Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Alterman

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.

Bob Taft

Recently, I saw firsthand how the Emerald Ash Borer is destroying our vital ash tree resources, ... We appreciate these additional federal dollars, and I will continue to work with the Ohio Department of Agriculture to pursue further funding for 2006.

Lester Crawford

Previous shortages highlighted the need for additional influenza vaccine manufacturers for the U.S. market,

John Nestor

Our own high end estimate was between 1,000 and 1,200 - there may be additional advisors who aren't signing up and adopting a 'wait and see' attitude.

Gary Spear

Our overall crime rate would have changed dramatically, if you take out those additional vehicle burglaries.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmsuch as mentoring or fundraisingand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Jason Willett

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmùsuch as mentoring or fundraisingùand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Gary Walker

Patients will be notified with additional information (soon).

Chris Brathwaite

Part of this process is looking at staffing needs going forward. We believe the changes will allow stores additional flexibility ... to serve our customers.

Morgan Stanley

Recent environmental disasters suggest that China needs to find a better balance between growth and environmental protection. The obsession with GDP has led to a neglect of growth quality issues.

James Douglas

Recent takeovers in the telecoms industry have been marked by an increased confidence and desire to do M&A on part of trade buyers. They repaired their balance sheet and telecoms equity has been fairly strong recently.

Alex Yemenidjian

Our release schedule for the balance of this year holds great promise, and our home video and television distribution operations continue to generate stronger than expected revenue and cash flow.

Leonard Asper

Our outlook for the balance of the fiscal year remains cautious as we expect continued softness in our Canadian conventional television business and stable performance from our remaining operations.

Jim Grobe

Our recruiting focus was to help all the different positions. I like the balance in our class. I think we hit a home run with players this year. This is a very talented group.

Christine Varney

participation would help promote a balance of viewpoints.

Richard White

Our objective will continue to be to finish with a balanced budget,

Linda Malec

Our members may not be able to do a balance sheet, but they understand the fundamentals. They are proud of our credit union and they want the best benefits and services to continue that they've enjoyed for 56 years.

Don Blandin

People have to balance their consumption with their formation of their nest egg. They have to not sacrifice tomorrow for being able to spend all they possibly can today.

Mark Zandi

Reintroducing a little uncertainty in the bond market would be desirable. Long-term rates are too low,

Jameer Nelson

Our record doesn't reflect the kind of team that we have right now. We're playing really well, we're bonding and we're sharing the ball.

John Roberts

Part of the reason we're holding on is that so many guys are overexposed to the corporate bond market, any cash they have they're putting to work in governments.

Mike Scioscia

Paul stayed in Chicago for very important reasons, and I respect that. He felt a huge connection with that organization. He blossomed into a star there, and his bond with the city and fans was very strong. He would have been an incredible fit for us, but I respect the reasons he stayed in Chicago.

Steven Wright

Our modelling suggest bond yields should rise in line with the US by at least 1 per cent. The X factor remains any flow-on effect from petrol prices.

Don Long

People haven't heard that (reassessment) mentioned as a consideration in this bond referendum.

Doug Flynn

Stay away from short-term or long-term bond funds. These will do poorly in a rising interest-rate environment.

Peggy Furusaka

Spreads on Sanyo's bonds will probably stay high. Our uncertainty has heightened substantially towards Sanyo's management, corporate governance, financial accountability and the possibility of another major downward revision.

Yasunari Ueno

Some investors bought back Japanese government bonds in a knee-jerk reaction to the comments from Fukui.

Marsha Blackburn

Some of the school districts in my congressional district are looking at resource officers and how they secure that environment.

Uma Bharati

I want to tour all districts of Madhya Pradesh. I want my voice to reach all people of the state.

Brian Peterson

Kurt only gave up four points on his feet in 34 matches. The only other points he gave up were from releases. Nobody scored on him at districts or at state. This is a high school kid who doesn't make mistakes or get out of position. He wrestled all season at an extremely high level.

Stephen Jones

That worked really well for a long time and the only deduction we had (for special districts such as the public cemeteries) was from the redevelopment agency.

Kyle Clearman

It feels great. This is what we've been looking for all year. Getting that No. 1 seed into districts is what counts.

Pete DiPol

It feels good -- I'm thinking about districts now, always looking at the next thing. But I'm proud -- this is a big deal.

Steve Lundholm

It always makes it nice when the team performs this well. I'm not surprised with the way they played. They have been playing better; I hope they peak at the right time with districts on Tuesday.

Wayne Jones

If we can get the 16 other districts to do it, we've accomplished something.

Shari Walling

He got sick right before districts (Feb. 11), and he did a nice job of being able to drop in the 500. His IM was not his lifetime best, which was disappointing to him because he feels he's an all-around swimmer.

Michael Metz

Regardless of what the Fed does today, I think that maximum monetary stimulation throughout the world is over. We are seeing the low point of interest rates throughout the world. The next move will be upward. Moreover, I think the earnings momentum for the markets is eroding as well.

Roger Altman

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.

Ralph Acampora

Price is fact. Earnings on the other hand are estimates. You restate earnings. You never restate price.

Josef Ackermann

Our objective now is to sustain, over the cycle, this level of pretax return on equity and double-digit earnings per share growth.

