in 2006, and I think that is inevitable.

Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

Harvey Johnson

Mrs. Knox will be produced at the proper time.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Del Harris

We'll find out, won't we? It has produced 60 wins. But we all know that's not the ultimate goal.

Richard Hatch

It's rare to get a really truly wonderfully written, acted and produced sci-fi show, period.

John H. Reagan

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

John Grisham

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,

Debra Conner

One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a volunteer before being a staff member.

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Lydia Leonard

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Marshall Strickland

There are so many reasons for us to win.

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

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.

Mike Tollin

He's at a place where he's more honest, reflective and self-effacing.

Bill Cowher

This was very reflective of how they feel about their teammates.

Lu Donnelly

Barns are for sale on the Internet. The wood is sought after now.

Ricky Gervais

Where did you get that? ... Is it on sale already?

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Paul Bishop

We feel that (the $30 came) from the sale of marijuana.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Keith Alexander

His sale to Watford is another filip for the youth set-up.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Keith Pearson

Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.

Perry Davis

She was just steady all through the game.

Wayne Primeau

He was just a steady guy. Never flashy, but he was a big part of their championship teams.

Elaine Jennings

There has been a steady stream all day.

Scott Benedict

That's what he does. He's been steady all year.

Randy Thompson

Oh, my gosh, it's been pretty steady all year.

Peg Stipetich

Our slowest time through the day was from 2-4 p.m., but we were still busy. It really was steady throughout the day.

Harriet Tubman

I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'

Scott Cross

He's just been really steady for us inside.

Jason Simpson

With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.

Carolyn Kizer

As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south.

David Ricardo

The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.

Cynthia Kadohata

You feel almost a part of the wheat when you're sitting in a combine.

Martin Luther

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

John Bunyan

He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.

John Bunyan

The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.

Joe Bob Briggs

Faith is like a kernel of wheat.

Gwendolyn Brooks

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

Wendell Berry

We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.