Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Polian

We have no details with respect to events surrounding the cause of the cut. As is our policy, our security department will conduct an investigation and report back promptly. As always, we will share the results of that investigation with appropriate league officials.

David Mills

Whenever we talk about the environment, we need to know what we're talking about and not cause people to fear,

John Moffitt

Whenever we'd run into another American, that was always cause for celebration.

Garry Trudeau

When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.

Khalil Gibran

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

Karl Smesko

We were trying to stop the guard penetration and not let them cause problems with the dribble. We also emphasized rebounding, getting on the boards.

Alan Shearer

Andy Carroll will cause anyone problems and I don't see a problem in that

Bjorn Hanson

We've seen ... substantial occupancy increases, which cause developers, lenders and others to have confidence that positive trends will continue.

Brent Wilkes

The fact that Latinos are underrepresented in the service causes us concern because the service is often a way to the middle class for many immigrants. If you don't have a lot of options, would you rather go into the service and get a middle-class career, or stay in the fields all these years?

Carol Moseley Braun

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

Carol Vorderman

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

Carl Andre

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

C. S. Lewis

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

C. S. Lewis

And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going.

Agnes Varda

I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.

Charlie Dent

There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare.

Charles de Lint

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

Charles de Lint

You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.

Joanne Boyle

We have to go with the flow here. We might have to practice early one day this week, kind of prepare them. But the little things like that, you just have to go with.

Peter Jensen

We have to find out if it's exposure to smoking during pregnancy, or early experiences, exposure to lead, these are all potential factors that we have some inkling of, but we don't know how they interact with genetic predispositions,

Peter Gibson

We have no idea of what it might have been at this early stage.

Carlos Guillen

We have pretty good players, All-Stars. We need to stay together. This game is not easy. A lot of teams have been through this, good teams -- the Yankees early in the season. But they find a way to get better, to turn everything the other way. With that kind of team, the big thing is concentration.

Andy Parsons

We have philosophical differences. We think the new products are targeted at early adaptors, focused on performance and not price. This is an elite model.

Steve Sloan

We've started some of the clearing. That's the first big item, and then we'll move toward line construction early this summer.

David Clarke

We've seen over the last 12 months or so people going into deployments. The technology has gone from early adopter to early majority.

Dana Altman

We've won some games we shouldn't. We probably lost some games we should've won. We just need to focus on getting better. If a few weeks down the line we're still in the hunt, we can talk about it later. But it's too early for our team to be talking about anything like that.

Masuhisa Kobayashi

The CPI was higher than expected and is supportive for the BOJ. The markets have already discounted an early end to the quantitative easing policy.

Patricia Russo

We have seen China's economy growing at 8-9% over the past few years and in particular within the telecom industry there has been rapid developments in technology and innovation enhancements,

Doug Porter

We have seen a string of numbers that suggest the U.S. economy is losing some momentum, which really is a perfect environment because it's not as if growth is grinding to a halt.

Avery Shenfeld

Whenever you have a situation where inflation is not a material risk and the economy is underperforming, you should be thinking about a rate cut. There's a potential reward and not much risk.

Susan Hering

The fact of the matter is, the economy moves in strange ways, and politicians move in even stranger ways.

Scott Browne

The problem with the economy right now is insufficient demand, not supply. The meat and potatoes of this plan is supply-side medicine for a demand-side problem.

Gregory Smith

The real estate market has been one of the big successes in the economy for the last 10 years. I think this would help pull the rug out from under it. If it's not broken, don't fix it.

John Challenger

There is a lot of extra fiscal stimulus moving into the economy from the storm relief.

Barry Hyman

The productivity number is key toward determining whether the economy can show some stabilization. We've seen weakening numbers, which hasn't helped, but there is no inflation story to talk about here.

Norihiro Fujito

The outlook for the economy will become a focal point this week.

Diane Swonk

We have seen a softer tone in their write-ups. I think there is a real sense that the Fed is going to stay on the sidelines.

Jason Chaffetz

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

Trevor Hoffman

When your horse is out there and pitches his butt off, my job is to nail it down, ... We would've liked to have fed off Jake's energy. The kid threw the heck out of the ball.

John Shaughnessy

The reality is that if the Fed raises interest rates by a quarter of a point all that's doing is serving to keep inflationary pressures under control.

Stewart Udall

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.

Dan Hopkins

The process will take as much time as the process needs. CDOT officials and federal officials will run the process as they see fit.

Joseph Biden

Ultimately, all the federal government does is not going to be able to get the job done without your aid.

Alex Penelas

We are holding the federal government responsible, and specifically (Attorney General) Janet Reno and the president of the United States, for anything that may occur in this community,

The Weeknd

I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Sue Monk Kidd

I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.

A. S. Byatt

I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.

Tyler Ritter

I grew up in a household that was very close, very open, and always talking about what was going on with each other.

Todrick Hall

I don't know a kid who grew up in the '90s who wasn't obsessed with Disney, and I guess I never grew out of that phase, honestly. It's not just Disney: it's anything that has to do with fairytales for me. I think I just have Peter Pan Syndrome or something.

David Giuntoli

Honestly, I grew up with Disney.

David Guterson

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

Odette Annable

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

Elton John

I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid.

Carlos Ghosn

India is definitely one of the markets where we can expect growth and a potential to do well.

Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.

