The average person usually can't distinguish between them.
BARBARA ROPER The for-profit environment adds to the pressures and potential conflicts of interests,
BARBARA ROPER Ultimately you can't get around the fact that forty percent of states are not inspecting advisors at...
BARBARA ROPER The SEC doesn't have the resources to do its job. In 1980 the SEC reviewed all corporate financial s...
BARBARA ROPER If you look at the infraction records, oftentimes it's the same firms that are getting caught, a sig...
BARBARA ROPER The titles they use mean absolutely nothing. We have a marketplace for financial advice in which pro...
BARBARA ROPER Who in their right mind decides we're going to lighten up on record retention policies for the new, ...
BARBARA ROPER You need to get this stuff out in the open, make sure that people understand what they are paying fo...
BARBARA ROPER The proper approach is to have a long-term strategy that has a balance of different types of investm...
BARBARA ROPER The research is that the more you fiddle with your portfolio the worse you do. Investors rarely bene...
BARBARA ROPER There's no question there has been enormous pressure from the Bush administration to think small. Th...
BARBARA ROPER If I had to make a choice between no advice and biased advice, I'd choose biased advice because I th...
BARBARA ROPER It's unfortunate, to say the least, that one of the best-run mutual fund companies in the country is...
BARBARA ROPER There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, f...
ELMO ROPER Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitel...
GAYLE ROPER Remember that there's a time to hate and a time to heal.
GAYLE ROPER In many ways we were what Billy and Ruth Graham called 'happily incompatible'.
GAYLE ROPER Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and...
MATT ROPER It was the front porch approach. For most of the songs, we were all playing all the time, as opposed...
BRUCE ROPER It's hard to capture what we do live on any CD. In concerts, we play it off the cuff as much as we c...
BRUCE ROPER We've tried a lot of different things, but with this last CD, we wanted to get back to that front po...
BRUCE ROPER (Turbo-charged folk) comes from the energy that we create. Unfortunately, folk music can be boring. ...
BRUCE ROPER Silliness, pure silliness. There was Roy Rogers' Sons of the Pioneers, there was the Sons of the San...
BRUCE ROPER Dan's a very caring kid. He leads vocally and also by example. He is our anchor.
BRIAN ROPER We expected Ferndale to play tough and they did. We're glad to have escaped with a win.
BRIAN ROPER This was a close the whole game. The Blaine kids really scrapped and hustled.
BRIAN ROPER Sometimes you've just got to find ways to win.
BRIAN ROPER Dan took the second-most shots on the team last year and I asked him to change his role. He has rode...
BRIAN ROPER I respect coaches who use a different strategy. Scott thought that was the best way to beat us and t...
BRIAN ROPER I thought we played unselfishly and shared the ball. Defensively, we did a nice job of contesting sh...
BRIAN ROPER Defensively, we were as solid as we've been all year.
BRIAN ROPER We were too rushed in the first half and in the third we calmed down. We executed better.
BRIAN ROPER I wanted the ball to be in Brady's hands; he's our best playmaker.
BRIAN ROPER This is still a rescue incident, ... We have not given up hope.
BOB ROPER That's a positive indicator to us that there may be somebody, something making a noise down in the r...
BOB ROPER As long as we can continue to find voids under the pile, it means that there could be somebody still...
BOB ROPER The geologists have studied the hill, ... They have seen some additional areas that they have severe...
BOB ROPER We have an additional list of about 19 people that we've checked with the post office, Internet sear...
BOB ROPER Janet Corrigan is the ideal person to lead the newly reconstituted NQF, Janet's leadership vision an...
WILLIAM ROPER Janet Corrigan is the ideal person to lead the newly reconstituted NQF. She has extensive experience...
WILLIAM ROPER Here I sit, beneath the large window of a first-floor Georgian flat, exploring the corridors of my s...
MATT ROPER This was a good win for us. Travis was phenomenal and Nixon was a big part of our offense. I'm proud...
IAN ROPER I don't think it was too pretentious.
GERALD ROPER He said things to me on the bus that I can't repeat. He's a character.
JEFF ROPER He does what he wants. He's a free spirit.
JEFF ROPER Satterfield's a valuable kid to have kicking, and we'll use him again in the future if the situation...
JEFF ROPER They (Massac County) have a lot of speed right now. Somehow, we have to try to combat that.
JEFF ROPER The first couple of games we couldn't hang on to the ball. Last week, we were able to take advantage...
JEFF ROPER We have to find a way to get some points. Hopefully, our defense will be able to maintain their leve...
JEFF ROPER We're looking for a spark, and Crawford has played well at the sophomore level. We've found out Reed...
JEFF ROPER The defense has had the backs against the wall and gave up some points in the first half (the past t...
JEFF ROPER To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time
JOHN ROPER Bob and I have had a splendid, happy working relationship in which, in every respect, he has run the...
WILLIAM ROPER This game was very similar to the first two in the fact that turnovers were the difference in the ga...
JEFF ROPER We learn flexibility and adaptability.
JOHN ROPER If comedians were truly free of repression, there would not be an inherent need to perform for the l...
MATT ROPER It's pure coincidence. Our product has been under development for a couple of months.
TIM ROPER We got a little perimeter-oriented, which allowed them to become more and more aggressive.
BRIAN ROPER We had a real good team day. Those four kids are one and two seeds. After that, we had a real good s...
DOUG ROPER We're just trying to get as many as we can to the regional. And there, anything can happen.
DOUG ROPER It'd be nice if I had all dedicated wrestlers that only wrestled.
DOUG ROPER Successful writers say you should never work from a desk with a view, and the view I have from this ...
MATT ROPER It was a good team win. We had good balance which has been one of our strengths all year.
