Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronde Barber

Regardless of what 2004 was about, 2005 gave us a new opportunity. Everybody jumped at it, believe in it, worked for it.

Friso Abbing

Regarding the substance of the proposal, our view is the reverse of the people you have been speaking to. We believe that we need to protect innovators, therefore we want to send a strong signal to those people infringing intellectual property that they face criminal sanctions.

James Loy

Recent information from ongoing investigations, detentions, and emerging-threat streams strongly suggests that al-Qaeda has considered using the southwest border to infiltrate the United States. Several al Qaeda leaders believe operatives can pay their way into the country through Mexico and also believe illegal entry is more advantageous than legal entry for operational security reasons.

Anthony Romero

President Bush may believe he can authorize spying on Americans without judicial or congressional approval, but this program is illegal and we intend to put a stop to it.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes that we need to explore new methods of deriving new lines that would not result in embryos being destroyed. He feels that we should push the envelope of science in a way that does not cross fundamental moral and ethical lines.

Trent Duffy

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job, We don't speculate on personnel decisions.

Alan Greenspan

President Bush believes Chairman Greenspan is doing an excellent job.

Donna Shalala

(President Bill Clinton) believes that we can get comprehensive legislation this year, with or without (tobacco companies), ... Meet The Press.

George Buckley

Price growth is on a softening trend and we continue to believe that the outlook for the housing market over the medium term is one of flat to falling prices.

Michael Metz

Regardless of what the Fed does today, I think that maximum monetary stimulation throughout the world is over. We are seeing the low point of interest rates throughout the world. The next move will be upward. Moreover, I think the earnings momentum for the markets is eroding as well.

Roger Altman

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.

Ralph Acampora

Price is fact. Earnings on the other hand are estimates. You restate earnings. You never restate price.

Josef Ackermann

Our objective now is to sustain, over the cycle, this level of pretax return on equity and double-digit earnings per share growth.

Robert Campbell

Our much improved earnings resulted largely from the strength of refining margins during the quarter,

Mike Holland

People have been worried for the last several quarters that earnings were going to slow down. If in fact they don't slow down and if it looks as if there's no resumption of inflation ... it'll be interesting to see how people respond to that.

Alan Ackerman

Stay with the big stocks with the big backlog and big trend of earnings and with management that have been there before,

Peter Cardillo

Some of the good earnings reports and good guidance are reversing market psychology. In general, we're probably heading for a good earnings season.

Jon Brorson

Our forecast was for earnings to come in around 13 percent year-over-year growth, and they're on track to do it. They are surprisingly better than expected, and outlooks have been good, generally speaking.

Bill Cowher

Our passing game has not been in sync, really, this entire preseason and it showed very evidently tonight.

Aaron McGruder

Oprah has the power to lay waste to entire industries with a mere utterance. That's a power that you have to respect. And ultimately I respect it.

Ariel Sharon

Such threats are intolerable. In my entire life I have never surrendered to threats and I have no intention of starting now.

Diane Ninemire

Our team is way too good to be having two or three errors in a game. We should have just three or four for an entire tournament. Our goal is always to play errorless softball and I'm hoping that the things we did this week in practice will make that happen.

Jim Guest

Our team has been putting the pedal to the metal in practice on the beam. And it's not just the competitors, but the entire squad. We're happy with the way we performed and are looking forward to next week.

George H. W. Bush

Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house he's lost his entire house there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch.

Laura Bush

Out of the rubble of Trent Lott's house - he's lost his entire house - there's going to be a fantastic house, ... And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch.

Peter Russell

Our box-office take for Carmen exceeded the usual take for an entire season.

Ken Holland

Other than maybe two or three games right after the Olympic break, Manny has been very consistent, very solid the entire year. He has done a lot of winning for us.

Jack Walsh

I think that's an appropriate place for it. It will get a lot of exposure there.

Barbara Steinmetz

It is important to keep in mind that great risk exposure does not automatically guarantee greater rewards.

Colin Edwards

It doesn't matter if the noise comes from years of on-the-job exposure or from a source that isn't job-related.

Chad Smith

I think it has been great for us. The exposure we get has been great.

David Winters

Having less exposure to the U.S. is the key.

John Sherman

Here's this quiet kid who got some quick exposure ... very quick exposure.

Richard Bilotti

There is a strong perception that by not having exposure to the Internet, those prospects are vastly lower than they used to be.

Marisa Miller

So, it's kind of a big deal. This will result in more exposure and, hopefully, new connections, more shows and who knows what.

