Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Baker

Reed Elsevier is an oil tanker that is surging ahead in the same direction that it has been going in for the past few years. It leaves the share price lacking any great dynamics to trade into.

Karla Lopez

Recently I went to a wellness meeting and was happy to see that our district is way ahead of the game when it comes to having a wellness policy in place. Even so, we have more to do.

Mark Heiderscheid

Really when you look late in games, people are going to be a bit more tired in the back and liable to make more mistakes. We don't want to give up an opportunity where a team can go ahead and knock something forward.

Harry Reid

Reid snapped, answering a reporter's question. The failure to move ahead with the Iraq investigation, he said, is ''a slap in the face to the American people.

Andre Payne

Our point guard Czyz Bennett just took it up on himself and made great decisions. We needed that. As long as we win, somebody's going to lose and we'll get ahead of somebody.

Haruhiko Kuroda

Our regions accomplishments in reducing income poverty are now well recognized, but an immense task lies ahead of us,

David Peters

Our real goal is to get ahead of the game before the suits are filed. One of the reasons the crisis has occurred is because the business community has its head in the sand.

Maurice Carroll

Our numbers show that Bush is ahead but there is still room for funny things to happen. It's not in the bag, partly because the numbers have been so volatile.

John King

Our offense is probably ahead of our defense, right now. Not having starters back is deceptive, because a lot of them played as backups. A couple of them even got experience in the playoffs.

Paul Patterson

Regulators often want to see some of the synergies and cost savings from these deals come back to the consumers in terms of lower rates or limited rate increases. Usually there are some givebacks in terms of rates.

David Emanuel

Our removal of those features was because we have become focused on search for consumers and businesses, and those features were not in line with our goals.

Anthony Chan

Our own studies have shown that consumers tend to switch over to non-store outlets in times of higher energy costs .

Jon Miller

Our new corporate identity better reflects our expanded mission -- to make everyone's online experience better. Plus, consumers in the U.S. and around the world already know us by our initials.

Attorney McKenna

Our mission is to make Washington the safest state in the nation for consumers and their personal information.

David Marra

People like lower prices if they can get the same quality, but convincing Japanese consumers of the quality takes a lot of time.

Marshal Cohen

Sports footwear usually is also the first place urban consumers will spend money to endorse a celebrity. As we've already seen, people will pay over $100 for the G-Unit or an S-Carter Reebok if it creates the right image for them.

Randall Baumberger

Our store should be like CES; it should be like the toy store. Our consumers are willing to try new products.

Anthony Noto

Our survey results reinforce our outlook for a continued slowdown in e-commerce sales. At this early juncture of the holiday season, consumers are not shifting a significant share of spending online from offline.

Tim Wise

In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt.

Jack Nerad

There is only so much of a spread between what the dealer pays for the vehicle and the dealer's profits. If you throw a broker in there, you're just throwing in another mouth to feed.

Marc Smith

We'll then show how this will result in what's most important to the dealer and that's more gross profit.

Anna Gunn

I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.

Jack Carroll

We don't think it's a good depiction of out brand. It's not an association we feel comfortable with, for obvious reasons. Every dealer I've talked to is not in favor of this relationship.

George Pipas

I don't know if it's a seasonal uplift so much as that dealer incentives have been more focused on trucks than cars.

Brad Bayne

Right now we'll sell directly if there is no dealer within 100 miles. Our main focus is now and will always be to direct (consumers) to a dealer.

Mark Fields

As we go forward, we will make intelligent decisions, looking at our dealer network, working with our dealer partners, to make sure that just as we are right-sizing our manufacturing footprint, we have the right size for our dealer footprint as well.

Bruce Tognazzini

It's very difficult when you have as low a market share as they do to get dealers interested. A dealer has to sell a Mac, whereas he doesn't have to sell a Windows machine, since the Windows machine is a known quantity.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

Robert Morton

we can keep an inventory of what we got, what we need.

Tetsu Emori

Most of the traders are looking at the Iranian issue over the bearish inventory report.

Adam Savage

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

Paul Lang

Today, people in loss prevention need to have skills in finance, inventory control, accounting. They really need to understand the retail operations thoroughly.

Clint Hurdle

We're not going to continually put 20 rookies out there. That's why we took the inventory that we took the last two years to find out what we had, and find a wave that would land and stay on beach, not be sent back out to the sea.

