Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Martin

Our mission is to provide every last opportunity for a person to turn his or her life around. We don't give up easily. These men exemplify the true spirit of Christmas - looking inside yourself and finding hope.

Tim Smith

(Spring break) is getting to be another Christmas.

John Heavener

Some of the upscale retailers and those who sold electronics were way up - some 30 percent. Some of the traditional department stores and low-end department stores may not have even made 5 percent. The week before Christmas may have made the difference for us (in Georgia).

Caroline Sunshine

Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories.

Britt Beemer

Overall, the moderate-priced stores such as J.C. Penney, Sears and Wal-Mart had good traffic levels. We think luxury sales were probably flat this past weekend because more people said they decided to go away on vacation before Christmas this year than last year. So this could have impacted spending on other high-end items.

Richard Hastings

Retailers know that many people will wait until after Christmas for the big purchases. So they don't want to go too far into the holidays with excess inventory that they eventually will heavily discount.

Richard Hastings

Retailers have very big orders from vendors ready for delivery right before and right after Christmas. They want to look really, really good. That's when they come out with the richest displays of winter merchandise, and it culminates with Valentine's Day.

Ed Perkins

Resorts generally are starting to feature Christmas, New Year's packages that include some kind of holiday entertainment.

Kurt Barnard

Remember, there are still over 2 million unemployed workers and over 5 million are on part-time jobs. Christmas will be moderately better simply because last year was so bad. But unless this jobs picture improves, it's hard to say that the retail industry has finally turned the corner.

Jack Anderson

Part of my role as a dad is to look at what kind of person he is. I have been remarkably pleased at how humble he is at this whole thing. I don't sense any kind of an ego or arrogance.

Kam Lao

Stay strong. He's the only one Daddy has left.

James Packer

Some of the happiest times I ever saw my dad was times when I was with him in the casinos, and he had a good night.

Cheryl Peters

Our 17-year-old has never seen his dad without MS.

Jordan Zuppe

Playing for my uncle is difficult sometimes, but when we leave practice, everything's over with. My dad gives me advice. I think I could play for him, too.

Rob Schroeder

Playing for my dad has made me a better teammate and team player, helped me to play hard all the time, and has made me into a better overall person.

Behati Prinsloo

Ill paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad.

Becca Fitzpatrick

This ring belongs to the black hand. He killed your dad.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Patch reached for my hand and pushed my dad's ring off the tip of his finger and into my palm, curling my fingers around it. He kissed my knuckles. "I was going to give this back earlier, but it wasn't finished." I opened my palm and held the ring up. The same heart was engraved on the underside, but now there were two names carved on either side of it: NORA and JEV. I looked up. "Jev? That's your real name?" "Nobody's called me that in a long time.

Rosecrans Baldwin

That's the thing: once it's in their hands, it's not my book anymore, it's theirs. I have no idea what happens when they start to digest it. So when someone writes me to explain how they read it, what it was like, what they enjoyed, there's a thrill. Writers who don't make their email addresses public are missing out on something wonderful.

Michael Holland

I think here for a while we will probably digest the recent gains,

Joe Roetheli

It digests very well. In fact, it helps if there's other material to be more digestible.

Richard Mueller

There are so many new entrants in the market, that some of these hedge funds and other players may take a while to digest the news.

Richard McCabe

I think in the next week or two, we may get a little pullback or reaction, maybe a 3 or 4 percent setback from the recent highs on the averages, just to digest the last phase of gains before we move higher in March and April.

Heidi McIntosh

I think we need time to digest this, but this is not the end of the road, so to speak.

Jim Awad

We've just come off a very big quarter and so we have to digest some of those gains.

Gail Z. Martin

I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.

Seth Sulka

We were not looking to do this the day after the season ended. We took some time to digest what happened and together made this decision.

Mike Shara

Suddenly we're starting to get lots of collisions. There's probably one about every ten seconds.

Bob Hartley

Our power play was really clicking. Lots of skill, lots of speed and lots of experience.

Dave Bennett

I think there will be lots of people, and lots of questions.

Linda Jones

I think there's still lots of room for growth.

Pablo Picasso

I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money

Nie Haisheng

I can feel that lots of people are thinking about us.

Julia Voth

I am big in Japan... heightwise! But, yeah, I started modeling there in my teens and into my 20s. I did Calvin Klein, Uniqlo, and lots of magazine covers. It's such a beautiful country, and they have beer vending machines right on the street. Love that!

