Famous Quotes & Sayings

A couple of years ago it was 'sequel, sequel, sequel,' ... I think Hollywood is erring on the side of caution by thinking that a concept that has proven to be successful can be a way to hedge its bets and take out some of the risk.

Some people are betting that the sell-off was overdone.

George H. W. Bush

So you bet we will aggressively pursue them, but we will do so under the law.

Jerry Yang

Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision.

Oh you bet I will. I'll stand there until he rots. If he lasts, if he can take it, prison is a tough place, I hear.

The momentum usually gets to a fever pitch when the prices get high. You can bet that the members of Congress are hearing from their constituents.

Jaime Pressly

Defintely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She's a gymnast. So I'm a huge fan.

Dale Murphy

Dedicated to my parents, Charles and Betty Murphy, and to my wife, Nancy. Anything good that has come to my life has been because of your example, guidance, and love.

Companies in Japan still have potential to boost their profits and investors are betting on the strength of the economy.

Despite the prohibitive odds, punters have still been piling in for O'Neill all day, surprisingly the vast majority of bets have come from the south coast.

There's always a salad. I've never eaten so much salad. And strawberries. I bet I eat a half-pound of strawberries a day.

There's a much higher level of urgency. I think they realize that they're betting the company on this. Our sense is this is being viewed as this is a change-or-die kind of thing.

a stunning betrayal of their shields, their colleagues and the citizens they were sworn to protect.

As more consumers realize the safety and convenience online sports books provide, the Internet will continue to be the destination of choice for betting on major sporting events like the NCAA tournament.

A betting man would say that 2005 will end up being the peak of the cycle.

About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.

Todd Edwards

A lot of dedicated Latin American investors put money in Mexico betting on its safe-haven status. As things looked like they were heading for a full-blown crisis in Argentina, many took some profits in Mexico to raise cash.

...Almost playing a poker game with crude oil prices, making a series of bets about where prices are going to be going. That speculation is really what is driving prices up.

A lot of people today look at Booker T. Washington as a Uncle Tom as a sell out to his community. That business tradition that you see celebrated today and BET and any number of successful black enterprises, it starts off with Booker T. Washington.

Jim Jones

A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it

January Jones

A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with.

Jim Brown

They made it possible for me to open up the ARCC on time, and I bet they make it possible for us to open the stadium on time for the football and soccer teams.

They have bet their future on it. That takes a lot of courage, a lot of guts.

Charles Schumer

This isn't just rolling the dice - it's betting the whole house.

John Hammond

They were e-mailing each other back and forth. I'll bet 80 percent of the thing was done that way.

Brian Roberts

This is a major breakthrough. It's a precedent, ... We're moving to personalized television. That's the strategy Comcast has bet on.

Bruce Schneier

It's a huge betrayal of the public trust, and they know it.

It's two-thirds of our economy, and we're making the bet that the consumer confidence is going to pull back,

Foreign investors tend to be worried when there is talk of impeachment because they don't always understand our system. That is important because it was precisely Europe that contributed heavily to buying in the U.S. I don't know if they are selling right now necessarily, but it's a pretty good bet that they are not buying.

Mike Hargrove

You don't try a double steal very often, but we tried it tonight and it worked. When you run a double steal, you're betting on them throwing through. When they don't, it makes you look awfully foolish.

Jonathan Cain

You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.'

Harold Prince

You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.

This movement in the bond market is amazing, truly unprecedented. People are starting to sell fixed-income and put that money into stocks. Equity is starting to look like this undervalued dark horse worth betting on.