Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Davis

Recent economic data gives us confidence that corporate spending is coming back to life, so I'm hoping sales could be above $5 billion. That would set a strong tone for the rest of the year,

Matthew Dowd

President Bush maintains an approval on the economy in the mid-forties -- exactly what Clinton had at the end of 1995 and above what Reagan had in 1983.

Shen Haihua

Prices above 50,000 yuan will have some negative impact on demand, but in this bull market consumers may be forced to accept these levels.

Andrew Kerr

Our re-analysis revealed that the distance of a village from the coast and the height of the village above sea level explained 87 percent of the variation in mortality among villages.

Ron James

Particularly defensively, we're starting to come into our own. In an Arena Football League game, when you're getting above four stops, you should be able to win every one of those games going away, and we did.

Tony Crescenzi

Parry's comments hint that the Fed still views the neutral level of the federal-funds rate to be approximately two percentage points above the inflation rate,

George Nathan

Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Grant Wistrom

Our new guys have come in and believed that they belonged from the first day. They practice like it and then they go out there on Sunday and show it. Without those guys, we are an average football team, a little above .500. I think we owe them a lot.

E. Hurley

Our message between zero and .08 is a responsibility message. The message of .08 and above is an illegal message.

Steve Cole

(Reed) is very good at that. He will say that if he can't get in the door, he'll try the window. It's an approach that leaves no stone unturned.

Ray Lane

Relationships change business outcomes. The question is how do you measure relationship capital and make sure that you're building it effectively? Visible Path understands the problem and is unique in its market approach and application of science to solve it.

Spencer White

President Chen's latest policy initiative will only increase cross-Strait tensions. The tax season approaches and this will draw liquidity away as retail investors sell.

Gary Smith

Our research shows that if companies can be encouraged to contribute, employees are more likely to follow suit. Any approach the government takes must acknowledge and encourage the crucial role that companies already have in providing for their employees' retirement income.

Suzanne Haber

Our research is part of a larger trend where researchers are seeking to replace older 'ablative' surgical techniques. These old methods, while bringing relief from a variety of debilitating diseases, also permanently destroy nerve circuits. Our hope is to use non-destructive procedures like DBS as a therapeutic approach for these devastating disorders.

Randy Fisher

Our recommendation is one (social worker) to every 400 (students), but no state yet approaches that.

Brian Wilson

Organized crime is taking a more sophisticated approach and hiring software engineers, researchers and others to help exploit the systems out there, and they are coming up with increasingly ingenious attacks, often leveraging key infrastructure components that are hard to shut off.

Ed Adams

Organizations are waking up to the pressing need for application security. The overwhelming growth of the application security market has created a need to educate and train companies on application quality best practices, as well as the best approach to building reliable, secure applications.

Aburizal Bakrie

Partial approaches to donations only causes more burdens.

Dick Vermeil

Regardless of what excuse we want to make, we have to do a better job of getting the ball to Tony Gonzalez 's hands. He set an all-time record in the history of the National Football League with 102 catches last year and I'm certainly not going to panic because he's not at that pace right now.

April Horace

Regardless of the outcome, this is still the first inning of a very long ball game.

Ebenezer Ekuban

Regardless of how they started last week passing the ball, their motto is: We're going to hurt you with the run and we're going to pound, pound, pound. And eventually you'll succumb to all that pounding. ... You've got to get on top of them early, man. If you get on top of them early, their running game is nonexistent. They're going to have to pass the ball to catch up to you.

Joe Masleh

Regan Mooney stepped up big time for us in the first half with 12 points while Ryan and Rayne were struggling. Ball handling, rebounds. That was a very big help. Usually when Ryan and Rayne struggle, no one steps up. She took it upon herself. And Mary Kate Brady hit the boards, scored 10 points. That's what has to happen. The other kids have to step up.

Eric Johnson

Refinancing is necessary because the current financing is short term with a very large balloon payment that no community would be in a position to meet.

Dan Smith

Rebecca normally moves the ball so we thought we had a pretty good shot because she normally hits the ball somewhere.

Dan Silverthorn

Rehabilitating this facility is a great investment for us -- the facility itself is of tremendous value to TransPORT and the region, and a great location for our first port development -- it puts us in a whole new ball game.

