Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Moskowitz

President Bush's action, although timely, may be ill advised. For the past three years, both the CDC and the WHO have steadfastly ignored our novel anti-viral approach, which has achieved over 80% treatment success in West Nile virus encephalitis and which should be equally effective against avian influenza. If the WHO had put us in touch with clinicians in Southeast Asia treating avian influenza cases as we've asked for the past three winters, we'd already know by now.

Bill Richardson

Our policy is, it's better to engage the Chinese than isolate them. We have many differences with the Chinese, ... But we believe that by engaging China, we have achieved results in all these areas.

Arthur Levitt

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.

Charles Corp

Our ongoing investments in people, technology and our brand may cause our profit margin for the second half of 1999 to move back towards the levels we've achieved in recent years.

Bob Scott

Our life, asset management and general insurance businesses all achieved better results, helped by the inclusion of acquisitions,

Trace Devanny

Our Lady of the Lake has always been ahead of the curve for implementing successful health information technology. They are dedicated to increasing patient safety and improving patient care and have achieved these goals with proven outcomes.

Li Deshui

Stable global oil prices can be achieved if we all try to avoid major shocks.

Dan Crowley

Our team's engineers, mechanics and assemblers deserve high praise for the precise way in which this airplane came together with very few issues. The fact that this level of quality was achieved on our first aircraft, at the beginning of our learning curve, signals good things for the reliability and affordability of the thousands of F-35s that will follow.

Nikolaus von

Our solid basic business makes the achieved level of profitability sustainable. We therefore expect a profit for the current year of the same level as in 2005.

Jay Leno

President Bush is the fittest president in history. They said it's because he spends a lot of time exercising. See a lot of our previous presidents wasted that time reading. .... A lot of people are every critical of President Bush for taking the entire month of August off for his vacation. But his staff points out, there's nothing at the White House he can't do at the ranch because the ranch is fully equipped. It's got the treadmill, the weight room, the jogging path, the big screen TV, they get Nickelodeon. It's got everything he would do.

Kurt Ebenhoch

Our operations (on Monday) went about as smoothly as on any other August day.

Rick Sherlund

Oracle has an August quarter, so we are more compelled to cut estimates now. Siebel is September, so we could wait, but the numbers just look too optimistic. Given cost reductions, the EPS cut for Oracle is small, but the growth rates for Siebel are much faster, so EPS reductions more significant.

Rick Sherlund

Oracle has an August quarter, so we are more compelled to cut estimates now, ... Siebel is September, so we could wait, but the numbers just look too optimistic. Given cost reductions, the EPS cut for Oracle is small, but the growth rates for Siebel are much faster, so EPS reductions more significant.

Steven Smith

People have been coming to hunt for artifacts since August 17, 1780.

Alexei Krasnov

Our counterparts from NASA will visit us late August or early September, and we will then discuss what services Russia can provide to deliver cargoes and crews, and on what terms.

Vince Farrell

I think they should be very, very cautious. There's no rush but if you have some cash, now is the time buy selectively, ... I believe we're going to have a very quiet August but there's an old rule: Never sell short a dull market because you usually get pretty good rallies.

Mark Vitner

I think spending will be pretty solid the rest of the year. The August numbers will be important due to back-to-school sales.

Leonard Boswell

The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.

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.

Kofi Annan

Reform is a process, not an event and we are going to continue after the summit

John Chambers

recovery continues to gain momentum on a global basis.

Robert Milton

Recognizing the significant progress we have made, there is no room for any complacency and we must continue to pursue efficiencies throughout our businesses.

Philadelphia Fed

Price pressures remain but continue to show a moderating trend.

Jorma Ollila

Our position in the fastest-growing market in the world continues to be strong.

Ed Colligan

Our Palm OS customer loyalty is extremely high, and we intend to continue to earn that loyalty with great Palm OS-based products,

Anna Rozenich

Our reduction is taking longer than anticipated. We continue to make progress in our testing because we want to make sure we get it right for our customers.

Joseph Farah

Our rankings, relative to other sites, rise and fall over time, ... But our traffic continues to grow ? at a pace even faster than the explosive Internet itself.

Marc Andreessen

Organizations spend hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars installing and implementing huge servers, new Web sites and applications. They have to continue to do that, but they also have to clean up the mess of the '90s.

Michael Metz

Regardless of what the Fed does today, I think that maximum monetary stimulation throughout the world is over. We are seeing the low point of interest rates throughout the world. The next move will be upward. Moreover, I think the earnings momentum for the markets is eroding as well.

Roger Altman

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.

Ralph Acampora

Price is fact. Earnings on the other hand are estimates. You restate earnings. You never restate price.

Josef Ackermann

Our objective now is to sustain, over the cycle, this level of pretax return on equity and double-digit earnings per share growth.

Robert Campbell

Our much improved earnings resulted largely from the strength of refining margins during the quarter,

Mike Holland

People have been worried for the last several quarters that earnings were going to slow down. If in fact they don't slow down and if it looks as if there's no resumption of inflation ... it'll be interesting to see how people respond to that.

