Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stieg Larsson

I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.

Edward Meir

There are still no signs of a downturn in global economic activity, suggesting that the fundamental backdrop for most commodities, including crude, remains favorable. We'll see if this week's U.S. numbers change any of that.

Greg Feehely

Given the more challenging economic backdrop and widely reported consumer spending fragility this is, in our view, a very strong result.

Ian Stannard

Gains in commodities provided a positive backdrop for the Canadian dollar.

Brian Clifford

I think it's more of a media event than a market event. It's not really changing what we do every day. We do think we'll get there?we believe equity markets are poised to go higher and the economic backdrop is still intact. It might take a couple of days.

Marc Levesque

If we end up with a majority government you could see a bit of a rally in the currency but it would be short-lived. Canada's economy is comfortably in surplus and that backdrop isn't going to change, no matter who wins.

Deborah Carpenter

Lots and lots of decorative pillows piled on the bed will give in a warm and inviting feel. I like to prop four sleeping pillows upright to serve as the backdrop for all the decorative pillows.

Daniel Katzive

The data suggests the big momentum positions which had mirrored carry trades have now been cut back to much more neutral levels, which should provide a good backdrop for carry trade rebuilding in the new year.

Walter Dean Myers

I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

Ronde Barber

Regardless of what 2004 was about, 2005 gave us a new opportunity. Everybody jumped at it, believe in it, worked for it.

Friso Abbing

Regarding the substance of the proposal, our view is the reverse of the people you have been speaking to. We believe that we need to protect innovators, therefore we want to send a strong signal to those people infringing intellectual property that they face criminal sanctions.

James Loy

Recent information from ongoing investigations, detentions, and emerging-threat streams strongly suggests that al-Qaeda has considered using the southwest border to infiltrate the United States. Several al Qaeda leaders believe operatives can pay their way into the country through Mexico and also believe illegal entry is more advantageous than legal entry for operational security reasons.

Anthony Romero

President Bush may believe he can authorize spying on Americans without judicial or congressional approval, but this program is illegal and we intend to put a stop to it.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes that we need to explore new methods of deriving new lines that would not result in embryos being destroyed. He feels that we should push the envelope of science in a way that does not cross fundamental moral and ethical lines.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job, We don't speculate on personnel decisions.

Alan Greenspan

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job.

Donna Shalala

(President Bill Clinton) believes that we can get comprehensive legislation this year, with or without (tobacco companies), ... Meet The Press.

George Buckley

Price growth is on a softening trend and we continue to believe that the outlook for the housing market over the medium term is one of flat to falling prices.

Joe Stork

Reform means not only changing laws but also holding abusers accountable.

Judith Jones

Recalling the pleasures of growing and gathering foods and preparing them with care, of relishing the changing seasons ... was her way of preserving an important part of American life and sharing its rewards with others.

Debbie Mills

Parkinson's is not something you want to handle alone. You need to go to support groups, talk about what works for you and find out what other people are doing. Get information. Things are changing every day.

Ailsa Birch

Partners or husbands can also play a role in changing our eating habits. Dating someone from another culture is often the start of a whole new relationship...with food. Partners may also influence women to make healthier food choices.

Jane Taylor

Our new facility enables us to meet the increasing demand for flexible scheduling of large, innovative early phase studies while improving our operational efficiencies. We expect our design to support Northwest Kinetics' leadership role in meeting clients' changing needs as well as increasing the comfort of our volunteer study participants.

Sen. Lynn

People more and more are very concerned about changing back to what we had in class size.

Russell Robinson

Stephen's been playing great. He's been shooting it well. He's been confident, coming in, changing the games offensively. I think he was our offensive spark today.

Brad Smith

Some of this, I think, we just have to recognize is evolving technology and changing law.

Michel Lu

Some foreign countries fear Taiwan is changing the status quo because they have insufficient information.

Patrick Surtain

regains the form he had a couple of years ago.

Brian Champion

Reese, he's always competing. He left some pitches up in the first couple innings and we made some blunders. ... But he stayed within himself and kept battling, kept competing.

Winston Justice

Our relationship is very, very close. He visited me a couple of times when I was suspended and he helped me through the whole process.

Rich Rodriguez

Pat, when he goes in there it's like he's been there the whole time. He managed the game well, made a couple of big plays.

