Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Tallent

Our operating efficiency ratio of 58.80% for the quarter is within our long-term efficiency goal of 58% to 60%, reflecting the success of our recent expansion efforts and the continued strength of our existing franchise.

James Lardner

Suddenly the already wealthy were reaping all the benefits. While other stories held our attention, that trend continued for 30 years.

David Cutcliffe

Steven has had a really good spring. From Day 1, even when we were out there in shorts, his demeanor was what you want in a football player. He has worked extremely hard and has continued to improve every week and every practice.

Greg Stuart

Our prognosis for a continued and steady recovery is being realized and the outlook remains bright.

Steven Bangert

Our placement on the list reflects the continued strength of our earnings over the past decade, and we have every intention of earning a spot on the Honor Roll for many years to come.

Hunter Harrison

Our performance reflected continued productivity improvements ... and a relentless focus on cost control that produced a record first-quarter operating ratio of 66.2 per cent.

Tom Ryan

Our results were driven by a combination of strong top-line growth, continued expense control and improved gross margin performance that reflects the smallest decline we have seen in nearly three years,

Steven Rogel

Our results reflect the strong U.S. housing market and continued unsettled world markets for pulp, paper and packaging products.

John Reed

Our results in the quarter were good in the face of continued pressure on our margins and pricing, and an increasingly competitive environment in virtually all markets,

Debbie Wing

Our office of general council will work with the judge to determine how FEMA will respond to the ruling.

Susan Thomas

Our primary objective is to provide the police department with the information they need to enforce the ordinance fairly. The administration and council must provide the department with tools, definitions and intent so they know how to enforce the ordinance.

Mike Jackson

We need an election, not a walk-on. If you only have one person running, people don't know who she is until she's on the council dais.

Kofi Annan

I will leave it to the council to determine what message it wants to send.

Kim Campbell

I think the tribal council should make it the highest priority. That would mean the election results would be a true representation of what tribal members want. As it stands, the election process is tainted.

Steve Shulman

I think the town council couldn't have reacted better.

Kofi Annan

It is a serious matter. And we shouldn't forget that the council as a whole got the resolution only last Monday, ... For them to take time and discuss this issue seriously is something we should be grateful for.

Fred Eckhart

I think there's a lot of room in the mandate as it is for robust action, ... But it's a matter for the council to decide whether they want to make it even more robust.

Silvio Berlusconi

The accession of one of these countries to the UN Security Council runs the risk of embarrassing three or four other countries,

E. O. Wilson

Our losing streak ended, so hopefully the Leafs' will end theirs (tonight).

Jim Eastin

Our line has been our strength so far. We get after people and stay after them. Our season is not over. Hopefully the kids understand that.

Dan White

Our members look for leadership from us and hopefully they'll take our advice. The majority said they liked what Culver had to say and that's where the endorsement went.

Ben Tate

Some of the linebackers tell me what they're going to do. Steve Gandy told me he was going to put the 'boom' on me -- knock me out. I just laugh. I don't know if we're tackling or not, but hopefully we are. I get to show what I can do a little bit.

Michael Pockl

Our schools will be open on Friday, hopefully with our teachers.

Jeff Richards

Our tanker truck is at the terminal waiting to get loaded, but we don't know if they'll give them any fuel. The pipelines have been turned off in Houston, so hopefully they'll get some to get us through the weekend.

Dwyane Wade

I will be soon. Hopefully I will be there in 2008 at the Olympics. Hopefully when I get out there one day soon I will get a warm ovation.

Chris Harris

I will be learning all season, and the only way you get better is through experience. I will take some bruises, but hopefully I don't make the same mistake twice.

Jay Davis

Just because we needed a spark in the offense. We haven't necessarily had that spark that you need to get your offense moving, and hopefully Marcus will do that.

Heinrich Pierer

Our first quarter results are better than we expected, however we stand by the overall outlook we provided in December,

Debra Roberts

We live life moving forwards, however we learn the most by looking backwards.

Rob Hoffman

It doesn't matter who I wrestle. You still have to go out and get the job done. You only have to win by one point. Sure, you'd like to pin, but it's rewarding however you get the win.

