Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I don't have the energy for that, and so I... Agnostic separates me from the conduct of atheists whether or not there is strong overlap between the two categories, and at the end of the day I'd rather not be any category at all.

Antonio Banderas

I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

Brad Pitt

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

Janet Suzman

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

Bill Maher

If Jesus was a Jew, why did he have a Spanish name?

Carl Sagan

My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic.

Edward Witten

Im actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.

Kurt Eichenwald

I am an Obamacare agnostic - if it works, as I hope it will for the good of the nation, then it's a great thing. If it doesn't, then that is a disappointing thing, and we need to try something else.

Michelle Bachelet

I am a woman, a socialist, separated and agnostic - all the sins together.

Bob Collins

We've asked all our section pros to put their program up on the Web site and I'm really, really excited the way they're starting to get involved. We're trying to create some awareness in the area and to get people to play. People always want to know, where do I go for a class? Where do I go if my kids want to learn? You can find it in there.

Randy Honebrink

We've always tried to reduce the number of people getting bit by sharks through education and awareness. We try to get our safety tips out through our Web site and in publications.

Grant Woods

When I was a boy, we all learned the story of George Washington and the cherry tree and accepted it as gospel truth. The present, more enlightened younger generation, however, is well aware that this incident never happened, but that it was the invention of Washington's most famous biographer, the Rev. Mason Locke Weems.

Tyrone Marshall

We're more aware of each other now. Guys are looking out for each other. We're doing more things together. That definitely relieves some of the stress and heartache that we've been having over the past couple of weeks. Being able to come out here and play soccer is a step in the right direction. Doug is still in our minds and our hearts.

Mark Kruea

We're making sure that everyone is aware and that the beach patrols and lifeguards are keeping an eye on the swimmers and that everybody knows about the riptide possibility.

Fred Lane

What we're looking for is someone with a combination of fiscal awareness and educational vision. We're looking for someone who, first and foremost, is going to be a good manager for what is essentially a $50 million business that is providing for the education of an entire generation.

Kurt Opsahl

What they have done so far is a start, but it does not resolve all issues. Sony has fixed the immediate security flaw but there are other flaws. It is critical for Sony to do a robust notice campaign to make people aware of this.

Patrick Sharp

Whenever someone goes down, somebody needs to step up. I'm aware things will change a hundred times between now and the regular season. I'm going to continue to work hard and wherever they decide to play me is fine by me.

James Redfield

When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices - what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds.

John Mulkey

We remain fans of the local Las Vegas gaming market, which we believe is the best risk-adjusted market in gaming today, and we can't fault the company for deploying capital in these markets.

Mike Ryan

We're so dependent on foreign capital that, if you could see any weakness in the dollar it could come on Friday with the trade numbers. If we see a sharply above consensus reading for trade, there could be some concern about the sustainability of that trade gap and that could certainly weigh on the dollar.

Ludwig Mises

When we call a capitalist society a consumers' democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers' ballot, held daily in the marketplace.

Debbie Dillman

When we have that many birdie opportunities we really have to make the most of them. That's kind of been our focus finishing out the fall, and obviously for the spring, is that when you have an opportunity, capitalize on it.

Scott Parker

When we got a good offense going, we would lose it on defense. We couldn't capitalize when we would get a steal and run it down the floor. We're a Jekyll-and-Hyde team.

Richard Meyer

We believe this will enhance ATA's ability to attract the capital necessary to reorganize. By making these sacrifices, our cockpit crew members will help to secure a better future for themselves and their fellow employees.

Jack Cassidy

We believe this property has the potential to achieve significant revenue growth through addressing deferred-maintenance issues, adding selective capital improvements and improving property-management operations.

Bill Dudley

What's really happened is technology has basically favored capital markets over depository institutions because it has reduced the cost of making transactions.

Richard Harris

What's interesting here is that you can see how the cost of operations continues to rise and debt obligations continue to rise, while capital improvements have gone down. Money has just not been available for those types of services.

Alan Foreman

We're starting to find that investors in particular are measuring their risks carefully and are not afraid to put their money to work at this time.

Frank Cappiello

We're getting there now. People are putting money in bonds increasingly and not buying back technology stocks. This investor sentiment is getting nice and bad, and that's what we need to turn the market around.

Kenneth Fisher

What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.

Kenneth Fisher

Investors covet past improvements but also always believe pricing unimaginable future creativity and efficiency gains is Pollyannaish. And they're always wrong. Bet on it.

Kenneth Fisher

Hundreds of investors ask me questions each year about the dilemmas they confront. Their worst problem? Uncertainty. They are traumatized and become emotional or confused to the state of inaction. Even worse, they try to solve a short-term problem in a way that hurts them financially in the long run.

Scotty George

What we're seeing today and what we have been seeing for the last week is a drying up of sentiment as investors wait for some definitive resolution of world events and some new corporate catalysts.

