Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Evans

Let me tell you the basic fundamental principle by which we sit down and negotiate agreements with our friends: nobody wins unless we all win.

Jeffrey Vanderbeek

Let this definitive and final agreement leave no doubt that the New Jersey Devils will start the '07-'08 season at this world-class, state-of-the-art facility. This means the Devils are satisfied that the city of Newark will fulfill its obligations.

Gerry Adams

make it very very clear there is no way forward except the Good Friday agreement.

Rich Levin

Major League Baseball looks forward to signing a lease so that Washington's baseball fans can enjoy watching their team in a new, state-of-the art stadium. We believe it is important for all parties to honor the terms of the agreements that were made.

Rich Levin

Major League Baseball has not yet been provided with the filings made by the D.C. Sports & Entertainment Commission with the City Council last Friday, nor the text of the legislation passed by the Council last night. We are very concerned about what we heard during the debate, and we need to read the materials and the legislative language so we can determine whether they are consistent with the agreements between Major League Baseball and the city.

Jay Foley

Make them prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they actually had an agreement and a contract with this individual.

Bob Stec

Lexington and Bob Timberlake have a long-term agreement for the future to design, market and produce furniture. There is no plan to discontinue the original line from production and offering to the consumer.

Pope Benedict

Let us pray that the Holy Spirit illuminates, inspires and guides the work of the synod and pushes us to charity, agreement and the service of the truth.

David Rice

Let's put it this way: The billboard exceeds the allowable height and area for an on-premise sign, and there are probably other issues that will keep it from being approved. We'll see what the NCC and Cooper work out, but it'll probably be disapproved if they don't come to an agreement of some kind.

Bill Gates

Software, by being comprehensive, can save costs by avoiding add-on pieces of software. We can save money in terms of speed of development or by being able to run on less expensive hardware.

Raymond Loewy

My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I found it difficult to reconcile success with humility. I tried it first, but it meant avoiding the very essence of my career - total exhilaration and the ecstasy of creativity.

Himanshu Patel

One of the likely sticking points in the pending sale of GMAC may well be resolution on Delphi, further emphasizing GM's interest in avoiding a labor dispute.

Rachel Miner

I have all these rules for avoiding depression. One is going outside in the morning. I don't keep breakfast in the house, so that I have to go out first thing when I first wake up. And then I come back and shower.

John Faso

I have always been pro-life. I characterize myself that way and I'm not running away from it or avoiding it.

Frederick Sanger

I had remained in Cambridge concentrating only on basic research and avoiding as far as possible teaching or administrative responsibilities.

Brent Lewis

I felt like they were avoiding questions. They cut it (the meeting) short when people weren't done.

Heather Strong

She tells us about staying in the moment, avoiding distractions, staying confident. She talks about team dynamics.

Christopher Myers

If they set that company up offshore with the express purpose of avoiding their obligations under US law, that could be illegal.

Harley Shaiken

Miller has clearly chosen bankruptcy over collective bargaining to restructure the company. Delphi is using a bankruptcy judge to begin moving in the direction of Chinese wages and benefits.

Karen Gross

My experience with debtors is that even if you get your life back on track, the experience of bankruptcy and the sense of failure stays with you.

Steve Rhode

More than 50 percent of the people who file bankruptcy file it incorrectly, and it is unnecessary in many of the cases. They have plenty of money to pay their bills, but are too disorganized.

Sean Egan

Moody's chairman, Clifford Alexander, was on the board of WorldCom up until last year, ... The biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history, and the chairman of Moody's was on the board. There's no way that should happen. He also shouldn't be on the board of the National Association of Securities Dealers. They're supposed to be independent.

Howard Wu

More often than not, when you have a bankruptcy and the company emerges -- particularly when new equity is invested -- you can expect the current board will no longer be in place. It's just normal.

Philip Baggaley

I wouldn't expect to see any major effects of these bankruptcy filings on passengers. I think both carriers will restructure successfully and continue flying.

Frank Queen

If we don't have the CAP program, then I'm going to the bankruptcy court. It would be the dissolution of the agency.

