Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Icahn

Yellen’s comments suggest, and I agree, that we are in an asset bubble.

Amy Domini

We believe that the Fund's strong investment performance and growth in assets clearly indicate that the era of socially responsible investing is beginning to dawn,

Leonard Asper

There are some high-growth assets out there that we can purchase and we can purchase using the currency that we have at a reasonably high multiple.

John Battelle

When you use Facebook, you're always logged in, and your identity and relationships - to others, to content, to apps and services - are assets Facebook can use to customize your experience (oh, and your ads).

Tomi Taterka

When you think in dollar terms, there are plenty of cheap assets out there to be bought, and that's exactly what's happening.

Mark Cuban

Time is the most valuable asset you don't own.

Brian Billick

We've always talked about the pressure from the outside and contrasting that with Terrell Suggs . If that's a nickel role, you're talking 15-25 snaps. He's capable of doing more, but we have a lot of assets here to balance that out. If we can use him more, we will.

Eric Schmidt

We're going to put our assets together so we can leverage one another's distribution,

Richard Repetto

We believe year-end redemptions drove a 10% decline in average assets under management to $3 billion.

Mordecai Richler

Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.

Mike Santiago

We brought a freshman in, and he might have changed some attitudes of a lot of guys.

Steve Buster

What's striking is the near unanimity of many of the opinions and attitudes expressed by these businesses.

Mark French

We're going to change attitudes and behaviors. We want kids to have fun and know that it's important to buckle up.

Robert Teeter

While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.

Pam Danziger

Luxury consumers' attitudes about the economy and their personal financial status have sea-sawed over the last six months, but ended 2005 with a strong upward trend. Significantly more luxury consumers feel their personal financial situation is better now than three months ago and that the country overall is better off. But while they feel better, the residual effects of the ups-and-downs they experienced in the recent past makes them a little tighter when it comes to luxury spending. In other words, they are more likely to take any windfalls to the bank, rather than to the store.

Tom Lehrer

I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of those songs, in the musical style of the songs themselves; love songs, folk songs, marches, football.

Ken Mehlman

If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it's clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do.

Garry Shandling

'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.

Jack Greenberg

We want the line -- which for McDonald's includes our divisional and regional staffs, owner/operators and restaurant personnel -- to make decisions on behalf of customers based on field operating needs. The line ultimately has responsibility and accountability for our business success,

Amanda Tobin

The possible pressurization issues that we've had recently do represent an above-average number for this time period, based on historical averages.

Ginny Goblirsch

We are always so happy to see them. It is such a reminder of what the US Coast Guard brings to our community. It's also a reminder of what it took to get the helicopter based here and how critical it is that it remains here.

Bob Cornick

We value this honor more than designations based on research that simply tries to count shipments and measure market share. Our customers trust Zebra to help them extract the business benefits from RFID technology, and we are pleased that ABI has recognized our commitment.

Adam Ereli

We believe that these convictions are based on evidence that isn't credible and a trial that isn't fair,

Mike Clarke

We still plan to have the appraisal done and try to keep discussions open with them and at the appropriate time, based on the appraisal, try to initiate, once again, negotiations.

Frank Newport

We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, based on my experience, that the media tend to move in lockstep as conventional wisdom on a story develops.

Bernie Schaeffer

We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going to last.

Brent Trout

Where the crux of the issue lies is that (certain) departments are so heavily based on labor force. There is more to it at the library, there's a little more flexibility about other softer items where you are just able to cut.

Cleve Ryan

The other team has scored more than we have, and that's the bottom line.

Alan Pardee

We are going to see a slow fading away of some of the funds in the bottom half of the performance rankings.

Edmund Stoiber

We are at the bottom of European economic growth, ... Schroeder had four years to fight unemployment and did nothing.

Bob Goin

We reinstated the guy. The bottom line is that he was cleared and he's back on the job. Now go do what you've got to do.

Chris Hoffman

We're in crisis - we're not meeting demand, and that's the bottom line,

Christopher Thornberg

We're in a housing-driven economy from top to bottom at this point in time.

Jose Canseco

We spoke about it quite in depth. And-you know when I op-when-when I rejoined the team back in '97, we'd be working out-talking about it. You know we'd go into clubhouses and do steroids. Bottom line.

Alan Curbishley

We have said to all the teams down the bottom we have done our hardest.

Alexandre Burrows

We have to have a better power play, that's the bottom line. We've got to get it done (tomorrow).

Jesse Jackson

We want the people resettled and the damages paid for lives lost and lives injured.

