Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

David Talbot

Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.

Michael Moriarty

Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People go to the theater to experience emotions like fear and loathing. Violent drama shows us where we come from. It makes us face our hypocrisy.

Ibrahim Lipumba

The persistence of poverty in Tanzania, especially in the rural areas, is cause for concern.

Ken Jackson

We are seeing a substantial increase in our fuel prices. It's not like it's going to cause us to close our doors, but we would sure like to have that 15 percent to spend elsewhere.

Kevin McCarthy

We are lowering our future revenue estimates modestly, which causes a slight decline in our earnings-per-share assumptions. Our fourth-quarter earnings estimate now is $1.45, down a penny, and our 2001 estimate is $4.90, down from $4.95.

Colin Powell

We strongly oppose it, ... It will cause us international difficulties, and it opens up other opportunities for others to try to seek similar relief.

Steve Kernkraut

We're in a marketplace where any kind of negative signal worries people. The same way some of the tech companies caused a ripple, I think investors hear Lowe's issue a warning, hear what's going on with one of the great players in the sector, and they get nervous.

Marty DeJarnette

We started cold, but we found our rhythm in the second quarter. Their size caused us some problems, but our press got us some easy baskets off turnovers.

Harvey Rosenblum

The rapid easing of monetary and fiscal policy this time around should enable the economy to return to positive growth more quickly than usual and with lower interest rates and inflation than during the 1990s expansion.

Ruth Lea

We look for a further easing of monetary policy -- but not this month because of sterling's weakening and the stronger stock market.

Beat Siegenthaler

If the election period passes smoothly and the inflation picture remains benign, further easing is not excluded.

Toshihiko Fukui

There is no reason to think now that interest rates will be left at zero for a just a short while after quantitative easing has ended and no reason that they will be zero for a long period,

William Hummer

We see the Fed easing as a flu shot that will help prevent recession in 1999, but fixing the global problems that underlie the markets' malaise will require major surgery. So basically, I think the market sees through this as a temporary boost, but there are fundamental problems that aren't yet resolved.

Joseph McAlinden

When the Fed is easing monetary policy, you don't want to get bearish -- you don't want to stand in front of a moving train.

Alessia Cara

I was too shy to do any vocal lessons or go to choirs; I just didn't want to be seen doing it. It's something that I kept to myself. I started easing into it, and I started doing talent shows, and YouTube really helped with that, too.

Jason Wong

We're still looking for an easing later this year.

Michiyoshi Kato

Pressured by Japanese politicians and officials, the BOJ will be unable to end its easing of the money supply any time soon. That's pretty much yen negative.

Bryan Callen

Its always a shock to me when I get recognized.

Bob Brown

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.

Terry Pratchett

What's so surprising about bacon? I dunno, I suppose it comes as something a a shock to the pig.

Brigitte Bardot

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

Dan Stevens

I'm shocked at being recognized.

Pat Gillick

We were disappointed. At the same time, you can't say you're shocked or surprised that something like this would happen.

Astro Teller

When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.

Heather Stephens

She's amazing. I was shocked I was able to do that because she's so great.

John Roberts

This would be shocking even in a Third World country.

Bud Perrone

This temporary setback can and must be overcome.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Napoleon Hill

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

Napoleon Hill

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

Gus Van Sant

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Lou Reed

It's just a temporary thing.

Henry Rollins

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Suzanne Collins

If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.