Mike Sewak

Reggie was so open that all you could say was get the ball to him.

Carmelo Anthony

Reggie is a (great) block-out guy and Ruben will go down there and battle. Sometimes, the ball just seems to fall right in my hands.

Ma Jun

Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.

William Fitzgerald

Our portfolio remains slightly below duration. But then, the entire fixed-income universe has been defensively positioned for months now.

Toba Beta

Part of water which is cooler always flows to below surface. I understand that hotheaded men always want to be noticed.

Ethan Harris

Payrolls were well below the whisper number, so there's been a big sigh of relief in the market,

Ron Lievense

People have looked at our size all season and wonder how we got here and how we won 28 games. We're not going to look good in an airport. One coach called us the best below the rim team he'd ever seen, so I guess we're not all that athletic.

Scott Kriens

Spending levels during the quarter were below expectations but represented a more diverse set of key service providers and carriers. We remain committed to financial fundamentals, our multiple market strategy, and to the expansion of our product portfolio, all of which will be critical growth drivers when the public networking industry outlook improves.

Alan Ruskin

Some of the headline (jobs) numbers maybe look slightly stronger than expected, but when you scratch below the surface, you find there is still plenty of weakness out there, ... Obviously the manufacturing sector is looking as weak as ever.

Evan Mann

Some investment grade mutual funds and pension plans can't hold paper that's below investment grade. People that couldn't own it because of the ratings restriction now can look at it again.

William Lewis

Our salaries have slipped below the high schools in our area.

Tim Gardner

Reggie can score. He wants to score and likes scoring. It's his defense that he needs to work on.

Drew Bledsoe

Really what they played was a similar style of defense to what they played last year when they went on the run. They gave up some yards here and there, but they tightened up when we got into scoring territory.

Jessica Davenport

Our outside game was really clicking, so they had to stretch the defense out and respect our 3-point shooting, and it opened it up in the middle for me.

Mark Gibson

Our quarterback will not play defense as long as I'm alive. ... Unless he's about 6-6 and 250. And our quarterback is not 6-6 and 250.

Tim Goers

Paris was playing us a tough game. And we made two many unforced turnovers. We talked about halftime about playing good, sound defense and eliminating our mistakes on offense.

Brian Morris

Our offense played a great game. But our defense really put on a show. The whole team played great defense tonight.

Leo Veleas

Our offense picked up our defense and pitching today.

Maurice Cheeks

Our offense is fine. Our defense is where's it's at. You have to put guys out there and show them how to play defense. We have to keep trying.

Paul Raspolich

Our offense helped out our defense today. We need to play more consistently in the field.

Dave Roberts

Regardless of what our record is, the goal is to make the playoffs. If you win 100 games and you don't get to the postseason, what good is it? I guarantee you every single team that wins more games than us this year would like to be in our position.

Terri Sullivan

Record wise we want to get back on track, so we know the opportunity is there to play games and do something with them. At this time of the year we're looking to play as many games as we can.

Ray Allen

Records are always made to be broken. I have a long way to go, games to play, threes to hit. The key is getting to playoff basketball.

Lana Ross

Our region is tough. We're going with the same lineup to give our players a lot of at bats. Right now, we're sore. We've played a lot of games with a little rest. Our pitchers are doing just enough and Maple Woods is a good team.

Jacques Rogge

Organizing the Games is never easy. But I am glad the fundamentals are sound.

Scott White

Oregon and Washington State are the most physical, hardest-fought games every year. You always have to pick it up a notch when you go play at Oregon.

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player. He's a good friend, and I think he's going to have a great year. The backup's role is to always be ready. That's the purpose of preseason, to get ready for the regular season, so I feel good about the games I had and the time I was in there.

Geno Auriemma

Our offense always looks good in practice. It is games sometimes that it leaves a lot to be desired.

Keith Newman

Our No. 1 goal is to win the division, and that's still probable. But we need to turn things around ASAP. There's a lot of games left. But week by week, the season is getting shorter.

Megan Schwab

Our practice is really structured this year. So, we'll have a time for hitting and a time for fielding.

Pete Dunn

Our pitchers were just horrible, horrible pitching with the lead. Everything you shouldn't do with a lead, we did. We started pitching from behind, walking people, hitting people.

