Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Kelly

We are pleased with the progress toward achieving our earnings growth objective. We are reaffirming our 2006 earnings guidance of $1.25 to $1.35 per share.

J. Taylor

We are pleased with the financial performance and operational improvements that are demonstrated by our first quarter financial results, ... Our eighth consecutive quarter of double-digit sequential revenue growth and net earnings in the quarter of $2.8 million reflect a continuation of the momentum that was generated last fiscal year and put the company on pace to achieving our annual guidance.

Takashi Sensui

We acknowledge that achieving success in Japan will not come easily or quickly for Xbox. But we are confident that because Xbox 360 is the most powerful video game and entertainment system, delivering the best content for Japanese gamers, enabled by the online capability of Xbox Live, we will earn more of their business moving forward. I am excited and honored to take on this role.

Rahul Dravid

We want to put the players under pressure. (But) not in terms of results that come naturally, but in terms of achieving different goals they have been set.

Mariella Frostrup

While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman's gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we can't distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace.

Mike Journee

Whether or not he's going to sit there and outline his entire (State of the State) proposal, he's not going to do that. Achieving consensus is the point of the Legislature. They're here to conduct the business of the people.

Ryk Neethling

We are all friends and we have the similar feelings we had in Athens, so a world record is definitely our target and we are capable of achieving it. The relay on the opening night will be a good start for us.

Andrew Holland

We feel all the ingredients are in place for (rapid) economic growth. We are confident of India achieving growth of 8-9 per cent in (the year to March 2007).

Jane Burke

The fact is you cannot have great schools without the involvement of the entire community, but this information does not tell the whole story, ... We need to look carefully at the data. It is great to be number one in the state, but we mustn't forget that our work is truly about individual children, and until each individual child is getting what he needs, we cannot rest. We know that there are still students who are not yet achieving to their maximum ability.

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.

Bobby Jackson

We also sponsor the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday celebration every third Monday of January.

Robert Walzel

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

Kevin Sharer

We remain confident in our long-term guidance of compound annual growth rate for sales and EPS of low 20s for the 2001-2005 period and sales between $8 billion and $9 billion in 2005,

Judy Gresser

What he has done is created a permanent source of funding for these agencies. The organizations he has named in the fund can count on receiving an annual check from now until forever.

Kenneth May

The region attracts over 3.3 million holiday arrivals each year that are income-eligible to purchase shared ownership and is expected to be the fastest growing tourism region in the world with an anticipated average annual growth of 7.1 percent until 2020.

Laura Bush

We're going to have the first one, and then we'll see how it goes. We started the Texas Book Festival six years ago in Austin, and it's become institutionalized as an annual event at the Texas capitol. So I expect this will be very successful here.

Robert Garcia

We want to show the company that we are reasonable and are willing to work. But we also expect them to return the favor.

Ken Leonard

We know him in terms of his relationship directly with the company.

Dave Chappelle

You got to be careful of the company you keep.

Christopher Opalinski

The power company shut off the electricity to the mine because the company was in arrears in paying its power bill.

Marjorie Scardino

The potential of this new company is tremendous.

Erich Klemm

We appreciate, in general, if red tape is being addressed and hierarchies are put to test. But this should not lead to centralization ... as it paralyzes the company rather than making it faster and more flexible.

Lauren Fine

We are primarily focused on revenues as this is critical to the well being of the company and the shares.

Steve Sanger

We are pleased with this settlement as a partial recovery of the costs we incurred. It's welcome news to the General Mills people who worked so hard in 1994 to help the company rebound from this event.

Stephen Bollenbach

We are pleased with the court's decision giving shareholders their rightful opportunity to control the fate of their company,

Gordon Nixon

We are pleased with the strong earnings growth and ROE (return on equity) of 23.9% in the first quarter.

Jim Roche

We are pleased with the performance in the quarter, with the return of sequential revenue growth and with the solid earnings results,

Steve Previs

There are some disappointments in earnings and obviously Hewlett-Packard is a big one.

Chuck Hill

We still think we are on track to see earnings growth of 23 percent for the quarter.

Frank Gannon

Until we start seeing some better earnings news, I think the market's going to be in this bottoming phase.

