Famous Quotes & Sayings

Takashi Ushio

There are cases of stocks being bought after beating market forecasts, but most companies that don't meet these inflated expectations are being sold.

William Becklean

We're in a market where you don't get any credit for a great quarter. I don't think beating the numbers will benefit Cisco very much.

Ruth Shields

We always have a nice little rivalry with them so it's a nice way to start the season, beating a county rival,

Bill Callahan

We want him for the fall. Beating the White team or the Red team ain't the big thing right now. It's more important to get him ready for the fall.

Chris Fox

When we go to a meet, the time is just as important, if not more important, as how they do in the race. But, ultimately track is about beating people. We go to meets to win races.

Bill Halpin

What a great surprise for us beating Santa Rosa.

Jim Tildsley

We're extremely happy with the way we're playing right now. Naturally our goal is to win the title - and we can take a giant step by beating Lowell (this Sunday). But they're going to be tough.

Tom Glavine

We're just off to a good start, and they're not. It's just one series in April. What will it mean in a month if we win two of three or lose two of three? It means more than beating Milwaukee over the weekend. But it's still one series.

John Thomas

We're beating the bushes as much as anybody.

Zeb Simon

We're so sound on defense that we didn't feel we needed to blitz to get the type of pressure we needed, you know, to get the great underneath coverage we got from our secondary.

Linda Grant

Times were very hard if you were a poor, politically correct Jewish girl living in the east end of London during the Blitz and you were trying to eke out a living as a hairdresser.

Jim Graham

We're kind of mounting a blitz of information.

Brad Turner

To blitz like Jacksonville did, you have to play man coverage, which would be completey out of character for Coach Rush. He doesn't like to do that. They'll blitz within their front five and they'll do some in-line stunts, but it won't be anything like we saw last week, because speed-wise they don't compare to Jacksonville.

Dwight Freeney

We didn't blitz a whole lot. We usually don't have to because we get good pressure from the guys up front. Our idea was to put as much pressure on him with our front four and drop everybody else back into coverage.

Drayton Florence

We didn't blitz at all during the preseason, so we've got a few things up our sleeve.

Ray Lewis

Peyton comes to the line, and he checks to a pass or a run, and I come to the line, and I check from a blitz to a zone, ... I think it's great for the fans to see, but it's actually more stressful when you're on the field, because you're actually trying to figure out truly their next move. He's good at it.

Brad Johnson

No. 1, it's not always a Cover 2 defense. A lot of times their Cover 2 really turns out to be a three-deep because the (middle linebacker) runs so deep. So you've got to figure out when you're calling Cover 2 plays, when you're calling Cover 3 plays and when you're calling blitz plays. It's confusing, and they do a great job of disguising.

Matt Rosoff

Getting to profitability will require a big-name software launch while withstanding a concentrated marketing blitz from Sony. Anything less could mean years of red ink ahead.

Matiwos Zeray

We want to test ourselves. It's a tough race, because we have to cover more than 100 kilometers every day.

Mike Parker

We want to take the rate up to cover the rate of the contract,

Kelly Freeland

We've actually, on occasion, had a few things over evening times, like HIV screenings or flu shot clinics, but they really weren't that well-attended. We've tossed it around, but at this moment we felt like we didn't have the staff to cover those, especially if we kept the existing hours that we have.

Blake Mitchell

We started off decent on offense with that first drive but we went down hill from there, ... They had a great defense. They covered our receivers well and defended the run well. They shut us down.

Linda Bell

We spent hours trying to determine what the top 25 stories are and what the impact of these was, ... We're really going back to the vault and putting new tops on stories we have covered for so many years.

Preston Manning

Where I think we're headed is a system of universal care, where everybody is covered ... with two tracks for delivery, and two tracks for payment. It's not a question of private versus public, but what mix of the two is appropriate.

Liu Bolin

When my body is covered and disappears, it's not about the relationship between me and the wall, but the relationship between me as an individual and those slogans which are used to fool the public.

Scott Henderson

Watching the coverage yesterday, all of the places the reporters were looked real familiar,

Ray Kelly

We're going to slowly reduce our coverage to what it was pre-Oct. 6,

Trent Yawney

We want them to experience what it's like to be in that situation. This has been a hard year for everyone -- not just the kids, but everybody off the ice who are trying so hard to make this thing work.

David Burns

We want to treat everybody the same, ... provide the same level of service whether it's three in the morning or three in the afternoon.

