Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kit Williams

Recreating the South Pointing Chariot is particularly challenging because none of the original technical drawings remain in existence.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos.

John Fahey

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

Mary Morrison

Recent experience in Latin America illustrates that governments remain central to infrastructure provision. Not only is public funding sometimes indispensable, but the state has an essential role to play in partnering and overseeing private operators and protecting consumers.

Norman Schwarzkopf

... Recalling back to Operation Desert Storm, I can't help asking myself: Wouldn't it be great for our armed forces and for America if we could have another commander-in-chief named George Bush with Dick Cheney on his team?

Ronald Reagan

Recession is when a neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Jonathan Gilbert

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.

George Miller

President Bush should immediately realize the colossal mistake he has made in signing this order and rescind it and ensure that America puts its people back to work in the wake of Katrina at wages that will get them and their families back on their feet.

Carl Pope

President Bush nominated someone who has consistently opposed protecting public health and public lands. American families deserve an interior secretary who actually values our natural heritage. America deserves someone who will promote safe energy policies that protect sensitive lands and wildlife habitat, instead of giving over our public lands to developers and the oil and gas companies.

Stephen Greene

Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves. They need the market.

Stephen Greene

Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves, ... They need the market.

William Warlick

Relative to the bankrupt carriers, this is a fairly strong liquidity position, but obviously they face cash flow pressures.

Pat Lewis

Relationships with our customers have never been better. We made the investment into their emotional bank accounts, and they are paying the dividends with their increased frequency and ticket averages. It truly is a win-win relationship.

Stephen Walters

Parts of the economy are still doing well, with mining booming and that's generating jobs. I do think that employment growth will slow this year and that will be enough to keep the central bank on the sidelines.

Dana Hurst

Our loan officers were seeing women coming into the bank struggling to be successful in business. We realized we weren't seeing a lot of men coming in with struggles.

Karen Rugen

Our lead banks support the plan and we believe the plan is in the best interest of our other lenders, so we expect to get all the approvals we need.

Paul Foster

Option market makers and hedgers are pricing in the possibility of (Delphi) filing for bankruptcy before October 17.

Keith Leggett

People need to choose the risk and savings instruments that are right for them. If a person is very risk averse, then bank deposits are very attractive.

Ariel Sharon

Regardless of the job Shimon picks, it is crystal clear he will be a full and central partner in the diplomatic process.

William Hague

Our relationship with the United States is central to our foreign policy and ought to be one of a deep and enduring partnership.

Sumner Redstone

Partnerships with Chinese companies are central to our long-term strategy.

David Potter

Our objective over the next several years will be to exploit the opportunities presented by our central position in these fast-growing markets, ... The scale of investment will continue to hold back profits.

Bruce Baum

Our listening interests are very different from the interests of the Central Valley or East Bay.

Xia Bin

Such a combination of steps will help relieve pressure from a rebound in investment, increase the sensitivity of the central bank's (monetary) adjustments and reduce the banks' interest income losses.

Robert McKillop

Some of the plays on central Tokyo were starting to look quite expensive, and we diversified as a way of trying to pick up some Nagoya and Osaka exposure.

Harley Lee

Our goal is to ensure that there are no undue effects on existing uses, scenic character, and natural or historic resources in the area. This project will provide critically needed renewable electricity through Central Maine Power's existing transmission lines.

Jeff Gray

Our first priority will be forming a plan for the south central neighborhood conservation and commercial revitalization plan. We are hoping to start with this plan by 2006.

Gail Dudack

Really what the markets have been struggling with is: What is the direction of the economy and therefore corporate profits.

Kimberly Caughey

PC sales are strong and this quarter shows it. And Microsoft still has room for growth in the corporate segment.

Matt Smith

Our objective was to select an anti-spam and anti-virus provider that complimented our overall corporate strategy of continually providing our customers with 'best-of-breed' solutions. Another key criteria for our search was to implement a solution that would be easy to manage and administer.

John Matelski

Oracle has done an excellent job integrating PeopleSoft and JD Edwards customers, not only into their overall corporate support structure, but also their Fusion application strategy as well.

Darren Dopp

People like Eliot because he's a fighter, not a quitter. If Mr. Weld thinks Eliot was too tough on corporate crooks, he is out of touch. If he thinks New Yorkers want a patsy for governor, he's wrong.

Eliot Spitzer

People like Eliot because he's a fighter, not a quitter, ... If Mr. Weld thinks Eliot was too tough on corporate crooks, he is out of touch. If he thinks New Yorkers want a patsy for governor, he's wrong.

Greg Myers

Our problem was that we did not receive the corporate sponsorships this year that we have in past year, ... That represents $1,500 right there.

Claire Buchan

Our focus is on ensuring the SEC has the resources it needs...so that it can go after corporate corruption and fix the system so that abuses do not occur in the future, ... We view this as something that can be viewed as a distraction from those important goals.

Robert Scoble

Our corporate policy is, be smart. We don't talk about things we don't know about.

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.

Michael Thomas

Recent events overseas have probably elevated the global economy to the top of the RBA's risk list,

Jason Schultz

Really, ... what we're talking about here is the U.S. struggling to find its place in an economy where the labor markets are just so vastly different.

Andrew Rudnick

Our relatively strong economy is showing itself in the real estate market.

James Fiorillo

Part of the problem to the ailing economy of Japan is the sloppy hiring practices in the 1980s.

Don Brunell

Our members (are) unified around the fact that without workers who are presently here, our economy is in trouble.

Doug Myers

People here are selling stocks. The GDP report might have been sort of a catalyst. Some people think the economy is either not slowing down enough or slowing down too much. In my time, I don't recall any soft landing.

