Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Fitzpatrick

Relatively moderate weather, ample supplies and an escalation in the dispute over Iran's nuclear program should make for another week of high volatility. Absent geopolitical uncertainty, prices should be moving lower.

Jill Nelson

Part of the magic of Martha's Vineyard is that we were, all of us, more free here than any place else, ... On the island, we did not worry about our personal security. We did not lock doors; we left keys under the mat in the car, slept with windows wide open, absent the need to protect person or property from outside invaders.

Teri Mowery

Our teachers really cooperate with each other, and if somebody is absent and we don't have a sub, they're great about covering for each other.

Nancy Elliott

Our students, under the old policy, probably took advantage of that a little bit and believed they could be absent for any reason.

John Augustine

Retailers came out with pretty good reports. One would think we'll see a pretty good retail sales number, and that would give support to the market, absent much higher core inflation numbers.

John Ryding

I think they'll hold unless we see some surprisingly weak economic data on the jobs front, which comes out on Friday. But absent that, I think the Fed is going to be tempted, having cut rates three times, to let things sit a while.

Robert H. Connelly

The AMLU membership has voted to reject minor league baseball's contract offer and voted to not accept offers to minor league spring training absent improvements in the spring training working terms and conditions.

Ken Salazar

That would make me a completely absent father and that's unacceptable,

Kurt Barnard

I think that Jupiter's conclusions are, absent documented evidence of this development, somewhat optimistic, ... They (consumers) do their research on the computer, then they buy in the store, but they're not going to buy more than they had planned to buy. They might buy different things from what they had planned to buy, but there are only so many dollars to go around.

Bob Ulrich

Our sales for the month of December were at the upper end of our expectations, driven in part by a higher mix of promotional sales,

Philip Turner

Our goal is that we will have 18 graduates in December 2006 and they will stay in the community.

David Greenlaw

Overall retail sales growth in December should be robust.

Marshall Cohen

Retailers have recognized that December has 31 days.

Douglas Porter

Manufacturing posted a solid rebound in December from weakness the prior month, but it is far from out of the woods.

Charlotte Jones

I think there has been a pick-up in the last three months of the year, even though December is not yet done and dusted.

Jim Press

I think December is going to be a great month, ... There is a lot of inventory coming, new products. We will have a December to remember and forget October.

John Ryding

I think it's much more likely that Greenspan gives us a quarter-point cut, and then comes back at the November or December meeting with another quarter-point cut.

Richard Foreman

I think that should set up a very positive picture for the December quarter, subject to execution.

John Richardson

Sri Lanka is going to have to take responsibility for its own problems and not look in any large degree for succor from the international community.

Scott Skiles

Some guys play hard, some guys play harder. He's a hard-playing guy. I have never seen him do anything that was out of hand, over the top. In a league where a lot of players feel a degree of entitlement, a guy like him that doesn't feel that can stand out.

David Silvernail

Overall, 75 percent of the graduates in 1997, 1998 and 1999 ended up earning their degree from a Maine institution.

Antoine Lavoisier

Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

Lauren Willig

I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.

Michael Sheridan

I think they (commissioners) have the right to examine procurement processes, but I think there is a degree of micromanagment here.

Jeff Burton

I think the responsibility message has been more thorough because they are involved in our sport than if they weren't involved in our sport. And if you think about it, someone was held accountable maybe to a higher degree because they are involved in the marketing of alcohol.

Bertrand Russell

I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.

Terry Robinson

It got down to about 26 degrees here around 5:45 in the morning. I know there's some damage.

Mike McCurry

Our relations with the Russian Federation depend less on personality and more on policy." ()

Rick Hohenthaner

Our play will be depending on the focus we regain after a week and a half off. I expect the ladies will rise to the occasion versus Hudson.

Djibril Cisse

Our relationship is a professional one. We have no problems. If he works hard for the team he can play more games, but it depends also on his team mates.

Marek Belka

Our rate moves will have an impact on the economy in 2013. Whether we raise or lower rates depends on how the economic situation develops.

Gordon Brown

Past economic transformations depended as much on brawn as well as on brains.

Robert Hall

Our long-term goal is to minimize dependence on fossil fuels, and we will get there by deploying a wide variety of new automotive technologies in our fleet.

Hugh Nall

Steven will get in after the first two series depending on how things are going.

Steve Hunter

Some fungicides don't hurt the bees. It just depends what kind the farmer uses.

Craig Obey

That could be potentially devastating to the parks, depending on how it turns out.

Rob Miller

Some of the Northeast's most memorable snows occur in late February and March.

Colin McGranahan

January and February is actually a pretty important time of the year for the TV cycle.

