Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Palm

The poll margin is enormous. Virginia Tech would have to be two spots ahead of Texas in the computers to get close. They need to hope those poll margins erode.

Peter Power

The political question that needs to be answered is: is it better to go ahead with the meeting if you are unsure of the result or postpone for a couple of weeks and have a greater chance of a result.

Scott Brockman

(The pilot) contacted the tower, did a fly-by in which (air traffic controllers) inspected the gear, found the other landing gear was intact and made the decision at that point to go ahead and land the aircraft.

Dan Ahrens

The overall industry is a boom industry. It has demographics and favorable growth prospects on its side, ... Valuations may get ahead of themselves sometimes but that's only a concern for the short term.

Tom Schrader

The payroll data Friday is going to be the big swing factor. Ahead of that, I would expect that we could drift a little higher, but nothing too substantial.

Nick Woodman

My first business was a retro-gaming site where you'd go and play all these cool old-school games. It was a good idea but ahead of its time.

Nino Fennoy

We progressed. We've just got to keep doing what we're doing. We're never ahead of schedule. There's always things we can do better.

John Lilly

We probably are a little bit ahead of where we usually are at this time.

John Coleman

We previously expected trading during the first half of 2006 to be difficult. We are pleased that the first seven weeks have been ahead of our original expectations.

Vivek Wadhwa

Big companies such as Google and Facebook buy startups at ridiculously high prices - not for their products, but for their people.

Virginia Postrel

As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in use, when times get tight, they put off new purchases. What seem like small cutbacks to the end buyer translate into big swings for the producer.

Vivienne Westwood

I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well - it's good for the environment and to be fair it's also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just through the things that I buy and how I live my life, and these are not things that ever deserved to die.

will.i.am

I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'

Emma Roberts

I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.

Gary Meyer

The only reason we are talking about this (wheel tax) is to get a vote (for the EMS budget), and I have a real problem with that. The feeling I'm getting here tonight is that I'm buying (Williams') vote so that he'll get the Capital Improvement Plan in gear for 2005.

Phil Boyer

The pilots of tomorrow are the plane buyers of tomorrow.

Stephen Baker

The PC is much more of a mature product than it's ever been before, so it's much subject to the vagaries of the overall economy, ... When the economy slows and people retrench, they don't buy durable goods, and the PC is a big durable now.

Brittany Snow

I wish I was 100 percent confident in my own skin. It's always a process, but getting older, I've become more confident.

Natalie Imbruglia

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

Nayvadius Cash

'I Won' is not a love song. It's just me uplifting women in general. I'm giving women the power to treat themselves as a trophy - to show that and know it in yourself and be confident - because when they do that, whoever they're with is winning.

Omid Namazi

We played well, but I thought what killed us was our finishing touch. We just have got to get better at finishing our chances. We are still confident and we think we can get it done at home.

Tom Barrett

I'm very confident that not only will the other candidates who ran for this office support me but all of their supporters will as well. So yes, I'm very confident that I will get their support.

Vera Wang

If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.

Errol Alcott

We'd like more time of course but we're confident he's responding to treatment and he'll have more treatment today. We'd like to make a decision today but may wait until tomorrow.

Steve Brown

We disagree with the decision and we are confident that the patent is enforceable.

Rob Glaser

We are not immune to the current market environment for Internet-related spending, and we've made adjustments to our near-term growth expectations. At the same time, we remain highly confident in our fundamentals, leadership position, and long-term prospects.

Virginia Postrel

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.

Constance Wu

Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians.

Dave Ramsey

While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon.

Bonnie Tyler

My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house, playing records also.

Victoria Osteen

We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.

Vera Wang

That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.

Ansel Elgort

I want to encourage people. One of the things I do encourage people is that - that Internet is a place where we should share our ideas and be positive, not negative.

Tess Gerritsen

My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.

Rachel Friedman

Where has the peace movement gone? Here it is. You see that people are standing up and they want to make their voices heard and get encouraged by us and join us.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

Pat Craig

The police like that it's in the afternoon. They think less people will be drunk.

Phillip Neuhart

The picture is getting less and less pretty.

Winona LaDuke

Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.

Joyce Cary

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Brian Koslow

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.

Eric Fellner

I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working.

Edward Fitzgerald

Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less

Sigourney Weaver

I'd love to tell actors about all the things they don't need to worry about. Less is more. If you have it inside, you don't need to show too much. People pick up on things.

Melissa Gregory

We still have the ticket he never used.

Hugo Burge

Those are important in making ticket decisions. The better you do them, the more tickets you will sell.

Edwin Louis Cole

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

Ben Affleck

I'm in the worst place you can be. I sell magazines and not movie tickets.

Laurence Sterne

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

John Perry Barlow

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

Johnny Carson

That would have been a great ticket, Reagan and Ford - an actor and a stuntman.

Maya Angelou

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

Esai Morales

Well, actually yes, in 1988. There was a warrant for me because my assistant hadn't paid a ticket of mine.

Vic Tayback

Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

Lauren German

I'm very klutzy. I've fallen off horses, I've tripped with my high-heeled boots over a stunt guy.

Caron Butler

Yeah, it was ugly, but we won. We'll take it, especially after the trip we just had.

Lee Powell

The trip to Washington D.C. was very successful,

Evelyn Thompson

This has been such an adventure. It's been the trip of a lifetime.

Tim Adams

Our findings on this trip will be an important input,

Gary Fuller

To take that $187 million, more than triple our five-year average, is very significant,

Pat Quinn

Clearly, I've had a wonderful trip in this business,

Paddy Ashdown

It is my worst experience, my worst trip to the Balkans,