Paul Mason

I'm shocked, there's nothing to justify the prices we're paying before Katrina, however there's a little more to justify the prices we're paying now,

Bill Belichick

I don't know, ... Day to day. We'll take it day by day. That's the way it's been for the last however many months. That's, I think, the only way you can do it.

Sufjan Stevens

I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.

Errol Alcott

He is responding well to treatment however he will be out of tomorrow's Twenty20 match.

Arthur Doyle

I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem

Kelly Macdonald

L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

Alexandre Kervinio

People know the Iranian situation will stay in the market for quite some time.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I was able to slip into Afghanistan for a week. However, I had to go back into Iran to produce my film, shot about two kilometers from the border.

Jacques Chirac

I was profoundly shocked by the statements of the Iranian president, which are totally senseless and irresponsible,

Howard Berman

It is longstanding U.S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far, they have not taken us up on our offer.

Mehrangiz Kar

It doesn't mean that the majority of the Iranian people think like that. They are staying in their homes. They are not on the streets.

Ray Takeyh

I think the Iranians are willing to live with ... a possible referral to the Security Council.

Mark Gwozdecky

IAEA received a prompt response from Iranians to visit the site, prompt access,

Azar Nafisi

Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.

Azar Nafisi

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.

Michael R. Bloomberg

I think it's time to see what the marketplace really wants, and perhaps we can better accommodate that,

Orhan Pamuk

I think perhaps it is a generational thing,

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

Jose Sulaiman

I think that perhaps this has more to do with physiological aspects, I don't know,

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Lloyd Carr

Obviously, there is a sense of urgency about this week that's very special, that perhaps is different.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

Upma Chawdhry

It has been indicated that this was reported late.

Ronda Tompkins

I didn't do anything extraordinary. I just reported what I saw that night.

Jean-Marie Lehn

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.

Kent Cooper

One tribe has been reported with over 75 different names.

Terry Coleman

You all reported everything. All you got to do is look in the archives. I feel you all were probably too tough on me.

Mark Fuhrman

Nobody's reported my victories, my accomplishments, my true personality - the way I treat all people.

Dante Pistone

Nothing was reported to us. It would be the trucking company's responsibility to do so.

Charles Parker

They called 911 and reported it to the police,

Takafumi Horie

I know nothing about such a reported case. At this moment, I have nothing to tell you.

Sheila Garrard

I think they have to respond and I think they have to respond with cash.

Eric Lindros

I think so. We'll see how it responds (to Monday's practice), but right now I think so.

Mark Vitner

I think they would be responding to all the talk of outsourcing and all the talk in the headlines.

Woody Allen

I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I-I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I-I ripen and then rot.

Jorge Ortiz

Bartlett just seemed to get stronger and stronger. We just couldn't respond to their speed that they had.

Brandon Roy

I don't think he was sure how we were going to respond to him. He was a little down. He was pretty upset he made that mistake.

Carlos Mesa

We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.

Mike Kramer

We had a very preliminary discussion. All we have done is respond to an inquiry.

Angelo Scola

more simply and efficiently respond to pastoral needs.

Soundarya

I'd like to be known for my character.

Mikhail Bakunin

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

John Sparkman

We've got to do something. You can't play Russian roulette on this.

Anatoli Boukreev

There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.

Anatoli Boukreev

I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.

Mikhail Bakunin

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.

David Letterman

The Russian economy is tanking. It's gotten so bad that today Vladimir Putin had to pawn his stolen Super Bowl ring. And Putin will finance his next invasion on Kickstarter.

Anna Kournikova

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

Jim Keller

It does give them a sense of security.

John Gadd

He didn't want welfare. He didn't want Social Security.

George Tenet

If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet.

Lawrence Lindsey

I don't think we're going to be touching Social Security at all.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Neil Callaway

We'd like to have one of them, yeah. You'd always like to have more security and more depth.

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We are not worried by the Security Council, but it is the wrong method.

John Hayes

We have always escorted our programs. We've always had security staff on our programs.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Mark Bedenbaugh

That takes away from one of your senses.

Diane Ackerman

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Neil Harbisson

If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.

Eknath Easwaran

We become in part what our senses take in.

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.