Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Braisted

Refugees attempting to build the blockhouse on the remains of the fort never mounted ... cannons although they may have had at least one with them.

John Loose

Recognizing the many uncertainties about the broader economy, we are carefully walking the line between realism and optimism, ... Although it appears that our revenue stream will improve as the year plays out, the pace and timing of recovery is uncertain.

Tania Graves

Really what it is is focusing on businesses that are core to our strategic plan. These lines of businesses, although profitable ... would thrive better with a company that is more focused in those areas.

Preston Sturges

Paris Singer had vastly more to do with shaping my character than Mother had; although Mother made innumerable sacrifices for me, and Paris Singer made none. I wanted to be like him.

Charlie Glavin

Our October downgrade was based on concerns that are manifesting themselves now, although current conditions are actually worse than we feared,

D. James

Our objective is to make it easy for our customers and members to understand their benefit and get their prescriptions filled. Although some new enrollees may not have received their plan enrollment cards, we want to reassure them that Wal-Mart and SAM'S CLUB pharmacists are ready to help them right away by using the information on their plan enrollment forms.

Richard Hatch

Some of the most amazing human beings on the face of the planet go to sci-fi conventions, although I'm sure a few of them wouldn't admit it.

Henry Blodget

Our preliminary conclusion is that, although Microsoft is not out of the woods, it will be slightly more free to compete on its own terms than we expected it would.

Bob Morton

Our pitch is top-class and the lads enjoy playing on it. I'm sure we are a better team at home although I'm not making any excuses for last Saturday's unexpected defeat at Tow Law Town which was only our third in 29 games.

Andy Walker

Previously Apple's operating system, Mac OS X, was untargeted by virus writers, but two worms aimed at the OS changed all that. Apple had been bragging about its security record pretty loudly and now has to eat its words.

Charles Pratt

Orchards are a beautiful place, and it's a wonderful experience to do with your children so they see where apples come from. Nothing beats the sensation of picking the first apple of the season.

Bruce Tognazzini

Steve Jobs has done a good job of selling, and the Apple interface is still superior, but he doesn't have critical mass.

Wayne Rosso

Steve Jobs and Apple are going to be toast. There's going to be a completely different landscape.

Ed Looney

Sports betting is the rock of Gibraltar. It's American, like apple pie. That will always be there. People love to bet on it. People love to bet on their football games.

M. Wolfe

Stanford has been fortunate to partner with Apple in a project that allows us to share the intellectual and cultural life of the university with our alumni.

Susan Schorr

Some ISPs are very proactive, and are spending huge amounts of money combating spam. The problem is not all ISPs are doing this. A smaller group of ISPs profit from carrying spam or take no action, and those bad apples touch the rest of the ISP community.

Gene Steinberg

Some people are so devoted to products from Apple Computer that they forget it's just a company, not your friend. So it may do things to protect its stockholders and ensure its profitability that won't match your expectations. To generalize the concept: Take the price of a new product. You may regard it as too expensive, lacking the features that you want. But Apple's financial and product people consider the costs of manufacturing, the profits they require to cover manufacturing and R&D expenses, including paychecks for the thousands of people who depend on the company for their livelihood, and produce a figure that satisfies their needs, even if you'd rather play $100 less. As for that feature you want, marketing may feel that the right number customers won't pay extra for it, that you might find it in a third party utility, and that, as they say, is that.

Mark Scott

Our focus is on building awareness for the new platform and offering targeted training and education to Apple partners to enable them to offer winning managed services for the Mac and mixed environments. The N-central 5.1 platform will open the playing field and make managed services a profitable reality for Apple Specialists, as well as solution providers servicing a multiple operating system environment.

Ronde Barber

Regardless of what 2004 was about, 2005 gave us a new opportunity. Everybody jumped at it, believe in it, worked for it.

Friso Abbing

Regarding the substance of the proposal, our view is the reverse of the people you have been speaking to. We believe that we need to protect innovators, therefore we want to send a strong signal to those people infringing intellectual property that they face criminal sanctions.

