Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Shepherdson

Just about everyone who buys a house uses a mortgage, so a sustained drop in mortgage demand tells you where home sales are going, regardless of the current sales data.

John Battelle

Founded by an ex-Apple employee, Nest devices do for thermostats and smoke alarms what the Mac did for PCs - Google Buys Nest made them relevant and far more valuable.

Jon Brorson

I wouldn't be surprised if the market wakes up tomorrow and buys them (stocks) back again.

Bob Smith

I think the prices are low. I think there are some great buys here.

Ken Cooper

I don't think we've done nearly a good enough job tracking the money in Washington and the influence it buys in concrete terms.

Johnny Depp

Fortunately I know how to counter it, the man who did the waking buys the man who was sleeping a drink. The man who was sleeping drinks it while listening to a proposition, from the man who did the waking.

Kip Winger

It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.

Andre Patterson

If these guys couldn't play, they wouldn't be here. And I think that's what people forget. Everybody buys into the hype that comes out of the Cleveland media, and nobody here in Denver has truly sat back and evaluated the situation. If they did, they'd say it's a great thing Denver did.

Ray Lane

If we are able to have just one person get information from this center that buys them time, then it is worth it.

Kofi Annan

such a system could run counter to efforts to halt proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

R. Robinson

Our strategy of investing in Morrison Homes in the US, has helped partially to counter the impact of more difficult trading in the UK.

Jim Murphy

Most recruiters, I know are probably trying to do the right thing. The problem is that recruiters today are under incredible pressure to make their goals. This is what we try to counteract in high schools.

David Gilmore

Japan increasingly needs a weaker yen to counter falling foreign demand and increased competitive pressures.

Bobby Knight

That's been our problem and when it happens to us we have not been able to counter it, and tonight we did. They did things we have not been getting done.

Bruce Hoffman

It is not to say we are completely defenseless, because the Israelis have shown you can counter suicide bombings. But shouldn't have unrealistic expectations that you can prevent all attacks,

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I think I'm fairly good with money, but I've developed some strange tics - in shops I don't like to go to the counter unless I've got at least two things to buy. If I'm walking around with just one thing in my hand I'll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn't seem like a proper purchase.

Maajid Nawaz

I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.

Jeff Hill

Hartley always has a strong zone defense. They are one of the few high-school teams that plays zone defense well. The key is to figure out how to counter their zone.

Marcus Aurelius

It is a mistake to think that Acerra reeks of yesterday's liquor: Acerra always drinks till next morning

Robin Williams

I still think Nancy does most of his talking; you'll notice that she never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.

Bill Wilson

But for every man who drinks others are involved -- the wife who trembles in fear of the next debauch; the mother and father who see their son wasting away.

John Czwartacki

It is a little like a reformed alcoholic taking little drinks - pretty soon, you have a real problem on your hands.

John McCarthy

Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.

Friedrich Muller

He who drinks in the law lives happily with a serene mind: the sage rejoices always in the law, as preached by the elect.

Dave DeCecco

Soft drinks are a big part of it but they are just part of it.

John Sicher

Traditional carbonated soft drinks have got a tough road ahead. The migration to water and sports drinks and other noncarbonated drinks seems to be permanent.

Andrea Cohen

We're not prepared to talk about expanding it to juice and sports drinks until we know the system is working OK.

Carrie Underwood

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

Bernadette Peters

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

Bill Burr

I don't mind either one [crowd that is more willing to interact or crowd that's more ready to just watch]. Both of them are forms of listening to what I'm saying so I can't ask for any more than that.

Geri Federico

That will be something we will do a lot of is listening to students.

Nick Hornby

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.

Michael Jacobson

Listening to them, you would think they want studies done on humans.

Patrick Moynihan

listening to probably the wisest New Yorker that we can know of at this time.

Walter Pater

He seemed to those about him as one listening to a voice, silent for other men

Greg Simon

He's been visiting with people, first thanking them for all the work they did while he was in public service, and he's listening to people to see what they thought went right and wrong.

Sathya Baba

Patience is all the strength that man needs.

Franz Humer

Patents will not stand in the way of producing the drug for mankind.

H. Hunt

Our management team and operational infrastructure have been strengthened during 2005 and we now have the structure in place to move towards profitability.

Tara Fisher

People need to know that predators aren't a man in the bushes. Eighty-five percent of the time you know your attacker.

Buzz Hargrove

Our union does not resist change, so long as we can manage it in a way that does not threaten our members.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Irish Proverbs

Pity the man who has a stranger's spancel on him.

E.R. Rock

Pity the man that all women wish to be friends with because none of them will want to be anything more.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Randy Foye

He?s driving. I?m sleeping on the way back.

Dave Adams

He had been sleeping the whole time and was totally disoriented,

Steven Lima

What we're doing in sleeping is a very old evolutionary phenomenon.

Ted Purdy

Sleeping on a lead? I'll let you know tomorrow.

Joe Torre

I don't know if he was sleeping or not, ... because he never budged.

Keith LeGree

The sleeping disorder, that didn't even come up in trial. I had said something about it, but it had nothing to do with the trial.

Carolyn Clark

It's better than sleeping with the mosquitoes and the bugs. I'll take anything to get there.

Scott Chandler

You can't really worry about it. It's nothing that's going to keep me from sleeping at night.

Stewart Rahr

I can't seem to shake waking up early.

Dr. Miglietta

It can be anything from him waking up to having a seizure, or it could be involuntary.

Terry Pratchett

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Annie Dillard

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

Desmond Tutu

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

Alvin Toffler

I work virtually every waking hour.

Avril Lavigne

I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.

Cesare Pavese

A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

Douglas Coupland

I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.