Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alessia Cara

I was too shy to do any vocal lessons or go to choirs; I just didn't want to be seen doing it. It's something that I kept to myself. I started easing into it, and I started doing talent shows, and YouTube really helped with that, too.

Ruth Lea

We look for a further easing of monetary policy -- but not this month because of sterling's weakening and the stronger stock market.

Beat Siegenthaler

If the election period passes smoothly and the inflation picture remains benign, further easing is not excluded.

Harvey Rosenblum

The rapid easing of monetary and fiscal policy this time around should enable the economy to return to positive growth more quickly than usual and with lower interest rates and inflation than during the 1990s expansion.

Joseph McAlinden

When the Fed is easing monetary policy, you don't want to get bearish -- you don't want to stand in front of a moving train.

Toshihiko Fukui

There is no reason to think now that interest rates will be left at zero for a just a short while after quantitative easing has ended and no reason that they will be zero for a long period,

Jason Wong

We're still looking for an easing later this year.

William Hummer

We see the Fed easing as a flu shot that will help prevent recession in 1999, but fixing the global problems that underlie the markets' malaise will require major surgery. So basically, I think the market sees through this as a temporary boost, but there are fundamental problems that aren't yet resolved.

Tetsuya Miura

The yields in the short and midterm sectors have risen to levels that start to price in a possible end to zero-interest rates, as well as the end of the quantitative easing policy.

Joshua Shapiro

Refinery shutdowns will have a big impact on gasoline prices, ... and that's a tax on consumers.

John Kadar

Our response time for these adjustments in gas prices should be very quick.

Kevin Forbes

Right now our wholesale prices are so high we're going to be sucking in gasoline from everywhere. Which is what we want.

Derek Halpenny

Rising oil and gasoline prices are negative for the dollar.

Josh Young

Plain and simple, we need more natural gas in this country.

James Williams

We now have too much gas and we still don't have all of the Gulf production back on line.

Sung Sohn

We notice it every day -- when we go to gasoline stations, we pay more,

Bill Engvall

Last time I had a flat tire, I pulled my truck into one of those side-of-the-road gas stations. The attendant walks out, looks at my truck, looks at me, and I swear he said, Tire go flat? I couldn't resist. Said, Nope. I was driving around and those other three just swelled right up on me. Here's your sign.

David Keith

I went to the pre-pay mode last night, and might keep that rule in place until the gas price starts to trickle down, maybe by Thanksgiving or so.

John Challenger

Pay raises have been paltry since 2001. Since 2001, wage growth has been muted because productivity has been so strong.

Mark Pervan

Supply growth is not there, and the players in the market aren't investing in new supply.

David Dodge

Such a slowdown in growth, in turn, raises the risk that policy-makers might resort to protectionism. In that event, a period of very slow growth could, perhaps, be punctuated by periods of outright recession.

David Hendler

Stan O'Neal has rehabilitated Merrill over the last several years, but where is the next growth area? That's what people are wondering.

Mark Batey

Out of all the major markets, it was the only one to show growth. We were up one percent.

Ken McCarthy

Right now, you could say we're at sort of a sweet spot, where we have healthy growth and reasonably high interest rates.

Bill Crawford

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

C. S. Lewis

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Charles Keating

Regarding the differences between playing in various mediums, television and theatre, one's job is to tell the story.

Bobby Cox

Reitsma can do the job, we know that.

Mark Fischer

Pat always took the jobs nobody else wanted. What makes this place work is the people who give their time to others and that was Pat. She wasn't an ordinary soccer mom.

Tom DeLay

People need to be doing their jobs right now,

Joe Torre

Stepping up is one thing, getting the job done is another.

Jim Christian

Some of my friends said I was taking the Kent job at the worst possible time. They said all I could do was go down.

Tim Roth

Some jobs, which would otherwise have been lost in the industry, have not been lost because of NAFTA.

Roy Roberts

Our whole line did a nice job of moving people around.

Michelle Sommers

Right now negotiations remain civil. We want to keep it that way. We want to get the job done.

Richard Midgley

Regardless of whether we won or lost last Saturday, there would've been a lot of pressure going into this week.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Sam Burns

Recessions usually last about a year. That would place the end around March or April.

John Buchanan

Our record over the last while has been pretty well exemplary, with just the odd incident.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Roger Short

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Jay Bly

Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defense. No matter what offense someone plays, if you get whipped up front, you're not going to win. We saw that when we looked at last year's tape, but we've made some adjustments.

Lee Salem

Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision.

Patrick Stewart

Our last words were, 'Be safe. I love you,' ... He said, 'I will.'

Jake Paltrow

'La Notte' is my favorite of the Antonioni pictures and my favorite work of the master cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo, who also shot '8 1/2' for Fellini.

Robert Blake

I think we actually went out to see Rosie. I think Bonny even took some pictures and we said we were settling in.

Anna Jones

The only thing I think about this is that it's big. I saw a picture (in the newspaper) and I wanted to see it.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Randy Price

I find pictures of driver's licenses, pictures of Social Security cards.

David Wimhurst

From that we may be able to start to get a picture of who was involved.

Courtney Green

It is a little nerve-racking when you start to think about the big picture of it. You want it to be perfect.

R. Robinson

His picture is up everywhere. His presence is everywhere.

Fred Dooley

He did the right thing. So, I thought it was the right thing to do to take the pictures down.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

David Briggs

I think (stock) prices have run up anticipating a recovery but I don't think the recovery's here yet,

Mike Fitzpatrick

It is not surprising that prices are retreating.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

John Eade

We're probably going to see more weakness in stock prices in the near-term,

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team

Becca Fitzpatrick

Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.

Barry Pepper

Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

Barry Manilow

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

B. D. Wong

I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

B. H. Liddell Hart

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

B. H. Liddell Hart

If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

Ryan Hansen

Our nemesis all year has been our rebounding.

John Devine

Overall, 2002 will be a very challenging year for the industry,

Beck

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Beck

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

Beck

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

Beck

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Barry Ritholtz

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Lopez

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Babatunde Osotimehin

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!