Famous Quotes & Sayings

Megan Schwab

Whenever we get those opportunities (to score), we want to capitalize on those situations.

Gary Thayer

We've seen, over the past seven months or so, orders stabilize or improve slightly, compared to a big decline last year. Orders are rising relative to inventories, and that's a positive sign for capital spending.

Bill Gross

The fact is that GE is a conglomerate financed by a money machine -- its subsidiary GE Capital -- but, unlike Berkshire Hathaway, its foundation is vulnerable because its survival depends upon the confidence of outside investors,

Don Rahn

The real indicator to me is what do you have coming up in the next five years in your capital plan.

Adam Cole

There is a limit to the negative effect on the yen of the capital outflows that have been driving it down for the last two months.

Sanjay Kumar

Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.

Tom Hunter

In 1998 I invested in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde Uni and subsequently put more capital into enterprise education to try and help change the culture.

Thomas Woods

Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility of capital as instruments of exploitation and oppression.

Jose Ferreira

Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.

Gretchen Rubin

Putting myself into categories is fun, and I think it also gives me insight into my own nature. When I see myself more clearly, I can more easily see ways that I might do things differently, to make myself happier. Categories can be unhelpful, however, when they become too all-defining, or when they become an excuse.

Jeff Bezos

With this launch, our goal is to give customers the Amazon.com experience -- everything from one-click shopping and helpful information to the high level of customer service we traditionally provide -- in the two important categories of toys and electronics.

Heather Dougherty

We remain enthusiastic about the start of this holiday season, as several categories saw substantial revenue increases. The growth in 2004 holiday revenue suggests that consumers are shifting more dollars to the Internet this season.

Paul Williams

Many of the mortgages with high fees fall into categories of semi-commercial such as buy-to-let, or are sub-prime, for people with previous credit problems. Those mainstream products with high fees usually have a great headline interest rate to entice the clients in.

Joe Jimenez

Selling the HP ethnic foods business, which is sold primarily through the ethnic distribution channel, is in line with our strategy of focusing on three core categories where Heinz is a sector leader: ketchup, condiments & sauces; meals & snacks; and infant nutrition.

Robert Brusca

We're getting some very good spending going into the first quarter. It's interesting that while there is spending optimism, consumers are still clearly divided into two main categories -- those with lots of money and those that are hurting. That's why these monthly results have shown so much irregularity.

Charlotte Whitton

There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are mens wives.

Placido Domingo

There are two big categories of people that do not go to the opera. Some who will never have the financial or cultural means of doing it.

Paul Johnson

One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.

Joe Wilcox

What these services do differently is protect the messaging environment.

Agnes Smedley

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

Philip Baggaley

The external environment is still very difficult, and we expect that they're likely to report a loss this year.

David Suzuki

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

David Suzuki

We all live downstream

David Suzuki

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.

David Suzuki

The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing - the bottom line. That is, maximising profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs.

David Suzuki

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

David R. Brower

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

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.

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.

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.

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 .

Dick Davies

Legalized sports gambling in Nevada serves a very important function of providing a watch over fixed games. There's no question about that.

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.

Stephanie Aveiro

One thing that comes to mind immediately is that we have a list of who gets those recently fixed units. So because they are helping does not mean that they go into them.

Scott Hand

We have seen a downturn in nickel prices during the third quarter and into the fourth quarter,

John Imlah

We wanted to win the last three games to stay in pace with Dayton. They got third place locked up. We have fourth place pretty well locked up.

Tony Couture

When it was 2-0 and we had some opportunities to make it 2-1, that could have been big for us. When they scored their third goal, and then their fourth goal right after that, it took a lot of wind out of our sails.

Kyle Smith

We usually just have two forwards up top. But later in the second half I moved up a third one, and with about 1:45 left I moved in a fourth one.

Bonnie Henrickson

We struggled to find another offensive weapon. Their third and fourth options made shots, and we're not that deep.

Michael Teller

We started getting passive in the fourth quarter. We didn't take some of the shots we normally take.

Alex Guerrero

We're here to win another ring. I want my fourth ring. It's something that's going to happen starting (today).

Clint Hurdle

We had been looking for that big hit, big swing for quite some time. I was looking for that at-bat since the fourth inning.

Ted Carmichael

We had a very good fourth quarter for employment.

Tawni O'Dell

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

Ernest Mandel

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

Carlo Ponfoort

The positive surprise is insurance in Europe, which has performed quite well, including in the Netherlands.

Robert Thompson

When you've won an Oscar, everyone is really scrutinizing what you do, including every movie you do. So if it's bad, they're noticing it more.

Kevin Lynch

With Typekit, you sign on, you pay a single subscription fee. We're including that as part of Creative Cloud.

Tyler Cowen

Most restaurants in most cities, including Washington, are at a sort of mid-level. They're somewhat trendy, or they have some sort of gimmick, or they're somewhat expensive. And they make a lot of money off drinks. I tell people don't go to most of them, unless your goal is just to socialize.

Li Yuanchao

Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself.

Vladimir Litvin

Watching how simultaneously statements are made, including at the top level, it can be understood that this is an organized campaign.