Alan Ackerman

Stay with the big stocks with the big backlog and big trend of earnings and with management that have been there before,

Peter Cardillo

Some of the good earnings reports and good guidance are reversing market psychology. In general, we're probably heading for a good earnings season.

Jon Brorson

Our forecast was for earnings to come in around 13 percent year-over-year growth, and they're on track to do it. They are surprisingly better than expected, and outlooks have been good, generally speaking.

Mark Hogan

Our new guys are going to have to hit well, because we're full of new guys.

Michelle Theall

Our mission is to inspire and inform women to live life to the fullest through outdoor adventures.

Dan Brooks

People meant a lot to her. She always wanted to touch people. Maria was just full of life. She had a lot of heart.

Audrey MacLean

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

Paul Horsnell

Some of these refineries will not be back to full operation, perhaps well into next year.

Tim McGillivray

Some of our schools are more full than others, so you can't always place them at their neighborhood school.

Alex Smith

Our school system needs a fully funded gifted program.

Peter Schnorr

Our goal is to get a full day -- 10 hours -- of active, pen-down writing.

Richard Clarke

Our goal is by the third week in October to open the full 20.9 miles of road for travel.

Jan Ullrich

I want to wear yellow in Paris in July and I reckon I am on the right track,

Kurt Barnard

July sales numbers are not going to be very good, maybe a tad better than they would have been without the checks,

Amy Teegarden

Here we are approaching the end of July and already resources are thin.

Dizzy Dean

Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts.

Andrew Neff

Six of the seven last years, technology stocks have been weak around that time period. June, July has usually been around a bottom.

Dave Riggins

We're looking at that midyear, probably around July or August.

Lauren Willig

'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.

Adam Carolla

It's like the Fouth of July in my underpants.

John Madden

If you look at tailgating, everyone does it. It's for everyone who likes to cook outdoors. It could be a 4th of July picnic.

James Davis

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

Sgt. Delaney

I wish that the numbers were lower for this neighborhood.

John Beasley

It doesn't take many nights of temperatures in the mid-to- lower 50s to shut the maturity process down.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.

Ronald Allen

I would think that (61/2 years) would be the lower limit. After all, Ryan is more responsible for this than Fawell is.

Laurie Berger

Basically, the Web presents travel vendors with an opportunity to sell their product at a lower cost. If they can sell it at a lower cost, they can also pass on those savings to the consumer.

Gypsy Lee

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little lower

Mark Begich

If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest.

Vince Farrell

We might get to the lower 8,000's before we get through with this.

Jay Kim

From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.

Steve Donner

From that point of view, the taxpayers are well protected, and there is a risk and a reward for us operating the stadium.

Christopher Hill

We're operating from a piece of paper now, and we'll see what we can do.

Charles Petzold

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

Christopher Hill

What is the purpose of operating it at this point? ... The time to turn it off would be about now.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

Atul Gawande

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

Lisa Spicer

At the operating level, I think it's very possible.

Patrick Collins

At this point, we're in the red $20,000 and that's going to have to come out of our operating budget.

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.

Holly Hatton

Our performance was not good. We weren't in it from the beginning.

Randy Jepson

Our performance as a whole was not that bad. We weren't outstanding, but we weren't poor either.

Lu Shanzhen

Overall, I am satisfied with the performance of our gymnasts.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Platitudes and generalities can only be sustained when performance exceeds intellect.

Jerry Slocum

It is a tough one to sit on when you have that type of performance.

Kenny Jackett

That was as well as we've played this year - particularly the first 45 minutes. The performance was excellent.

Richard Menicke

I was really pleased with the performance of Steffen Anderson.

Sasha Cohen

I think it was a gift. For that performance, silver is generous.

Steve Houghton

I was very pleased with our performance. We were very successful from a team standpoint. We have made significant progress in practice and it showed up at Wisconsin.

C. S. Lewis

Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

Brian Billick

I think that's a quarterback trying to take on his share of responsibility,

Joan Smith

There are so many goodies to look at. We share because it is so rich, but it is very good.

Frank Robinson

If we can do that more often, we're going to win our share of games.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

Scott Wilson

You make something from nothing, you want to share it.

Becky G

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

Gilbert Arenas

It got weird toward the end on this one, but it was our third win in a row.

Kyle Gilchrist

I thought I was in better shape. He had so much weight to cut. I thought that if I got him into the third period, I could get him.

Robert Eenhoorn

He can play first, second, third or the outfield.

John Smoltz

If it were the old way there would have been another four-spot in that third inning.

Marc Crawford

He was a difference-maker in the third period.

Rupert Grint

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

Bartolo Colon

More than puzzled, I'm ticked off. I had two outs and I couldn't get the third one.

Brandon Jacobs

If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.

Jim Rich

Sen. Landrieu said she wanted to be our third senator.

Mike Aronson

He was able to make what used to be his weaknesses into his strengths.

Blaise Pascal

What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

Blaise Pascal

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

Deepak Chopra

What will really make you attractive is not working on your weak points but embracing them.

Abraham Lincoln

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

Brit Hume

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

Babe Ruth

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

Aleister Crowley

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.

Agatha Christie

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.