Famous Quotes & Sayings

Takashi Ushio

There are cases of stocks being bought after beating market forecasts, but most companies that don't meet these inflated expectations are being sold.

William Becklean

We're in a market where you don't get any credit for a great quarter. I don't think beating the numbers will benefit Cisco very much.

Ruth Shields

We always have a nice little rivalry with them so it's a nice way to start the season, beating a county rival,

Bill Callahan

We want him for the fall. Beating the White team or the Red team ain't the big thing right now. It's more important to get him ready for the fall.

Chris Fox

When we go to a meet, the time is just as important, if not more important, as how they do in the race. But, ultimately track is about beating people. We go to meets to win races.

Bill Halpin

What a great surprise for us beating Santa Rosa.

Jim Tildsley

We're extremely happy with the way we're playing right now. Naturally our goal is to win the title - and we can take a giant step by beating Lowell (this Sunday). But they're going to be tough.

Tom Glavine

We're just off to a good start, and they're not. It's just one series in April. What will it mean in a month if we win two of three or lose two of three? It means more than beating Milwaukee over the weekend. But it's still one series.

John Thomas

We're beating the bushes as much as anybody.

Mohsin Hamid

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.

J. Hoover

We are pleased with our results in a challenging 2005, even though the 4% improvement in diluted earnings per share from operations was below our goal to increase those earnings 10% to 15% per year over time.

Terry Kennedy

We started out at a level below my expectations. But now it is there. Some players have come into the league who have made it better. It's a high-Class A league, maybe even better than that.

Asif Kapadia

We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.

Chris Meyer

When you take out the 15 cents and the 20 cents, you can get a number which actually was below consensus. And that's obviously in stark contrast to what we saw from Lehman Brothers yesterday.

John Banville

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you.

Nell Newman

When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.

J. M. Roberts

We've always said this about Alaska: nasty-ass weather, warm people. I never experienced 32 below before. ... My Irish blood has been thinned out by years of living in California.

Joyce Foreman

When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.

Douglas Altabef

The potential is that there could have been a surprise that could have influenced the Fed next Tuesday, and clearly that hasn't happened. But employment is a lagging indicator. So the report is not a reflection of where the economy is going, but where it's been.

Peter Varney

The position remains as we have clearly stated it on many occasions.

David Wald

We are pleased with the decisions. It clearly established the constitutionality of the Internet Registry Act.

John Kyriakopoulos

There are clearly upside risks around the consensus expectations for non-farm payrolls. As such, we would not be short the U.S. dollar over the next 24 hours.

Dave Roberts

There are clearly stated problems that we have to identify and have to uncover. The overlying theme is things that would lead to sudden incapacitation,

Rod Smyth

We're in a market that is clearly in a little short-term decision box. It's the debate whether core inflation remains low, which allows the Fed to stop raising rates, or whether core inflation is not able to be contained. We'll get a progression of data and numbers that will help resolve this somewhat, but until then, we're in the box.

Carol Marlow

We spent longer than we had planned in Fort Lauderdale, which meant that the itinerary has had to be changed, and we do regret that sincerely and clearly we do recognize there's been a lot of disruption.

Lucas Black

If you're thinking clearly and are content about where your life is - to where you can just think about the present, think about the now - that's what you need to do to hit good golf shots. I know there are a lot of distractions, but when you're thinking clearly, you're more free. You've got to have that freedom on the golf course.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively.

Himanshu Patel

We still see more downside than upside risk to 2007 consensus earnings.

David Douglass

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

Jeffrey Edelman

While management will likely continue to guide conservatively, we expect 2006 outlook will be at least in-line with (analysts' consensus estimate of) $4.18. JC Penney's stepped up branding campaign, which kicks off March 2 and includes a temporary NY store, should drive some sales and more importantly position them for market share gains as industry rationalization frees up share.

Hugo Chavez

What a great truth and how good it is that in Mar del Plata President Kirchner has come to say it to millions: the Washington consensus is broken; we are looking for a new model,

Leonard Susskind

Why is there space rather than no space? Why is space three-dimensional? Why is space big? We have a lot of room to move around in. How come it's not tiny? We have no consensus about these things. We're still exploring them.

Camilo Gomez

We share the wish for a national consensus for peace as a passport for the reconstruction of our country.

Natan Sharansky

The prime minister is traveling without trying to make consensus here. I prefer to be with the majority.

Samir Geagea

Lebanon is the true land of consensus par excellence,

James Lindsay

The overlap was startling, really. There was a great deal of consensus on where to intervene,

Gordon Nixon

We are pleased with the strong earnings growth and ROE (return on equity) of 23.9% in the first quarter.

Jim Roche

We are pleased with the performance in the quarter, with the return of sequential revenue growth and with the solid earnings results,

Steve Previs

There are some disappointments in earnings and obviously Hewlett-Packard is a big one.

Chuck Hill

We still think we are on track to see earnings growth of 23 percent for the quarter.

Gordon Higgins

We're going to see volatile markets for the next little while with all this uncertainty regarding earnings. We need to see a general improvement in the tone of earnings and especially with guidance.

