Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Braverman

I think stock selection is going to be key. It's just like last year, where if you picked a stock at random, you probably lost money even though the averages were up. And stock selection's going to be key again. You have to pick stocks that are going to have earnings that exceed the consensus. It sounds very simple but it's not the easiest thing in the world to do.

Cynthia Lowery

I think those averages can be deceiving. Some of our principals are young.

Mack Strong

I don't know where that comes from. You tell me. The guy carries the ball 25 times a game and averages 100 yards a game. I don't think that's soft. Maybe because he does it with a smile.

Michael Driscoll

Futures have a little stronger tone to them. You look at the averages and they look like they are approaching some support levels ... And don't throw out the fact that this is traditionally a good time for the markets.

Debbie Ryan

I thought defensively we did a really good job on a team that averages 83 points per game. I was very pleased with our execution at both ends of the court.

Bill Gleason

God really has cursed the sports fans of Chicago. It defies the law of averages when you think about it: 1908 and 1917. God didn't want it to happen. But if the White Sox ever win again, they'll probably set off a hydrogen bomb.

Philip Klotzbach

Historical records and the law of averages indicate the probability of seeing two consecutive years like 2004 and 2005 is very low.

John Hackett

He's a three-sport performer. He plays for me, then averages like 20 points in basketball and was a state-qualifier in the hurdles for the track team. He's impressive.

Jeff Gundy

He's going through that natural period where people want to nitpick the very few negatives he may have instead of extolling all his positives, ... And in a little over 31 minutes a game he averages 18 and 8. He comes to work every day. He's totally selfless. Yet some want to badger the guy about whatever perceived shortcomings he has. I find that unfortunate because if they spent half the time looking at all his positives it would be a much better story.

Bill Wade

Regardless of what happens in redrafting, the Department of (the) Interior is going to do what it can to get (the Hoffman proposal) in there. It can only be public outcry and influence from Congress that can be brought to bear on this and make the effort to turn it back.

Alexander Medvedev

Preserving such a situation would mean encouraging theft on the path of our gas to Europe. Therefore, all our foreign partners are warned that, while we are doing everything possible to keep up our gas exports to Europe, Ukraine would bear all the responsibility for any possible disruption of exports.

Kathy Fletcher

Our population growth makes everything harder. We've gone down the dumb-growth path for many years. ... Maybe as we see all this bearing down on us, we'll take the smart-growth path.

Gary Galloway

Our main objective was to keep the folks in the county comfortable. We knew we couldn't make things perfect for them, but we wanted to make it more bearable for them.

Hugh Johnson

Ordinarily, we would have a technical bounce at this level. But then the question is, have you seen a bear market bottom? I don't know if we have at this point.

Stephanie Simek

People in bear country have to make sure to keep all sources of food cleaned up outside their homes. Bears home in on a free meal and they keep coming back.

Maureen Allyn

People may not be feeling all that good, but they are trying to cheer themselves up. They're not constrained yet, but I do think it is going to set in. The bear market has taken a big, big bite out of wealth, and history tells us when that happens people do sort of cut back.

John Betjeman

Spirits of well-shot woodcock, partridge, snipe / Flutter and bear him up the Norfolk sky.

Meir Soloveichik

Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us.

Ma Jun

Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.

William Fitzgerald

Our portfolio remains slightly below duration. But then, the entire fixed-income universe has been defensively positioned for months now.

Toba Beta

Part of water which is cooler always flows to below surface. I understand that hotheaded men always want to be noticed.

Ethan Harris

Payrolls were well below the whisper number, so there's been a big sigh of relief in the market,

Ron Lievense

People have looked at our size all season and wonder how we got here and how we won 28 games. We're not going to look good in an airport. One coach called us the best below the rim team he'd ever seen, so I guess we're not all that athletic.

Scott Kriens

Spending levels during the quarter were below expectations but represented a more diverse set of key service providers and carriers. We remain committed to financial fundamentals, our multiple market strategy, and to the expansion of our product portfolio, all of which will be critical growth drivers when the public networking industry outlook improves.

