Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Maurstad

Rebuilding stronger and safer and more flood-resistant is a wise investment of tax dollars. There recently has been an independent study by the Mitigation Hazard Council that has indicated that each dollar spent on disaster mitigation saves society on the average of $4.

Mark Twain

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain

Jeff Sherman

Parlay cards had a good handle and average win, while props did very well. It just took a while to grade them.

Mark Shapiro

Paul had an average fastball and average curve. He was going to pitch in the major leagues, but there was nothing that would particularly distinguish him from lots of other guys.

Mark Hyman

Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.

Mike Gundy

Our offense has been very average and by rotating quarterbacks, we couldn't ever get into synch.

Al Way

Our offensive linemen have decent size. The 2000 state championship team averaged 260 pounds up front. We're pretty close to that average (257 pounds) this year.

Cary Thompson

Our offensive average went up after losing our career leading scorer, and our steals went up by 64 this year. We accomplished a lot out of the change in style.

Dave Esquer

Our middle of the lineup and our average with runners in scoring position just haven't been that good. We haven't given our pitching staff any margin for error yet, and that's been a little frustrating.

Mohamed Abukar

Rebounding is probably the biggest thing that we didn't do as well as we needed to, but that wasn't the reason we lost. We didn't do a lot of things as well as we should have. We lost because of us, not because of Utah.

Willie Parker

Records? I don't really care about that record. The biggest record is that we were the sixth seed and we came in and shocked the world.

Jason Fisher

Relaxation is the perfect word for it. I think the biggest thing for me was knowing it was my last one.

Rachael Scoggin

Our overall goal is to win so that we can have a good winning record. We need to stay mentally focused for 80 minutes. I think that's the biggest struggle that we have had this season.

Todd Heap

Our offensive line has been blocking great and giving him time to relax and throw the ball. That's the biggest thing.

Larry Ellison

Oracle's database and e-Business applications have become the software standard for the Internet, ... All 10 of the world's biggest Web sites use Oracle, as do 93 percent of the public dot.com companies. The faster the Internet grows, the faster we grow.

Ron Hassey

People have to realize that. He won seven gold gloves. It's not like we have to clean him up. The biggest thing right now is learning our pitchers and how they throw. Any catcher that comes over here would have to go through that process.

Paul Dretsch

(Swain) is a freshman, but she's a pretty composed player on the biggest stage.

Leslie Moonves

Steven Bochco has had the biggest hits of the '70s, '80s and '90s. And we hope with 'City of Angels,' it's the biggest hit of the new millennium.

Jim Henderson

Recent economic news around the world is causing us to reassess our near-term business prospects in key international markets,

Keith Morris

(Receiving the grants) started pointing us in the right direction of the whole change process, ... If that didn't occur, I'm pretty sure we would be doing business as usual.

Rich Gadomski

Price competition and the availability of quality scanning technology have encouraged and enabled the counterfeit tape market. We are aggressively exposing this business as it may put our customers at risk and negatively impact the perception of our quality and value of our brand. It's important that companies realize that they may be contributing to the problem by selling their used tape - or by buying from un-authorized resellers and distributors.

Deane Dotson

Our rental business stays very busy. And we don't require a Visa or MasterCard.

Ken Stein

Our partnership with ADP is a true reflection of successful collaboration, resulting in increased efficiencies. ADP has turned a typical business arrangement into a successful partnership between two dedicated parties with a common goal -- to lower costs and improve service levels.

Jill Lajdziak

Our owners don't want us to lose the honesty of our brand, how we do business without haggling. But they do want a different more dramatic look and feel.

Porter Erisman

Our overall position is that it is the responsibility of every business to follow the local laws of the countries in which they operate.

Sathya Baba

Our relationships are heart to heart relationships. Ours is a business of love, not a business of money or materials.

Stan Marshall

Our regulated utility business, non-regulated generation business and Fortis Properties all delivered increased earnings in the third quarter,

Butch Buchholz

Part of the problem they had in negotiating this thing was a lot of players wanted unlimited challenges. That would have been a problem. That would take forever to play a match.

Gary Bettman

Our member clubs, our officials, our players and our hockey operations people will face many challenges in the weeks and months ahead. My job is to make sure that everyone stays focused on the objective of fostering competitive NHL hockey that features flow, skill, speed, puck movement and skating.

Duncan Hunter

Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.