Brad Pleimann

Until we see earnings impacted by oil, I don't think the market is going to be responsive.

Gordon Higgins

We're going to see volatile markets for the next little while with all this uncertainty regarding earnings. We need to see a general improvement in the tone of earnings and especially with guidance.

Scotty George

What we're looking at generally is whether the market can get past these levels. We think there's enough strong sentiment and stimulus in the pipeline for that to happen and that the earnings will ultimately lead the market, but it's a process, and it's going to take time.

Russ Koesterich

We're just winding down the year, ending the year with these sort of small, middling gains, which to me makes sense because you've had opposing factors this year. On the one hand you've had good earnings and a robust economy, but on the other hand, you've been fighting the Fed. The two canceled each other out.

Mike Quarto

We knew they were going to make a run at us. You hold a team that's ranked eighth in the state to 37 points in the game, that's a hell of a job defensively.

Bill Masse

We stole one in the eighth and then we stole one in the ninth with the squeeze. It was kind of nice.

Luis Walter Alvarez

One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.

Adam Wainwright

Whenever that phone rings, I'm always looking. I could be going in in the fifth inning or the fourth inning, or I could be going in there seventh or eighth inning. Nobody's said anything to me. I'll just be ready.

Eric Chavez

We've always had good (closers) in the ninth inning. But the seventh and eighth has been a real strength for us this year.

Allen Iverson

We're going to need team efforts, we're going to need each other down the stretch. With 29 games to go, we've got to win more than half of those to give us a better seed in the playoffs. We don't want to settle for the eighth spot. We want to try and get as high as we can.

Alexei Kovalev

We're fighting for the eighth spot in the playoffs, we knew how important this game was.

Brad Richards

We've never been the eighth seed, obviously. It's going to be different. We're not going to worry about what happened two years ago. We're just going to worry about our team now.

Steve Klesaris

She's just tremendous the last eighth of a mile. She's got such a big kick.

Alan Greenspan

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas, Greenspan said. While he hasn't seen such spreading yet, I expect to.

Mike Hansen

We are prepared to take a look at our financial situation this spring.

Nader Agha

We are prepared to make the offer, but we need some more financial information.

Van Honeycutt

We are pleased with our financial performance for the third quarter during a challenging and turbulent period for IT service providers.

Daymond John

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Ben Bernanke

We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.

Ben Bernanke

The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.

Ben Bernanke

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.

Lisa Alexander

We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation where they have to make financial decisions.

Katsuhiko Machida

We want to start outsourcing within this fiscal year.

Taro Saito

The profit forecasts are rather strong, because I had thought that they might present nearly flat growth in profit in the new fiscal year.

John Robertson

We've seen a lot of override attempts, pretty much all over the place in the past three years. And the fiscal pressure is not going to go away.

Tom Hunter

We in Scotland need fiscal responsibility. Quite simply, we need to be responsible for what we raise in tax and what we spend in tax.

Matt Sundeen

Many are reacting negatively to it. Real ID ... will have significant fiscal implications for the states.

Glenn Hubbard

Gradual fiscal consolidation may also be stimulative in the short run.

Tom Greene

We've been increasingly fiscally conservative, knowing this could happen.

Jerry Taylor

I feel like that is up to the fiscal court,

Steve Brice

From a local perspective they're saving a lot of money at the moment and their fiscal surplus was 15 percent last year and is going to be 14 percent this year.

Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.

Alan Greenspan

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

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

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.

Philip Shaw

The PMI is a big upside surprise ... and is at least hinting that services growth stepped up at the end of last year.

Mel Karmazin

We are pleased with the ongoing growth of radio and outdoor (advertising), the television stations and the network.

Arthur Rubinstein

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

Derek Bok

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

Craig Smith

We know what to do and what not to do because of last year. That's why we're in this position right now.

Bruce McMiller

We know we made a lot of progress last year, but there is still a lot out there.

Tony Russa

We know him and technically a position player can get here the last two or three weeks and that's plenty of camp. I'm sure he's been working.

Diane von Furstenberg

Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.

