Famous Quotes & Sayings

The question is not whether but when the first bird flu case appears in our country.

Traders are most concerned about the Iranian issue, as the situation appears to be getting worse.

J. D. Salinger

To you everything thats happening in the world appears phony, to be something other than what it really is, right?

You look at the house and everything appears completely intact. You look in near the kitchen and then it just drops off. One deputy described it as large enough to drive a car into.

Joe Thomas

You don't need to over-dramatise life, you can just reflect it. It's more interesting, in a way, if it appears to ring true.

Axl Rose

Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent... but hey it's them, not me, so whatever.

when there appears to be significant corporate news or when a company's security is experiencing extraordinary volatility, either of which is impacting the fairness and orderliness of the market.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

As I read the scriptures, it appears that those who receive the Savior's strongest reproach are often those who hold themselves in high esteem because of their wealth, influence, or perceived righteousness.

Jack Layton

We're encouraged that Mr. Harper appears to have taken some of our concerns into account. If Mr. Harper is serious about making this Parliament work, we will be open to working with him.

Alan Greenspan

The rate of growth of productivity cannot increase indefinitely, ... While there appears to be considerable expectation in the business community, and possibly Wall Street, that the productivity acceleration has not yet peaked, experience advises caution.

Volumes are still strong enough to generate a few new factory jobs amid robust productivity gains. Moreover, capital spending appears to be on track for another solid contribution to third quarter GDP.

Diana Quick

I buy most of my plants from nurseries outside London these days, but there is a man who mysteriously appears each February to sell plants from a derelict site in Market Road. I think he's Greek, but people say he comes from Essex. He vanishes at the end of May only to reappear in December as suddenly as he went.

Dave Gibbons

When you're drawing something, you kind of run a movie in your head. You might close your eyes or stare into the distance and kind of see a movie unfolding and, you know, grab a certain moment or think, 'Oh, yeah, that's when we need just the point that he appears around the corner but just as she's getting into the car,' you know?

Mark Rosenker

We're not shooting from the hip here to hurt somebody because it seems expedient and that maybe it appears to be that way,

We are taking every step necessary to ensure we have an independent, impartial review of the issues at hand. At this time the incident appears to be isolated to one individual examiner, but we want to take every step necessary to make certain that is the case.

We are optimistic that Microsoft will remedy the supply-demand imbalance in the U.S. in the next two months, as it appears that recent manufacturing capacity will result in greater unit availability later this month.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

My eyes don't work, at least not fully, because they are blocked by disease. The scene around me appears through a kind of curtain, a haze.

We don't know why the driver made the decision to cross. It appears that everything was working properly. Again, that's all under investigation.

We do get that high-velocity dust in the area, but I'm pleased with the job the city is doing. They are making progress but, of course, it appears it is going to take in excess of a year for them to complete their work.

We didn't have a lot of resources and we didn't have a lot of time. But even our small sampling revealed thousands of voters who are shocked and outraged to find their name appears on this anti-gay, anti-family measure. If we were able, in our limited review, to identify this many people whose signatures were essentially stolen, we are quite sure there are tens of thousands more who we have not yet uncovered. That's why we are asking for this investigation.

Raymond E. Feist

Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that.

Raymond E. Feist

I don't like fantasy where a king snaps his fingers and suddenly a whole army appears and goes off to war - he's got to feed them, he's got to pay them, he's got to take care of the camp followers and the gamblers and the people who cause disorder.

The data appears in line with what we would expect in January.

The declining price of gasoline echoes a recent drop in crude oil prices. The drop in oil appears to be due to continued growth in domestic oil inventories.

Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don't understand what they're talking about - we're running that product, we've been using it for five years, what are they talking about?

Connor Franta

When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo - symmetry, or color, or contrast - and it's my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.

Vance Packard

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Nothing appears to be related to the initial call of the abduction.

Right now, it appears that the (Fed) believes that the odds are better than 50-50 that another 25 basis point rate hike will be warranted.

Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.

Nearly every rescued person, temporary resident of the Superdome, looter or loiterer on the high ground of the freeway I saw on TV was African-American. And from the look of it, they weren't wealthy residents of the Garden District. This storm appears to have hurt blacks more directly than whites, but the broadcasters scarcely mentioned that fact.

On one of the roadways, it appears they were exchanging gun fire and the victim suffered one round.