Sue Cischke

Some of the challenges include designing a system that is most of all accurate, not easily disabled or avoided, is easy to use and does not create driver-distraction issues.

Frank Robinson

Some guys, they get down on themselves and wonder 'Why? But other guys, it challenges them: 'Well, I'm not going to let someone come in and take my job. I'll show them that I'm a better player.' I think that's the way he should react and that's the way he will react, because really the job is there for him to lose.

Harold Lewis

Our stadium is the most used natural turf stadium in the U.S.. Given the challenges, he's done a great job.

Gregg Semanick

Our volunteers are the heart of the program. Many have been helping for years. They enjoy the challenges of tax preparation and they're dedicated to helping in their communities.

Herb Harris

Riley is the kind of kid who likes challenges like that. He's always willing to step in and give it a shot.

Duane Ackerman

Results for the quarter remained strong despite extraordinary challenges we faced with Hurricane Katrina.

Ken Joyce

Our goal is for 2006 SG&A expenses to be $25 to $30 million lower than in 2005.

John Fuller

Overall, our restaurants are still doing fine. We just had a lot of expenses this go-around.

Steve Carter

I wouldn't recommend they try to make more money with a second job, since living paycheck-to-paycheck is already stressful, and they have a young child. Instead, they'll need to reduce their expenses as much as they can.

Mitch Roob

This was not intended to pay him more money - it's intended to pay him the expenses he has with us.

William M. Thackeray

When we say of a gentleman that he lives elegantly on nothing a year, we use the word "nothing" to signify something unknown; meaning, simply, that we don't know how the gentleman in question defrays the expenses of his establishment.

Nell Minow

There is really no justification to pay for any living or traveling expenses at that level, particularly now that he is in retirement.

Chuck Schalliol

Expenses are going up 5 percent a year, but revenues are going up about 1 or 2 percent a year. How long can that go on?

Ashley Wu

But she paid for her child's living expenses and schooling.

Lori Lucas

Retiree medical expenses are the big wild card. Most people will probably spend a lot more on medical expenses when they retire.

Carl Peterson

Patience is some times a good virtue, knowing what you want, and what you think is fair in terms of compensation,

Brett Hall

Our obligation is to the people of the commonwealth. Each application is being taken under advisement and given a fair review.

Carol Whiteside

Suddenly, this region is getting its fair share.

Wayne Clarkson

Surely we must all take our fair measure of responsibility.

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.

Eugene Parker

Some interesting things have been going on. I think it's fair to say the Yankees have made a serious move on Deion and Deion is listening.

William Roderick

That day, I did what I had to do, ... It's good to get people prepared for the unknown 'n stuff. I'd say, yes, Pete Stark is fair in his manners. At least he shows a little interest and support. He's not like all the people who ostracize me.

James Peterson

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

Steve Matlock

Our reorganized sales management team is 100 percent focused on providing dealers with the support they need to be successful in their businesses.

Saddam Hussein

Our political program will focus more on getting the Americans out of Iraq ,

Tom Amstutz

Our players were aware, sure, but they didn't focus on any of that. We prepared well and we executed well. I was proud of the way our team went about its business.

Elliot Hovey

Our race on Saturday was the most focused and well-executed race this year. Every race we've been getting better and better.

Chris Hutchens

Our main focus will be to have a quick start and not wait until the second half to make plays.

Mike Pirtle

Our main focus was to play the we've been playing.

Andre Morgan

Our main focus was to come out (in the first half) and execute. I guess we did execute, because (Jacksonville) is a very competitive team.

Amanda Hansen

Our main focus is to get past that first round.

Andre Patterson

Our main focus has been getting better every time we get on the floor. We don't look at where we're playing or who we're playing. We just look at it as five-on-five and that we're going to work harder.

Ron Vos

Passing out flyers at a shopping mall or hoping somebody sees a poster doesn't get through to today's jaded, image-bombarded, media-savvy young consumer. Street marketing is practically an old strategy now, so the stakes are much higher when it comes to getting your message across.

Mark Waggoner

Supplies really aren't a problem. Consumption over the holidays is usually a little higher than normal but production has been keeping up.

Alan Greenspan

Such an increase in market value is too often viewed by market participants as structural and permanent, ... To some extent, those higher values may be reflecting the increased flexibility and resilience of our economy.

