Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Collins

People have been comparison shopping for 10,000 years,

Brittany Howard

People hear a powerful female singer in a rock and roll band, and they say, 'Janis Joplin.' I think people just make that comparison because it's easy. But I don't think I sound like her at all.

Rod Marinelli

It is a similar position, and he's got traits like Derrick -- but Derrick has been to nine Pro Bowls, so that's where the comparison stops.

David Cole

just as we did in the McCarthy era, we have offset the decline of traditional forms of repression with the development of new forms of repression. A historical comparison reveals not so much a repudiation as an evolution.

M. Thompson

It has always been fairly easy to do comparison shopping on the Web,

Stephany Smith

I was very pleased with our fight and our performance. Especially in comparison to our previous game in Tennessee.

Danielle Fox

Gross margins were flat in spite of a fairly easy comparison because of pressure from Reward Zone.

Chris Beard

I don't think a comparison of the raw count of vulnerabilities is representative of the security of a product,

Gerry Harvey

I think the main thing you measure your success by is what you do in comparison to your opposition. If you're in an industry where you're the leader, then you're performing very well.

August Wilson

Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything right the first time, and since I don't write with a hammer and chisel, it's relatively easy for me to change. It's just words on paper. Words are free. You don't go to the store and order a pound of words, or five hundred words, and pay your three dollars. They're free.

John Papa

Records are hard to come by, especially the outdoor records. The records that have fallen this season are significant ones, and are not easy to achieve.

Jamie Langenbrunner

Patty sees the ice very well. I was trying to find a lane there so he could make as easy a pass as possible. It was a great pass by Patty.

Jason Jennings

Our offense was, to say the least, pretty impressive this whole series. It really just let us, as a staff, just relax and be aggressive. When you get nine or 10 runs a game, it's pretty easy to pitch.

Richard Sheridan

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

Mila Kunis

People have interpretations of what you're supposed to be like. If you're unattractive and overweight, you must have a great personality. If you're attractive, then you must not be the nicest person. People are always taken aback that I'm easygoing but not necessarily stupid.

Tony Brock

People have GPS. They give their position, and they're easy to locate.

Mike Lorello

People have to realize Rutgers isn't the same team historically that they've been. It's pretty easy to tell they're a good football team.

Brian Moody

People like to pick on the Hummer, because it's an easy target,

Jack Billion

States with a life only policy do fairly well economically.

Gerald Massey

Some of those standards are fairly onerous even to sophisticated, highly litigious businesses.

James Peterson

Out of all those variables that people talk about, you can really narrow that down to a fairly small list.

Adrienne Freeman

On the valley floor, it's probably compacted about six inches and that's fairly significant.

Mike Bryan

I thought we were fairly sharp. We haven't been practicing too much this week because we've been resting...This bodes well for Indian Wells.

Rob Gooch

I thought we were a little slow getting it going. Once we got it going with Reno Gilbert, we played fairly well.

Michael Specter

Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true. But we do know that a few people have evaluated that story with what strikes me as fairly objective standards of reason.

Thomas Haden Church

Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed.

Chris Lee

That was tough for me to get situated because I was back and forth (between positions) the whole season. Now, I'm fairly secure at defense.

Mark Ford

Refiners have been producing gasoline flat out since the storms. Gasoline was needed, money was to be made and there was political pressure. The last thing they wanted was to be hauled into a congressional hearing and hear about a windfall profits tax.

Rick Kennedy

Overall, production is down this year to a point where it's flat to slightly lower. So they're going to try to offer these packages so they don't have to do anything involuntary.

Don Allen

Piper is going to come here and flat out lay it on us.

Jimmy Johnson

Man, before we hit the start of the race we had a flat tire. It was a really tough day for us.

Doug Winslow

I thought we were flat offensively. We were still making a lot of mistakes. We really need to come out and play the first quarter.

Thomas Friedman

JFK wanted to put a man on the moon. My vision is to put every American man and woman on a campus. ... The World is Flat

Angus Young

That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.

Jason Bowen

I was very pleased with the way the girls battled back. I'm a little disappointed in the way we seem to start flat every game, though.

Uma Thurman

I'm so flattered and touched by your comments.

David Johnson

I would suggest there's some sloppiness here. Neither mere negligence or gross negligence will suffice.

Stuart Scott

People always talk about the nausea that comes with chemotherapy. For me, it's more like a queasiness. And it can be intense. It's an uncomfortable, gross kind of 'blech' feeling.

Brent Sutter

The players thought it was pretty gross because my leg was just black. I limped around until the end of January.

Laurence Gilman

To say we're unhappy with the performance of the team is a gross understatement.

William Carpenter

To say I find these results unacceptable would be a gross understatement,

Anna Kendrick

I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.

Larry Ceisler

We have offered $2 million to start out with, and then every year going forward, a percentage of our gross with a minimum of $500,000.

Errol Flynn

My problem lies with reconciling my gross habits with my net income

Sam Craig

There are multiple revenue streams, so theatrical gross is important because it signals the subsequent revenue through home video rentals, sales of DVDs, pay television and others.

Steven Wood

Because pricing power has disappeared, profit margins will remain under significant pressure.

Arun Sarin

The place where our margins are really being impacted is in Japan,

Frank Lee

The PC sector is weak in the first quarter but I am still optimistic for the whole year. That's because the trend for the TV sector is positive so profit margins should go up from the second and third quarters.

Billy Childish

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

David Harris

I realize that the margins are being squeezed, ... We have a plan for that.

Yoshihisa Miyamoto

The size of the outlook revision, unseen in recent years, was a big surprise. Profit margins are dropping.

James Carrick

The margins story is better than expected. Things are getting better for manufacturers.

Howard Davidowitz

The margins are positive, but sales are eroding,

Glen Flanagan

Our pressure got to them in the second quarter.

Dan Boyle

Ottawa. Wow. They've had our number. ... But there'll be pressure on them.

Jim Calhoun

We need someone to take the pressure off Marcus.

Bill Cowher

Pressure is something you put on yourself.

CC Sabathia

I don't feel any pressure. I'm not nervous about going out there and pitching.

Antonia Thomas

Ive felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from Misfits.

Joe Lang

I think they got a little frustrated. We are not very big so we have to put pressure on teams in the backcourt.

John Kosmina

I think there is more pressure on them (the Mariners). We have got nothing to lose. We already have one trophy in the cabinet.

Tony Amonte

Just get it out of the way. Enough talking about it, enough putting pressure on yourself to score.

Mark Thompson

Risk and reward tend to be symmetrical. If you want to be a high-value company, you have to take more risks.

Billy Corgan

The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.

C. S. Lewis

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

Stephen Schwartz

I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.

Ayn Rand

This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.

C. S. Lewis

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

Carroll O'Connor

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

Earl Nightingale

Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service

Earl Nightingale

Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution, that is your service to others.

Brad Childress

If a daily, 'How you doing, Terrell?' is antagonistic or spiteful then I must be on the wrong planet.

Brad Childress

If a daily, 'How you doing' or a 'What's up' is antagonistic or spiteful then I must be on the wrong planet.

Don Marquis

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Dallas Willard

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

Bette Midler

I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.

Edward Lear

In spite of all their friends could say, / On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, / In a sieve they went to sea!

Lee Matthews

The wind made it very tough to play in spite of the warm day.

Paul Mooney

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

Tim Murtaugh

Russ Potts is an angry, bitter, spiteful man.