Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Davis

Recent economic data gives us confidence that corporate spending is coming back to life, so I'm hoping sales could be above $5 billion. That would set a strong tone for the rest of the year,

Matthew Dowd

President Bush maintains an approval on the economy in the mid-forties -- exactly what Clinton had at the end of 1995 and above what Reagan had in 1983.

Shen Haihua

Prices above 50,000 yuan will have some negative impact on demand, but in this bull market consumers may be forced to accept these levels.

Andrew Kerr

Our re-analysis revealed that the distance of a village from the coast and the height of the village above sea level explained 87 percent of the variation in mortality among villages.

Ron James

Particularly defensively, we're starting to come into our own. In an Arena Football League game, when you're getting above four stops, you should be able to win every one of those games going away, and we did.

Tony Crescenzi

Parry's comments hint that the Fed still views the neutral level of the federal-funds rate to be approximately two percentage points above the inflation rate,

George Nathan

Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Grant Wistrom

Our new guys have come in and believed that they belonged from the first day. They practice like it and then they go out there on Sunday and show it. Without those guys, we are an average football team, a little above .500. I think we owe them a lot.

E. Hurley

Our message between zero and .08 is a responsibility message. The message of .08 and above is an illegal message.

Steven Aftergood

I think there will be problems and cases where employees are tripped up by the tests, ... But the bureau as a whole will adapt.

Jim Hall

It is only prudent for the NTSB to consult with these experts and officials to fully evaluate this information prior to any final decision on whether the responsibility for this investigation should transfer to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Muhammad Ali

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.

Don Davidson

Bureau Valley played hard, and so did we. We just turned it over too many times at the end.

Ellen Sauerbrey

I have a very deep commitment to the fundamental work of this bureau protecting vulnerable people,

Robert Pitofsky

I don't want the Federal Trade Commission to be the thought police, ... I don't want a bureaucrat like me influencing the content of these materials. But, rather, we need to influence the way these materials are marketed.

Warren Riley

We're happy our efforts with the Criminal Intelligence Bureau are paying off.

Gerry Spence

Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

Barack Obama

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

George Simpson

Such gradual transformation is also fairly well exemplified for subfamilies and occasionally for families, as the groups are commonly ranked.

Jose Andres Puerta

Pimenton gets its intense flavor because it is dried over wood smoke. You can try hot, sweet or bittersweet, though sweet is probably the most commonly used.

Doug McBride

Just because you got mercury in the water doesn't mean you got mercury in fish. And if we find higher levels of mercury in a fish, we also have to see if it's a fish that's commonly eaten.

Sam Perkins

Massachusetts pharmacies are required to stock all medications that are commonly prescribed to meet the usual needs of the community.

Janet Yellen

Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energy prices - which enter into total inflation - and movements in the prices of other goods and services - that is, core inflation.

Gerard Burg

Natural gas production in the U.S is still not back up to 100 percent, and gas is the most commonly used heating fuel in the U.S,

John Wycliffe

It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

Ron Pernick

Solar stocks as a group are probably up 4 to 6 times more than most of the commonly followed indices.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

Steve Bridges

Most produce travels 1,500 miles from the farm to the consumer.

Patrick Sullivan

It is a setback to a lot of farmers, ... but farmers in Mississippi are very resilient. They'll be back.

Mark Toigo

I think there needs to be subsidies in place to make sure growers can farm successfully.

Kevin Moore

Just an old-fashioned demonstration. How farming used to be.

Allen Baker

That was great. I didn't quite know what was going on. I thought there was going to be some sort of FFA (Future Farmers of America) show on the soccer field.

Bill Grant

That was what the farmers thought the state could do that would help them the most, ... It seemed reasonable to me.

Ron Heck

It is hard to write the perfect farm bill.

George Toups

I think gradually, with the procurement of grants, we might be able to restore some of the farm back to the way it should be.

Ronald Dawson

Just like Santa Claus, a farmer works all year on a commodity, and at the end of the year he gives it all away.

Karen Zager

Relationships, career, aging, empty-nest syndrome, health and, most importantly, money issues.

Jennifer Williams

Oral health is just as important as getting a regular physical. It's not just about getting a cavity filled, it's about the overall health of the individual.

Stephen Horn

Other than New York City, these local housing authorities had no plan to warn their tenants of the potential risk to their health and safety.

Joe Battipaglia

Picking your own stocks is like trying to diagnose your health yourself.