Justin Lane

Some of the higher peaks I would imagine could see 2 1/2 feet.

Satish Kumar

Some of our standards are higher than the U.S.

Karen Johnson

Our prices are 18 percent higher that they were this time last year.

Rhonda Rompola

Our RPI has to get higher for any tournament play.

Bill Cooke

Our attrition rate is not higher than last year but it is higher than we would like.

William Ross

Right there, there is not that much inventory for that kind of property. Because of a lack of availability, what you get is higher prices.

Matthew Storin

Patricia Smith is a writer of extraordinary talent and this is a tragic development. We wish her well and she retains many friends at the Globe, including myself.

Takashi Sensui

Our message is this: We're prepared to do everything that's needed to make Xbox 360 a success around the world, including Japan.

Mel Netzhammer

People have been so welcoming, including the vice presidents.

Rui Farias

Our success has always been on defense, including the forwards.

Nathan Brown

I think the second offence should be made public for everyone's sake, including the sponsors.

Gia Coppola

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

Tim Long

It didn't do any major damage, but it woke up a lot of people in Atlanta, including me.

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Laura Reiff

We need a legal vehicle for people to come in.

Jorge Zamora

I want to work legally here; that would give my son more. If I have the chance, I want to be legal. It would be much easier.

Steve Burns

That was important because it set a legal precedent.

Dan Ravicher

I think it's stupid that this type of policy is legal and profitable.

Tim Smith

I think this will end up in some legal problem.

Lucio Gutierrez

I will use all legal and constitutional means to retake power,

Laura Nichols

I think if the vice president thought he had other legal options open to him, we'd defer to his judgment.

Bryan Whitman

Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Michael Sanders

I can legally do all the things I have been doing.

Henry Willmore

Previously the market had taken out any risk of a second-quarter tightening by the Fed. With this statement, we see that's not a risk to be discounted.

Mark Hoffman

Our relationship with SAP is actually better than it ever has been before, on products, on marketing and on sales, ... That's why this stuff is so shocking.

Oleksiy Ivchenko

Our relationship is shifting completely to a market basis.

Evan Siegel

Our marketing tactics are really where we separate ourselves.

Ethan McAfee

Sure there are some smaller names, but they're unattractive to big corporations because their market share is probably 1 percent or less.

Ante Kostelic

Sure I want to win and smash records, but winning medals is not like going to the market and getting cabbage.

Marina Amoroso

Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.

Five Live

Some of the merchandise isn't right and the market is very tough,

Leendert Staal

Our priority now, our aim, is to get 25% market share.

Paul Taylor

Price matters in this market. This is an increasingly price-sensitive consumer.

Allen Iverson

I want to win a ring. I want to have the opportunity to get back to the Finals. All that matters is us getting into the playoffs, because then, anything can happen.

Idris Jala

It allows you to raise matters in an independent and unbiased manner.

Alonzo Jackson

I don't even think like that, ... Why wouldn't you want me? I went out there and did what I had to do today. That's all that really matters to me right now.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Gilbert Arenas

I'm an All-Star in my mind, and I'm an All-Star to this city, my peers and this organization. So that's all that matters to me.

John Agius

There are one or two matters I wish to take up with them.

Bryan Whitman

He was relieved for matters of personal conduct.

Pete Carroll

What matters to me is we accomplished everything we could possibly accomplish, ... No one will ever be able to take that away from us no matter how the polls go.

C. S. Lewis

Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

Brian Billick

I think that's a quarterback trying to take on his share of responsibility,

Joan Smith

There are so many goodies to look at. We share because it is so rich, but it is very good.

Frank Robinson

If we can do that more often, we're going to win our share of games.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

Scott Wilson

You make something from nothing, you want to share it.

Becky G

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

Bette Davis

You can lose everything but you can't lose your talent!

Arsene Wenger

Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.

LeBron James

I was just showcasing my talent today and we got another win.

Ricky Woods

I think they may be the most talented team we've ever played.

Patty Coyle

L.A.'s athleticism... with talent like that on their roster they're dangerous. Thankfully we got away with a win.

Kevin Beck

I think I have a lot of talent on the team,

Sven Eriksson

I think he is a long-term name. He is a very big talent.

Dan Hendricks

I think this is a very deep, talented group.

Jeff Bzdelik

I don't know that it was anything (SDSU) did that really factored into that. But they are just so much more talented than they have been in the past.