Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken King

We want to stress that the Mississippi will remain at high levels and above flood stage for weeks yet.

Paolo Maldini

We know well the difference between finishing second and third, above all in a summer with the World Cup finals.

Wade Valentino

Waiting until 2010 may lead to the likely result of Cool Spring being at or above its program capacity at that time.

Brian Sabean

Very above average. He's certainly very impressive in person.

Viktor Yanukovych

Ukraine will undergo a catastrophe if its political elite does not put the country's interests above career ambitions and narrow prejudices.

Michael Specter

The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation to drown. In Alaska, entire towns have begun to shift in the loosening permafrost.

Maajid Nawaz

In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

Rakesh Shankar

The possibility of a warmer than expected summer, along with a spike in crude oil prices and a freak heat wave in Texas that led to a surge in demand for natural gas all helped boost natural gas futures prices to well above $8 this week. Prices look to stay there in the near term, despite the record inventories.

Brendan McDermott

The person that was skiing was actually able to get themselves up onto a tree and keep themselves above the snow so that person was unharmed. The second person, a female, was caught in the avalanche.

Jamie Johnson

We knew they were rooting for us in the beginning but they changed. We thought it was funny.

Robbie Earl

We know what's at stake and what we have in front of us. Good teams know in the beginning of the year what kind of destiny they can bring to themselves. I think we recognize that. My class and (the senior) class, we've been here quite a long time and we're at that point where this is our year and we'll try to make the most of it.

Shalee Lehning

Ultimately, it's something that we've worked for all season - to win a championship and to be one of only two teams in the nation to end on a win is huge for us. Everybody kind of underestimated us at the beginning of the season. We proved to ourselves and everybody else that we are a team that is going to compete, and we're going to do good things.

Paul O'Neill

We are pleased with the quarter's results. Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.

Paul O'Neill

We are pleased with the quarter's results, ... Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.

Larry Ellison

We believe that our growth and PeopleSoft's decline resulted in part from an increase in our competitive win rate over PeopleSoft, and the fact that we are beginning to replace PeopleSoft at a number of major accounts,

Glenn Nick

We are at the very beginning stages today.

Richard P. Feynman

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Bob Peterson

We are at the beginning stages. Are we going to be successful? Yes.

Regina Miller

We knew they would stretch our defense. We wanted to take some chances on Marsh inside and she certainly made some plays. But I'd rather give up a 2 contested over a 3. That's a little less.

Gary Williams

We know we have to play well. Georgia Tech is a young team that certainly has shown it can play.

Jose Ferreira

Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.

Monica Lewinsky

I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty.

Scott Long

Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward.

John Bolton

We are preparing a resolution for the full council to adopt. It would impose the sanctions. It's a down payment, and certainly not the end of the sanctions process.

Michael Dell

There are certainly very high-growth markets outside the U.S.. China is the fourth-largest market in the world for Dell to sell its products and we're growing fast there.

Alan Davis

There are certainly some solid growth prospects for Microsoft but it's not going to be the glory days again.

David Hallberg

There are certainly some artists in New York that I would love to work with. One is Sarah Michelson.

Lenny Roybal

We've won some close games this year, and that's made us better. We made a lot of mistakes late to let them back into the game, but we responded.

Gordon Hartwell

We want to try and shut down the inside game. We have to try and close the paint, which is what we tried to do all season, anyway.

Shafiq Rasul

We want to show the world what is happening there. We want the place to be closed down.

Mark Regev

We want to see maximum movement at the crossings, but that decision has to be weighed next to the very real security threats that there are, ... If we opened every crossing and there were a wave of suicide bombings, then we'd just have to close everything down again.

Matt Thomas

We know what to do in close games now.

Rodger Schlickeisen

We know we're getting awfully close to winning this and we think the momentum is on our side.

James Thomas

We know we have to work very closely together and we're hoping the situation we experienced Friday won't be replicated.

Ryan Smyth

We know we have a good hockey team in here. We have to match their intensity and close it out.

Tim Miller

We know we do have some young girls that have been missing for quite some time real close to this area.

George Shiffler

Vendors are likely to see a fundamental shift in the market as they come to grips with the steep decline in mature-market desk-based growth and are forced to seek growth in other market segments.

William Poole

There is no question that many households are suffering declines in real incomes.

Steven Wood

Unless there is a quick rebound in sales, this suggests further weakness in production and declines in inventories over the months ahead.

David Healy

With their sharp decline in market share, they have frankly got too much capacity, too many plants, too many people to be profitable in North America.

Orawin Velz

We're expecting a decline in employment because we expect the volume of originations to decline pretty significantly next year -- 20 percent.

John Bollinger

The psychology that led to the decline has been digested.

Daniel Niles

We've seen this how many times already this year -- three? ... A lot of these names could have 50 percent downside from here. Our big issue is, are the sequential declines (in revenue) over? I'd say no.

Jane Houlihan

We've seen lead levels dramatically decline in kids, PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) levels decline, all because of direct government intervention that gets these out of the environment.

Michael Cloherty

There is a lot of following stocks around today. That was the big thing after the huge decline in the European equity markets - there was a lot of nervousness about what would happen in the U.S.

