Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Connolly

Stephen is a world class player and has made a fantastic contribution to Australian rugby. He will play an important role leading up to, and during the 2007 Rugby World Cup.

Peter Singer

Some of the things that I'm trying to do are to strengthen those other forces, and give them a better chance of having some influence.

O. Henry

Our selection reflects that we respect Australian rugby and the Australian team and we all know it will be a hard game at the weekend.

Craig James

Our view is that the Australian share market is overdue for a correction.

Maurice Gibb

Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it.

Desra Percaya

Requesting clemency is something that accords with the Australian government's responsibility to protect its citizens but it will also have to respect the legal process in Indonesia.

Peter Singer

I might well have written a different book in some respects had I been writing it now. But I wouldn't really go back on things I had said.

Meggie Ford

We now have people drinking Australian wine. The task of the industry now is to keep those people drinking it and not moving on to the next great thing. We can produce what the customer wants, but we need to know what they are after.

Chris Bailey

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

Ma Jun

Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.

William Fitzgerald

Our portfolio remains slightly below duration. But then, the entire fixed-income universe has been defensively positioned for months now.

Toba Beta

Part of water which is cooler always flows to below surface. I understand that hotheaded men always want to be noticed.

Ethan Harris

Payrolls were well below the whisper number, so there's been a big sigh of relief in the market,

Ron Lievense

People have looked at our size all season and wonder how we got here and how we won 28 games. We're not going to look good in an airport. One coach called us the best below the rim team he'd ever seen, so I guess we're not all that athletic.

Scott Kriens

Spending levels during the quarter were below expectations but represented a more diverse set of key service providers and carriers. We remain committed to financial fundamentals, our multiple market strategy, and to the expansion of our product portfolio, all of which will be critical growth drivers when the public networking industry outlook improves.

Alan Ruskin

Some of the headline (jobs) numbers maybe look slightly stronger than expected, but when you scratch below the surface, you find there is still plenty of weakness out there, ... Obviously the manufacturing sector is looking as weak as ever.

Evan Mann

Some investment grade mutual funds and pension plans can't hold paper that's below investment grade. People that couldn't own it because of the ratings restriction now can look at it again.

William Lewis

Our salaries have slipped below the high schools in our area.

Peter Kosann

Regarding the remainder of the year ... business continues to break very late. That being said, our diversification of clients using our platform is very strong. We have a lot of irons in the fire.

J. J. Johnson

Reasonable accommodations could be as simple as a (uniquely shaped) pencil, an extra 15-minute break or a special computer screen, and employers don't know that.

Vlade Divac

Relief. Shaq is such a big player. He?s hard to stop. It was a real break for us.

Higinio Velez

Our players, when they play, don't think, I'm going to break my hand. Because the player that has money sometimes thinks, What happens if I break my hand?

Brian Giles

Patterson had a good breaking ball. He was either tough or we weren't very good. He was all right.

Karen Mall

Partner disclosure is where we really have the opportunity to break the chain of HIV infection.

Corin Tucker

Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.

Michael Palmer

Party trips to spring break destinations have been flat or declining since 2000.

Larry Stahl

Our offense, with Coach (Terry) Anderson, has improved every game. He has worked hard with them and the kids have worked hard. We have four kids who can break loose on any play. We're pretty hard to defend.

Brian Taylor

Regardless of the numbers the general tone of the market is dollar negative. You've got people jumping on the bandwagon.

JoEllen Kenney

People in McKeesport saw what happened in Duquesne when they lost their library because of the lack of funding. I would get envelopes with a dollar in them. The residents didn't want to lose their library.

Sunil Reddy

Surely the dollar makes pricing more competitive for U.S. companies. But it's more a noise factor than anything else on a short-term basis.

Hans Trousil

Some homeowners will be paying a few dollars more a year while others may have a tax decrease.

Glenn Kaplan

Our plans are to keep it completely as a golf course. We've put in multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars into the course, and for the last year and a half we've been operating it successfully as a golf course.

