Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Greff

Louisiana's performance in the wake of the hurricanes is impressive. Statewide results are receiving a strong boost from construction crews and other personnel in the region for the post-hurricane reconstruction. We think displaced gamblers from the Mississippi Gulf Coast are also driving growth.

Jennifer Duffy

Lott's re-election is something close to a sure thing, but if he had vacated his seat, the contest to replace him would have been very competitive, giving Democrats a boost in their efforts to pick up seats in November.

Bob Enos

Scott's presence gave a big boost to the team.

Dave Carlson

Most will boost their prices over a period of time. They'll do it daily.

Alan Rifkin

Net-net, the change is expected to boost earnings on a continued operating basis.

Martin Rees

One of President Obama's first acts was to give a massive boost to America's scientific community.

Jenny Taylor

One important thing in the application process for sellers will be to verify that their items are produced locally and are from those counties. The Farmer's Market is for the nature and well being of the local community and for those producers trying to boost their business.

Hideaki Kurimoto

Money is gathering into the real-estate business. The trend will help boost profits of property companies and banks.

Stephen Ahn

New models will help boost sales in overseas markets this year as they did at home last year.

Richard P. Feynman

All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.

Robert Walpole

Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?

Robert Walpole

I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.

Ronald Kessler

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.

Anthony Hecht

Mandelstam's wife committed all his poems to memory in fear that both he and his poems would be destroyed by Stalin.

Kevin Mulligan

Like Ashley, Eric and Rich can both make it to states if they play like they can at districts..

Dan Hawkins

Life isn't about being fair. It is what it is. Both teams have played mid-week games, we've played at 9 in the morning, Thursdays, Fridays. I don't think the fairness issue plays into it.

Tom Livatino

Liggins and Little are both very, very good players, and they are complemented well by their other guys. We have our work cut out for us.

Michael Foster

Maintenance is for the unexpected repair, while capital reserve is for future projects. There is a limit done by formula. The problem for districts is having the money to put in those reserves.

John Healy

Machine tool orders for November continued to indicate a steady demand for new capital equipment as we pushed through the last quarter of 2005.

Abdulnabi Macki

Low price of natural gas inputs, provision of world class port services, tax exemption for a renewable period of five years and encouragement of foreign capital in natural gas-based industrial projects led to the implementation of many projects with a total cost of $13 billion.

Phyllis Schlafly

Many people have been fed up with judges for many years and for many different reasons, such as prayer in school, abortion, and capital punishment.

Zhang Qi

Shares rose because the notice promises measures to develop a more stable capital market and resolve some of the problems faced by struggling firms.

Dorsey Farr

One popular explanation is that there is a glut of capital in the world in search of a home, and a lot of it finds its way into relatively risk-free assets, such as Treasury bonds.

Richard J. Roberts

One always has to worry when capitalism has a role in health care. If you're just using health care to make money, you will treat the wrong diseases. Capitalism has its limits. There is a role for governments, and this is one where they should be involved.

Larry Flowers

No one knows what the cost of gas or coal is going to be in the future. But once past the capital costs, we can figure what wind-produced electricity will be cost.

Arnie Berman

One week does not a capital markets make.

Scott Simons

make it easy for customers to make healthy choices.

John Phillips

Mainly 90-percent of my customers are here for speeding tickets and the reason is they're in a hurry.

Jim Murphy

Mac support for Lotus is a check-box item. We have a lot of health-care customers and maybe 1 percent of a company's research department is on Macs but they have 99 percent of the influence.

Robert Tillman

Lowe's today is in a better position to weather interest rate increases because we've shifted our customer focus,

Anne Murray

Last year, we introduced DING! for Windows and immediately heard from our growing number of Customers that use Macintosh computers. Today, we will eliminate our Customers' DING! envy by offering a Macintosh version of the tool.

Mohamed Ghuloom

Learn to say No to customers out of your target, those in your target will learn to say Yes to you.

Howard Davidowitz

Lean inventories won't help retailers this year if they can't lure customers into their stores.

Peter Kelly

Many of the enterprise customers we talk with wouldn't want major updates more frequently than a two- to three-year cycle, even if Microsoft could deliver updates on a faster cycle.

Don Harrison

Seventy percent of our customers are weekend warriors who do their own work. The other 30 percent are contractors.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Hiroyuki Nakai

Share prices rose on the back of the gains on Wall Street overnight.

Toshihiko Matsuno

Share prices rose as technology shares here benefited from gains in the Nasdaq index.

Pasquale Pistorio

Sequential and year-over-year gains were recorded in all major product groups and applications, reflecting primarily increases in unit volumes.

