Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Carey

We have to get these interest rate increases behind us and the Fed did hold off this last time, but I think there's still a possibility of another rate increase later in the year. And that's weighing on investor's minds. Earnings have slowed down a little bit. The interest rate increases to date have had an effect and we're seeing some earnings disappointments at some companies and that has investors concerned. But on the other hand, we have the mergers and acquisitions that tend to buoy up the prices in whatever sectors affected from one day to the next and that will keep investors interested in stocks certainly.

Jochen Clausnitzer

We have no indication that the cartoon row has had a negative effect on trade and business there. The top executives in the region are highly educated and have close relations with their German counterparts. They are not affected by the conflict.

David Joy

The fact that long-term rates didn't rise in some sense offset some of the impacts of the higher costs of energy. They fought to a draw, and as a result the markets weren't affected by either interest rates or energy.

William Powers

The real hard concern I have is that it could devalue the property. I'd like to see it preserved, but not at the expense of the landowner. I've talked with some of my neighbors who would be affected by this and they have some concerns, too.

Gary Long

There are a lot of Americans giving donations right now, which is great, but it will take an organized response from the federal government to do real long-term good. I don't know if our government today has the ideology to do such a thing. This government doesn't seem to be very sympathetic to poor people right now. And the poor are the ones most severely affected by this disaster.

Dan Moore

When I finally realized how it has affected my life, I felt like smashing it, throwing it out the window. Now my compulsion is to try and understand what I've done to myself and my family.

Kathy Grimes

The panel is a 16-person group that includes law enforcement offices, Child Protective Services, affected family members and former users, to name a few. They will be there to answer community questions.

Tom Odell

I find myself more affected by music the more I do it. Particularly when you're touring, and you're in the bus, and you're listening to loads of music. Life becomes far more dramatic, I guess - you're never in the same place; you're constantly meeting new people. You almost become more sensitized to music.

Sharon Stone

People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention.

Larry Evans

We want to see broad public participation, (which is) part of what's missing with the Balloon Track, anyway.

Brian Billick

We want to score more points, ... If the profile of the game dictates that we play good defense, special teams, run the ball and throw the ball effectively enough to keep a game under control, that's exactly what we'll do. Yes, we'd like to score more points. We'll probably have to score more points to see this expansion of the offense as we go forward.

Jeff McInerney

We want to rush and pass the ball with production and variety to keep defenses guessing.

Marc Bulger

We want to run the ball more, ... Earlier in the year we didn't have that luxury because we were behind.

Chad Spence

We want to run the ball but we want to mix it with the pass.

H. Hart

We have to handle the press and not turn the ball over. We have to shoot fairly well and get off to a good start.

Carl Relyea

We have to handle the ball a little sharper, defensively. You look at the breakdown: The first five runs they scored were all unearned.

Pat Riley

We have to guard the ball a lot better. And he's got to go to the rim a little more with his blocks.

Sarah Davis

We have to go out and hit the ball first of all. We haven't been hitting the ball the last three games. Offensively we need our bats to come through, and defensively we've been making mistakes which we need to eliminate.

Bill Cowher

What the team did in the 1970s was kind of put Pittsburgh on the map. It became a city of champions, and you had the Pirates winning and the Penguins winning.

Mark Clarke

When he first started he had mostly an alpine background. Then he expressed an interest in skiing cross country. There were some learning years but he became a very good skier. He was a real treat to work with.

Steve Mariucci

We were a sick team at the start of it, and then I thought we became a banged-up team as well, ... A third of the team is feeling like it should be in bed. We need a bye right now. It was a long preseason. And now we're a little banged up on top of that. I just need to get these guys a break.

Braylon Edwards

We have so many guys who can make plays. We worked on getting a hard outside move because they like to go with the first move. We worked on it so much it became second nature. It was just like practice.

Morris Gleitzman

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.

Julie Burchill

When I moved out of London 13 years ago, I found a whole other reason not to drive. This was because my new husband Dan, unlike my dad, did drive, and this became a great source of fun and adventure.

Jamaica Kincaid

When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be interested in the earth if you live in a place like this. I started to read a lot of geology, much to the horror of my friends.

Tamsin Greig

When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.

Clete Oaks

When I was 16 and 17, I used to follow the fire trucks on my bike. I was able to follow because they spilled water when they turned corners. When I turned 18, they changed the bylaws to let me volunteer, but I couldn't ride the trucks until I turned 21. I volunteered for the fire department for 37 years until Blue Ash became a village and they bought two trucks.

Michel Therrien

We want to put the puck on net a little bit more. There were times we did it, there were times we could have done it more.

Munir Akram

We have said right from the start, without negotiations, the document is not going anywhere. So we're happy finally that there's a recognition there has to be face-to-face negotiations. These will be difficult, these are a bit late. But it's not an impossible task,

J. C. Watts

We have to get a junior hockey franchise put together from top to bottom. We're looking forward to it, but that year and a bit is going to go by in a hurry.