Jay Mergenthaler

Our main goals are to finish over .500 and to win a couple of tournament games.

Shahid Ghori

Our leaders have been receiving threats for the past couple of months and we had informed the government about it, but no security was provided to our leaders.

Chauncey Billups

Our last game was Tuesday, so I had a couple days to soak it in. That's when it kind of hit me that I made it. I'm an All-Star. It's still a little surreal right now. It's something that I always wanted.

Steve Massey

(People need to) stop irrigating their lawns. This time in the winter, you don't need to be watering the ground around your home but every couple of weeks.

Harold Evensky

People have historically benefited from a couple of different types of immediate annuities.

Ryohei Muramatsu

Reflecting the improvement of economic fundamentals in Japan, inflows into Japanese assets, equities in particular, are likely to grow stronger.

Anthony Chan

Recent trends in this index strongly suggest that the largely anticipated path towards economic recovery has in all likelihood already begun,

Michael Malone

Recently, when yields move down, the market has moved up. Investors are looking to the fact generally that economic growth worldwide is robust right now, so you're seeing a lot of these multinationals that participate in that doing quite well.

Anthony Chan

Real new home sale prices and existing-home sale prices have been rising very sharply. When that starts to give way and we don't have the equity market picking up where housing left off, that's another reason the economic expansion will be gradual.

Ignacio Bunye

President Arroyo has not only taken the barbs without flinching but has stuck to her economic plan with steadfastness.

Tom Richards

Part of the point here in GRE and economic development is a forever job ... it takes staying power and ... Michael helped to teach us that, quite frankly,

Keith McKeown

Part of our mandate in Florida is to encourage economic development, and this would be an opportunity for some economic development and jobs.

Edward Zander

Our nation's wireless needs are too often governed by outdated regulations that hinder economic progress and innovation.

Bob Straus

Some investors are waiting for economic confirmation so they can purchase tech stocks, but by the time you get the confirmation, you've already missed out on most of the rally.

Barbara Steinmetz

That was a thing we were getting away from when the equity markets were on a tear. Everybody thought you were a fool to get into anything else.

William Sullivan

The only thing that can take yields down is a total retreat in equity prices.

Mike Lenhoff

Fundamentals remain positive for equity markets so our view is: stick with the trend, it's not the end, it's still your friend.

Ken Miller

Because of the cooperative's financial soundness, tonight we are returning over $ 1.8 million of your equity back to you.

Hans Johnson

I thought what we would find was that it was only people who had equity or very high incomes who were getting into the market. But that's simply not true.

Anthony Chan

I think the big jump in Japan gives a nice tail wind to the equity markets this morning.

Robert Kraft

His sense of equity and fairness would be very helpful now.

Kevin Tynan

His motivation was to unlock that equity in GMAC. Rumor has it that it's not going well.

David Tepper

Given the question of where the liabilities lie, there should be a fight. That fight can't be made without an equity committee.

Michelle Harutunian

Regardless of if you're grandfathered in for an event or not, everyone has the same opportunity.

Eamon

Recent events on the national level show that response times are critical,

Michael Eisner

Recent events make this a particularly challenging and somewhat anomalous time for our company,

Mina Tadros

Recession is like Failure, it is an Event not a Person, so Just Move on

Brian Woods

Our research shows that for events like the Super Bowl, (groups) are often gathering in the home of an HDTV owner.

Roger Carter

Our position is irrespective of the event as long as they meet all the licensing and health and safety issues, they have a right to do what they want in the community.

Julie Martineau

Our organization was founded in 1955 so it stood to reason that we would do a '50s theme. This event is meant to take us back to honor the founding families of our United Way.

Peter Scarlet

People have a tendency to stereotype shorts as being a means to an end (for filmmakers to) eventually produce a full-length feature. On the contrary, these short films stand on their own.

Grant Woods

Sporting events will no longer feature anything to do with tobacco,

Ron Vos

Passing out flyers at a shopping mall or hoping somebody sees a poster doesn't get through to today's jaded, image-bombarded, media-savvy young consumer. Street marketing is practically an old strategy now, so the stakes are much higher when it comes to getting your message across.

