Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Burns

Road safety is of paramount importance and to have casualty numbers drop by 75 per cent shows overwhelmingly that the road closure has been the right move.

Ned Riley

The profits numbers will be mostly dismissed in the first quarter as a casualty of war. Now we'll see how much momentum we can pick up from the reverse of war negativity.

Rick Allen

But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.

John Dixon

the only casualty was a helmet that got run over by the S.U.V.

Kathy Waterbury

We will follow federal guidelines on calculating casualty loss.

John Morrison

But reinsurance is treated differently than primary insurance under state insurance codes, and that's where people could see their rates go up for all lines of casualty insurance in the long term, whether its related to disaster or not.

David LeNeveu

You keep that in the back of your mind, but at the same time it's something you can't worry about as long as you prepare yourself properly every day, and the team does a great job of doing that. We're doing everything we can. It's just a casualty of hockey.

Louis Michel

We... are fearful that the casualty figures may mount,

Louis Michel

We are all hoping that the news does not get steadily worse as the day progresses but we are fearful that the casualty figures may mount and that international support may be needed.

Peter Guralnick

I think Elvis was dismissed because of his popularity,

Gary Link

I won't surmise from that that we've been 100 percent dismissed from the committee, because as soon as I would surmise that, I would misinterpret what someone had said to me. But that's accurate. We will not be involved in any of the meetings.

Raul Garcia

I did not know. If I would have known, I would have dismissed him immediately.

Morris Gleitzman

Kid's culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald's, but it's so much more important than that.

Chuck Palahniuk

Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.

David Raskin

These similarities can't be dismissed as mere coincidence. He was in the middle of it, just like he told you from the witness stand.

Eddie Fierek

It's done. He was dismissed from the team on Monday. We're going to move forward.

Steve Smith

He actually dismissed the whole team and he showed us he wasn't playing. We haven't had a problem since.

John Silvia

You could have dismissed it six months ago as a one-time hit,

Bob Bauman

That was a real surprise. But even though they scored, I don't think it shifted the momentum.

Will Plyler

That was a game-changing play. It put the momentum in our favor.

Al Wilson

That was big, really big. That's what you got to do, man. Big-time players step up and make big-time plays. It was a momentum shifter . . . once that happened, that train was rolling.

Phil Nelson

That was our only chance. It put us in overtime and we had the momentum going in.

Nick Saban

I think that was really probably the turning point of the game, that we could recapture the momentum and come right back and make a big play and score and keep them three scores behind,

Darrent Williams

It don't matter. It was a momentum changer for the team.

Fernando Pisani

Just one of those things. We'll just try and ride that momentum.

Zhang Qiyue

China-U.S. relations, though having encountered difficulties recently, now have momentum for improvement.

Frank Sharry

I'm a little worried that the political momentum that we witnessed this week may dissipate somewhat.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to reformation.

Sheila Nevins

respect mostly the people on the other side of the camera.

Brian Wheeler

I think people in Albemarle are used to us starting earlier. Mostly they just want to know when that day is.

Dario Fo

I am interested, too, in satirical theater, in the grotesque, or even in tragedy at times, but I am mostly comfortable with comedy.

Quvenzhane Wallis

When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

Charlie Siem

I'm always on duty, so I tend to wear suits. I've got double-breasted and single-breasted, mostly dark blues and grays. I'm obsessed with them, and I always have been.

Matt McGorry

I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.

Isabella Rossellini

The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.

Sigmar Polke

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.

Brendan Wilders

Overall, my putative numbers will come down just slightly.

Tony Batista

I'm here, that's what I can say. I know for sure the numbers are going to come. You just have to wait, but I know at the end of the season the numbers are going to be there.

Barry McCaffrey

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

Barry McGuire

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

B. F. Skinner

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.

C. S. Lewis

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

C. S. Lewis

The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are read by our most esteemed critics and poets (who don't usually like them much) and nobody else takes any notice. An increasing number of highly literate people simply ignore what the 'Highbrows' are doing. It says nothing to them. The Highbrows in return ignore and insult them.

Cecelia Ahern

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

Mark Valley

'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.

Aaron Spelling

Stay tuned! I may not be here, but my show was picked up!

Wally Szczerbiak

Pick your poison. Try to stop K.G. or me . . . They wanted to play a small lineup, and we made them pay.

Phil Garner

Pick 'em out of a hat. We just need somebody. Nothing scientific in the formula.

Rabih Alameddine

I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

Robin Hobb

I think there have always been male writers, female writers. As a reader, I never picked up a book and said, 'Oh, I can't read this - it's about a male,' and set it back down.

Denny Hamlin

That was pretty good, we picked up three-quarters of a second from practice.

Scott Lawson

I was pretty frustrated. I kind of got down on myself, but my teammates picked me back up and told me to keep shooting.

Billy Beane

I think it took a lot for him to pick up the phone.

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

David Brady

It has revenues and profits and a very strong pipeline,

Jim Cavanaugh

The profits there are going to be huge.

Howard Schultz

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

Sam Bodman

There's no way that we would support a windfall profits tax,

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

David Nicholson

The merchandising is where the real profits are made,

Dwane Casey

Our second quarter killed us. If we get anything at all in the second quarter, we're in tall cotton.

Eric Benhamou

Our seasonally weak third quarter was exacerbated by several factors.

Phil Jackson

Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter,

Jack Coit

I wish we could just skip that second quarter though. We get a little wrapped up in what we're doing sometimes.

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

Patrick Fearon

We've now had three straight quarters of above-average growth, and that's nothing to sneeze at.

Ben Horowitz

Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.

Jamshyd Godrej

When there is a situation where one does not see demand for a year or two, then capex is suspended. It will reverse only when the situation improves.

Willy Wonka

We have so much time, and so little to do. Wait! Stop! Reverse that.

Japanese Proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Bob Hartley

It was like a photocopy (of the second period), just reverse it.

Javier Solana

For a long time there has been a lot of talk but not much action. I think we have to reverse that now.

Willy Wonka

So much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it.

Richard Howard

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

J. D. Hayworth

Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

Beilby Porteus

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

Becca Fitzpatrick

A war was coming either way. Now all I had to do was choose my opponent

Barry Pepper

Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me

Barry McGuire

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.