Doug Myers

People here are selling stocks, ... The GDP report might have been sort of a catalyst. Some people think the economy is either not slowing down enough or slowing down too much. In my time, I don't recall any soft landing.

Dave Edwards

People like to give to where they live, and after these episodic events they tend to give more. A lot of this has more to do with the economy than with the cause.

Ron Lehman

Sustained job growth speaks well for Texas employers and the Texas economy.

Sara Baker

Our music was a lot better and visual improved as well. We did better than this morning.

Steve Burd

Our strategy to differentiate our offering has resulted in broad-based sales improvement.

Kevin Daugherty

Our free-throw shooting has really improved over the last month.

Joseph Wood

Overall, there has been a groundswell of improvements in the nine years I've been here. We've seen property snatched up by investors, improved and then sold.

Sandrine Krul

Right now she's our most improved player. She's so athletic.

Stephen Straus

We noticed too little improvement in my mind to justify the use of this treatment,

Sherri Coale

I think the way she's playing right now is a testament to how much she'll improve the more she plays.

Greg Lee

I think there's a lot more room for improvement. I don't think you're ever going to be as perfect as you want to be, but we're striving to be that perfect team.

Kevin Garnett

I think there needs to be some style improvement but at the same time it has to be with in reasons.

George Shiffler

PC vendors have succeeded in increasing the unit share of higher-margin mobile PCs. But this has resulted in a significant sacrifice of desk-based revenue as vendors struggle to maintain the value proposition of desktops at the low end of the market.

Wilferd Peterson

Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing its speed.

Terry Chapin

I think that (packed byline) is an increasing trend when you get real large-scale issues like this. No one person knows how to put it all together.

Larry Beets

He's been effective, and his speed is increasing because he's getting used to the rotation.

Brian Hill

He needs to work on increasing his strength and stamina. He needs to do more (lifting weights) to become more of a presence in the low post.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Chris Burns

She had been suffering increasing amounts of pain.

Steve Frank

Minnesotans don't know him. And so he will have a problem in terms of increasing his name recognition and visibility.

Gail Kelly

I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

Jeff Cheah

Stabilizing ... that is the key word that investors are reacting to.

Grant Wilson

Japanese investors are still looking to put some money to work overseas. We're still seeing those flows.

Lara Rhame

That's the nightmare that keeps a lot of investors up at night -- but I just don't think that scenario is realistic.

Mark Sue

I think investors are relieved about these results because there were thoughts they would have to ratchet down for this quarter.

Susumu Abe

There are no new incentives. It's just that the investor mood is so good.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Joe Portera

The prudent investor may want to take some of their money off the table and maybe they should be looking overseas.

Hugh Johnson

Momentum investors are looking for something that works. What works is technology.

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,

Earl Blumenauer

Part of what needs to be going on,

Hal Mumme

Paul Dombrowski is a tremendous competitor. If he wants to play at the next level, he needs to be a slot guy, a running-back-type guy.

Cheryl Smith

Some of the teachers and the administrators are part of the problem. The federal, the state just needs to come in and take over, not just Hillside and Southern, the school board, the administrators, all of it.

Scott Benedict

Someone needs to step up to the plate and offer him a scholarship.

Dan Daly

Our position would not be that we don't need to do anything. The status quo is not appropriate. Something needs to be done.

Steve Zeller

Our secondary still needs some work. We weren't making the reads on the ball.

J. C. Watts

Our team is pretty unique because we're all so close. If you're scared to do a trick, you know you have to do it because the team needs you to do it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I need to brush my teeth. And I need a shower." He grinned, hopping off the bike. "Now that is an invitation.

Barry Ritholtz

Salesmen always need something to sell.

Tom Smith

The anticipation would have been that problems would have been down.

Patrick Moore

There are a lot of strains on the infrastructure, our roads, our schools, and I think that sometimes the problems haven't been anticipated.

Jeff Berman

I feel sorry for George. He's a troubled person. He seemed to have some psychological problems.

Johnny Smith

For years, we have had problems with the water down here. But nothing has ever been done about it.

Peter Ashkenaz

From everything we've seen, those problems are in the past.

Kristin Accipiter

I think it's here to stay, but there are problems to be ironed out.

Judy Orihuela

He's been very cooperative. We've had no problems with him whatsoever so far.

Timothy Fisher

The range of a vehicle on one tank should be about the same as what we have today, 300 to 400 miles. And the fueling process should be about the same as what we're used to, it shouldn't take much more time than it takes today. And there are some serious problems with that.

Jim Mora

I wouldn't say we let down our fans, but we wanted to go 9-7 and get rid of that 40-year problems we've had. We didn't get that done.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Lawrence Yun

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

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.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Chris Perry

We don't know the rates of (reef) growth.

Bill Gross

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

Mariella Ruocco

Somehow they sensed the seriousness of the situation and they stayed in the car.

Laveranues Coles

Well, all I can say about that situation is, things come to the surface,

Ice Cube

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing. You have to get it out in the open. You have to talk about it.

Robert Maddox

That would be kind of an insensitive thing to do in a situation like that.

Craig Thompson

I think our situation is we would probably be better suited to have somebody go 11-0 again. But two to three years from now, we'd be better suited to have two or three 9-2, Top 25 people. But right now we just have to keep pushing.

Jeff Francoeur

I think she's in a tough situation with what she's trying to do. I don't think she was worse than the others, I don't think she was better.

Derek Jeter

It doesn't matter, ... Every situation is a new situation.

John McNally

It hasn't been unsafe, but there are situations where it could be.

David Patterson

I think the teams struggled when we were in those situations too.

Adam Ereli

It undermines the right of Kenyans to information.