Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was disappointing. A lot of stores told us that when they opened at 7 or 8 in the morning with special deals good for two hours, crowds were beginning to mass. But at the stroke of 9, when those sales were supposed to end, the crowds disappeared like a snowflake in the palm of your hand.

It was fun in the beginning. Now it's a major chore. But if I weren't doing it, I would have been out of business years ago.

It was cut down and that was the beginning of the turning point.

It was doomed to fail from the very beginning because it's a double standard, because it provides exactly the wrong incentives. It provides incentives for snoops and snitches under this policy.

It was the first real sign that oil prices are beginning to hurt, not at the petrol pump, but for industry.

Laurie Lee

It was the end of a semi-feudal life and it was also the beginning of one's own life.

He thought he would be playing for a championship. neither one of us thought we'd be 1-4. It'll be kind of funny, but we've got a game to play. Once we say, 'What's up?' and greet each other at the beginning of the game, then it's on.

Marat Safin

He's the kind of player that you need to be really careful and really focus from the beginning of the match.

Gasoline has led us higher this week and that should continue to be the case. There is a small supply deficit, a lot of refineries have scheduled maintenance early next year and imports are beginning to trail off. The gasoline market is going to shine in 2006.

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Everything has gone well and they're beginning to fill cement up the shaft of the well.

Scott Skiles

Even though we had it pretty close at the half, they pretty much outplayed us beginning to end.

Even though we had a great showing in the beginning of the season, we still have a long way to go.

Earnings will recover and valuation multiples, which got crushed, will get back to where they were at the beginning of the year,

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Between the dark and the daylight, / When the night is beginning to lower, / Comes a pause in the day's occupations, / That is known as the Children's Hour.

Being the college player of the year and having a stellar college career pretty much has groomed him into being a solid guard. He's in the same position now that Dwight was in the beginning of the year. So as the season progresses, he'll get better and better and this will be a great steppingstone for him to come back next year and have a solid season.

Billy enforced it from the beginning and got it going. Now we have to maintain it. I can't say guys didn't gripe about it, but we're managing. It just means you have to spend a little more money on suits instead of jeans.

Everything priced the same was a great thing to do in the beginning of the market. Now it's a good time to move into a tiered market. This whole landscape is evolving. We will be more seeing more of a price differentiation between more desirable stuff and less desirable stuff.

Everyone's really made a strong effort to get better individually, and they're all learning what it takes to succeed at this level. We've made great strides from the beginning of the season, and I'm hoping these kids will use this year's experience and carry it on over into next year and future years.

Every team sets goals at the beginning of the season. Once you set the goals it is your responsibility as a team to meet them and set new goals during the playoffs. There is not a lot of room for error.

Every single director stops at the moment he thinks he has the shot. Sometimes, directors shoot an establishing shot where everything is in the shot. He's going to use this at the beginning and the end.

Every game is tough. Every game is important from beginning of the conference season to the end.

Ivor Novello

As the growth of the film industry has progressed from humble beginnings to its present important position, the play has prospered.

Some people are beginning to think the dollar will fall this year. There are numerous dollar-selling factors.

Some people are beginning to get concerned with the housing market. That is enough to put some pressure on home builders and home-improvement stocks.

Some Democrats are beginning to salivate too much, ... They still have to make good on their opportunity.

Robert Montgomery

Some prices were inflated after the storm, and a lot of people saw that and wanted to cash out. Some prices were unrealistic, and prices are a little inflated now, but they are beginning to come down.

So this is more up to date as far as the situation in the housing market is concerned. It is a better indication that housing sales are beginning to slow.

Once we started winning, we started playing pretty well and are beginning to believe in ourselves. Our bench is playing well and we are gaining confidence.

Nathalie Sarraute

One can't write without having read-you have to read before beginning to write-and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

Now it's my program. I feel more so that way now than at the beginning of the meet. I was lucky to be here to take over.

Actually, I didn't think about the wins until the beginning of this season. I realized I had 90 and it's not that far away from second place. First was a long-shot anyway.

The more effort we put at the beginning of the chain, the less likely it is that we're going to have use the tools that we are working on to prevent a pandemic and to treat one if it happens.