Charlie Chaplin

Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

Charles de Gaulle

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

Charles Dickens

Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again.

Charles Dickens

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

Charles Dickens

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Charles Caleb Colton

He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.

Charles Caleb Colton

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

Charles Caleb Colton

Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!

Charles Caleb Colton

There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.

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.

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.

Henry McVey

We still like the equities market and think the S&P 500 could potentially go through 1300 this week.

Dana Martell

We want to show that even though someone may be different on the outside, they still understand how you feel. Maybe the same thing makes you smile or is your reason for waking up.

Mike Shula

We know we're in for a tough one, maybe the toughest one all year.

Mike Davis

We know D.J. is out indefinitely and maybe out for the season.

Andrew Wallace

We are going to see some recovery in the economy, but maybe not as much as some people expected.

Richard Money

We still need a point, maybe two, to be sure of being in the top four.

Ed Gillespie

We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

Al Bagnoli

We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, which is never easy. Maybe our expectations were not what they should have been. I think he had a productive year, even though it was somewhat inconsistent to Mike Mitchell and Gavin Hoffman.

Tyler Cowen

Most of us are not pure self-starters; most people need role models, they need coaches, they need exemplars, they maybe need some discipline or some rewards. We need to be motivated.

Kendall Mills

We are getting better with each game. Maybe we are peaking at the right time.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Bill Pullman

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Jiro Yamaguchi

What we're seeing is a result of Koizumi's diminishing popularity -- the 'Koizumi effect' is wearing off.

Todd Young

We're getting in their face. And I'm sure it's not very popular with management.

Al Gore

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Bob Beatty

She's ahead, she's popular -- she's not completely unbeatable.

Lucio Gutierrez

I will regain the presidency by way of the constitution, the truth and popular support,

Will Wright

I think the primary thing that's made the Sims popular is that they're accessible,

Greg Jackson

We were as fundamentally sound defensively during that stretch as I've ever seen us.

Jessalyn Gilsig

I remember before I did 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for drama. Once I'd done 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for a comedy.

S. Walker

We wrote more tickets this week than I've ever seen on a Super Bowl.

Marc Morial

To outsiders, you are seen as a shining light. You are seen as a beacon.

Scott Stoker

We've seen worse. We've come through a lot together.

Nick Price

We've seen this trend now, and my hat's off to her, ... reeks of publicity.

Tom Rath

We've seen the enemy, and he is us.

Maria Rooth

We've seen 'Miracle' so many times. We said (Thursday) we were going to make a new miracle.

Lovie Smith

We've seen him (Hutchinson) all through training camp, so we really want to get a look at the other guys.

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Bryan Ferry

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

William Shakespeare

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

Arthur Rimbaud

No one's serious at seventeen.

Dee Dee Ramone

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

Donald Rumsfeld

We've got a very serious problem, ... Wolf Blitzer Reports.

Bill Nye

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

Herb Sendek

I think it was really a severe injury,

Mike Edwards

We've dodged a bullet. It's not as severe as it has been in the past.

Brian Bannister

It's not torn. It's not anything severe. It's really just tight right now. If it was more severe I'd probably be sitting down.

Brian Billick

It's always more severe than it sounds. We'll have to see on the toe.

Mo Ibrahim

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

John Lichtblau

This is a severe but temporary situation. Repairs can be done.

Irving Penn

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

Charles Dickens

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

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.

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.

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

Benny Hill

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

John Felmy

We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Thomas Steinbeck

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

Michelle Post

She's been working it since October. She wanted to throw it a lot earlier.

Rainer Guntermann

If anything it was a slightly more hawkish spin (than we were expecting).

Ted Dexter

I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.

Lena Headey

I think I look slightly like a horse. Hand on heart, I think I'm pretty average.

Simon Doonan

Her style is gorgeous, provocative and ever so slightly deranged.

Michelle Gomez

I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.

John Godfrey

I'm always for a weakened Conservative party, slightly or massively,

China Mieville

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

Paulette Goddard

I'm always slightly embarrassed to meet other actresses of my vintage. We have so little in common. They're all so dedicated. I find - so desperate.

Drew Brosseau

It can be a mid-30s stock in 12 months.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Jim Cramer

I got a subpoena because I said that a stock was going lower.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Peter Greene

My suspicion is the stock is not doing much now, it's not earth-shattering.

Richard Jaffe

If we don't see Pressler departing, the stock treads water.

Brian Hill

Obviously, (CMGI) stock should be up with Lycos,

Ben Nelson

We are at that time of year where we have surprises with the strengthening of storms.

Deb Caletti

It's shocking the things we call love.

Arturs Irbe

When we got the lead, it was a surprise for the American team.

Dede Miller

We'll see. There are still a lot of other issues. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if she did.

Charlton Heston

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

Meredith Patton

We're going to come out and surprise a lot of people. We're a young team, but we never give up.

Carnie Wilson

I can be a lady - surprise!

Floyd Reese

We won't exercise. You can write that if you want, though I don't think it will be a surprise to anybody.

Elie Wiesel

I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

Charles de Gaulle

Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

Charles de Lint

There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.