Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Johnson

Regarding the unfortunate incident that happened this morning as I was on my way to take a physical, I hope that everyone will understand that the past few days have been a bit overwhelming and I wish I had handled the situation differently, ... I am very sorry it happened.

Satoru Iwata

Recently I have gained a little bit of interest in getting more involved in game development again.

Paul Ferley

Recent comments by Fed officials on indications that the U.S. economy had a fair bit of momentum going into the natural disaster seems to have resulted in the consensus of the Fed continuing to hike rates,

Jerry Taylor

Price gouging -- like spinach -- may be unappealing at first bite but it's good for everyone in the long run,

Nancy Lopez

Our passing broke down a little bit and we're just not at the next level yet.

Peter Struck

Our relations now, they are a little bit difficult, but they will be repaired,

Janine Benyus

Organisms sip energy, because they have to work or barter for every single bit that they get.

Gail Goestenkors

Parity is a great thing for the sport, but I think we?re still 5-10 years away from reaching the same level. There are more upsets, but only in the early rounds, if you consider those upsets. There?s still a lot we have to do to get to a desirable level, and there are so many things to consider. It?s happening a little bit now, but you?re not going to see everything change all in one tournament.

Ezra Morse

Paul broke the Waldport dry spell of state placers last year when he placed fifth, and now we've made a bit more recent history by placing three wrestlers in the same year. It's been a long time since that has happened and since we've had a wrestler in the state finals. With all these placers returning next year, we are poised to make major gains next season.

Leroy Hill

Relentless, hungry, a bunch of different words. All underdog words. We're fighting from the bottom trying to get up to the top. We're just going to stay that way.

Joseph Biden

Relations with many of our oldest friends are, quite frankly, scraping the bottom right now,

Dan Bartlett

President Bush will show that the math speaks for itself. The bottom line is that the Social Security system, in 13 years, will be taking in less money than it's paying out. We'll go into the red.

Jim Larranaga

Our league has had an incredible season from top to bottom and start to finish. The league is at its all-time best.

Stetson Kennedy

Oral history represents a democratization of the history-telling process ... this thing of having history recorded from on high for us, instead of doing it for ourselves, has proven to be a risky business. We need to have history from the bottom up.

Clint Bowyer

Some of the Cup guys trying to make the Chase are setting a good example right now of how it needs to be done. The bottom line is we have to run better than the No. 8 car.

Jason Varitek

Some of this stuff can help to drive you. But the bottom line is, we need to go after them. Go. Go play the game.

Todd Lampman

Some guys in the lower part of the order got a hit. When those guys get involved in the offense, it really helps. The guys at the top have been swinging it well, and you get production out of the bottom guys that makes it all that much better.

D. James

Someone needs to get to the bottom of this.

David Thurtell

Refiners don't want to get caught out in the next six months, with the hurricane season, Iran, etcetera. Where you'd normally expect at these high prices refiners trying to cut down on stocks, I think they're saying there's big money to be made if you've still got inventory when the hurricanes hit.

James Ashurst

People let their common sense go on vacation before they do. It's easy to get caught up in the whole experience.

Jennifer Mitchell

People need to know there are sex offenders using the Internet. Whether they've been caught or not, whether they're registered or not, there are people out there who are using technology for their own benefit.

Robert Latham

Supply has caught up with demand, but we will continue to need those commodities for a while.

Chris Cichocki

Steve got caught up in the numbers game, and that happens in this league. I hear he is a physical presence who finishes off his checks, and that's what we need.

Glenn Roeder

Some of our players did well, some didn't. We conceded two goals before we'd even caught our breath. In the end I was stood there thinking, 'My God, I wish we'd got Rooney.' He's not even near his full potential right now but in three or four years there's every chance he could be the world's No1 player.

Benjamin Raich

Some of us are quite tired, it's not so easy to stay totally focused and motivated after our wonderful Olympics. I caught a cold this week, so I have to be happy with today's performance. I had a strong second run this afternoon. This morning, I made a few mistakes but I found some momentum to improve my standings.

Sara Evans

some of the unfortunate things that can happen to you if you were ever to get caught cheating.

Rodney Tention

Our game plan was to make sure our defenders were there when Morrison caught the ball. I thought we did a good job in the first half, he just took over the second half.

Chris Parker

Reform is needed, especially in the U.S., to curb the excessive litigation costs .

Alex Saitta

Relative to surrounding school districts our starting pay is lower than most, but the cost of living in Pickens is less too. It's not how much you make, but how much you have in your pocket after you pay all your bills.

Kelly Wilson

Our recent success has a lot to do with the cost of prescription drugs. People are looking for alternatives, healthier ones that aren't as expensive. We help people get back to the roots of everything. Nowadays everything is so chemically enhanced. People don't know what they are getting. But with us you do.

Helen Clark

Our rates are disturbing and will deliver poor health long-term to many of our people at a very high cost to the taxpayer.

Takuma Sato

Our qualifying positions cost us the result, ... but we tried a very different strategy today to try to make up some places.

