Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Mattison

Where the dealers are making a market with a wide spread, but have in their possession an order to buy stocks at a higher price than they're bid, or for a lower price than they're offering, they want the investors and the institutions to see those better bids and offers.

Source Unknown

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

Gray Davis

I expect these bids on long-term energy contracts should stabilize the market and drive the price of electricity down. This is a key step in our efforts to keep the lights on in California at a reasonable price.

Cathy Elkies

I have enormous interest on this lot. This may blow you away. I have triple order bids of $10,000 on this lot.

Doug Elgin

We're under siege and I don't get it. We deserved every bid. We earned them. We deserved six bids and we should have had five, because I don't understand how they can look at Missouri State and not put them in.

Eliot Spitzer

First, before any bids were submitted, the defendants determined which insurance company would win the business. Second, they set a 'target' for the winner to submit as its bid,

David Frick

We've had a soil contamination problem, and our steel bids came in pretty dramatically over what we thought the estimate was going to be. Between those two, we've exhausted a good part of our contingency fund.

Larry Bush

The original bids for construction costs started out at $8 million, then it went to $12 million. To stop the bleeding, we've signed a contract for $13.5 million. It's locked in now.

Johnnie Burton

This sale represents a record in terms of the total volume of RIK gas sold, the number of bids received, and the total number of companies that made offers.

Charles Edison

He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions.

Manish Gupta

We have planned a multi-million dollar investment in this market to set up our distribution hub as well as investment in R&D.

Boris Schlossberg

The fact that it's actually shrinking gives the dollar a short-term boost.

Michael Schultz

The expression 'livin' large' is taken from the rap vernacular, inspired by Donald Trump, who made the big dollars and flaunted them.

Tom Tryon

The reality is, we can't sustain ourselves with property tax dollars because the state is taking so much money away from counties,

Todd Nance

We used to play for a dollar a night at the Uptown Lounge in Athens,

David Kyambadde

We shall make an initial injection of 50,000 U.S. dollars into the project.

Suzy Menkes

I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar or a euro for every time I use the word 'I,' you would be a poor person. But this is not true in general. I like the idea of being able to stand away and make a judgement.

Shia LaBeouf

Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Carlos Ghosn

The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

Charles Clarke

We have a son that plays for one of the schools. I'm very interested in men's basketball.

Paul Patton

We have no interest in pursuing it at this time.

Rob Young

We have no idea if there is an interest. But we won't know unless we ask. And we are going to start doing that on Monday.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

Charles de Lint

Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

Charles de Lint

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Douglas Chickering

We have renewed interest in bowling, so we are going to revisit it at our meeting and find out the level of interest.

John Hull

The problem with interest rates are that you are not modeling a single number, you are modeling a whole term structure, so it is a sort of different type of problem.

Chase Carey

We have recognized that our churn rate was too high, and we have been monitoring the credit,

Alan Watts

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Judy Garland

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Derek Jeter

I hate the treadmill. I hate it. You really don't have to be on it that long, something like 20 or 30 minutes. It's all about getting your heart rate up.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Lenny Klompus

When Secretary (Tom) Ridge was here, everyone was saying we were rated triple-A.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by our reporters and the reporting they did.

Richard Barnes

Until the IPCC report is published, we are all in the realms of speculation.

Dr. Shannon

I am thrilled to report we have had terrific success overnight.

Nigel Cameron

Certainly, if these reports are true, it's a tragedy for science.

Mark Fuhrman

Nobody's reported my victories, my accomplishments, my true personality - the way I treat all people.

Anthony Chan

Nothing in this report tells things are running out of control.

Jack Rio

I don't have anything to report other than he was awake, alert, still conscious.

Ronda Tompkins

I didn't do anything extraordinary. I just reported what I saw that night.

Carol Leifer

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Charlie Crist

I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.

Orlando Cabrera

When I did that I said 'Wow,' ... I got the video, and when Tejada saw the play when he got out, he started clapping.

Brian Wilson

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

David Sedaris

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

Gabrielle Zevin

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

Jandy Nelson

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Brian May

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.