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.

Jan Chipchase

Many retail stores have consumer trackers that study how long your eyes linger on one product, whether you follow it through by touch, and things that you buy. You can redesign things on a shelf, all by tracking such information.

H. Hart

Many consumers have made a significant investment in DVD libraries.

Joe Ridout

Many consumers have discovered that customer service can be a misnomer. The first person you encounter on the phone maze may not be the most helpful.

Van Baker

Many consumers are uncomfortable trying to figure out how to print envelopes on their printers. And the alternative of printing the postage on the letter itself requires a window envelope, which most consumers are not using.

Matthew Adams

Many consumers are moving away from three core meals because they are skipping meals out of necessity. Some consumers are instead eating only when hungry, and eating more frequent meals of smaller portion size.

Dan Levitan

Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.

Duncan Davie

Senator Seward thinks it's particularly wrong for consumers to be paying so much tax on gas when they're already paying record profits to the big oil companies.

Emme Kozloff

September sales were surprisingly resilient in the face of significantly higher gasoline prices. While this is reassuring, the question remains: 'How long can the consumer maintain the current spending rate given expectations for continued pressure from energy prices?

David Carey

Semiconductor manufacturers have to predict the market. They have to think like their customers and take their own read on consumer interest.

Barbara Block

Sharks are declining globally, yet the movements and habitats of most species are unknown,

Hasitha Premaratne

Given the declining inflationary scenario, inflation should further drop in March due to seasonal factors and supply improvements that would help the food index to take a breather.

Sandra Petcov

Fundamentals still do not support a strong rebound in German retail sales: real compensation per employee is declining noticeably and, even though unemployment has started to fall, employment is still on a downward trend.

Michael Capellas

We are declining in science ... in the 5th and 6th grades. Young ladies are not entering math and science -- and when they do, they go to medicine.

Michael Capellas

We are declining in science ... in the 5th and 6th grades,

John Donne

Where can we find two better hemispheres/ Without sharp North, without declining West?

David Hanson

We still have too many students 12 to 17 who are drinking excessively but we don't have an epidemic. We have a declining problem. That's the fact of it.

Tim Walberg

During Governor Jennifer Granholm's administration, Michigan has experienced job losses, declining personal incomes, diminishing home values, and the highest unemployment rate in the nation.

Catherine Rossi

We'd like to know why prices are not declining in line with the national average.

Jalal Rumi

Liberated from suffering and searchI have tied myself to the skirt of God.If I fly, I look at the summits I ascend.If I go around in circleI observe the axis on which I revolve.If I am dragged by a burden,I know where I go.For I am the moon, and the sun is my guide.

David Walsh

Many kids are literally dragging themselves to school half-asleep. They are very sleepy during first, second, maybe even into the third period of the day.

Dan Hill

One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.

David Pollack

Of course, my tongue will be dragging on the ground. But to get in shape, you have to play football (and) you have to play in games and scrimmages.

Source Unknown

No one's gonna drag you up to get into the light where you belong.

Peter McWilliams

Negative thinking is always expensive -- dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically -- hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

Quentin Crisp

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.

Quentin Crisp

Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.

Julian Jessop

Given its position at the head of the G8, it won't want this matter to drag on for too long.

Paul Brewbaker

Lucky for everybody because it says something about our underlying economy.

Gene Sperling

Let's keep our economy strong, let's keep our interest rates low. That's the smart thing to do. And, if things work out better in the future, then we'll have more money for a tax cut, ... Late Edition.

Fadel Gheit

Losing the Saudi oil would immediately shock the U.S. economy to the worst level in decades,

Loesje

Let's give the individual the space to grow, instead of the economy

Tim Ryan

Many of the businesses, large and small, that were operating in New Orleans on Aug. 28 are not going to be here anymore, ... If we were to measure the New Orleans economy now, it would make everybody sick.

Marcy Kaptur

Mr. Speaker, there are plenty of signs that the United States economy is not working well. One of the signs is our national debt.

Masaki Iso

Much of the optimism about the economy has already been discounted into the shares and they're not cheap.

Phil Gramm

Mr. Chairman, please don't try to fix an economy that isn't broken, ... Don't become so frightened by success that you throw wet blankets on a fire that isn't burning.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men do not realize how great a revenue economy is

Rob Henderson

More generally, it looks like the long-awaited trend improvement in Australia's exports could be upon us.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Nearly half of Nigeria's oil exports go to the United States.

Oliver North

Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petroleum products - coal, natural gas, and hydrocarbon energy in the form of petroleum. Number two, it exports arms, and, number three, it exports people.

