Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Preston

Redwoods flourish in fog, but they don't like salt air. They tend to appear in valleys that are just out of sight of the sea. In their relationship with the sea, redwoods are like cats that long to be stroked but are shy to the touch.

Joe Wilcox

Real was the only protagonist left in the EU case, so the settlement should help with Microsoft's appeal, since the problem involved appears to have been fixed,

Rajesh Jain

Reliance stock was volatile but sentiment appears to be positive. We see strength in Reliance's core businesses of oil exploration, refinery and petrochemicals.

Rajesh Jain

Reliance stock was volatile but sentiment appears to be positive going forward.

David Johnson

President Bush, up until last year, retained strong Republican support and was viewed as the ideological heir to Ronald Reagan. Since last summer, that support has steadily eroded ... Indeed many Republicans appear to be looking beyond the Bush administration and do not identify themselves as Bush Republicans but rather as Reagan Republicans.

Maury Harris

Price pressures appear to be building at crude PPI levels, but the Fed will likely wait to respond until these pressures filter into the consumer price index. We do not expect that to occur until next year.

Anthony Santomero

Our policy appears to be close to neutral now.

Peter Brown

Particles that are micron sized interact with sunlight more efficiently, so it appears that would cause an impact on climate from these particles left in the upper atmosphere.

John Lawson

Pat Harrison appears to be trying to ratchet down some of the ideological orientation of the organization.

Eric Chavez

Regardless, we needed to get something on the board with that at-bat. I'm the key guy in that spot to make something happen. I didn't come through. It hurt us right there. We have to get a run in, whether it's a flyball or something else. In that situation, I'm the person you want up there -- I'm the person I want up there. Hopefully, starting tomorrow, I'll have opportunities to redeem myself.

David Galvin

Rebounding was the big difference. We knew that how we did on the boards would be key. We gave up too many offensive boards. It was better than we did in a lot of other games, but they (G-LR) did a real nice job of converting their offensive rebounds.

Peter Swire

Recent revelations show even more clearly why the board is needed. The White House has had no privacy officials, and having privacy expertise in the White House will reduce the chance of mistakes going forward.

Jason Crowell

Pat has more than 20 years of viable experience with the health-care industry. He is more than qualified to serve on this board where he will be an asset.

Howard Morton

Pat came on our board of directors in October of 2002, when we were just a year old. She lent a steadying hand to that board. She was a strong personality and a dedicated person.

Van Shaver

Our main desire is to get the board back up and functioning properly.

Nicki Harrington

Our original date to get this done was 2005, but I told the board to slow it down and do it in phases ... that moved to fall 2007. If anything, I've slowed the talk down.

Richard Cunningham

Our OMN is a great solution for firms like Moon Capital who are looking for a turnkey solution for reducing errors and improving efficiencies throughout their execution process. The openness of our solution and plug-and-play nature of our network enables us to get clients like Moon up and running quickly. We are excited to have Moon on board and are looking forward to helping them grow their business.

Mark Lewis

Our next step is to go to school board meetings to help districts define how parents and students will be notified.

Paul Konerko

Really, you can split that thing five ways. Those guys were unbelievable.

Bret Meuli

Our record should have been flip-flopped. There was an inning in four or five games where we lost games. If we could have had five innings back, we would have made the playoffs. The playoffs are our goal.

Eric Etchison

Our offense got complacent. We got up by four or five runs and the offense just went stagnant.

Kenichi Chizuka

Our original outlook was that we are looking to win five medals. Talking with the various federations, we might get two or three more.

Stan Smith

Our (offensive) line is amazing. If the line gets off and gives the back five yards, it opens up a lot of things. I can't stress enough how well they do.

Steve Roach

People have been saying that for five or six years. You can only put these things off for so long and then the day comes when your realize you're in serious danger.

Peter Lynch

People have been looking for recessions for the last five years,

Leslie Peterson

People need the help now. Easily, I could give out five times what I give out.

Martha Stewart

People make jokes about making lemonade. I actually like lemons. These are my first lemons in five months,

Curt Schilling

I'd love to sit here and justify why I should throw more (on Friday). But I can't do that.

B. R. Hayden

Most people spend a lot of time justifying why it's got to be this way, ... they can put away something.

Aaron Swartz

I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

Harold Vogel

The question is, will there be enough new advertisers to justify the cost.

Frank Tashlin

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

Blake Shelton

I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.

Yoshiharu Izumi

This seems to justify the Westinghouse acquisition from a strategic perspective.

John Casesa

which is a tough number to justify without tangible results.

Richard Gephardt

What we're seeing is a talking down of the economy, the suggestion of a recession, the suggestion of a slowdown in order to justify what looks like it's going to be a $3 trillion tax cut,

Kabir Bedi

We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.

Patrick Chappatte

I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'

Florence Aubenas

I had no stratagems, no tricks. You are simply obliged to put up with it, you have no choice.

Toni Morrison

You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

Matt Birk

Playing with pain is part of the game,

Carol Kurdell

Really to me it is the most sensible way to do this as painful as it is.

Lindsey Kildow

I'm in a lot of pain. I just need to go rest.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Here it comes," she said with an expression of pure bliss. "Drug rush ... any moment now ... the surge of warmth ... bye-bye, Mr. Pain..." "Vee-" "Knock, knock." "This is really important-" "Knock, knock." "It's about Elliot-" "Knock, knoooock," she said in a singsong voice. I sighed. "Who's there?" "Boo." "Boo who?" "Boo-hoo, somebody's crying, and it's not me!" She broke into hysterical laughter.

Bill Crawford

Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.

Bill Engvall

I believe pain is nature's way of saying, 'You're still alive, and life sucks.'

Bill Cosby

It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.

Bhagat Singh

We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.

C. S. Lewis

In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.