Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Greff

Louisiana's performance in the wake of the hurricanes is impressive. Statewide results are receiving a strong boost from construction crews and other personnel in the region for the post-hurricane reconstruction. We think displaced gamblers from the Mississippi Gulf Coast are also driving growth.

Jennifer Duffy

Lott's re-election is something close to a sure thing, but if he had vacated his seat, the contest to replace him would have been very competitive, giving Democrats a boost in their efforts to pick up seats in November.

Bob Enos

Scott's presence gave a big boost to the team.

Dave Carlson

Most will boost their prices over a period of time. They'll do it daily.

Alan Rifkin

Net-net, the change is expected to boost earnings on a continued operating basis.

Martin Rees

One of President Obama's first acts was to give a massive boost to America's scientific community.

Jenny Taylor

One important thing in the application process for sellers will be to verify that their items are produced locally and are from those counties. The Farmer's Market is for the nature and well being of the local community and for those producers trying to boost their business.

Hideaki Kurimoto

Money is gathering into the real-estate business. The trend will help boost profits of property companies and banks.

Stephen Ahn

New models will help boost sales in overseas markets this year as they did at home last year.

Paul Turner

We're not dismayed in any way, we're building but it's a slow build right now.

Peter Steinbrueck

We're not building the public transportation system that we need.

Ben Howland

We're not building a program, we're following the leadership of John R. Wooden. He's the one that built this program. It will always be his program.

Abe Reichental

We're not building a future for a few years, we're building for a lifetime.

Steve Harrison

Let's be a little creative about this before we start building three- and four-story circular structures. This is Beaufort.

Stuart Butler

Let people try what they want in their states, providing it meets certain standards. It will mean diversity. It's also a way of building consensus over time of what needs to be done, something you can't do if you go nationally initially.

Claudio Reyna

Luckily, the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. Within six to eight weeks, I'll be completely back up and running and three weeks after the surgery, I should be jogging and building it up until I'm back.

Chris Buck

Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my way up. I started as an animator, and then did character designing and storyboarding, and eventually, directing.

Jeanne Miller

Maggie had a lively spirit, full of fun and humor. The building will certainly be emptier without her.

Samir Geagea

Lebanon is the true land of consensus par excellence,

Keith Sherin

Given the current outlook, we expect to modestly exceed the first quarter consensus estimate of $0.75 per share,

Joe Sims

Getting a global consensus, it turns out, is not that easy. We're hoping we're going to get widespread support so we can stand up and say to the U.S. government that this is a true consensus document.

Natan Sharansky

The prime minister is traveling without trying to make consensus here. I prefer to be with the majority.

Robert Pavlik

If we get a GDP or deflator number that's much stronger than the consensus estimate, then it could hurt the market because people will be talking about a tougher Fed.

Phil Hansen

Basically, the consensus is Stayton and Cascade will be at the top. ... But I think we've improved enough to be in the playoffs. It's just how focused we can be in the next (eight) games.

Lloyd Banks

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Tom Chatfield

For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential emergence, however, is a deeply unsettling question - not least because intelligent machines seem considerably more achievable than any consensus around their programming or consequences.

Herb Kohl

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.

Paul Brewbaker

Lucky for everybody because it says something about our underlying economy.

Gene Sperling

Let's keep our economy strong, let's keep our interest rates low. That's the smart thing to do. And, if things work out better in the future, then we'll have more money for a tax cut, ... Late Edition.

Fadel Gheit

Losing the Saudi oil would immediately shock the U.S. economy to the worst level in decades,

Loesje

Let's give the individual the space to grow, instead of the economy

Tim Ryan

Many of the businesses, large and small, that were operating in New Orleans on Aug. 28 are not going to be here anymore, ... If we were to measure the New Orleans economy now, it would make everybody sick.

Marcy Kaptur

Mr. Speaker, there are plenty of signs that the United States economy is not working well. One of the signs is our national debt.

Masaki Iso

Much of the optimism about the economy has already been discounted into the shares and they're not cheap.

Phil Gramm

Mr. Chairman, please don't try to fix an economy that isn't broken, ... Don't become so frightened by success that you throw wet blankets on a fire that isn't burning.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men do not realize how great a revenue economy is

Mark Bradford

Life, work - it's all very organic and fluid, a laboratory. I always tell people: whatever your thing is, you just have to be in it. Jump in; you'll figure it out.

Jamar Nesbit

Lucky enough, I kind of figured if it did flood, I was going to be gone at least a week,

Donald Lipski

liberating the figure from the marble that imprisons it.

Tom Murphy

Let's see if we can figure out a way out of here.

Cao Shengjie

Let's pray to God the figure will grow.

Jason Schrotberger

Last year, people wanted to get under the hood and figure out which products would wow us next.

Terrence Holt

leave it to y'all in the media to figure out who got singled out. This is still a team game and what's said between these walls stays between these walls.

