Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Davis

Recent economic data gives us confidence that corporate spending is coming back to life, so I'm hoping sales could be above $5 billion. That would set a strong tone for the rest of the year,

Matthew Dowd

President Bush maintains an approval on the economy in the mid-forties -- exactly what Clinton had at the end of 1995 and above what Reagan had in 1983.

Shen Haihua

Prices above 50,000 yuan will have some negative impact on demand, but in this bull market consumers may be forced to accept these levels.

Andrew Kerr

Our re-analysis revealed that the distance of a village from the coast and the height of the village above sea level explained 87 percent of the variation in mortality among villages.

Ron James

Particularly defensively, we're starting to come into our own. In an Arena Football League game, when you're getting above four stops, you should be able to win every one of those games going away, and we did.

Tony Crescenzi

Parry's comments hint that the Fed still views the neutral level of the federal-funds rate to be approximately two percentage points above the inflation rate,

George Nathan

Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Grant Wistrom

Our new guys have come in and believed that they belonged from the first day. They practice like it and then they go out there on Sunday and show it. Without those guys, we are an average football team, a little above .500. I think we owe them a lot.

E. Hurley

Our message between zero and .08 is a responsibility message. The message of .08 and above is an illegal message.

Cate Blanchett

Passion is a quality I admire in a woman.

Pete Best

Paul's had a great career, and he's having a great career. And you have to admire him for his courage. He was courageous enough after the Beatles broke up to say, 'I'm going back on the road,' and he formed Wings.

Mary Bono

People hope to point to the White House with pride. We believe that presidents told the truth and set an example through their actions. We parents want our children to respect and admire our president and our leaders. It is as simple as the old story of George Washington chopping down the cherry tree.

Robin Birley

Otis is amazing, ... I admire him. He has an amazing way with animals.

Swin Cash

Playing in a wheelchair is a lot harder than it looks, ... These athletes have so much courage and determination - I really admire them.

Teresa Heinz

I was always impressed by Betty Ford and what she went through and how full of integrity she was, and how brave. I think Mrs. Reagan was a role model of my mother's generation, intelligent, very supportive of her husband. I am very different from my mom, but I admired her devotion.

Kulbir Ghumman

I want you to know I admire you enormously for that.

Marguerite Young

Just as I do not want my students to imitate my style, I admire authors who write differently from me. Lewis and Dreiser didn't try to write in a poetic style.

Sean Rushton

Janice Brown ... is admired like no other among conservatives, and that counts, I'd love to have that fight.

Steve Sexton

Pat Day is not only a great jockey and outstanding athlete, he is one of our community's most respected and beloved citizens and a wonderful role model. Few people wear the label of 'legend' as comfortably as Pat and Churchill Downs is delighted to offer this opportunity for our community to say 'thank you' for all that he has given us through the years. We look forward to joining Pat's family, fans and friends from throughout our community and the country in this celebration of his incredible career on 'Pat's Day' at Churchill Downs.

Pat Thomas

Our beloved (and our kid's only cat growing up) had to be put down after 19 1/2 years.

C. S. Lewis

And this is the marvel of marvels; that he called me Beloved.

Michael Bell

I welcome any opportunity to serve our beloved convention,

Granth Sahib

I am a sacrifice, my soul is a sacrifice, to that True Court of the Beloved Guru.

Stephen Chbosky

'Rent' was wonderful in that I was able to adapt something that was beloved to fans, something that was very iconic, but something I had nothing to do with the creation of, so I was very removed. 'Perks' is different because it was my book.

Don Fehr

Kirby played the game with such passion and enthusiasm that he was beloved by players and fans throughout all of baseball.

Guru Singh

Burn away those rituals which lead you to forget the Beloved Lord.

Simone Elkeles

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

Boris Diodorov

I don't go into bookstores because it upsets me,

J. A. Konrath

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

Gabrielle Zevin

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

John Updike

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

Ricky Jay

Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is an obsession. And writing about this is an obsession. I think, in general, most collectors are obsessed. I think the only form of a rationalized greed is when you're collecting something you are supposedly serious about.