Ray Depwe

He didn't just sell lots and leave. He made sure there were roads and water there.

Sam Hunt

I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.

Becca Fitzpatrick

GUESS WHERE I AM. CLUE? she texted back SWEAR U WON'T TELL A SOUL? U HAVE 2 ASK? I reluctantly texted,@ DINNER W. MARCIE'S DAD. #?@#$?!& MY MOM IS DATING HIM. TRAITOR! IF THEY GET MARRIED, U & MARCIE... COULD USE A LITTLE CONSOLATION HERE! DOES HE KNOW UR TEXTING ME? Vee asked. NO. THEY R INSIDE. I'M IN THE PARKING LOT ----COOPERSMITHS. THE PIMP. 2 GOOD 4 APPLEBEE'S, I SEE. I'M GOING 2 ORDER THE MOST EXPENSIVE THIN ON THE MENU. IF ALL GOES WELL,HIM GOING TO THROW HANK'S DRINK IN HIS FACE 2. ~Nora & Vee

Becca Fitzpatrick

Don't blame me. Tell your mom to move closer. Tell her there's this new club called civilization and you guys should join.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I had to lull Mom and Hank into believing I was in the right frame of mind to be taken into public. If I exited my bedroom foaming at the mouth and dressed in black LOVE SUCKS tee, my plan would never get off the ground.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Bout time," she huffed, but her voice sounded thick and emotional too."I was at the hospital all day yesterday, but they wouldn't let me see you. I bolted past security but they called code ninetynine and chased me down, they escorted me out in handcuffs. The way I see it, the only criminal here is your mom. No visitors? I'm your best friend, or did she not get the memo every year for the past eleven? Next time I'm over, I'm going to lay into that woman." ~Vee

Becca Fitzpatrick

My mom's coming home soon," I said. "We should go to your place." Patch ran a hand across the shadow of stubble along his jaw. "I have rules about who I take there." I was getting really tired of that answer. "If you showed me, you'd have to kill me?" I guessed, fighting the urge to feel irritated. "Once I'm inside, I can never leave?" Patch studied me a moment. Then he reached into his pocket, twisted a key off his key chain, and slipped it into the front pocket of my pajama top. "Once you've gone inside, you have to keep coming back.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Your mom isn’t going to let me step foot inside this place. I’ve seen the gun she keeps on the top shelf of the pantry.

B. B. King

I've always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she's pretty.

Billy Corgan

I've thought many times, 'I can't write this,' but on my own little planet I found the courage to write it because it was true. I put aside fear of Father being angry with me. It's hard though; the world pales in comparison with the stature of a parent. In some small-consolation way, my parents feel I'm helping people by giving them something to identify with. They feel proud in a sort of reverse way. My mom's proud of the fact that lots of kids look up to me.

Bill Engvall

I want you to think back to when you were a kid. Remember the day you learned you could burn ants with a magnifying glass? Oh, what a great day that was! You got to be God. You decided who lived, who died. I must've burned ants for an hour, just laughing. Then I saw one on my arm. Let me tell you something, when you burn yourself with a magnifying glass, you're on your own. You can't even tell your mom, because she gives that face, Oh, he is that stupid.

Rob Leavitt

Our regional is not one of the strongest around, but it's always nice to win and get through that again.

George Clooney

O'Reilly actually said some nice things about the movie,

John Cusack

Partial Insomniac. Nice Person. Sometimes Brooding. ... Partially inspired. Nice Idea. Sometimes Boring.

Joel Cormier

Paul really played nice in net. He made some big saves.

Michael Haynes

Payne is an outstanding shot blocker, ... She has a nice touch around the basket.

Charles Anderson

Sure would be nice to have some school officials here.

Brian Lempola

Staples-Motley has a number of outstanding athletes. We also had a nice meet. I'm very pleased with our season so far.

Bradley Starks

Some of the drills were kind of crazy. They were new to me, but when I got used to them they were alright. The people down there were very nice and helpful.

Jacqueline Salame

Someone called from New Hampshire, and he wasn't nice in his rhetoric.

Donnie Henderson

Our practice tempo was probably a little different than what we've seen.

B. F. Skinner

Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.

B. F. Skinner

Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

Bill Crawford

Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.

Bill Bryson

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.

Bernard Arnault

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

Antoine Rivarol

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

Shay Murphy

I was just going up there relaxed, do what I practice so much. So I was pretty confident.

Frank Scelfo

I think there's more of a sense of urgency. We saw it in practice on Tuesday.