Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Hanretty

unless the president of the United States is coming to town to hand over federal money to the governor to help us solve our problems, I don't see why the governor would allow himself to be distracted with the president's fundraising trip.

Michael Hirschorn

We're most impressionable when we're 12 to 24 years old, so that what we wore, what we watched, what we listened to has greater import at the time, when you had yet to be distracted by things like jobs and families.

Jose Theodore

When you start you lose your focus, you don't play as well. You can't get distracted by good publicity or bad. You have to make sure you do your job and that's what he's been doing.

Boz Scaggs

I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.

James Vincent McMorrow

I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

Kristin Gore

It's all discipline and schedule for me. I mean, it's very easy to get distracted by the real world and things that intrude constantly, and it takes dedication to live totally in your head and be tuned out.

John Updike

For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot.

Rebecca Ferguson

Women's bodies are amazing; what our bodies can do is incredible, so it's sad that we get distracted - all this stuff about being skinny, be this, be that - they're all distractions.

Roy Smith

When firms are going through distractions, those who aren't so distracted may have an advantage in the two or three deals that make a difference in the standings.

Bill Brooks

We've always tried to enforce the law that no one from a foreign country can cross except at an official crossing. We've had to be a lot more strict since 9/11.

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.

Don Wilson

What we're seeing is the foreign market backing off.

John Shaughnessy

What we're seeing happening is the best of all worlds. The economy is strong yet inflation remains quiescent. The earnings outlook remains reasonably good. Given those things, the money continues to flow into the market from both domestic and foreign sources.

Wang Zhaowen

When we announced agreements with foreign strategic investors, it was made clear that these are subject to regulatory approval. Currently, the approval process is proceeding normally.

Jim Cooper

When we don't save, we can't even lend money to our government. Today, more than 40% of our huge national debt is owned by foreign countries.

David Steele

What he called for was 'an ethical dimension to foreign policy'.

Ben Bernanke

We benefit from foreign direct investment. Many Americans are employed by foreign companies with plants in the United States, for example in the automobile industry. So, trade is a two way street. I think, it is important to protect Americans who lose their jobs, or whose jobs come under pressure from international trade. But, I think, we need to be careful not to embrace economic isolationism.

Rick Lynch

We believe we are experiencing great success against the most crucial element of the insurgency, which is the terrorists and the foreign fighters,

Rick Williams

We're making a great impact here (Wyandotte County),

Bruce Wood

We remain confident that our continued strategic focus on profitable branded growth will positively impact fiscal 2007 and beyond.

Matthew Fassler

We remain concerned with the company's longer-term positioning, given its choppy sales showing despite significant store-level investment, and its poor return on capital. The majority of its remodeled stores should have yielded their most significant same-store sales impact in 2002, and we see few tangible growth drivers ahead.

Paul Wall

were so far away they had no idea of the impact we were making. They saw the music as local music that would never break out.

Lara Rhame

We're getting to a phase where European data could have more of an impact because a solid U.S. economic scenario is so widely expected. The markets are also very thin, so traders aren't taking on large amounts of risk.

John Davidson

What they say may have an impact tomorrow, but the dominant topic on investors' minds right now starts with an 'I' and it's not Intel. Both businesses and consumers are hesitant to make any moves until there's progress on Iraq.

Dan Doherty

When we heard the news yesterday, everyone was just devastated. He made a huge impact at Pearl River in a short time 5 1/2 years.

Karol Rzepkowski

When we grow this fish, there is no adverse impact on the environment.

Paul Hewitt

... When we get youth involved I would hope we have an impact on our school-age people. Whether we're in the schools or outside of (them), as long they (know) the risks of risky drinking I think our goals are being met.

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.

Toni Simonetti

We've always said we have a number of strategic alternatives that we're looking at...We continue to do that.

Jamie Dixon

We've always played three guards in certain instances over the years. A number of programs do that. Oftentimes, your smaller players are your better players. Last year, our bigger guys were our better players.

Marty Schottenheimer

When I was playing, it was 10 or 12 plays that determined the outcome of a game. Now, because of the balance of talent in the league, it's come down to three or four plays a game. All you're looking for is to be in a position where you have a chance to win at the end. We haven't been able to do that, in a number of cases but we just keep chipping at it, trying to find a way to turn that corner.

Sam Claflin

When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my first ever show was 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' Everyone's familiar with it. I played priest number 3 and sang so out of tune that it's not even funny.

Tom Daschle

When I was accused of being an obstructionist, there was a corresponding, a very significant increase in the number of issues that my family and I had to deal with. And I worry about that,

John Pickett

Tomorrow we've got a big labor number coming out and that may give someone a reason to get back in the market or to continue to get out.

Gary DiCamillo

We remain on plan to begin rolling out a number of new products, including our instant single-use camera in the second half of 1998. We are confident that 1999 will be one of the company's strongest in recent years.

Paul Johnston

We're so thin on numbers that when you look on the sidelines to put in somebody else, you just don't have it. We're going to try to keep working on it and try to get better.

Nicholas Burns

What has changed in the 1990s is a changed perception of the world,

Ryohei Muramatsu

Unless the market can get a firm perception that the US Fed is ending its interest rate hike cycle, the ongoing weakness of the yen may not come to an end.

Sandra Miller

Unfortunately in tourism, perception is reality. Because if a tourist or visitor perceives it unsafe they are not going to come. So we've got to deal with both. I think the reality is we have a crime problem and we have to deal with it.

