Famous Quotes & Sayings

When mining is down, we've seen the cycles that forestry has a tendency to be stable. It's rare that both are down. So we try to hedge our bets to be two companies in one by servicing those two diverse markets.

But North Korea's betting with its strongest hand failed to spur its negotiations with North Korea, but instead worsened the crisis situation on the Korean peninsula.

Alison Moyet

When I saw Adele, I thought: 'I'll give it an hour before people say I was her,' just because I was fat. When you watch 'X Factor,' you can bet your bottom dollar, every single fat singer sounds like me as far as the judges are concerned. Can you imagine if they did that with every black artist?

David Einhorn

There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.

While investors aren't expecting the levels of earnings growth that you see in China, people are thinking that Japan is a good bet for both security and growth.

With oil prices back near record levels, one can bet that the Brazilians are increasing ethanol production. This means less refined sugar and higher prices.

America Ferrera

I miss Betty madly. I loved her. Whenever people talk about her, I get really nostalgic. There are parts of her still with me; I played her for four years and, of course, the lines get blurred.

You bet your life there's a renewed commitment.

Michael Vick

You bet we can, ... or my name's not Ron Mexico, when I don't want to blemish the name of Michael Vick.

Orrin Hatch

You bet these hearings ought to go forward. I think Bill Rehnquist would be the first to say they ought to go forward,

Tom DeLay

You bet there'll be congressional hearings. I think both branches, the legislative branch and the judiciary branch, should look into this in depth, because this is a frightening event, that American citizens can expect that the executive branch on their own can decide whether to raid a home.

Dan Hawkins

You bet there is. It's called hard work, determination and preparation. There's a lot of work to be done.

Max Mayfield

You bet I'm worried about next year, and several years after that,

Brian Kennedy

You bet his family was with him, of course. What better way to see and judge the visitor experience of a national park?

You can't bet sports every day. With baseball, people start off excited in April, but by June, July, only professional players are still betting. With football they get a break -- they're burnt out by Monday or Tuesday, then by Thursday they're ready to bet again.

Olli Jokinen

We've got 5-6 million people in our country and I'll bet every single one will watch the game on TV.

This season of American Idol is already the most watched and should be interesting to say the least. In keeping with previous years, there's sure to be controversy, heartbreak and triumph, all of the ingredients that give Idol the massive following it continues to enjoy. Everyone bets, but viewer voting can make the outcome so difficult to predict and is what makes betting so much fun.

The Opera folks are betting their browser has reached a threshold of popularity where they can unshackle it from the fees. This clearly is a volume play that could pay off if enough people use the browser. Opera would be able to drive revenue through affiliate relationships, for example.

The recovery is extremely real. ... It's so real you can bet money on it.

George H. W. Bush

Two-bit terrorists aren't going to prevent me from doing what we need to do and that is to promote our friendship in the hemisphere, ... Our neighborhood is important to us. Peru is an important country. You bet I'm going.

Laura Bush

Two-bit terrorists aren't going to prevent me from doing what we need to do, and that is to promote our friendship in the hemisphere, ... You bet I'm going.

We would note that given the size of GM, there are relatively few players that could pull such a deal off. Consequently, betting on a takeover of this scale seems to us to be more like gambling than investing.

Zig Ziglar

When a company or individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner and you can bet your last nickel on it.

This reluctance to press Nigeria to hand over Taylor fosters a double standard that betrays the people of Sierra Leone,

There has been less volatility overall on these numbers, and making the big bet has not really paid off.

We said no. We're going to place our bets on the broadcast media names.

Debi Mazar

My husband, Gabriele, is a musician, and I love music, so you can bet it's a really important part of our home entertaining repertoire, even if it means Gabriele making a really good playlist for a dinner party.

Tim Schafer

What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make your bets on people.

We only scored 30 points. It was sloppy. If you would have told me that's what was going to happen, I would have bet you a million bucks we were going to lose.

Paul Simon

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

We must all be concerned about the threats that the Shin Bet head spoke about. Israel must stop playing ping pong... and nip the threat in the bud.

When you are investing in J.P. Morgan, what you are really betting on is Jamie and Jamie's team, ... You are betting that Jamie's team of expense control czars are going to be able to fully integrate this business.

When we hit the wire I wouldn't have bet money that we got there.