Lino Spiteri

Partisan party considerations and public funds and cost should not mix.

S. Walker

Pay issues can cost up to about $8 million a year and that would leave very little, if any, for incentive programs and educational programs. The mistake we made was on the benefits.

Steve Miskin

Our main cost is people ? salaries and staff.

Bob Warren

Our offensive line did a great job for their first game. We have just one returning player on our offensive line. Defensively, we didn't have any big mistakes that cost us.

Glenn Walsh

Our objective has always been third and when we get there, we'll look at second place. These next games are extremely important. The third, fourth and fifth place teams are playing really well right now and if you lose two or three in a row, it could really drop you down in the standings.

Doug Johnson

Our main focus right now is our D zone coverage. Hopefully when the puck drops we'll be ready.

Alan Vituli

Sure it's a loss, but losses are funny things, when thing are going well, any piece that drops out of the equation seems like a loss. But things often work out.

Charles Grassley

Some of the things they're recommending were hot issues in the 1990s, and they were dropped after being pushed by predecessors of mine very strongly and just didn't get anywhere.

Bob Gaudet

Our team played good hockey from the drop of the puck. It was a back and forth game, and the final minute was a reflection of that.

David Flanery

Our sales probably didn't drop off as fast as they should have when we grew so fast and weren't performing at the store level. We really fixed most of the issues starting in 2003 and on into 2004. We were very comfortable where we were, but we weren't seeing the sales results. We were starting to get very frustrated around here.

Kevin Kinel

Our focus has been on the state meet. I feel pretty good about going down to state. We'll have time drops there.

F. Stone

Our unemployment has been steadily dropping over the past several years. We are going from a time when people can't find jobs to the other end of the spectrum, where employers can't find people.

David Bradford

Risk managers who saw their renewal prices drop said they felt lucky, because those who experienced the hurricane effect are now explaining to their management why renewal premiums just went through the roof. The real question is whether Katrina and Rita will have a lasting effect and strengthen the market for a time -- potentially in all lines of business, not just property -- or whether this is a short-term blip in what has proved to be a pretty resolute soft market.

Nariman Behravesh

Record-high energy prices did not spill over into the rest of the economy.

Toby Chaudhuri

President Bush's energy program won't help lower gas prices or slow global warming.

Scott Nichols

Participation in this league has been outstanding this season. Our numbers have more than doubled in the last three years, and it is great fun to have all that new energy in the league.

Kathleen Hogan

Partners like USAA Real Estate Co. are national leaders in energy efficiency.

Gary Grandbois

PCs have a lifespan and energy that we keep thinking is going to weaken, but it doesn't. We are still looking at double-digit growth in PCs.

Seimone Augustus

Our offense was not as effective. I would not say our energy level was low. But, it was not tip top. I felt I needed to do something to step up my game.

Kevin Wright

Our live show is very entertaining. It's energy filled. We love to banter back and forth with the audience.

Spencer Abraham

Our national energy policy will stress the need to diversify America's energy supply,

Mike Duffy

Starting now, farmers need to think more cautiously about their energy use.

Javier Solana

Regarding exports of North Korean missile technology, export of technology is trade and if there are buyers, we'll sell.

Brian Redican

We're optimistic that exports will improve, but probably not until the second quarter of 2006.

Rob Henderson

More generally, it looks like the long-awaited trend improvement in Australia's exports could be upon us.

Oliver North

Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petroleum products - coal, natural gas, and hydrocarbon energy in the form of petroleum. Number two, it exports arms, and, number three, it exports people.

Baba Kalyani

We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.

Richard Jerram

Exports seem to be stalling and there are some signs this is already being felt by industrial production,

David Cohen

Exports held up at a solid increase and imports have been in a more moderate range, after skyrocketing in the middle of the year.

David Cohen

Exports are susceptible to the pharmaceuticals number, which is volatile from month to month.

Glenn Maguire

Exports are starting to firm, which is lending support to industrial production.

Patrick Sullivan

It is a setback to a lot of farmers, ... but farmers in Mississippi are very resilient. They'll be back.

Allen Baker

That was great. I didn't quite know what was going on. I thought there was going to be some sort of FFA (Future Farmers of America) show on the soccer field.

Bill Grant

That was what the farmers thought the state could do that would help them the most, ... It seemed reasonable to me.

Jeff Sanders

It is government trying to protect people from themselves. GMO products are a tool conventional farmers use to eke out a living. Tradition is that neighboring farmers work out their differences and generally they can do a pretty good job.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here once the embattled farmers stood, / And fired the shot heard round the world.

Nicolas Cage

I don't think we would be. I think it'd be scientists and farmers and such.

Dave Lewis

Hopefully we get way over what we have 150 percent would be great farmers wouldn't worry about the water no talk about shutting off irrigation we really need the water so hopefully it'll be a good year.

Howard Schwartz

One of things we know is that farmers learn from each other, ... This helps them share information as well as get information from us.

Jerry Miller

Single farmers need to find someone who can relate to what they do. Those people are out there. They just need to meet 'em.

