Famous Quotes & Sayings

A lot of our grapes go to the Central Valley. These producers can?t justify higher wine grape prices.

This is the central issue of my career. If a hotel is renowned for its service, how much of the room rate and hotel income is really attributable to the real estate? Tough question.

Jennifer Egan

The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series, like 'The Wire' or 'The Sopranos.' There's one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots.

They' don't have a home. They don't know us, they don't know our community, ... That's what this plan is doing. Right now we feel it is important to set up a central location to handle orientation and application so we can provide the necessary support.

The Yemeni central government has done what it can, but it is very weak. It is not a matter of the government not trying. But there are limits to it can do.

This past week was an exceptionally cold week in a good portion of the country. It took until yesterday (Saturday) to get to the East Coast. This was the coldest week of winter in the west and central part of the country.

You're getting the tail end of those storms through Central California, and that's similar to precipitation outlooks for the next three months.

You never want to see a situation where kids get tossed out. A good scorer and a top defenseman for us were out. Central had good players out as well.

This is the first time for the central authorities to invest so heavily in rural development.

They're going to have to forfeit some games. I've spoken to the (Hammond) central office and I'm waiting on a letter to explain everything.

They're doing it for one or two schools, like Wheeling Central because they are so big. I know what their intent was, and some of them were reasonable and some were not, but I don't think they thought the operations of it through.

They really created a very unique opportunity for people in Oneida and Central New York to support a relief effort in a very different way, knowing that the money was going to be taken and spent directly by these physicians.

They're a good team; they wore Central Florida out last weekend. They're a quality opponent, and we have to go in there and play hard.

Ice Cube

There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.

There's been a tremendous decline of the Jewish population in the central part of the county, with tremendous growth in the south and some growth in the north.

Ice Cube

There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

We put ourselves in this position. It was a credit to our guys to get into the tournament and a credit to how well we played at times this year, but Central was a tough draw.

There has to be concern about sustainability of growth overseas; Japan is central to that issue, ... If people are looking at fundamentals, that's the only news they have to look at this morning.

We knew we didn't wrestle well the first time we saw them. The kids had wanted High Point to win (against Central Regional in the semifinals). They got them and they wrestled like they wanted it.

Ellen Burstyn

I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.

The real question is who is the independent prosecutor who is liberated to pursue these cases. There is no central prosecution office run by commanders. So you don't have a D.A. thinking, I'm going to follow this wherever it leads.

There are significant environmental impacts in Central Oahu, from traffic to ground water to those farmlands that are very valuable to the state.

Chemical synthesis is uniquely positioned at the heart of chemistry, the central science, and its impact on our lives and society is all pervasive.

Rafael Benitez

As I keep saying I want to sign a central defender and not a forward.

Electricity transmission operates on a frequency between 49.7 Hertz and 50.2 Hertz. What I have done is petitioned the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and squeezed this band to now 49.9 Hertz to 50.1 Hertz. This will contain volatility.

During the last three years, Schroeder has revived Germany's close relations with France in ways that damaged ties with the United States, the UK and the countries of central and Eastern Europe.

William Doyle

Fear was the central reality of the entire civil rights era, the fear of being slaughtered, the fear of being bombed.

People down there tell me the guy's just done an unbelievable job. Most of the other (North Central Conference) coaches didn't even know their players' names at the start of the year.

People had been saying Central Coast were physically stronger but I thought that we finished stronger.

North Central is the class of the state right now, if not in the nation.

Isabel Gillies

In New York, everybody looks great and is well dressed, but seeing someone in Ohio wearing Marc Jacobs is like spotting an owl in Central Park. Rare.

The projected path of movement swings it away from Central Florida and then curves it toward the Panhandle by the time we get to Monday with a projected landfall roughly between Apalachicola and New Orleans. That is the uncertainty we still have with the next landfall. But the path of Katrina takes it toward the Panhandle and well away from Central Florida.

The question now is whether some consumers will continue to stay away from central London and whether tourists will be deterred by the threat of further disruption,