Ron Pollack

People who need healthcare the most, those with serious health conditions, with illnesses and disabilities are going to be potentially harmed in a very significant way by this proposal.

Bill Cosby

I'm not the healthiest, but I am healthy. I'm healthy to the point where there are things that I have to eat that I don't want to eat, but I eat it because I'm enjoying staying alive.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.

Carl Rogers

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

Ashley Tisdale

I love pancakes, and I actually do love healthy stuff. Like, I love gluten-free or whole-wheat pancakes. Breakfast is my favorite meal.

Arlen Specter

Regrettably, you need homeland security, and I think you are going to need it if not forever, for the foreseeable future,

Kenny MacAskill

Our message to the Scottish Diaspora this New Year should be to come home to Scotland.

Francis Thompson

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet./ And all the things are made young with young desires.

Judah Friedlander

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.

Mike Rogers

Some of those old homes made it through a lot of hurricanes,

Bill Henderson

Someone from home will be praying for you,

James Augustine

That'd be the best. To do it at home on Senior Night, to do it with Dee. It would be a special night.

Taylor Twellman

Our first home match is going to be difficult, and we know that better than anybody,

Nick Russo

Residents of these temporary homes need to practice safety first at all times.

Robert Sinclair

Our members are screaming. People are wondering where it's going to go and, of course, we can't tell them.

Dan Scott

Our members are hopped up and very angry.

Roger Toussaint

Our members will stand together and stand firm, and make sure the organization is not broken.

Steve MacFarlane

Our members know that working for Northwest Airlines, they have to have a strike fund.

Travis Barker

Right now, one of our members needs time off, so we're granting him that,

John Thain

pleased with the resolution of this litigation, which allows our members to vote as planned on the proposed merger on Dec. 6.

Bertrand Russell

Is the set of all sets which are not members of themselves a member of itself?

Niranjan Shah

It is nothing. If some members (of the board) want to speak to the press about it, we can't do anything.

Lambis Nikolaou

I was the only one of the 104 members who did not vote.

Thomas Sugrue

The $5 minimum wage was a moment of real innovation.

Tim Barrett

Some monthly minimum payments could be twice what they were.

Rep. Lawlor

Most people who are sex offenders plea bargain, often because the victims themselves don't want to testify. If the minimum sentence is 25 years, no one would ever plead to a sex offense.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.

Jan Johnson

We have minimum wage laws. Do we need more social engineering? ... I say no.

Ray Williams

We'll be out of power, they said, minimum a month,

David Byrne

We can say we're trying to reduce the risk to the minimum but there is no such thing as risk-free,

Kevin Knox

We're going to see 4.6GB be a minimum for around six months or so. Then we'll move quickly to 6.4GB.

Aaron Rodgers

There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.

Audrey Singer

Paying for it now is going to pay off later.

Ryan Holmes

Payfirma has revolutionized the payment process, consolidating mobile, e-commerce and in-store payments under a single solution, much like HootSuite did for social media.

Michael Griffin

pay as you go and what you can afford.

Juergen Peters

Pay talks have now become a pay-related workers' movement.

Reuben Brewer

People need to be careful. See what you're paying for the perk.

Phil Angelides

People making under $100,000 are going to be paying more,

Bob Cummins

Our products are not cheap. But people are willing to pay for our products because they know they're getting quality.

Danny Dotson

Overall, I thought the report was positive. I did think there were some misconceptions. Hispanics do pay taxes. If they are paying rent, they are paying property taxes indirectly.

Rafael Benitez

We never wanted to pay more for a player than his value,

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Fred Becker

I think it's always important to think about what the other side is going to do before you do something or how the other side is going to react, and he will be able to provide that to our thought process.

Amy Gabriel

We have to be able to provide these services.

Andrew Krepinevich

If they're not ready to provide security, there could be a regression.

Gary Bartlett

If they provide some information, they may not have to come.

Andy Brandt

If we can go out and provide a spark for our team, then we feel like we're doing on our job.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Carl Sagan

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

Bill Bryson

I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.

Bill Bryson

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

Bill Bryson

Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

Bill Bryson

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...

Bill Bryson

I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

Bill Bryson

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

Bill Shorten

Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.

Christopher Cox

It is about wage clarity, not wage controls.

Ed Pastor

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

Nancy Pelosi

Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

Mike Rowe

We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.

Jared Bernstein

We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.

Thomas Perez

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.

Susan B. Anthony

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

David Ricardo

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.