Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Hawkins

The show was a big success for Hustler/VCA and Vivid. I think we had more traffic at our booth than in years past.

As a librarian, I have seen a lot of books checked out of the library that I didn't think were very good, but people came back to return those same books and said that the book changed their lives.

The buyback is a big boost for investor confidence in the stock. The move will also lift United Microelectronics' per-share earnings going forward.

The British are receiving a significant increase in funding and you can't discount them as a threat in 2008 and 2012 when you consider what the funding boost did for us in Sydney five years ago.

The big thing is oil is down to $60 a barrel. It's giving a boost to the rest of the market. We had very strong economic news over the last month and then we had very strong retail sales today. That's powering the market up.

A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.

Rudy Rucker

At San Jose State I got very interested in the work of Stephen Wolfram, who wrote a pretty famous book called A New Kind of Science.

Thomas Dekker

A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that's never read, - To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead

Peter DeFazio

A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.

As long as the oil market remains buoyant, as it does for other commodities, then the Russian economy will prosper. The consumption boom is growing on the back of the wealth being produced by commodity growth.

Stephen Chow

As many people have pointed out, the scene in 'Kung Fu Hustle' where the Landlady was chasing after me resembled the Roadrunner, ... I loved to watch cartoons and read comic books when I was small. In fact, I still watch and read a lot of them now. They give me great ideas.

Alan Titchmarsh

At least you will know how useful the book has been.

That was a big boost when she won that match.

That was a big boost to the mentality of our guys, especially Nick Helmer, our other forward.

That was a big boost for our kids, mentally as well as time-wise. No team score was kept, but I was pretty happy with how we did.

That update and the one from PPC was a nice boost for domestic industrials.

That?s why they call it a New York minute. They have about a minute?s worth of patience for anything. Which is the nature of this industry. If I?m not mistaken, they were booing (Mariano) Rivera the other night. I?d have to look myself in the mirror if I booed Mo. So nobody?s immune.

That's why I chose it, it's the first book in a series. This way they get the first book and it will suck them in. It draws them in and gets them interested in the book, and then they want to continue the series. And it gets them reading, which is the whole point of this group.

That's my mom. Books came first. Before you could go play, you had to get your homework done.

That's not an issue. If I pitch the way I did last night, boo me. If I pitch well, let me know that, too. I deserved it last night. I've been booed and cheered for, so it's not going to hurt my feelings.

Lester Holt

That's no lie, ... So, all I could do was throw some jeans and boots in a bag.

Candace Bushnell

That's kind of a difficult question, because people say I'm one of the people who started it ... but I think my books are much more satirical.

That gave us momentum. If they make a run there we might hang our heads in the locker room, but we ended up getting the last run there in the first half and had some momentum going into the locker room. That gave us a boost for the third quarter and the fourth quarter." ()

We have a Fed that wants a booming economy, but the only way the consumer can continue to fuel the economy is through continued debt accumulation. I don't know if there's an easy way out.

We had to buy furniture and computers; we had to put a teacher's desk, wall unit and file cabinet in each classroom. We ordered all those items six months ago from different manufacturers. When they were delivered, they were stored and some pieces had to be assembled. We ordered half a million dollars worth of textbooks. It took a great deal of planning by everyone in the school district - from the custodians planning on how to schedule cleaning to how we were going to supply books and teachers. It was an unbelievably complex project,

To a large degree it (the cut in commissions) is helping offset the fuel prices. You're talking about some big bucks there. That's 3 percent of revenue to people who book 80 percent of your flights.

Those shots Caleb hit were big, because I think they gave us a big confidence boost to get us back on track. During the first half, we looked like a bunch of scared puppies at times. I just felt we needed to be more aggressive. Instead of playing passive, they responded to the challenge very well.

Bobby Crosby

This team's doing well right now, and I just hope I can give any kind of boost that's going to put us over the edge or get that extra couple of games.

This was really no surprise. They have breakthrough technology and even with the boost in the number of shares sold this looked good.

This was big for us. It gives us a huge boost of confidence and shows we control our own destiny.

This was a tremendous boon to the students to have these professional actors working with them, ... It was a wonderful mix.

Bennett Cerf

What rotten luck. Obviously, another book at this time about exactly the same subject would be a sad anticlimax!

What really drove the two-year to the high yield of the day was the two-year note auction, and the Beige Book didn't do anything to help.