Rex Walters

I'm hitting the road tonight to find some players.

Darren Clarke

I'm hitting it nicely and I'll try to keep it going. There are a lot of people who want to win this a lot more than I do. I would love to do it myself, but it's not that important.

Charles Coody

I think they accomplished that. All the players are hitting the same irons they did 20 or 30 years ago.

Louis Whorton

That was the story of the game. They were hitting two shots to our one. We didn't rebound worth a flip, and they doubled us on rebounding.

Venus Williams

That was an unbelievable tie-break. She just kept hitting winners but somehow I stayed in there,

Brandy Williams

It has been hard. At first, we were struggling. But then we started to come together when we needed to. We started hitting our peak at the right time, and I feel like we've done well.

Bob Jacoby

Last year, our pitching wasn't as strong. Our fielding and hitting have improved.

Ken Hibbard

Our pitching was good. We just didn't hit.

Larry Beinfest

Our pitching staff was strong, and we've seen the progression here to the big leagues. Tankersley's progression has been excellent.

Curtis Eccles

Our pitching just wasn't there tonight. We're still getting better, still trying to improve. There are some first and third situations that got away from us.

Bobby Cox

Our pitching isn't where it should be and where it will be. And it's the same with the pitching we've faced. It's been a strange week.

Phil Garner

Our pitching has been good. You can't say that enough.

Wayne Vickery

Our pitching has been better than I think even we thought it would be right now.

Derek Karcich

Our strengths will be our pitching and speed.

Chris Ross

Our starting pitching was erratic, and we got in a hole.

Derrick Landrus

Pitching should be one of our strengths. We have a lot of depth.

Dave Beeler

I was actually pleasantly surprised with how well we did (in cold, wet conditions).

Richard Lies

I was pleasantly surprised after about the first day or two. I could see that it was going to go just fine.

Dan Hartleb

He is so successful because he's such a competitor. I can't say I'm surprised he's doing this, but it's pleasant to see.

Tyler Walker

(Friday) has been a pleasant day all around.

Charles Spurgeon

We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?' but, 'Is it true?'

Kofi Annan

Mr. Volcker has said that 'the findings do not make for pleasant reading,' and I agree.

Ann Taylor

One ugly trick has often spoiledThe sweetest and the best;Matilda, though a pleasant child,One ugly trick possessed.

Ann Taylor

One ugly trick has often spoiled The sweetest and the best; Matilda, though a pleasant child, One ugly trick possessed.

Karl Pilkington

I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

Geno Auriemma

I think she's taking it pretty seriously. You know, it's that time of the year.

Justin Smiley

I think he's taking it pretty well, but I know it's tough.

Bob Hunter

I thought I was going to be a reporter, taking notes,

David Jacobson

I feel like this is part of something big he is doing, ... Like taking over the world.

Joe Crawford

I feel like I'm getting better every game, more comfortable, just being aggressive, taking my opportunities.

Andrea Mitchell

I feel terribly guilty. I'm not used to taking off time at all.

Angelo Crowell

Just taking things more serious, taking a different approach. I was kind of transformed, so it's kind of cool.

Steve Smith

I have a one-track mind. I was not taking the hitch. I wanted to go for the goal.

Will Blackmon

He's calm. Relaxed. He's not nervous. He's taking control.

Luke Zeller

Rebounding has been one of the big things we have worked on all season. It has been a total team effort.

Mark Ellis

Sure, we had a lot of injuries. But a lot of teams have injuries. We can't use it as an excuse.

James Allen

Some of the teams have been pretty tough.

Ray Collins

Our team is one of the most competitive teams in the nation.

Milan Brown

Other teams just were not going to let him do what he did.

Jon Heacock

I think this team as a whole, have an understanding. They have had to play in this conference, and they know what's happening.

Bill Simmons

Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams.

Bill Shankly

We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries.

Bill Shankly

This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

David Davies

Sven's got a roving eye. He's like a seagull and can wrap his wings around people.

Kevin Morris

Out the end windows of the cafeteria, it's all new,

Max Mathurin

Rene Preval has been declared the winner with 51 percent.

Ben Curtis

I'm here to win and that's what I want to do,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Beck

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

Beck

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

B. B. King

I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.