Scotty George

What we're looking at generally is whether the market can get past these levels. We think there's enough strong sentiment and stimulus in the pipeline for that to happen and that the earnings will ultimately lead the market, but it's a process, and it's going to take time.

Russ Koesterich

We're just winding down the year, ending the year with these sort of small, middling gains, which to me makes sense because you've had opposing factors this year. On the one hand you've had good earnings and a robust economy, but on the other hand, you've been fighting the Fed. The two canceled each other out.

Peter Oppenheimer

Year-over-year revenue growth of 34 percent and earnings growth of 41 percent were the second highest in any given quarter in Apple's history.

Heino Ruland

With no major earnings news scheduled and losses in Tokyo, the (U.S.) market is lacking support for further gains.

Mike Law

We still need to work on offense. Until we get solid up front we're going to make mistakes and those mistakes are going to slow us down.

Jeff Francoeur

When you've got guys like Andruw (Jones), Chipper (Jones), Julio (Franco) and Marcus (Giles) in front of you, you have some RBI chances. A pitcher doesn't want to pitch to those guys. He'd rather pitch to a rookie any day.

Debbie Carter

We're not going to move him up to the front of the line.

Harry Price

We acknowledge the problem and we're very up front about it,

Nina Simmons

We have security stationed in front of the student areas, and we're telling them, Look, guys, here's the plan. We've got to get the visiting team out of here. We know you're going to rush the floor, but here's the path that we want to take to go onto the floor. We're going to open it up to you and just funnel you down this way.

Reggie Bush

What (the offensive line has) been able to do up front has been amazing.

Delroy Lindo

When you're working in front of the camera, there are always things that occur to you after the director has said 'Cut.' I could probably, if I sat down and thought about it, come up with instances where I wished I had made this particular choice or that particular choice.

Jeff Boogaart

When he gets the rebound, it's going the other way quick. Nobody stepped in front so he got all the way down to the goal.

Ryan Jones

We want players who don't give up. We want players who sacrifice everything for the name on the front of the jersey.

M. Thompson

We have played a lot at the SCG with mixed results.

Nathalie Dechy

She served very well and mixed her game. I had a lot of opportunities but simply couldnt take the lead,

Lauren Bacall

The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I?

Christy Romano

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

Damon Lindelof

I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.

Allan Radel

We're a very mixed family, but a very, very tight family.

Hannah Marks

I like a little bit of punk mixed with a little bit of feminine.

Zygmunt Bauman

In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

Lynn Duncan

People would like to see some kind of mixed use as opposed to 100 percent condominium.

Michael Behe

When you start putting constraints on science, science suffers.

Patterson Hood

We were supposed to be taking it slowly this fall, with putting together the album,

Brian Donahue

We're putting together a top-notch team of professionals.

Steve Davis

We're putting things in place this season to get us there.

Kourtney Kardashian

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

Nancy Grace

What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?

Shane MacGowan

I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean?

Jeff Ross

I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.

Najib Razak

I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.

Marcia Miquelon

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

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

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.

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.

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.

Carl McDonald

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

Bob Stoops

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

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.

Jean-Marie Lehn

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.

Kent Cooper

One tribe has been reported with over 75 different names.

Mark Fuhrman

Nobody's reported my victories, my accomplishments, my true personality - the way I treat all people.

Ronda Tompkins

I didn't do anything extraordinary. I just reported what I saw that night.

Upma Chawdhry

It has been indicated that this was reported late.

Terry Coleman

You all reported everything. All you got to do is look in the archives. I feel you all were probably too tough on me.

Kendall Carver

We think that what is reported is just the tip of the iceberg.

Julie Thomas

There were more rapes reported this year than last. I know there's some speculation that there's just more reports. Well, I don't know that. I don't know that it's not actually going up. There's so much we don't know.

Zhang Qi

One after the other, they reported everything was safe and sound. I was ecstatic.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

Nigel Cameron

Certainly, if these reports are true, it's a tragedy for science.

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Gary Mickelson

There have been reports of higher-than-usual absenteeism at some locations.

Mickey Loomis

We've had firsthand reports that it's a mess.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Susan Johnson

In Illinois, there are very scattered reports of true influenza.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.

Jason Terry

We accomplished most of our goals, and now it's time to put it all together. The results will be sweet if we do.

Bob Riley

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money

Bill Walsh

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.

Romeo Crennel

When we get the results on that, we'll let you know.

John Baumann

We're just getting our first results back. So far, so good.

Alexandra Adornetto

Find x if (x)=2sin3x,over the domain -2piX=Beth 'Stop goofing around!',I said. 'I'm not! I'm stating the truth.You're my solution to everything',Xavier replied. 'The end result is always you.X always equals Beth.

Timothy Noah

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Charles Dickens

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Caleb Colton

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

Charles Spurgeon

Suffering saints are living seed.

Charles Spurgeon

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Alan Watts

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

Alan Watts

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.

Chin-Ning Chu

If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

Gustav Krupp

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

William Shakespeare

Thus to persistIn doing wrong extenuates not wrong,But makes it much more heavy.

Michio Kaku

Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.