Keith Dambrot

Mentally, you figure out that if you're not strong enough, you need to get in the weight room. The hard part is all that skill and knowledge and ability, and he's got that. It's a tribute to their staff to find a guy like that who slipped through the cracks.

Rasheed Wallace

Me and Chauncey were talking in the locker room. We are trying to figure out some way to recognize him.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Masayoshi Yano

Share prices here rebounded ... after the market succumbed to profit-taking for a second straight day (on Wednesday).

Michael Carty

Sentiment, generally, is the big problem now. Even as market fundamentals are starting to improve, people are reluctant to buy,

John Yap

Sentiment around IPO stock reflects market sentiment, especially on the first day.

Corey Ostman

Semiconductors are not what the market wants to see right now.

Loren Loverde

Maybe we can't keep up the pace, but the market is healthy.

Mark Mahaney

Maybe the market wants to pay that, but I wouldn't want to do that,

Hideyuki Suzuki

Now, the market is in panic but we will see it settle down after a while.

Jeffrey Hirschkorn

Next week's market is going to be big for tech companies. As long as the Nasdaq powers ahead, we're going to see more and more filings.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Antonio de Mendoza

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

Christopher Lawrence

Mozart's symphonies are quite special. One of our landmarks is our recording of all of his symphonies, which means that we've recorded not 41, but 68 symphonies. Many people are unaware that there are many unnumbered symphonies.

Andre Agassi

means as much to me as doing it in the finals.

David Hopkins

More people means there is more of an opportunity for crime,

Jim Haslett

Obviously, that means a lot to me -- that's what friends are for.

Orel Hershiser

obviously keenly understands what it means to be a Dodger.

Taron Egerton

Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.

Timothy Noah

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

Bob Hunter

I can tell you this thing is by no means is it going to throw up a lot of cash.

Italo Calvino

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Marilyn Praisner

Let's stop going around and around. Let's move it.

Kit Hale

Sellers may not be able to move quite as quickly with the transaction, but prices still remain solid.

William Proxmire

Move over, $7,000 coffeepots! Stand aside, $400 hammers! We now have the $792 doormat!

Richard Rosenbaum

move on to the next stage of his life.

Chris McCarron

One real misconception, that I realized shortly after I moved out here, was that this was a vacation for the riders,

Tom Bradley

Obviously, we're going to have to move some personnel around and make some adjustments.

Walt Kuver

Of course, the commissioners need to be reassured that this move will be risk-free for the county.

Gary Pruitt

Newspapers are not dying. That's just wrong, and we are going to prove it wrong together.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Hiroyuki Kitakata

The only news will be the U.S. stocks. But on the geopolitical front, the upside risk is more than the downside.

Dave Ramsey

The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.

William Shakespeare

There's villainous news abroad.

William Shakespeare

The nature of bad news affects the teller.

Yoni Stern

Newspapers tell us all about our culture, even when they conflict.

Howard Kurtz

Newspapers are trying to use their own Web sites to provide 24-hour coverage, even though the old dinosaur, ink-on-paper version only comes out once a day.

Tim Danson

If we had our druthers, it wouldn't even be news - it would have been issued and no one would know about it until sometime down the road. But that didn't work out for us.

John Steinbeck

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Michelle Davis

She's very contemplative and thinks through situations thoroughly, but can think ... very quickly as well.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Katie Brown

He cantered quickly and was just very quick.

Mike Shanahan

We try to get everything done as quickly as possible. We have to be ready for March.

Armando Iannucci

I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.

Tony Mowbray

I am surprised by how quickly he has come back,

Andrew Maynard

But the research into the risks isn't being done as efficiently or quickly as it should.

Nicole Draper

The day they were born, they immediately started having complications and quickly went downhill.

Philip Morris

only when no other reasonable alternative testing methodology exists.

Dave Scott

We're going to go to something that is a reasonable rate.

Thomas J. Stanley

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Robert Buchanan

I think that's reasonable over time, but it's not going to come easily.

Kathleen Blanco

Let's just support the Saints. That's what I say.

Dennis Whitling

My inclination is to support this letter, and support it now.

Ron Wilson

Obviously, it was an ugly scene. But I support (Parker) 100 percent.

Dennis Weaver

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

Maria Zampaglione

If an outbreak of avian influenza were to be proven, there would be a lot of support needed.

Kevin Browne

If an immigration makes things better for them in the country, we will support it.

Dave Morin

Products should speak for themselves, and marketing should support that.

Abraham Lincoln

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

Scott Strauss

I got to support my family. That's how I was raised.

Ken Sawyer

My first thoughts were we need a new arena.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

Edgar Allan Poe

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

Edgar Allan Poe

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

David J. C. MacKay

We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.

Abdu'l Baha

Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to.' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling.