Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Steiner

People look at college as the fountain of beer or party central.

Mimi Henson

People like to eat outside here. In the summer our picnic tables are full and people eat their fish with cold beer from the Legion hall. In the winter, we still have our customers. But it's a lot quieter.

Deb Carey

People in Wisconsin are parochial in their buying habits. They care deeply about their quality of life. Things like wonderful Wisconsin cheeses, really fine chocolates, nice places to eat out and great beer are nice ways to enhance your lifestyle.

George Jones

Our steak and martinis is draft beer with weenies.

Jose Luis

Our beer sales have tripled, ... Last Friday they drank us dry.

Colin Kaminski

Our beer sales have grown from the day we opened.

Richard Sands

Our beer net sales grew 11% year to date, and we expect a similar growth rate in the fourth quarter. However, we expect mid-single-digit growth rates next year.

Roger Hurick

Pizza and beer just go hand in hand.

Benjamin Rush

Beer is a wholesome liquor.....it abounds with nourishment

Mike Williamson

Regardless of the results, we played outstanding in the first. We played at both ends of the ice, shot the puck finally. We didn't get rewarded, but there's not many times you won't if you keep playing like that.

Jim Brandt

Rebecca is within 7 points of qualifying for state and Alyssa is with in 20 points. I see both of them qualifying at GNAC in Hastings.

Tomasz Beer

Reasons for this trend are not really known, but may include a desire to do something rather than do nothing on the part of both physicians and patients. Unfortunately, these men may be enduring significant side effects for an uncertain benefit.

George Washington

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle

David Wade

Real strength is telling the truth when troops are being killed, and one year later a lot of Americans realize John Kerry had it both right and consistent about Iraq and this president's still got it dead wrong.

Vinny Testaverde

Really, you just hold your breath and hope that he's okay and that it wasn't a concussion. I kind of had one eye on him and one eye on the field because it was obviously a critical situation for us to win the game there. But I guess you could say that we lost on both ends today - losing Wayne and the game.

Andy Reid

Reggie is well deserving of his Hall of Fame induction. In my mind, he will go down as the greatest defensive end in NFL history. He was a great teammate and a fun player to coach. As good as a player as he was on the field, he was an even better person off the field. He left a lasting legacy, both in the NFL and in the community.

Andrew Yang

President Chen has been constrained by both the opposition parties and factions in his own party. I would say President Chen has done a mediocre job on foreign policy, and an equally mediocre job on domestic policy.

Allan Hoffenblum

President Bush is in California for specific reasons that do not involve Governor Schwarzenegger, and the governor is involved in a special election that has nothing to do with the president. Both are having political problems now, so other than cordiality, there's really no reason for them to be together.

Mary Rich

Previously, when you called the electric company, the field guy would come out to connect or disconnect you, and then it would go out on a bill. Today that same transaction could touch up to a hundred systems.

Andy Ball

Our outlook as a construction company for the next two years is very, very positive.

Carl Icahn

particularly important at Time Warner because of the difference of opinion between many large shareholders and management concerning the direction of the company and the lack of share price performance under current management.

Scott Weiss

Part of the magic of a startup is the fear of death. You have only so much money in the bank, and if you don't get to the right milestone before you run out, then the company goes under - it's over.

Bill Gates

Paul was instrumental in the creation of Microsoft and has played an important role in the success and direction of our company throughout the years,

David Litchfield

Oracle still has not released an official patch, so it is still leaving its customers at risk. It is a trivial thing to fix. If the company is still working on it, I do not understand why.

Shawn Willett

Oracle says a company could, for example, take out its BI tool and replace it with a third-party app. The question is, how practical will that be for users?

Charles Bona

Oracle has been and is a database company, and that's where the focus should stay for now.

David Menlow

People have to understand: As a shareholder, in general, they don't have any say in the company. People complain about it, but those who like what the company does will continue to view the stock as a vehicle for profits.

Tatsushi Shikano

Reflecting solid consumer spending, the real estate and retail sectors are likely to lead the improvement in the overall non-manufacturing sector.

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.

Howard Archer

Relatively subdued consumer spending, intense domestic and international competition, and high input costs continue to dampen ... the sector.

Britt Beemer

Our research on holiday gift returns shows that it's only three percent of Americans who are real jerks and they indulge in consumer fraud and return abuse. The rest of us have to deal with the consequences.

