Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Dowd

Our long-term goal is to win the title as well as to make the NCAA Tournament. We could also get an at-large bid, which we are currently on the bubble for.

Steve Jocz

People just exist in their own little bubble all the time. If people wake up and realize that there are other things going on in the world, that's a good thing.

Luke Ford

Standardized tests don't measure everything in a child's life in school. We should take a look at the total education and not just what they can put on a bubble sheet.

Mike Roberts

Some of the buildings look really old, it's so different, ... But it's good just to be outside the little bubble we live in. This is a lot more rewarding than the beach.

Matt Mullenweg

Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy.

Ian Forrester

It is a very, very high price. It feels very like a bubble purchase, like the deals done in the late 1990s.

Jon Casson

Jason was on the bubble and really needed a win to make the Olympic team. He totally came through when it counted the most.

David Kathman

I was pretty sure Kraft would go up but we were not expecting a huge pop like the tech names during the Internet bubble heyday.

William Niskanen

It is most unlikely that they will continue to invest as much in dollars as they have. This is the major financial crisis. The dollar would go down. Interest rates would go up. The housing bubble would end.

Matt Mullenweg

Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy.

Tom Leonard

It comes up and just bubbles right out - so much pressure it just bubbles out. It's awful. It just gets real black; it's an oily substance and it stinks.

Alexandra Adornetto

The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.

Gregory Benford

To us large creatures, space-time is like the sea seen from an ocean liner, smooth and serene. Up close, though, on tiny scales, it's waves and bubbles. At extremely fine scales, pockets and bubbles of space-time can form at random, sputtering into being, then dissolving.

John Jansen

The platform had fallen over in 250 feet of water. We knew we were on it because there were some gas bubbles coming to the surface.

Darell Hammond

We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests.

Diana Gabaldon

Whenever anything bubbles up, I have to put it down,

Bill Gross

Too much debt, geopolitical risk and several bubbles have created a very unstable environment which can turn any minute, ... More than any point in the past 20 or 30 years, there's potential for a reversal.

iO Tillett Wright

It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.

Dick Cheney

Rebate checks, a rate reduction on tax day and a stimulus package helped turn three quarters of decline into two quarters of growth,

Jim Ozier

Our research will document the decline of pocket gophers in Georgia, identify remaining habitat and discuss steps to ensure the long-term survival of this species.

David Seiders

Our forecasts show 6 percent to 7 percent declines in home sales and single-family housing starts in 2006, followed by smaller declines in 2007.

Richard Jaffe

Recycling what has worked in the past is a defensive strategy that is working, and it has reversed sales declines for the retailer.

David Seiders

It is a time-tested pattern. February has essentially returned to normal conditions, suggesting to me that we will see a substantial decline in housing starts.

Ann Wagner

I think that we should take the tragedy that happened in Newtown and have a full comprehensive dialogue about all issues, whether it has to do with mental health, whether it has to do with the social decline of our young people and some of the things that they are exposed to, whether it has to do with the firearms and guns.

Gary Perlstein

I think if anything, interest rates will stay still or decline and that could potentially offset the petrol issue.

Sir Campbell

He could have tackled the unfair tax system. He could have made the environment a priority. He could have faced up to the pensions crisis. He could have addressed the problem of personal debt. He has declined to do any of these. This is a legacy from which it will be difficult for him to escape.

Robert Prichard

Harlequin stabilized its operating profit in 2005 after experiencing a significant decline in profits in 2004.

Arlen Specter

Regrettably, you need homeland security, and I think you are going to need it if not forever, for the foreseeable future,

Kenny MacAskill

Our message to the Scottish Diaspora this New Year should be to come home to Scotland.

Francis Thompson

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet./ And all the things are made young with young desires.

Judah Friedlander

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.

Mike Rogers

Some of those old homes made it through a lot of hurricanes,

Bill Henderson

Someone from home will be praying for you,

James Augustine

That'd be the best. To do it at home on Senior Night, to do it with Dee. It would be a special night.

Taylor Twellman

Our first home match is going to be difficult, and we know that better than anybody,

Nick Russo

Residents of these temporary homes need to practice safety first at all times.

