Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Chuck D.

Our filmmakers are very, very happy because the movie scored a 90 in the top two boxes (excellent and very good). We have wonderful word of mouth working for us again.

Bill Cosby

I'm here for a friend. I brought a couple of boxes of chocolate Jell-O.

Denis O'Hare

I was actually a poetry major in college before I punted and decided to become a theater major. I wrote the poem that we put on the sauerkraut boxes in the style of Elling.

David Schatsky

I think there are really two classes of problems. First is the availability of the Web site, particularly Web site outages and performance. Many customers were turned away because there were sites that couldn't handle the volumes. The more serious problem is fulfillment -- getting the goods into the boxes and getting them into the hands of the shippers.

Mike Wilson

Larry predicted that the whole world would one day do its computing on very simple, computer boxes without hard drives and without other gadgets on them. And these things would sell for two, three, four hundred dollars and people didn't need all this complex software that Microsoft was selling them for you know, a hundred and ten dollars every two years.

Steve Moore

I still have boxes and boxes of fan mail that I still go through, ... It's really been something that has inspired me to come through it, that people cared enough to write a card and something about their own story that they thought would help me.

Sasha Cohen

I think over the past four years, I have changed as a person - because my focus is not on the medal. None of the medals I have at home, I even know where they are - they're in shoe boxes and random places.

Julie Murphy

I have boxes of pictures and things at home, but not to this extent,

Edith Bowman

If I was Bridget Jones and had a tick-list of things to look for in the perfect man, he would tick all the boxes

Ryan Ray

Our recycling program has also reduced our solid waste by up to one-third with a savings of approximately $13,000 for the first year, and we eliminated the need for a confidential services vendor, which saved us $22,000.

Walt Dabney

Our only option was to shut down operations and eliminate positions.

Bobby Bowden

Some guys practice pretty good and then they get in a game and they're a different person. These guys got talent. It's who can eliminate the error.

Bobby Bowden

Our penalties continually punished us and continually took away good play after good play that could have won the game. We're not good enough to do that. Some people might could. We might have done (so) in the past. We've got to eliminate the penalties.

Yoweri Museveni

Our role is to wipe out insecurity ... if we have to eliminate those chaps by force, we will do it.

Jim Minor

Our goal is to eliminate illegal dumping in the county.

Michael Chertoff

Our goal at DHS is to completely eliminate the 'catch and release' enforcement problem, and return every single illegal entrant,

Laurent Robert

Our first objective is to try to maintain the 0-0. That's all we need to eliminate Liverpool and that is what we are going to play for.

Adam Hasner

I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

Nariman Behravesh

Record-high energy prices did not spill over into the rest of the economy.

Toby Chaudhuri

President Bush's energy program won't help lower gas prices or slow global warming.

Scott Nichols

Participation in this league has been outstanding this season. Our numbers have more than doubled in the last three years, and it is great fun to have all that new energy in the league.

Kathleen Hogan

Partners like USAA Real Estate Co. are national leaders in energy efficiency.

Gary Grandbois

PCs have a lifespan and energy that we keep thinking is going to weaken, but it doesn't. We are still looking at double-digit growth in PCs.

Seimone Augustus

Our offense was not as effective. I would not say our energy level was low. But, it was not tip top. I felt I needed to do something to step up my game.

Kevin Wright

Our live show is very entertaining. It's energy filled. We love to banter back and forth with the audience.

Spencer Abraham

Our national energy policy will stress the need to diversify America's energy supply,

Mike Duffy

Starting now, farmers need to think more cautiously about their energy use.

John Doran

He just comes at it from a more horizontal level.

Joe Montana

Unless they do a better job up front, neither one can throw from the horizontal position,

Brenda Fritz

I won't say we are completely comfortable with it. We (the board) are mostly stay-at-home moms running this program off the kitchen table.

Charles Petzold

Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven

Brad Moore

Several volunteers have been preparing for the evacuees since Thursday. The industrial-sized kitchen is stocked and (the evacuees) got a big meal last night upon arriving.

Mary Newell

Set the kitchen timer for 10 minutes and tell them it is your time (to work out).

Edward Abbey

The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

Alex Cox

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

Adlai E. Stevenson

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

O. J. Simpson

You make me wanna la-la, ... make la-la in the kitchen on the floor.

Pete Fenson

We actually had a shoot at a pizza parlor the other day. They had me in the kitchen making pizza.

Rob Portman

I would say unless we see offers from other countries, particularly the EU, on ... reducing tariffs, we will not be able to see a successful round,

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

Chris Cornell

I think the concept of commercials, for example, I have had offers to do songs in different commercials, and it is not what I have liked.

Joan Chen

There are only so many roles as empresses... but I've had a lot of offers to play vampires.

Wesley Ruggles

A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.

Ram Dass

The gift you offer another person is just your being.

Paul Blake

We will get the offers (to the players) out and see what we can do.

Lou Styles

We've got some offers here in town, ... Our feelers are out.

Adriano Galliani

We don't sell our jewels. We haven't received any offers for Andrei Shevchenko and, in any case, we would refuse them. Andrei will stay with us for many more years to come.

William Wordsworth

She was a phantom of delightWhen first she gleamed upon my sight.

Ben Affleck

Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.

Virginia Woolf

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

Mallory Jansen

I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

Gerard Butler

The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.

Karin Slaughter

Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile.

Norton Juster

Many of the things which can never be, often are.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

Daniel Alfredsson

Our special teams tonight were the difference. Five-on-five, I think we were the better team. It's a tough loss.

Becca Fitzpatrick

There's nothing special about losing your virginity over a toilet.

C. S. Lewis

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

Skip Bertman

That would be something very special. It's already been a very special season.

Jimmy Calderwood

That was very disappointing on such a special day,

Chris Chelios

I think it's pretty special and he's having a blast.

O. Henry

I think he could be a very special player.

Avery Johnson

I still think this can be a special season, but right now we are sputtering.

Donald Trump

I think this wedding is one of the most special ones we've done.

John Nersesian

Rebalancing doesn't work every time. It works over time.

Mac McCabe

Our participants can work just as well as you or I.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Jim Coyne

Some of the work is in dispute. Hopefully, it will be settled.

David Frum

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

Barry Ritholtz

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

David Burnett

Well a little disappointed but we'll work with what we have to work with.

Bill Cosby

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Big Pun

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.