Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Navellier

If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn't officially get going until March 2003.

Louis Leakey

Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.

Maury Harris

We are seeing a 'soft landing' rather than a 'hard landing' in consumer spending for a couple of reasons. First, although job growth is slowing, wages are still rising, with average hourly earnings up 0.4% in October. Second, despite recent stock market turmoil, consumer spirits are holding up reasonably well.

H. Hunt

We started the game over-confident, and although we fell behind, I always knew they would pull through.

Thawat Suntrajarn

We believe that the boy contracted the virus from his surroundings because, although his family does not raise chickens, there are chickens raised in his neighborhood.

John Read

We believe that new-year allocations towards commodities will keep platinum and palladium firm in the near term and see platinum at $1,100/oz and palladium at $300/oz over one month, although we suspect that profit taking will set in at some stage and see both metals lower to $1,050/oz and $270/oz in three months.

Jim Bolla

We stood and waited too much instead of stepping toward the ball. We did not shoot well although we got some good looks.

Martin Jacques

Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined to Vietnam.

Latrell Sprewell

Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave.

Chad Adams

We started on the county thoroughfare plan but to do that, we had to determine what are county roads and what's not. This plan will be completed in March and we'll continue to prepare for a future growth.

Boeing Co

We remain confident a deal will be completed in the near future.

Christina Lee

We have completed the assessment, rectification and upgrade of our critical systems and equipment as of June 30, 1999.

Glenn Reyer

We have completed some major work already. We have installed a new elevator, new restrooms, new kitchen, and replaced the heating system. We have a new entrance and a second exit stairway from the second floor, but much remains to be done.

William Williams

Life is valuable -- when completed by the imagination. And then only.

Thomas Vinterberg

I think Dogme was inspiring for quite a few peoples and sort of started a digital movement. Personally, I found it extremely uplifting and fantastic making Dogme movies, but I felt I completed it with 'The Celebration.' I think that was the end of the road on Dogme for me. It was as far as I could go.

Norman Williams

When I look back at that day and think about those heroes on September 11th, 2001.. They fought a tremendous fight and even though they've completed their efforts, their faith will continue to live on.

Frank Kass

We hope to have a deal completed by the end of May.

Terry McDonald

We had a feasibility study into it which was completed about 18 months ago. Since then we've been looking into it.

Steven Wood

Unless there is a quick rebound in sales, this suggests further weakness in production and declines in inventories over the months ahead.

David Healy

With their sharp decline in market share, they have frankly got too much capacity, too many plants, too many people to be profitable in North America.

Orawin Velz

We're expecting a decline in employment because we expect the volume of originations to decline pretty significantly next year -- 20 percent.

George Shiffler

Vendors are likely to see a fundamental shift in the market as they come to grips with the steep decline in mature-market desk-based growth and are forced to seek growth in other market segments.

Carol Dansereau

We're glad that the percentage is lower than the prior year. But our main feeling is that when you have one out of every 10 workers having these significant declines in cholinesterase, you've got a serious problem that needs to be addressed.

Bob Lohn

We are taking the decline of these killer whales seriously and we will work to sustain and support this population.

Daniel Niles

We've seen this how many times already this year -- three? ... A lot of these names could have 50 percent downside from here. Our big issue is, are the sequential declines (in revenue) over? I'd say no.

Jane Houlihan

We've seen lead levels dramatically decline in kids, PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) levels decline, all because of direct government intervention that gets these out of the environment.

Michael Cloherty

There is a lot of following stocks around today. That was the big thing after the huge decline in the European equity markets - there was a lot of nervousness about what would happen in the U.S.

David Cunliffe

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

Herbert A. Simon

I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to the United States in 1903 after earning his engineering diploma at the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt, Germany.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

Bobbi Brown

After I brush on my moisturizer, I'll dip the same brush into foundation and mix it with the lotion to make tinted moisturizer.