John Prescott

Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north.

Jay Speer

People who live in higher-cost housing markets are really hurting.

E. Hicks

We never (talked about) housing because we thought it was too much of a hurdle.

Carl Brown

I think the spike in permits, in retrospect, should have been somewhat predictable. But the strength of the housing market throughout the year was surprising.

Ariel Sharon

It is an old project launched by Ariel Sharon when he was housing minister nearly 15 years ago,

Jeff Neal

It is my understanding that the housing in Middletown is privately owned and managed. It is not owned or managed by the state of Rhode Island.

S. Hughes

I think it will be considerably more. The way housing is, it doesn't matter who you market it to.

Anthony Chan

I would say that momentum (in the housing market) probably will not continue, since you don't see the same strength in permits that you do in construction,

Jeff Jones

Basically, what it means is we have a jobs to housing imbalance in the area,

Hani Durzy

Some of our competitors have twisted our metrics in the local marketplace. We don't give those numbers out any more for competitive reasons.

Gerald Prolman

Our preference is local. But I can't find any local organic rose farms.

David Passey

Our typical role is to work with the state in support of local and state agencies.

Sarah Waters

I was mad about the theatre growing up, really mad. We had a local theatre, the Torch, and I used to usher there. I would see the shows over and over again.

Ratu Tavanavanua

I think there's enough local talent out there for us to make an assessment.

Xtine Hanson

(It gives) a look at how many Starbucks there are versus how many local stores there are.

Pat Kelly

It has been a problem at local institutions already,

Doug Peterson

It is important for us to support local organic growers and vendors.

Rand Paul

Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

David Perkins

Parramatta are only looking at under-15s, unless there is someone exceptional,

Atul Lele

Patrick shares are going to be up near A$8 because that is what the market was looking for before it was blocked. When it got shot down by the regulator everyone was disappointed, but upwards of A$8 is what is needed.

Patti Lovemark

Part of the problem with that is if you're looking at very young students, you're not going to see that big gap.

Darin Erstad

Sure, we know we can get it done, but we feel that way anyway. We have to keep looking forward.

Jack Warner

Our training as a team is on pace. We are looking better than we did a year ago.

Robert Cox

Red-light violations in the first year are typically decreased by 50 percent. That is the primary reason for us looking into something like this.

David Bennett

I was just looking to see if they were going for two.

Roy Williams

I was just, ... looking into his eyes.

E. Hicks

I was just looking for a pitch to hit.

Jim Haslett

Part of me says maybe it's time for a change.

Guy Kawasaki

Statistically it's probably one out of a hundred, so that means there's ten out there. Maybe twenty.

Reggie Bush

Overall, I think I proved I should be the No. 1 pick. I thought I maybe could have pushed a 4.29 out of there, but overall I'm pretty happy.

Matthew Gervais

(Research) is so meaningful and rewarding at this point I'm willing to withhold assumptions on where I'll end up. Maybe I'll find God. Maybe I'll find out science isn't for me. Maybe I'll go sit on a mountain and meditate. The ride will be worth it.

Marilyn Oliveira

Planning the nursery comes soon enough, maybe at the same time. Don't do both.

Nancy Wilson

Maybe our team was a little star struck. But the turnovers had more to do with the size differential and the quickness differential.

Charlie Whitehurst

Maybe on third down, that's where we need to be looking. He always delivers.

Frank Beamer

Maybe one practice day wasn't quite what we wanted,

Sheryl Garrett

Maybe it's a reaction to going overboard in the 1980s and 1990s, but I sense a lot of people are moving away from materialistic things (and) toward more thoughtful and meaningful holidays.

John Kelley

People normally wouldn't do this but they have to come in.

Bob Dickinson

We normally sell those rooms for a lot of money. It was frustrating that no one wanted to come.

Andy Reid

We normally do that if a player is playing his old team.

James Thomas

We normally don't have to go to trial on them.

David Barnes

It is impacting a portion of our employees, specifically in housekeeping and the kitchen. They normally ride the bus.

Davis Drewiske

I wore what I normally would wear at a regular game. It wasn't too bad. I thought the weather was perfect. It couldn't have been any better.

