Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Source Unknown

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

Gray Davis

I expect these bids on long-term energy contracts should stabilize the market and drive the price of electricity down. This is a key step in our efforts to keep the lights on in California at a reasonable price.

Cathy Elkies

I have enormous interest on this lot. This may blow you away. I have triple order bids of $10,000 on this lot.

Doug Elgin

We're under siege and I don't get it. We deserved every bid. We earned them. We deserved six bids and we should have had five, because I don't understand how they can look at Missouri State and not put them in.

Eliot Spitzer

First, before any bids were submitted, the defendants determined which insurance company would win the business. Second, they set a 'target' for the winner to submit as its bid,

David Frick

We've had a soil contamination problem, and our steel bids came in pretty dramatically over what we thought the estimate was going to be. Between those two, we've exhausted a good part of our contingency fund.

Larry Bush

The original bids for construction costs started out at $8 million, then it went to $12 million. To stop the bleeding, we've signed a contract for $13.5 million. It's locked in now.

Johnnie Burton

This sale represents a record in terms of the total volume of RIK gas sold, the number of bids received, and the total number of companies that made offers.

Todd Apo

What the public wasn't envisioning was a swim through, swim with the dolphins kind of thing. They were looking for a truer aquarium, so the plan has developed into a classic aquarium with of course interactive features.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We want people to know that classical music is for everyone. A parent or kid might be terrified of this music, but after they come to us, they'll never be scared of classical music again.

Charlotte Bronte

Reader, I married him.

Jordan Foreman

We've seen it time and time again, going all the way back to the classic tapes. You want to be a part of something special like this.

Joshua Bell

When I do things, like, with Josh Grobin, or he has so many fans, and I get people after my concerts, classical concerts, all the time coming back and saying, 'Never heard of you until I heard the song with Josh Grobin.' Then they're now classical music fans, which is something I think we need to reach a wider audience.

Eric Whitacre

I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In many ways, it turned out to be an advantage. I was so green, so utterly naive about the nature of classical music, that I did things that made me look totally, deliberately unorthodox.

John Baumann

We did it the classic way. We went to a gear shop, got some ropes and then were wise enough to back away when we realized we needed more training. Luckily, we picked something forgiving, nothing that was too outrageous or too difficult.

Jenna Ushkowitz

My style overall is whatever is comfy, whatever I feel like wearing that day that I feel good in. I have some really classic pieces that I can dress up, dress down, wear to the movies or wear to a really nice dinner. And I love a really good leather jacket.

Charlaine Harris

Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.

Ted Cruz

The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you defy the American people, none of your nominees will be confirmed.'

Jack Rodman

When I look out of my window at all those construction sites, I see a sea of nonperforming loans looming large on the horizon. The numbers defy logic.

Susanna Clarke

She doesn't do the things heroines are supposed to. Which is rather Jane Austen's point - Fanny is her subversive heroine. She is gentle and self-doubting and utterly feminine; and given the right circumstances, she would defy an army.

Madhav Nepal

People will defy the curfew order, and we will organize the program as planned.

Ron Lynam

Onstage, he would lean way over into the microphone. He seemed to defy gravity and you'd swear he was going to fall over, but he never did.

Dana Reeve

I look to him as the ultimate example of defying the odds.

Carl Honore

Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.

Minendra Rijal

We will defy the ban. What the government has done is wrong.

N. K. Jemisin

This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

Charles Caleb Colton

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

Arthur C. Clarke

Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.

Lee Smolin

Every string theory that's been written down says the speed of light is universal. But other ideas about quantum gravity predict the speed of light has actually increased.

Robin Bell

Over the lakes, the pull of gravity is much weaker, so we know there must be a big hole down there.

Irwin Cotler

Judges look at the gravity of the offence and the responsibility of the offender in determining sentences,

Benny Johnson

Well, when do we talk about it? They don't seem to understand the gravity of this.

Albert Einstein

Gravity is a response to geometry.

Douglas William Jerrold

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

O. Henry

The moon buggy is lighter in space because there's less gravity there.

Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.

Jacky Teplitzky

There is a standstill situation. We all thought September was going to be a strong month, but that did not happen. The phones did not ring. Turnout at the open houses was low, lower than we had expected.

Ricky Gervais

My favourite shows of the year are House of Cards, the Scandinavian versions of The Killing and The Bridge, and my guilty pleasure is everything MMA. Ultimate Fighter is amazing.

