Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Crawford

Regarding the lack of atmosphere a Premiership grounds, it is staggering that this comes as a surprise to anyone. What do you expect when a ticket costs an average seven minimum wage working hours, or one day's work? When only lawyers and bank managers can reasonably afford to attend matches do not expect the camaraderie of the working man's club in the stands

Jerry Flanagan

Recent mergers have given the industry a strangle hold over the health insurance market. With fewer pressures for efficiency and no government oversight of rates, insurers have been given free rein to spend more of our health care dollars on overhead, profit, and administration. The last decade of HMO mergers has taught us that when fewer HMOs dominate the health care market, quality goes down, premiums go up, and patients get short changed. Already, 45 million Americans are uninsured because they cannot afford to pay the insurers' ransom.

Mark Cunningham

Reliable, efficiently delivered crude oil supplies are needed by area refineries to maintain affordable gasoline prices for the residents of Utah.

Tina Fey

President Bush unveiled his new economic stimulus plan this week. It was reported that if the plan passes the president himself would save $44,000 in taxes, Dick Cheney would save $327,000, and you could afford to take the whole family down to Burger King to pick up job applications.

Tracey Schmitt

President Bush believes that the promise of Social Security fulfilled over the last 70 years ought to be a promise we keep for future generations. Scoring political points by shirking responsibility for tomorrow's seniors is not a birthday party Americans can afford to attend.

Diane Terry

Our parents cannot afford the resources wealthy parents have such as books, magazine and newspaper subscriptions, computers or educational games.

Nicolas Retsinas

Our own sense is that a lot of this (trend) is driven mostly by economics. In certain markets where affordable housing is scarce this is much more common.

John Leonard

Parrish has all this nice stuff. Of course, they can afford newer stuff if they don't have to pay $70,000 for a new chief.

Joan Miles

Parents who think that affordable health coverage for their kids is an impossible dream should explore CHIP as a solution.

Toby Claudio

Regardless of the cost of these high tech gadgets there would always be buyers just because they are serious in their chosen sport. Who knows, maybe in the future, someone would create a jogging suit that has a built-in computer.

Michael Hartnett

Previously it was a rush to buy anything. Now I think that quality will stand out.

Consumer Reports

Our report overturns the long-held conviction that to lose weight, you have to enroll in an expensive program, buy special food, or follow the regimen of a particular diet guru,

Kevin Magee

Our radio shows are scattered on satellite, and we decided to consolidate them under the Fox brand. XM was extremely interested and wanted to do it before the Christmas buying season.

Amy Cutts

Part of the purchasing decision for buying a house is an expectation of what housing prices are going to do in the future. It's true that houses are getting more and more expensive, but people are increasing their wealth in ways we haven't seen in a while.

Luke Reilly

Our motto is 'team first' and every single guy has seemed to buy into that. This has been a really fun group to coach because they're highly motivated. It's been a pleasure.

Andrea Dunn

Or buy already pasteurized eggs if you like your eggs runny. You'll pay more but have peace of mind. Egg substitutes are a pasteurized product -- you can use them freely without worry of salmonella. You can also buy frozen whole eggs that are pasteurized.

Andrea Dunn

Or buy already pasteurized eggs if you like your eggs runny - you can use them freely without worry of salmonella.

Andrea Dunn

Or buy already pasteurized eggs if you like your eggs runny -- you can use them freely without worry of salmonella.

Shami Chakrabarti

reflect on the culture of intolerance that he may be promoting in his party and the country as a whole.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

Referendums are not held in an unstable country with unstable society.

King Abdullah

reject any country to have nuclear weapons, especially in the Middle East region.

John Tesh

Pat, the last election was decided by voters who listed 'moral values' as their primary concern. What do you think this means for the country and should we try to mend fences with the liberals?

Taya Kyle

Our main goal is to honor God and to honor this country by honoring and serving those families who serve.

Kit Carson

Our only idea was to get rid of the dross as soon as possible, but at the same time have as much pleasure and enjoyment as the country would afford.