Scott Skiles

Just to run down and double-team Shaq all over the place, it normally doesn't pay off.

Scott Johnstone

It can be as little as $1, but normally it's $500, $1,000 or $2,000.

Mo Johnston

He said he was sorry. End of story. I'm not worried about that. He buckled down in the second half. Normally in the past, he would be sent off.

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Neil Baldwin

Our revenues are down about 20 percent from prior years.

E. Hicks

Over 90 percent of phones really do not really have vulnerability.

John Bradley

Over 60 percent of runners are from Utah,

Robert Straus

Right now, tech stocks are about 20 percent undervalued. While I wouldn't be surprised if some profit-taking took place, we still see a lot of upside.

Ashton Kutcher

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

James Thrash

That's what it was, 75 percent of the offense?

Roger Clemens

I was pitching 100 percent at this time of year regardless.

Giulio Andreotti

I thank God, ... I was more than 99 percent certain.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

David Briggs

I think (stock) prices have run up anticipating a recovery but I don't think the recovery's here yet,

Mike Fitzpatrick

It is not surprising that prices are retreating.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

John Eade

We're probably going to see more weakness in stock prices in the near-term,

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

David Henkin

I don't think it's at all realistic for them to get the EIS done before they deploy in August.

Hiroshi Kamide

No one is seriously thinking a spring release is realistic any more.

Erik Solheim

Let us keep expectations at a realistic level.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I'm a realistic person.

Abdolkarim Soroush

A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.

Aaron Finch

We set a realistic vision on the playoffs.

Phil Marineau

We're trying to be realistic and not trying to over-promise.

Irrfan Khan

We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.

Issa Rae

My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.

Chris Benz

I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.

Michael Robinet

When the new vehicles arrive, you don't want too many of the old ones on the lot. I see this as a specific case, not a wide-ranging trend.

David Gilmour

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

Gustavo Torres

We are going to target them in a specific way.

Walter Salles

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

Sara Zarr

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

Brendan Coyle

By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

ASAP Ferg

I don't have a specific style. My style is unorthodox; that is my style. So you can't really place me here, place me there, because my style is just to be anywhere, you know what I'm saying?

Hilary Rhoda

I've never had a specific style philosophy. I wear what I know works on me and I'll play around with accessories or some other fun additions for the outfit.

Tom Streicher

SWAT negotiators talked to him about an hour,

Haim Saban

Me? I don't know what you're talking about.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he’ll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I can't imagine why you're so interested." He shook his head. "Interested? We're talking about you. I'm fascinated.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're going to have to drive off the road and park behind thoses bushes," I instructed Vee. Vee leaned forward, peering into the darkness. "Is that a ditch between me and the bushes ?" "It's not very deep. Trust me, we'll clear it." "Looks deep to me. This is a Neon we're talking about, not a Hummer.

Otis Smith

We've talked with them, but we've talked to a lot of teams. I still like the team that we've assembled, but we just haven't been able to see it together because of injuries. So we're having to look at some different things. You can't just be stagnant. Like they say, if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

Charley Casserly

We've talked to teams about the pick, and we're willing to move.

Dennis Riley

We've talked to (Pat), and he's going to get back to us.

Robert Philips

We've talked to him about opportunities within our cluster. It's really in Steve's court.

Haim Saban

Me? I don't know what you're talking about.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he’ll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I can't imagine why you're so interested." He shook his head. "Interested? We're talking about you. I'm fascinated.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're going to have to drive off the road and park behind thoses bushes," I instructed Vee. Vee leaned forward, peering into the darkness. "Is that a ditch between me and the bushes ?" "It's not very deep. Trust me, we'll clear it." "Looks deep to me. This is a Neon we're talking about, not a Hummer.

Bill Engvall

Because we've become so ecologically minded now, they have developed a product called Rapidly Dissolving Toilet Paper. Just how rapidly are we talking? 'Cause I don't want to have to play Beat the Clock in the thicket.

C. S. Lewis

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

C. S. Lewis

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Carrie Fisher

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

Bill Bryson

Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.