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 .

Stephen Baker

Part of the problem Sony has had in the past couple of years is that as the consumer electronics market has changed, ... A lot of it has been about lower prices and distribution and neither have been Sony's strong points.

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.

O. Henry

Our mission has been to enable the service providers and network operators to deploy uninterrupted video throughout the home without interfering with other consumer devices and networking environments already in place.

Chris Parker

Reform is needed, especially in the U.S., to curb the excessive litigation costs .

Alex Saitta

Relative to surrounding school districts our starting pay is lower than most, but the cost of living in Pickens is less too. It's not how much you make, but how much you have in your pocket after you pay all your bills.

Kelly Wilson

Our recent success has a lot to do with the cost of prescription drugs. People are looking for alternatives, healthier ones that aren't as expensive. We help people get back to the roots of everything. Nowadays everything is so chemically enhanced. People don't know what they are getting. But with us you do.

Helen Clark

Our rates are disturbing and will deliver poor health long-term to many of our people at a very high cost to the taxpayer.

Takuma Sato

Our qualifying positions cost us the result, ... but we tried a very different strategy today to try to make up some places.

Lino Spiteri

Partisan party considerations and public funds and cost should not mix.

S. Walker

Pay issues can cost up to about $8 million a year and that would leave very little, if any, for incentive programs and educational programs. The mistake we made was on the benefits.

Steve Miskin

Our main cost is people ? salaries and staff.

Bob Warren

Our offensive line did a great job for their first game. We have just one returning player on our offensive line. Defensively, we didn't have any big mistakes that cost us.

David Seiders

Our forecasts show 6 percent to 7 percent declines in home sales and single-family housing starts in 2006, followed by smaller declines in 2007.

Richard Jaffe

Recycling what has worked in the past is a defensive strategy that is working, and it has reversed sales declines for the retailer.

Angus Campbell

The only thing that can stop further declines in the market today is a tame ISM figure and lower oil prices,

Holger Schmieding

French unemployment is stabilizing. We see further declines in the jobless rate.

Carol Dansereau

We're glad that the percentage is lower than the prior year. But our main feeling is that when you have one out of every 10 workers having these significant declines in cholinesterase, you've got a serious problem that needs to be addressed.

Jennifer Devine

The declines occurred on a timescale equal to, or slightly less than, a single generation of these species.

Trilby Lundberg

The prospects for the near term at the pump are most likely for further declines ... unless there should be a supply disruption,

Jed Connelly

Those were the big declines (of the month).

Mark Stahlman

We recognize that investors who have been trained to only expect steady price declines and even price wars will find this shift towards high-tech counter-intuitive. As a result, many may be inclined to miss opportunities and/or to exit strong performing stocks too soon.

John Snow

Rebuilding efforts will give GDP (gross domestic product), jobs and our overall economy a lift by the first quarter of next year,

Thomas Delare

Ordinary Iraqis, domestic entrepreneurs and foreign investors have all been waiting for stability, predictability and greater security.

Mihir Vora

Some of the money the domestic mutual funds have raised will also come into the market now. That's one reason why the market refuses to go down.

Ian Shepherdson

Overall, solid domestic final demand, but the second quarter will be much weaker. We expect growth to slow to 3% or less, led by a sharp slowing in consumption.

Stephane Deo

Our view that the domestic economy will improve this year is very much on track. We saw already that investment growth is starting to kick in and that will support consumption eventually.

Xiao Tian

Our athletes' performance in Turin will help us forge partnerships with more international and domestic companies.

Margita Thompson

most rigorous protections in the nation for domestic partners.

Trent Lott

It is a worry about maintaining a domestic industry, which I think has national security implications,

Erik Autor

Larger U.S. retailers have recognized for a number of years that the domestic market is mature. In order to grow sales, they have to look outside of the U.S.. China, however, is a big emerging opportunity.

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.

Mike Browning

Our team has shown grit all year. We have been down but we haven't been out. We figure out ways to get victories and you have to be encouraged by that.

H. Hart

Overall I was very encouraged at the way the kids played.

Michael Tiemann

Overall, I am encouraged by what I am seeing.

