Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Kazinsky

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

Mike Connors

Make sure I mix up my pitches and keep guys off balance and I think I'll be fine.

Ed Moyle

Make diversity too small and you increase the impact of population-level events, make it too diverse and you can reduce manageability and thereby make individual-level events more likely. Heterogeneity has to be balanced with manageability for the organization's maximum benefit.

Kevin Kyle

Luke Smith is a really good player and they have some of the same balance that we do. They have some size, a good bench and some guys who can shoot it. And they play really good pressure defense.

Dan Bartram

Lucy came out ready to play. But it was a good, balanced effort for us.

John Winters

Maintaining strong fiscal performance combined with balanced investments provides a catalyst for the private sector to continue to grow.

Mike Stock

(Lewis) wants to win so bad. He felt like he had to take over the game himself. But the reason we were here is that we've been much more balanced offensively lately.

Nicola Sturgeon

Let us put the normal divisions of politics aside. Let us come together as one country; let us seize this historic moment to shift the balance of power from the corridors of Westminster to the streets and communities of Scotland.

Leah Rush

Legislators don't want to feel their hands tied, but you've got to balance that with the public's right to know.

Peter Smerdon

We're not crying wolf. This is a very real crisis, and it is undoubtedly going to be very painful. We hope that donors will come up with cash soon, so that we can restore full rations.

Wanda Stanfill

Mainly it's a storage problem. It's a lot easier to handle cash to provide immediate services for clients, and we can also be more specific with our help.

Lynn Lawrance

Make sure you leave enough cash value to keep the policy in force or you could get a nasty tax bill.

James Prince

Many of the donor programs have not only been ineffective, they have harmed the economy. Cash is not the issue. What you need is investor confidence.

Ross Howard

Many times, they will take it, stamp it and cash that check right away.

Jeff Nobers

So far this year, we've donated in excess of $2.5 million in materials and cash to Habitat for Humanity on a national basis.

Carl Sibilski

McDonald's has run out of high return places to invest cash like they did over the last 50 years, so the prudent decision is just give it back to shareholders.

Bill Haynie

Me and my wife put a family of five in a hotel seven or eight nights. It's kind of hard to imagine waking up one day and losing everything. They were sleeping on a floor in a relative's house. My wife, Judy, gave them some cash to go by some essentials. Hopefully they're on the road to recovery.

John Herrlin

One needs to remember that production disruption insurance usually doesn't start until 90 days elapse from outage, so some companies could stand to lose meaningful cash flow if their facilities are affected.

Lionel Anderson

Madison's height took us out early in the game but we never quit. We continued to play our game. It is what we do. We play basketball.

Dan Popowics

Lowe's has had a lot of momentum as it expands into the Northeast and other areas. Americans continued to spend on their homes, with the kicker here being the warmer January that drove more traffic into stores.

Nancy Connelly

Losing those players really hurt us. In the second half, we continued to play on, but couldn't score. It was a good team effort, and a very disappointing loss. I felt as if we could have come out on top if not for the injuries.

Ralph Connor

Last year she ran 16:59 here. She ran faster here than last year and last week. It's a good time on this course and she continued to show that she is one of the better runners in southwestern Indiana.

Ralph Connor

Last year she ran 16:59 here, ... She ran faster here than last year and last week. It's a good time on this course and she continued to show that she is one of the better runners in southwestern Indiana.

Naomi Wolf

Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

Castor Pang

Many investors and funds continued selling... as the market lacks fresh good news. Interest-rate worries continued to dampen sentiment.

Masayoshi Yano

Share prices gained as New York stocks continued to rise overnight.

Stanley Chou

Mobile phone stocks primarily contributed to the main board's rise given hopes continued strong demand will help Taiwanese handset makers report solid revenue growth in the next few months.

Patti Smith

Throughout my life, I happily deferred to family, companions, children.

Michael Knapp

I think it's about time. We had to do this. We shouldn't have deferred as long as we did.

Ken Herz

The deferred compensation pay is completely unrelated to his departure. It would have been paid out to him anyway.

Tobias Merath

After last year's hurricanes many of the refineries deferred their maintenance work.

Robert Harrison

All the judges have deferred to those two in this case.

Pat Taylor

And approximately 15 million of the funds comes from deferred gifts-estate gifts, etc. most of which will go to the endowment.

Ernie Irvan

Man, I remember those nasty turns, and how hard it was to judge them. That's what made it so difficult, and the reason the drivers are always so competitive. I always said if you could win at Stockton, you could win anywhere.

Jojo Moyes

Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.

Jerrold Nadler

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.

Steven Wieting

Many of the understandable sources of recovery have been expended in the first half of 2002, leaving growth drivers into 2003 a mystery.

John Gifford

Senior retail management is increasingly hard to find right now, ... A lot of the top executives have been around for a long time and they're still working on the premise that sales are driven by value for price and assortment.

Mel Martinez

Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents.

Takeshi Yamaguchi

Semiconductor makers are bottoming out because of strong demand. Any good news is likely to drive shares higher.

