Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Casey

We spent millions on this. The taxpayers trusted us. Bringing people in here who can't see questions our credibility. We need to please the people who sit in the seats.

Thomas Donohue

We have to get over the paranoia and start bringing people to the US.

Brian Nelson

We have no intention of duplicating those efforts. We get incredible content from our partners, but in this case, we are covering largely under-reported stories and bringing them to our audience.

Mark Joseph

We've always had a School Committee member or two on these committees, and I feel very strongly that should continue. We need to know what we're bringing in.

John Tortorella

We're going to miss him. He's a main piece to our puzzle, offensively, defensively, on our power play, all the things. Having said that, we'll hope he comes back but if he doesn't we have to be concerned about bringing someone up and we have to keep on playing.

Gifford Miller

Unless he wants to make Portland the sixth borough, this seems to be the opposite of bringing jobs to middle-class New Yorkers,

Brett Galloway

Working with Intel, Nokia, RIM and others, we are unifying a triad: bringing together wired and wireless networks, voice and data offerings, and industry support for Cisco and partner offerings.

Jeff Kinney

Working with Dav Pilkey was a dream come true. Dav is incredibly funny, and he's been a hero of mine for a long time. It was great bringing the 'Wimpy Kid' and 'Captain Underpants' worlds together!

Ron Holmes

With Nebraska being at the event, it will be tough because they will always be a solid team. They are pretty much bringing the same group they had last year. If we play up to our level, we will play them very closely.

Charles Dickens

Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends

Charles Spurgeon

I would go to the deeps a hundred times a cheer a downcast spirit.

Bruno Heller

When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

Caryl Churchill

We’ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We’ve got thirty per cent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong.

William Shakespeare

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

Kurt Vonnegut

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

Billy Horschel

What's disappointing about @usopengolf is the fans not being about to walk around the course/get close enough to most of the greens to cheer. Fans are having a hard time walking the course. They can barely see anything from outside the ropes. I would be pissed if I paid a lot of money for tickets and could barely see the top players hit golf shots.

Billy Joel

I don't belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that's what's kept me grounded because I know it's not right.

Beverly Sills

I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

Charles Dickens

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Charles Dickens

Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!

Charles Dickens

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

Charles Dickens

Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good.

Charles Dickens

And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart’s content. “As good as gold,” said Bob, “and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

Charles Dickens

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)

Charles Dickens

They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.

Alan Perlis

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!"

Chris Christie

We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to raise it with these cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what's going to happen: They're going to have to lay people off.

Jeff Campbell

The positive news is we're making progress on the cost front, led by painful concessions by our employees and suppliers, ... The tougher news is while the revenue environment has improved, it's still depressed by historical standards.

Ed Bolen

The person who decides is dictating why the costs are what they are.

Scott Magruder

We are proud of it. We put a lot of work into it. It did cost a little more, but it was worth it.

Rajiv Dube

We are looking to establish quick gains, though it is too early to quantify what the cost savings will be.

Ron Jones

We spent the last few weeks talking about how good the team's effort was and tonight was the first time that we didn't play with the effort that I felt we should have. We did some of the same things that have cost us games this year but it just looked like the energy level disappeared in the second half.

Nathan Myhrvold

The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet can reach an audience at lower cost than any medium before it.

David Berkowitz

We want them to focus on customers and business, but they have to go to London.

Sanjay Gupta

We want to take a much more proactive step and give our customers further peace of mind.

Joseph Roth

We've already received such a warm reception from customers in Michigan. Just as we have customers who are excited about Ikea, we have lots of potential employees who are excited as well.

Cindy Adams

We're in full operation. We have not missed any service to our customers and our employees have not lost any time,

Carly Fiorina

Where there's a tough call, we do what our customers would want us to do.

Alex Jones

When you talk to customers, you can tell that a lot of them are a lot more local.

Quincy Allen

We want our customers to be able to tell the difference.

Joko Widodo

When we have a corporation, we must know what the customer wants, what the customers needs. Also, the politician must know what the people want, what the people need.

Greg Brown

We are getting out and visiting customers more, and we are getting new customers calling,

Miriam Toews

With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.

Kay Redfield Jamison

In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.

Willa Ford

It's a mood record. Like one night you're going to be down in the dumps depressed because you're thinking about your ex-boyfriend and the next moment you're gonna be like screw him you know? And the next one you're saying to yourself 'God I'm in love.'

Vince Farrell

Those are all trading around 12 times earnings and have given us very good earnings growth in a depressed pricing environment, ... And I think the pricing is improving for those companies.

Al Goldman

On one side, we've got pretty good economic fundamentals. On the either side, we have all the problems that are keeping everybody depressed -- Iraq, Iran, the price of oil.

