Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Cox

The proceeds go into a scholarship fund that is administered by the Goldsmith family. A large portion of the money is distributed to local charities on an annual basis through an application process.

Hamish Bowles

When I was 14, I entered British Vogue's annual talent contest and got a special mention. I went up to London to meet the editors and wrote about it in my high school magazine.

Greg Murtha

We'd get snow and rain, and then a lot of rain. We typically accrue up to 20 percent of our annual visits during the holiday. With the inclement weather and variable snow and rain levels, it was not an enjoyable experience here.

Dave Lindimore

We want to stress that the order of these projects isn't set in stone. The list is an estimate, and after annual inventory of streets, priorities will change.

Gary Thayer

The personal consumption expenditure (PCE) price deflator was revised from 0.7 percent annual rate to 1.0. That's still very low, but it was revised upward instead of downward. There is possibly some building inflationary pressure, but it's still very benign.

James Matthews

We are seeing annual bonuses, which used to be reserved for the professional-level employee, being used more broadly in lower levels in the organizations, represented in our study by the manufacturing employee.

Charles Wilson

This principle of annual improvement in real wages based on technology we also hold to be neither inflationary nor deflationary.

Robert Walzel

We've tried to combine ongoing things, such as the annual Scholarship Concert, into the Mozart concerts.

Timothy Noah

Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom.

Patricia Russo

We have seen China's economy growing at 8-9% over the past few years and in particular within the telecom industry there has been rapid developments in technology and innovation enhancements,

Doug Porter

We have seen a string of numbers that suggest the U.S. economy is losing some momentum, which really is a perfect environment because it's not as if growth is grinding to a halt.

Avery Shenfeld

Whenever you have a situation where inflation is not a material risk and the economy is underperforming, you should be thinking about a rate cut. There's a potential reward and not much risk.

Susan Hering

The fact of the matter is, the economy moves in strange ways, and politicians move in even stranger ways.

Scott Browne

The problem with the economy right now is insufficient demand, not supply. The meat and potatoes of this plan is supply-side medicine for a demand-side problem.

Gregory Smith

The real estate market has been one of the big successes in the economy for the last 10 years. I think this would help pull the rug out from under it. If it's not broken, don't fix it.

John Challenger

There is a lot of extra fiscal stimulus moving into the economy from the storm relief.

Barry Hyman

The productivity number is key toward determining whether the economy can show some stabilization. We've seen weakening numbers, which hasn't helped, but there is no inflation story to talk about here.

Norihiro Fujito

The outlook for the economy will become a focal point this week.

Brian Hickey

We're still a force. It is a meaningful contributor to the United States' economy.

Kurt Barrow

Since mid-2004, the government refinery-gate reference price has diverged from import parity economics. The gap has been rising ever since.

Robert Brusca

We're getting sort-of mixed results with what is happening in the economy.

Paul Brewbaker

Lucky for everybody because it says something about our underlying economy.

Manmohan Singh

Positioned as we are, geographically and economically, India has a pivotal role in the region,

Charlotte Yee

We can't really track what is going on in the underground economy.

Tim Bajarin

We're moving toward an Internet economy. Whether people understand it or not, we're moving to a place where as much as 50 percent of all our purchases will be done over the Internet in the next five years.

Nick Skiming

We're reasonably optimistic on the economy, but markets are going to be difficult. I'd be cautious.

Willis Reed

Unfortunately, I just don't see it as being economically feasible to start over again.

Hank Hargraves

We have had a harder time in the playoffs than I expected this year. But the tough road that we have had this season has only helped us prepare for the regional tournament.

Liv Tyler

When I finally saw the film, I was floored because it was more than I even expected it would be, and I already had very high expectations.

Therese Fowler

My stories seem to always in some way explore mistakes and misapprehensions and the possibility of redemption - though that redemption doesn't always occur in expected ways.

Eric Bosshard

Walgreen did a better job than expected in expense management, something we had not seen in prior quarters.

Richard Smith

Version 3.0 has all of the functionality that everyone expected in 1.0.

O. Winston Link

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

Thuy Trang

We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify.

John M. Smith

We did it just before the half. Our offensive coordination expected us to down there and score.

Dan Larson

We did better than a lot of people expected us to, but we still could have done better.

Ruthie Reinert

We use the travel spending numbers to forecast for the visitor spending.

Noreena Hertz

I was really interested to see whether we could make predictions or forecasts by listening in on what people were saying on social media.

Molly Smith

We're mapping to that forecast ... We're very comfortable with where we are.

Susan Anthony

The reduced forecast for the handset market is a surprise at this stage of the year...they are pulling back their own sales growth, and I would have thought they wouldn't need to do that until later in the year.

Arthur C. Clarke

The future is not to be forecast, but created.