Freddy Adu

Whenever you get the chance to represent your country in a World Cup, it's a great honor. It's a chance to show the world what you've got. I'm looking forward to it. I do wish, though, that I would be able to stay here and play with D.C. a little bit more, because this is an important stretch for us right now.

Helio Castroneves

When everyone jokes about (taking chances), there's a little bit of truth to it, ... Hopefully people have learned from what happened (at Sonoma).

Ron Wilson

Whenever we play L.A., we look at their stats and they're one of the most penalized teams in the league. They play hard all the time, right on the edge. So you've got to expect to get power plays. We lost a little bit of our discipline in the third period and had to kill some too, but in the first two periods, we kept on task.

Andre Agassi

When you see a little bit of that edge off, when he comes down into just warp speed, it gives you a little breath of life.

Brett Morgan

When you see a 12-year-old kid winning national races, you can see a little bit of that. But they're not like that.

Christopher Reid

When you scan a document it takes quite a bit of space -- 1/2 a megabyte or even a megabyte per page.

Rebecca Murrell

We have a standoff of witnesses. It's never easy to tell who's telling the truth.

Pat Burrell

We have never given up. It would have been easy to lay down after being down that much. That's been the strength of this team for a long time, that we never give in.

Paul Croft

Whenever you have a number four ranking, and we may be moved up to third this week, you can get a big target on your back. I've told our guys that if you stand still, you'll be an easy target, but if you keep moving, it makes it hard for people to zero in on you. So that's what we've got to do, keep moving forward.

Jay Pandolfo

When he gets the puck on his stick, it's not easy to get it off. He's a big guy, a strong guy, a skilled guy. He's got everything. You just have to try to limit the time he has with it.

Alan Kay

Change is easy, except for the changed part.

Tim Buddenhagen

We've seen them on tape, but it's hard to know how quick they (Knights) are until you see them play. We gave them too many easy points in the paint.

Gerald Galloway

We've seen that when you have lots of them (dams), they're not easy to inspect and the specifications tend to be not quite at the same level as those for large dams.

Terry Wallace

We have rested them up over the past few days, had an easy time of it and re-charged the batteries.

Jayme Kunz

The process hadn't been as an easy as we had hoped, so we're looking at streamlining it further.

Indy Uhlenhopp

We were a whole different team since the first time we played them.

O. J. Simpson

We have quality players and we played the team around them.

Kami Roeder

We've seen them play, played them twice, and we know what they're all about.

Tim Finchem

I've never played golf with Tiger Woods. To tell the truth, I'm not sure that watching him pound it 100 yards past me all day is something I'd like to do.

Erik King

I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.

Edmond H. Fischer

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

Ed Speleers

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

Lesley Nicol

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

Eric Lewis

Labels serve a purpose. They help one be identified. And I want to be identified.

Kim Cattrall

If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Steve Turley

More compensation won't make any of us serve any harder, so in terms of the taxpayer getting more for their dollar, it just won't make a difference.

Guru Singh

Those who do not serve the True Guru, come and go regretting.

Robert Grosseteste

And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.

Phil Klay

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

Andy Roddick

Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows?

David Ferrer

His serve is lethal, ... When it's on, it's really tough to contest.

Bryan Singer

The 3D, it changes the way you shoot in a way, especially when you're shooting live action 3D elements.

Michael London

We've always, always, always wanted to shoot in Pittsburgh.

Steve Carell

We've already shot two episodes, and I'm going back soon to shoot a third,

Kerry Greenwood

I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.

Calamity Jane

I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.

Al Aldridge

Wow. She kind of put on a shooting clinic.

Rich Lyons

When we don't shoot well, and don't get back on defense, we have problems. We hurried some shots.

Daryll Hill

Shoot or pass. It was in between. I should have shot it, but I made a pass.

Kyle Korver

Shooting threes is always what I do best. If it's not what I do best, something is wrong with my game.

Charlotte Bronte

Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."

Charles Dickens

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

Bret Easton Ellis

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

Djuna Barnes

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

Dave Gorman

I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair.

Dave Barry

Someone was tapping on the window.

Bob Dylan

I got this grave yard woman.

Larry Leopardi

We probably had about 300 cubic yards on Wednesday.

Carl Jung

Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard?

Willie Nelson

It can't get much worse, 100 yards an hour, ... It's frustrating bumper-to-bumper.

Adam Grant

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.

Steven Schier

We are many, many yards away from a score.

Greg Peterson

Let nature be in your yard.

Alan Zemaitis

I don't know how many yards they got, but they didn't do too much of anything. We went in there the same way; we didn't do anything special.

Jennifer Garner

I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.