Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Davis

Recent economic data gives us confidence that corporate spending is coming back to life, so I'm hoping sales could be above $5 billion. That would set a strong tone for the rest of the year,

Matthew Dowd

President Bush maintains an approval on the economy in the mid-forties -- exactly what Clinton had at the end of 1995 and above what Reagan had in 1983.

Shen Haihua

Prices above 50,000 yuan will have some negative impact on demand, but in this bull market consumers may be forced to accept these levels.

Andrew Kerr

Our re-analysis revealed that the distance of a village from the coast and the height of the village above sea level explained 87 percent of the variation in mortality among villages.

Ron James

Particularly defensively, we're starting to come into our own. In an Arena Football League game, when you're getting above four stops, you should be able to win every one of those games going away, and we did.

Tony Crescenzi

Parry's comments hint that the Fed still views the neutral level of the federal-funds rate to be approximately two percentage points above the inflation rate,

George Nathan

Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Grant Wistrom

Our new guys have come in and believed that they belonged from the first day. They practice like it and then they go out there on Sunday and show it. Without those guys, we are an average football team, a little above .500. I think we owe them a lot.

E. Hurley

Our message between zero and .08 is a responsibility message. The message of .08 and above is an illegal message.

Kit Williams

Recreating the South Pointing Chariot is particularly challenging because none of the original technical drawings remain in existence.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos.

John Fahey

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

Mary Morrison

Recent experience in Latin America illustrates that governments remain central to infrastructure provision. Not only is public funding sometimes indispensable, but the state has an essential role to play in partnering and overseeing private operators and protecting consumers.

Norman Schwarzkopf

... Recalling back to Operation Desert Storm, I can't help asking myself: Wouldn't it be great for our armed forces and for America if we could have another commander-in-chief named George Bush with Dick Cheney on his team?

Ronald Reagan

Recession is when a neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Jonathan Gilbert

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.

George Miller

President Bush should immediately realize the colossal mistake he has made in signing this order and rescind it and ensure that America puts its people back to work in the wake of Katrina at wages that will get them and their families back on their feet.

Carl Pope

President Bush nominated someone who has consistently opposed protecting public health and public lands. American families deserve an interior secretary who actually values our natural heritage. America deserves someone who will promote safe energy policies that protect sensitive lands and wildlife habitat, instead of giving over our public lands to developers and the oil and gas companies.

Falun Gong

receiving a high level of attention from the Chinese government.

Roger Pielke

reinforces the view that we should pay even greater attention to preparing for the inevitability of future intense hurricanes striking vulnerable locations around the world. In the context of ever-growing coastal development, the costs of hurricanes are going to continue to escalate.

Daniel Winkowski

Relatively nothing is known about how the brain increases and decreases signaling. We want to discover the cellular mechanisms of how attention works.

Todd Davidson

Oregon offers some of the most accessible, high quality lodgings in the West, each with its own distinct service and attention to detail. It's gratifying to receive this recognition, especially when it's from travelers themselves.

Rob Walton

Paul and Jose are rotating off as part of our normal governance guidelines relating to the service of our outside directors. John chose not to stand for re-election in order to focus his attention on his duties as lead director of Delphi.

John Cacioppo

Part of living a healthy life is paying attention to friends and family.

Jeff Schuster

Paying attention to the changing lifestyles of the consumer is very important. When you have so much competition differentiating your product over others with a little tiny thing that suits (the consumer's) lifestyle may be enough to sway them.

Leatrice Eiseman

Pay attention to your feelings, ... Don't be concerned with what others think. Color is a highly personal choice.

Daryl Strohbehn

Pay attention to what the current markets are, see where the averages are and establish based off of what that market is some kind of price range that you're willing to trade in. You have to set your limits.

Jim Henderson

Recent economic news around the world is causing us to reassess our near-term business prospects in key international markets,

Keith Morris

(Receiving the grants) started pointing us in the right direction of the whole change process, ... If that didn't occur, I'm pretty sure we would be doing business as usual.

