Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Dunkelberg

Main Street optimism has backed down from the mountain top and is resting on a high plateau. The general view is that things have been going well for so long, they're bound to ease back a bit. Small-business owners aren't painting a doom-and-gloom scenario here. They just sense that the red-hot economy will cool by a degree or two.

Bill Sullivan

Let's think back to what happened in Internet stocks. That was a bubble where there was a complete evisceration of wealth. That will never happen in the Treasury market, because it is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.

Bill Sullivan

Let's think back to what happened in Internet stocks, ... That was a bubble where there was a complete evisceration of wealth. That will never happen in the Treasury market, because it is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.

Elizabeth Morse

Mother Nature has backed off. We are looking at slightly better conditions in the forecast.

Jon Favreau

Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really fit into Hollywood's business model any longer. Even if 'Chef' is successful, it will be successful in the context of what it is. There's a limited upside to a film that's so small, but there's also limited exposure for the people who backed me.

Deborah Johnson

When I backed up, I saw smoke and fire. So I called dispatch to report it.

Trot Nixon

I didn't have any fan interference at all. They backed away. I commend those fans there. I gave them a little tip of the cap.

Jay Vidovich

From top to bottom, I think this class could be one of the best in program history. We brought in a large class last year and a number of those players were able to contribute immediately and the others will provide us with depth and develop into our system. This year, we backed up that class with possibly even a stronger group. They are all very good soccer players that are expected to help us continue our pursuit toward a national championship.

Eric Bolesh

If a company doesn't use their time, money and manpower to tackle major commercial obstacles then the product will flop regardless of how much time, money and manpower is used. The successful brands are backed by teams that are knowledgeable about the industry and what potential problems may arise. These teams use what resources they have to make a favorable climate for their drug.

William Cullen Bryant

Man hath no part in all this glorious work:The hand that built the firmament hath heavedAnd smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopesWith herbage. . . .

William Cullen Bryant

Man hath no part in all this glorious work: The hand that built the firmament hath heaved And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopes With herbage. . . .

Rabindranath Tagore

Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit

Pat Morris

Like all the things he's gone through in the last two years, he'll take it in stride. If it doesn't happen then you haven't built yourself up too much to be let down.

Scott Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Stella Young

Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history.

Raymond Seed

Levees tend to be built in very difficult situations on poor site conditions because you're essentially turning marshy land into land you can stabilize and do things on,

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.

Roustam Tariko

Lots of businesses built in the early 1990s were not very transparent, not only by Russians, but also by foreigners.

David Richard

So it is important to set realistic targets for young drivers. I've seen drivers destroyed by high expectations and fear of failure.

Igor Smirnov

Moldova destroyed this plan with its own hands by imposing an economic blockade.

Douglas Coupland

I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of.

Charles Wald

should have destroyed the remainder of the aircraft, munitions and supplies that were in that tunnel.

Haley Barbour

Six thousand homes were destroyed in Camille, ... I suspect it's going to be higher.

Waylon Jennings

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

Kim Alexis

I was muscular - I was never overweight. But tell a girl that she has to lose 15 pounds when she's not fat, and that has destroyed a lot of who I am over the years, even still. In my mind I'm thinking, 'I'm always too heavy. I should be a skinny thing.'

Bayard Rustin

I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

George Clooney

I grew up in a family of storytellers, but Google has destroyed us because you can fact-check everything. We'd always like the stories to be a little better than they were.

Jamie Shea

Milosevic is in the corner, and that's where he's going to be kept by NATO until he throws in the towel.

Tyler Perry

My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?'

Mickey Rourke

I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when I had some success, I went ballistic. That was my childhood, and the party kept going on.

Martha Grimes

I don't think I could have just kept writing the 'Richard Jury' books. It wasn't that I was bored or dissatisfied. I just had to write something else.

Orlando Cabrera

The pitching is what kept us in games, but if you're not hitting, you're not going to win,

Colin Farrell

On shooting American Outlaws: I kept saying 'Bang bang' and they kept having to cut.

Eddie Ho

I was running and taking pictures. I just kept pressing the button.

Greg Genske

I wouldn't say that. I'd say he's kept an open mind.

Neil Roberts

If we had kept it up at that pace it would have been 88-2,

Bob Carpenter

One third of building, the roof peeled back and everything caved in. It was destroyed.

Emily Wood

I was thankful I had an MRE to eat; I had a smelly, stinky room from all the water, but at least I had a roof over my head.

Todd Phillips

'The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof all over the world.

Albert Einstein

If you feed your mind as often as you feed your stomach, then you'll never have to worry about feeding your stomach or a roof over your head or clothes on your back.

Jim Harrison

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.

Sam McKenney

To have it under one roof is really a new concept.

Rick Reed

At the end of the day, we're saving the world one roof at a time.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I don't care where I live, so long as there's a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high-speed Internet access.

Natalie Clifford Barney

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

Gina Morioka

I wouldn't have thought that at all, seriously, because you would think storm water and sewage water -- that's two different things.

Connie Mack

This storm wasn't what we thought it was.

Anne Mills

This storm did not show any discrimination socio-economically. The water was everywhere.

Luis Gomez

We are not going to wait for the storm to hit.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, going into Texas,

Dick Franti

We were able to weather the storm and stretch it out to 10 or 12 points.

Charles Caleb Colton

The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Athenaeus

I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.

Antonin Artaud

It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.

Chris Farley

I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

Chris Farley

I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem.

Diane Sawyer

Ive always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.

Diane Kruger

I do watch what I eat, but not for weight reasons.

Diane Kruger

I don't obsess about my weight. I just know I've got to watch it when my pants feel tight.

Janet Jackson

When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.

Ellen G. White

High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

Cathy Guisewite

This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.