Bode Miller

My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.

Ken Knutson

Our pitching is generally a year older with some really good arms. We have the players.

Brian Foster

Our start to the season has been generally encouraging,

Tomoko Fujii

Japanese institutional investors seem to have sought returns by selling dollar-denominated assets. That kind of repatriation is generally yen positive.

Samah Haggag

Late payments generally have the highest negative impact on a score.

Ian Spector

It exploded. Since last summer, we've had 50 million hits. We generally get between 500,000 and 800,000 hits a day.

Elizabeth Thomas

I think poetry was meant to be heard out loud. I am not doing this for the money. What I do is done from a passionate place inside of me, because I feel very strongly that young people need a positive outlet and some kids have that through sports, and some have it through music or art. Kids who have it through poetry generally aren't heard. They all can't be good at football.

Steve Rhode

It doesn't surprise me. People generally underestimate what they're going to spend for the holidays.

Joe Sacco

I think I'm generally a good listener anyway.

David Liss

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

Andy Roberts

Our replacement technicians are highly trained and experienced mechanics.

Steve Clarke

Swansboro-Richlands always, since I moved here, has been highly competitive and a physical soccer game,

Mark Schlosser

It is amazing. It says what kind of people are living in this town. It just speaks highly of them.

Robert O'Meally

Jazz is a highly disciplined music that is very impatient with people who don't play, well, any sort of lazy imitation that can go with it.

Richard Kite

It is highly uncharacteristic for there to be legitimate pedestrian traffic in that area.

William Gaillard

I think people should keep in mind that these are not highly paid people, they're not like the players or the coaches.

Marc Guggenheim

I think 'Green Lantern' has the potential to be a very highly regarded superhero movie. We're approaching it with such respect and such care.

Alberto Melloni

He is the most highly ranked member of the Curia that the U.S. has ever had.

Casey Hampton

I was joking with Hines about that. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of like a consolation prize. With the MVP, it doesn't really matter what people think of you on other teams, it's about what your teammates think of you, and obviously our teammates think very highly of us.

Donna Thompson

Just because it's lasted 50 years ? and there are some pieces out there ? doesn't mean you should play on it.

Will Grace

JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Jerry Spinelli

When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.

Frank Thomas

You know, it was a heated discussion. Lasted for a while. But, I think everything that needs to be said was said.

William Glass

People were horrified. Some of the principals started crying. It must have lasted for 20 minutes just watching and listening to the commentators. We spent another 20 minutes working out what to do, and then we went to the schools.

Mark Harris

What Madonna did with that song was to make the visual sell of the song maybe even more important than the song itself. And that was a revolution that has lasted for 20 years and counting.

Sherrie Williams

I just wish it would have lasted longer.

Joe Schwarz

Is there some frustration in that this has lasted now significantly longer than people thought it would at the onset? Yes, that frustration is there,

Phil Savage

Reggie has a lot of talent. In my opinion, with Reggie Bush, more could be less and less could be more.

Sathya Baba

Peace is shore less ocean - it is the light that illuminates the world.

Katsuhiko Machida

Survival today means innovating and doing things that no one else does. This is a lesson not only for Sharp but for all of Japan.

Drew Frank

That'd be nice. Maybe I should. As I teach, I don't keep lesson plans from one year to the next and I don't keep anything from one season to the next.

Stephen M. Walt

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

Andy Newman

Remember every storm is different. The better prepared you are, the less of an inconvenience it's going to be.

Louis Benevides

Plano West is just an up-and-coming team. They've come a long way in less than a season.

Darrell Nichols

I think there's less tolerance for repeat problems. I think they are now going to be a little more strict with what's going on.

Larry Colagiovanni

That was his normal route. He said he didn't like (Interstate) 95. Less traffic. Less lights.

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.

Ian Johnson

I will be encouraging them to vote yes. It is important we have a strong strike vote.

Trevor Noah

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.

Lorenzo Bundy

He was pretty good, especially early. He pounded the strike zone, but he still has to work on his location.

Jimmy Harris

He was spotting his fastball. He had a real tight strike zone.

Derek Jeter

He was throwing strikes, that's the thing. You try to be patient, but if he's throwing strikes with it, you find yourself in the hole.

Rigoberto Medina

There is no connection. The nationwide strike has nothing to do with this.

Connie Mack

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

Tom Pratt

I thought (Shaver) had big-league command. Everything was down in the zone. He threw 43 strikes in 58 pitches.

Maximilian Schell

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.