Anil Kumar

Most of the victims were local labourers, including women workers with infants and small children.

Kathleen Sebelius

I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.

Lynda DeLaforgue

There are lots of people who have insurance through their employers, and they inadvertently sign up for these plans. Then, they lose their employers' insurance.

Roy Blunt

This week ... we'll, I think under the suspension calendar, have TRIA (Terrorism Risk Insurance Act).

Bob Enos

We raised $12,000 to get the dog, because insurance doesn't pay for that.

Dr. Raley

While our 'Errors and Omissions' insurance is not terribly expensive, that would be one thing I would not have to spend money on if the state provided that.

Brian Cashman

We will need choices, You always do. It's somewhat of an insurance policy. He's also prepared to go to Triple-A.

Robert Carter

Title insurance is not required by law, but it's prudent to get it, to make sure you own a property. The state, however, sets the rates for title insurance.

James Carter

He said I don't know what I'm going to do because I don't have any insurance and I said you're going to start rebuilding now, because I'm volunteering my services right now.

Rick Whatley

Our road service insurance is what we are so well known for.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Robert Johnston

We have no plans for any major shakeup at this point,

Tim Wilson

We were at a crossroads, whether we were going to have to doze it in or do some major repairs.

Tariq Anwar

Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.

Eliot Spitzer

While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.

Erin Morgenstern

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Luc Ferrari

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Peper Long

We're still shooting for December, barring anything major or unforeseen.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Firas Askari

Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting.

Brian Finnerty

I don't think it's the reason the markets are down, but I think it's a big weight around the market's neck. It's like an anvil.

Mary Schapiro

I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

F. Stone

We need to do something about how these live markets are treating species.

Barry Ritholtz

Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.

Barry Ritholtz

Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Alan Ackerman

What you've got now is world markets whipsawing. It's a letdown, not a meltdown.

Matt Flynn

The product is out there. It's not necessarily right, and it's not necessarily wrong. It's just the idea that was generated.

Grayson White

The production and recording is a big step up.

Dave Barry

I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?

Bob Turner

There are some big inventories out there. The new products that they have talked about aren't out for another quarter or so. So it's probably going to be more of the same for some time.

William Diehl

This product is all about taking a convertible mainstream. It's not about being the thinnest, super light, $2,000 convertible you've seen.

Steve Greene

We've got a pretty robust product road map.

Ayumi Hamasaki

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

Daniel Goldstein

Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

Connie Sellecca

We got to this point by constantly perfecting our products.

Patrick Fearon

We've now had three straight quarters of above-average growth, and that's nothing to sneeze at.

Luis Castillo

Hopefully, it won't take me two quarters to get going this time.

Merv Griffin

I tell everybody that I’m a quatre-sexual. I will do anything with anybody for a quarter.

Martina Hingis

I feel a quarter Indian.

Meggie Ford

It's been like that all year. We always have one of those quarters when we don't play well.

Joanna Lumley

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Erik Satie

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Paul Weyrich

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

Brian Tracy

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

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

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.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

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.

Richard Foreman

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

Joel Rassman

The stock sales have nothing to do with the state of the market. It has everything to do with diversification.

Tom Trill

The tail end of this year will be propped up and stimulated by Vista.

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.

Dwyane Wade

We know we can win. That's what we're all here for. . . . This is my third year here and it's like it's my third different team, but we can win.

Brandon Jacobs

If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.

Jim Rich

Sen. Landrieu said she wanted to be our third senator.

Lenny Clark

We're not disappointed at all. Third place is good.

Bartolo Colon

More than puzzled, I'm ticked off. I had two outs and I couldn't get the third one.

Rupert Grint

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

Tim Taylor

We didn't get that third goal, and that hurts.

Virgil Thomson

Try a thing you haven't tried before three times - once to get over the fear, once to find out how to do it, and a third time to find out whether you like it or not

Brittany Howard

I once had this massacred afro in third grade. Parts were bigger than others. It was just terrible.

Carol Moseley Braun

Im committed to universal health coverage and education.

Jan Peter Balkenende

Freedom is a universal value.

Carl Rogers

what is most personal is most universal

Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is universal.

Maz Jobrani

You know, funny can be universal.

Stephen Sondheim

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios.

Charles Krauthammer

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

Bruce Kovner

If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.

Ian Stewart

For those two reasons, his candidacy is, if not doomed, unlikely too succeed.

Andreas Rees

It is unlikely that reform-minded politicians will have a lot to say in the new government.

Elaine Paige

I should think it is unlikely but you never know - never say never.

Richard Perks

They'll have to come up with something after deliberating for two years, but it's unlikely to be much.

Mary Douglas

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

Seth

It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.

Warren Buffett

An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you.

Alan Perlis

There is no such thing as a free variable.

Bill Parcells

I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PEDESTRIAN, n. The variable (an audible) part of the roadway for an automobile.

B. F. Skinner

To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

Ambrose Bierce

Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.

James F. Cooper

Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.

Luc de Clapiers

Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.

Feist

But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.

Terence McKenna

Time is a series of fluctuating variables.