Famous Quotes & Sayings

I had a very bad year in my life. My mother died in February. I was 16 in April and graduated from high school that June. My father died in August and the mortgage was foreclosed in October. I can remember thinking, This is tough, but this is good for me. It's always stuck with me. I knew somehow that I was going through a period that was strengthening.

George Steinbrenner

I feel very sorry for Dwight. He left the Yankees in April of his own accord.

Michael Fitzpatrick

If injections from April through October match last year's pace, stocks could begin the next heating season with a record 3.6 trillion cubic feet in the ground.

I feel pretty good. By the time April rolls around I should be ready to go.

I have got a warm-up at the end of April and then a rematch for the light heavyweight championship in Chicago, probably in September or October.

Curt Schilling

I don't give two (expletive) when Manny shows up. He'll be ready to play. I don't care. He'll be ready. One thing Manny does is put in his time and effort into getting ready. On (Opening Day) April 3, he'll be here and ready to hit.

Tom Johnston

I don't know what it is about him and April Fool's. I think he's evil and we should put him in a home.

Ideally a project like this would begin on the first of April but we cannot meet that time frame even if the railroad gave us the paperwork today.

Alberto Fujimori

I am considering running in the April parliamentary elections,

I am issuing an executive order setting aside the Student Government election that took place on March 14 and 15, and directing that a new election be conducted on Tuesday, April 11.

Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton once said, 'High expectations are the key to everything' and we agree. Since April of this year, Wal-Mart Watch has been leading the public education campaign to reveal the full effects of Wal-Mart's business practices. Launching Higher Expectations Week with 200-plus charter partners moves us into the next phase of our efforts. Unprecedented in size and scope, Higher Expectations Week unifies concerned citizens to highlight the myriad problems Wal-Mart creates. Together, this national movement is moving toward making the retailing giant a better employer, neighbor and corporate citizen. We are also a sponsor of the educational efforts for the new film by Robert Greenwald, 'Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices' and believe as people view this film, the momentum for our efforts will only continue to grow.

The cooling in prices in April was not unexpected given the surge in March. However, the underlying picture remains reasonably healthy as demand conditions have remained quite firm.

I was in same situation last April at Clarks Hill. I was winning by 10 pounds on Saturday and had already won a boat. Then, instead of doing what the odds said to do, I went back and tried to catch another big fish and bombed out and lost the tournament. We tried very hard not to make the same mistake at Lake Murray.

I would think we should be in a position in early April to actually go to settlement on the property and pay the estimated just compensation on the appraisal reports.

I would think April is the next possible time. It's on the runway for trial now.

Guidance for the April quarter was appreciably better than expected.

We are going to rally April 15 at the Capitol to discuss how we can help other cities do what we have done.

Katori Hall

I can only speak for myself, but when I was growing up in Memphis - and having the Martin Luther King holiday and the moment of pause on April 4th - he was just a statue to me. I wanted to make him a little bit more real to me as a human being.

Jim Calhoun

What we want to do is come back here in April holding up a trophy. But we're going to need your help. This has got to be an impossible place to play.

Having it in the original state budget, I still think that's a good sign. If the budget passers on time, April 1st, then Syracuse can plan on having at least a portion of that allocation.

It could be early April when it actually goes into effect.

It could be a lot worse. It could have happened two months from now. Then where would we be? We are not talking about opening Pimlico (for racing) until April 20. We're certain that by then this will be long behind us, and we don't expect any residual effect.

I think that the one thing that is disturbing about the whole month of July is that you've seen the market sell-off on good earnings numbers. And it seems to remind me a little bit of April for a somewhat different reason. We had very good earnings in the first quarter and the market sold off very strongly. We're starting to see the same pattern in July. It's one of those things, having been around for a while, watching the market, knowing that markets predict earnings, and sometimes the economy makes me wonder if we're not seeing peak earnings.

This was one of the last areas of technology that still had the great, glory days of April going for it. The market is just not willing to put up with those high P/Es and is shooting them down one by one.

John Thompson

We expect to hold a communitywide meeting in April or May.

There is much more happening in March, and we usually expect a bit of a lull in April. April was a monthly record despite a tough comparison from last year, which was a very strong month.

We look forward to completing this merger prior to the receipt of our new ticker symbol, which is expected to occur on or about April 13th. This merger serves as an important next phase in the reorganization and development of the Company.

I think we'll see a clear acceleration of refund payments as we get closer to the April deadline, when the checks really start to flow. People tend to procrastinate.

I think we've seen through the years that a guy coming back after missing a full year is still a little rusty. But the end game is not whether he makes the team April 1, the end game is we want this guy to have a long career with the Pirates.

I think it was a realistic, pragmatic view of what the strengths and weaknesses of the company are. He didn't break new ground with the initiatives, but directionally I think he set the stage for change, and I think by March or April of next year we'll see a change.

Sachin Tendulkar

It has been frustrating. The last game I played was on April 17.

He was there from April 30 to May 26. It was the first time he was away from home. I went there every single weekend to see him for 30 minutes a day. Thank God I had a credit card and some savings.

He had been just fine until April of this year. On May the 13th, he had a heart catheterization that showed his heart was only pumping at ten percent.