Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Long

We want to tailor our offense to our personnel. We have good running backs, and we want to feature those guys, as you saw today. I thought those guys stood out. The running backs did a nice job.

Jeremy Paul

The Plummer boys were the only ones who wanted to try and put the team on their backs at that point.

Laurent Gbagbo

The plotters of yesterday, the plotters of today ... they swim in the water and think we don't see their backs but we see them.

Terry Hoeppner

We started the game with two backs in the backfield, ... It was all very subtle changes on the offensive line.

Reno Saccoccia

We sputtered but we didn't turn the ball over. We played about six or seven backs and a lot of lineman. That's what made us sputter on 'O.

JC Chasez

When you talk about *NSYNC or Backstreet Boys - we were like the New Kids, and New Kids were like the Bee Gees. But Girl Radical will be the first ones, and that's a crazy idea. That's what got us so excited.

James Foulsham

We have seen a lot of traders buying on pull backs but then taking small profits as the market recovers rather than sitting on their positions waiting for a big market move.

Dan Cavanaugh

We have some backs that are good runners, but our offensive line is really coming on. That was one of our questions coming into the season, and we've got some guys that are really stepping up.

Ken Hitchcock

We want him to want the puck, to skate with the puck and find people open with the puck. Hopefully, he can do it. He's shown flashes where he takes off and goes, and sometimes he backs off and becomes conservative.

Lisa Gansky

RelayRides and WhipCar, AirBnB, Roomorama and One Fine Stay are all stellar examples of how new, access-based offers entice and provoke insurance companies and banks to re-think risk, value, customers and deal terms.

Maxim Medvedkov

The position on banks and insurance has not changed. We consider their opening as impossible.

Yoshihisa Okamoto

We are possibly facing one of the worst periods, with profit warnings likely to come out some more, and banks and corporations are stepping up unloading of cross-held shares into September,

Rakesh Mohan

We are advising banks to review credit quality and exercise greater control on credit.

Tim Mazanec

There are continued expectations of more Fed rate increases, whereas with other central banks we may only see a one- off move here and there. The reasons to be in the dollar outweigh any other currency.

May Yan

While large banks need to cut network and work forces to enhance efficiency, small city commercial banks may need to expand to increase economy of scale.

Michael Birch

With the miners looking shaky, the temptation is to look elsewhere; either for earnings certainty or for relative underperformance, and the banks have that in spades.

Li Zhi

With the indexes edging up, retail investors will gradually return to trading. Institutions such as insurers, pensions and overseas banks will restore interest in the markets, partly thanks to low pricing and the country's economic boom.

Stuart Eizenstat

We leveraged our relationship with private banks and reached out to Internet service providers to create a low-cost Web site that will enable users to register once and subsequently transact with the government,

Jiang Zemin

The people will always remember him, ... We have 1.2 billion people, but the life of every Chinese person is precious.

Sean Wargo

We are projecting an increase in sales of MP3 players to $4.5 billion in 2006, with 30 percent of all MP3 players sold having video playback capability.

Saparmurat Niyazov

We are prepared to supply 30-40 billion cu m of gas to China.

Shripad Tuljapurkar

We studied different countries around the world that are representative of different situations and took a look at where they'd end up. One thing that happens right away, which nobody seems to have thought of, is that the total global population increases dramatically. From an original projection of 8 billion we end up topping out at 10 to 11 billion. In many countries, this would have an enormous, and not necessarily positive, impact. For example, the idea that China would go from 1.5 to 1.8 billion, just because of this, is a bit frightening.

Bob Gammage

There are businesses in our state that make billions and pay no taxes at all.

Peter Feinstein

We're interested in watching the next phase of high-rise condos going up, and we're interested in seeing how the Stardust comes together with their new $4 billion product. We have cash flow we can sit on while we're watching the market.

Jeff Kinney

We're incredibly excited to welcome the 500 millionth Poptropican into our virtual world. When we started in 2007, we never could have imagined that we'd see a day when half a billion avatars inhabited Poptropica.

Sy Montgomery

We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus.

Byron Dorgan

We spin around the Sun with 6 billion of us and somehow through divine providence we landed right here right now.

Daniel Andrews

We can directly measure water ice, and then we can fly right through the plume.

Chris Stanton

We're going to do some investigating to see if this event was directly related to her employment.

Jerry Wainwright

Shooting percentages can be misleading. Their steals led directly to baskets. I think they've done that all year. They're terrific open-court players.

