David Brown Quotations

We still think that the bigger 50 basis points move is the odds on favorite judging by the current strength of the euro,

When we went into foster care this last time we talked to our children about our desire to adopt and they were all excited about the possibility.

We're doing great. We're ready, we've got 100-percent deployment ready to go at about 9 a.m. tomorrow morning.

We have no plans to make any significant changes. ... The mill won't close. We understand the importance of the company to the Longview community. We would expect a significant portion of management would stay in place.

We didn't want to go public, we wanted to sit down with the company and talk to them about the price we're offering to the shareholders.

We didn't throw strikes. If you take out the walks and the hit batters you take about 10 runs off the board.

What we assumed was it broke up because it sank. Now we know it sank because it broke up.

Most teams have run away from him this year. They definitely change their protection and he's always accounted for. That's a smart thing to do with a guy like him out there.

One of our strengths is the ability to structure products that are suitable for different types of regulatory environments.

One water-filled bucket in someone's back yard can literally produce over 1,000 mosquitoes a week.

No parent wants to miss bonding with their child and watching their child grow. You want to be available for your kid during critical life issues and special events.

Never be the first to arrive at a party or the last to go home and never, never be both

Nobody has any ideas about the cause of the difference. It needs to be an important research priority for the future.

Perhaps this is the first step on a long road.

If we keep playing like we did tonight, we have a chance to get to Austin ... maybe.

I have come to realize that adopted children are loved just as much as a natural child and that makes me glad since I have been adopted into God's family.

I had said before that I would only be in favor of this if the money would be used for economic development, ... Downtown improvements are a big factor here. A lot of people move here because of what they see downtown. We can't afford to rest on our laurels.

I didn't have a chance to hang around and contribute in the game.

I can tell you there was a local fire marshal who was out there on the ground on the scene on Wednesday afternoon.

If anecdotal sector estimates about a very poor Christmas shopping season prove correct, the Bank of England will have to pull the stops out again for lower rates.

If we played the entire season like we did the second half, we could have competed and maybe gone further.

He does everything right, and then when it gets down to the final move, he doesn't quite get there. But I think that will change the more he learns to be a post player.

The people who are going to be surprised are the entrepreneurs.

Good design is a form of respect - on the part of the producer for the person who will eventually spend hard-earned cash on the product, use the product, own the product.

The painting was only outside France once, in 1955, when it was in a Giorgione exhibition in Venice.

There is a multiplicity of reasons why the ECB has eased again and by so much. Critically the euro zone fundamentals have been crying out for lower rates for quite some time, with growth momentum slowing in the EMU area, Germany close to a double dip recession and inflation set to slow dramatically next year.

There is a multiplicity of reasons why the ECB has eased again and by so much, ... Critically the euro zone fundamentals have been crying out for lower rates for quite some time, with growth momentum slowing in the EMU area, Germany close to a double dip recession and inflation set to slow dramatically next year.

I agreed with (the steep-angle theory) until I ran into Roger Long, who turned my head around on a number of things.

I was interested in the subject largely because it is a great saga with a great cast, many cinematic elements and a strong sense of urgency for public safety. It involves elements of farce, tragedy and comedy, with many wild twists and turns.

It can be a large burden for a child to have to undertake a caretaker role that would be expected for someone more in adulthood. You might, in some ways, end up having (the child) sacrifice their opportunity to be a child.

I think the boys ran pretty well, ... Most of them are at their best time or better. Kyle Terwillegar was able to medal and he also had a personal best. We?re expecting big things (from him).

Lake is a good ball club. They just weren't at their best tonight.

I think a reasonable dose is 81 milligrams a day, the amount in one baby aspirin.

It is not just economic spring returning to the German recovery, it looks like full blown summer has arrived for German business confidence.

Jeff joined the board at a pivotal point in our company. Through his leadership and valued advice, Jeff made a significant contribution to Website Pros.

Over the next few days the euro zone markets will be watching the German opinion polls very carefully in the run-up to Sunday's general election -- especially at the growing risk of a hung result and a grand coalition being formed,

Our players did a good job in bouncing back from those losses. We settled in and it became a well-played game. We had good at-bats with runners in scoring positions.

Our patients will be able to get access to very advanced, cutting-edge therapies not typically offered by a hospital of our size. This is huge.

Right now the emphasis seems to be on asset price deflation. The key questions concern just how far these markets can correct and whether there will be a domino effect as other markets are affected.

Looking ahead, this swift regulatory response, an increasing number of private equity deals and a continued surge in outbound investment bode well for future M&A activity in, and by, Chinese companies.

Markets are starting to wind down for the long holiday weekend.

It doesn't seem to be as crowded as we expected it to be.

It doesn't matter what color the mayor is as long as they do something about unemployment. People are hungry out here. Crime is also a huge issue in my neighborhood. People need help and love. Once we have that, we won't have as many problems.

The advert went along the lines of rather than the promotion company spending $20,000 on advertising computer magazines, they were selling massively reduced original program copies at a fraction of the price you would normally pay. I thought the advert was pretty genuine at the time. I suppose all the other losers thought the same too, eh?

We continue to like the Houston market and are actively seeking new development and acquisition opportunities.

We realized we needed to have a group that could focus on these areas and go after clients more aggressively.

We're dealing with pretty difficult economic times and people aren't being as picky about the jobs they choose. They can't be.

We really want to get public involvement in helping us reduce mosquito populations in and around the area.

We don't have a budget problem at this point. We've spent about half of our budget. We budgeted $3-million, and we spent about $1.7-million so far.

We had filled our tanks up before and we intended to come to the beach anyway so it was planned for and we didn't want to disappoint the kids.

We have a lot of juniors and sophomores. We're just going to work hard in practice, because when you do that good things happen.

You are kidding. Russ and I were good friends. I was sorry to learn that he passed away.

We believe the hawkish hints coming from the ECB and the potential time constraints posed by the prospect of softer fundamentals further ahead mean the race is on to get rates up as soon as possible.

We'll put our best defensive player on Mattox, but they probably have an advantage there. I think we're even or better at every other position.

You know, it's been funny, because as my career moved from one thing to the next, I've always thought, 'Wow, this was the greatest thing ever,' ... It's just been from one great, very cool thing to the next.

We get a few drug charges, here every once in a while. But this is a major one.

The only real debate for UK rates now is timing and whether the MPC will pre-empt market expectations for a February cut with an earlier move.

We'll have a walk-through practice on Saturday morning if we win. We would have to focus, because anything can happen at a regional tournament.

Unfortunately they have made their bed for a move in June and will have to lie with it now. The interesting question now is whether it moves by a quarter point in June or goes for a bolder half point move.

Those who don't believe in you won't change their minds when you succeed

We're not thinking of it in terms of a show; we're thinking of it as a project that will include several different aspects. The idea is to take the style and format and attention to substance that public radio journalism brings to coverage of daily news events and apply it specifically to Texas music, and do it in a more consistent, focused way than it's been done before.

We are planning to go. I hope we don't have to.

The rate of infected mosquitoes is not as high as it was in Sacramento, but we know that can change quickly,

We have been and continue to be ready and willing to provide information about our proposal and are hopeful that Longview will pursue discussions in good faith.

There is a bit of disarray. No one is really sure what is going on, or what will happen next.

We're not planning on doing any ground treatments, at least this week.

When you have a day like this, this is the place to be ... the perfect weather for a beach day ... a nice holiday.

What leads the U.K. economy out of weak growth is generally the consumer, and the consumer is not in that fit state to pump the economy to 2.5% or 3% growth.

We are encouraged by Longview's decision to postpone its proposed offerings.

Unemployment is on the upward march and that is hitting consumer optimism dramatically. In terms of the expected recovery in 2003 it will cause problems.

We've been better every week, but we have to come back out and work hard in practice and see what we can do.

We wanted to be involved as aggressively as we could in smart devices. As the proliferation of smart phones came out and the recognition that the early uptake of those products would probably be in the business community, it seemed like a natural operation for us.

We've had some good days. We're on track to have a successful week.

There appears to be a gender-based difference in the beneficial effect of aspirin.

There is still a battle royal going on between the hawks and the doves over easing.

With him practicing all of last year and not playing in games, he really got the system down. And that's helped him tremendously.

What we are seeing now is a much more flexible regime that is likely to appeal to a much wider range of companies.

We were playing hard. They just had a little more speed than we did.

We went into foster care knowing that if God brought someone to us to adopt that we would.

We went in thinking they weren't good shooters, but they proved us wrong. Once it got out of number 3's (Sneed's) hands, we wanted to make sure it stayed out of her hands.

The principal was the only one who had a car, and he would take my grandmother and the other girls to El Paso to shop or see a picture.

We continue to utilize wholesale funding sources, among other strategies, to protect net interest income from interest rate movements.

We think that the real winner in this space is going to be able to offer a complete solution. It's not just the device. We're not just activated on a carrier network. It's really a combination of products and services along with product support and technical support.

We think that relative softness in the euro zone recovery next year combined with inflation falling below two percent, will leave the ECB stuck on 2.5 percent rates for a considerable period.

Boomers have a different view of aging. They're jumping out of airplanes, running marathons and not giving up on rock and roll.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

An ECB rate hike in December would be a classic case of bad timing,

Everything went fine. It took longer than I like, but I'm slow and meticulous because I like to get things done right.

The wording underlines that the Fed is obviously worried about a sharper economic slowdown than the market had anticipated. I think we're on track for three one-quarter-point cuts from the Fed in the first half of next year.

The victim reported it, but we didn't have an (Internet protocol) address to track it back.

These are the sort of numbers that should give extra leverage to the ECB (European Central Bank) to keep pressing rates higher, but we still believe the benign inflation picture will force them to adopt a softly, softly approach to tightening this year.

These results had been hinted at. What we were surprised at was how strong the signal was for benefit in both sexes, but also how strong the differences were.

The specific types of benefits differ in important ways in women, by reducing the risk of ischemic stroke, and in men, by reducing the risk of heart attack.

The specific types of benefits differ in important ways & in women, by reducing the risk of ischemic stroke, and in men, by reducing the risk of heart attack.

I've lived in Zephyrhills all my life. I went to school with people from Crystal Springs. Is a paved road needed? It would be nice.

Some time late Thursday, we flew over the area in a helicopter using GPS and mapped it at 504 acres. It's still contained at 504 acres.

Sacks are one of those great stats. But you also have to look outside those numbers. If a person has a lot of sacks, you're going to have a ton of quarterback pressures. That changes their offensive line. It changes schemes. It makes quarterbacks rush their throws more and that's a big reason why we were second in the nation in interceptions last year.

(PPI)... should show more benign signs this month reflecting softer energy costs. However, it will not mean the Fed takes its eye off the ball in its campaign against inflation risks.

Our deal puts Scotland and therefore Britain at the heart of the global microelectronics industry.

Normally, March and April are the worst months for forest fires in these parts of the state. That's when we start getting warmer temperatures, more days with low humidity and high winds.