Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Groening

I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun.

Chuck Palahniuk

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.

Wyclef Jean

With Yele Haiti, the first thing was I'm proud of the organization and the work that the organization has done, and in the future hope to continue doing.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in January is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector, but at slower rates of increase.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in December is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector with a cautiously optimistic outlook as we enter 2006.

Kofi Annan

the overall epidemic continues to expand with much of the world at risk of falling short of the targets set forth in the declaration.

Randy Carlyle

The penalty parade took us out of the game. We can't continue to give a team the quality of Dallas that many power plays. They made us pay for it. ... We took too many. They got momentum from it.

Louis Wong

The peak of the interest rate cycle may be much higher than expected. Continued inflation in the US indicated a need for a rate hike for few more times until next year.

Anthony Weiner

Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.

Jessica Nevarez

The pilot has been delivered to the network. We're excited and have high expectations.

Bee Wilson

The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.

Noah Feldman

The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones where rights are real from where rights are fake is that it's in the initial interests of the majority to actually deliver these rights.

Clive Sinclair

One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar.

Pete Townshend

I needed to give back, give back, give back. I felt guilty about my success. I felt uncomfortable about how easily I had been delivered this extraordinary life that I had.

Tom Clancy

Ebola is a nasty disease to get. It's scary. But as a weapon, it is probably not likely. Ebola is a difficult malady to weaponize and deliver efficiently.

Trip Adler

If I make a good product and deliver value to users and to the world, the financial gains will come.

Bruce Jackson

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.

Jill Lepore

When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats.

Barack Obama

Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

Gary Pruitt

We are having a good fourth quarter, which has led us to raise our estimates of full-year earnings for 1999.

Gerard Sullivan

We're late in the economic cycle. We're slowing down or at least -- I won't say going into recession but we're slowing down -- and we've got some troubles overseas with Asia. These aren't huge ones, but these could slow earnings growth to about 5 percent for the S&P 500.

Linda Jay

We still have two weeks of earnings warnings ahead.

Terry Crews

We still expect our greatest earnings growth during the second and third quarters. The fourth quarter is expected to be a loss, but it will not be as large of a loss as last year.

Peter Cardillo

We're at the end of the quarter so there is some window dressing. The focus is now totally on earnings, and this earnings season looks as though it will be strong if not stronger than last quarter.

Alan Ackerman

There is likely to be turbulence ahead. Earnings disappointments are devastating. This is not a time to loosen the safety belts,

Tom Schoewe

Wal-Mart's sales have doubled and earnings have more than doubled over the past five years but we haven't done a good job in communicating that,

Bill Winters

We could hit that ROE in 2006, but we don't expect to, We can generate earnings at that run rate through 2007.

Francois Arnaud

Today, the Pope is only a religious figure. At the time of 'The Borgias,' he was also a political leader, a financial leader, and the head of an army. I think popes are much less relevant today than they were then.

Tom Shaheen

We're not going to induce people to play. We're not going to promise financial gain by playing the lottery.

Pico Iyer

In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer.

Ted Waitt

We have the liquidity and financial resources necessary to forgo short-term profits to regain long-term growth and sustainable profitability,

Jim Adams

We have the financial resources to move quickly.

Jim Hill

We need help from this body. We need someone to relieve the huge financial burden.

Bradley Belt

Unfortunately, the financial health of the PBGC is not improving,

Bradley Belt

Unfortunately, the financial health of the P.B.G.C. is not improving.

Ian Reid

We are saying to the financial institution: we will give you about $25 million every year for the period of the loan and that's really how we plan to repay it.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Buddy Carroll

We played well as a group. We had some nice goals.

Nick Nuttall

We are not going to meet the Millennium Development Goals on water or health unless we protect them.

Mariano Remon

We didn't play well but the important thing is that we didn't concede any goals,

Lofa Tatupu

We still have a lot to prove. We have to reset our goals now and make new ones.

Scott DeMonte

We had some of our younger players get their first goals for us today.

Marty Turco

(We're) doing the little things to win hockey games. Tonight was a great job by all the guys. We need to do that whether we're scoring goals or not.

Dusty Auxier

We have had problems playing teams that don't have good records. This is the first time this year we have led wire to wire. One of our goals was to run and if we didn't have anything, to set it up in the half court.

Lee Sterrey

We could have scored more goals in the first half.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

Vint Cerf

It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.

Jerry Howard

We are not just talking about slowing the growth of house prices. We are taking about house prices diminishing.

Alan Cohen

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

Stephen Dean

When we rank the stocks, we find more value stocks at the top of the list and more growth names at the bottom.

