Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Joseph Osha

We also think that the Street's fourth quarter 2002 expectation of 17 cents in earnings per share is unreasonably high,

Daniel Yergin

We're expecting another 20 cents more than where we are,

Quincy Morgan

We had a very good relationship with Bruce, ... I am sure he put his two cents in. He was the only guy who knew me, so I would imagine he said something.

Bob Fraley

Simple. I grew up a field-worker. My dad made 50 cents a day picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley. I never thought I'd get to teach, never thought I'd get to coach, never thought I'd have an NCAA champion, never thought I'd get to see the world. This university has done more for me than I could ever pay back. But I can do this -- and I want to.

Ron Lamberty

Most of the time, ethanol-blended fuel is usually a couple of cents or as much as five cents to eight cents less.

Charles Langley

We've seen our gas prices go up more than 25 cents since the first of the year. This is the fastest increase ever in the 10 years we've done the survey during this time of year.

Mark Dalmrymple

Many people are choosing this winter to replace their older furnace and invest in a high-efficiency furnace. Some of today's furnaces have an efficiency rating of 94.2 percent. That means, for every dollar you spend on gas, nearly 95 cents worth is heating your home. If you furnace is15 to 20 years old, the efficiency could be as low as 65 to 70 percent.

Charles Langley

The only consolation is that prices in North County tend to run about 3 cents cheaper (than the rest of the county).

George Foreman

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else.

Euben Paracuelles

We are maintaining our full-year 2005 GDP estimate at 4.8 percent, which implies an improvement in the fourth quarter to 5.1 percent.

Mike Rann

World Health Organisation estimates suggest we prepare for a situation where one quarter of our population is infected,

Rob Binns

World Airways will operate five international round trips a week under the contract, which has an estimated value of $11 million.

Samuel Smiles

Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.

Doug Smith

This was a strong set of numbers -- we had a pretax estimate of 1.184 billion,

Hank McKinnell

On any given day, we estimate that nearly 40 million people around the world are treated with a Pfizer medicine,

James Faucette

Most people's estimates will be going up for the fourth quarter.

Jeff Fletcher

When you can understand how much you're using in those areas, you can estimate a calculation of how much greenhouse gas you're emitting.

Will Whitehorn

Let me be clear, this is an estimate only,

Kyle Smith

We usually just have two forwards up top. But later in the second half I moved up a third one, and with about 1:45 left I moved in a fourth one.

Bonnie Henrickson

We struggled to find another offensive weapon. Their third and fourth options made shots, and we're not that deep.

Michael Teller

We started getting passive in the fourth quarter. We didn't take some of the shots we normally take.

Scott Hand

We have seen a downturn in nickel prices during the third quarter and into the fourth quarter,

John Imlah

We wanted to win the last three games to stay in pace with Dayton. They got third place locked up. We have fourth place pretty well locked up.

Matt Leinart

Whether we're leading at halftime, leading at the fourth quarter or, like Notre Dame, waiting all the way until there are three seconds left, we never have any doubt.

Luol Deng

When we went up, we couldn't stay up. We started making silly mistakes and let them back in the game. We struggled making shots in the fourth quarter and when they got the lead, they didn't look back.

Dan Bollinger

When we had the lead in the fourth quarter I thought we rushed our shots. Nothing good can come out when you rush. We also were 6-of-19 from the free throw line.

Bill Bakamus

Usually in the fourth quarter, we ice the game from the free-throw line. Not tonight. Those things happen.

Charles Caleb Colton

The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

Charles Dickens

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

Charles Stanley

Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.

Charles Stanley

No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.

Charles Spurgeon

If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.

Charles Spurgeon

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.

Charles Spurgeon

Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

Charles Spurgeon

If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

Frederic Bastiat

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Alan Ladd

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

Michael Kilpatrick

We're making a profit every year, but the thing is, we keep putting that profit back into the business.

Dhirubhai Ambani

You do not require an invitation to make profits.

Ludwig von Mises

Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.

Susan George

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.

Frank Adams

We work off of a back log, ... But that puts us in a real profit squeeze.

D. H. Lawrence

If only we could have two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Martin Pyykkonen

The expectations going into the quarter weren't very high. Overall, it was an in-line quarter with in-line guidance.

John Naveaux

We usually have a quarter where we don't score much. That's been a bugaboo.

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

John Eaton

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

Phil Jackson

Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that.