Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Maurstad

Rebuilding stronger and safer and more flood-resistant is a wise investment of tax dollars. There recently has been an independent study by the Mitigation Hazard Council that has indicated that each dollar spent on disaster mitigation saves society on the average of $4.

Mark Twain

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain

Jeff Sherman

Parlay cards had a good handle and average win, while props did very well. It just took a while to grade them.

Mark Shapiro

Paul had an average fastball and average curve. He was going to pitch in the major leagues, but there was nothing that would particularly distinguish him from lots of other guys.

Mark Hyman

Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.

Mike Gundy

Our offense has been very average and by rotating quarterbacks, we couldn't ever get into synch.

Al Way

Our offensive linemen have decent size. The 2000 state championship team averaged 260 pounds up front. We're pretty close to that average (257 pounds) this year.

Cary Thompson

Our offensive average went up after losing our career leading scorer, and our steals went up by 64 this year. We accomplished a lot out of the change in style.

Dave Esquer

Our middle of the lineup and our average with runners in scoring position just haven't been that good. We haven't given our pitching staff any margin for error yet, and that's been a little frustrating.

James Fenimore Cooper

Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other capitals, I think it is entitled to a distinguished place in this particular.

Dariusz Kowalczyk

Supplies of heating oil are very low compared to other supplies of energy commodities.

Terry Ebbert

Some of the catastrophic deaths some people have predicted may not have occurred. The numbers, so far, are relatively minor as compared with the dire predictions of 10,000.

Jackie Parsley

Our fans were great!. They were more vocal and into the game compared to Morris. That was great to see, and the girls fed off that (support).

Ken Williams

Overall, I'd say there's a 20 percent increase in sales this week compared to the rest of December.

Steve McClain

Our world's a little different because we can get so many tapes on people compared to high-school and junior-college. Every one of the teams, you might have about 14-15 tapes you've got to watch and know everything about them.

Castor Pang

Rental income is quite stable when compared with the income of property developers.

John Vane

Mammalian cells of all types disgorge prostaglandins at the slightest provocation, but the tissue content of prostaglandins is very low compared with the release.

James Courtney

I think this summer was a little off compared with previous years,

John Chambers

recovery continues to gain momentum on a global basis.

Jorma Ollila

Our position in the fastest-growing market in the world continues to be strong.

Joseph Farah

Our rankings, relative to other sites, rise and fall over time, ... But our traffic continues to grow ? at a pace even faster than the explosive Internet itself.

Tom Slater

Paul Burnside, what can you say, he just continues to have great relief outing for us.

Claudia Baucus

Our management team continues to work with our unions toward a consensual plan of reorganization, and that's where our focus is right now.

Melissa Eisenstat

Oracle continues to be a margin expansion story and we expect that trend to continue this quarter. We expect the increased operating leverage to come in the form of lower sales and marketing expenses.

Yvette Girouard

Stephanie Hill was just phenomenal today. Leslie Klein continues her tear. Camille Harris showed power from the second hole that we have been lacking.

Kathleen Taylor

Our strategy continues to focus on obtaining long-term management contracts with owners and investors who share our vision, and who are ready to invest in our future.

Lee Scott

Our sales were lower than we are satisfied with but the economy continues to improve and we are well positioned for the holidays. With the help of our associates, I look forward to another record quarter and a successful holiday season,

Jason Brown

Receiving certification assures our customer that our organic products are free from harmful additives and preservatives. From farm to desk, our products are guaranteed to be of the highest quality without compromise.

Ron Hovsepian

Our partners are telling us that their mid-market customers want to deploy open source, but that they need a packaged Linux solution more tailored to their needs.

John Grant

Patton customers love the rich feature set, reliability, and quality of our Model 2120 Single-Port Terminal server. These device servers meet the same high standards people expect from Patton. By expanding our device-server solution set, we're giving customers more choices.

Bill White

Our meters don't start running until we pick the customer up,

Amy Vickers

People know now that if they want them, they have to order them. Customers usually order two or three dozen.

Ram Shriram

Stay externally focused - on your customers - and focus internally when you have to hire.