Alan Henderson

We want to thank everybody who helped us,

Jamie Varley

We want to sound like everybody and nobody at the same time.

Alexis Karel

We want to show everybody we belong. Our record doesn't matter. All those losses prepared us for this.

Larry Glass

We want to see something that's going to be a win-win for everybody and not just for one segment of the population.

Michael Strahan

I've always been the locker-room jokester, the fun guy, the guy who keeps it loose and easy. But also, on Sundays, the guy in that huddle jumping up and down, telling guys, 'Hey, get it going. Let's go.' Firing everybody up. So I'm part relaxation therapist and part Red Bull.

Greg Biffle

Until about 20 (laps) to go, and then everybody is going to be racing for that million and a half dollars.

Jarvis Herring

We've always been known as a soft program, a finesse program -- all about speed, whatever. We're just trying to go out and show everybody this isn't the Gators that you're used to looking at. We're trying to show them that we're really tough and that we're really going to go out and play.

J. Taylor

We've won one game. We won four last year. We've got a ways to go before we match last year. We haven't proved anything.

David S. Goyer

I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.

Don Flanagan

UNLV plays four guards. So using four guards was something we were looking at doing anyway.

George Burley

We are proud to have four players who played a major part in Wednesday's success.

B. F. Skinner

We are practicing with Hartland and they will get us prepared. They've been there the last four years and we should learn from them. They are a great program.

Kyle Smith

We usually just have two forwards up top. But later in the second half I moved up a third one, and with about 1:45 left I moved in a fourth one.

Jim McCann

We started this on a whim four years ago. We don't want to make it any larger than it is. It really is a lot of fun.

Bonnie Henrickson

We struggled to find another offensive weapon. Their third and fourth options made shots, and we're not that deep.

Caryn Jeffreys

We are a fluid, but large group. We do a lot of plays and four shows a years.

Jonathan Vilma

The perception for us is we're going to be great. We have guys people may be worried about, but we're not worried about them. You're talking about two guys that are playmakers.

Jeff Lowell

The point of the sport is to try to peak at the end of the season, and our guys did that today.

Kelly Green

We are always playing for something. We told our guys that we need to get better and that's what we did.

Jon Clark

We started out with a lot of expectations and we didn't meet some of those. The guys will always remember the last stand and will be proud of it.

Jason Treutelaar

We struggled to score and that has been the issue for this team the whole season. We need guys to step up and knock down shots. When we get good, open looks, we need to make the shots, and we're not doing that right now.

Lute Olson

There are some guys you have to kick in the butt to get the response you want. There are some you need to pat on the back. He's one you need to pat on the back.

Joe Becerra

There are some guys here who could play in the NBA.

Edward Atorino

There are some deep-pocketed guys who want to own newspapers.

Gary Player

When you've got two guys 1-up with two to play, you automatically think, 'we've got it', especially after they'd battled their hearts out to get back in those matches.

Timothy Noah

The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members.

Shayne Ward

My maxim is that no one's ever made it. I haven't and that's why I work my hardest.

Dick Cheney

Obviously, it's a big problem how do we provide quality care to the maximum number of people. And it's not an easy problem to solve.

Edward Coke

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

Amity Shlaes

If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader. A president for many people is a serious thing and they want to know everything.

John Spratt

We are pushing the envelope. We are using our troops pretty much to their maximum utility.

Jack Nerad

Maximize everything else you've got going for you,

Michael Strahan

I don't do anything I don't want to do. There are so many opportunities that come my way, but if there's something out there that I don't want to do, I truly don't do it, because I have to maximize my time. If there's truly an opportunity to be quiet and be by myself, I do it.

Cynthia Ozick

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

Charles Stross

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

Charles Stross

Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.

Chris Carter

It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.

Chris Christie

I ran for president. I ran for governor twice. And I've been the governor now for nearly seven years. I find that the people who are my best advisors are the people who are smart enough to give me really good advice and smart enough to keep their mouths shut about what advice they give me. And so if I want advisors that way, that's the kind of advisor I'm going to be for Donald Trump.

Chris Christie

I think what you expect of every candidate and ultimately of a president is to listen to the facts and to deal with things in a way that's smart and direct. I'm confident that's exactly what President [Donald] Trump will do.

Dave Franco

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

David Sedaris

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?

David Sedaris

Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at." When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think.

David Mitchell

Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.