Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ma Jun

Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.

William Fitzgerald

Our portfolio remains slightly below duration. But then, the entire fixed-income universe has been defensively positioned for months now.

Toba Beta

Part of water which is cooler always flows to below surface. I understand that hotheaded men always want to be noticed.

Ethan Harris

Payrolls were well below the whisper number, so there's been a big sigh of relief in the market,

Ron Lievense

People have looked at our size all season and wonder how we got here and how we won 28 games. We're not going to look good in an airport. One coach called us the best below the rim team he'd ever seen, so I guess we're not all that athletic.

Scott Kriens

Spending levels during the quarter were below expectations but represented a more diverse set of key service providers and carriers. We remain committed to financial fundamentals, our multiple market strategy, and to the expansion of our product portfolio, all of which will be critical growth drivers when the public networking industry outlook improves.

Alan Ruskin

Some of the headline (jobs) numbers maybe look slightly stronger than expected, but when you scratch below the surface, you find there is still plenty of weakness out there, ... Obviously the manufacturing sector is looking as weak as ever.

Evan Mann

Some investment grade mutual funds and pension plans can't hold paper that's below investment grade. People that couldn't own it because of the ratings restriction now can look at it again.

William Lewis

Our salaries have slipped below the high schools in our area.

Tim Ghriskey

Regardless of the outcome of this case, today's ruling is going to mean a market share loss for Blackberry and a gain for Palm.

Pam Schnurr

Releasing ferrets is one thing, but getting the population to produce young is the first critical step in creating a self-sustaining black footed ferret population.

Chris Rock

Relax, you only have to be nice to black people for two more hours.

Michael Niemira

Part of the reason was that retailers built sales momentum by offering deep discounts leading up to Black Friday,

Darrell Butler

Our kids work hard on defense. We left this field last night at 6:50 p.m., and if you looked at your clock, it was pitch black -- and that's the night before a day game. That's how much these kids care.

Ben Chappell

People need to know about the person who saved black people's rights.

Robert Rowe

Some of those reports are filed and then go into a black hole. Other times there are no reports. The processes were there, but just because they're in place doesn't necessarily mean that people are going to follow them.

Michael Miller

Some of this is just simply fashion, what's cool and what people like. Black fits nicely in a lot of decor, and it looks cool and slimmer.

Lee Peterson

Our prayers go out to the families of the deceased, ... Hopefully this will help black people realize the folly of depending on the government or leaders and serve as a notice to avert future tragedies in other cities.

Dennis Kelly

Our members last got a raise when Willie Brown was the mayor of San Francisco and Gray Davis was the governor of this state. The district, we believe, can do better.

Richard Spies

Some of the things the University was able to do earlier in Simmons' term created a buzz that said, 'Wow, that is bold, that is aggressive.' The fact that we have been able to keep it up ... shows that Brown is a force to be reckoned with.

Dean Duerst

Our game plan was specifically for Marisa Brown (Evanston Ill.) to take care of Tiff Weimer. Obviously she is a very special player and Marisa did a fantastic job.

Karen Benzel

Our beloved, endangered brown pelicans have a never-ending struggle to survive. Pelicans have been my inspiration. I've wanted to retire, but I can't I promised them I'd help them. They have had such a hard life, and they still do.

Mike Lewis

Physically, he resembles him a little bit, at least a slight resemblance, the shape of his face, the brown hair. Journalistically, he's kind of followed in Jennings' footsteps, as far as he's done a lot of foreign reporting. He was embedded with the Marines in Iraq. Bosnia, Afghanistan. Pakistan. ... He's not a lightweight.

Diantha Harris

Red gives one energy, so the combination of the red and brown in this dress is giving Sarah the energy to keep her busy schedule. It's also nurturing and supporting, so she doesn't get off balance. While we could say that it is a color we don't normally find young celebrities wearing, it could be a very wise and wonderful choice for a young woman in a crazy business who is looking to be centered and secure.

Carol Brown

I'm here today to get chocolate chips and brown sugar, I decided to make cookies and brownies.

Steve Alford

Jeff Horner has imposed his will on this tournament. I thought the job he did on Brown was outstanding. What he did (against the Gophers) was no less than incredible.

Ed Heintschel

Kyle Brown was darn near impossible to guard.

Anne Byrn

Recently, cupcakes have developed even greater panache. Like home-baked meatloaf and real mashed potatoes, they are terribly chic. . . . They are often coated in fudge or caramel and might have a candied violet or white chocolate shavings on top.