BRIAN ROPER After two years in the red, we had a substantial turn between '04 and '05, and the first quarter of ...
WILLIAM ROPER With crime going down, all of us bragging about crime going down, when this kind of ordinance gets i...
GERALD ROPER I don't know what Christmas would be like without bonfires.
GERARD ROPER We need this levee. We respect it.
GERARD ROPER The community has been very good to us and we wanted to show our appreciation. We thought of this as...
HARVEY ROPER What we do best is business. It makes perfect sense to leverage our skills and knowledge of the busi...
HARVEY ROPER We'll have everything from water to aspirin for the jurors.
HARVEY ROPER We look at it as an opportunity to promote Auburn more. Any proceeds generated will aid in the promo...
HARVEY ROPER That was crucial. I said on the bench that if we catch them, we'll beat them, but you've got to make...
DWIGHT ROPER Our youth showed up tonight. We had two freshmen and two sophomores starting, and tonight, we never ...
DWIGHT ROPER Basically, since Christmas, Julie has been stepping up and making plays for us.
DWIGHT ROPER You'd be crazy not to. There's a bigger choice and you spend less money.
JAMES ROPER A surprising number of goods are still either hard to find or unavailable online. Large gaps exist i...
JAMES ROPER On the drive over, Richards kept marveling at the transforming power of having a felony to commit. H...
ROBERT ROPER On the drive over, Richards kept marveling at the transforming power of having a felony to commit. H...
ROBERT ROPER The SRB has been releasing some of its stockpiles to try and get the price down without much success...
IAN ROPER The SRB has been releasing some of its stockpiles to try and get the price down without much success...
IAN ROPER They could certainly use the good publicity.
IAN ROPER I think we'll be a contender in our conference.
IAN ROPER That's a real area of concern for us.
IAN ROPER I feel confident with either one of them on the field.
IAN ROPER This was a great win for us. I was real proud of their effort.
IAN ROPER I really don't have any feel for whether or not I'll be drafted. I just want a shot to make an NFL r...
KYLE ROPER We're butting heads pretty good out there. We're helping each other get better.
KYLE ROPER It's been a good week so far. I don't have any complaints. My knee hasn't hurt at all. It feels grea...
KYLE ROPER The basketball history is rich, probably much deeper than football. It's definitely something that h...
JUSTIN ROPER I think it was our defense that was the key for us tonight. We pressed all night and were able to cr...
JUSTIN ROPER We played really good defense; that was key. We rebounded really well, and our press created turnove...
JUSTIN ROPER The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and medioc...
HUGH TREVOR-ROPER The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocri...
H. R. TREVOR-ROPER The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K...
BARBARA EHRENREICH Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I have a pig valve.
BARBARA BUSH Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
BARBARA WALTERS Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count...
BARBARA BOXER In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post...
BARBARA DEMICK Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou...
BARBARA CORCORAN Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found...
BARBARA SMITH There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human c...
BARBARA EHRENREICH I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to se...
BARBARA WALTERS A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
BARBARA WALTERS I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you hav...
BARBARA WALTERS First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as...
BARBARA WALTERS I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the sa...
BARBARA WALTERS The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
BARBARA WALTERS I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
BARBARA WALTERS Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children...
BARBARA WALTERS Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but ha...
BARBARA WALTERS When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ...
BARBARA WALTERS A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges,...
BARBARA WALTERS Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subj...
BARBARA WALTERS I didn't have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERS Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERS To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho...
BARBARA TUCHMAN To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
BARBARA TUCHMAN For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA TUCHMAN No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell wi...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA TUCHMAN I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
BARBARA STEELE Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
BARBARA STEELE In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bott...
BARBARA STEELE The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
BARBARA STEELE I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
BARBARA STEELE If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so...
BARBARA STEELE Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
BARBARA STEELE I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots...
BARBARA STEELE After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs...
BARBARA STEELE I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
BARBARA STANWYCK My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty...
BARBARA STANWYCK Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I ...
BARBARA STANWYCK Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
BARBARA STANWYCK A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semi...
BARBARA SMITH One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply ...
BARBARA SMITH You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
BARBARA SMITH This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
BARBARA SMITH Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
BARBARA SMITH Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entit...
BARBARA SMITH It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ...
BARBARA SHER We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
BARBARA SHER You don't have to get it right the first time.
BARBARA SHER Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can ...
BARBARA SHER Isolation is a dream killer.
BARBARA SHER When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth ...
BARBARA SHER Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
BARBARA SHER Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
BARBARA SHER When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fr...
BARBARA SHER Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
BARBARA SHER Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
BARBARA SHER Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recogni...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Wat...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
BARBARA PYM How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should t...
BARBARA PYM I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a c...
BARBARA PARK My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ...
BARBARA PARK My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de...
BARBARA PARK I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
BARBARA PARK My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to...
BARBARA PARK I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
BARBARA PARK Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
BARBARA PARK Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is...
BARBARA PARK Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
BARBARA PARK I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. ...
BARBARA PARK I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - fr...
BARBARA PARK I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
BARBARA PARK There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
BARBARA PARK I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus...
BARBARA PARK I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my f...
BARBARA PARK For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
BARBARA PARK All of my characters are less than perfect.
BARBARA PARK There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of...
BARBARA PARK In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great ...
BARBARA OLSON He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that the...
BARBARA OLSON Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
BARBARA OLSON There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all ...
BARBARA OLSON From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're ...
BARBARA OLSON Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversi...
BARBARA OLSON Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton admi...
BARBARA OLSON It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at ...
BARBARA OLSON Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable ...
BARBARA OLSON I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in ...
BARBARA OLSON The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as t...
BARBARA OLSON I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls...
BARBARA OLSON The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oat...
BARBARA OLSON