Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Biffle

When your name gets put in a sentence with Jeff Gordon, that's a bid deal. I have a lot of respect for Jeff Gordon.

Pitt elder

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter, the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

John Copeland

We are going to make a pretty strong bid to defend our New England title.

Shannon Bennett

We did not get a bid we could accept.

Murli Deora

We are making all efforts, including using our personal contacts, to get U.S. multinationals to bid for our exploration blocks ... so far they have stayed away, but I am sure this time things will be different.

William Mattison

Where the dealers are making a market with a wide spread, but have in their possession an order to buy stocks at a higher price than they're bid, or for a lower price than they're offering, they want the investors and the institutions to see those better bids and offers.

Rob Enderle

When you've got multiple players going after a property, like anything, you get increased competition and people tend to bid higher.

Thierry Breton

This process creates an impression that the bid may have been launched hurriedly.

Dominic Guida

We're still looking for donations of items for the auction. We're particularly interested in items that are related to athletics. Anything that people would want to own and bid on.

Richard DeKaser

We have seen and I expect will continue to see a softening of demand for single-family housing that has been unmatched by a decline in construction. Eventually builders get with the program.

Joe Marsh

We have no illusions of grandeur here. It's the situation we want to be in. We want to have to go out there and have to earn every single shift. We'll have to do that in this building (the Kohl Center) for sure.

Samuel Palmisano

We have more work to do, but we are off to a good start this year, building on the momentum of 2005.

John M. Smith

We have some building to do. Building doesn't mean that we're looking at some poor seasons in the future. Building just means we need to build some individuals that don't have a lot of credentials at this point.

Dave Lutz

What these seniors have done is impressive. I told these guys that it used to take, eight, nine, 10 years for T.J. to win 29 games, but these guys have helped build a foundation.

Anthony DeFazio

What these buildings have in common is that they are all 100 percent leased and occupied by financial institutions. The buyer wants high credit quality and a steady income stream from the leases.

Capt. McDonough

Whenever you have a large number of people in a building you want to make sure they can get out very quickly. So they need to know where the exits are and they need to know how to get to them.

Arthur Stein

Whenever you build an institutional use, like a hospital, or a courthouse, there is going to be expansion, and the uses that relate to that institution are going to expand as well,

Marv Levy

When you say you're building for the future, that's an incomplete sentence. You're building for the future coach and general manager, is what you're doing.

Tim Henman

When I'm not competing I try and play as much golf as time allows, and my handicap is three.

Dave Heineman

Ultimately, we have to decide, with the Legislature: Are we willing to take some bold steps to make us even more competitive in the future, competing in a global economy? I think Nebraskans are willing to listen to that discussion. They want an opportunity for their kids and grandkids to live here.

Brenda Frese

We are going to keep competing and we keep getting that margin down. Duke is so talented and so deep.

Mike Glick

We still need to show more patience on offense and we need to do a better job of competing on every possession.

Will Morgan

We're here, we're not polar opposites, we're not competing for the hold of the city.

Nick Saban

We're still competing at that position, but Gus has taken most of the reps. That's the way it is right now.

Russ Howard

We're starting to get more excited about it. It's still a long way off, even though we're leaving today. We get to Italy on Feb. 8 and we don't start competing till Feb. 13, but (there's) the excitement of being there for the opening ceremonies, the Olympics themselves and the ambiance that goes with it.

Fred Moran

We're seeing an influx of competition on national level with various players partnering together, ... Now we have a number of fully national partnerships competing head to head.

Terry Parks

We've got good kids. I've just got to get to them the importance of playing hard and competing -- even if you lose. Go with what you know. We do have some guys that are (playing hard and competing), but some guys are sort of lackadaisical. Once we figure that out, we'll be fine.

Michael Fitzpatrick

The real dichotomy in this market is that crude inventories are very high and that could make for some violent, back-and-forth price action. For the foreseeable future, the path of least resistance remains up until there is a significant structural economic or political shift.

Daniel Yergin

We have high crude prices. We have low inventories. We have strong demand. All of that would be a recipe for a taut market even with refineries (running at full capacity).

Ali Rodriguez

There is no problem with crude supply. Prices do not depend exclusively on OPEC,

Kevin Scully

Until the uncertainty regarding crude oil prices can be stabilized, it's hard to see the market going anywhere.

Tobias Merath

The refinery outages should lead to weak demand for crude oil from the refining sector. It's not crude oil that is in short supply, but gasoline and distillates.

Victor Shum

Short term events like this which are unpredictable can drive a high price floor for crude prices. That is why we are seeing pricing in the high 50s even though the market is well supplied.

Tobias Merath

Since many refineries deferred their maintenance work after the hurricanes, we expect this year's turnaround season to be particularly heavy. As a result, crude oil consumption by refiners should decrease, which could over the next weeks lead to falling oil prices.

Jason Schenker

mitigated some of the upward pressure on crude oil prices.

Dominic West

I'm a rather crude cook.

C. S. Lewis

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

Eid Kabalu

We have no confirmation (of their presence in Mindanao). As far as the MILF is concerned, there have been no sightings. We have no personal knowledge that they are here,

Steve Howard

Whenever they focus on risk, the Houston region will fare well.

Greg Gilchrist

When you're winning, you don't have to make excuses, or when you're losing, you shouldn't come up with any, either. As far as I'm concerned, we just got outrun today.

William H. Macy

When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.

Bob Grantham

We want our property tax rates lowered significantly and substantially and meaningfully. So far we have not seen anything in that direction.

David Jones

We want it (the fire) far enough out and in an open spot.

Mats Sundin

We were back on our heels far too much.

Tony Woody

We were a step late all night long. We did not do a good job of matching their intensity. They played hard. They played like a team that wanted to go a little farther (in the playoffs).

Stephen Colletti

Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do.

Bryan Ferry

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

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Alan Arkin

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

Chetan Bhagat

Don't be serious, be sincere.

Cher

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.

William Shakespeare

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

Richard Caborn

We have had the pantomime. Let's now have the serious stuff.

Bryan Clay

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

Joe Spraggins

We're just trying to get them all up because we want to stop another problem.

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Enrico Colantoni

You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

Bob Goldstein

We're not here to stop development or impede it in any way,

Jimmy Kennedy

We've got a new attitude. We want to stop the run.

Alanis Morissette

How about not equating death with stopping?

Charles R. Swindoll

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

Ed Pastor

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

Jim Schaus

We're going to have three of these pep rallies here. Nothing's going to stop this team now.

Calamity Jane

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

Christopher Hitchens

The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped.

Ernest Hemingway

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

Ernest Hemingway

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Civilized life exacts its toll.

Karisma Kapoor

It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

Thomas Streicher

These things take a tremendous toll on the officers,

Michael Douglas

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

Timothy McVeigh

But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.