Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stockwell Day

The fact of the matter is that there was no definitive plan to remove Canadians before Katrina hit and now there are Canadians stranded and fighting for their lives,

John Matheson

We know he hasn't got any money...the American people say he hasn't got any money and the Canadians say he doesn't have any money...he tried the same scheme here.

Bruce Gordon

Since 2001, investors have witnessed some dramatic changes, but the last three quarters suggest a stable and relatively high level of confidence in long-term savings and investment plans. Since this index was launched seven years ago, it's suggested Canadians are generally committed to investing even through some major international incidents, market swings and more recently higher energy prices.

Jack Layton

Unfortunately it has become clear that Paul Martin and his team are not cut from the same cloth as Lester Pearson or Pierre Trudeau. And so, most Canadians think it's time for a change.

Tony Valeri

We're focused on keeping the House open, not shutting it down, ... It's the opposition that seems to be focused on shutting it down and dragging Canadians back to the polls.

Sarah Galashan

No Canadians were hurt. The vehicle was able to protect them. What they were able to do was change the tires and continue on.

Mark Bannister

If Canadians are going to smoke, they should be smoking only Canadian blends of tobacco.

Dave Richardson

We seem to be observing an emerging mind-set where many Canadians do not see the need to retire their debt before they themselves retire from work.

Benjamin Tal

The practical implication of this environment is that young Canadians must start saving very early in their lives, compared to previous generations in order to realize the same inflation-adjusted return on their savings. Our findings suggest this is not happening.

Claron McFadden

When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it's truly awesome and very powerful.

Dennis McDonald

When you say you are going to do something, you get it done. I committed myself to filling them all. I didn't quite make it.

Connie Miller

When you're with this many wonderful, committed people, it just keeps you going,

Kami Roeder

We have six wins and that's a lot better than what we had last year. These are great kids and they've committed themselves to be better.

Al Sharpton

But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.

Chris Daly

The performances of the different offices are on opposite ends of the spectrum. In Fresno County we have what seems to be a near abdication of their responsibilities, whereas in Alameda County we see an office committed to protecting all residents in the county.

G. H. Hardy

We are praying we don't have an earthquake, ... This is money we've committed to sewer, street and other projects to meet the future needs of our city.

Dane Moody

We've all committed ourselves to having a good team, and we have a lot of individual talent. I think one-on-one, individually, we're better than any team in the country.

Joey Lott

We started slow out of the gate last week, and had some turnovers early. We also committed a lot of penalties and we know we can't do that this week. I've told our guys that Bowman is good enough as it is, and we don't need to help them by playing sloppy.

Duleep Mendis

We have to give the players back the confidence because we are approaching the World Cup (in early 2007).

Jim Tufts

We have to get our confidence up and used to the puck.

Chad Ambuehl

We have to get better every day. If we can do that, if we can keep winning games and keep gaining confidence in ourselves, we could win a regional. That's been the goal since day one, and nothing has changed.

Craig Craft

We have some confidence that we can go in and do something (at the tournament). If we can get our game on the floor, we'll have a good chance.

Pierre Littbarski

We have some confidence from the last game in Sydney but they (Adelaide) are 10 to 15% stronger at home in Adelaide.

Russ Crist

We have so many talented guards and we wait to see who?s going to step up on any given night. Tonight was Kristin?s night. She did everything well. ... She played with confidence and that?s something we need out of her.

Mike McKinney

Whenever we are running it, we were successful at it. It gave them more confidence for the next time we did it.

Mike Kitchen

When he first came, his play was OK and then it's dropped off of late. I think he's lost his confidence a little bit. He's got to shoot more. He's got to go to the net and be a little more greedy with the puck.

Jody Rhodes

We wanted to try to get back on the right track and get some confidence early.

John Bolton

very dramatic news about the extent of Syrian involvement and involvement by top officials in the Lebanese government in this assassination.

Dale Robertson

Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.

Kapil Sharma

People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.

Denis Leary

There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he is, and he's terrific on his show. But I know Louis would play a fantastic dramatic role in something, too. He just needs somebody to grab him and say, 'Come in here and do this.'

Lyle Kessler

'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.

Richard Flanagan

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

Jane Fonda

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

Bill Cheney

We're still looking at job growth, but not enough to prevent unemployment from rising. If there were no special factors explaining this, it would be a rather dramatic piece of news.

Carlos Castaneda

It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us

Charles Thomas

Whenever they lack. I have to pick it up. I?m an energy guy. So that?s what I have to do.