Tom Holland

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

Brent Musburger

Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.

Bret Harte

Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

Bram Stoker

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

Bram Stoker

Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.

Darren Shan

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

Brendan Behan

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.

Andrea Corr

She used to play every weekend in pubs with Daddy, and she'd written all these Irish songs out in a book. They're songs we've loved over the years, and because our parents played them in their band, they're very special to us.

John Millington Synge

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.

Oscar Wilde

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Mike Saffran

People young and old come to listen to the traditional Irish music. Everyone's welcome. Everyone is Irish for the day.

Lao Tzu

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Lao Tzu

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Lao Tzu

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Lao Tzu

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Mickey Mantle

Mr. Mantle, do you have any observations with reference to the application of antitrust laws to baseball?

John Dingell

Mr. Pitt got in trouble. If he is not doing the job, sees to it that security laws are properly enforced, it's time for him to depart.

Kenneth Langone

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

Rig Veda

Only that person is preferred as a leader, who adheres by laws and rules.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

Domingo Garcia

When you have unjust laws and unjust actions, people take to the streets.

Mark McCormack

We thought the lawsuit was pretty frivolous." ()

Anthony Romero

Unfortunately, as our lawsuit shows today, those statements are patently false.

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

Larry Goldstein

The one thing the market doesn't have is time and the administration reacted expeditiously this time. This was good.

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.

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.

Jonathan Adelstein

I was stunned by the scope. The public has a right to know who is trying to persuade them.

Action Bronson

I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.

Holliday Grainger

I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible.

David Horowitz

I wouldn't be persuaded to be here if it wasn't for 20 years of being on campuses and seeing this.

Geoffrey Robertson

He was persuaded that, for Puritans, there could only be one King, now and for ever,

David Horowitz

I would not be here if I weren't persuaded by 20 years of walking around campuses and seeing this.

Paul Vincent

Is there anything the magistrates can do to persuade you to pay?

John Reed

I'm persuaded it can work. Our sense is it's well worth doing,

Mark Jacobs

They persuaded me to give it a shot.

Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Mark Clare

With wholesale prices where they are, all suppliers are going to have to put prices up in 2006, and I think that is inevitable.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Cherry Hill

The prices are like the Energizer Bunny: They just keep going and going up,

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Irving Fisher

Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Linda Newman

I always wanted waterfront property but this is ridiculous.

Ned Freed

Never, in my experience, has the IETF seen such a ridiculous flap over intellectual property rights.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Edmund Phelps

A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

George Miller

We're tight. We secured the property for the future, which is what we need.

Cheng Chin

We are controlling the fundamental property of material.

Paul Wolff

if we don't support that tourist industry, our property taxes are going to go through the roof.

Don Cooper

Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities.

Liam Payne

Please don't throw phones. They hurt. And we sell them on eBay.

Benjamin Graham

Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop.

Bruce Springsteen

Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.

Bernard Ebbers

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

John Zimmerman

There is no new requirement to sell any water

Craig Parsons

We've been able to sell more series than we had planned, but they take capital.

Brian Lucas

We're getting supplies of all of these, and we're selling out as soon as we get them,

Dennis Miller

Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Bill Gates

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

Orlando Hudson

We'll be around the top of our division.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Eduardo Galeano

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Carl Crawford

I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself.

Lee Daniels

When you're traveling, you can take it with you. You can use it for walking and I've done that many times actually trying to find restaurants.

Aaron Sorkin

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Andre Walker

We were trying to play an up-tempo game, but then we started to play their style. That is how they usually play and they were more comfortable than we were.

Brian Schmidt

We were trying to get the word out, but they were stranded.

Alan Titchmarsh

Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here.' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly.'

Charlotte Bronte

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

Charlotte Bronte

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Charlie Haden

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

Aaron Spelling

One thing my wife says is bad about me is that I still care too much.

Aaron Spelling

I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.

Alan Titchmarsh

I never get bored of my wife. It's lovely.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.

Brian Clough

My wife says OBE stands for Old Big 'Ead.

Boris Karloff

My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.

Don Adams

I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.

Dave Chappelle

My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.

Dave Barry

You can be the smartest person in the world - which Bill Clinton is, and if he's not, his wife is - and care more than anybody else in the world - which he does, I don't doubt that for a minute. And you can care so much that you're willing to be dishonest - you can tell people one thing but do another because you really know it's for their own good. And you'll still screw it all up. Because the whole premise of what you're doing is wrong!