Surapong Suebwonglee

I think that all this will be solved within this week before the rally on February 4.

Brad Blew

Lauren Dennis is such a great passer and she picked her moments well. I thought we did a great job of running the floor and executed on the other end. I'm very pleased with where this team is and I think we're playing about as good as we can right now. In February that's about all you can ask.

Buck Showalter

I can tell you what we're looking at right now on February 20-whatever, but that will change. There's a long way to go.

Matt Kelmon

I think the odds of it getting shut down are very, very slim at this point. As an investor, it's going to be a very, very choppy stock between now and February 24. It's not for widows and orphans. That being said, the stock is cheap. When the overhang's gone, the stock will go higher.

Duff McKagan

Hopefully we'll be in the studio in February or March. It would be nice to have something out by July.

Chris Davenport

If we get to the end of February and I've only skied a couple, I'll start to worry. I need to stay positive. The silver lining is that it is snowing, so there will be a longer spring for skiing.

Frank Arnesen

He is 31 in February and it is the ideal situation for him and us -- and he will stay here for 18 months.

Sabrina Davis

Some of the meetings are just a big mess. I'm sure if they reduced, they'd run much better.

Robert Mueller

I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.

Amy Poehler

It is completely improvised. We have had no meetings backstage, we have not written anything, and everything you see onstage tonight is being made up on the spot,

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Diane Swonk

If they move between meetings it's usually a move to shore up confidence.

Roy Wilson

If this continues, we set up meetings and they don't show, it is going to take a long, long time.

Jim Daley

He will miss no meetings here. As I told him Day 1: if I have a problem, it'll be a short-lived experiment.

James Franklin

He handles the meetings well, stays on top of everything and has the time to do the job.

Ken Hitchcock

There are times during the season when you have to review. It was very, very productive. We don't have those type of meetings very often, but when we feel like our team isn't playing well, we do.

Bill Foster

Our system is not broken. It works. And it moves a lot of people.

Jeremy Friesen

I think there's more (potential) for moves with the U.S. dollar.

James Horner

I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

Corey Kline

He can't show any moves until the semifinals.

Barry Alvarez

He can move. He's very athletic. I don't even know what he weighs. I don't care. ... If he moves well enough, he can weigh 400. He is a giant, though. He makes Kemp look like a little guy.

Rob Gronkowski

I feel like when I do some dance moves during the week or at the house, I'm quicker on my feet. I can react quicker just from dancing.

Jeremy Spencer

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Terry Greene

I think it just moves us up to the next level.

Pete Carroll

For the second week in a row we just were on a torrid pace to self-destruct in the first quarter.

Derian Hatcher

The pace we're on, sure, anything could happen.

Daniel Petrocelli

The pace is picking up. I think the story's being told.

Pat McCormick

The pace is going to pick up from now until we're ready to launch.

Phyllis Nagy

The pace is especially important in this, when it isn't so much a whodunit. We had to find a way to structurally keep shifting the focus, where you think you know something but you see that you don't.

J. C. Watts

He had an 80-yard run called back. He was probably on pace to run for 400 yards in that game.

Chuck D.

We're on a record-setting pace for second-quarter warnings.

Brett Lee

I am keen on helping Indian bowlers but I am not seeking a full-time role. But yes I am really keen on helping out pace bowlers across the world,

Augustus

What is done well is done quickly enough.

Wim Duisenberg

Our policy is to be as transparent and as predictable as possible,

John Prendergast

Sudan policy has run off the road into a ditch.

Lindsey Tippins

I think administration has said, 'Well, we got to do that because that's what the policy says.' I don't think that's what the policy says.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Tessa Jowell

The policy is not wrong and... time will prove it right,

Gary Orfield

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Alex Wong

PCCW still has more upside potential but I think we will see some resistance when it reaches HK$15.5,

Mike Keenan

We've talked so much about the potential of our young players, ... This will make the team a better team.

Tim Ghriskey

It is a stock that has the potential to disappoint.

Keith Hennig

Jess has the potential to be something really special.

David Cronenberg

I wrote a script that I thought had a lot of potential,

John LaMattina

I think this will be the norm. When you have something new, there is the theoretical potential for harm.

John Montgomery

I think this has the potential to be one of the sexiest projects we have seen in years.

Wendy Hall

KBR remains a potential subcontractor for this important work,

Paul Herbert

I think it could be significant, and a potential drawback.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.

Brooke Shields

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

Esther Hicks

If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.'

Mike Eaves

He's like a surrogate grandfather. He represents a reference you can always go back to.

Tom Matzzie

I'm only 30. I don't really understand the reference that much.

Lauren Graham

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!

Peter Capaldi

You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.

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.