Jarret Stoll

We wanted to win this game pretty bad. It's the last home game of the regular season for the fans. It's our 20th win at home, which is something we wanted, too. The young guys did a great job. There was a lot of energy out of those guys, and we got a big win.

Charlie Dent

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

Peter Cardillo

The CPI was good news but still leaves that question mark about energy prices. The gasoline hike of the past three weeks was not included in it.

Aaron Eckhart

The problem with making larger movies, five or six months, is that whose got the energy to keep themselves in that place for so long?

Douglas Altabef

The real issue is that energy prices keep rising -- it's like an invisible tax on the market and the consumer.

Tony Bina

We set the tone right away and took the energy out them early.

Greg Todd

We know being a successful private school that we're under a watchful eye. We were very willing and open for the investigation. They spent a lot of time and energy looking at us, and we felt good about the investigation.

Marie Brennan

When I'm working on a novel, I generally do write every day, but in between those marathons, I take breaks. My brain needs time to recharge.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

John Noble

'Lord Of The Rings' fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.

John Eaton

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Brent Neiser

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

Leander Paes

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

Rick Glancey

When you think of the military that's generally what you think of, green style uniforms and green style armory.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

M. Wolfe

We have never had prices so high and increase so quickly.

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Alan Meeder

When you say you get 130 or 140 high school kids together, people say you must be insane.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Cathy Hay

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

John Freeman

The real issue is how high does that threshold need to be.

Richard Brodhead

When it was offered, I thought it was highly appropriate.

Stephen Colletti

I was a very spastic kid who loved to see how high he could climb a tree. That's just the way I've always been.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

Cathy Hay

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

Mark Richt

We're just trying to get better down there, ... We just need to get more (touchdowns). We're not going to get a touchdown every time, but we need to get a higher percentage of them.

Charles Holliday

Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

Donald Selkin

This was a strange day, but overall it was OK. All other things being equal, we should open higher tomorrow.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Brian Ellis

We have improved every game. Now we probably need to take another step higher to play with Herkimer.

Jane Reynolds

We have higher standards for teachers. We should have higher standards for teachers.

Carol Roth

Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.

Carol Leifer

You can never go wrong betting on Americans' bad eating habits. So I've made a ton investing in all fast food chains, while at the same time investing in Dockers, spandex, Spanx, and sweatpants. Basically, anything with an elastic waistband is a goldmine.

Cherie Blair

All the research shows that investing in women is a good investment

Benjamin Graham

A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.

Benjamin Graham

The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage.

Benjamin Graham

We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.

Benjamin Graham

The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.

Benjamin Graham

By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.

Benjamin Graham

The best values today are often found in the stocks that were once hot and have since gone cold.

Stephen Cambone

We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Brad Bradshaw

This Quest represents the largest mid-life investment in Nissan's history. We realized the styling of the Quest was polarizing for some owners.

Bob Wheeler

We're saying, like a lot of communities do, that here's a value to these jobs. It's a wise investment to look at a differing rate structure for industry.

Mike Toohey

We're making a substantial investment into the town of Maggie Valley.

Christopher Hayes

Women's skills and abilities are no different from men's but they put a tremendous pressure on themselves to make perfect investment decisions.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Mahbubur Rahman

Since independence, Japan has been Bangladesh's largest development partner, but private investment from Japan remained at low level in that sense.

Ben Horowitz

Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Craig Callahan

Most people want stocks to go up all the time. We're back to normal and people don't like it, ... Investors that don't have the patience to ride through trading ranges won't be able to participate in the surge.

Hugh Johnson

Momentum investors are looking for something that works. What works is technology.

Dirk Becker

Many investors are speculating on a takeover offer.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).

Chris Shilakes

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

Mo Ibrahim

Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.

Ivan Glasenberg

It's nice to do an IPO where your investors get value straightaway and the share price pops up; it proves you left something on the table for them.

Carlos Fuentes

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

C. S. Lewis

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

C. S. Lewis

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

Jimmy Johnson

We have to find some speed and turn things around. Thankfully, we had a strong start to the season, so this last month we really didn't have to race our way in. But we've got to find it in a hurry.

Agnetha Faltskog

Abba's last tour was a success but awful for me.

Joe Minucci

We were at the lowest of lows last year. We couldn't get any lower. This year we are looking to make a playoff push, and trying to win the division.

Alan Rudolph

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

Tom Robinson

We have never operated outside permit levels at the plant.

Gordon Ramsay

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

Steve Belardi

We used to send all footwear? men's, women's and kid's?all together on a pallet. It was a big hassle at the store level because a lot of it would go to the back room. They were touching every carton. It was crazy.