Rajiv Dutta

Seller success is going to, in turn, drive seller volume. That will, in turn, help the vibrancy of the marketplace and eBay's financials.

Jorma Ollila

Mobile can drive Internet usage, so we all will benefit. The pie is growing, and everybody can get his or her slice.

Robert Kazinsky

Nothing is as hard as working on a British soap in this industry.

Dave Balza

Like I said, it's hard. It's hard to be positive when you're losing.

Viktor Kozlov

Like I said before, it's like a lottery. It's hard to score in the shootout.

Tim Kearney

Luckily he didn't have to work as hard or often in as other games. When we need him to step up, he does.

Pamela Smith

Lucinda was my only child, and she was God-given, and I know somewhere, somewhere I will come to terms that it was her time. But it was how it happened, and why it happened, that I have a hard time with. I miss her so much.

Kayla Rengel

Make sure we keep our focus, make sure we practice hard all week, and sleep well when we do have our off days.

Ozzie Guillen

Losing Tony is something that is hard on the Latin community.

Nicole Ohlde

Losing a player like her was hard because she does so much on and off the court.

Jerry Stackhouse

Last year, we had a letdown. We didn't want to work as hard as we did this season, then give it away. Now hopefully we can do what we did on the road last year.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Lehmann, Kahn and Hildebrand have all improved this season,

Nathan Watson

Last year we improved our times at every meet. As long as we can do that I will be pretty satisfied.

Terry Taylor

My life has improved so much. Frankly, I was very grateful.

Doc Rivers

Obviously whenever you can improve your team you're going to do that -- with a veteran or a young guy. But we're in games.

Alex Rodriguez

October is what I need to improve upon. But you can't think about October on Opening Day, you have to think about the present war.

David Goldberg

Now we have lasers that can improve the quality of skin without removing a layer of skin. It's called the lunchtime laser procedure.

Luis Suarez

Now, we're going to try and improve on the last World Cup.

Asif Bajwa

We needed a six-goal victory to improve our position, and we managed that today.

Howard Davidowitz

For me, the big question is what is Wal-Mart going to do to improve sales,

Robert Toll

Since Katrina, instead of going up $5,000 or $10,000 every week or two, we have been limited to no price increases or very limited price increases,

Michael Carty

We are not looking for any major increases in interest rates.

Linda McMahon

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.

Chris Neal

We don't like rate increases as much as anyone, but we think 8.6 percent is as modest as possible.

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

Nigel Evans

There are millions of people out there who don't get inflation-busting increases whatsoever.

Sung Sohn

Until and unless there are significant increases in jobs over a period, tighter monetary policy is out of the question.

Kim Beazley

It increases the pressure for Howard to appear.

Arun Sarin

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

Steven Wood

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

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.

Billy Childish

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

David Harris

I realize that the margins are being squeezed, ... We have a plan for that.

Yoshihisa Miyamoto

The size of the outlook revision, unseen in recent years, was a big surprise. Profit margins are dropping.

James Carrick

The margins story is better than expected. Things are getting better for manufacturers.

Howard Davidowitz

The margins are positive, but sales are eroding,

Charles Petzold

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

Jay Kim

From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.

Steve Donner

From that point of view, the taxpayers are well protected, and there is a risk and a reward for us operating the stadium.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

Christopher Hill

We're operating from a piece of paper now, and we'll see what we can do.

Christopher Hill

What is the purpose of operating it at this point? ... The time to turn it off would be about now.

Atul Gawande

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

Koichi Ogawa

The operating result was good, but the company's hedging policy didn't work out this time.

Paul Curlander

Currently, these operating results are not reflective of where we want to be.

Debra Moore

We have the sheets where you can see on each side of her where it spilled over. The sheets were a maroon color, so it's real obvious.

Jeff Davidson

When plywood starts to go up to $23 a sheet ... that's a lot of dollars.

Michael Allen

We put up sheets here so they can have their privacy,

Italian Proverb

It is better to wear out one's shoes than one's sheets

Sandra Dee

I used to sign vouchers and sign-out sheets with 'Alexandra Dee.' Somehow it stuck.

Roger McNamee

They started out in a world of spread sheets and word processors,

Jimmy Hoffa

We never had any silk sheets in our family...

Scott Weiland

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Ryan Murphy

I love crispy, cool sheets.

Bob Graham

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Hosni Mubarak

What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.

Vladimir Putin

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Josh McDermitt

One person I haven't worked with yet, who I find hilarious, is Chad Coleman.

Stephanie Herseth

I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.

Kyrsten Sinema

I think there's this pressure to get rid of the fun that makes us human. It hasn't worked on me.

Ryan Smyth

I got lucky, I guess. It worked out.

Sally Kellerman

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

Jeremy Corbyn

I have always worked long hours and very hard. It is the way I am. Same as always. Up about seven and get to bed about 12 to 1, something like that.

Sallie Krawcheck

Some of it is because things haven't worked out as well as we hoped.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.