Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Davis

Recent economic data gives us confidence that corporate spending is coming back to life, so I'm hoping sales could be above $5 billion. That would set a strong tone for the rest of the year,

Matthew Dowd

President Bush maintains an approval on the economy in the mid-forties -- exactly what Clinton had at the end of 1995 and above what Reagan had in 1983.

Shen Haihua

Prices above 50,000 yuan will have some negative impact on demand, but in this bull market consumers may be forced to accept these levels.

Andrew Kerr

Our re-analysis revealed that the distance of a village from the coast and the height of the village above sea level explained 87 percent of the variation in mortality among villages.

Ron James

Particularly defensively, we're starting to come into our own. In an Arena Football League game, when you're getting above four stops, you should be able to win every one of those games going away, and we did.

Tony Crescenzi

Parry's comments hint that the Fed still views the neutral level of the federal-funds rate to be approximately two percentage points above the inflation rate,

George Nathan

Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Grant Wistrom

Our new guys have come in and believed that they belonged from the first day. They practice like it and then they go out there on Sunday and show it. Without those guys, we are an average football team, a little above .500. I think we owe them a lot.

E. Hurley

Our message between zero and .08 is a responsibility message. The message of .08 and above is an illegal message.

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.

Paul Burke

Our leadership has been out in the communities doing what they are supposed to do -- mobilizing, organizing and preventing further roadblocks.

Madeline Albright

Our message to India and Pakistan is that there should be no further nuclear testing, no deployment or testing of missiles, no more inflammatory rhetoric and no more provocative military activity,

Adam Adelman

Optimism in the numbers will be a roadblock for further gains. The upside in tech is limited.

Jim Porter

People have died. Lives have been changed. Property has been destroyed. Yet, a group of trial lawyers are using this disaster, not as a reason to help the people of this state, but instead to further their own personal agenda.

E. B. White

That couldn't be further from the truth, and I say that with emphasis.

Katharina Von

Overall it is satisfactory but we hope that there will be further improvement between now and 2009.

Jim Rees

Our visitors instinctively know that he's great. But they think he's stiff, formal, lackluster, and sometimes they use the word 'boring.' Nothing could be further from the truth.

E. Hurley

Rising oil prices are being looked at as a further weight on global growth as opposed to inflationary,

Jeb Bush

We need a little further wind at the back of this economy,

David Johnson

I would suggest there's some sloppiness here. Neither mere negligence or gross negligence will suffice.

Stuart Scott

People always talk about the nausea that comes with chemotherapy. For me, it's more like a queasiness. And it can be intense. It's an uncomfortable, gross kind of 'blech' feeling.

Brent Sutter

The players thought it was pretty gross because my leg was just black. I limped around until the end of January.

Laurence Gilman

To say we're unhappy with the performance of the team is a gross understatement.

William Carpenter

To say I find these results unacceptable would be a gross understatement,

Anna Kendrick

I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.

Larry Ceisler

We have offered $2 million to start out with, and then every year going forward, a percentage of our gross with a minimum of $500,000.

Errol Flynn

My problem lies with reconciling my gross habits with my net income

Sam Craig

There are multiple revenue streams, so theatrical gross is important because it signals the subsequent revenue through home video rentals, sales of DVDs, pay television and others.

John Reid

Parties -- and the paramilitary groups -- have to play their part

Michael Fields

Our offensive line is a senior-oriented group that is jelling. They do a heck of a job working together and making adjustments.

Louis Navellier

Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks.

Doug Adams

People may be worshiping in a group of 5000 or 10,000.

Ryan Julison

Some of these groups have legitimate concerns. Some just oppose development.

Jennifer Best

Some groups are worried that, if that happens, they won't have the volunteers they need.

D.J. Owens

Our team is a mixed group of scorers in that on any night six or seven different guys can explode. Tonight was my night, but I'm sure in the next game, it will be someone else. We're going to spread the love around.

Darci Lewis

Our starting group really stepped up tonight. They're such an unselfish team.

Brian Smith

Our first match in the group could not be more difficult,

Kristin Kissinger

Our state representative helped with tickets to that.

Pete Lewinski

Our starters were dead. It was just sheer will there in the end. What helped us tonight is our maturity. We're a senior-dominated team.

Wayne Allen

Our schedule has been one of the things that has really helped us. One of the things I look for with everybody's schedule is opponents' records. Our teams have won about a 63 percent clip.

Vaughn Farrar

Playing at UMPI has been a gift. It's helped our program, helped us mature, and helped our spirit.

