Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Kessler

Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.

Manmohan Singh

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.

Frank Ostini

Life is very good. We've been blessed. It was a one in a billion chance of this happening to us and we were lucky that it did.

William Lerach

Let's be direct here. These books were cooked by Lay and the other top executives who put hundreds of millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees of Enron were victimized and hundreds of thousands of other investors lost billions of dollars.

Tom DeLay

Make no mistake, this $10.5 billion is initial relief,

Vince Sollitto

Let's realize how far this governor has come and give credit where credit's due. The governor has taken the deficit from $16 billion down to $4 billion and that's a tremendous accomplishment.

Hector Flores

Let these people get their education. Don't criminalize them. They pay taxes, and they contribute billions to the economy.

James Williams

Lower withdrawals than most estimates -- at 20 billion cubic feet -- are bearish for gas, but the concern about the Nigerian supply of crude and the reaction to the Iranian situation could result in crude giving gas some support.

Ram Kolluri

SDL is a component supplier. They supply a lot of materials to Nortel Networks and they're a nice story in the optical fiber equipment, ... ... optical fiber investments will raise from 3 billion in 1999 to approximately 15 billion in 2003. Globally the demand is going to be $40 billion for year 2003. And these are the people who are going to supply all the equipment.

Michelle Malkin

Low point of the address: Maybe it's just me, but isn't there something tacky about having the leader of the free world reading a phone number from the teleprompter? Also, it's been three weeks and they're only now publicizing a number for Katrina families looking for missing relatives? Nowpublic.com and countless other sites like it were up and running by 9am on Aug. 30. Just saying...

Kyrie Irving

I've worked countless hours in the gym, so I feel like I'm already prepared for the game. So when I'm listening to music pregame, it's really just about personal enjoyment.

James Snyder

I'm an actor, and I think some of us who are drawn to this work know what it is to desperately want to be loved and validated: to be good at something and not be able to do it; to come in second on countless projects; or told that you were the first choice, but the part went to that guy who had that TV show in the '90s.

Wilson Mizner

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Jami Attenberg

I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn't even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts to agents.

Geoffrey Fisher

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

Howard Graham Buffett

I have spent more than a decade trying to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable people on earth, and they've taught me countless lessons.

Paul Bloom

Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.

Jason Silva

We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds, it leads.' But we've always been afraid of new technologies in spite of the fact that they've helped improve our lives in countless ways.

Tom Wolfe

I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the effect... of a skipped beat. It seemed to me the mind reacted - first!... in dots, dashes, and exclamation points, then rationalized, drew up a brief, with periods.

Sigmar Polke

I love all dots. I am married to many of them. I want all dots to be happy. Dots are my brothers. I am a dot myself.

Ben Casnocha

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

Damon Lindelof

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

David Byrne

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

Jeffrey Gruen

There are a lot of dots to connect. This is a first report.

Shelley Hearne

The reality is that if a pandemic hits, it's not just a health emergency. It's the big one. It requires big thinking to make sure all those dots are connected. Katrina was a wake-up call.

I. Stone

The scattered red dots on the map are vernal pools, which are home to salamanders, amphibians, and other important resources.

Jason Schwartzman

In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots

Albert Schweitzer

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Don Brownlee

Life is fairly easy to create, but I think planets like Earth are going to be rare.

Jim Morrow

Maharishi said that when 1 percent of the population meditates, the earth yields up its treasures,

E. Housman

Made of earth and sea / His overcoat for ever, / And wears the turning globe.

Khalil Gibran

Let the earth take that which is hers; for I, man, have no end

William Cullen Bryant

Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away

Bible Bible

Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

Brian Randle

Last year's team was special, but I think we are, too. I'm down to earth and I'm going to tell it to you straight: I think we can do great things.

John Mitchell

So many issues are addressed through local, organized farming. It made sense to do it on Earth Day.

Isla Fisher

Women one hundred percent support each other in the movie industry.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

Kimberly Nelson

One hundred percent will still be reported under the change. All we lose is some of the details.

Joe Horn

One hundred and 55 percent, definitely, ... Unless something ungodly happens.

Kevin Kwan

I go to Shenzhen, China, and am taken to a vast luxury spa with a hundred leather recliners and a hundred accompanying plasma screen televisions bolted to the ceiling.

Trey Anastasio

We're never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever!

Louis XIV

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

Stephen Colbert

I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.

Warren Ellis

I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.

Donald Trump

Let's see how Buchanan does and then maybe we'll step in,

Michael Schaffer

Maybe you need to look at your student evaluations.

George H. W. Bush

Maybe you know something I don't know. I've been working,

Larry Brown

Maybe when you play Miami, you need 36 fouls in the middle; I don't know,

Chris Shelton

Maybe when the season is over, I can realize what I did to start the season and that I did something special. Right now, it's about getting some wins.

Evan Needham

Maybe when I'm not playing well I can get sick of golf. But then I get back into it again.

Donald Lowe

Maybe what we'll find is that you really need a combination of two tests, again, because not one test does everything for everybody.

Sam Singer

Maybe we should trade in our supervisor for somebody up in Seattle.

Brian Urlacher

Maybe we shouldn't get a bye week anymore.

Deke Thompson

Senior night is great, but I want to go dancing.

Unknown

May you live each day like your last, and live each night like your first.

Patricia Smith

One night she went to the restroom, and when I woke up she was walking into the wall. She couldn't find her place on the floor.

Barbara Turner

Obviously, we need her a lot. Obviously, if we had her the other night we would have won. That's just the reality of it. There's no other way to say. Obviously, we need her a lot.

Lynne Sipiora

Of course, on a night like tonight, in this situation, we won't turn away anyone, especially if they are able or a family. But things like being drug-free are still a must.

Alan Trammel

(Oakland) got back on track and we just couldn't stop them. It was just a night the Tigers got pounded.

Charles Portis

Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.

Charles Olson

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Charles R. Swindoll

In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna-a breadlike food that fell to the ground during the night-to sustain the wandering Israelites and to teach them how to value His Word more than physical fulfillment.

Tom Taulli

Seven years ago Buy.com had sizzle. But this doesn't have a lot of sizzle to it.

Michelle Clark

Seven Springs has snow, and they're making snow.

O. Singh

Seven shots around here is not much at all,

Mike Wilton

One trip probably would kill seven years of recruiting.

Moran Atias

My dream was to study psychology in Israel. It's a long journey - it's seven years of study.

Eduard Shevardnadze

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

W. Hull

Six of the seven have been contacted, and all are well.

Ansel Elgort

With 'Carrie,' I did, like, seven auditions. I'd never done a movie, so they wanted to make sure I wasn't going to ruin it. I don't blame them.

Ashley Giles

When you're seven wickets down, all sorts of things go through your head,

Tony Sabatino

Scott is a special player. He does it all.

David Wright

No one's going to be selfish. Not this year. We can have a special year with all the talent we have here.

Dennis Crowley

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.

Bill Cowher

I can't say enough about our special teams. To me, that was the only thing that was on today. We didn't play well enough offensively or defensively.

Bill Cowher

I can't say enough about our special teams.

Ai-jen Poo

We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.

Avery Cutshaw

I look for him to be pretty special by the time he's a senior.

Kelis

I don't ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.

Bill Cowher

We didn't play well enough offensively and defensively, but I can't say enough about our special teams.