Alan Ruskin

Some of the headline (jobs) numbers maybe look slightly stronger than expected, but when you scratch below the surface, you find there is still plenty of weakness out there, ... Obviously the manufacturing sector is looking as weak as ever.

Evan Mann

Some investment grade mutual funds and pension plans can't hold paper that's below investment grade. People that couldn't own it because of the ratings restriction now can look at it again.

William Lewis

Our salaries have slipped below the high schools in our area.

Mike Williamson

Regardless of the results, we played outstanding in the first. We played at both ends of the ice, shot the puck finally. We didn't get rewarded, but there's not many times you won't if you keep playing like that.

Jim Brandt

Rebecca is within 7 points of qualifying for state and Alyssa is with in 20 points. I see both of them qualifying at GNAC in Hastings.

Tomasz Beer

Reasons for this trend are not really known, but may include a desire to do something rather than do nothing on the part of both physicians and patients. Unfortunately, these men may be enduring significant side effects for an uncertain benefit.

George Washington

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle

David Wade

Real strength is telling the truth when troops are being killed, and one year later a lot of Americans realize John Kerry had it both right and consistent about Iraq and this president's still got it dead wrong.

Vinny Testaverde

Really, you just hold your breath and hope that he's okay and that it wasn't a concussion. I kind of had one eye on him and one eye on the field because it was obviously a critical situation for us to win the game there. But I guess you could say that we lost on both ends today - losing Wayne and the game.

Andy Reid

Reggie is well deserving of his Hall of Fame induction. In my mind, he will go down as the greatest defensive end in NFL history. He was a great teammate and a fun player to coach. As good as a player as he was on the field, he was an even better person off the field. He left a lasting legacy, both in the NFL and in the community.

Andrew Yang

President Chen has been constrained by both the opposition parties and factions in his own party. I would say President Chen has done a mediocre job on foreign policy, and an equally mediocre job on domestic policy.

Allan Hoffenblum

President Bush is in California for specific reasons that do not involve Governor Schwarzenegger, and the governor is involved in a special election that has nothing to do with the president. Both are having political problems now, so other than cordiality, there's really no reason for them to be together.

Rick Billy

Relative to where the stocks were earlier this year and the expectations people had for growth, some correction was necessary. Their valuations were as lofty as I have ever seen in 20 years of following the semiconductor industry. They were truly off the charts.

Tom Fitzpatrick

Overall this period of dollar strength since January can still only be viewed as a correction to the 3 years of weakness,

Darren Gibbs

It is a reminder of just how far these markets have moved that even the savage fall in silver has merely taken us back to where we started the month. It would take more broad-based weakness to suggest ... that a more sustained correction is under way.

Jeremy Batstone

Japan's had a terrific run over 2005 -- the market was up 30-40 percent in local currency terms -- so some kind of correction was likely.

John Rogers

I think we're in the midst of a pretty significant correction right now. All of a sudden you see opportunities starting to creep in.

Marshall Acuff

It feels uncomfortable. It is uneasy. We're not used to this situation in the market. But, after all, this is the much-awaited correction that many people have been looking for in recent years.

John Reade

I still want to see this correction find some decent physical demand ... Once we can prove that physical demand is actually going to support gold, that will encourage people to take gold higher again.

Ian Shepherdson

July sales always looked unsustainably high relative to the level of mortgage applications so a correction was due. This drop in sales does not mark the start of a sustained weakening.

Stephen Briggs

Has it done any damage, or is it just a correction in an upward trend? That's a tough call.

Michael Friedman

Someone once told me, 'You don't know it yet, but we are the lucky ones.' But I do know it. I have found a new definition of what it means to live (because) I have seen what it means to die.

Danny Meyer

Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sharp definition for me, the rose petals a little fuzzier.

Bharati Mukherjee

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

Peter Jackson

It is a major surgery. Major by any definition of the word.

Frederick Warren

The appropriate economic definition of a separate product is an item for which there is sufficient demand such that it is efficient to offer that item separately from other items,

Richard Land

The American people are not sending their young men and women to Afghanistan for this definition of freedom. Mr. Rahman should be released immediately.