Ewan McGregor

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Tim Hogan

We've got fines accumulating at $1 million a day. The pressure is on to resolve this problem.

Harold Jones

What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.

Jason Stanford

We're going to have to use the word million in the plural, but with that being said, we're not going to have to outspend Rick Perry to win this thing.

Katy Perry

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

Michael Schwartz

Three years into American involvement in Vietnam they were up to 500,000 troops in-country and there probably were already a million who had returned home.

Frank Moss

Three years ago we received 7 million applications. This year, we project 13 million applications. Next year, 15 million.

Paul Moreno

We've restored power to about 1.328 million people, but 89,000 are still without.

Greg Allgood

We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works for them.

Alan Greenspan

In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.

David Shields

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

Earl Weaver

Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

Debbie Casto

We've got a very aggressive, trapping style of defense. And we get a lot of turnovers out of it. We've been able to get momentum with turnovers and score in transition.

Richard Herring

We have seen a lot of momentum buying,

Ben Gordon

When we go down to Miami, we've got to keep the snowball going. We've got momentum going. We've got confidence. So we've got to keep it up.

Ben Gordon

When we go down there, we've got to keep the snowball rolling. We have momentum right now. We have confidence. So we need to keep that up.

Dave Tippett

We feel the momentum is on our side now.

Rob Johnson

We needed a break, we did, ... The offense, the morale was low. But things went our way and we took the momentum and ran with it.

Eiichi Katayama

We still see no prospect of a return to net profits.

Tom Bittman

Where I do my word processing, how I collaborate, maintaining my social network . . . those things are shifting away from Microsoft.

Armstrong Williams

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.

Roland Nash

When it comes down to it, it is a net positive. But there are so many more important things.

Jack McKeon

We're going to get a net so he can't go through the dugout.

Randy Falco

Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.

Al Franken

Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.

Joe Barton

Let's wait and see how this all turns out. I don't think we are quite ready to say what Net neutrality is.

Mark E. Smith

Seventy-five percent of our networks are storage related.

Sean Smith

We started picking up the pace and that's the type of team we are.

Edwin Way Teale

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

Arthur Golden

of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

Bil Keane

Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face

Dennis Stock

At the incredible pace most of us live, the arrested image becomes of maximum necessity.

James Young

I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.

James Devlin

We have to play our pace and not the other team's.

Miguel Jimenez

Yesterday I struggled with the pace and today was a little better on the pace. I just tried to make a solid putt there.

Chuck D.

We're on a record-setting pace for second-quarter warnings.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Martin Broughton

The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,

Raymond Hack

We are proud of the performance of our team in the first leg.

Anthony Chukumba

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

David Hockney

I've realized that I can do performances.

Bob Gunton

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Al Yankovic

So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Softbank's poor performance is especially weighing on sentiment.

H. Hunt

She stays cool. She pulls out the big performance on the big day.

Barney Bishop

We are pleased with the turnout. We have some legislators, but we'd like to have some more.

Stuart Rose

We are pleased with the progress we are making but there remains much to do.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case.

Don Horner

We are pleased with the bank's first-quarter performance.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organization.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organisation.

Liz Boyd

We are pleased to see (Lansing) step up.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to report another strong quarter for SAP,

Kerry Stokes

We are pleased to be back in football.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

Martin Pyykkonen

The expectations going into the quarter weren't very high. Overall, it was an in-line quarter with in-line guidance.

John Naveaux

We usually have a quarter where we don't score much. That's been a bugaboo.

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Phil Jackson

Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter,

Bob Djurdjevic

Overall, you can say the quarter was on the mark,

Charles Caleb Colton

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

Charles Dickens

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

Charles Dickens

I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.

Alan Pardew

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.

Byron Katie

When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

Cesare Pavese

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

Jane Austen

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Edith Wharton

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Gene Upshaw

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

Robert Klein

I still think the Legislature has to do the right thing (about the disputed revenue sources).

Clint Stretch

But that's not where the revenue comes from,

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Dan Rooney

Revenue sharing is a tough thing but it's great.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Martin Pyykkonen

It confirms what I've been thinking about revenue deceleration.

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Charles de Gaulle

Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

Charles de Lint

There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.