Ian Hamilton

The process sets wage levels for the country.

Andrew Jones

We're just trying to get people back on a professional level of things.

Garry South

We know how much we're going to have to spend. This is a (spending) level we think we can sustain.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

Dexter Scott King

Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.

Robert Johnston

We have no plans for any major shakeup at this point,

Tim Wilson

We were at a crossroads, whether we were going to have to doze it in or do some major repairs.

Tariq Anwar

Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.

Eliot Spitzer

While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.

Erin Morgenstern

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Luc Ferrari

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Peper Long

We're still shooting for December, barring anything major or unforeseen.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Larry Goldstein

The one thing the market doesn't have is time and the administration reacted expeditiously this time. This was good.

Joe Veltri

We know how important the truck market is.

Sue Schneider

Ultimately, it will be legal, here, but how long it takes is uncertain. This is where the market is.

Alan Moore

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

Al Ries

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.

Al Ries

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

Al Ries

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

Akio Morita

All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

Patrick Fearon

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

Luis Castillo

Hopefully, it won't take me two quarters to get going this time.

Merv Griffin

I tell everybody that I’m a quatre-sexual. I will do anything with anybody for a quarter.

Martina Hingis

I feel a quarter Indian.

Meggie Ford

It's been like that all year. We always have one of those quarters when we don't play well.

Joanna Lumley

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Erik Satie

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Paul Weyrich

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

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.

Marcelo Porto

Stocks that were most favored recently are being penalized now.

Kevin Huck

We have a relatively young team with Keith Overton (160-pounder) the only senior starter.

Victoria Jackson

Sitcoms are relatively clean. There's not much nudity.

Paul Sagawa

So it's relatively significant that they said flat-to-down.

E. Hurley

On having children: Up until they go to school, they're relatively portable.

Jordana Spiro

I don't think you always get to see a woman on TV who is relatively neurosis-free and, while looking for a relationship, isn't man hunting and isn't cloying and isn't a fashionista.

Ian Hart

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

David Brewer

When they are available, they are relatively inexpensive.

Charles Browne

We are going after some relatively strong growth.

Richard Preston

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.

Theron Roschen

It's thinner than conventional asphalt, and that's where the savings comes in.

Robert Mahon

That's not a real savings for the taxpayers.

Diane von Furstenberg

I loved the seventies.

Dave Chappelle

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

Brad Pitt

Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.

W. Hull

Six of the seven have been contacted, and all are well.

Eduard Shevardnadze

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

Tom Taulli

Seven years ago Buy.com had sizzle. But this doesn't have a lot of sizzle to it.

Michelle Clark

Seven Springs has snow, and they're making snow.

O. Singh

Seven shots around here is not much at all,

John Powell

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Kris Kristofferson

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Kristin Gore

I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Benny Hill

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Neve McIntosh

I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Chris Presson

Financially, we're more stable than we've been in many, many years.

Mark Zuckerberg

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

Leon Mbangwa

He is still under our observation. But he is still stable and still in hospital.

Al Stadler

It's been stable since. We've had no issues.

Peter Banko

It's not critical. It's not serious. It's just stable at this time.

John Heywood

When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.

Arthur Bloch

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

Fred Taylor

There are theories that suggest that. But we need a much better understanding before we can know about things.

Abheek Barua

There is nothing to suggest that would be the trend.

Mary Wesley

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

Joseph Powers

Irrigation is being done on the (town hall) mall, so I would suggest French's Common,

Don Brunell

What we suggest is that they look at ones already in place to see if they are necessary.

Davis III

We got to watch a lot of their match. We suggested that we go around them, but that didn't go over real well.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

Jennifer Granholm

I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

Davis III

We got to watch a lot of their match. We suggested that we go around them, but that didn't go over real well.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

Joseph Tate

I never once suggested that she should not testify. It was just the opposite. I told Mr. Abrams that the waiver was voluntary.

Carlos Beltran

I like to be aggressive. I like to swing the bat.

Charles Caleb Colton

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

Buddy Rich

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

Ashley Madekwe

I'm known for changing halfway through the day if my mood swings.

Brendan Fraser

George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?

Brendan Fraser

To swing or not to swing? Swing.

Charlie Parker

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

Bob Hope

You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.

Charlie Sheen

Shooting a movie can be so tedious. You're trying to get 20 different angles on the same swing. You never get into a rhythm. But I took it very seriously.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Adam Ferrara

When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Jane Austen

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

Kathleen Blanco

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.