Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Rogers

He can take a batch of words and scramble them together and leaven them properly with a hunk of oratory and knock the White House door-knob right out of a candidate's hand.

Peter Cardillo

Obviously they (investors) are going to focus on the Fed but a rate cut is priced in. The focus will be on the economy and signs that the first batch of interest rates are finally taking hold.

Pat Curran

The only leftovers there are some of the apples. There might be enough to take home and make a small batch of something.

Noreena Hertz

I try to take a weekly digital Sabbath, batch my emails so I deal with them a few times a day rather than constantly, and increasingly give myself permission to ignore unsolicited communiques. I try, too, to give others more slack. The respond-now culture is a two-way street. I'm trying to be more mindful of that.

Cameron Purdy

We did what we call the Work Manager where the data grid is tied around particular data. Think of it more like a batch process as opposed to a data process.

Allan Sloan

The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.

Chris Woods

Today the world is not a batch world,

Peter Levine

New Voices has found another batch of winners: scrappy, innovative, diverse citizen journalists who are inventing new ways to generate information and ideas for their communities. The techniques and models they are creating will help to renew American democracy.

Ellen Bogard

What we're dealing with is a portion of one batch of cards sent out in recent weeks have an issue with low batteries.

Chris Viale

People often turn around and charge up their credit cards again.

Tom Williams

Our gift cards are used as Christmas gifts and are especially popular as gifts from parents to students.

Michael Parker

It is another form of back door compulsion in the same way that ID cards have been bolted on to passports.

Gilda Carle

Jewelry wears thin. Flowers die. But cards get kept and gestures remembered. Ultimately, what is important, what people remember isn't the expense but the expression, and it's meaningfulness.

Gerry Gerlach

That was her old system ? she didn't need a computer. We used to use thousands of those cards for ordering. She always had that dedication to the business.

Mary Smith

That was a leap year, and he didn't run away. We're enjoying being with each other in our retirement. We never get bored. We play cards together, do crosswords and he likes to cook.

John Edward

I think it's not enough. The problem is there are still not going to be enough green cards available.

John Gay

It goes very far in recognizing that you can't send (the undocumented) home and that they do deserve permanent status and a path to citizenship. But there have to be enough green cards there for this to be a meaningful opportunity.

John Carroll

I worked for Knight Ridder for 18 years and I know the Detroit Free Press was part of the company's pride back in the old days. Now it seems, viewed from the outside, that these papers are like cards in a deck: you shuffle them, you deal them, you fold them, and the meaning of them as an institution in the community seems to have been lost.

Steve Goodman

Stanford every year rejects two-thirds of the applicants with perfect SATs. You're dealing with an enormous population growth in the last 20 to 25 years, plus the number of freshman seats at William and Mary and UVA hasn't really materially changed.

Thomas Fuller

Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that wear it are out of fashion

Lois Capps

Picking up and going on, I believe, is my way of dealing with that enormous shock.

Kelly Holcomb

Man, I've been through all this before. I know what you're dealing with here. You've got a young guy, who wants to be the guy. But we've got a team now that is ready to win. And you have to go on the field to produce. I'm just glad I got the opportunity to go play the game.

Scott Palmer

I think they all took it upon themselves to step it up this year and they have. Last year I think there was more pressure on everybody because I think people expected us to do even better than we did. This year the maturity level has come into play as Grade 12s and they're dealing with it very well.

Alan Faneca

Last year, dealing with the championship game and the 15-1 season and all the hype and everything that went with it has definitely helped him deal with what's going on now. He feels and looks like a six- or seven-year guy.

Z. Sheppard

I think dealing with all these young guys makes him feel young. It makes him feel like he can still play, that he feels like he has to keep up with us.

Geno Auriemma

The alternative would be that you're dealing with this thing all year long. A week she's good, a week she's bad, and back and forth. I'm hopeful that by keeping her out those two weeks that we got to the root of the problem and fixed it. But, again, we'll never know. We'll just keep our fingers crossed.

Robert Gruber

That was a surprise. I've been dealing with utility law in this state since 1973, and I can't recall an order like it.

O. Henry

Our point here is that what we don't want is for people to walk away and say, well, those are yesterday's issues and they have been or will be addressed.

Leonid Kuchma

Such talks are accompanied by unacceptable preconditions and have no positive issue for discussion,

Pradeep Maharaj

Some of the issues they raised are new but many of them have been raised before.

Sean McCormack

Our views on that issue are well-known," ()

Barry McGuigan

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

Bill Crawford

Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.

Cecil Taylor

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Cecelia Ahern

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

Carl Sagan

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

Shlomo Yosef

Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Keith Schwer

Someone might find low taxes agreeable, but not the way tax revenues are spent, such as on education.

James Davis

Our profits would increase, gosh, a lot, ... Of course, we?d lower our prices.

Mike Showalter

Our strength is down low in the post. I like to pound it inside. When we do that it opens it up for our guards. And our guards, when they take it in the lane, are awfully tough to defend.

Kim Zimmerman

Overall, I was very satisfied with our team score today. The one thing that surprised me was how low the team scores were today. It was virtually the first time out for many of the girls, especially playing 18 holes. Some have played nine holes.

Mark Kantrowitz

It is and it isn't. It is from the point of view that rates are the lowest they've ever been.

Mitch Kapor

Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.

Juan Williams

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

Eddie Jordan

That was our low point of the season.

Flula Borg

The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.

Bob Consalvo

We think we can keep everything in there, just a smaller portion of it.

Elizabeth Banks

Portion control is a real problem. My husband and I always split one appetizer and one entree. I'm sure waiters hate us.

Yan Xiaohong

What we've investigated may be a very small portion of the problem.

Alexander Mackenzie

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

Jim Barnes

A small portion of several things is probably better for you than a big portion of one thing because you get a wider variety of nutrients.

David Bositis

For a big portion of the African-Americans, there's not better education.

Tim Thomas

I don't want to say there's not a problem with that (waivers) portion of the CBA just because I made it through.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

Robert Webb

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

Bob Stoops

Typical of our recent classes, this one is well-balanced.

John Heimlich

We're not saying things are hunky-dory. All we're saying is that some of the indicators we look at and some of the recent trends are promising, and that's the first time I've used that word in a long time.

Carl McDonald

We think Aetna's results will be more than enough to sustain the stock's recent strength.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Dr. Baxter

We're seeing a lot of influenza, more than in recent years. This is a very big year.

Duane Ackerman

During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains.

Dave Ross

I think the state accidentally sent the wrong message,

Susana Almanza

It has sent a frightening wave of terror throughout the community.

Sergei Mitrokhin

If today or tomorrow the sentence had been pronounced there would simply have been international uproar.

Matisyahu

I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.

Kraig Troxell

He was sentenced a total of 115 years. All but 25 years were suspended.

Leonard Underwood

If they got trouble, they would be sent here and I would put them to work. But they weren't here very often.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Maureen O'Hara

One time I was taking a little too long in the toilet and Mr. Zanuck sent for me. And he said, what are you doing that takes so long?

Mark Johnson

She sent a laser in there. You look for breaks, you look for bounces, and we got one on that first goal.

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.

John Batina

We've been doing that for two weeks now.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Joe Riley

We're going to try it for two weeks to see if it works.

Annika Sorenstam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,

Natalie Gulbis

This is one of those weeks where you have to be really, really patient.