William Massey

If a storm makes landfall within a 200-mile radius, it's probably a good forecast, ... Eight, 10 years ago, that was a 300-mile radius. So they are improving the forecasts drastically.

Steve Fortuna

IDC saw worldwide unit growth in 3Q of roughly 18.3 percent, while Dataquest saw worldwide unit growth around 15.2 percent. Averaging the two together puts it in the mid-to-high 16 percent range, which is roughly in line with our forecast 17 percent for 3Q.

Leonard Riggio

The good news is that sales for January seem to be right on track with our previous forecast of 4 percent -- not enough to make up for the holiday shortfall, but a good sign nonetheless,

Todd Linden

The other day they were giving the weather forecast for the Cactus League and I'm thinking, 'Oh, great. It's going to be sunny.' I guess that's to be expected.

Carlos Ghosn

India is definitely one of the markets where we can expect growth and a potential to do well.

Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.

David Baker

We've seen incredible growth in the past two years.

Ho Chen

The outlook for 2006 is quite robust as we are looking for the growth momentum to be maintained. The main reason for the higher fourth-quarter numbers was the manufacturing sector.

Mitchell Corwin

Walgreen remains on a steady growth path, relatively unabated by industry or competitive threats.

David Rusenko

Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers.

Jane Addams

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Janet Yellen

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

Alan Greenspan

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

Cary Grant

I improve on misquotation.

Clayton Wilcox

We did not make the kind of leapfrog improvement we need to. While I wasn't ecstatic, I'm pleased with the trend lines.

Jared Diamond

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Michael Dell

We are seeing a substantial improvement in the availability of flat-panel screens (from) two months ago,

Kevin Toney

The reason for his improvement was the work he put in in the weight room during the off-season.

Philip Greenfield

We're looking to realize savings and improvement from this innovation in three areas.

Brian Tracy

All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures.

Gerald Cohen

We're seeing slow but steady improvement in the job market.

Silvio Berlusconi

There is no point in talking about improvement because there has been no worsening

Stephen Cambone

We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Brad Bradshaw

This Quest represents the largest mid-life investment in Nissan's history. We realized the styling of the Quest was polarizing for some owners.

Bob Wheeler

We're saying, like a lot of communities do, that here's a value to these jobs. It's a wise investment to look at a differing rate structure for industry.

Mike Toohey

We're making a substantial investment into the town of Maggie Valley.

Christopher Hayes

Women's skills and abilities are no different from men's but they put a tremendous pressure on themselves to make perfect investment decisions.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Mahbubur Rahman

Since independence, Japan has been Bangladesh's largest development partner, but private investment from Japan remained at low level in that sense.

Ben Horowitz

Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.

Richard Williams

On the whole this is modestly positive news.

Erich Merkle

I think October was the bottom. It could pick up modestly in December.

Charles M. Schwab

Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

Austin Eguavoen

I was satisfied with my team's overall performance.

Cathy Cook

I don't know what the overall stimulus was.

Waisale Serevi

But rugby is the overall winner in the end.

Willie Randolph

When you don't get calls, then you don't pitches where you want them to be. But overall he pitched pretty well.

Dennis Kelly

We were flabbergasted by the overall size of the market. It's incredible.

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.

Jessie Coiffard

We have to get focused. This was pretty much a practice game. Now we have to pick it up and play really hard.

Roger Dow

Vegas is going to pick up, too, ... If you want to party, everything's there restaurants, gaming.

Chris Colfer

You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.

Kate Winslet

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

Dellena Criner

We're starting to pick it up at the end (of the season). We're focused.

Mike Scioscia

We're seeing a steady progression with Bart, but Escobar is going through the roof. He's ready. He's really picked it up.

Jared Dudley

We're not here to look at what the analysts pick. If you pick that, that's great. But first things first - we've got Pacific.

P. J. Harvey

We've got many weapons. You've got to pick your poison, whether you want it out at the perimeter or in the paint.

Chris Masoner

Since then, we just picked it up, and hopefully, we just don't look back.

Carole Bouquet

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them; but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain; more and more loss, and it makes you more fragile.

Carlos Boozer

Too strong for that Bron Bron.

Carlos Castaneda

Fright is something one can never get over. When a warrior is caught in such a tight spot he would simply turn his back to the ally without thinking twice. A warrior cannot indulge thus he cannot die of fright. A warrior allows the ally to come only when he is good and ready. When he is strong enough to grapple with the ally he opens up his gap and lurches out, grabs the ally, keeps him pinned down and maintains his stare on him for exactly the time he has to, then he moves his eyes away and releases the ally and lets him go. A warrior, my little friend, is the master at all times

Carlos Castaneda

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

Agnetha Faltskog

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.

Agnes Smedley

There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.

Agnes Varda

The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn't always happen.

Agnes Varda

I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering from it. People have been robbed and beaten. A lot of people have had strong events in their life, which I didn't.

Agnes Varda

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.