Robert Campbell

Our much improved earnings resulted largely from the strength of refining margins during the quarter,

Mike Holland

People have been worried for the last several quarters that earnings were going to slow down. If in fact they don't slow down and if it looks as if there's no resumption of inflation ... it'll be interesting to see how people respond to that.

Alan Ackerman

Stay with the big stocks with the big backlog and big trend of earnings and with management that have been there before,

Peter Cardillo

Some of the good earnings reports and good guidance are reversing market psychology. In general, we're probably heading for a good earnings season.

Jon Brorson

Our forecast was for earnings to come in around 13 percent year-over-year growth, and they're on track to do it. They are surprisingly better than expected, and outlooks have been good, generally speaking.

Gillan Taddune

Over 80 percent of all construction waste was sent to a recycling facility instead of a landfill.

Andy King

Rita hit on a Saturday and interrupted our pickup that day, and we lost power at our facility until that Tuesday,

Paul Kohman

I think that's just something great for all the kids down the road that are going to participate and use the facility - that's what I told my seniors when I found out about it.

Robert Ford

I think part of it is the facility (and) part of it has to do with the population in Poway. It has so many children, so it gets a lot of use.

Charlie Houder

I would say that the market for this type of space is tremendous, simply because you have such unique space. You have an office facility that surrounds the fabrication space. It would be extraordinarily valuable to a whole host of companies.

Sean Callahan

I have around 160 kids I could work out, but I can't because of the facility. Our facility now can only accommodate 80. I have to take the top 80 players and turn the rest away.

Ryan Crocker

It is a 4.5-million-dollar facility and it is state of medical art.

Charise McHugh

We may not make it. They could wake up one morning and find that the facility is closed. We owe it to them to tell them that everything isn't hunky dory.

Roy Williams

When the hurricane occurred, our Mayor called the NBA and said we have a facility ready to house a professional team and he let them know that any way we can help out - we would,

Gale Norton

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

Michael Ritchie

If we don't do it, it will be lost to history. Plays like this were a big part of the theatrical landscape for a long time.

Dieter Rams

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Ric Keller

While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.

Aldo Leopold

The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

George Eliot

Wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions

Maya Lin

You just want to translate what you see. I keep saying I am no different from a 19th-century landscape artist.

Baz Luhrmann

We have some of the most extraordinary landscape on the planet and we want to get two of the most extraordinary actors in the world and put them ... in that landscape.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

Judah Friedlander

Paul Verhoeven might be my favorite director, and I'm serious.

Georgy Yartsev

People might say we didn't need this victory. I think we very much needed it. The Russian soccer needed it. Look at how many rookies we had.

Rick Halprin

People might not think it's much, but it's better than nothing.

Ed Feigenbaum

People might just have wanted to wait until they get their service back up.

Tom Parsons

People might have to stand by for one or two flights, but inconvenience to passengers should be minimal.

Victor Shum

State-owned enterprises have perhaps more options than international oil companies. Without shareholders, they can go places that might not be politically acceptable.

Felicia Brown

Some of (the children's) educational needs might not be met. You can't spend all the time that they'll need.

John Clayton

Someone might say, 'You didn't vote for him. Why should I?'

Josephine Crawford

Somehow, I'll spend it. ... I might go to Vegas.

Rich Rodriguez

Pat just seized the opportunity and made the most of it.

Stephen Farrell

Our opportunity here is to provide our patients with all of their medications as a full-service pharmacy.

Jonathan Schwartz

Stay tuned on the Red Hat-Sun relationship. We think there's ample opportunity to work together out there.

Chris Huffins

Our women are very hungry. They know they have an opportunity to dethrone Stanford this year.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

Barry Manilow

I love any opportunity I have to make music.

Barry Manilow

What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.

B. D. Wong

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

B. D. Wong

I remain on SVU because it is an incredible opportunity.

George Dzundza

I'm here to serve. I was trained as an actor to see the writer as the ultimate creator... and that primarily what actors do is interpret.

Jared Bernstein

has primarily to do with the compensation the typical worker earns.

David Boies

From our perspective, to say that you are going to wait until after the trial to have the examination of the ballots, is backwards, because here the witnesses are primarily the ballots.

Lee Siegel

'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.

Brendan Myers

The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.

Franz Wright

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

Matthew Quick

I haven't taught since 2004, but I taught high school English for seven years, primarily at a place called Haddonfield Memorial, which is in a very well-to-do-community in Southern New Jersey.

John Ashcroft

Thousands of persons, primarily women and children, are trafficked into the United States each year,

Martin Jacques

The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.

Rodel Natividad

It's your temporary "wants" purchasing your unnecessary "needs".

Richard Petty

They said, 'Well, it can be done, but we'll have to do it a different way (rather than purchasing the series).' So here we are.

Tom Mitchell

It's a wholesale review of the county's purchasing code.

Emily Oster

All's fair in love and purchasing.

Sara Zarr

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

Elizabeth Dole

Today I am not going to get into the specifics of the legislation.

Bob Hamilton

We?re still proceeding at best-possible speed and we?re still trying to get the specifics on the street.

Michael Greene

The tone was the right tone but the specifics and the specific commitments, that's for the follow-up,

Michelann Ooten

I don't really know specifics on when it will all be back to normal. It's going to take a while.

David Washington

We just wanted to make sure we understand the specifics of what happened. We want to go over everything. We'd like for this thing to be remedied.

Robert Aitken

The Universal is always the same, the specifics are always different.