Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carsten Fritsch

People have got high hopes for this number, to justify some of the bigger expectations for Fed rate increases we've seen develop this week. No one's going to want to put on big bets before the report though.

Thomas McInerney

Some of the bets we made did not pay off.

Michael Englund

Overall, they were a bit concerned about inflation and see strong growth, which supports the notion that they will continue to tighten policy. But after Katrina, all bets on how much they might tighten are off the table,

Kevin Landis

Given that the whole world is not rushing to buy technology mutual funds right now, we'd have to sell something to buy something. For the most part our bets are down,

Stan Bowles

I would still be making bets that would hurt me. If I woke up and everything was comfortable, there were no problems, it would probably be too easy.

Konstantin Kosachev

I would welcome more flexibility from Tehran in connection with the well-known Russian proposal on joint uranium enrichment, and not place bets on the demonstration of some new types of weapons.

Lynn Burks

I had people taking bets that (seeking more administrators) would be the first thing we would do.

Alex Czajkowski

If this were a presidential race we'd be up until the early hours of the morning waiting to declare a winner. What the trends show is that everybody has an opinion and everybody bets on March Madness.

Mark Oliver

When they're no more good for bets and fights, they cut 'em loose.

Stan Gehrt

People in Chicago walk past coyotes every day and never see them. The population has increased rapidly.

Brooks Boyer

Surpassing 20,000 season tickets is a tremendous milestone for the Chicago White Sox. The support of our fans has been overwhelming, and it allows us the resources to continue to improve our on-field product.

Rick Carlisle

Our undoing was in the first half. I thought we played really well, really hard and really together. It's hard to dig yourself out of that big of a hole. We have to learn something from the last two games. We got fortunate in Chicago because we were able to pull it out when we played a poor first half. But we weren't able to get over the hump (Monday).

Stan Hyman

Rob pitched two really good innings at Chicago State. ... In his last three or four outings he's really looked good. He has really turned it on and that's really comforting to me because now we have three or four guys that we can go to in situations.

Bea Arthur

I'm here now in Chicago doing my own show, and I think Golden Girls is shown three hours a day here, and everybody loves it.

Roger McGuinn

I went to the south side of Chicago and got what I thought was a Stella, but it had a spruce top. It was a nice sounding guitar.

Paul Wright

The $95 was for a group in Chicago where everyone pitched in $5.

Julius Peppers

That was a great performance by our offense. Who would have thought the vaunted Chicago defense would give up 29 points?

George Whalin

I think May deciding to sell its Chicago stores to Federated is a very real possibility, ... Federated desperately wants more of a presence in the Midwestern market.

Deborah Bull

Some of the muscle tone will decrease and flexibility will also decrease. It's true what they say: if you don't use it, you lose it.

Denis Medeiros

Reduce portion sizes. Decrease foods laden with sugar, white flour and fat.

David Lowe

We now have the specter that new forests might increase greenhouse warming through methane emissions rather than decrease it by sequestering CO2. This paper will undoubtedly unleash controversy, not the least of which will be political.

Greg Olsen

I think there might be a short-term decrease because of the negative publicity, but a year or two down the line you're probably going to see an increase in value.

Shari Brannock

That's the lowest in recent years, a decrease in the increase.

Steve Hubbard

It gets rid of legibility problems, and that means a decrease in errors.

Matt Alexy

Growth is likely to be lower in '98 than it was in '97. So, to re-balance monetary policy, you're going to have to lower interest rates. The question is by how much? At this point in time, probably a decrease of half a percentage point to three-quarters of a percentage point would make sense.

Jeremy Duxbury

From last year there is a slight decrease because we have increased the size of the squad from 25-30. But we are working on the same budget. We have given each team an expense account. This to be used for expenses at training.

Adnan Dulaimi

Kidnapping this noble journalist will decrease the force of the efforts - no, it will interrupt them.

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.