Lindsay Davenport

I was really encouraged by how the first set went, ... and at the same time, I got a really tight set under my belt. You get nerves whenever a match gets that close, so it was nice to experience that again.

S. Hughes

It is not good at all but I am remaining positive and strong for him and am encouraged by the doctors' reports today.

Hugh Jackman

I think I was 5 and singing 'Camelot' on stage. It was always a good way to meet girls. I did musicals, plays. My school encouraged it. We'd do our own productions. It wasn't until I was about 23 that I thought, 'I could give this a shot. I might as well do it.'

Robert Bennett

Judy did nothing that the New York Times did not want her to do. They encouraged her to stay in jail.

Ernest Pascoe

I am encouraged that a few ninth-graders do look like they have what it takes to be really good players.

Pete Crossland

I am encouraged by the support. A lot of progress has been made.

Steve Burd

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

Stephen Straus

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

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.

Clint Hurdle

I think there is improvement. More optimism maybe today than there was yesterday.

George Cunningham

I think it's very nice. It's a big improvement.

Ned Yost

I think his improvement has come more on the mental side than the physical side,

John Lonski

I think this testimony is much more confident. His worry that the improvement will not be sustained is less pronounced.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

Joshua Greenbaum

Oracle has tremendous problems being industry expert. SAP has had more success at that end.

Kevin Haggerty

People in the industry feel it's more of a privacy enhancer because it's such a secure way of identification.

Buster Brown

It is a touchy subject. But in any industry there is a surplus of unusable goods. What do you do with them?

J. Horton

It is an industry that probably has too much capacity. It's probably too fragmented.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Alan McCoy

I think that's pretty important from a reputable, well-known independent steel industry analyst." ()

Randeep Hooda

I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

Larry Ellison

I have been working more, ... That's true, and the reason I'm working more is this is an extraordinary opportunity. My industry and in fact, every industry soon is going through this tectonic change.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

Henry Willmore

Previously the market had taken out any risk of a second-quarter tightening by the Fed. With this statement, we see that's not a risk to be discounted.

Mark Hoffman

Our relationship with SAP is actually better than it ever has been before, on products, on marketing and on sales, ... That's why this stuff is so shocking.

Oleksiy Ivchenko

Our relationship is shifting completely to a market basis.

Evan Siegel

Our marketing tactics are really where we separate ourselves.

Ethan McAfee

Sure there are some smaller names, but they're unattractive to big corporations because their market share is probably 1 percent or less.

Ante Kostelic

Sure I want to win and smash records, but winning medals is not like going to the market and getting cabbage.

Marina Amoroso

Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.

Five Live

Some of the merchandise isn't right and the market is very tough,

Leendert Staal

Our priority now, our aim, is to get 25% market share.

Holly Hatton

Our performance was not good. We weren't in it from the beginning.

Randy Jepson

Our performance as a whole was not that bad. We weren't outstanding, but we weren't poor either.

Lu Shanzhen

Overall, I am satisfied with the performance of our gymnasts.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Platitudes and generalities can only be sustained when performance exceeds intellect.

Jerry Slocum

It is a tough one to sit on when you have that type of performance.

Kenny Jackett

That was as well as we've played this year - particularly the first 45 minutes. The performance was excellent.

Richard Menicke

I was really pleased with the performance of Steffen Anderson.

Sasha Cohen

I think it was a gift. For that performance, silver is generous.

Steve Houghton

I was very pleased with our performance. We were very successful from a team standpoint. We have made significant progress in practice and it showed up at Wisconsin.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Keith Pearson

Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.

Tom McMillan

There has never been a three-week stretch of season ticket sales like this. Ever.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Catherine Lee

It's not an appraisal, it's more of a sales tool.

C. S. Lewis

Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

Brian Billick

I think that's a quarterback trying to take on his share of responsibility,

Joan Smith

There are so many goodies to look at. We share because it is so rich, but it is very good.

Frank Robinson

If we can do that more often, we're going to win our share of games.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

Scott Wilson

You make something from nothing, you want to share it.

Becky G

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

Steve Struss

For me, personally, it was the volume of evidence.

Jason Simpson

With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.

Jerry Brown

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Industry Idris

It (the volume of subsidized fertilizer) will not change.

Johnny Thunders

The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.

Grazia Deledda

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

William Harvey

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

William Penn

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.