Fidel Ramos

Our leaders must not only make sure that our future is enhanced but also that those who plundered the country must also be punished,

Danny Wuerffel

Our ministry's mission is to revitalize the Desire neighborhood. It was once ranked the worst neighborhood in the country. We may have an opportunity to rebuild it in the way everyone would want it to be.

Jennifer Granholm

Our Michigan troops are sacrificing so much for us serving our country and serving far away from home and family.

Warde Manuel

Reggie didn't come in with the same credentials. But more than me and more than Turner, Reggie has earned his accolades.

Michael Metz

Regardless of what the Fed does today, I think that maximum monetary stimulation throughout the world is over. We are seeing the low point of interest rates throughout the world. The next move will be upward. Moreover, I think the earnings momentum for the markets is eroding as well.

Roger Altman

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.

Ralph Acampora

Price is fact. Earnings on the other hand are estimates. You restate earnings. You never restate price.

Doug Bruno

Our players have earned the right to have the stage here in Chicago.

Josef Ackermann

Our objective now is to sustain, over the cycle, this level of pretax return on equity and double-digit earnings per share growth.

Robert Campbell

Our much improved earnings resulted largely from the strength of refining margins during the quarter,

Mike Holland

People have been worried for the last several quarters that earnings were going to slow down. If in fact they don't slow down and if it looks as if there's no resumption of inflation ... it'll be interesting to see how people respond to that.

Erik Kimrey

Steven's a guy who has worked hard and has earned more playing time. That was a key play in the game, no question.

Joshua Shapiro

Refinery shutdowns will have a big impact on gasoline prices, ... and that's a tax on consumers.

Kevin Forbes

Right now our wholesale prices are so high we're going to be sucking in gasoline from everywhere. Which is what we want.

Derek Halpenny

Rising oil and gasoline prices are negative for the dollar.

Sung Sohn

We notice it every day -- when we go to gasoline stations, we pay more,

Pat Fagan

I'd like to give you $100 (in gasoline money) for whoever gives you the buses.

Dick DeVos

I think the gasoline tax, the sales tax on gasoline, should be suspended immediately.

Jim Smith

I think the drive-to travel market is still up in the air, and we won't know until Thanksgiving, ... That's the next big travel holiday in the petroleum industry. But, generally, I think the rapid escalation in the price of gasoline has slowed down demand.

Robert Brown

We look at it as an alternative renewable fuel. Ideally, we would be able to use it the same way we use gasoline in our engines.

Jose Vicente

If we can sell gasoline to China, India and Latin America, as we have been doing, we will not have a problem.

Matthew Storin

Patricia Smith is a writer of extraordinary talent and this is a tragic development. We wish her well and she retains many friends at the Globe, including myself.

Takashi Sensui

Our message is this: We're prepared to do everything that's needed to make Xbox 360 a success around the world, including Japan.

Mel Netzhammer

People have been so welcoming, including the vice presidents.

Rui Farias

Our success has always been on defense, including the forwards.

Nathan Brown

I think the second offence should be made public for everyone's sake, including the sponsors.

Gia Coppola

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

Tim Long

It didn't do any major damage, but it woke up a lot of people in Atlanta, including me.

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Kelli White

Some have 40 people living in one home.

Johnny Ahtuangaruak

Other villages think we are millionaires, but we are not. We are still living at poverty level.

Ryan Phillippe

Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!

David Franks

I will not work with them. I'll work with other breeders. We'll do our own thing, but right now it's a living we're making, a living here. And if there doing that we'll find out someday. The truth will come out.

Kelly Slater

I was just living in the moment, ... That's something I've been trying to do this year. I wasn't worried about anything that I couldn't control.

Sathya Baba

It is not the standard of living that is important, but the manner of living.

Caroline Shaw

Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

Jeresa Hren

Living in a multicultural society takes time. It is a long educational process.

Larry Bell

Living for Tomorrow: The Power of Individuals to Prevent Violence in Schools and Communitites,

Craig Colten

Rebuilding here means so much more than walls and roofs and levees.

Akinobu Okada

Our rally was a little late, but things are by no means over.