Kathleen Hohl

Regardless of the number of men we ordain to the priesthood each year, that number does not keep pace with the number of priests who retire from the ministry. As a result of fewer priests, the need for well-trained lay ministers is even more important.

Jon Peck

Our report can only reflect the numbers provided to the state. There are larger communities that reported fewer than some smaller communities.

Ken Goldstein

Part of the real story here is that, through July, producers were still getting more output, with fewer labor hours put in. Productivity in the third quarter is probably going to be stronger than in the second quarter, confirming the idea that, while the stock market's not in good shape, the overall economy's not that bad.

Anthony Chukumba

Pier 1 needs to fix the problem with its merchandise. Fewer people are going into their stores because they're not selling anything different,

Josh Bernoff

It doesn't matter how friendly you are if the end result is people watching fewer commercials,

Greg Knapp

I think he did a great job last year of taking a lot fewer hits. He understands how important his health is to this team and that he doesn't need to put himself in harm's way.

Teju Cole

I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'

Jason Falkner

I feel that recording a song already compromises the magical music one can create in the mind, so the fewer people watering down this process the better.

Curtis Eccles

Jack is taking fewer shots because of the double-teams. He's doing a good job of finding the open man.

Lydia Lunch

I watch the news. It fuels my rage; it informs my work.

Peter Hillyard

It all helps to fuel the fire. Gold would have bounced anyway, but maybe not so quickly.

Robert Mills

I am losing $2,600 a week on fuel that used to go toward my profit,

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.

Greg Brunner

Just making shots slows (Michigan State) down a little bit. And then we had some silly turnovers that we don't normally have. That just better fuels their offensive aggression.

Gunnar Lindstrom

It (hydrogen fuel cells) needs a major breakthrough in technology.

Chosun Ilbo

Lack of information of the unstable nation fuel uncertainty.

Ed Stewart

For us, it's all about fuel, fuel and fuel.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Demosthenes

The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

Rob Clarke

We didn't harvest it, we didn't process it. We would never have knowingly distributed questionable material.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

John McGinnis

We could harvest day after day after day.

Dave Heineman

Diesel fuel is too important to our farmers at harvest time and to the truckers delivering commerce across Nebraska to allow a bureaucratic hurdle to slow the delivery of fuel.

Pamela Wilson

The kids have been just wonderful this week, ... They were interested as much in talking about the hurricane as they were the harvest tax in China.

John Bradley

This material does look very primitive. This is material we can work with. We can harvest science from this.

Bible Bible

If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything.

Wesley Moultrie

Our requirement would be that the tobacco firms in the U.S. maintain a high level of liquidity.

Andy Roberts

Our replacement technicians are highly trained and experienced mechanics.

Greg Aiello

Passions run high this time of year. The main thing is, Pittsburgh won the game. It could've been worse.

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.

Janice Miller

Part of Planet Digital's mission is to provide people with the highest standard of hands-on training possible,

Jim Keller

Our low power, high performance technology is very well suited to that.

Tom Phillips

People I know in the administration have a very high regard for Nathan,

Kathleen Murray

People have to reschedule their weddings for many reasons. You don't want to be left high and dry.

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.

Dawn Ostroff

Our strength is having high-quality hits that it would take another (new) network years to develop.

Chad Slyter

I think they are just wondering what we have to do to win these short run games. The difference, right now, is we're not getting hits with runners at second and third.

Emily Martin

Jamie is really pounding the ball. She's been getting big hits for us all season.

Terry Cornett

(Lang) had them at bay. Then they had two hits and scored them.

Jeff Messer

That's the way he was last year. He's not overpowering, but he hits his spots.

Dan Haren

I think our offense is even better than last year. Milton and Frank, I mean, look at the hits they had tonight. It's nice to see them in the lineup.

Joel Edgerton

I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.

Tim Chambers

He'll be able to go wherever he wants to go, if he keeps those hits up.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Shlomo Yosef

Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Keith Schwer

Someone might find low taxes agreeable, but not the way tax revenues are spent, such as on education.

James Davis

Our profits would increase, gosh, a lot, ... Of course, we?d lower our prices.

Mike Showalter

Our strength is down low in the post. I like to pound it inside. When we do that it opens it up for our guards. And our guards, when they take it in the lane, are awfully tough to defend.

Kim Zimmerman

Overall, I was very satisfied with our team score today. The one thing that surprised me was how low the team scores were today. It was virtually the first time out for many of the girls, especially playing 18 holes. Some have played nine holes.

Mark Kantrowitz

It is and it isn't. It is from the point of view that rates are the lowest they've ever been.

Mitch Kapor

Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.

Juan Williams

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

Eddie Jordan

That was our low point of the season.

Kate Joncas

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

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.

Christopher Murray

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

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

John Eade

We're probably going to see more weakness in stock prices in the near-term,

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.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Swag is something that I've had for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies.

Adam Carolla

spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human.

S. Walker

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Boy George

Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time

Bob Rose

We need solidarity. This is a union town, and it's time to show that.