Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bud Selig

Setting the all-time attendance record for a second straight year shows that baseball's popularity is greater than ever, ... We are living in baseball's golden era.

Mitchell Rhodes

Secondly, we expect parents to be in regular attendance in a church to continually influence raising and upbringing of the children,

Rob Valli

One of the things we're trying to do is expand our attendance numbers.

Sylvia Hatchell

None of us get the attendance that we deserve. None of us do.

Lee Maras

Grouping makes tackling things like attendance more manageable.

David Parry

If anything, my high school has even better attendance today than some Mondays.

Charlie Monfort

I would expect to get more because we have the Washington Nationals, instead of the Expos. We paid into it even in years we were losing money because of local (media contracts). But I would much rather be paying money than getting it because that means the team is doing well and the attendance is up. We will get in that position again.

E. Hicks

If we get our attendance up around 3 million, things could change,

Amy Anderson

We rely on the community to come in and support our organization. And when they see the banners not only will they tie it into an event, they'll also tie it into our facility. It will encourage attendance for other things as well.

Richard Greenfield

More than doubling the stock buyback will be encouraging to investors,

Randy Hampton

Now, thanks to Utah, we have 22 moose. With this project we have the potential of doubling that number.

Kurt Eichenwald

The bottom-line message of history is that if you're doubling and tripling your money in record time, you're also more likely to lose it all.

Muffet McGraw

She's such a great scorer. We tried using a box-and-one or doubling her on the wing. I don't think you can guard her straight up. She has so many moves, she's really hard to guard.

Tommy Thompson

The problem keeps getting worse, ... We've seen virtually a doubling in the number of obese persons over the past two decades, and this has profound health implications.

Paul Colton

We tried doubling him but it didn't work. Sometimes he just made a shot with a kid's hand in his face. That was big for them.

Susie Gardner

Our starters, (Kristin) Moore and (Melissa) Hobbs, did an exceptional job doubling the post early, but we didn't maintain it the whole game.

Billy Chiu

Our vision is hopefully to see us doubling our equity every five years, this is something we are trying to target.

James Rubin

I don't think people are talking about doubling or tripling the overall troop contingent, but rather trying to make sure that everybody is doing what they can.

The Talmud

Only a fraction of a man's virtues should be enumerated in his presence

William Shockley

An important fraction of United States industry adheres to the idea that research of a fundamental character is worthwhile from a practical point of view.

Nell Minow

Yes, it's meaningful money, ... But it's still a fraction of what was lost.

Bhagavad Gita

Whatever is endowed with glory, brilliance, and power; know that to be a manifestation of a fraction of My splendor.

Clint Hurdle

Every year you show up here, you at least have a fraction of hope. This year there's a lot more substance to go with that hope. They know (the division) is open. It's time to make a statement on the field.

Paul Wolfowitz

could be hidden in a room a fraction the size of this one.

John Tate

This number is probably just a fraction of what is needed in that marketplace.

Karen Ross

That's just a fraction of the rate we saw in the late 1990s.

Thomas Carlyle

Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name! 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee: out with it, then.

Alan Cohen

God is a frequency. Stay tuned.

Mark Goodman

(We're) as prepared as we should be given the lack of frequency of earthquakes and the lack of intensity of earthquakes.

Dan Sheeran

What you get to in the pretty near future is a mass medium with potentially greater reach and more frequency than other media.

Clarence Otis

People like Smokey Bones, but they don't come with the visit frequency that we would like. We think that a lot of it has to do with a positioning that is more barbecue-centric than it should be.

Kerry Emanuel

Unfortunately, in the issue of the frequency of storms, we're still kind of in the dark. We don't understand that issue very well.

Richard Prum

We had to have some kind of frequency multiplier,

David J. C. MacKay

Fridges can be modified to nudge their internal thermostats up and down just a little in response to the main's frequency in such a way that, without ever jeopardising the temperature of your butter, they tend to take power at times that help the grid.

Michael Ian Black

I take it for what it is, and sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it.

David Griffin

This is a serious occurrence. I'm not trying to down play that, but we're also trying to give you a perspective on the frequency of these activities. Sharks do frequent those areas.

Judy McDermott

More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.

Mamie Gummer

I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

Vinnie Jones

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

Greg Stuart

We actually think the (Internet) penetration in households is higher.

Rainn Wilson

The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

Thomas Sutton

He loved his job. Even after he retired, he kept spreadsheets with all his household bills.

Imelda Staunton

Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

Han Fei

The severe household has no fierce slaves, but it is the affectionate mother.

Beverly Jones

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Deborah Smith

And to improve access to the UK publishing industry - I'm hoping to set up an internship or work experience for someone from a low-income background, as soon as we have the funds. While we don't have the funds, we won't have an intern.

Elbert Hubbard

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

John Hollyer

From one period to the next, investors could see some income swings.

Ed Pastor

To say that I'm enjoying a millionaire's lifestyle-well, I can tell you, I guess a millionaire's income doesn't go very far these days.

David DeLong

Older workers are not as motivated by income but by meaning.

Larry Bloom

I don't know that they want me to get into specific numbers, but he has a yearly income that's substantial.

Tom Golisano

I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much.

Robert Pozen

We need to treat lower income workers a little better in Social Security.

Ludwig von Mises

In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.

Eliot Spitzer

Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels.

Julius Wellhausen

Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Yajur Veda

May all the radiance unify and increase in magnitude.

Kevin Norrish

One question would be whether it would be necessary for an increase in production in order to make up for Nigeria. I have a feeling, they probably view that as a bonus.

Akira Takei

One more rate increase may be enough for the U.S. economy.

Alfred Neuman

Money still talks these days! Trouble is, you have to increase the volume alot!

George Goncalves

Mortgages were super, super rich in February. It made sense for them not to increase their portfolio using mortgages, but they did increase it, and it was mostly floating-rate type products, mortgage-related securities and those kind of asset-backed products.

Masao Nakamura

Next year is going to be the peak year in many different ways. We're seeing a steep increase in 3G users now, so we have to keep the momentum going next year.

Ariel Sharon

make us desperate, to make us lose hope, to make us lose the national vision that leads us.

Rocky Watson

more tips, more leads as this investigation proceeds.

Paige Patterson

Numerous leads have come in from South Florida. We are determining how valid they are and then putting them in priority and pursuing the most important leads first. There have been some real positive tips.

Patrick Valenzuela

She didn't want to switch leads but when she did, she accelerated again.

Vidya Balan

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

Ailyn Perez

Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.

Mike Haley

We don't have any leads that would take us out of this area,

Susanna Moore

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

Graham Smith

People want a say in who leads them.

Mark Krikorian

Low-skilled Americans suffer something like an 8 percent reduction in their wages because of low-skilled immigration.

Mark Geragos

Seventy percent of what's in there is not true.

Mirko Mikelic

Maytag produces 99 percent in the U.S., and they are just not price competitive.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Craig Hansen

I feel like I'm ready. I feel like my game's 100 percent right now.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

David Buck

I would say 99 percent of what's out there on the road right now is not a safety hazard, not an impediment.

Kyle Cavanaugh

I would say 95 percent of the affidavit is fine.

Wallace Wattles

No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.

Dogen

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.

Charles Dickens

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

Carlos Slim

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

Charles Lamb

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Charles Lamb

We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.

Charles Lamb

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

Charles Baudelaire

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Bruce Springsteen

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Adolf Hitler

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Koichi Seki

I think today's rise is no more than a technical bounce.

Ralph Nader

Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.