Stephen Meyer

Our tax dollars are being used to help a lawmaker get re-elected.

Tim Mooney

Our goal is to get more efficiency into the dollars that are being spend on education.

Malik Rahim

Our goal is only to help them in their recovery effort, help them get their lives back, and yes it is political, because we should not have to do it. our tax dollars should be at work.

Everett Tucker

Our goal is to manage every penny of every dollar that we spend with our suppliers, be they raw material suppliers, freight suppliers, or indirect. We want to touch every penny.

Peter Jackson

We've thrown away a golden opportunity. It's bitterly disappointing. Now we have to hope others around us slip up. You can just imagine how the players are feeling. We played well in the first half but we didn't get that second goal.

Bill Cosby

I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.

Big Sean

I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold.

Antoine Rivarol

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

Felix Gottwald

It is a special day for us with our first Olympic gold medal.

Mark Sutton

I think that is why the gold kiwi is very popular in the New Zealand market.

Thomas Fuller

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

Bob Hayes

I won gold medals representing this country, but I've gotten more recognition around the world than I have in my own back yard.

Ellison Chu

I think gold will be trading around $548 to around $555. It's a short-term range.

E. Hicks

He has no self-doubt whatsoever. Not an ounce of it,

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Michael Korda

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Proverb Proverb

An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.

Alan Miller

Our reporter on the scene talked personally to the governor, who told her the 12 were alive.

Claudia Vercellotti

Participating in the legislative process has been personally devastating and a rude awakening. We never stood a chance.

Paul Meyer

Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Philip Gonsalves

Some of the showers could be a little heavy, but only for short periods of time.

David Beamer

Our personal reaction was one of relief, because they got it right.

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.

Andrew Ference

Our second period was awful. We started to play too much of their style.

Uwe Reinhardt

Price (in the Swiss system) doesn't matter, because it's set by these negotiations.

Toni Simonetti

Suffice it to say that the price of the stock is an important part of the equation.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

Ashton Kutcher

I learned what a Birkin bag is from the price tag. You'll never forget what it is once you've paid for one.

David Briggs

I think (stock) prices have run up anticipating a recovery but I don't think the recovery's here yet,

Mike Fitzpatrick

It is not surprising that prices are retreating.

Jack Cox

I feel sorry for the (homeless) people. But what price do we pay?

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

Thurston Moore

Recording tends to restrict too much experimentation, 'cause when you're making a record it's a part of you, for that time it's your whole fabric.

George Burns

Our record doesn't show it, but we are getting better.

Jim Peters

Overall, 2006 will probably come in somewhere between the record sales of 2005 and the very strong sales of 2004.

Wayne Perry

Really, my record is my program's record. That's kind of how I look at it.

Barry Mann

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

Billy Corgan

Most great records really start with the drums.

Bert McCracken

We are the outcasts, we are the ones that are different, we are the ones that never got along with anyone else, we are the ones that went back to our rooms and put on our headphones and listened to those records that made us happy

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Jeff Corey

I think they have a much better team then their record indicates.

Greg Simmons

I was the one commissioner that stood up on that matter.

M. Wolfe

He was unique. He stood out from the crowd.

Do Won Chang

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.

Hermann Maier

This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again.

Aminatta Forna

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

Annika Sorenstam

We stood at the tee and I told Suzann, 'We can turn this around and be 1-up. Suzann said, 'No, we could be 2-up.' I said, 'Yeah, you're right.

Sam Dumont

We stood around a lot and watched and waited for someone else to do the scoring.

Ron Schiller

What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.

Tammy White

We all stood at the window and cried,

Chuck D.

if they don't think he can play shortstop then they should think about trading him.

Carol Kennedy

We routinely look at any unusual trading activity.

Paul Diamond

Right now we're still in a trading bind,

Peter Smith

A lot of times you don't know who you're trading with or where.