Peter Cardillo

What we're seeing here is investors becoming increasingly nervous, awaiting the economic data tomorrow (Thursday). Profit warnings and future growth (concerns) are overshadowing the enthusiasm that we saw develop late yesterday -- it's a feeding process.

Brad McGee

What we're hoping is that what we're providing investors now is a little bit of certainty.

Dan Veru

We bought some shares recently in a dot.com company that was absolutely annihilated after this recent rout, About.com ( BOUT : Research , Estimates ), which is the ninth-largest Web property of all Web properties. The stock dropped from 100 in late March, to a low of $21. This is a company with a real business model that had blowout first-quarter earnings. And they are actually going to turn a profit in 2001. Investors went from 'everything Internet is good', to the 'everything Internet is bad' mantra. So now you've got to do your homework and look at individual names and identify the business models that are valid. And I think this is one that can go back to its old high.

Dennis Jones

When I was in high school, we would load up out-of-state hunters in a 1955 International pickup truck and tell them to hang on. We would bring them back after the hunt, dustier than heck and they would give us some cash.

Robert Greenblatt

When we have this much equity in a show, and the audience responds as rabidly as they did this year, it's a big success for us. This is and will remain one of our signature shows. A pickup was a no-brainer.

Andy Bryant

We're just not seeing the demand pickup we'd like to see, and we hit a wall on some of the cost savings we were driving for.

George Pipas

The person who buys a Focus is more likely to stay with us to move into a mid-size car or SUV or pickup trucks,

James Carrick

We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.

Elliot Perlman

I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the rock wallaby. If you're going to interpret your life pursuant to an utterly irrational dogma, why can't it have a cute mascot? Rock wallabies really are fabulous animals, and in any remotely just world, they would have their own star sign.

Gregg Klayman

On Monday, your lineup is set in stone. You can make a pickup any day, but it won't show up in your lineup until the following Monday.

Tom Oswald

I was so excited, so worried, I lost the keys to my car, and my collector's car was in the garage, so I had to pick Joy up in my pickup truck. I found my car keys a week later; they were in the bottom of a planter in my yard. I had left them there while I was weeding.

Robert Parkes

Global interest rates are having an effect. ... We've seen a pickup in interest-rate expectations in the U.S., and I think that's leading to concerns about the growth outlook, which is hitting the more cyclical sectors.

Dan Beck

We've always had an aggressive e-commerce strategy. Since our first Web site in 1994, we realized a Web site was more than just a corporate brochure. It had to be an advanced business tool providing everything companies need to design, print and manage their documents online.

Amy Fisher

When I was a child, I played in trees a lot, ... I'm very attached to trees and trees being kind of strong and providing a source of comfort and cleaning the air and being homes for animals.

Robert G. Allen

We're mainly providing a place to sleep, shower and use restrooms.

Wendell Brown

We're going to ship them to a Nazarene church in Mobile, Alabama. There are several evacuees heading to Mobile, and we're providing some support when they get there.

Mike Anderson

We're going to first focus on providing the fastest execution with the most functional site we can offer. That will include news, the ability to get real-time quotes and solid price chart histories on equities and mutual funds,

Fred Lane

What we're looking for is someone with a combination of fiscal awareness and educational vision. We're looking for someone who, first and foremost, is going to be a good manager for what is essentially a $50 million business that is providing for the education of an entire generation.

Brad McGee

What we're hoping is that what we're providing investors now is a little bit of certainty.

Nathaniel Brown

When we do a content deal we have a rough idea of how many new subscribers it might attract. But mostly we?re committed to providing subscribers and potential subscribers with the kind of program they can?t find anywhere else, and Bob Dylan?s new show is a perfect example of that.

Antonio Villaraigosa

What a great actor and what a committed human being, ... For years, he's used his fame for the purpose of developing new talent and providing positive role models for Latinos.

Dan Glickman

When we certify organic, we are certifying not just a product, but the farming and handling practices that yield that product,

Lara Rhame

U.S. treasury yields are rising and we've seen that support the dollar across the board. The dollar remains strong on the back of solid U.S. economic data and expectations that the 10-year yield is going to continue to go higher.

Terry Trippler

Using yield management, you don't have to raise fares to raise revenues, you just make people buy the more expensive fare class. Now we'd have a better chance of playing with the gold bars at Fort Knox than finding out if or how Delta is doing this. ... It's hard in this case to say whether Delta is doing this or raising fares outright.

Douglas Shapiro

We regard the shares as inexpensive and believe that just placing a market multiple on its free-cash-flow a few years out yields substantial upside in the stock.

Alan Greenspan

The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses...While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the "old," pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

Chanakya

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons.

Charlaine Harris

Sookie," Eric said. I didn't think he'd heard a word. "Yield to me." Well, that was pretty direct.