Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Banville

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you.

Brandon Burks

We've shot below 300 the last few rounds. It's just a matter of finding the right guys.

Rep. Bentz

We have had a great deal of Katrina issues. It was a big learning curve for us and people in the utility industry. The most important thing we need to do is ensure people have reliable electric, phone, gas and water services and keep the rates at or below national averages.

Rob Gould

The fact is that since the passage of the Maryland electric industry restructuring law in 1999, BGE residential customers have benefited from a substantially lower rate structure ... well below the market rates paid in other parts of the country. BGE has no choice but to procure power at prevailing market rates. Every dollar deferred is a dollar that might not be invested in infrastructure for the utility.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

I have a feeling that there is a gap in the food retail market - a niche below some of the current budget operators such as Aldi and Lidl.

Barry Hyman

The productivity numbers today (Thursday) and tomorrow's (Friday's) report do nothing to support a bullish market. I would be concerned if we saw the unemployment drop below 4 percent because that would show the economy is not slowing down.

Tempestt Bledsoe

'Cosby' opened up so many people's vision to something that they had never seen before or really contemplated before and exposed them to things that were going on that were completely below their radar.

Mohsin Hamid

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.

J. Hoover

We are pleased with our results in a challenging 2005, even though the 4% improvement in diluted earnings per share from operations was below our goal to increase those earnings 10% to 15% per year over time.

Art Hogan

We've sort of gotten through the meat of earnings season, and we're going to start focusing on the state of the economy.

Tracy Eichler

There are a lot of cross-currents in the market. We're still a market that's torn between (concern about) earnings and interest rates.

Louis Gerstner

This was a solid quarter, with earnings per share up 20 percent and an acceleration of revenue growth relative to the first half of the year,

Gordon Nixon

We are pleased with the strong earnings growth and ROE (return on equity) of 23.9% in the first quarter.

Jim Roche

We are pleased with the performance in the quarter, with the return of sequential revenue growth and with the solid earnings results,

Steve Previs

There are some disappointments in earnings and obviously Hewlett-Packard is a big one.

Chuck Hill

We still think we are on track to see earnings growth of 23 percent for the quarter.

Lucy Macdonald

We're still running with oil stocks. They still are being supported. They haven't become much more expensive because earnings are going up with them.

Frank Gannon

Until we start seeing some better earnings news, I think the market's going to be in this bottoming phase.

Jennifer Murphy

We want to reach 70 percent of our goal before the public campaign.

Bryan Lynton

Whenever they tied it up, we were able to get another goal to preserve the lead. If we went down, I don't know if we would have come back on them. Poly is just so rich in water polo tradition ---- that might have done something to us.

Cory Schneider

We want it. It's so prestigious and something you'll always remember if you win it. That's the first of many goals we have for ourselves this season.

Teresa Luna

We want it back. Our goal has always been to recapture our national tournament crown.

Alan Shearer

You never get fed up scoring goals

Alan Shearer

I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.

Charles Stanley

Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.

J. Wince

We've set some team goals and we'll just see how it goes for this game. We've told the guys that why it can't be us to make the news and upset the No. 1 ranked team in the state.

Melissa Walker

We've set a goal of $100,000 in revenue from the event. And from that, we'll be able to get about $10,000 for the Key. It will go toward the Run for the Money account.

Cary Grant

I improve on misquotation.

Clayton Wilcox

We did not make the kind of leapfrog improvement we need to. While I wasn't ecstatic, I'm pleased with the trend lines.

Jared Diamond

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Michael Dell

We are seeing a substantial improvement in the availability of flat-panel screens (from) two months ago,

Kevin Toney

The reason for his improvement was the work he put in in the weight room during the off-season.

Philip Greenfield

We're looking to realize savings and improvement from this innovation in three areas.

Brian Tracy

All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures.

Gerald Cohen

We're seeing slow but steady improvement in the job market.

Silvio Berlusconi

There is no point in talking about improvement because there has been no worsening

Krish Krishnan

We have seen a tremendous increase in terms of the interest we are getting here.

Jiang Enzhu

We have no intention, nor the ability, to increase our military armaments substantially.

James Long

We've seen a slight increase (in international travelers). But it's not like it used to be.

Temple Grandin

One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If [something] is of God, your dependence upon God will increase.

Jeremy Siegel

The persistent increase in oil prices is worrying me again.

Greg Simon

The period right after people start taking antidepressant medication is not a period of increased risk. In fact, risk after starting medication is lower than before.

Sung Sohn

Until and unless there are significant increases in jobs over a period, tighter monetary policy is out of the question.

Bryan Hopkins

We have increased results by more than 400 percent in the last two years because we have the right tools, people and process in place.

John Byrne

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

Mark Cooper

Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.

David Moffett

I feel that the operations could and should have been performed a lot sooner,

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

Hong Zhijian

We've been preparing for such operations ever since 2003.

E. O. Wilson

We think that cross-border operations would be unwise.

Paul Costa

There is a possibility that we will have to stop operations by the end of the year.

Max Mathurin

Voting operations (in the countryside) are normal, with some exceptions.

Kofi Annan

when it comes to operations on that continent, we tend to do it on the cheap.

Carol Leifer

I'm wearing a new perfume that I should recommend to the women in the audience; it's called 'Tester.

Carol Shields

The silence is perfect, and yet a torment ...

Carlos Castaneda

The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

Nicki Grossman

We have never, ever been 100 percent full. There are always rooms.

Agnes Repplier

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

Alan Sugar

I like to be a very fair person.

Alan Sugar

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

Alan Kulwicki

The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

Charlotte Bronte

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

Tom Odell

I think I subconsciously put myself in these situations where the girlfriend isn't pleased with me. I'm useless as a boyfriend. That's how I managed to write all these songs.

Barney Bishop

We are pleased with the turnout. We have some legislators, but we'd like to have some more.

Stuart Rose

We are pleased with the progress we are making but there remains much to do.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case.

Don Horner

We are pleased with the bank's first-quarter performance.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organization.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organisation.

Liz Boyd

We are pleased to see (Lansing) step up.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to report another strong quarter for SAP,

Bruce Sterling

Okay, are you really 'experimenting'? How do you know if you're really experimenting? You're working on it methodically and you're publishing the results! It's not an experiment if you don't publish the results in some verifiable and falsifiable form, okay?

Bob Riley

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money

Bill Walsh

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.

Bill Gates

I am results-oriented.

Timothy Noah

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Romeo Crennel

When we get the results on that, we'll let you know.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.

Jason Terry

We accomplished most of our goals, and now it's time to put it all together. The results will be sweet if we do.

Daryl Manning

We shared some stories, got to know each other.

Kristi Boese

We did it on our own. We didn't want to share anything.

Jane Austen

I must have my share in the conversation…

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Eric Maskin

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Carre Otis

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Carol P. Christ

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

Carol Shields

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

C. S. Lewis

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

C. S. Lewis

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

C. S. Lewis

Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.

Agnes Varda

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

Agnes Varda

I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.