Cheri Cihak

Parents who understand the risks recognize that it is important to keep teens from riding with other teens, even if it means playing 'chauffer' for one more year.

Lisa Busch

State means everything to this team. As seniors, it means so much more for us.

Barack Obama

Some of that means that in your public statements, ... you end up trafficking in public platitudes more than you'd want to do at home.

Mahmud Abbas

Our security services are trying to use all means to prevent their arrival.

Phil Klay

'Redeployment' is a military term. It means to transfer a unit from one area to another.

Sharan Burrow

(We need) a broad-ranging inquiry, one that travels around the country, so that working people can talk to the senators about what it means for them.

Joe Hymer

It is an encouraging sign, but we don't know what it all means and where those smelt will end up.

Earl Blumenauer

Part of what needs to be going on,

Hal Mumme

Paul Dombrowski is a tremendous competitor. If he wants to play at the next level, he needs to be a slot guy, a running-back-type guy.

Cheryl Smith

Some of the teachers and the administrators are part of the problem. The federal, the state just needs to come in and take over, not just Hillside and Southern, the school board, the administrators, all of it.

Scott Benedict

Someone needs to step up to the plate and offer him a scholarship.

Dan Daly

Our position would not be that we don't need to do anything. The status quo is not appropriate. Something needs to be done.

Steve Zeller

Our secondary still needs some work. We weren't making the reads on the ball.

J. C. Watts

Our team is pretty unique because we're all so close. If you're scared to do a trick, you know you have to do it because the team needs you to do it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I need to brush my teeth. And I need a shower." He grinned, hopping off the bike. "Now that is an invitation.

Barry Ritholtz

Salesmen always need something to sell.

David Dreman

Stay in the stock market, in the oil sector.

Carl Pope

We can reduce the effect of future disruptions by reducing our dependence on oil, not putting up more rigs and drilling our special places. The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Carl Pope

We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.

Carl Pope

The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Michael Foster

I think more people need to be doing it. There's a lot of oil that's going to waste pretty much.

David Briggs

I think the oil prices (being) off helps.

Ben Holmes

If any sector is working right now, it's oil and gas.

Scott Davis

I wish there were just a big pool of oil all around the world, and we could just tap into it. It doesn't work that way.

Chris Perkins

What most people need to understand is that oil is not going to be around forever, and we need to start thinking ahead. The sun is going to be here for as long as we are.

Audrey Singer

Paying for it now is going to pay off later.

Ryan Holmes

Payfirma has revolutionized the payment process, consolidating mobile, e-commerce and in-store payments under a single solution, much like HootSuite did for social media.

Michael Griffin

pay as you go and what you can afford.

Juergen Peters

Pay talks have now become a pay-related workers' movement.

Reuben Brewer

People need to be careful. See what you're paying for the perk.

Phil Angelides

People making under $100,000 are going to be paying more,

Bob Cummins

Our products are not cheap. But people are willing to pay for our products because they know they're getting quality.

Danny Dotson

Overall, I thought the report was positive. I did think there were some misconceptions. Hispanics do pay taxes. If they are paying rent, they are paying property taxes indirectly.

Rafael Benitez

We never wanted to pay more for a player than his value,

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Uwe Reinhardt

Price (in the Swiss system) doesn't matter, because it's set by these negotiations.

Toni Simonetti

Suffice it to say that the price of the stock is an important part of the equation.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

Ashton Kutcher

I learned what a Birkin bag is from the price tag. You'll never forget what it is once you've paid for one.

David Briggs

I think (stock) prices have run up anticipating a recovery but I don't think the recovery's here yet,

Mike Fitzpatrick

It is not surprising that prices are retreating.

Jack Cox

I feel sorry for the (homeless) people. But what price do we pay?

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

John Nersesian

Rebalancing doesn't work every time. It works over time.

Mac McCabe

Our participants can work just as well as you or I.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Jim Coyne

Some of the work is in dispute. Hopefully, it will be settled.

David Frum

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

Barry Ritholtz

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

David Burnett

Well a little disappointed but we'll work with what we have to work with.

Bill Cosby

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Big Pun

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.