Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Rutherford

Our father was a very giving, caring person and a well-respected man in the community. Many folks knew him from the camera shop he owned until his retirement, but he was also an institution in town as a long-standing member of the Bucks County Historical Society. As recent as two years ago, he partnered with someone at the Mercer Museum where they poured over volumes of pictures of people and places he donated to the museum. The collection, which was dedicated to a lifetime of achievement, resulted in his receiving the Henry Chapman Mercer Award. It was quite an honor and justly deserved.

John Witt

Maybe I'll just put in $20 bucks at a time or do less traveling,

Kevin Poston

I think there are some obvious ones. Everyone knows that Cleveland wanted him. Dallas had put an offer out on him a couple years ago. Everybody knows that George Karl (Nuggets and former Bucks coach) is still in this game. Reggie Miller is leaving Indiana, and he's a two (guard). Those are just four teams off the gate.

Kevin Johnson

I went from being a guy who owned one house and a pool company. A thousand bucks was a lot of money. Now, I own all of these properties. I still look back and say, 'How did all of that happen?' I'm just a regular guy who ended up with all of these holdings. What is strange is it is working out.

Michael Pachter

... like the health club model, after you pay your 30 bucks a month for 3 or 4 months and you only go once a week, you realize it's not worth it and you split. That's what will happen with Warcraft ,

Paul Dergarabedian

I think people need a really strong reason to go to the movies and to pay the 10 bucks per person and to go out of the house and take that leap of faith, and 'March of the Penguins' certainly was unique and made it worthwhile to go out to the movie theater.

John Thomas

I did it years ago and regretted it. Fifteen minutes later, it was like, 'Oh, man, I just got rid of a hat.' But then, in your mind, you start rationalizing it. It was worth it. You start to think, 'Now what are they going to do with these things?' You hope they give them to kids or to the less fortunate, somebody who can't spend 18 bucks on a cap. You'd like to think it's put to good use.

John Grisham

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

Brad Herndon

Basically, what they would learn (at the seminar) is how to take a topographical map, an aerial photo, or both, and be able to look at that map and be able to pick out strategic funnels that mature bucks would use in moving around.

Patrick Surtain

regains the form he had a couple of years ago.

Brian Champion

Reese, he's always competing. He left some pitches up in the first couple innings and we made some blunders. ... But he stayed within himself and kept battling, kept competing.

Winston Justice

Our relationship is very, very close. He visited me a couple of times when I was suspended and he helped me through the whole process.

Rich Rodriguez

Pat, when he goes in there it's like he's been there the whole time. He managed the game well, made a couple of big plays.

Jay Mergenthaler

Our main goals are to finish over .500 and to win a couple of tournament games.

Shahid Ghori

Our leaders have been receiving threats for the past couple of months and we had informed the government about it, but no security was provided to our leaders.

Chauncey Billups

Our last game was Tuesday, so I had a couple days to soak it in. That's when it kind of hit me that I made it. I'm an All-Star. It's still a little surreal right now. It's something that I always wanted.

Steve Massey

(People need to) stop irrigating their lawns. This time in the winter, you don't need to be watering the ground around your home but every couple of weeks.

Harold Evensky

People have historically benefited from a couple of different types of immediate annuities.

Shane Evangelist

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Kate Winslet

I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.

Christopher Knight

I didn't get any DVDs and I'd love to have them to sign and give out.

Aimee Teegarden

I don't have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don't have anything plugged into it, though. I watch DVDs.

Cara Castronuova

I'm not a celebrity trainer. I don't have my own line of DVDs, but I'm a fighter and have everything to prove.

Aden Young

I've never bought a boxed set DVD or anything like that.

Alexandra Adornetto

Don't knock finding nemo," Xavier teased, taking the DVD from my grasp. "It's a modern classic." "Is it seriously about fish?" "Yeah, but really cool fish.

Abel Ferrara

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

Alexandre Aja

I'm a huge fan of movies, and I watch DVDs all day, and I like to be able to watch DVDs that are different from what was in theaters. Whether that's uncut or a director's cut. I think it's an awesome way to rediscover the movie.

Ron Vos

Passing out flyers at a shopping mall or hoping somebody sees a poster doesn't get through to today's jaded, image-bombarded, media-savvy young consumer. Street marketing is practically an old strategy now, so the stakes are much higher when it comes to getting your message across.

Mark Waggoner

Supplies really aren't a problem. Consumption over the holidays is usually a little higher than normal but production has been keeping up.

Alan Greenspan

Such an increase in market value is too often viewed by market participants as structural and permanent, ... To some extent, those higher values may be reflecting the increased flexibility and resilience of our economy.

Justin Lane

Some of the higher peaks I would imagine could see 2 1/2 feet.

Satish Kumar

Some of our standards are higher than the U.S.

Karen Johnson

Our prices are 18 percent higher that they were this time last year.

Rhonda Rompola

Our RPI has to get higher for any tournament play.

Bill Cooke

Our attrition rate is not higher than last year but it is higher than we would like.

William Ross

Right there, there is not that much inventory for that kind of property. Because of a lack of availability, what you get is higher prices.

Matthew Lewis

Overall this is a high-quality set of results... and their handset margin of 25 percent is phenomenal.

Steve Ward

Rendell's winning margin is black. Take that away, and he's even.

Steven Wood

Because pricing power has disappeared, profit margins will remain under significant pressure.

Ai Miyazato

I'm a little surprised and very satisfied about (the margin of victory).

Arun Sarin

The place where our margins are really being impacted is in Japan,

Frank Lee

The PC sector is weak in the first quarter but I am still optimistic for the whole year. That's because the trend for the TV sector is positive so profit margins should go up from the second and third quarters.

David O'Brien

We want to be satisfied the plant's safety margin is not compromised,

Bill O'Reilly

In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft.

James Harrison

We made a statement. We won, that was the statement we wanted. Margin of victory, stuff like that, is nice. But winning and going to the playoffs is our goal. That's what we want.

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.

Uwe Reinhardt

Price (in the Swiss system) doesn't matter, because it's set by these negotiations.

Toni Simonetti

Suffice it to say that the price of the stock is an important part of the equation.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

Ashton Kutcher

I learned what a Birkin bag is from the price tag. You'll never forget what it is once you've paid for one.

David Briggs

I think (stock) prices have run up anticipating a recovery but I don't think the recovery's here yet,

Mike Fitzpatrick

It is not surprising that prices are retreating.

Jack Cox

I feel sorry for the (homeless) people. But what price do we pay?

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

David Davies

Sven's got a roving eye. He's like a seagull and can wrap his wings around people.

Kevin Morris

Out the end windows of the cafeteria, it's all new,

Max Mathurin

Rene Preval has been declared the winner with 51 percent.

Ben Curtis

I'm here to win and that's what I want to do,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Beck

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

Beck

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

B. B. King

I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.