Quarter Quotes

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.

The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.

Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that's a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011.

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

This majority is working for America, and one of those ways is we have tremendously low unemployment. This economy has created millions of new jobs, and we are expecting growth this first quarter of somewhere higher than 4 percent.

There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.

A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.

This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.

There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second.

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.

We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.

It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter.

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

You should pull him back besides in all the lines before the quarter, just as you make the others advance.

As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter.