Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Munger

A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.

Larry Gregory

We've always had our casinos on barges. They've always had to be over water. Due to the hurricane, there was a lot of interest to move our casinos on land.

Chuck Griffin

When you put the casino out there, there's nothing going to happen downtown. Why would it? There's nothing down there. I think that's a mistake long?term for the community.

Ed Feigenbaum

We had a very snowy early January (2005), and that ended up being very problematic for casinos in the northern tier ...

Alberto Lopez

We reached out to other casinos on the Strip, but everyone was filled. Our main effort was to make our guests as comfortable as they could be until the situation was resolved.

E. P. Thompson

Las Vegas is mass marketing to a mass audience, ... If they want a small, niche casino that's fine but it's not going to make a lot of money.

Maria Cantwell

Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.

Randal Pinkett

Seventy percent of the traffic to the hotel casino comes through that area.

Jim Murren

There are a variety of operating restrictions that have been imposed on the operation of the casino resort itself . . . the market size is unknown.

William Turner

Ultimately, it's the (department) chairs and deans who are accountable in hiring and promoting people.

Kevin Spencer

There are times when we have people on standby or other weather-related things where they have to stay in. There are a few chairs in the engine bay, but that's really all they have for space.

Louis MacNeice

Time was away and somewhere else, / There were two glasses and two chairs / And two people with one pulse.

Ani Difranco

When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.

Dorothy Thompson

We actually purchased those real tall tables and chairs like you see at Starbucks.

Perry Poe

We are planning to have extra chairs up front, but expect there will be some people standing.

Jonathan Collegio

The Democrats could play musical chairs in Illinois and get a better lineup than they have now.

Kevin Kerr

The debate over should oil be at $60 or $80 is like a debate over rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Earl Little

Nobody was throwing chairs or anything like that. We discussed it and we handled it in a professional manner.

Michel Onfray

We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.

Stewart Newnham

The pound's strength is tightening monetary conditions in the U.K., but it's not enough.

Taro Saito

The possibility is high that an improvement in labor and wage conditions will continue to support consumer spending going forward.

William Paul

We are seeing conditions that are similar to about what we saw in 2002.

Julie Gerberding

We are preparing for the possibility of infectious diseases that could be spread under conditions of crowding in shelters,

Chris Stanton

We are looking into whether Martha Stewart violated the conditions of her release,

Piero Fassino

There are conditions to create a government and to govern, even if the country is divided in two.

Kevin Stephens

There are some conditions we just can't handle here. Like dialysis. We can't do that, and they'll be here three or four days, so they'll need it before then.

James Allen

Where there are difficulties to cope with, and unsatisfactory conditions to overcome, there virtue most flourishes and manifests its glory.

Dave DeCecco

Soft drinks are a big part of it but they are just part of it.

John Sicher

Traditional carbonated soft drinks have got a tough road ahead. The migration to water and sports drinks and other noncarbonated drinks seems to be permanent.

Benjamin Franklin

Poor Dick, eats like a well man, and drinks like a sick

Bill Wilson

But for every man who drinks others are involved -- the wife who trembles in fear of the next debauch; the mother and father who see their son wasting away.

John McCarthy

Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.

John Czwartacki

It is a little like a reformed alcoholic taking little drinks - pretty soon, you have a real problem on your hands.

Friedrich Muller

He who drinks in the law lives happily with a serene mind: the sage rejoices always in the law, as preached by the elect.

Andrea Cohen

We're not prepared to talk about expanding it to juice and sports drinks until we know the system is working OK.

Meg Rosoff

There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that.

Tim Roberts

There are some good individuals there. You can either help yourself or hurt yourself for seeds (in the Individual District) Saturday.

Chuck McMeekin

We're in a quandary on what we can and can't do. Either you let the garbage sit outside or people are going to put it in their neighbor's yard.

Stephen Harper

What the prime minister doesn't seem to face is the election is either going to occur now or it's going to occur in January, ... We're not going to wait another four months.

Ivan Radenovic

Whenever we played them, we played well in either the first half or the second half. This time we've got to put it together for 40 minutes if we want to win.

Philippe Val

When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left.

Tim Parmeter

When he gets the opportunity to be in the open court, he's so good with the ball. He makes good plays by either scoring or kicking it out to other people.

Ed Beattie

We were behind, and that forces things to happen. It either makes things better or makes it a little worse, and it made it a little worse tonight.

Brian Norberg

We were an all-zone team early, but we've gone back to a man-to-man late in the season. I feel we can play either one. In the post-season it's nice to be able to fall back on a zone if the man isn't working.

Will Muschamp

We were trying to improve fundamentally. You either take a step forward or a step back every day. You've got 15 opportunities, and we need to get better all 15 times out.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.

Edward Coke

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale

Henri Matisse

I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces.

Meg Rosoff

I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.

Joel Edgerton

Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.

Sechan Pillay

Then, on Tuesday night, we were told that we could fetch our passports. It meant we could get back home.

Bible Bible

And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.

Michel Faber

Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.

Denis Leary

I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.

Charlie Munger

Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it.

Kent Beck

I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.

Kenneth Branagh

What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.

Kerry Greenwood

As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.

Evangeline Lilly

I think I'm not always what I seem. Most people, when they get to know me, say, 'You know, when I first met you...' People initially think I'm a snob because I'm intensely private.

Vicky Groat

We had a very intense match on Monday (in the Hanover-Horton Invitational) so it was kind of nice not to have that tonight.

Wendy Ward

She and her caddy take it to a very intense level. It's in her character. As much as I'd like to play the way she's playing right now, that's just not the way I'm wired.

Mike Kundick

She is probably as intense in the room as you want. She practices right with them.

Rebecca Ryan

many times, online is the first way a young professional sees the area.

Mark Logan

Scott's been out there from the get-go on how to make the online space profitable.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.

Nev Schulman

The idea of finding your soul mate, whether it's online or not, is what people want.

Steve Breen

I read the 'New York Times,' 'USA Today,' the 'Union-Tribune,' then go online to Drudge, CNN, Fox News, blogs.

Geoff Johns

The truth is, we're all cyborgs with cell phones and online identities.

Chris Moneymaker

Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don't get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away.

Gina Bellman

I think there was a petition online to get me involved in 'Doctor Who.' I'm not a 'Doctor Who' fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.

Trent Reznor

I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it's kind of a hyper-real version of yourself, how you'd like to be seen, in a way.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Jerry Jones

The position that's on the table by the players just isn't acceptable.

Justin Vincent

We have so many players from New Orleans. It's always in the back of our minds.

Dwight Freeman

We're starting to do some things but we can't let up. It's a do-or-die situation, so the players are playing with a sense of urgency.

Mike Carey

We're just not comfortable with our go-to players in the stretch.

Pat Gillick

We're getting better. We have players who are pretty focused.

Thomas Doll

We know we have signed quality players - but they will need time.

Jim Leyland

Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference.

Zeke Moreno

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

Tom Bailey

We won't be one-dimensional on offense, ... We have linemen who can give our skilled players time to make the plays.

Gene Upshaw

The price of poker will go up. We can not stay in the place where we are now.

Evan Depew

I used to play real poker at least twice a week.

Jim Griffin

It's a computer. It's not a poker machine.

Gary Williams

We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of.

Herman Edwards

We're in a situation where time is of the essence,

Dennis Kavelman

We're in a situation now where you have to play it out and fortunately we have very strong contingency plans.

Ed Bradley

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Deepa Mehta

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Deborah Norville

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Celia Cruz

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

Beth Moore

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

Andy Brandt

When we get a lead, we have a tendency to sit back.