Melanie Boeglin

That was the definition of a heartbreaker. We're using that as motivation this year and hopefully we can have a better outcome. We don't want to leave anything up to the (NCAA Tournament) selection committee.

Craig Bruce

It doesn't require the use of Web crawlers. It requires someone knowledgeable about the definition of what a government document is.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago in the Army: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. There is a very great distinction because when you are planning for an emergency you must start with this one thing: the very definition of 'emergency' is that it is unexpected, therefore it is not going to happen the way you are planning.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.

Dawn Kelsch

If all else fails we will still have the lakes, the land, the horses and the fish, and there are a lot of fish.

Bible Bible

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

John Wycliffe

Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief.

A.J. Chilson

When a number fails to identify a football player try the name on the back of his uniform.

David Antin

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

Diana Nyad

I don't want to be the crazy woman who does it for years and years and years, and tries and fails and tries and fails and tries and fails, but I can swim from Cuba to Florida, and I will swim from Cuba to Florida.

Heinrich Heine

Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Randy Carlyle

Our relationship goes back a long way. Our kids played minor hockey together in Winnipeg. There are roots there.

Jim Williams

Our little dog, he goes into this unbelievable shaking for about 10 or 15 minutes. And we have no idea when they'll be blasting, so all we can do is wait for it.

Inaki Saez

Our mistake was in not scoring. But not just tonight, throughout the whole tournament, ... Greece goes through simply because it scored more goals.

Otis Smith

Steve is still a good player in this league. Whether he goes from good to great is going to be on Steve.

Richard White

Spend your money and it all goes to here as opposed to going out for dinner.

Mark Attanasio

Our payroll can go higher, but we need to be mindful that it goes higher in the right way, at the right time and for the right players. We're not going to spend money for money's sake.

Sam Cassell

Our season goes up and down and we are going to find a way to get it back. We don't have a monkey on our back. We have a gorilla.

Jessica Laing

Our team is amazing. I love them all to death. Whoever goes out there, they always give 110 percent. It's just awesome.

Gary Hennip

Overall I'm pleased with the way we're playing. We have a lot of new young players. We'll get better as the season goes on.

Donald Selkin

We may need some new impetus to get past the highs we've hit this year.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.

Douglas Wood

Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded.

Castor Pang

Most H-shares have reached irrational highs so investors are now taking profit.

Pat Ryan

Look at my career. It's had its highs and lows. I've won everything and I've lost everything.

Steve Warren

We've been here long enough that the kids understand the importance of these games. Because of who we play from week to week you can't let the highs be too high and the lows be too low.

Tim Heekin

We've been on a tear and it's just kind of flattening out today after hitting some near-term highs yesterday.

Callum Henderson

We saw stops go out yesterday after the highs of the previous two runs were taken out.

Ray Everett-Church

Technology has improved incrementally in the last year, but spam volumes remain at all-time highs by most measures.

Brett Somers

I don't know a high C from a low C.

Denis Johnson

How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse.

Tom Shrader

We're up 15 or 20 percent off our (July 24) lows. But September is a tricky month historically. We could retest recent lows by as much as 10 percent before we're able to really move higher.

Dolly Parton

I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

Bode Miller

A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

Anzia Yezierska

Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.

Ben Affleck

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

Bat for Lashes

They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low

Charles Dickens

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

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.

Donna Berger

I was very amazed. The sign says the crew, they all ate, slept on the deck.

Billy Donovan

I'd like to start Moss, unless he says he doesn't want to start.

Adam Timmerman

I think it says a lot about him being unselfish and seeing the talent in Steven himself.

Brian Reilly

He's been through it. He just says to stay patient.

Mardi Gras

If we can do this, it says we're back.

Damon Hewitt

If the state says there's a plan, that's an overstatement.

Ryan Garko

If someone says something, you know who said it.

Denise Roberts

He says he wants to be a firefighter,

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. You knew, right from the get-go, he was the manager, and what he says goes.

M. Wolfe

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see painting.

Charles Darwin

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

Charles Darwin

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

Brian Greene

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

Lee Smolin

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.

Frederick Pollock

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

Albert Einstein

Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.

Albert Einstein

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

Albert Einstein

The most practical solution is a good theory.