Mark Waggoner

Supplies really aren't a problem. Consumption over the holidays is usually a little higher than normal but production has been keeping up.

Alan Greenspan

Such an increase in market value is too often viewed by market participants as structural and permanent, ... To some extent, those higher values may be reflecting the increased flexibility and resilience of our economy.

Justin Lane

Some of the higher peaks I would imagine could see 2 1/2 feet.

Satish Kumar

Some of our standards are higher than the U.S.

Karen Johnson

Our prices are 18 percent higher that they were this time last year.

Rhonda Rompola

Our RPI has to get higher for any tournament play.

Bill Cooke

Our attrition rate is not higher than last year but it is higher than we would like.

William Ross

Right there, there is not that much inventory for that kind of property. Because of a lack of availability, what you get is higher prices.

Henry Willmore

Previously the market had taken out any risk of a second-quarter tightening by the Fed. With this statement, we see that's not a risk to be discounted.

Mark Hoffman

Our relationship with SAP is actually better than it ever has been before, on products, on marketing and on sales, ... That's why this stuff is so shocking.

Oleksiy Ivchenko

Our relationship is shifting completely to a market basis.

Evan Siegel

Our marketing tactics are really where we separate ourselves.

Ethan McAfee

Sure there are some smaller names, but they're unattractive to big corporations because their market share is probably 1 percent or less.

Ante Kostelic

Sure I want to win and smash records, but winning medals is not like going to the market and getting cabbage.

Marina Amoroso

Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.

Five Live

Some of the merchandise isn't right and the market is very tough,

Leendert Staal

Our priority now, our aim, is to get 25% market share.

Alan Levenson

I think they have sent a message that I'm surprised that they wanted to send to the market. I think the markets are seeing the neutral directive and they are saying, 'Well, they're done,' which I think is wrong.

Sam Ginzburg

I think there's tremendous optimism in the markets right now.

Alex Brown

I think markets will stay roughly where they are with the outlook slightly positive,

Mary Schapiro

I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

Alex Brown

I think the markets will probably be up,

Brian Finnerty

I don't think it's the reason the markets are down, but I think it's a big weight around the market's neck. It's like an anvil.

Brian Reynolds

GM's going out to the markets to get the money and they're going to put it back into the market, so in a sense it's a wash,

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Firas Askari

Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting.

Tim Henman

Our media is possibly the worst in the world.

George Shinn

Rod said that (Scott) had a problem with one of the players for something Byron said to the media.

Micah Knorr

I'm here to win a punting competition, not a media competition,

Bill Sienkiewicz

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something

Bill Cosby

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

Bianca Jagger

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

Carrie Fisher

I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.

Carl Sagan

One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.

Bethany Hamilton

Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.

Judah Friedlander

Paul Verhoeven might be my favorite director, and I'm serious.

Georgy Yartsev

People might say we didn't need this victory. I think we very much needed it. The Russian soccer needed it. Look at how many rookies we had.

Rick Halprin

People might not think it's much, but it's better than nothing.

Ed Feigenbaum

People might just have wanted to wait until they get their service back up.

Tom Parsons

People might have to stand by for one or two flights, but inconvenience to passengers should be minimal.

Victor Shum

State-owned enterprises have perhaps more options than international oil companies. Without shareholders, they can go places that might not be politically acceptable.

Felicia Brown

Some of (the children's) educational needs might not be met. You can't spend all the time that they'll need.

John Clayton

Someone might say, 'You didn't vote for him. Why should I?'

Josephine Crawford

Somehow, I'll spend it. ... I might go to Vegas.

Don Patterson

I think Marco is poised to have a big season.

Ernie Accorsi

I don't have to talk to Eli. If he were another type of personality, it would be different. But he's as poised a quarterback as you could want, and he handles every situation in an unflappable manner.

Bill Cowher

He's a very poised quarterback and he has a feel for the game,

Brandon Stockton

He wasn't mad. He just told us to stay poised and have fun.

Dennis Jett

She was impressive: articulate, poised and mature. I never got the idea she wielded a lot of influence.

Phil Singer

We're in a very strong position right now. We're poised to make gains.

Richard Sichel

They are really poised to put everything together.

Joe Torre

He's very intelligent, not pretty intelligent. So I think he was poised to make a decision.