Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Mobius

We were excited about Hong Kong two years ago and we put a lot of money there. Now we're more cautious because we're finding better bargains elsewhere. Quite frankly, we're investing in China.

While the subject matter doesn't have an impact on the daily concerns of people in Ewing Township, chairmanships give you bargaining power with members of other committees. There is a prestige factor involved. You become a part of a select group of House leaders.

While the Index remains below its pre-Katrina levels, the shock of the hurricanes and subsequent leap in gas prices has begun wearing off just in time for the holiday season. Despite this latest boost in confidence, holiday spending will be driven by the bargains consumers have come to expect.

You become an explainer of certain things. You begin to lower barriers of ignorance for people who were genuinely curious.

Barry McCaffrey

We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.

Kirsten Smith

We'd been trying to come up with things for weeks. We were sitting in a bar and suddenly I came up with this impulsive, spontaneous thing. I tried it at the bar.

We are especially concerned that senior Islamic scholars will be barred from the UK purely on the basis of media witch-hunts orchestrated by pro-Israeli elements,

We are entering the time of year when historically gas prices have tended to rise because consumption increases. We are starting out this season at a level that is much higher than last year, and last year was certainly no bargain at the gas pump.

We are encouraged by the number of planning teams interested in thinking about their education delivery system in a different way. Far beyond being dependent on our industrial past, we recognize that it is time to move forward in preparing for the information age; we must break down barriers that prevent students from succeeding and create smoother paths to success for our students - ultimately for the benefit of our local and state economies, and our society.

The President's proposal should be viewed as an initial bargaining position.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.

Craig Shirley

There have been a lot of conservative leaders and politicians who have been successful as book authors, starting with Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Every year, I do a New Year's day party at my home. I invite my staff and my friends and their kids. Around 40-50 people come by, and I do a barbecue and salads, steak and sushi, and also lots of cheese.

Fire marshals say that the Bar Harbor police did an exceptional job tracking this man down, working with family members and preserving the scene so that no one else was hurt in this bizarre incident.

Financial markets showed barely any reaction to the move.

Arlen Specter

Finally, someone connected to the Administration knows how to keep his trap shut. If only some of that would rub off on Barbara Bush.

First, I think Barry is a very big attraction. I hope he changes his mind. Second, we want to beat the best team in the world. I hope he's there because he's the best hitter in the world. It's great to have those names in the WBC.

Alex Wong

Financials are the natural choice for bargain hunters because retail sales in the U.S. were weak so investors feel the upside for interest rates may be less than expected.

Chris Lowe

Ex-transport is only barely up, and the decline last month was only marginally revised, so it's a bit disappointing, because it marks essentially the fourth month with no orders growth at all.

But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? / Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: / And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: / But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

Both teams had to make critical plays defensively. Obviously, Kelly Labor's a great player, but they have other great players - Ann Barney and some of those kids. We didn't want to end up in a 1-on-1 situation. We always had players sliding across.

Both team's probably each hit the cross bar or post about five times.

Andrew Young

I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on another corner and the Nazi Party was on the third corner.

Andrew Young

There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.

Vietnamese are very similar to the Chinese. They just can't sit on gold bars underneath their beds. Eventually, they will pull out their gold bars and invest.

Peter Criss

I once had money to burn. I'd fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars.

Peter Benchley

If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted.

Peter Higgs

My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs board game or to inaugurate the walkway of their new office atrium. There's even a microbrewery in Barcelona which wants to know what my favourite beer is so they can brew a similar one in my honour. It is quite mad.

Mayer Hawthorne

Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey.

Mayer Hawthorne

I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios.

David Bowie

I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.

The government's role is necessary for big deals; foreign parties are monopolies while Chinese parties are diversified and do not have significant bargaining power.

There are a number of barrier island and water diversions projects that are clearly ready to be built today.