Stefan Worrall

What we're seeing now is a very sharp turnaround in exports and this was reflected in the GDP numbers.

Tom Hunter

The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable?

Brian Redican

We're optimistic that exports will improve, but probably not until the second quarter of 2006.

Javier Solana

Regarding exports of North Korean missile technology, export of technology is trade and if there are buyers, we'll sell.

Baba Kalyani

We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.

Richard Jerram

Exports seem to be stalling and there are some signs this is already being felt by industrial production,

Bob Burke

Last year sales were up 32 percent. Sales for the fourth quarter were up more than 50 percent.

Mark Sandstrom

Obviously, we're probably the fourth seed in this thing.

Steve Jobs

Monsters, Inc. may become our studio's fourth blockbuster, and provide ongoing revenues for years to come as part of our growing film library,

Brad Faxon

My guess would be if a player makes it to the fourth round and it goes to Monday, no one's going to jump ship. That's payday.

Jud Gartman

Now we are emphasizing more things. We are getting there. Going into the fourth quarter (against Scott Central), the game was still close, 20-12.

Clint Hurdle

We had been looking for that big hit, big swing for quite some time. I was looking for that at-bat since the fourth inning.

Ted Carmichael

We had a very good fourth quarter for employment.

Matt Leach

I feel like there's a lot of pressure. It's my fourth one, and what if I lose it? Three years of nothing.

Jerry Porter

I feel like it was time. It seemed like he was holding on. He had gone from the greatest receiver ever to playing a secondary or third role or fourth role or other things that he shouldn't be.

Pam Dixon

Making money on identity theft is a growth industry and it's just not pretty.

David Hilal

Licensing is the story. All that other growth from services and maintenance comes from having new software business.

Glenn Tilton

much stronger position to seize growth opportunities as we move forward.

Jeff Schuster

Moving forward, most growth in the SUV segment will come from car-based vehicles.

Heather Dougherty

Online sales are poised to well outperform the growth in retail overall as more shoppers turn to the Web for convenience and values.

Elbert Hubbard

Growth is often a painful process.

John Silvia

Growth looks solid. The problem is prices paid were up again, suggesting inflation pressures remain a concern.

John Goulter

Growth like that shows we're heading in the right direction.

Gary Thayer

Growth is still at a healthy level. There is no major slowdown.

David Church

Lower-income housing has been a problem, and it's only getting worse.

Bertrand Delanoe

More than ever, housing must be a national priority,

James Sullivan

I don't think housing is shooting up anymore, but nor is it plunging,

Dean Baker

I wouldn't necessarily predict this would be a trigger, but I wouldn't rule it out either. It wouldn't surprise me if you see money leaving the secondary mortgage market, leading housing prices to fall.

Jeff Jones

Basically, what it means is we have a jobs to housing imbalance in the area,

Nthatisi Modingoane

The project is aimed at alleviating the housing problems of the surrounding suburbs as well as the Kathrada Park informal settlement, but in a systematic and orderly manner.

Ben Gunn

The outlook in the UK is promising, particularly if there is an uplift in the housing market.

Larry Wachtel

Tomorrow (Tuesday) we get numbers on industrial production and housing and big reports from Intel, Coke, Johnson & Johnson -- maybe that can turn us around.

James McIntyre

Travel trailers were always meant to be interim housing until we can get more permanent solutions.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Lehmann, Kahn and Hildebrand have all improved this season,

Nathan Watson

Last year we improved our times at every meet. As long as we can do that I will be pretty satisfied.

Terry Taylor

My life has improved so much. Frankly, I was very grateful.

Liu Jiangyong

China-Japan relationship deteriorated rather than improved over the year, and the deterioration trend will move on.

Derek Allen

I have improved a lot. I think it's strength, age, experience, and attitude. Plus, I'm really, really fit.

Jay Freese

She's improved a lot from last year and is in a new role. Autumn's inside this year instead of being out on the wing.

Joseph Nye

She has enormously improved the Wilson School, ... I've said to my successor, you've got to look over your back.

Simon van der Meer

Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude.

Andres Nocioni

I don't care. I want to work for the team, and that's it. I don't think about improved player, sixth man. If my teammates know I'm improved, that's enough.

Jack Rio

From '03 to '04 there was improvement, from '04 to this year there was more improvement.

Maureen Caddigan

Basically, his job is on the line unless we see some sort of improvement here.

Patty Vavra

She had a monster throw. It was remarkable improvement in a year's time or less.