Alan Hansen

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

Alan Bishop

In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.

Alan Autry

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

Al Ries

A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity. It creates in the mind of the prospect the perception that there is no product on the market quite like your product.

Al Pacino

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Perception of ideas, rather than the storing of them, should be the aim of education.

Lisa Gansky

The mobile Web, location-based services, inexpensive and pervasive mobile apps, and new sorts of opportunities to access cars, bikes, tools, talent, and more from our neighbors and colleagues will propel peer-to-peer access services into market.

Nick Woodman

A really important thing when you come up with a concept is that you solve a pervasive problem for people, and you don't try to create a new way to do something that isn't necessarily broken.

Niki Tsongas

Constant and pervasive danger makes agile movement a high priority for all soldiers, whether they are assigned directly to combat or not.

Elizabeth Hand

I read '1984' at a precocious age, like 8, and when I did the math, I realized that Julia, Winston Smith's lover, was born the same year I was, 1957. I read that book over and over again with the 1960s as a backdrop: anti-war and anti-bomb protests and this general pervasive sense of doom.

Elizabeth Thornton

The truth is many of us have been socialized to think that if we are not the very best, if we are not at the top 1 percent of whatever it is we do, then we are not good enough. To reinforce this already pervasive mental model, society has established a competitive hierarchy for just about everything.

Jillian Michaels

Lazy doesn't exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can't get up off their butt is just a person who's depressed. It's usually a pervasive lack of self-worth, or a feeling of helplessness.

Drew Matus

If we get more inflationary data, that could bring people back to their senses. Just because the Fed talks about inflation in a benign way one meeting doesn't mean that feeling will be pervasive at the next meeting.

Al Gore

What we do know about that pervasive wiretapping virtually compels the conclusion that the president of the United States of America has been breaking the law repeatedly and consistently.

Robert Crumb

When I go back to America, after a few days I am once again filled with this kind of angry alienation and disgust with this thing there that America has got - you have no idea how pervasive it is there. The public relations and propaganda put out by the corporate mono-culture there is so pervasive.

Mark Fredrickson

We've always had a policy of qualifying and buying the very best technology that we can put in our systems. We intend to continue to buy disk drives from IBM, contingent on their ability to meet our standards.

Linda Lightfoot

When we were dealing with the paper world and you were allowed to see the file, you could view the ideas that went into policy development. E-mail is very easy to be lost, and it is a lot more difficult to follow.

David Kendall

We respectfully object to the committee's broad request for all information concerning all persons who have contributed or pledged more than $5,000 to the foundation. There are serious and substantial legal, precedential and public policy issues raised by this catch-all request.

Richard Costigan

We're somewhat disappointed. We've been working with the Legislature all year on a great policy bill. ... We really worked up until the 11th hour.

Dan McLagan

We're going to see all kind of things going around as people more intent on playing politics than making policy enter the fray.

Marc Levesque

What we're seeing in terms of currency movements - and it will probably continue at least over the near-term - is a shift in global monetary policy expectations. There's a gearing-down of expectations for Fed tightening, coupled with increased tightening expectations elsewhere.

Mayor Mazzarella

We would try to block the auction if they try to sell the license. It's city policy that we do that. The license is for the business that you give it to.

Bill Reinsch

We would probably say it's a mistake. You get kind of short-term satisfaction on the part of the university, but in the long run, you mostly hurt poor people. ... Basically, there's a negative economic impact on the poorest people, and it doesn't affect government policy or the people running the government.

Craig Holman

What he's doing here is frankly astonishing. This kind of coordination is obviously an attempt to get around legal contribution limits. The bottom line is that public policy is being made not by principle, but by payment up front.

Joe Franco

When I was a freshman, I became great friends with the Student Body President at the time, Brian Bradley. We would often talk about what this university needed and how we could make it a better place. He inspired me to some day be in his position ... so I did.

Harry Reid

We're spending a lot of money in the Gulf, ... We have to do that, but is there anyone in the world that can justify $70 billion in tax cuts? I don't think so. So before I talk about offsets, let the president focus on that.

John Marshall

We're going to talk to the voters about the issues Colorado cares about. We don't begrudge him bringing in Eastern Bloc friends, but I suspect that the cowboys down at the coffeehouse in Delta are more interested what the candidates have to say about water and health care than whether or not the president of Poland is backing you.

Bill Richardson

We're going to talk about positive issues. We're not going to be bashing the president at every turn, ... Fox News Sunday.

Kendrick Meek

Americans simply ask for, not just Democrats in the House but also the Senate has asked the President for a clear plan as it relates to dealing with the issue of Iraq and our troops and making sure that we can bring families together in the very near future.

Maureen Shea

When we began this year, no one would have guessed that the vice president would be needed to break a tie on the budget. Our advocacy made a difference.

David Jones

When we finally decide on who our president is, and on the day when we realize the economy is so weak that that new president must cut taxes, and he can't do it because of a divided congress and all the animosity that comes out of this agonizingly long presidential election, the dollar's going to be in trouble.

Tom Harkin

When we debate the impeachment of the president of the United States, this is something that affects every citizen of this country, and I believe they have a right again to witness that debate and to witness how and why we reach those decisions.

Hugo Chavez

What a great truth and how good it is that in Mar del Plata President Kirchner has come to say it to millions: the Washington consensus is broken; we are looking for a new model,