Bill Hopkins

Stay away from trite ones like, 'Where the customer is always king,' because it really means nothing.

George Shaheen

Our focused efforts will help us target the majority of places where (our competitors) customers shop today - brick-and-mortar stores,

Caroline Allen

Our focus is getting the power back to our customers.

John Challenger

Pay raises have been paltry since 2001. Since 2001, wage growth has been muted because productivity has been so strong.

Mark Pervan

Supply growth is not there, and the players in the market aren't investing in new supply.

David Dodge

Such a slowdown in growth, in turn, raises the risk that policy-makers might resort to protectionism. In that event, a period of very slow growth could, perhaps, be punctuated by periods of outright recession.

David Hendler

Stan O'Neal has rehabilitated Merrill over the last several years, but where is the next growth area? That's what people are wondering.

Mark Batey

Out of all the major markets, it was the only one to show growth. We were up one percent.

Ken McCarthy

Right now, you could say we're at sort of a sweet spot, where we have healthy growth and reasonably high interest rates.

Bill Crawford

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

C. S. Lewis

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Sandra Gordon

Our Sunday masses have increased and we have new enrollment at our masses. I think our parish is going strong with 50 percent of its members back.

Nicholas Garganas

Risks that could strengthen inflationary pressures have increased after the interest-rate increase in December.

Gale Norton

We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

Robert Murray

Joy is increased by spreading it to others

Al Groh

I think it's been a positive spring for Chris, mostly because he's had an increased opportunity to demonstrate his skills now that he's taking the majority of the turns.

Richard DeKaser

I think the market is responding now to a perception of the increased possibility of recession, which I do not see.

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Kathleen Stoll

Had it not been for these (government) programs, the number of uninsured would have increased even more in each of the past several years.

Alan McCoy

(The price of zinc) has increased dramatically, especially in the past year." ()

Joshua Greenbaum

Oracle has tremendous problems being industry expert. SAP has had more success at that end.

Kevin Haggerty

People in the industry feel it's more of a privacy enhancer because it's such a secure way of identification.

Buster Brown

It is a touchy subject. But in any industry there is a surplus of unusable goods. What do you do with them?

J. Horton

It is an industry that probably has too much capacity. It's probably too fragmented.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Alan McCoy

I think that's pretty important from a reputable, well-known independent steel industry analyst." ()

Randeep Hooda

I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

Larry Ellison

I have been working more, ... That's true, and the reason I'm working more is this is an extraordinary opportunity. My industry and in fact, every industry soon is going through this tectonic change.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

Kughalo Mulatonu

Our main headquarters and all our top leaders are safe.

Kurt Ebenhoch

Our on-time performance was at its lowest point in the weeks leading up to the strike,

Sylvia Bennett

Our leaders left us to die, strangers took us in,

Randy Cunneyworth

Our leadership has to step forward, and not just by being vocal in the room.

Yukio Hatoyama

People have raised expectations for leader Ichiro Ozawa.

Jonathan Epstein

People look for their leaders to show progress. And they look at mayors as people who solve problems. When they see someone who can show progress as mayor of a big city, they respect that.

Kip Janvrin

Steven is our top thrower. He did well and started his year off well. He's one of our leaders.

Elliott Smith

Static in my head,the reflected sound of everything,tried to go to where it led,but it didn't lead to anything.

Marvin Miller

Some of the players were leaning on leadership to do most destabilizing thing possible for a union, to open they contract. They will rue the day they did this.

Jay Kim

From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.

Steve Donner

From that point of view, the taxpayers are well protected, and there is a risk and a reward for us operating the stadium.

Christopher Hill

We're operating from a piece of paper now, and we'll see what we can do.

Charles Petzold

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

Christopher Hill

What is the purpose of operating it at this point? ... The time to turn it off would be about now.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

Atul Gawande

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

Vicki Lutz

These are new programs, new dollars, ... They do not pay for operating expenses. Not one dollar, not one cent, is going to (beds in the shelter).

