Famous Quotes & Sayings

I've never had any money bequeathed to me and I bought it all myself, so I take sole responsibility. But the bottom line is, I own this land.

The worst part of these results is that they show that the effect of the tax rebate checks has petered out. This is a nightmare in itself for retailers and it doesn't bode well for Christmas. Also, we'll probably see more markdowns now, more than retailers anticipated for the holidays. That will hurt their bottom line.

They are a physical team with a good game plan. But we were able to score three times in the second quarter to take control. We didn't quit and that's the bottom line.

They are a darn good team. They are strong at the top of their lineup and strong with their bottom three.

There would be a lot of teams that would lay down and take that loss. Our girls just kept fighting. It's heart. That's the bottom line.

We talked about it at the very beginning, to keep playing the game because usually something strange happens when we play Granite City. They get the big lead, then we get a big lead and they come back . . . The bottom line is that we didn't make the plays we needed to win the game.

Craig Conroy

We just let them come back. The bottom line is we made some mistakes and they capitalized.

We just waited too late to compete today. The bottom line is we're not getting the job done. We're not winning.

We weren't mentally ready to play. We did not play well defensively, that's the bottom line.

Bernie Bickerstaff

What's the bottom line? We made shots. That's what it's all about.

We went cold in the third and that's pretty much the bottom line. We had good looks, we just weren't able to convert.

We had the game won; the bottom line is we had the game won and they made a couple of shots and couple of free throws they needed to make.

We won a football game; that?s the bottom line. There are a lot of thing to keep working on, but there were a lot of positives.

Jeff Bagwell

We win that game, it changes the whole series. But the bottom line is, we didn't, and we've got to deal with that.

Andy Rourke

With Freebass, there were no rules, really. It was all rather chaotic. Obviously, Hooky was playing the high end stuff, which he always does; Mani was doing the bottom end, and I thought I'd go midway and meet everyone in the middle.

We are certainly off our bottom and have seen the worst of it. This is all part of momentum increasing in the IPO market.

We felt, coming into the game, that this game was going to be won in the paint. Bottom line, it boiled down to 42 rebounds for LSU and 27 for Duke.

We got some hits at the bottom of the lineup today. We know that our first couple of girls are good hitters but when you can do that, it really gives your offense a boost.

We feel the same way about Steve and Michelle as we always did. Those were friends that we knew and loved. Really good people make mistakes. As friends we were there to listen and not judge. That's the bottom line.

The semiconductor group is not terribly expensive, ... This is the bottom of the food chain in technology, and that's where you want to be.

These (metals) companies are making more money than they have in the past 10 years, and they are lean and mean so any small turn in commodity prices falls right into the bottom line for these companies.

The software industry, in some cases, has reached a tipping point where new features provide marginal value to small business users. While it is important to continue providing useful new features, it is equally important to improve ease-of-use, so users can get more value out of the products than they have been able to in the past. Small businesses simply don't have the time or resources to worry about their technology - it's incumbent on vendors to build products that help the bottom line, not hurt it.

The team really competed well but bottom line is we needed the two points.

Bobby Jones

The team from last year had been through so much together. We came from the bottom to the top with that team. This team hasn't realized how it is when it's really bad. Ideally, I don't want us to experience that.

The system did not work here. I have respect for the courts but the bottom line is that an innocent man remains in jail period.

Bob Myers

The system can be set up so that lower-level security breaches stay at the bottom of the response ladder. If critical security breaches occur, the system can immediately initiate top-level response, including officer command scripts that tell the utility police officer exactly how to respond to the situation on their display monitor.

The thicker the bottom of the pan, the better the heat retention. A thin pan won't sear because the heat won't dissipate.

Peter Lynch

You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

George S. Patton

Success is not getting to the top - but how you bounce up from the bottom that counts.

Generally, sex offenders are people we like to keep track of because they're likely to re-offend, ... That's why we don't like it when they disappear. They kind of float down at the bottom layers of society and go unnoticed.

Generally I'm pleased from a shareholder perspective with what's going on. They've made a significant restructuring, which will result in significant cost savings, much of which will fall to the bottom line. This breaks them out from being a very inefficient, large brokerage house.

Ray Ozzie

So now there is a 'second tsunami' coming. I wonder just how hard Microsoft will slam into the bottom this time before they get it figured out, if they get it figured out correctly.

Gayle King

So people ask, 'But how can you work for a friend?' I say it's because I know that the magazine is called 'O.' The bottom line is somebody has to have the final word. Oprah's not right all the time, but her record is pretty damn good. That's not to say you can't disagree.