David Baker

We've seen incredible growth in the past two years.

Ho Chen

The outlook for 2006 is quite robust as we are looking for the growth momentum to be maintained. The main reason for the higher fourth-quarter numbers was the manufacturing sector.

Mitchell Corwin

Walgreen remains on a steady growth path, relatively unabated by industry or competitive threats.

David Rusenko

Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers.

Jane Addams

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Janet Yellen

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

Alan Greenspan

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

Tim Loomis

We wanted to wait until the second half to do what we needed to do to stop him.

Josh Beckett

We've still got little more than half a month to go, probably three-quarters of a month actually. We've got to keep winning. This thing ain't over yet.

Charles Stross

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

Jason Hafner

When you get to state, half of the kids will swim slower than they did at districts, half are going to go faster. It doesn't mean a whole lot what you see on paper.

Bruce Morrow

We used to turn up on the day of the match, meet for half an hour and then go and play,

Tom Hopper

London's so busy, London's manic half the time.

David R. Brower

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

Eugene Fama

People are always saying that prices are too high. When they turn out to be right, we anoint them. When they turn out to be wrong, we ignore them. They are typically right and wrong about half the time.

Jane Austen

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

Stephen Cambone

We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Brad Bradshaw

This Quest represents the largest mid-life investment in Nissan's history. We realized the styling of the Quest was polarizing for some owners.

Bob Wheeler

We're saying, like a lot of communities do, that here's a value to these jobs. It's a wise investment to look at a differing rate structure for industry.

Mike Toohey

We're making a substantial investment into the town of Maggie Valley.

Christopher Hayes

Women's skills and abilities are no different from men's but they put a tremendous pressure on themselves to make perfect investment decisions.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Mahbubur Rahman

Since independence, Japan has been Bangladesh's largest development partner, but private investment from Japan remained at low level in that sense.

Ben Horowitz

Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.

Nick Barnett

We've still got a lot of work to do. We're nowhere near where we need to be.

Kate Micucci

Near the end of high school, I was always super shy, backward.

Bob Stull

We are pleased with our progress, but we are nowhere near where we want to be yet.

Rick Pitino

We've accomplished what we've wanted to accomplish, record-wise. But we're nowhere near where we should be or where we ought to be.

Eddie Jordan

We started as if we were on a qualifying lap, got a puncture near the end but we got it home,

George Hecht

We have a number of people we just dispatched all day long to go to the nearest place where the water is problematic.

Todd Rundgren

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.

Nick Harkaway

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.

Laura Perkovic

We'll be contacting each other by telephone in the near future.

Maggie Gallagher

But the real truth is that it never occurred to me,

Amy Bloom

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Dorothy Hamill

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.

Patrick Michaels

Had this occurred in mid-June to mid-August, it would be much more serious than it is now.

Jennifer Robinson

Our investigations showed that while in past years there were questionable things that occurred ... this is not wide-spread,

Julia Glass

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

Andrew Stuart

It never occurred to me that this was a trick. In this industry, you take somebody at their word.

Matthew Alexy

It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact.

Dr. Fauci

It is unclear whether the mutation occurred in the person or whether it occurred in the chicken.

Nicki Grossman

We have never, ever been 100 percent full. There are always rooms.

Stan Heath

We've seen some zones this year, but Texas-Pan American will play zone about 80 percent of the time.

Greg Sullivan

We've seen discounts up to 50 percent off, but those are not the norm.

Larry Matheis

We've seen a stabilizing of the market. We're not seeing 80 or 100 percent increases.

David Winters

What we do is quite different from 99.9 percent of Wall Street.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Mario Pescante

We are preparing very well but it is not possible to be 100 percent secure.

Don Davis

We usually keep it between 40 to 50 percent relative humidity, and around 65 to 70 degrees.

Martin Pyykkonen

The expectations going into the quarter weren't very high. Overall, it was an in-line quarter with in-line guidance.

John Naveaux

We usually have a quarter where we don't score much. That's been a bugaboo.

John Eaton

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Efraim Zuroff

Up to a quarter of the Latvian legion were volunteers.

John Tyson

We said the second quarter would be very tough, and it was even tougher than we anticipated.

Glenn Reicin

We view this as a relatively uneventful quarter for Abbott.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Chris Perry

We don't know the rates of (reef) growth.

Hugh Godsey

She got some big rebounds and some big shots for us.

Irv DeGraw

With the rebound in the semiconductor industry, we think it'll do pretty well.

Rahshon Clark

We let them get a lot of rebounds that we should have come up with that were real crucial.

Wayne Simien

to rebound and defend. That's what the team needs.

Matt Gibson

We had a team that could have competed in the championship game. But we didn't rebound well enough.

Avery Johnson

He got some big stops and rebounds for us and stopped them from getting some rebounds and that is what he's here for.

Don Bringle

We've got to rebound and become strong. It will take a little time to do that, but we will, and we'll survive that process.

Harry DeFrank

I was worried about the boards. They've got three strong girls, and we had to rebound with them.

Ron Palcic

Rebounding is one of our strengths and we just didn't rebound in the first half. I was upset and we talked about that at halftime.

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.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Carre Otis

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Carol P. Christ

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

Carol Shields

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

C. S. Lewis

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

C. S. Lewis

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

C. S. Lewis

Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.

Agnes Varda

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

Agnes Varda

I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.