Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Maurstad

Rebuilding stronger and safer and more flood-resistant is a wise investment of tax dollars. There recently has been an independent study by the Mitigation Hazard Council that has indicated that each dollar spent on disaster mitigation saves society on the average of $4.

Mark Twain

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain

Jeff Sherman

Parlay cards had a good handle and average win, while props did very well. It just took a while to grade them.

Mark Shapiro

Paul had an average fastball and average curve. He was going to pitch in the major leagues, but there was nothing that would particularly distinguish him from lots of other guys.

Mark Hyman

Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.

Mike Gundy

Our offense has been very average and by rotating quarterbacks, we couldn't ever get into synch.

Al Way

Our offensive linemen have decent size. The 2000 state championship team averaged 260 pounds up front. We're pretty close to that average (257 pounds) this year.

Cary Thompson

Our offensive average went up after losing our career leading scorer, and our steals went up by 64 this year. We accomplished a lot out of the change in style.

Dave Esquer

Our middle of the lineup and our average with runners in scoring position just haven't been that good. We haven't given our pitching staff any margin for error yet, and that's been a little frustrating.

Paul O'Sullivan

Our mobile customer numbers showed strong growth, despite the market getting closer to saturation and experiencing strong price competition with capped plans.

Gary Fish

Our philosophy is to select best-of-breed products and work with only one vendor. That way, we develop a deeper level of expertise about the products and a closer relationship with the suppliers.

John Tumazos

Our revision does not guarantee that the copper market moves to surplus, but it does suggest the market is coming closer into balance.

Kathleen Sinram

Our goal is every time to get one step further in the counties. Every year get one step closer to a county championship.

David Jarolim

Our goal has to be to be champions. We're closer to Bayern now than we've ever been.

David Gibb

Our corners were way too soft early on. I don't know why. I don't know if they were just intimidated by (Johnson) or intimidated by the speed. You know, we started two guys who hadn't started before and they were giving way too much cushion. So we locked down and got closer up on (Tech's receivers) and it seemed to be effective. It just was too little, too late.

David Gibb

Our corners were way too soft early on. I don't know why, ... I don't know if they were just intimidated by (Johnson) or intimidated by the speed. You know, we started two guys who hadn't started before and they were giving way too much cushion. So we locked down and got closer up on (Tech's receivers) and it seemed to be effective. It just was too little, too late.

Bob Dyce

Overall I would say pretty good, probably better than last year. It's closer to 2004, but maybe even a little better than that.

Tracy Archuleta

Our closer coming out and giving us eight good innings ... Todd Lorenz did a great job.

David Joy

Part of the reason we see inflation rising next year is the dollar. Clearly, there is upward pressure on prices because of the falling dollar.

Frank Mauro

People in the middle are sort of treading water. People at the lower end are still falling behind.

John Davidson

Some of that risk has been taken off the table. That can be seen in the falling price of oil and a rise in equities.

Rory Robertson

Rising oil prices are quite unhelpful, and falling prices are quite helpful in terms of giving stimulus to the economy. Lower prices feed through pretty well to everyone immediately.

Cecelia Ahern

Moments are precious, sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeing, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change a mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love.

Cecelia Ahern

Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.

Carrie Fisher

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Carrie Fisher

I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture.

Carrie Fisher

I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.

Source Unknown

There is no better way to spend a gloomy day, then to sleep it all away

John McLean

We don't have any power so we?re using headlights, but actually it has a nice gloomy feel to it.

Michael Leunig

All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on a bad, gloomy planet, to be colourful and creative seems so promising.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

Charlie Sexton

Ever wanting. Ever longing. Never-ending blue, ... So I'll take the inspiration with the gloom because usually where there's a tear, there's a tune.

Karl Philipp Moritz

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

Kazunori Jinnai

As long as Prime Minister Mori insists on staying, a gloomy mood will linger.

Bruce Buchanan

It's not inevitable that he will stand in gloom forever.

Clare Short

I am very gloomy about the Middle East.

Steve Ross

I think they said they were looking to read the law more aggressively than it has ever been read before. It was a mistake for them to pursue this matter. They ignored the original intent of the statute.

Rivers Cuomo

I always loved the 'L.A. Weekly.' I totally looked up to it when Weezer was starting out, and I always wanted to be in it, and they always totally ignored us!