Harley Shaiken

Because they (Delphi) have considerable leverage at a moment of bankruptcy is not the same as saying the UAW is out of the game.

Travis Plunkett

shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get bankruptcy relief.

Cherie Blair

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

Michael Chren

Mack has quietly embarked on a restructuring program that should improve profitability and create substantial value for shareholders over the next two years. One wild card catalyst is a potential purchase or merger of equals.

Jiang Zemin

Let him put more cards on the table -- and we shall respond accordingly.

Robert McKinley

Many of those fixed-rate cards haven't moved at all this year.

Joe Barton

Many retailers do not disclose these restrictions. There are no national rules dealing with how gift cards should work.

Rene Mirandilla

Seven yellow cards is the most we had in a game all season. I think it a game like this with the state playoffs at stake, emotions run high.

Dan Jones

Sears is offering free $10 gift cards to the first few hundred shoppers. So that may have something to do with the early crowd.

Dave Price

Send your cards and letters to Jim Ryan, care of CBS 2.

John Gillis

So far we've had 40 families, give or take a few, ... They're going to relatives and friends all over eight different counties. We don't have the FEMA credit card to give them so what we have to do is write a check.

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.

Mike Conners

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Dick Corn

Macomb doesn't have a great deal of size. They don't seem to score a lot of points, but they do create a lot of points and scoring chances off their defense. Our scouts were pretty impressed.

Dick Nyman

Losses don't come much tougher than this one. We outplayed them the whole game, but two mistakes cost us. We had some great scoring chances but we didn't finish.

Jamey Gelhar

Last year, they took our chances away for the championship. We're going to be really fired up.

Jeff Lenherr

(Scott) has a strong desire to score. He's a very good one-on-one player and we've noticed that we've been getting a lot of one-on-one chances so far this year. Moving him up to forward helped stretch the defense and gave us a lot of room for chances.

Dwyane Wade

Second chances hurt us. They got a couple of second chance rebounds on us and that was the difference in us making the plays at the end.

Zheng Bijian

So long as the two sides can have a sober head to face the overall situation and handle the existing problems with a pragmatic attitude, can they seek the opportunities and promote the positive and sound development of the bilateral relations. Otherwise, they will miss the chances or even make historical mistakes.

Jim Rise

Missed opportunities. We had our chances and we didn't execute. We didn't play well today. We missed a lot of signs and the kids took themselves out of a lot of innings. We need to play a complete game and we haven't done that.

Takehiko Jimbo

Momentum for the yen is good. Fukui's comments and this newspaper report fed speculation about a March policy move, increasing the chances of a rate hike by the end of the year.

Raymond Smith

Today there's such a wide mix of combatants and noncombatants on the battlefield, we want to minimize as much collateral damage as we can.

Eric Massa

I'm collateral damage. I'm road kill. And in 72 hours, nobody is going to remember who I am nor are they going to care.

Warren Lovely

And you got some collateral damage from that. Any time you have such a big player like JDS come under pressure, it sort of flows over to some of the other tech-related firms.

Paul Woods

This could be collateral damage of a large viral outbreak local to the region.

Lex McCorvey

I've seen some collateral damage out there -- trees coming down and taking out fences, roads washing out. It probably increases erosion, but you just kind of weather it, so to speak." ()

Patrick Nichols

It's a collateral duty. These guys don't just fly. They do other stuff.

Steve Martinez

The low-level guys ... can inflict a lot of collateral damage.

Robin Ryan

Make sure you are getting credit for what you do.

Ben Braun

Leon deserves a lot of the credit for the impact he's made. He makes a lot of things easier for a lot of guys. He's also been a really good defender for us this year. he's really improved his understanding of the game.

Ken Rosen

Low interest rates and easy credit standards are just about over.

Judy Gresser

Low-income families who file at the VITA site may qualify for a substantial Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).

Hud Venerable

Let's give some credit to Mattoon. They played very well.

Frank Ferraro

Let's give credit to him. He's an outstanding player.

Gregg Klein

Lear has a lot of operating issues that they still have to resolve. I can't see much upside in this credit at current levels.