Gene Nelson

One thing libraries have learned from bookstores in the last decade is marketing. We're trying to entice people to read.

P. C. Cast

Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

Lisa Jackson

I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?

Caroline Leavitt

Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.

Larry Sanders

Some of those guys will work the desk now.

Tom Richards

We'll be able to provide (small- and medium-size businesses) with powerful, yet easy-to-use telephony and desktop capabilities,

Paul Gallico

Law is a mental hair shirt. He admits a great longing for financial independence from the routine of desk slavery.

Linus Torvalds

I don't expect the desktop to come quickly. It will take time,

Honore de

I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never find any by day.

Jan Brett

I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. But I love to illustrate, and I can hardly stop myself.

Jenny Nimmo

I work in a room overlooking the river. I try to get to my desk as soon as I've fed my cats and chickens. I use a blue 3B pencil and scribble away for about 20 pages before transferring it to the computer.

Howard Dean

If the American people will put us back in power in '06, we will have on the president's desk things that outlaw all those kinds of behavior.

Steve Reich

He was very good. He could sit at a desk and write this music and, unlike a lot of them who faked it, he could really hear it in his head.

James Blake

I went to Harvard but that doesn't mean I'm that bright, ... Once in a while I'll slow down but not today.

Mark Ford

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Allen Sinai

He didn't go to one of the top schools - Harvard or MIT or Stanford or Northwestern. I think that was an advantage. He didn't get brainwashed into one of the doctrines.

Jack Maughan

Harvard studies have proven that wrestlers are the smartest of all athletes, they just hide it. Well Devan isn't hiding it.

Jack Canfield

I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.

Edgar Mitchell

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

Drew Gilpin Faust

One of the major jobs of the Harvard president is to choose the deans. I've had the opportunity to choose a considerable number of deans already, so I've learned a lot in the process in doing it.

Oscar Arias

When Harvard University opened its doors in 1636, there were already well-established universities in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru.

Mark Zuckerberg

There's a level of service that we could provide when we're just at Harvard that we can't provide for all of the colleges, and there's a level of service that we can provide when we're a college network that we wouldn't be able to provide if we went to other types of things.

Patsy Crisel

(Relay) is important because the money raised stays here.

Tom Lewis

Our political system has become more about money than it has about people,

Phil Hardberger

or at least give us the money to do it.

Jay Johnson

People laugh, but we have to move money around occasionally.

Deborah Voso

People often underestimate how much money it takes to live in retirement.

Nancy Bain

Surveyors could make some money on this one.

Peter Schiff

Some of the smaller stocks have been moving, but the big stocks are going to take real money to move.

Francis Maude

Some of that money may well have been from overseas sources.

John Nicholson

Our staff needs raises; we need roads, parks, all the things that this money can provide,

Jess Glynne

I have so much hair, so straightening takes a long time. I mean, if I look at photos of myself with straight hair, it's hilarious. I look like a different person.

Megan Smith

For those of you who are underrepresented in technology, know that you've always been here. Look in photos and see yourself reflecting back.

Becky G

Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.

Norman Reedus

I'm always taking pictures and travelling with a camera and have so many photos that I've done a book.

Mark Edwards

That's a little weird to me. Why would you be taking photos if nothing happened? Were they being taken to set up a defense?

Mary-Kate Olsen

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all. I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

Craig Fraser

Those photos would make you turn white to look at them,

Rebekah Brooks

The days of foot-in-the-door harassment and snatched photos are gone.

Frank Warren

I get 100 to 200 every day. I've received over 25,000 postcards in about 14 months.

George Raft

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

Dick Durbin

He said he spent more time worrying over and working on that decision,

Terry Jenkins

If we wouldn't have done anything, we would have spent more.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Jay Weatherill

What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings.

Italo Calvino

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

Felix Feneon

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Geoffrey West

I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Swag is something that I've had for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies.

Adam Carolla

spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human.

S. Walker

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Boy George

Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time

Bob Rose

We need solidarity. This is a union town, and it's time to show that.