Gary LaGrange

The outcome is not good. Yesterday, I thought the damage could have been worse; but today, I'm not so sure.

Li Bingbing

The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem.

Carrie Ann Inaba

I love the show 'Damages!' I am truly addicted.

Cherrie Moraga

To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.

Bill Vaughan

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

Barry Gibb

Unknown to myself, I damaged all my joints.

Tasnim Aslam

When they turn into violent acts, we also damage our image.

H. Hunt

We want to travel, and we haven't had time to. And we have to get our house fixed up for our old age. It's been sad and it's been happy. It's been emotional.

Dan Hawkins

We're going to have to get this fixed (by Congress),

Scott Stevens

We're getting hit with a double-edged sword, the higher seasonal increase and Hurricane Katrina. The folks I feel for are those on a fixed income.

Doug Holmes

There are people out there on fixed incomes.

Eric Liu

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.

John Threadgill

We tried DSL and those kinds of newer technologies, and they were just not as stable as I need them to be. Fixed wireless also takes away a lot of problems you have in the wired world, where it can take six weeks to put in a frame-relay circuit.

Sudeshna Bose

Yesterday, the AC promised us that the schedule will be fixed and proper guidelines will be framed by the end of the month.

Lord Byron

We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.

Guru Nanak

Let him gently pour out the remainder of the water near the cakes, and, with fixed attention, smell those cakes, in the order in which they were placed on the ground .

Nicolas Roeg

I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.

Don Brownlee

There are two major possibilities. One that they formed in the innermost, hotter-most regions of our solar system when the sun and planets were forming, and they were thrown out -- all the way out to the Pluto region of the solar system. The other possibility is they were formed around other stars, in hot regions around other stars.

Terry Wogan

I have great fun with the Togs - Terry's Old Geezers and Gals. They're a group that formed around me over the years of my radio shows. They are loyal to me and I'm loyal to them, so I've been to their conventions - Leicester University gives us their campus.

John Ortberg

The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.

Tom Brokaw

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.

Zach Johnson

Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.

Hamish Bowles

My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.

Richard Greenberg

I was formed by 'The Forsyte Saga' marathon. There was something about seeing all those events telescoped that was unbelievably moving: that sense of time as something that can be tinkered with.

John Wilson

Basically, the industry has formed a standard, and Microsoft ignores it and does something else, ... They are freezing the market when we have an API that is ready to go now. We invited them to join us several times but they declined.

Charles Stross

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

Darren Shan

Your spikes have gone floppy,

David Sedaris

I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.

Cesar Romero

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

James Fenkner

Why sully the country's reputation when they've gone down this path only to back off at the end?

Mariana Fulger

Where is Philosophy sleeping this saturday afternoon? Are the philosophers already dead? Are the poets gone from the planet? I look through the window and all I see are advertisments.

Tim Purpura

When you've been teammates that long, you're going to go through some ups and downs. They've gone through some down times.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

William Shakespeare

I feel it gone, yet know not when it left.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Greg Simon

The period right after people start taking antidepressant medication is not a period of increased risk. In fact, risk after starting medication is lower than before.

Eliot Spitzer

Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels.

Temple Grandin

One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Bryan Hopkins

We have increased results by more than 400 percent in the last two years because we have the right tools, people and process in place.

Alan McCoy

(The price of zinc) has increased dramatically, especially in the past year." ()

Chuck Brown

We recognize that tuition over time has increased pretty significantly.

John Douglas

The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004,

Cate Blanchett

There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.

Charles Dickens

You are in every line I have ever read.

Alan Rickman

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

Alan Bennett

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

Dave Barry

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

Camilla Belle

I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.

Mark Young

The power line was burning, but they got over to it and got it put out.

Kevin Hamilton

The reason for that is if there is a strike, you want to be 1st in line to take whatever Northwest offers as a possible option.

Brett Lee

We spoke about a number of things from conventional swing to reverse swing and different lines and lengths.

Keith Primeau

We're not going to survive with one line scoring goals. We need to get offense from other places.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Charles Spurgeon

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

C. L. R. James

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Bruno Tonioli

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

Ai Weiwei

China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions.

Deborah Kerr

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Bernard Goldberg

A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich.

Cheryl Richardson

If beating ourselves up worked, we would all be thin, rich, and happy, wouldn't we?

Cheryl Strayed

Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

Charles Grodin

It seems there are no rich on death row.

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Andy Serkis

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

Nobu Matsuhisa

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Mark Noll

When I'm thinking like a historian, I tend to be a little depressed. But when I'm thinking like a Christian, I tend to be optimistic.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.