Stuart Morris

McDonald's, Taco Bell, KFC, Popeye's and Sonic have produced same-store sales gains of 4 percent or higher.

Mariana Fulger

Meaningless is everything, until it gains sense in someone's life...

Vojislav Kostunica

one of those compromises in which everyone gains something and no one gains everything.

Charles Spurgeon

Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

Qian Qichen

We won't haggle with the U.S. over a day or two's worth of gains or losses.

Jeff Evans

One of the things that spoke to me in hiring these ladies is that their No. 1 priority is to have fun. They want to use the program as a stepping stone to get to the next level of competitive softball. Lori has been there, so she knows what it takes to get there.

Kevin Madden

I don't have an opinion of what they're doing. The practice of encouraging trade associations or private-sector firms with regard to their hiring practices is not something this office directs or is interested in directing.

Brad D. Smith

The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees?

Tom McMillan

We were hiring people as it went along. We were in the process of ramping up our staff. Some new people got a real indoctrination. We had to tell them it's not always like this.

Tom McMillan

We were hiring people as it went along, ... We were in the process of ramping up our staff. Some new people got a real indoctrination. We had to tell them it's not always like this.

Gary Johnson

We are in major hiring mode. We're interviewing people every day.

Mark Johnson

We'll get a better cross-section of the community, ... We want them involved in the hiring process. Hopefully, we can get a better idea of what the public is looking for.

Chip Conley

Someone could be amazing at what they do, but if you don't like them, why bother hiring them?

Casey Daigle

We've talked about hiring a personal trainer, and she wants to play about three weeks to a month after she has the baby.

Mark Cooper

Losing competitors in this highly-concentrated industry is disastrous.

Gustav Humbert

Last year was a record year for the whole industry and for Airbus in particular.

Michael Callahan

No one industry can tackle this (dictates of a country's government) on its own.

Paul Ballew

I can't say I'd be surprised if industry ran 17 million units in April. Would I be surprised if it ran at 18? Yes I would.

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Peter Bell

I don't think we're ever going to have no-one in the whole industry ever involved in it.

Juthamas Siriwan

When there was the tsunami last year, I thought that was the end of the tourism industry but we recovered very fast, in only six months.

Kathleen Walters

One of the nice things about tissue is we are not losing market share. We are No. 1 in our industry and we intend to stay there.

Ken Johnson

I work for an industry that's kind of misunderstood.

Frank Evans

Obviously, we're pleased because it means I'm open January 1st.

I. Stone

If only all that January rain had been snow.

Andi Mallarangeng

When the session resumes on January 25th, we only have three days...that is too short a time to resolve all the issues.

John Ruiz

New Year's resolutions are quite prevalent in January but usually non-existent after the Super Bowl.

Danielle Brown

She had chemotherapy before Christmas, but in January she started to have shortness of breath. It had spread to her lungs.

David Boies

Was that your view on January 6, 1999?

Paul Alderete

We're still in the process of doing enrollment projections for next year. When the projections are completed, we'll know how many portables should go in and when and where they'll go in by January or February.

Vijay Dandapani

There are two periods when New York is soft: January and July.

Marty Heires

We've been told we would get some shipments in December, they would not be dependable, and that in January we would get all we need.

Jeremy Corbyn

Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership.

Dennis Prager

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

Carol Araullo

She shows the worst qualities of masochists. She is boastful, she tramples upon the rights of others ... and because the majority of Filipinos are women, she is abusing the rights of women.

Zalmay Khalilzad

Since no single party will have a majority there will be a need for a very broad-based coalition.

Troye Sivan

I have a majority girl audience on YouTube.

Mike Browning

We are running train services on all lines. The vast majority of our stations are all open.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Lilly Singh

The majority of people call or message me because they need something or they want something. You never know what people's intentions are.

Trey Gowdy

There's no use to having the majority if you are going to be hamstrung by your perception of political vicissitudes.

David Byrne

The operators are not button-pushers, ... It's a give and take with the performers. In my work, technology is a performer.

Austin Eguavoen

I was satisfied with my team's overall performance.

Cathy Cook

I don't know what the overall stimulus was.

Anthony Chan

The overall trend is that we're making progress,

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Dean Ornish

What matters most is your overall way of eating and living.

John Abizaid

There are peaks and valleys that you go through, but overall the trend is good,

Charles M. Schwab

Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

Al Groh

What we really need from an overall personnel standpoint is we need our veteran players to play better and we need our younger players to step up,

Carlos Asilis

Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal.

Rob Enderle

LCS and Communicator are not worth a whole lot without the back end. They have to have the back end in place, or the other parts don't move.

Bill Stoneman

One of the strongest parts to our organization is depth. It allows us to do a lot of things.

