Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Shaheen

We want to see first how the lottery is received. Based on all of the polls, we're making the assumption that it's going to be very highly received. But a poll is a poll, and until we actually see what happens when tickets go on sale, we'll have a better idea by then.

Henry Crumpton

We have no intelligence or evidence that indicates that he (Bin Laden) is dead or incapacitated, so our working assumption is that he is still alive.

Norm Stamper

We have no indication that he has left this immediate area, so we make the assumption that he is still afoot or ... holed up somewhere in this area,

Tom Daschle

We have no choice but to revisit the question on other bills. Especially given the relationship between guns and schools these days, I think it's a natural assumption that one could make that there could be some amendments which will be offered,

Rich Mogull

We've since updated this assumption and now predict that by the second quarter of 2006, 85 percent of large enterprises will have initiated encryption projects.

Michael Chertoff

We've seen them attack in London, for example; we've seen them attack in Spain; we've seen them attack elsewhere, so I think we have to operate on the assumption that they do have some capability and they certainly have the intent.

Ariel Levy

There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way.

John Fiske

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

John Fiske

The persecuting spirit has its origin . . . in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

Steve Sullivan

We have said from the beginning that we are taking responsibility for this incident.

Tom Daschle

We have said form the beginning that if he would work with us we could reach a bipartisan compromise, ... He chose not to, and he got beat.

Jay Wright

We've still got until the end of the month, beginning of March, until they let him make a decision. I think he's getting more realistic about it. When I have to make a decision, I'm going weigh in my decision. He's working, he's enthusiastic.

Mike Kendrick

We were beset with all sorts of problems from the beginning when we launched in Marrakech, but they were all political.

Kurt Ruth

We were a lot closer than we were farther away, and I'm proud of our effort. Rancho Verde is no slouch. At the beginning of the season, I knew it would be a dogfight twice. One went their way and one went our way.

W. S. Gilbert

We were to welcome our new minister on Sunday. We will still do that, but in the hall. This will have to be a new beginning - a new beginning, a new building. It's a tough way to start a ministry.

Teri Cruse

We have pretty much our whole team back. With all those players back, it wasn't a teaching year at the beginning of the year, but a refining year.

Mickey Levy

We've seen data from various sectors showing the economy is beginning to stabilize. Not only employment, but the manufacturing sector as well. And holiday retail sales, consumption and housing look OK. So, we have all these powerful stimulants that are going to contribute to growth as 2002 unfolds.

Alan Nevin

The reality is, Bakersfield is just at the beginning of its growth pattern.

Li Zhaoxing

We want peaceful development, ... Stability and security of one country cannot be built on turbulence or crisis of another.

Richard Cross

The problem with Sarbanes-Oxley is that it means 20 different things to 10 different people. There's a tremendous wealth of folklore that has been built up around it in the IT sector. A lot of people are trying to push us into spending money on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, but I trust our auditors.

Robert Talbut

There is a lot of good news built into equities ... they have had a good run.

George Maloof

The Palms set the standard for themed hotel rooms by creating the world-famous Real World Suite, ... With our expansion, we will design some of the most extraordinary and unique luxury suites ever built in the world.

Stefan Sagmeister

In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and I'm never going to break the world record for the five miles. It's partly genetics; I'm just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?

Gary Shapiro

The products have pretty much converged together. You are seeing simplicity built more into computers, and more memory built in TVs -- so that the clean division between the two doesn't exist anymore.

Michael Moore

The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.

Texas Battle

What interested me in doing 'Dragonball' was that it's a huge comic book series that has built a great fan base, and it's a great action movie!

Thomas Heatherwick

As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when it was first being built. But I couldn't find anything for me. There seemed to be despair at the possibility of the built environment possessing any imagination in the real world.

Jack Lewis

We have some concerns about the use of the vehicles as this legislation is written. We will be talking to the sponsor and expressing our concerns and may be working something out.

Nicholas Burns

We have registered our concerns with the Indian government of course,

Mark Klein

We share a lot of the same concerns many of our employees have. The immigration process is broken, and we need true solutions to it.

Thomas Frank

Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.

Thomas R. Cech

The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.

Thomas R. Cech

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

Jim Allchin

We're just trying to be responsive to their concerns and also be forthright about where we are in terms of being a few weeks late for quality.

Kyle Wilson

Uh, no. I don't have any concerns as far as that goes. I don't really want to talk about it. But I'm not concerned.

Darrel Good

The persistence of moderate to severe drought conditions in parts of Illinois, Iowa, and much of the southern Plains increases concerns about yield potential. As usual, forecasts of summer weather conditions are not consistent at this time.

Gary Miller

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

Erin McKean

Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'

Eliot Spitzer

We are hearing from consumers who are saying 'I called in an order, I placed an order online, and it wasn't executed timely,' and as a result they lost money,

Lynn Jurich

Consumers used to think they had to compromise with solar. It was, 'Okay, I'm doing the right thing for the environment; it's cool to see the panels. I have to compromise on the cost and convenience side.' And now they no longer have to. On the cost side, it's cheaper, and on the convenience side, we set it all up.

David Joy

The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.

James Carrick

We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.

Leo Hindery

would be one of the greatest displacements of high-quality (cable) programming -- one of the rudest things I can ever, ever imagine for consumers in this country.

David Krell

When the markets get frothy they can disappear. When the markets are frothy is exactly when consumers need them.

Marshal Cohen

Until they're able to prove that consumers are going to respond to the changes, the Street is very nervous. It's a very big undertaking to convince the country that a national Macy's is better than regional department stores.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

M. Wolfe

We have never had prices so high and increase so quickly.

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Alan Meeder

When you say you get 130 or 140 high school kids together, people say you must be insane.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Cathy Hay

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

John Freeman

The real issue is how high does that threshold need to be.

Richard Brodhead

When it was offered, I thought it was highly appropriate.

Stephen Colletti

I was a very spastic kid who loved to see how high he could climb a tree. That's just the way I've always been.

Brian Chesky

In June, 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since,

John Livingston

We are pleased to be making such positive progress toward our primary objective of one million users by June 30, 2007,

Diane Duane

Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water!

Dennis Ritchie

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

Richard Archer

We'll be back in June and plan to make up for it.

Earl Graves

Since June of 2004, we've funded 73 charities.

Barbara Billingsley

People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.

LeRoy Neiman

As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.

Denise Levertov

In June the bush we call alder was heavy, listless, its leaves studded with galls, growing wherever we didn't want it.

C. S. Lewis

Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again." "Please, Aslan", said Lucy,"what do you call soon?" "I call all times soon" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away.

C. S. Lewis

I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion. Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then." There is no other stream," said the Lion.

Kelli White

We want people to think about today and tomorrow. It looks like you are.

Aaron Siskind

If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.

Alan K. Simpson

I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. I'm an Alan Simpson Republican.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

Charles Spurgeon

Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

David Quarmby

We've seen at least three theatres in difficulties and it looks as if they're closed, West End theatres. We've seen restaurants and pubs and all sort of visitor attractions 20 or 30 percent down.

Brian Eno

Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them,

Richard Herring

We have seen a lot of momentum buying,

David Shields

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

Alan Greenspan

In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.

Debbie Casto

We've got a very aggressive, trapping style of defense. And we get a lot of turnovers out of it. We've been able to get momentum with turnovers and score in transition.

Arthur Keith

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Ben Gordon

When we go down to Miami, we've got to keep the snowball going. We've got momentum going. We've got confidence. So we've got to keep it up.

Ben Gordon

When we go down there, we've got to keep the snowball rolling. We have momentum right now. We have confidence. So we need to keep that up.

Ken Klee

Momentum switches in a heartbeat, ... I thought we were taking it to them, then there was one extraordinary play by their guy. ... I'd like to have it over again.

Earl Weaver

Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Jim Hall

We want it be as normal a setting as possible and not have them stigmatized as being retarded.

Charles de Gaulle

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

Peter Rose

We've seen no disruptions. We are anticipating a normal work day.

Taylor Lautner

If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.

Brian Eno

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

Dave Barry

How can you be afraid of women?” “Those ain’t normal women.

Evangeline Lilly

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.

Dita Von Teese

So I have the green smoothie every day for breakfast, and then sometimes even for lunch too, and then I have a normal dinner.

Charlie Crist

When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.

David Suzuki

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

David Suzuki

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

Jared Bernstein

What you don't hear from these GOP candidates is that they really can't go after this president on domestic production of oil and gas. He's actually done quite a lot. In fact, I would suspect they're environmentalists who are worried that we're doing too much drilling and fracking, in fact. I know that for a fact.

Chris Chocola

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

Chloe Bridges

My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Moroccan Oil is some really good stuff. Plus, I can't live without my Burt's Bees lip balm!

Chinua Achebe

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

Cheryl Strayed

...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

Stephen Stanley

We're in a pretty quiet time of the year. We've been pretty directionless today. Oil hasn't been doing much.

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.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Tom McMillan

There has never been a three-week stretch of season ticket sales like this. Ever.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Keith Pearson

Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Joel Rassman

The stock sales have nothing to do with the state of the market. It has everything to do with diversification.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

Tom DeLay

To all these new spending requests, I say, 'Mr. President, show me the money,

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Tom Ross

Throughout the first week of grand-opening festivities, well over 100,000 visitors are expected,

Guru Nanak

Throughout the ages, know Him as the One.

Craig Venter

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

Gabrielle Giffords

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

Scott Skiles

We don't want to get into a fouling-type game, which has been our trend throughout the year.

Mike Shanahan

We've been evaluating throughout training camp, two-a-days, the off-season program, all the way through. We'll be fine.

Kelly Price

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.