Carla Peterson

Six points is a lot to jump in one meet to the next. We are back on track to where we want to be. We are ready to see more improvement with each meet.

Alain Vigneault

We played with the urgency and desperation that the situation demanded. We scored two and that was an improvement for us.

John Bryan

We have traditionally had inspectors who really know a lot about the business. They seem to be getting the job done. And while we've seen some improvement in permits, we're still a long way from where we should be.

Monty Beisel

We were able to set the edge. Once we did that, it seemed to go a lot better.

Jeb Bush

We worked on this all night long, and today there's significant improvement in the supply,

Cary Grant

I improve on misquotation.

Carolyn Kwan

The overall tone of the report is pretty mediocre at this point.

Cyril Connolly

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

Elizabeth Hardwick

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Alfred Jarry

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

Nitsan Hargil

They have nothing to celebrate. Revenues were just 'blah' all around. Very mediocre in all segments.

David Frost

Prospects for services are mediocre and the sector will struggle to regain dynamism.

Ivan Turgenev

It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.

Oscar Wilde

To be popular I must be mediocre.

Michael Arndt

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

Joe Barton

Let's wait and see how this all turns out. I don't think we are quite ready to say what Net neutrality is.

Mark E. Smith

Seventy-five percent of our networks are storage related.

Mick Jagger

Network television. They're always worried about how many times you're going to say f--- on the air.

Gail Evans

Networking is not about you -- it's about putting people together.

David Strom

Netscape has been very unsuccessful at interacting with the trades, ... They don't understand how to do PR.

Ivan Misner

Online networking is a phenomenon that really has just started to reach its stride.

Todd Rethemeier

I would have thought somewhere between $10.50 and $11 a share would have been a better price before I saw the 4,000 net (customer) adds.

Sailesh Jha

On a net basis, it is still quite positive.

Chris Gratton

Olli is doing everything for us. He's a big, physical guy, and he's getting to the net for us. He's playing with a lot of confidence.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Softbank's poor performance is especially weighing on sentiment.

Joe Shoemaker

Obviously, that's the very worst performance we've had shooting all year.

Ken Martin

I can't say we'll see this kind of performance every quarter.

Mo Johnston

From our standpoint, our performance was totally unacceptable.

Herman Edwards

If a performance of a player is not up to the standard that's acceptable, then there will be some changes, ... It could be during the game.

Aaron Nida

I was real pleased with his (Larson) performance.

Steve Adams

I was pleased with the team's performance this year and very proud, and wish the seniors well in their future.

John Kerr

I was pleased with the performance overall, particularly the second half.

Curt Schilling

I feel good, I feel healthy. I feel like I am better than I have ever been from a performance standpoint.

Jack Abramoff

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.

ASAP Ferg

Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived.

Ludwig von Mises

Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense of the word All economic change, therefore, would involve operations the value of which could neither be predicted beforehand nor ascertained after they had taken place. Everything would be a leap in the dark. Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

Ludwig von Mises

Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.

Charles Spurgeon

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

Diane Kruger

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

Dennis Prager

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Dennis Prager

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Dennis Prager

The Left has taken over the universities and, increasingly, high schools and elementary schools. It dominates the news and entertainment media. And many judges and courts are leftist - meaning that their decisions are guided by leftism more than by the law or the Constitution.

Lenny Clark

We're not disappointed at all. Third place is good.

Jim Rich

Sen. Landrieu said she wanted to be our third senator.

Rupert Grint

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

Bartolo Colon

More than puzzled, I'm ticked off. I had two outs and I couldn't get the third one.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I live at the dentist's. I'm on my third set of teeth that they put in with nails and screws.

Kevin O'Leary

When you're an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investment, but there's a third aspect: What you feel in your gut.

Brittany Howard

I once had this massacred afro in third grade. Parts were bigger than others. It was just terrible.

Dwyane Wade

We know we can win. That's what we're all here for. . . . This is my third year here and it's like it's my third different team, but we can win.

Brandon Jacobs

If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.

Calamity Jane

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

Ernest Hemingway

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

Ernest Hemingway

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Civilized life exacts its toll.

Christopher Hitchens

The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped.

Karisma Kapoor

It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

Thomas Streicher

These things take a tremendous toll on the officers,

Michael Douglas

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

Timothy McVeigh

But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.

Rose Smith

I wouldn't trade any of this for the world.

Macaulay Culkin

I wouldn't trade any of my experiences for anything in the world, ... 20/20.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Donald Trump

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

Stan Eby

My sense is there will not be a rehearing and trade will continue. But we have to be watching all the time.