Margi Nanney

I think the training helped the staff understand that they can recognize things that just don't seem right and report those things.

Julia Mancuso

Just another day on a stormy race course. That sort of helped me take the pressure.

Jason Repko

Jeff's a leader. He's a leader by the way he plays. He talks to us individually and helps us with our game. I know he's helped me by mentioning things that have been a big help. We all want to play the way he plays.

Chris Harris

That was huge. That helped us out a lot .

Matt Mitchell

That was probably the one mistake I made, but my team picked me up and helped me through it.

Sara Baker

Our music was a lot better and visual improved as well. We did better than this morning.

Steve Burd

Our strategy to differentiate our offering has resulted in broad-based sales improvement.

Kevin Daugherty

Our free-throw shooting has really improved over the last month.

Joseph Wood

Overall, there has been a groundswell of improvements in the nine years I've been here. We've seen property snatched up by investors, improved and then sold.

Sandrine Krul

Right now she's our most improved player. She's so athletic.

Stephen Straus

We noticed too little improvement in my mind to justify the use of this treatment,

Sherri Coale

I think the way she's playing right now is a testament to how much she'll improve the more she plays.

Greg Lee

I think there's a lot more room for improvement. I don't think you're ever going to be as perfect as you want to be, but we're striving to be that perfect team.

Kevin Garnett

I think there needs to be some style improvement but at the same time it has to be with in reasons.

Kurt Ebenhoch

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

Mark McCormack

I was just leading out J.J. and Page, but we opened up a gap." ()

Michael Wallace

I think they needed to do it. They might as well do it now while they have a leading position.

I. Stone

I think there's some real fundamental support for the Governor, ... He's as tough as an old rope, and he'll be leading this state for a long time.

Steve Wood

That's what I'm most proud of about this team - the senior players are leading by example. It's a lovely thing to see.

Mark Ruffalo

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

Bob Gilder

He can smell the Schwab Cup, ... and can smell being the leading money winner. And that's where he's headed.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

Jeremy Shockey

He's going to be leading us to the playoffs for a lot of years to come.

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Jim Hall

Stay plugged in. Maintain the strength of the Chamber.

Zhang Qiyue

Our stance is to maintain peace and stability, and to reach settlement through dialogue,

David Pringle

It is not enough to preserve open space. We need to maintain it.

David Heyman

It is its own universe. But we try to maintain a real normalcy about it.

Junichiro Koizumi

I will try to maintain the postal network, which is people's important assets, and see to it that no inconvenience will ensue,

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Cate Blanchett

I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.

John Tortorella

It better not be hard. We have to maintain it.

Clare Short

Reckless with our government;reckless with his own future, position and place in history.

Gholam Elham

Our position is very clear. We will not back down.

Javier Solana

Our position is that the (Iran) dossier should be referred to the council.

Lee Pelekoudas

Our position is that a 19-year-old shouldn't be put in a position to have to pitch. We feel we've got a pretty solid case.

Michael Burke

Our position is clear. The IFC can go someplace else,

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Rita Leckie

Some of the principals in the corporation are the same people. We took the position that it was the same company.

David MacGregor

Overall, (Maytag's) competitive position right now is pretty weak.

Andre Miller

I think they know we'll be around every game. We've been in this position before. If we come out with a better tempo at the start of the game, we'll have a better chance.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

David Briggs

I think (stock) prices have run up anticipating a recovery but I don't think the recovery's here yet,

Mike Fitzpatrick

It is not surprising that prices are retreating.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

John Eade

We're probably going to see more weakness in stock prices in the near-term,

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Lewis Platt

Our results this quarter were mixed. We're disappointed with our profit outcome.

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

David Brady

It has revenues and profits and a very strong pipeline,

D. H. Lawrence

If only we could have two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them.

Rick Hind

I think the industry's trap is they're in a quarter-to-quarter profit cycle.

Ludwig von Mises

Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.

Jim Cavanaugh

The profits there are going to be huge.

Susan George

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.

C. S. Lewis

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

Don DePalma

For me this is just one of the fundamentals of doing business: If I can't understand what you're selling me, I'm not buying.

Merle Olberding

For the state tournaments, some of them were in here Tuesday wanting their tickets and we didn't start selling until Wednesday.

Aimee Mann

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

Sheryl Kingstone

Now we see more application vendors selling these suites.

Erin O'Connor

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Keith Nowak

We don't make enough on selling accessories that (standardized ports) would be that big of a deal.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.

David Doniger

Look for the U.S. to use a variety of strategies to try to veto consensus.