Joe Schwarzer

Mitchell was a tireless promoter of airspace, but he ignored military protocol,

Bonnie Raitt

People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

Agatha Christie

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Clive Sinclair

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

Patterson Hood

Most everything on it is real new. Lord knows I've got a backlog of songs, but when we went into the studio I pretty much ignored it. Everything else we've written since we started recording.

Peter Schuyler

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?

Alexa Von Tobel

Money shouldn't be worshiped and it shouldn't be ignored.

Craig Bradley

Parking here is worse than on many other large campuses.

Tom Daschle

That cozy, permissive relationship has to end, and he in large measure has orchestrated that over he last 18 months,

Jeff Davis

Our players, because they travel a lot, are not shocked at tournament time playing away from home. The larger leagues that play between themselves are surprised come tournament time because they're seeing pitchers they've never seen before.

Hans Vestberg

Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.

Danny Shader

Overall, the situation is going nuts. We are getting a very large number of inquiries.

William Diamond

Our upholsterer teased us about the scale of the sofa. He says it's the largest sofa that he has ever made.

Sam Moore

Remember, I'm your largest shareholder. Don't screw it up,

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Mike Chung

Large trucks have been so much more inexpensive recently.

Patsy Crisel

(Relay) is important because the money raised stays here.

Tom Lewis

Our political system has become more about money than it has about people,

Phil Hardberger

or at least give us the money to do it.

Jay Johnson

People laugh, but we have to move money around occasionally.

Deborah Voso

People often underestimate how much money it takes to live in retirement.

Nancy Bain

Surveyors could make some money on this one.

Peter Schiff

Some of the smaller stocks have been moving, but the big stocks are going to take real money to move.

Francis Maude

Some of that money may well have been from overseas sources.

John Nicholson

Our staff needs raises; we need roads, parks, all the things that this money can provide,

W. Clement Stone

Stand up. Raise your arms. Repeat after me: I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!

Mike Bianco

Right now, sugar is not so sweet. Everybody's raised their prices.

Ron Gardenhire

That was (coach Paul) Molitor yelling at the umpire, not me. I just raised and said, 'What?' and he told me to get out of here.

David Gregory

I will yell. If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don't appreciate, then I will raise my voice, because that's wrong.

Jim McFarland

I think if we raise (tuition) $2, we need to use it for specific reasons.

George Montgomery

I think this type development raises the status of the county.

Jessica Stroup

I'm such a tomboy - I was raised in the South - and I also really wanted to work in New York, being so different from California, though it was a freezing-cold winter.

Robert Rennie

I'd be surprised if the BOJ raises rates at all this year and that is something that will tend to see the yen underperforming.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He used to raise a storm in a teapot.

Dieter Zetsche

I feel it is correct to publish the salaries.

Richard Bayer

Whoever mentions salary first is in the weaker position.

Breaux Greer

Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.

Gene Tierney

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

Donna Morelle

This is about positional adjustments so the salary scale is competitive.

Jerry Buss

Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention.

Howard Stern

I don't talk about my salary.

Joe DiMaggio

If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I'd have to say, 'George, you and I are about to become partners.'

P. T. Barnum

A salary was not sufficient for me.

John Barrett

That's usually the consumer's way of saying they're not interested.

Scott Simms

I think this is what we expected, ultimately. We didn't do anything wrong -- that's what we've been saying all along.

Frank MacKay

It doesn't have any basis. It's like me saying they're Martians; it's silly.

Hal McManus

I'm so tired of saying 'box out' that I'm sick of it. I think I say 'box out' in my sleep.

Herman Edwards

I don't even know, ... I'm not trying to start a quarterback controversy and say who the quarterback is. Anything is possible. But I'm not saying we're switching, I'm not saying that.

M. Wolfe

I was like 'Why am I saying not guilty?' ... I thought I had to or something. It was the wrong decision.

Earl Hamner

I can't get used to saying the words, 'my biographer,'

Joe Wooden

Just like the old saying goes, "Vasser's boon-doggling again.

Richie Benaud

If it was me, I probably wouldn't be saying anything.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes

Cecil Beaton

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

Carl Sagan

I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.

Carl Sagan

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

Author unknown

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you!

Anton LaVey

I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses.

Ayn Rand

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.

Cameron Crowe

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.