Mark Schultz

I lost in the 1988 Olympics, and I was pretty depressed for about eight years. I quit wrestling, and I got into Brazilian jujitsu in 1991.

Joel Kinnaman

Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.

Thad Cochran

I don't know of anything that has depressed me more than seeing what I saw yesterday in my state.

Daron Malakian

I am depressed sometimes, but it's not what keeps me at home or focused on work.

Angelo Reyes

This successful operation could be attributed to the joint efforts of the soldiers with the participation of the American forces, and of course, with the prayers of everybody,

David George

Wealth is when small efforts produce big results. Poverty is when big efforts produce small results.

Ethan Moreau

We have to get that next goal. You either have to get a stop or get the next goal. It's happened a number of times. Good efforts have been wasted because of it.

Steve Denney

We're making Herculean efforts to get into some of these areas.

Allen Iverson

We're going to need team efforts and we need each other down the stretch.

Rudi Giuliani

We're going to focus our efforts on recovering as many people as we can and on removing debris, which will take at least two or three weeks,

Edward Jackson

We're getting offers of help; we're getting word that people are trying to structure efforts for us.

Jean Coutu

Since the acquisition of Eckerd, our American team has invested considerable efforts into its integration and operation,

Brandy Corbett

She's a good shooter from the outside. We can't focus all of our efforts on the two post players.

Jack Warner

We want to showcase our athletes. It's going to be a festive atmosphere; running in front of 40,000 people is always exciting.

Michael Carey

One hundred people is a festive environment; it's not 10 people who don't know each other standing around.

Jarome Iginla

People are more in a party mode, festive mode.

Dane Hansen

I like this shot. It just has a lot of perspectives in it. It looks sort of festive at first, but then you figure out that there's something slightly ominous about it.

Lizz Harmon

It's very festive and upbeat. You can be a spectator or you can play.

Glenda May

The highlights for me were so many people in masks and everyone took beads, and it was such a festive atmosphere.

Ron Beard

When he figures out how incredibly good he is, he'll be unstoppable.

James Van Der Beek

I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further

Eric Brown

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I like to keep my girlish figure

Twyla Tharp

When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'

Geno Auriemma

We're 18-2 and it doesn't feel that way. I don't know why. Maybe because you know how many games are really hard to play in and you just keep thinking, 'This is really hard.' If someone figures out what we're not good at, it's good night, Irene.

Gregg Popovich

The pieces have to fit around him. The fortunate thing for us is that it seems that, given enough talent, all pieces fit around Timmy. He figures it out.

Rene Locher

The overall figures are lower-than-expected, not only because of the catastrophe claims, but also because of the reserve additions.

Arthur Smith

Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.

Chogyam Trungpa

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

Don Arnold

When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.

Mark Davies

Shane has resumed light training and hopes to progress this with a view to being included for the Ospreys match.

Uma Bharti

She hopes that she will get support from the BJP. I am supporting her because I don't think that I am separated from BJP.

Paul Nelson

We are going about this in hopes in will identify system problems.

Joe Haldeman

One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.

Melissa Wilson

My hopes right now are to be able to walk again, because you realize how important walking really is to you.

Richard Hills

My hopes for Newcastle are the same as they were before Bath,

Samuel E. Morison

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

Bob Mould

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

David Rockefeller

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

Bruce Smith

We were blazing. Six months after we opened, 9/11 happened.

Alan Trammell

Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.

Gary Griffin

Whether it takes two months or two weeks whatever,

Barbra Streisand

I'm a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can't lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.

Delta Goodrem

If I get a cold, it lasts for a month.

Dianna Agron

There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen.

Shimon Peres

The pope said he will go in the first months of next year.

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Cherry Hill

The prices are like the Energizer Bunny: They just keep going and going up,

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Christopher Murray

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

John Eade

We're probably going to see more weakness in stock prices in the near-term,

Stuart Klaskin

The possibility of a strike exists. There is no question about it. The possibility is distant, but it exists.

Jim Coleman

We started on this about two years ago. There?s no question that this has taken a long time.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Joel Hollander

We're going to take a hit, no question about it.

Michael Vick

We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Craig Fugate

We're going to have every pump, every sandbag out there. The only question is where do we put them.

Robert Shaffer

There are many different types of logging. The question is, how much is enough?

John Grace

Macquarie may have to raise the offer. It's a question of what shareholders want.

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.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.

Jane Austen

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Scott Nelson

Retailers haven't told us they wanted to be down there.

Todd Jones

The teen retailers and some of the specialty retailers were the clear-cut winners.

Michael Beyard

The retailers want to be on the street now.

David Cook

It's time for big-box retailers to start to do the right things by their employees.

John Longworth

As retailers had feared, the spending surge was short-lived.

Shahrukh Khan

I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.