Rich Gadomski

Price competition and the availability of quality scanning technology have encouraged and enabled the counterfeit tape market. We are aggressively exposing this business as it may put our customers at risk and negatively impact the perception of our quality and value of our brand. It's important that companies realize that they may be contributing to the problem by selling their used tape - or by buying from un-authorized resellers and distributors.

Deane Dotson

Our rental business stays very busy. And we don't require a Visa or MasterCard.

Ken Stein

Our partnership with ADP is a true reflection of successful collaboration, resulting in increased efficiencies. ADP has turned a typical business arrangement into a successful partnership between two dedicated parties with a common goal -- to lower costs and improve service levels.

Jill Lajdziak

Our owners don't want us to lose the honesty of our brand, how we do business without haggling. But they do want a different more dramatic look and feel.

Porter Erisman

Our overall position is that it is the responsibility of every business to follow the local laws of the countries in which they operate.

Sathya Baba

Our relationships are heart to heart relationships. Ours is a business of love, not a business of money or materials.

Stan Marshall

Our regulated utility business, non-regulated generation business and Fortis Properties all delivered increased earnings in the third quarter,

John Connor

reflect some guarded optimism in the direction the market is taking.

Shaun Stenshol

Our goal is a sustainable society and Bio-Beetle is a step in that direction, giving visitors and L.A. residents a renewable energy option when renting a car. As our slogan says, 'Give the planet a vacation the next time you take one.

Shen Haihua

Overall trade was quiet as most players stayed on the sidelines to wait for direction from investment funds.

Pat Summitt

Management wanted to go into a different direction.

Jaromir Jagr

We need some scoring and we need some defense, too. There are a lot of players around the league that see this team is going in a different direction than before.

Jeff Candage

We need someone to get in there and give them some direction. We need oversight by someone in a leadership position.

Joseph Lyons

We need rates to go down, but this goes in the other direction.

Derrick Kellier

I will have to meet with the officials in the ministry and to take direction from the prime minister to see what she wants to be her focus. It is not my focus; it is what her focus is and that of the entire Cabinet.

Thomas Steg

It is another step in the wrong direction by Iran.

Charlie Lester

Part of my plan included giving up red meat, which I did without a fight. I really haven't missed it. Except for one thing -- pot roast.

Rachel Farwell

Our leading scorer every game, except when we played Atchison, hasn't been more than a three-point difference. So, what's working in our advantage, is when they all can score we're pretty tough.

F. Stone

Statistically, the game was pretty even, except for our shooting percentage. Jess had a lot to do with that. She's long and you have to shoot over her.

Betty Williams

That could've been disastrous. Normally they would be in that classroom, except today.

Dale Lortz

Our pitching has been very solid all year and this was no exception a Marissa did a very nice job.

Jamie Heward

I'm hoping we can keep scoring like that. We played well except for about a 10-minute span in the third period. We're a young hockey team and we're going to learn from it.

Alafair Burke

Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation.

Peter Morgan

Koizumi really hasn't talked much about anything else except postal reforms,

Steve Sternberg

I think 'American Idol' wins, except during the finals of the figure skating, if the U.S. is doing well or if there's some major scandal.

Randy Carlyle

Our players worked extremely hard. It was a fast-paced game, and it wasn't no-hit hockey. It was a physical game and those are tough ones to play.

Richard Michaelson

Our reaction was extreme surprise and disappointment. Everything was sorted.

Ted Roof

Our quarterbacks played under extreme pressure. I thought they did a good job hanging in there. What they did today, that wasn't easy.

Michael Heisley

Pau Gasol is extremely popular in Spain. I don't know how much he sells, but I get nothing in Spain. The money goes to the league, and they use it for whatever they choose to use it for to run the league.

Vincent Charles

Peace is still not assured, and we must remember there are still millions of extremely poor and hungry people who need help.

Steve Toltz

Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.