James Loy

Recent information from ongoing investigations, detentions, and emerging-threat streams strongly suggests that al-Qaeda has considered using the southwest border to infiltrate the United States. Several al Qaeda leaders believe operatives can pay their way into the country through Mexico and also believe illegal entry is more advantageous than legal entry for operational security reasons.

Anthony Romero

President Bush may believe he can authorize spying on Americans without judicial or congressional approval, but this program is illegal and we intend to put a stop to it.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes that we need to explore new methods of deriving new lines that would not result in embryos being destroyed. He feels that we should push the envelope of science in a way that does not cross fundamental moral and ethical lines.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job, We don't speculate on personnel decisions.

Alan Greenspan

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job.

Donna Shalala

(President Bill Clinton) believes that we can get comprehensive legislation this year, with or without (tobacco companies), ... Meet The Press.

George Buckley

Price growth is on a softening trend and we continue to believe that the outlook for the housing market over the medium term is one of flat to falling prices.

Gene Orza

Part of our task is to let a consensus emerge.

Chris Spear

I think there is finally a consensus that we need to be securing these facilities.

Ian Gunner

I think there's a whole wealth of information suggesting that things are on the mend... I don't think this is really going to disturb market consensus that the German economy will continue throughout the course of this year.

Joe Moore

I think there was a pretty good recognition that the consensus number was too high and that some of the estimates out there were stale.

James Schmidt

I think some of the consensus numbers are a little stale some of the estimates that go into that don't reflect the recent thinking many analysts have about Morgan Stanley.

Edward Gramlich

I think his departure is more a sign of stability and consensus at the Fed than a reflection of disagreement.

Mitch Daniels

I think this is a matter for local decision-making and local consensus and that seems to be what is happening,

Tom Schlesinger

Greenspan is an orthodox thinker in most ways, but you have give him credit for questioning consensus thinking.

Keith Sherin

Given the current outlook, we expect to modestly exceed the first quarter consensus estimate of $0.75 per share,

Peter Davis

Relevance to Alzheimer's? I don't know, ... It's a nice piece of work in the snail model, but any possible link to Alzheimer's is currently obscure.

James Allen

Part of the reason of the survey is to look for current information on what people are doing, what their risks are and what their level of knowledge is,

Keith Clark

Part of that time period will be a sports program that redesigns the current 'KDKA/IC Light Sports Talk' show, while keeping our branding with Pittsburgh Brewing.

Farouk Kadodia

Our long-term vision for the team, the current situation and our position on the log table has forced us to look for other options.

John Hahn

Our organizations currently provide the majority of the security details required during events at our venues.

Elizabeth Leonard

Some of the people that are currently getting services might not receive services. Or, it could mean that new programming that would've been more helpful won't be funded.

Lee Scott

Our goal for the second half of the year remains double-digit earnings growth,. However, given the current economic environment this will be difficult to achieve, ... We expect earnings growth in the second half will show improvement over the first half of this year as we leverage our sales and market share gains, but the growth may not meet our original goals.

Jamey Marth

Our findings suggest that the current human epidemic in type-2 diabetes may be a result of GnT-4a enzyme deficiency.

Mitul Kotecha

Overall, he is opening the door to further rate hikes. It could also suggest that rates could go higher than currently priced in.

Rosevelt Colvin

Regardless of who's on the field, the guys are required to perform at a high level. So, regardless if it's Richard or if it's a rookie, you're expected to get the job done.

Marcelo Porto

Our market was out of the game for two days, while there were losses abroad. It has readjusted prices in a moderate way. I had expected a worse day.

Joe Eberhardt

Our model mix, which was rejuvenated in the past months, and expected higher unit sales in the future are set to increase profitability automatically.

Joel Greenlee

Overall it was a pretty good weekend for us but I really expected us to get the win over Virginia. There were about three more matches that we should have won but that's how it goes sometimes. You can't give up back points like we did late in those matches.

Jacques Rogge

Overall, it's been what we expected ? not really what we had wished.

David Law

Overall, I'm happy with the job they did. I told them from day one I expected them to be in the championship game.

