Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Bernanke

There are various estimates about the third quarter impact. Our CEA (Council of Economic Advisers) numbers are somewhere between a half and one percentage point on growth. That would still probably leave us at a decent rate of growth for the third quarter.

Ben Bernanke

There are various estimates about the third quarter impact, ... Our CEA (Council of Economic Advisers) numbers are somewhere between a half and one percentage point on growth. That would still probably leave us at a decent rate of growth for the third quarter.

Last year we had a decent team and won the region. We lost two seniors, but we've replaced them with some good talent. (Evans) has stepped in as our No. 1 singles player, and (Green) has done a good job at the No. 6 spot. We're as good as we were last year, and our record shows that.

Sentiment is still dollar negative, and it will take some very decent equity news to turn this around. The market needs something to hang its hat on.

Serena Williams

So, I can only imagine what it must be like in New Orleans, especially looking at all the footage, all the rain, all this horrible stuff. I thought it would be just a halfway decent gesture.

She's back at the top of her game. She's back on a decent racing surface and she couldn't be doing any better.

Colm Meaney

There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.

Bruce Rauner

Our government works should be treated fairly and appropriately; they should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.

We have like a fourth the number of miners as we used to have, and the equipment is doing a lot of the work. And, I think that we are starting to get a lot of the other plants and everything like this, that would exist because, a lot of times when plants want to move into a state, they look at the lifestyle. Are the schools decent? Are the roads decent? Do you have, is there decent recreation? West Virginia has those things, now.

Sarah Jessica Parker

It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.

Chang-Rae Lee

I can put together a pretty decent meal from whatever happens to be in the refrigerator and the pantry. I like the challenge of this sort of improvisation, the rigor of limitation and sometimes having to take a risk.

We had a pretty decent pull-back in spot gold, so I think there is some profit-taking here.

Lauren Bacall

My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

We do a pretty decent job of running a tournament so we said, 'Let's jump on this and go.' We have six seniors who deserve it.

A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.

Tim's job was to manage contracts... and he did a decent job on it. But we are re-structuring in a different way.

Mark Recchi

We played a pretty decent game and to lose like that at the end is tough. But we got a point. Look at the positives and make sure we stay focused on the right things and move forward from this.

Sebastiao Salgado

It is important what you eat now, what you do now. If we were interested in a sustainable planet where other generations have a right to a decent future, we would not live like this.

Thomas Mann

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Ben Mendelsohn

If you've been working since you were a teenager and working at a reasonably decent level, then you don't expect that you're going to be firmly in your 40s and start moving up in the world, if you like.

I thought we competed, I thought we played decent on the defensive end. Only when we scrambled did we give up a lot of easy opportunities.

I thought we got decent shots, but we just weren't knocking them down. We never expected to have an offensive performance like that.

I thought the tempo was more in our favor the first half. Defensively we did a decent job.

Jeff Johnson

I thought that in the first half, we were getting decent looks at the basket. It wasn't like we were forcing shots. We just couldn't knock them down.

I thought Shannon had a decent day by her standards. She had a tough time with her putts, but for her to score a 74 when she is struggling on the greens is pretty good.

Bernie Sanders

There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages.

We're lacking in the size department. Big linemen are at a premium right now. We went after several guys during this last recruiting season, but all of the ones with decent size were snapped up by Division I schools. There just weren't that many to be had. I guess everybody is facing the same problem.

We've got to get off to a decent start.

Michael Phelps

With everything that's been going on, it's probably a decent swim for right now.

When I went to San Diego State (and walked on to the football program), never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that I might be a pro football player and become pretty decent at it. Now, here I am ... I just feel so much joy.

Carl Honore

Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.

We have seen glimpses of being a pretty decent team. But a lot of it is the sum of all parts. When they're together, we can be pretty good. When they're not, we get exposed.

Paul Davis

When you look at it, when we've all played decent to good to great, I don't think we've lost.