Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Katchor

There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.

Ami Ayalon

To pull out of Gaza is not a policy, it is a step. Whether it is a step in the right direction toward a two-state solution or at least a step toward hope, we don't know.

While the RBA might engage in occasional bouts of jawboning, we see little prospect of the RBA moving in either direction for some considerable period. That, indeed, was the main message out of yesterday's monetary policy statement.

Slower trading means that earnings will drop. It reflects the uncertainty investors have about the market's direction, and shares may not outperform the market until trading picks up.

At this time in the next 30 to 45 days, on a transition period, I will be retiring as the superintendent of police and I will be going on in another direction God has for me.

The Fed may become less comfortable offering guidance on the direction of interest rates. The market is going to watch to see if they remove 'measured.

These numbers show we are going in the wrong direction.

Tom Daschle

It's really a repulsive and outrageous attack, once again, on those who question the direction that much of the administration has taken with regard to Iraq,

Initially, you don't need five lanes in each direction.

I'm not going. I'm 100 percent Italian and my family makes a trip there once a year. That made it a tough decision. This year we've made a lot of additions here and there is a lot of excitement about the direction we're headed. I just want to be here from the beginning.

I'm excited to be a finalist. It's great to see the direction some things are going there, and I hope I'm a part of it.

I led my parents in the wrong direction ... because I didn't want us to be the one who found him, because then they'd know I'd (pause), then they'd be thinking then I knew exactly where he was.

I learned a lot at Salinas. I think we got that program moving in the right direction pretty rapidly.

It was a big factor, but I think most of it had to do with the direction that this team is heading in. I may start one game, I may start two games, I may not start at all. But this team is headed in the right direction.

Dusty Baker

It takes awhile. I'm glad all these guys are here. They've been doing a lot of drills. They've been doing a lot of things. You've got verbal direction instructions to each other. ... It's a unit you want to get together as quickly as possible, especially on defense.

It's very important to get gross margins moving in the right direction.

Brian Cashman

It took us a long time for some reason to get together and push in the right direction,

It worked out the way we thought. It helped us in the fact that we were headed in the right direction offensively.

The water is dropping, the time is right, and there have been some smelt in there. Everything is pointing in a positive direction for the weekend.

The two likely things influencing the market (this) week is the direction of energy prices and the impression that the Fed is going to stop raising rates.

They are having to spend far too much time on form-filling, bidding for different pots of money, responding to centrally-driven target-setting regimes instead of being given enough freedom and flexibility to be able to move their own school in the direction it needs to go.

(They) called me back and said, 'We're going to go in another direction.' Which to me, it's like mother's milk, ... It's what I'm used to. I thrive on people going in other directions from me.

They've taken a step in the right direction, but we are not all the way there yet,

They'll be pushing on what direction the market is taking and the issue of who is and who will be a competitive threat,

There should have been preventive measures implemented at the schools when they first saw them going in that direction.

Uwe Reinhardt

There's much less here than meets the ear. It's just a step in the direction that they want to go, which is to have a general shift of financial responsibility for people's lives away from institutions, be it employers or government, onto the shoulders of people themselves.

Michael Eisner

The trend seems to be going in the right direction, ... We're feeling better, the economy seems to be moving in the right direction.

The trend in the growth of loans to the private sector also seems to point in this direction.

Chuck Hagel

The time for healing has arrived, and Congressman Peterson is the one to lead us in that direction.

Ultimately, for them to sustain their growth and be successful in the long term, they're going to have to move in new directions and tackle some new product lines that they don't have and haven't historically done. That's going to take significant investment.

We are moving in the right direction and are willing to keep moving on.

We are miles away from (having) a public that is protected, ... But the wheels are moving in the right direction.

We are making coordination in the direction of having a recess.