Jim Silver

Over $500 million last year was spent on Harry Potter toys and this year is expected to be even bigger.

Bobby Bowden

Out of all of them, he would have been the least one we expected to do what he was doing. We didn't know how he could play like he's playing right now.

Elden Auker

Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning.

Robert MacIntosh

Japan's big problem was that fiscal stimulus was not there. They haven't coordinated monetary policy with fiscal policy. That's what we're doing differently, and that's why we won't have the same problem.

Richard Gibbs

Koizumi is being seen as more of a reformist, which plays well with the urban voting blocs, ... But regional factional support seems to be with Hashimoto, and also there's an issue with him on the fiscal reform and debt-restructuring front.

Jim Flaherty

I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt.

Alan Greenspan

I find it utterly inconceivable, frankly, that we can have the type of potential fiscal outlook, which now confronts us over the next 15 to 20 years which, unless addressed, will not have a significant impact on long-term interest rates,

Jerry Taylor

I feel like that is up to the fiscal court,

Steve Brice

From a local perspective they're saving a lot of money at the moment and their fiscal surplus was 15 percent last year and is going to be 14 percent this year.

Pete Sepp

From our standpoint, this is not a top fiscal issue.

Richard Gibbs

He's gained a lot of kudos in recent months, he's a fiscal consolidator -- which is what Japan needs. I understand he has growing support within the LDP.

Chris MacMillan

I don't think it's fiscally possible to do.

Richard Midgley

Regardless of whether we won or lost last Saturday, there would've been a lot of pressure going into this week.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Sam Burns

Recessions usually last about a year. That would place the end around March or April.

John Buchanan

Our record over the last while has been pretty well exemplary, with just the odd incident.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Roger Short

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Jay Bly

Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defense. No matter what offense someone plays, if you get whipped up front, you're not going to win. We saw that when we looked at last year's tape, but we've made some adjustments.

Lee Salem

Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision.

Patrick Stewart

Our last words were, 'Be safe. I love you,' ... He said, 'I will.'

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.

Kathy Stephens

I think people are just now realizing the magnitude of where we are.

Jim Folkman

I think it's a watershed year just in the magnitude of the increase.

Richard Suzman

I was surprised by the magnitude of the effect.

Lynn Schusterman

It is striking to see the magnitude of impact mentorship and tutoring can have on student performance and young lives.

Joe Burke

We don't completely understand the rationale for the magnitude of the downgrade.

Kevin Rochlin

We're in uncharted waters. There has never been anything of this magnitude and this complexity.

Wayne Bennett

Nothing of this magnitude has ever happened, ... It's unprecedented.

David Vallee

It's rare to have a system of that magnitude back up.

Patrick Ho

I'm not surprised that there is a sell-off but I'm a little surprised at the magnitude of the sell-off.

Gitesh Pandya

Star Wars' is going to be a massive hit,

Russell Tovey

Someone outed me when I was 20, and I thought, 'Well, that's out there now...' Nobody made a massive fuss because I wasn't very well known.

Rick Sherlund

I think that would take the stock down a lot. It would open them up to massive follow-on litigation.

Marketing Manager

It is, however, quite rare to have a player have two massive wins within such a short space of time.

Paul Mooney

There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful.

Donald Fiske

Just wait. It will be a massive change. I would say to Wolfeboro: You don't really know what the possibilities are of how your town will be affected.

Donald Fiske

Just wait. It will be a massive change, ... I would say to Wolfeboro: You dont really know what the possibilities are of how your town will be affected.

Donald Fiske

Just wait. It will be a massive change, ... I would say to Wolfeboro, you don't really know what the possibilities are of how your town will be affected.

Judah Friedlander

I'm a massive Steven Seagal fan. I know his movies are horrible, but I've watched all of them over and over again. I'd want to do a movie with him and Van Damme.

Paul Carvel

Passion is a positive obsession. Obsession is a negative passion.

James Cornish

People look at it in a negative way. It shows things were worse than we thought they were.