Jim Carroll

She called me directly and is doing fine. We were glad to see her on TV this morning. She is in good health and we are pleased about that.

Barbara Perry

She completely represents this ideal. Janie has worked tirelessly to make Salisbury a cleaner, greener and better place to live. In fact, much of our community's recent success can be attributed directly to Janie.

Krista Clark

Sheltered Paws has found homes for 12 dogs in the past two months. I directly helped with two. That's kind of how I look at it: If everyone does a little bit, collectively, we can make a big difference.

Rivers Cuomo

Most of the songs I write are just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.

Thomas Perez

When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as a whole.

Frank Torres

Many Spaniards kept journals and pointed out some specific sights directly related to the San Pedro Valley. And the San Pedro River runs right through there. It would only make sense that they would follow the river.

Charles Dickens

I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!

Charles Spurgeon

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

Alan Chambers

And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction. I find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven't encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve. I'm looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.

Alan Chambers

t's really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we're offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life. It's about pursuing a relationship with Christ.

Alan Alda

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

David McCullough

We are all what we are, in large degree, because of others who have helped, coached, taught, counseled, who set a standard by example, who've taken an interest in our interests, opened doors, opened our minds, helped us see, who gave encouragement when we needed it, who reprimanded or prodded when we needed it, and at critical moments, inspired.

David Kim

When the gospel enters our work in a robust way, there's a deep encouragement and renewed sense of purpose that people begin to experience sometimes for the first time.

David Rudisha

My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.

Byron Katie

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

Mayor Barse

We are looking for the removal of radioactive materials instead of sealing it. This is a Vineland issue.

Ken Banks

We'd like to do more of these instead of ships. If people go back to these over time, they'll see them develop.

Ross Levin

We're spooning money into the market now instead of dumping it in.

Martin Brodeur

We're going to shadow a line instead of one player.

Matt Pfau

When we get open, we shoot right away, instead of taking a look at where the goalie is at and placing the ball. (Scoring) is going to come as the season goes.

Melissa Dennett

We would settle and think that it was OK instead of going, going, going.

Kelly Clark

Unfortunately, it went 9 yards instead of 10.

Norma McCorvey

They could have been nice to me instead of treating me like an idiot." ()

Odette Annable

If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.

Robert Whiteley

The perimeter is getting more porous. The no-no is to just invest there.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

David Dreman

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Bernard Baruch

Now is always the hardest time to invest.

Bernard Baruch

In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose

Carol Roth

Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.

Carol Leifer

You can never go wrong betting on Americans' bad eating habits. So I've made a ton investing in all fast food chains, while at the same time investing in Dockers, spandex, Spanx, and sweatpants. Basically, anything with an elastic waistband is a goldmine.

Cherie Blair

All the research shows that investing in women is a good investment

Charlie Melancon

Lack of compliance is hindering the investigation.

Tobias Wolff

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

Lowell Highby

We are looking for more special pictures - ones that would lend themselves to a whole page - of people and unique settings.

Michael Rushford

I can't see in what sense it would lend momentum.

William Ward

The pessimist borrows trouble? the optimist lends encouragement.

Jonathan Safran Foer

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.

Jean Chatzky

Just because someone will lend money to you doesn't mean you should borrow it.

Todd Shaw

We're still negotiating, trying to get lending terms that are favorable. These are very complicated transactions, and when you have to start from scratch, it doesn't get done overnight.

Ronald Jones

The Premier League, for the first time in three years, will have a title sponsor who will also lend support to the senior national team and the U nder-21 team.

Ba Shusong

Raising the lending rate is the first tightening of the controls.

Kemal Dervis

Turkey could not have obtained loans under better conditions.

Ben Bernanke

All the Federal Reserve can do is make loans against collateral.

Jean Chatzky

I've never been a fan of loans between relatives or friends. They can divide relationships.

Mark Milner

These non-traditional loans transfer risk to the borrower.

Scott Hoyt

It just suggests that consumers, particularly lower-end consumers, are going to be more stretched when these loans reset, with potentially negative implications for spending growth.

Clive Sinclair

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

Gary Roberts

Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week,

Romola Garai

There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.

Tony Haffer

For rain fans, it's going to be a nearly perfect day.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Paul Gillmor

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

Thomas Powell

What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.

Mark McKinney

It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off.

Jami Attenberg

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.