David Hockney

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

Judith Kipper

US-Syrian relations are extremely strained. There is virtually no diplomatic discussion between the two.

Joschka Fischer

When I heard that yesterday, I was very diplomatic and didn't pull a face. But in my head you could imagine what I was seeing: I saw people sitting around in dreadlocks with joints in their hands, and reggae music playing in the background.

Jim Harris

On a DIP loan that size, I'm sure that everyone on the planet would be involved,

Harold Nicolson

She proceeds to dip here little fountain-pen filler into pots of oily venom and to squirt this mixture at all her friends.

Alan Moore

I've never really cared much about money. I've got enough to live on. And it's not like I live in a fancy house, it's not like I own a car, and it's not like I ever go on holiday.

Alan Bradley

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

Al Sharpton

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

Caroline Kennedy

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.

Bob Ulrich

We are pleased with our performance during this year's holiday season and remain comfortable with our outlook for the year overall.

Charlie Adam

I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.

Betty Who

I don't think of Home Depot as romantic, but I do think the Christmas wonderland they put up during the holidays is magical. That is what Home Depot is to me, and that is the only romantic thing about it.

Earl Wilson

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

Denis Norden

Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.

Greg Stuart

We actually think the (Internet) penetration in households is higher.

Judy McDermott

More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.

Marty Meehan

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

Patrick J. Kennedy

In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.

Elizabeth Thornton

There are times when we are just not very kind to ourselves. The problem with our negative thoughts is that the latest science has revealed that thoughts are very powerful, even impacting us physically.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

When I'm in London, I get a veggie-box sent up every week, with the latest pickings.

Tony Blair

Though there may be pockets of resistance, the idea that this is some kind of tactical retreat is just the latest Taliban lie. They are in total collapse,

Venus Williams

No, I don't really watch the news. In some ways, I'm very unaware of the latest happenings in the world. I kind of leave it like that because sometimes it's better not to know.

Lawrence Dallaglio

Well, the latest news is that things are going as expected,

Patrick Lawler

What we saw is a modest slowdown in our latest quarterly data, but in the past we've seen slowdowns of this magnitude completely reverse in short order.

David A. R. White

We partner with movies that stand for more than the latest bestseller.

Chris Beard

We're strongly recommending all users upgrade to the latest version.

Chuck D.

We never received the latest version of the principles. I think they were waiting to see if we were still going to participate, which they now know.

Phil Rosenthal

We want to thank all of you for nine wonderful years.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

Carolyn Maloney

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

Arianna Huffington

Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

Booth Tarkington

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

Brian Robertson

Nine times out of ten we find reasons for everything going on that aren't paranormal.

Eddie Perez

Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.

Holly Derrick

She slept for nine solid hours. She was emotionally spent.

Gerald Ryan

She has only been out of a place once in nine starts.

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.

Scott Smith

When you think about it, 'Siskel and Ebert' is reachable by 95 percent of televisions in U.S.,

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent. If he's 100 percent after today, we'll probably let him go at it. But if he's not, then we will wait until Saturday.

Nicki Grossman

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

Heizo Takenaka

Whether we reach 1.7 percent this year does not really have much meaning.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.

Chita Rivera

My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days.

Cathy Guisewite

The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.

Cat Deeley

I don't shop because I need something, I just shop for shopping's sake.

Agnes Repplier

Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

Mark LaNeve

When we are on consumers' shopping lists, we like our chances.

Edgar Guest

I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.

Diane Ackerman

We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer.

Delta Burke

And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing.

Alan Bullock

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

Alain Prost

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Al Seckel

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

David Sedaris

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.

David Sedaris

..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch

David Ginola

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

Dave Barry

Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

Bryant Gumbel

You'll never see me working five days a week again.

Bobby Cannavale

The music I was always attracted to and the shows I was really into like, you know, those weekend Don Kirshner shows, "Midnight Special," those shows, I remember watching those and the music was just on; it was the greatest radio stations.