I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. and since he is so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.

David Waters

Knipschildt chocolates are manufactured very differently and can actually be a tourist destination. This particular proposal has been in the works for about six months.

Jorge Posada

I love all Puerto Rican food. I love rice and beans. I like anything with steak, chicken, pork. But I like chocolate and potato chips, too. I eat that when my wife goes away and isn't looking.

Linda Warren

We make our own icing with powdered sugar, shortening, chocolate and flavorings. The sugared ones we while they're hot and the iced ones when they're cool, ... Sometimes the donuts don't come out perfect enough to sell. We eat those.

Cara Castronuova

I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.

Cam Gigandet

Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.

Caroline Sunshine

My favorite thing about the holiday season is the lights! I love walking around with family, friends, and a cup of peppermint hot chocolate to look at all the beautiful lights and decorations.

Dominic Monaghan

Life has a way of kicking you in the ass... or smearing chocolate on your bum.

W. S. Gilbert

Participants responded more quickly when the color of the odd-man-out had a different name than the color of the other squares. But, most importantly, this only occurred if the odd-man-out was in the right half of the visual field.

Ilse Hartung

Our main objective is to provide an environment where faculty and staff of color can come here and do very well and have a desire to stay.

Thomas Menino

People of color fare worse than their counterparts on a number of health issues - such as infant mortality, asthma, and diabetes.

Simon Horrocks

Steamboat was the first time that we played live on the radio. Colorado is the logical place for us to go back. It was one of the first markets that really embraced us as a band.

Robert Emlen

Some of the people of color get paid their own money, and some of them don't.

Chad Morgenthaler

Some of them are hard to find now. The specific colors are the main thing.

Bill Owens

Our task is nothing less than to protect that special Colorado way of life.

Brian Harris

Our version is tied to be lighter in color and more thin-bodied than the standard Western pattern.

Mark Burnett

Rock stars are colorful personalities and charismatic performers who make great reality TV characters,

Tommy Williams

From midnight to 4 a.m., we recorded about 2 inches of rain and over a half-inch more from then until 8 a.m..

Jim Fischer

We're probably going to get several more inches of rain on this side of the mountain.

Aaron Nida

She's only about 41/2 inches from the automatic.

John Gresiak

We're going with about three to six inches for the area, maybe more on the lower end of that range.

Tom Brokaw

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

Mark Ewens

We had 5.1 inches of snow here, with 0.53 inch of precipitation.

Harry Stockman

Traveling will be very slippery and treacherous. We could have 3 to 6 inches of snow by the end of Friday.

Hal Stratton

We have a guideline that requires this rung to be at least 9 1/2 inches wide,

Bill Renner

We thought we had a mismatch at wide receiver and their cornerbacks because we're six inches taller, ... Peter can throw it deep.

Dan Shechtman

I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.

Dick Van Dyke

You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.

Johnny Bench

I pulled cotton at 6 years old and worked on the peanut farm and paper route.

Anne Bishop

Werewolves and Arabians. It's like chocolate and peanut butter - a delicious combination.

Diana Vreeland

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity,

Charles M. Schulz

Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.

Gwen Stefani

I`m like a peanut butter sandwich.

Lisa Rinna

When I was 16, I discovered jazzercise. And I thought it was the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly.

Saxby Chambliss

There's always somebody who wants to take a shot at the peanut program,

Marty Smith

That was two too many. The first rule was you must shower every day.

Frank Robinson

That's the rule around here. They've all been told. It's been said more than one time.

Jim Gallagher

give everyone a sense of equilibrium and ... of where the rule is going to wind up.

Ed Belfour

I thought about it afterwards. It's frustrating. It's a new rule that you have to get used to it.

Thomas Heywood

Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.

Ron Krumer

There are no rules to how long it could take to go away. It could take one day, it could take two days, it could take two weeks.

Lawrence Dallaglio

I wouldn't want to rule out the possibility of a return. It is something that has to be thought about very seriously.

Guru Singh

He has no rival, no attacker, no enemy. His rule is unchanging and eternal, He does not come or go.

Daniel Pearl

now rule out the possibility that he has been killed by the kidnappers.

Bill Cosby

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

Carrie Chapman Catt

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

Carrie Fisher

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair,

Bertrand Russell

The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.

Heidi Klum

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

Charles Barron

I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

Billy Boyd

I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.

Ayn Rand

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

Ben Goldacre

Science has authority not because of white coats or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.