Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin McDonald

Of course Toronto might as well be Buffalo, because we get each other's TV.

Tim Kearns

When he mentioned it, I didn't think twice about it. I just said, 'Let's do it.' Because as much as he didn't say it was important, of course he wanted to help out.

Royce Chadwick

When I look back, we sure had our share of situations during the course of the year. I'm proud of our seniors and the way they handled adversity.

Terry Jones

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.

Salmon P. Chase

The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.

Annika Sorenstam

Luckily I had a little cushion, and at the end it seemed like I needed it, ... For me, a win is a win. I thought I played excellent the first two days. It's a tough golf course and a lot of things are shaping up for the end of year. So this meant a lot to me.

David Hilal

Let's not ignore the fundamental course of business.

Brian Henson

Lew Grade told my dad, I'll make your TV show. I know it's going to be a big hit,' ... The show had definitely not run its course when my dad decided to end the show. My dad just liked doing a lot of stuff. He was so full of stuff he wanted to do.

Dennis Erlich

This was not an easy test. I played out there today and the course was wet and playing long. If you got off the fairway you had some tough times.

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.

Steven Wood

Unless there is a quick rebound in sales, this suggests further weakness in production and declines in inventories over the months ahead.

Holger Schmieding

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

Daniel Niles

We've seen this how many times already this year -- three? ... A lot of these names could have 50 percent downside from here. Our big issue is, are the sequential declines (in revenue) over? I'd say no.

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.

Jennifer Devine

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

Angus Campbell

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

David Rockefeller

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

Tom Thompson

When you're a coach's kid, people think things come easy to you, but you have to work just as hard as everyone else,

Amy Childs

When I have had a long day at work, I want something to watch that is funny, lighthearted and easy to get into, and reality is that. I'm not really into serious programmes or documentaries.

Ed Costley

We needed a game like this and not another 30-point blowout. We missed a lot of easy shots and shot only 38 percent from the field, but I was happy to see our girls keep their composure.

Charles Yates

We're looking at the development of genetic tests which are easy and robust with a quick turnaround.

Curtis Stinson

We're just giving up too many easy shots.

Mike Watkins

Like any recruit, when we talk to them individually, we explain where they're going to fit in so they understand exactly what it is we expect of them, ... And when I recruit kids, the main thing is if they'll be a good fit to the program, and with these two that was an easy decision.

Stephanie Coontz

Life is filled with trade-offs, and I worry that it's so easy to slip from descriptions of problems to one-size-fits-all prescription,

Rick Hartzell

Mac is more of a laid-back, easygoing guy. Pat is the opposite. He's fiery, and pretty excitable. Where they're similar is that they're great people, good family guys. They have gone back to their alma mater and have really enjoyed being there.

Mary Shelley

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.

Anthony Trollope

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

Anthony Trollope

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Dean Inge

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

Dean Inge

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Walter Bagehot

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Thomas Malory

King Pellinore that time followed the questing beast.

Thomas Malory

For love that time was not as love is nowadays.

J. K. Rowling

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

David Ricardo

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

David Hume

Were a man, whom I know to be honest and opulent, and with whom I live in intimate friendship, to come into my house, where I am surrounded with my servants, I rest assured, that he is not to stab me before he leaves it, in order to rob me of my silver standish; and I no more suspect this event, than the falling of the house itself which is new, and solidly built and founded.--But he may have been seized with a sudden and unknown frenzy.--So may a sudden earthquake arise, and shake and tumble my house about my ears.

David Brooks

I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs.

Audrey Hepburn

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Audre Lorde

There are no honest poems about dead women.

Audre Lorde

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

Arthur Ransome

For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in 1653 spoke not of anglers and , but anglers OR very honest men .

Arthur Peacocke

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

Diablo Cody

Juno: Honest to blog?

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

Joseph Kabila

Whatever happens, if there are summits we will be there, provided it takes place after the funeral,

Rachel Johnson

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

McGregor Scott

Trends in communications and convergence provided a one-two punch.

Thomas Kelly

We provided about a quarter of the community's blood.

Al Jourgensen

I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

Denise Juneau

When you're educated, you must offer others a road to success.

Kim Cattrall

If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.

Jason Collins

I knew that I was choosing the road less traveled but I'm not walking it alone.

Bob McKenzie

There are a lot of considerations, especially on a road that is as traveled as I-15.

Wanda Sykes

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

Dick DeVos

One more step on the road to getting it done for Michigan.

John Adams

Since the road has been changed, that's just let everything come off the park.

Tom Tupa

She's doing great, ... She's completely done with all her treatments, and she's on the road to recovery.

Sam Cowart

When you take thorough beatings on the road twice, that's a concern.

Michael Richards

We have more work to do. We're taking small and slow steps. Other towns do it. We can do it.

Ben Affleck

You get old, you slow down.

Sylvia Hatchell

To play slow would not be the thing to do with her.

Nicole Strasko

I got off to a slow start thinking about the game. I'm a freshman, and this was my first tournament game, and with it in the new gym, I wanted to do really good.

Dan Johnson

We're approaching this slowly and methodically. There's a lot of work to be done.

Christopher Traulsen

If it's a trend, it's going to be slow moving.

Donatella Versace

There's time to slow down, after you're dead.

Flip Saunders

We were a half-second slow and they were throwing it up there.

David Justice

What were you doing on that? ... You have to know he's slow and throw the ball.

David Ricardo

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

Denis Waitley

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others

Charles Babbage

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

Ludwig von Mises

The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth.

Ayn Rand

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

Boris Johnson

So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.

Babe Ruth

Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.

David Korten

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Brian Aldiss

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.