Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Barry

Plans to sell a controlling GMAC stake would likely boost credit ratings and cut funding costs, ... divert earnings from GM.

Record-breaking sales of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince drove significantly higher results in children's book publishing and distribution and for the company overall,

Recent speculation about the demise of the housing boom has been greatly exaggerated.

Florentino Perez

Real Madrid needs change and this is the right moment for me to leave the presidency. I am convinced this is the boost the club needs.

Relative to most of the country, it's still rather mild, but when people book Florida vacations, they're not expecting temperatures in the 40s.

Previously, synchronous rectification in resonant half-bridge topologies has not been commercially viable due to the complexity of varying system frequency and low standby power regulations. Here, the IR1167 enables simple SR for a major boost in system efficiency.

Our partnership with Just Marketing is so much more than just a name on the front of the shirts. It is clearly a huge boost to the club at this late stage of the season.

Or have We given them a book before it so that they hold fast to it? / Nay! they say: We found our fathers on a course, and surely we are guided by their footsteps.

Organizations are pressured to grow revenues, reduce costs, and provide higher levels of customer service in a global marketplace where purchasers have more choices and less time than ever before. Selectively investing in high-value customers empowers organizations to boost revenues, reduce operational costs, and to increase customer retention/acquisition rates.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was that so many people were leaving their jobs (to invest in foreclosed homes), and they had no idea of what they are doing.

Mark Zandi

Part of the problem that all of tech is having with respect to jobs is they significantly over-hired during the boom times and to some degree the past few years has been payback for overaggressive hiring. But I think that process is largely over and we should see slightly better job growth in tech by this time next year.

Oprah Winfrey

passports to new and exciting worlds... and I know that I would not be the person I am today had it not been for my love of reading.

George Raft

Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Malorie Blackman

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

Our objective is to deepen and expand the market, reduce (price) instability, and boost transparency and efficiency.

Our offense has been working well the last few weeks, and I don't expect that to change. The win over Bemidji was a big boost for our defense, too, because we had been having some problems, but we stopped a very good team.

Our objective is to help domestic export companies to boost the economies of import nations.

Our major acquisitions and joint ventures ... will be shown on the books for the second half of the year,

Martin Luther

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.

Our motivation was way up. This was a confidence boost for us. We had a long talk in the locker room before this match. I'm happy.

Suzanne Somers

Our modern, deadline-a-day lifestyle overtaxes our adrenal glands, which end up overproducing cortisol, which in turn makes it nearly impossible to sleep and can put you at risk for a heart attack. Raised cortisol also boosts your insulin levels, which can cause you to pack on the pounds, especially around the midsection.

Order books are full and people are operating closer to capacity, so that companies are building up employment again.

Optimism seems actually to change the nervous system and boost the immune response, just as being gloomy depresses it.

David Horowitz

Oprah is the only person who can tell people to go out and read an 800-page book and they listen. She didn't get to be who she is through affirmative action.

Bob Hope

You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra, I come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you're turning the pages.

Bob Hope

Jack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me.

Bjork

There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.

Birdy

I read the three Hunger Games books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote Just a Game.

Biz Stone

I started designing book jackets, which was great because I was good at it. And then from there I decided to become a freelance graphic designer and I needed to expand beyond book jackets, so I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.

Bill Frist

I am troubled that someone would sell a book, trading on their service as a government insider with access to our nation's most valuable intelligence, in order to profit from the suffering that this nation endured on September 11, 2001.

Betty Smith

Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

Betty Smith

Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.

Betty Smith

But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked.