Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Tagliabue

We have to have a sober assessment of what kind of rebuilding and defending new investment of the Superdome if any makes sense. These are all complicated decisions.

Fidel Castro

We have no objections at all to the three officials visiting us, to know their assessment and exchange views on these matters, ... We won't close the door.

Lowell Singer

We use the Hollywood Stock Exchange to assess what market expectations are for a film.

Charles Hasse

We know going into it that the WASL is not an appropriate assessment for some students, so to require them to take it is poor professional practice.

Andrew Walpole

We are hoping he will play the first test. We'll assess the situation at the end of the tour match.

Jan Egeland

Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need.

Jane Smiley

Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.

Liz Boyd

The potential impact to Michigan can be huge. Like everyone else, we are keeping a close eye on the unfolding situation and trying to assess how large the impact may be.

Anita Foster

We are going to start damage assessment this morning and decide how to help families determine whether it's safe to go back home.

Li Zhaoxing

We want peaceful development, ... Stability and security of one country cannot be built on turbulence or crisis of another.

Richard Cross

The problem with Sarbanes-Oxley is that it means 20 different things to 10 different people. There's a tremendous wealth of folklore that has been built up around it in the IT sector. A lot of people are trying to push us into spending money on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, but I trust our auditors.

Robert Talbut

There is a lot of good news built into equities ... they have had a good run.

George Maloof

The Palms set the standard for themed hotel rooms by creating the world-famous Real World Suite, ... With our expansion, we will design some of the most extraordinary and unique luxury suites ever built in the world.

Stefan Sagmeister

In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and I'm never going to break the world record for the five miles. It's partly genetics; I'm just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?

Gary Shapiro

The products have pretty much converged together. You are seeing simplicity built more into computers, and more memory built in TVs -- so that the clean division between the two doesn't exist anymore.

Michael Moore

The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.

Texas Battle

What interested me in doing 'Dragonball' was that it's a huge comic book series that has built a great fan base, and it's a great action movie!

Thomas Heatherwick

As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when it was first being built. But I couldn't find anything for me. There seemed to be despair at the possibility of the built environment possessing any imagination in the real world.

Donald Trump

We have a special site, a special location. We have a neighborhood that at first was concerned but now has embraced us for the most part.

Todd Jaeger

We have some chain-link fences that are kind of high in back of the high school and we're concerned about kids getting hurt, so it's kind of a double-edged sword there.

Charlie Haden

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

Navtej Sarna

We have received this offer and it will be examined in consultation with the concerned authority.

Bubba Franks

We know we're not that far out of it, but all we're concerned with is winning games. And that's going to happen one game at a time,

Rick Carlisle

We know he's going to play because he plays, but we're concerned about it because it is his shooting hand.

John Street

very concerned that all of his years of public service are going to be compromised by the current situation.

Jack Straw

very concerned indeed about the human rights situation.

Steny Hoyer

very concerned by OPM's announcement tonight of a significant increase in health insurance premium costs.

Charles Dickens

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

John McCarthy

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

William Shakespeare

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

Gretchen Rubin

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

Edmund Burke

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

Juvenal

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

Kate Smith

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

Camille Paglia

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Bob Beauprez

Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

Cathy Hay

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

Mark Richt

We're just trying to get better down there, ... We just need to get more (touchdowns). We're not going to get a touchdown every time, but we need to get a higher percentage of them.

Charles Holliday

Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

Donald Selkin

This was a strange day, but overall it was OK. All other things being equal, we should open higher tomorrow.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Brian Ellis

We have improved every game. Now we probably need to take another step higher to play with Herkimer.

Jane Reynolds

We have higher standards for teachers. We should have higher standards for teachers.

Carlos Mesa

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Mark Regev

We have never said more than we have said in the case. This issue has been solved in a satisfactory way with the New Zealand government.

Karen Dinkins

We have much different issues than the teachers. Just because the teachers go thus and so, it doesn't mean that's right for our members.

Ann Brackbill

We want interoperable systems and that's going to happen. The issue is how we will work together. Without the right coordination, privacy will be at risk in our view.

Alan Lowenthal

Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener.

Charlie Crist

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

Charles W. Pickering

Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

David Nabarro

The real issue will be how the money is going to be managed and how we are going to coordinate.

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.

Larry Goldstein

The one thing the market doesn't have is time and the administration reacted expeditiously this time. This was good.

Joe Veltri

We know how important the truck market is.

Sue Schneider

Ultimately, it will be legal, here, but how long it takes is uncertain. This is where the market is.

Alan Moore

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

Al Ries

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.

Al Ries

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

Al Ries

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

Akio Morita

All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

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.

Richard Herring

We have seen a lot of momentum buying,

Charlotte Bronte

Who has words at the right moment?

Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

David Shields

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

Byron Katie

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

Bryan Ferry

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

Edward M. Purcell

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

Jane Austen

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

Jane Austen

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

Chad Whitworth

We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute.

Alan Kulwicki

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Michael Robinson

The process has been enjoyable, but at the same time, there is so much uncertainty. One day people are telling you you'll go in the second round. Next day people will say second day.

Ricky Gervais

The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Bram Cohen

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.

Djuna Barnes

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

Dhani Jones

Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.

Richard Hartley

We have to have a plan in place to know what we're going to do in 2006-2007.

Joe Dumars

We have no plans to do anything with Derrick at the moment.

Charles de Lint

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

Mullah Dadullah

We have plans for more of the same.

Ricky Gervais

I never had a plan. I just sort of ambled along, doing exactly what I wanted every day of my life.

John Devine

very challenging, but we plan to get it done.

Dianna Agron

My back-up plan is always to take a trip. That's never a bad option. That's always a good option.

David Morrissey

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

Jane Bryant Quinn

hindsight is not a strategy.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

Frank Vargo

We've seen this movie before. What Treasury is saying is pretty much of a rerun of what it said back in May.

Anna Kendrick

The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not.

Jane Austen

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

Chad Caldwell

We're saying (this) is a lockout because of retaliation over that no-layoff arbitration that we won.

Richard Cate

We're saying if you've demonstrated success, you don't have to do as much paperwork.

Bruce Larner

We've tried to tone it down as much as possible. But every time you turn around, someone's saying something else about it.

Daniel Handler

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.

Raymond James

What they're saying is the conventional firms are waiting too long,

Brett Favre

We have to get something going and have a short time to get there, ... I couldn't go out like that. If you're going to go back in, do something good.

Charles Spurgeon

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Frank Robinson

We did have it, ... for a short while.

Alan Watts

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...

Mark Cuban

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

Charles Hazlewood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Demetri Martin

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

Billy Bob Thornton

You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.

Bradford Smith

Ultimately, it comes down to supply and demand.

Mike Johnston

Obviously, more supply is going to hurt, because the occupancies are still not to 1999-2000 levels.

Tom Crosby

There is some supply available; it is limited.

Tim Ryan

We need to be able to at the very least supply our own military.

Craig Bruce

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

Derrick Johnson

If they are any discrepancies, we want to make sure that if there are individuals in need that we supply as much support as possible,

Aaron Williams

Our water supply is very important to us.

Tom Fitzpatrick

It always comes down to supply and demand,

Ben Bernanke

Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.

Carlos Ghosn

We are facing extreme volatility.

Chris McGill

The volatility we see in the marketplace is going to continue,

Peter Cardillo

A lot of this volatility has to be attributed to the triple-witching.

Joe Riley

We're going to try it for two weeks to see if it works.

Annika Sorenstam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.

John Batina

We've been doing that for two weeks now.

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.