Patricia Myers

Right now we're operating on a one-party system and it isn't working,

Diane Siri

PCS has been a unique school from the very beginning.

Phil Schiller

I think there are a lot of PCs that should be recycled.

Gabriel Lowy

H-P is probably quite worried, not just about PCs and servers but what Dell will do in printers, particularly in cartridges.

Brian Krzanich

I used to build my own PCs... and actually had one of the first water-cooled, overclocked PCs around. I ran it at over 4Ghz, and this was back in 2001... but alas, I do not have the time for that fun anymore.

Brian Krzanich

Computing is a big segment. It's more than just mobile devices or PCs and laptops.

Paul Otellini

We see that value PCs are a real part of the business, not just an aberration,

John Joyce

At that time, we also recognized that we'd feel price pressure in PCs and hard-disk drives. And our expectations here were right on track as well.

Alan Miller

Our reporter on the scene talked personally to the governor, who told her the 12 were alive.

Claudia Vercellotti

Participating in the legislative process has been personally devastating and a rude awakening. We never stood a chance.

Paul Meyer

Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Philip Gonsalves

Some of the showers could be a little heavy, but only for short periods of time.

David Beamer

Our personal reaction was one of relief, because they got it right.

Holly Hatton

Our performance was not good. We weren't in it from the beginning.

Randy Jepson

Our performance as a whole was not that bad. We weren't outstanding, but we weren't poor either.

Andrew Ference

Our second period was awful. We started to play too much of their style.

George Papandreou

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

William Mosher

That was surprising to us. The previous studies had not shown as much.

Kim Yuna

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.

Chris Tarrant

Of course, completely, ... My previous producer always said we were there to learn.

Norman McLaren

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

This is what happened to me when I received the governorship. The corrupt previous governor didn't do the handover. We received the Miranda governorship completely dismantled.

Hideo Kojima

As a game creator, I'm not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.

Michael Giles

Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling.

E. B. White

The report essentially re-enforces our previous thinking that it was the strength of the material.

Thurston Moore

Recording tends to restrict too much experimentation, 'cause when you're making a record it's a part of you, for that time it's your whole fabric.

George Burns

Our record doesn't show it, but we are getting better.

Jim Peters

Overall, 2006 will probably come in somewhere between the record sales of 2005 and the very strong sales of 2004.

Wayne Perry

Really, my record is my program's record. That's kind of how I look at it.

Barry Mann

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

Billy Corgan

Most great records really start with the drums.

Bert McCracken

We are the outcasts, we are the ones that are different, we are the ones that never got along with anyone else, we are the ones that went back to our rooms and put on our headphones and listened to those records that made us happy

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Jeff Corey

I think they have a much better team then their record indicates.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Siri Hustvedt

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Gina Laughlin

A lease rejection does not signal any type of reduced operation.

Michelle Laughlin

The thing yesterday for the first time in a long time was reduced risk-aversion...it was the reverse of the flight-to-quality.

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.

Martin Pyykkonen

In terms of prudence, you would like to see other revenue streams.

Paul Moroney

The firmer the track the better for I don't want his sprint nullified,

Gary Bettman

OLN is anticipating, as are we, subscriber growth.

Graeme Souness

Stephen has had an operation. We could have him back in three weeks, but in the worst case, who knows?

B. B. King

Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here

Gerald Cox

We never really put this one away. Two or three 3's, and we're in trouble.

Adam Dunn

That's a tough way to give up three runs,

Amy Walter

It is one thing if it is three weeks. Three months, that is another story.

Jim Hickey

I was worried that he wouldn't even make it through three innings.

Adam LaRoche

I think I was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts,

James Toney

I thought I won it by two or three points. I thought we had the edge.

Oscar Goodman

If I'm up at three in the morning, there's no other place to go.

Kathy Lang

Our wireless routers are indoors, while the new networks' will be outside.

Clyde Evans

Wireless is really kind of where everyone's going.

Michael Mahoney

Wireless is on fire. I don't see what slows wireless down.

Greg Gorbatenko

Wireless is not a failsafe. It's a telecommunications accessory.