Budge Pountney

Steve has played in the back row a number of times and every time he has, he has done extremely well,

Sen. Garrett

States are grappling with how to handle this. Many are going from one extreme to the other, and I think what we've done is strike a balance. I can honestly say that what we've done could be model legislation.

Patty Murray

States are extremely nervous about what's going to be required of them.

David Healy

I think there will be a strike, but a short one. But any Delphi strike would shut down GM totally in a matter of days.

Tom Hoppe

I'm always getting ready to leave. Some GM workers just keep their stuff in boxes. You never know.

Floyd Reese

I don't think I've ever seen this. I've only been doing this for 30 years, and this is the first time the press got an e-mail and the GM didn't.

David Smith

GM stockpiled a lot of pieces, but that can only last so long,

John Casesa

GM likely doesn't have enough inventory to maintain a strong sales pace.

Harley Shaiken

GM is sending signals about its priorities. The 2007 negotiations are going to be tough.

Joe Barker

GM is going to take Saturn up a notch.

Lindsey Williams

GM has their own attrition plan that they're working through with the union. Now how we play into that ultimately impacts what happens in terms of people movement for GM.

Todd Leone

GM has just been a big dog. It can't get out of its own way. It's going to be a 'show me' kind of stock, until they show us they're actually not going out of business.

Fred Ketchen

Our natural resource sector is the thing that is moving us down.

Ralph Kauffman

Overall the report indicates that the non-manufacturing sector is moving right along. We seem to have recovered from the hurricanes, even though the index is down slightly.

Becca Fitzpatrick

How did you get in?" "I move in mysterious ways." "God moves in mysterious ways. You move like lightening-here one moment, gone the next.

Barry Manilow

These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

Bill Shuster

Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

Bill Shuster

Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.

Bill Engvall

It's like before my wife and I moved. Our house was full of boxes and there was a U-Haul truck in our driveway. My friend comes over and says Hey, you moving? Nope. We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week to see how many boxes it takes. Here's your sign.

Bernie Sanders

The billionaires and their super PACs increasingly control the American political process. This is not democracy. This is not what brave Americans fought and died to defend. This is oligarchy. This is government of the few, by the few and for the few. We must overturn Citizen United and move to public funding of elections.

C. S. Lewis

Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.

Scott Hand

Our North American operations remain a vital base,

Lena Headey

Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be mischievous. We can be bold.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RED-SKIN, n. A North American Indian, whose skin is not red --at least not on the outside.

Kevin Bianco

I think this is a win for everyone in North Bergen.

Chelsea Cain

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.

Jamie Bell

I'm a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

Tom Parsons

If American or Northwest don't go along, fares will roll back.

Darrell Jackson

I don't think people really give the Northwest a lot of respect.

John Williamson

Hopefully, this will be used by all of the county. It's more than just North High.

Melanie Sloan

Particularly in the House, the progress is very slow and may end up with very little reform.

Bertrand Russell

Change is one thing, progress is another.

Bertrand Russell

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

Bertrand Russell

The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.

John Bolton

I think we are still making progress. I think it is slow but it is steady,

Wayne Inouye

I think things are on track and we're very enthusiastic about the progress we've made to date. We have just started a long journey. I don't think that everything is perfect.

Ty Warren

I think we're more satisfied with the progression, and the progress we've made through the season from where we started to where we are right now. It's a whole other season that's going to start right now.

Sandy Bridgeman

I think we?re making the progress that we want to. It?s not perfect. But there are glimpses of the team we can be.

Scott Sutton

I think we're making some progress but tonight we ran out of steam in the third period,

John Nersesian

Rebalancing doesn't work every time. It works over time.

Mac McCabe

Our participants can work just as well as you or I.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Jim Coyne

Some of the work is in dispute. Hopefully, it will be settled.

David Frum

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

Barry Ritholtz

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

David Burnett

Well a little disappointed but we'll work with what we have to work with.

Bill Cosby

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Big Pun

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.