John Scalzi

I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.

Tuppence Middleton

I don't think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It's actually a disadvantage because that's not where all the interesting parts lie.

Tela Mange

We don't know what parts are going to be implemented or how we are going to do it yet.

John Lee Hooker

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

Terry Crews

I see a lot of actors that are doing things to please their coaches, their teachers in the past. They say 'No' to parts they should have said 'Yes' to simply because of the opinion of people in their past. I have no one in my past who is judging me and saying, 'Maybe you shouldn't do that.' I'll do it all.

Ken Thompson

We're an International truck dealer, sales, parts and service.

Harland Braun

He's being well-treated and he's getting his regular medications . He said it's ... like some of the parts that he's played.

Charles R. Swindoll

God's heavenly plan doesn't always make earthly sense.

Louis Orr

I can't speak for Seton Hall. I don't know what their plans are. I can only speak for me and our team.

Dave Ramsey

You must plan your work and then work your plan.

Walter Kirn

My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.

William Edwards

We printed 10,000, and we've got plans for the other 2,500.

Patrik Elias

When they call, I have to talk to them about what their plans are -- if they call.

Brian Cashman

We haven't made any contingency plans on if he doesn't come back.

Charles de Lint

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

Charlie Worsham

Things have always happened better for me than I could plan them to.

O. J. Simpson

So far, we've had a pretty positive reception.

Byron Scott

One positive of having a young team is they don't quit,

Jermaine Dye

No one ever said this was going to be easy. We've got to stay positive and just find a way to get some momentum.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

Allan Houston

Now we are trying to do something positive for them.

Tyra Banks

I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Diane Sawyer

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Sven Kramer

Me and Carl skate well together and twice before one of us has set a world record when we raced together.

Miikka Kiprusoff

Of course, I want to win games, but I don't think about records too much.

Tom Scholz

No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.

Arthur Vint

Now we have more recordings of us playing, which is great.

John Owen

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.

John Edward

Frankly, senator, ... you have a record that's not very distinguished.

Alexander Ovechkin

For sure, Pavel Bure was my hero. I was very young, but I remember this moment. I recorded the game.

Wayne Patterson

From all of our records and correspondence with EPD, they have done that.

Jack Straw

If and when Turkey does become a member, it will be after years of structural reforms and with a long track record of sustained and stable growth,

Jean-Marie Lehn

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.

Kent Cooper

One tribe has been reported with over 75 different names.

Ronda Tompkins

I didn't do anything extraordinary. I just reported what I saw that night.

Mark Fuhrman

Nobody's reported my victories, my accomplishments, my true personality - the way I treat all people.

Upma Chawdhry

It has been indicated that this was reported late.

Kendall Carver

We think that what is reported is just the tip of the iceberg.

Terry Coleman

You all reported everything. All you got to do is look in the archives. I feel you all were probably too tough on me.

Carol Reed

That's ridiculous. We reported every contribution and every expenditure for the period.

Takafumi Horie

I know nothing about such a reported case. At this moment, I have nothing to tell you.

Calvin Trillin

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

John Fitzgibbons

We're starting to see something out of the restaurant sector now.

Bobby Flay

Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant.

Amy Carlson

I'm a restaurant junkie.

Ed Nemec

I think we are a much better restaurant today than we were one year ago.

Ben Crane

To this day, the first thing I do when I walk into a restaurant is take off my cap.

Rob Stevens

When I went to school, I didn't think I would have a restaurant so quickly, but I always wanted to get back downtown. Paine's is kind of a place for everyone.

Tim Hall

We'd have to look at the way our restaurant is configured as to whether we could serve or not.

Bob Fox

We would have a sitter. And the two of us would take off. We used to spend a lot of time at a restaurant in town. Sometimes we would go to a movie, sometimes we'd just drive.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Keith Pearson

Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Tom McMillan

There has never been a three-week stretch of season ticket sales like this. Ever.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Catherine Lee

It's not an appraisal, it's more of a sales tool.

Catherynne M. Valente

I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.

M. Thompson

When they're still on a ventilator and under a warming blanket,

Sven Butenschon

He would do it before a game, like when some of us would warm up in the gym.

Bill Burns

Usually when you're interim CEO, you just kind of warm the chair.

Irving Berlin

I've got my love to keep me warm.

Geoff Coulson

The weather has been pretty amazing. It's much warmer than normal.

Emeka Okafor

It made me feel real special, all warm inside,

Mike Hargrove

I probably would not use him for more than one inning. And if I got him warming up in the bullpen, I'd want to get him in the game.

Spider Robinson

It's always coldest before the warm.