Mario Monti

Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for a long time were major creditors for Greece and Greek banks.

Bob Law

Mayors took credit for it. But it was the Million Man March.

Marty Meehan

Make no mistake about it, these cleverly disguised provisions will torpedo key disclosure requirements for so-called 'stealth PACS.'

Bob Stern

We need disclosure as to who is funding the Protocol Foundation. People need to know who is influencing the governor on contributions to this -- a trip he's going on.

Bob Stern

We need disclosure as to who is funding the Protocol Foundation,

Gary Sheffer

We disagreed with them that this disclosure was a productive exercise--how would it at all improve the situation on the Hudson?

Paul Hodgson

Transparency is a big problem. Disclosure levels in the United States are not as good as in other parts of the world.

William Higgins

We got what we wanted, ... more disclosure and better understanding.

Mary Osako

Yahoo Hong Kong was not involved in any way in the disclosure of information in Mr Tao's case.

Jeff Davis

We are a grass-roots volunteer organization that has at all times complied with Minnesota registration and disclosure requirements.

Eric Fehrnstrom

Photos are public documents and subject to disclosure upon request.

John Gilbride

Like grave robbers, who have no respect for the dead, this drug organization used revered tombstones to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into New York City.

Bill Green

Lynn is just a neophyte in the business. And all of the sudden, he gets a quarter-million dollars from people who don't even live here.

Mike Abe

Let's see, I'll be paying $3300 dollars next year if nothing changes.

Alan Greenspan

Many homeowners might have saved tens of thousands of dollars had they held adjustable-rate mortgages rather than fixed-rate mortgages during the past decade.

Eli Broad

several million dollars when all is said and done.

Linda Miller

Seventy-five dollars for the yearbook, $5 for the planner, $35 for the PTA, a $100 donation to football, $28 for P.E. clothes, $30 for pictures, $55 for an ASB sticker ---- what's that come to?

Russell Schweiss

Scripps has not made any indications that they want to do embryonic stem-cell research in Florida. And the governor has said under his watch, there won't be state dollars going to embryonic stem-cell research.

Vuk Draskovic

Millions of dollars would pour in as new investments.

Tom Shields

Millions of dollars have been spent on these lawsuits (restricting casinos), and no one has stepped up and taken responsibility for paying the bills. The question is, who is paying for it.

Jose Gasset

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Philip Baggaley

Maintenance work is often outsourced, especially at the low-cost carriers. I think it weakens labor's hand generally, but I wouldn't extend this to all other types of labor negotiations. American found out a number of years ago they couldn't fly through a flight attendant strike.

Philip Baggaley

Maintenance work is often outsourced, especially at the low-cost carriers, ... I think it weakens labor's hand generally, but I wouldn't extend this to all other types of labor negotiations. American found out a number of years ago they couldn't fly through a flight attendant strike.

Scott Peck

Love is the will to extend one's self-in order to nuture-one's own or another's spiritual growth.

Sam Smith

Last year we extended it, and it worked so well. We have a lot of retired people in the area, so many people can work during the week and many of them do.

Jeffrey Sconce

Many shows this season ... had gruesome shots of women being brutalized and terrorized in very graphic and extended ways,

Larry Kellner

My fellow co-workers and I extend our heartfelt sympathies to the family and friends of the mechanic involved in this tragic event.

Andrea White

One of the things under consideration is the extension of those programs. And the thought is that by extending the programs those people will be reached.

Scottie Somers

One nation we stand; our sacrifice so grand. We extend our hand; love is the brand.

Alexandra Paul

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

Jill Soloway

My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.

Dieter Zetsche

Energy and fuel prices continue to rise, triggering fuel consumption concerns in the United States.

Rob McDonald

Fuel is now our number one cost. We regret having to increase fares but the numbers are stark.

Ben Macklin

Fueled by a poker craze, the growth of broadband, and television coverage, online gambling is quickly moving to the mainstream.

Tad Hutcheson

The price of fuel has just gotten out of hand.