Stephen Mergler

When growth stocks start paying a dividend it is an indication that there are not a lot of opportunities remaining out there.

Anthony Chan

We're not going to get the 1.5 percent productivity growth necessary to produce all those jobs. Such a fall-off would be out of line with what normally happens.

Doug Hall

We are looking at a lot of growth and a lot of changes.

Bonnie Tyler

I'm always late to bed - usually after midnight - but then I sleep for around ten hours.

Nina Easton

Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged.

F. Sionil Jose

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

Cristina Kirchner

I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.

John Walters

Today's marijuana is also twice as strong as it was in the mid 80's.

Richard Lake

There are other, sit-down restaurants and retailers we're in the middle of negotiating with.

Mark Wilson

We still don't know about that. Come the middle of April, who knows? She's been training real hard, doing some minor jogging. We'll just have to be patient and see what the trainers say.

Dannel Malloy

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

Phil McGraw

Now, my body fat runs around 18 percent, which is normal and, you know, kind of in the middle of normal, actually.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

James Walsh

In the meantime, we are operating as previously.

David Cole

If you take too many people out from an operating plant, you can shut it down. This has to be managed very carefully.

Brian Blair

If you went to weekends, you wouldn't have to worry about repaying grants, and you could save some operating dollars.

Vicki Lutz

These are new programs, new dollars, ... They do not pay for operating expenses. Not one dollar, not one cent, is going to (beds in the shelter).

Charles Petzold

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

Atul Gawande

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

Paul Bell

Toward the end of the year, sales will revive with the release of the new Windows Vista operating system.

Koichi Ogawa

The operating result was good, but the company's hedging policy didn't work out this time.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Brian Harvey

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

Brendon Urie

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.

Viktor Vekselberg

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

Neal Asher

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Ramana Maharshi

I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

Charles Saatchi

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

Chevy Chase

We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.

Errol Morris

First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.

Ed Jasper

When you're playing every snap, the problem is you can't give 110 percent on every play.

Lori Anderson

We still get 100 percent of what we were owed.

John Murray

We're down 30-40 percent from normal. But the rain has been a problem for everybody.

Jay Speer

There is a very small percentage of dealers we're worried about. But they can do a lot of damage.

Larry Southard

Two years ago we did an on-site survey of 1,700 homes. We had 25 percent that could have survived a wildfire. Now we're at 50 percent.

Tom Williams

We are 90 percent sold for 2001, and a substantial portion is sold for 2002.

Jerry Berman

We have tools out there which are 100 percent available.

Ronnie Arnold

We're within 2 percent of the 65 percent now.

David Baltimore

Were we to go with 60 percent at NIH reviews, many of us scientists would be very uncomfortable with the quality.

Christopher Hill

We had another long day. We made a little progress but I must say we didn't make enough progress.

Alan Cohen

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

Brian Ferentz

We still have a ways to go. I think we're making progress, but it's early.

Mark Mann

We'll progress him over the weekend in regards to his running, ... and just take it day by day and see how he feels.

Peter Brown

Time is running short for her to show progress.

Ludwig von Mises

The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of the monetary unit. The more inflation progresses, the higher rises the national income.

Ludwig von Mises

The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living.

Bud Selig

We've made some progress on a lot of issues. But progress in the end is when you have a deal.

John Singlaub

We've made progress with our over-the-counter application process. But we are still not there yet.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Noah Hawley

I remain a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Ian Shepherdson

The only soft spots in the survey remain inventories and employment, but they will recover.

Jimmy Johnson

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

Ray Giacoletti

We haven't done anything. We need to remain hungry.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Mike Lynch

Our visibility is improving, but at the same time still remains low,

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Martin Pyykkonen

In terms of prudence, you would like to see other revenue streams.

Gene Upshaw

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Martin Pyykkonen

It confirms what I've been thinking about revenue deceleration.

Clint Stretch

But that's not where the revenue comes from,

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thrift is a great revenue.

Dick Franti

We still had our share of mistakes, but we made our way through it. We didn't let them get us down.

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Edgar Quinet

What we share with another ceases to be our own....

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

John Rawls

The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

John Templeton

Share prices fluctuate more than share values.

Carol Foreman

We're not going to get everything we want and the track will not get everything it wants. There's going to be compromise.

Alan Alda

How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?

Buddy Rice

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

Bryan Ferry

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

Carl Lewis

I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

Carl Jung

But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

Bill Kurtis

You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.

Ed Begley, Jr.

I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

Ed Droste

It is definitely much easier to feel that an album is disposable - to dismiss an album or delete the tracks you don't like or to just throw it into shuffle or whatever.