Sage Marie

The only thing that will keep us from selling more is limited inventory from Japan.

Jim Cain

Our inventory is actually less than one per dealer.

David Lereah

The continuing shortages of housing inventory are driving the price gains. There is no evidence of bubbles popping.

Bruce Lee

Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.

Mark Davis

Stephen is progressing well. We are optimistic about his prospects for the weekend.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.

Carl Rogers

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

Beth Riesgraf

It's so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I'm being optimistic. And when 'Leverage' comes to an end, I have lots of ideas for other things. You can't really sit and wait for things to come to you.

Bill Bryson

Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

Ray Tanner

I was really optimistic going into practice. I thought we were a little more comfortable at the plate today.

Constance White

I think it's partly the war. Pink is very sweet, childish, optimistic color.

Russ Granik

I don't have any reason to be optimistic here.

Rodrigo Rato

I find these views optimistic to the point of willful blindness.

Gary Thayer

Manufacturing is expanding, but not as broadly as in November. There was weakness in new orders and employment.

S. Walker

We've seen 25 percent more orders and order values over the past six months.

Chu Sik

We can't keep up with orders now, especially TV panels.

Don Gibson

We'll get orders from there of where we're going to go next,

Robert Gottlieb

Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!

Edward Yardeni

Look for orders to rebound in May, reflecting broad-based recovery within the manufacturing sector.

Bobby Hernandez

He refused several orders to get out of the street, and he was arrested.

Tom Engibous

DSP revenue was up 10 percent sequentially and orders were up 11 percent sequentially.

Christopher Hill

get parties together to push the process forward.

Ahmed Hussein

Because we are not the only parties in this meeting, we can't predict the outcome.

Emile Sheng

I think it shows the differences between the parties are pretty big.

David Gibb

I don't think it's productive for the parties to snipe back and forth.

Emma Roberts

I like to go to parties if I know who's going to be there, and if it's people I want to be with. I don't just go to go. And I always drive myself, because I hate being stuck places - there's nothing worse that going out and then being stuck!

Joshua Hoyt

The political parties have to understand that this is something that is not going to disappear.

Karen Finney

We should not be throwing parties at a time when we've got serious problems.

Alessia Cara

I don't really dance. I don't drink or smoke. Being at parties is very awkward.

Jan Pronk

The parties sometimes are talking, and a day after, they're shooting.

Steve Mahoney

Landowners can use these products for beautification or for conservation purposes.

Al Rauch

I think most of the biotech products are going to be safe for the rest of the decade.

Deanna Anderson

Basically, we do it to showcase our products to celebrities.

Jerry Yang

one of the better products we've launched in a long time.

Michael Howard

More and more of the products are going to become 'carrier Ethernet,' because manufacturers aren't going to be able to sell them to service providers unless they have all these features.

Karen Burk

We want to make sure we're only putting safe, quality products on our shelves for our customers.

Barbara Ryan

There is a 10-year lag in R&D spending, ... The spending that they're doing today isn't going to be visible in terms of products for quite some time.

Meg Graham

The quality and sterility of the products made there was never in question.

Phil Schiller

Our approach at Apple has always been to make products we're proud to own and use ourselves.

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.

Gilbert Arenas

It got weird toward the end on this one, but it was our third win in a row.

Kyle Gilchrist

I thought I was in better shape. He had so much weight to cut. I thought that if I got him into the third period, I could get him.

Robert Eenhoorn

He can play first, second, third or the outfield.

John Smoltz

If it were the old way there would have been another four-spot in that third inning.

Marc Crawford

He was a difference-maker in the third period.

Rupert Grint

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

Bartolo Colon

More than puzzled, I'm ticked off. I had two outs and I couldn't get the third one.

Brandon Jacobs

If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.

Jim Rich

Sen. Landrieu said she wanted to be our third senator.

Dave Huber

That was ugly. I was waiting for the ugly duckling to turn into the swan, but it never happened.

Barry Trotz

That was the turning point. That was a big save.

Jason Garey

I think it turned out pretty well for me.

Elisa Massimino

I think things are really turning on this.

Pete Kendall

I think if you turn on the film, you can see him all over the place.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.

Tom Price

I think Jaguar can turn it around, but right now it's tough. If I had only a Jaguar store, it would be very, very tough.

Steve Cox

I think Knute Rockne is turning over in his grave.

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I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.