Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Driscoll

Futures have a little stronger tone to them. You look at the averages and they look like they are approaching some support levels ... And don't throw out the fact that this is traditionally a good time for the markets.

Mack Strong

I don't know where that comes from. You tell me. The guy carries the ball 25 times a game and averages 100 yards a game. I don't think that's soft. Maybe because he does it with a smile.

John Neal

When a team averages 59 points a game, and we give up 91, it's unacceptable. We've got to stop them. We had a lot riding on this game.

Vin Scully

If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

Aaron Hill

Troy Lemay, who is the heart and soul of our team, did an outstanding job of holding Rosso - who averages in the high 20s to only eight points.

Byron Larkin

Xavier's been kind of lucky as far as injuries (over the years). I guess it's the law of averages catching up to them.

Michael Moran

The decline was sharper than expected, but the reading was still respectable and in line with the averages that were in place right before the hurricane hit in late August.

Chris Quinn

Those are the four guys we're counting on to score for us. We're returning four guys with averages in the 70s, and that's key in golf. Definitely, we're going to be counting on those four guys to score for us -- night in and night out.

Douglas Coupland

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

Joe Carson

Low growth in GDP and a decline in productivity -- hours worked rose more than GDP -- implies margin compression and a sequential decline in operating profits.

Eiji Dohke

Many investors did not expect that yields would decline from the start of the year. They rather not to have a 1.4 percent coupon the new debt.

Stephen Kinzer

Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.

Mark Fields

So far this year, our U.S. share decline has been half of what it was a year ago. That means we're making progress on slowing the rate of decline, which is the first step toward stabilizing it over time.

Michael Lewis

One reason we've seen a decline in the past few years is that going to the movies isn't as special as it used to be. People have big screens and good sound at home. Why would they leave if you don't offer more than that?

Janet Jacobs

One reason we're talking about it now is that we've seen a decline in foot traffic downtown.

Andy Whitaker

One month of information really isn't helpful but, yes, there was a decline in February.

Holger Schmieding

French unemployment is stabilizing. We see further declines in the jobless rate.

Samuel Bodman

I would expect there to be some decline in price but that is a function of the marketplace,

Jose Cano

Makes me nervous. I want him to get a hit right now. I don't want him to go down. I want him to stay here forever.

Retief Goosen

Luckily, it doesn't really hurt me when I hit the ball. I know it's there, but it's nothing serious.

Larry Gispert

Life could be very, very different if we get hit by a major hurricane.

Bob Murphrey

Leon and James hit some big shots ? they did what they are supposed to do.

Yvette Girouard

Leslie Klein hit her first home run in two years. She looks like she's back and she loves softball.

Curt Schilling

Seven of the 11 hits were on fastballs,

John Major

September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale.

Jim Lushine

Mother nature still has us in its sights. I hope it just wings us rather than hitting us in the gut.

Dan Gandin

McArdle hit some big shots for us in that first half. He really kept us in the game.

Robin Kramer

Several major police incidents were not in any 100-day plan. Hurricane Katrina wasn't in any 100-day plan. The DWP power outage was not in any 100-day plan.

Dave Barry

one of South Florida's most vital natural resources, a relentlessly sane voice in a howling hurricane of hypocrisy, hokum and hype.

Robert Twilley

New Orleans won't be safe from another storm like Katrina until we restore this hurricane buffer.

Gene Edwards

If a hurricane starts barreling down on one of our refiners, we have procedures in place, ... and if it looks like we will have a big power failure, we will shut down the refineries.

Matt King

One of the recommendations is you may need to water the trees more after a storm or hurricane for quite a while until it's able to put new roots out.

Kerry Emanuel

I was skeptical that the increase (in hurricane intensity) would be sufficient to observe by now ... (but) the increase has been much more than we would have guessed.

Rob Young

I have been doing hurricane research for the better part of 20 years now, and there was nothing unusual to me about any of the satellite imagery of Katrina, ... It's laughable to think it could have been manmade.

Peter May

The political reality is that seismic safety, like hurricane protection, is not a mass politics issue,

Michael Olivier

Unless you're shooting a film called Hurricane , you won't want to come to New Orleans, but we have 54 other parishes.

Italo Calvino

I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

Italo Calvino

I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.

Denny Leathers

Lucas did a nice job. He started out not looking so good, but got stronger and stronger. He got most of his strikeouts late in the game.

Michael Long

Macquarie is stalling for time. There's always the opportunity to raise the offer later on.

Angel Guzman

Let's see what happens. Everything is on standby. It's about showing them we are ready -- no matter if it's now, later this season or next year.

Mats Sundin

Milestones you look back on later in your career,

Tad Hutcheson

Maybe we can make it work later on.

Wayne Wonder

My first time in the studio was in '85 but I didn't actually record in '85. I started recording the right way in the late part of '87-'88.

James Corden

No one could have predicted on day one of rehearsals, that a year and a half later we would have shot a film and all be living in New York. It was surreal.

Charles Spurgeon

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

Dennis Prager

All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.

Dennis Haysbert

I knew that they were going to be reading actors for Manute, and I wanted to give it a shot. I wanted a shot to do it, and they embraced that and said, "All right, come on in. Let's see what you've got." So, I went in, and the rest is history. It felt good when I went into the office, and it just worked.

Deborah Smith

I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.

Elbert Hubbard

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Eleanor Roosevelt

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

Elizabeth Drew

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Bibesco

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

Proverb

The sharper is the berry, the sweeter is the wine