Nick Kinsella

People who say 'I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist' are actually just negative people who think they are always right.

Barry Mann

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Ed White

I think the signs, so far, are not negative any longer.

Grace Fey

I think the worry is they are going to say something negative about the third quarter.

Jim Bryson

That story should be negative for the rand.

Hemant Shah

That's a very big negative overhang on the drug sector.

Patrick Newport

It isn't very much but it's the first negative in 10 years. That's the big difference.

B. B. King

Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

Bharati Mukherjee

I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.

Bill Bryson

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.

Bernadette Peters

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

David Bernstein

He used no notes and yet his speech was passionate and moving. It was very impressive.

Steve Miller

I get many notes from hourly workers, a lot of them angry. And they say some unkind things about me,

AJ Punjabi

We're offering a reminder service. If you sign up for our e-mail subscription list, the notes are going to automatically be in your e-mail box.

Alan Cropsey

When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse,

Channing Tatum

I've cried a hundred times at The Notebook. My wife cries and that makes me cry, and she makes me promise we're going to die in bed together. I'm like: "That's weird, I don't want to talk about that."

Russell Baze

Past the quarter pole, he surged, got up in the lead,

Jan Egeland

Past agricultural policies have not been good. Governments understand they must be providing long-term solutions.

Jim Schoenfeld

Some of our youngsters have progressed past our expectations.

Carl Brown

Our traffic is up significantly in the past two weeks.

Mike Shanahan

Playing the way they have on the road the past three weeks is really an accomplishment. They play big on the road.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Your past wouldn’t frighten me,” I said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. “I’m guessing I’d be more appalled than anything.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too." "I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.

Dwane Casey

Our second quarter killed us. If we get anything at all in the second quarter, we're in tall cotton.

Eric Benhamou

Our seasonally weak third quarter was exacerbated by several factors.

Phil Jackson

Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter,

Jack Coit

I wish we could just skip that second quarter though. We get a little wrapped up in what we're doing sometimes.

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

Patrick Fearon

We've now had three straight quarters of above-average growth, and that's nothing to sneeze at.

Wang Xuming

Regarding our textbooks, the (policy) has been consistent. There haven't been any changes.

Dominic Cooper

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

W. S. Gilbert

in any scenario regarding the one vote in question.

Estee Lauder

I can understand the skepticism, particularly regarding Estee Lauder,

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Gene Upshaw

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

Robert Klein

I still think the Legislature has to do the right thing (about the disputed revenue sources).

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Martin Pyykkonen

It confirms what I've been thinking about revenue deceleration.

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Dan Rooney

Revenue sharing is a tough thing but it's great.

Bill Spencer

There's just not enough of us. There's just not a whole lot of revenue to be made off of taxes, in my view.

Tom Daschle

I think that it is important for us to have an independent commission, as I've said now on several occasions, but it truly should be independent,

Rob Kardashian

I won state cross-country competitions several times during high school.

Reinhard Selten

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

Hilary Clinton

he could have made that statement several weeks earlier, in time for the holidays.

Edward Gramlich

I think it is more than several weeks for me!

Brian Archer

It could be several weeks before we know the damage,

Matthew Lillard

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

Mayor Hassig

There are several threads here of futures you can choose.

Luiz Scolari

There are several teams, and one of them could be Corinthians.

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Beeban Kidron

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Billy Joel

Why should I worry? Why should I care?There's just this street population, and I've got 'street savoir-faire'.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Anne Rice

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

Kelly Rowan

We never know what's going to happen. It's always a surprise to us too,

Jordan Leopold

I was actually kind of surprised but it's OK. We get all of the attention.

Stephen McPherson

I was a little surprised to see another 'Apprentice',

John Stocco

I was a little surprised by the call, but it was unbelievable.

John Heimlich

I will be very surprised if there is not a proposal.

Les Funtleyder

That was the first upside surprise for Merck in a long time.

Joe Mazzella

That surprised me. He's getting better and better all the time.

Michael Morris

I think we all were surprised by the price.

Carl Everett

I think we're going to surprise a lot of people.