Gerald Grinstein

If we had fuel at the price it was three years ago, we would have had probably record operating profits in the first and second quarters of the year. That's how much fuel has impacted Delta.

Micky Arison

Significant improvements in pricing, particularly for our North American brands, more than compensated for increases in fuel costs.

Ricky Craven

If we come into the race with the idea that we have to do everything we can to save fuel, there will be 36 cautions and fuel will be irrelevant,

Andrew Card

would indicate a truly catastrophic occurrence on the plane.

Donald Schneider

I think the new discoveries are going to indicate that Pluto should not really be called a planet.

Pat Gillick

He's getting better. I thought this spring that he didn't indicate to me that he was that type of (one-dimensional) hitter. He indicated to me that he was a lot better.

Steve Pikiell

We're a team that needs a lot of things to go right for us to win. We're improving. Unfortunately, our record doesn't indicate that.

John Howard

I won't indicate at this stage that I'm sympathetic to this or that possible change.

Tony Ryall

It does indicate that we need to rethink New Zealand's anti-smoking campaign.

Douglas Altabef

I think if you look at volume it would seem to indicate there very likely may be a return of investors. People who are more opportunistic have seen the signs. But a lot of people are waiting for clarity.

Nobutaka Machimura

I suppose such statements would not be accepted, ... seems to indicate that the second stage of negotiations has already begun.

Andy Davis

Eyewitnesses indicate that the shooting could be drug related.

James Frecheville

Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

F. Stone

Let's just say it would be in the millions of dollars,

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Susan Ertz

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

William Stafford

One way to find your place is likethe rain, a million requestsfor lodging, one that wins, findsyour cheek: you find your home.

Kevin Wilson

Money's not everything - the volunteering professionals to get this thing done is worth more than anything ... that's worth a million dollars,

James Williams

No one thought - not a single person - that it would be this severe, this tragic. No one thought the levees would break. Not in a million years.

Erin Dawson

Never in a million years would I have thought that I would be where I am.

Andrew Bogut

I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

Junichiro Koizumi

My first priority will be postal system reform,

Brooke Svendsen

We planted a post back to stop those quick attacks.

Bernard Ebbers

Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.

Giles Foden

My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.

Des Browne

I am sorry to be leaving the post of secretary of state for Scotland.

Bernie Sanders

It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.

Tim Roemer

We have had our first post 9/11 test and we have miserably failed,

Dick Wildt

We need to have that out of our post player.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Cherry Hill

The prices are like the Energizer Bunny: They just keep going and going up,

Mark Clare

With wholesale prices where they are, all suppliers are going to have to put prices up in 2006, and I think that is inevitable.

Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Christopher Murray

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

Grace Hightower

I did everything. I worked at S.S. Kresge, the five-and-dime. I worked in a mailroom. I worked processing insurance claims.

Abraham Zapruder

Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

Bob Poser

You can tell that he's processing everything when you're talking. You can see that his wheels are churning.

Zheng Jingping

So there must be trade surplus in the processing trade.

Robert Webb

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

John Heimlich

We're not saying things are hunky-dory. All we're saying is that some of the indicators we look at and some of the recent trends are promising, and that's the first time I've used that word in a long time.

Dr. Baxter

We're seeing a lot of influenza, more than in recent years. This is a very big year.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Carl McDonald

We think Aetna's results will be more than enough to sustain the stock's recent strength.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Dean Taylor

There is no secret formula; they just do things better than everyone else, ... They have scouted and evaluated their own players, and other players, better than any other team in recent memory.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

Bob Stoops

Typical of our recent classes, this one is well-balanced.

Brad Goreski

An embellished top with slim pants is great, even for a wedding.

J. M. Roberts

He had a slender nose. He had very slim features.

Christopher Moore

In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.

Eminem

Slim Shady, Eminem was the old initials.

Marion Bartoli

I have no sponsors because I am not blond, tall and slim enough

Mary Roach

Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

Randy Savage

Snap into a Slim Jim!

Michelle Monaghan

I live in L.A., so layers are essential to my wardrobe. I like slim silhouettes, typically, and I love good tailoring.

Marge Piercy

On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.