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Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.

Warren Buffett

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

George W. Bush

The seven Taiwanese were pulling one body with a rope under heavy rain out of the mud. They got stuck in the mud, then they radioed they need help, they can't get out, they're sinking in the mud.

Capt Burrel Parmer

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

Grover Cleveland

It's unreal. In a couple days it's really going to sink in that we did it, we're the best team in the nation.

Tonton Balenga

The average person has no idea how expensive things are going to be this winter. It's not going to sink in until they get the first bill, and then the politicians will be screaming in the streets.

Carl Neill

I got hurt after the fight and couldn't go back out there. It started to sink (in) for me. We put a lot of work in every day, and it's just frustrating to think that we're not going to be competing for a Stanley Cup ... that's why we play.

Jamal Mayers

It gives the dollar a competitor. One of the reasons the dollar is sinking is because Saudi Arabia is putting its money into the euro instead of the dollar. It gives people an alternative.

David Gillette

There's an enormous range of emotion. The soloists have to have the whole bill of goods, from floated pianissimos to massive, full-voice, everybody-join-in, kitchen-sink variety.

Brad Holmes

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Jacques Cousteau

He has probably laughed more than any other chancellor. The whole country is sinking into a depression and the chancellor has a smile on his face. Why, we're not sure.

Michael Naumann

They played their hearts out. I guess they just got tired of losing. They were a little more focused, blocked out more, hustled harder and played better defense. I think everything is kind of sinking in what they're supposed to do. They're getting more experienced each game, and it's paying off.

Sue Johnson

There's no doubt about it, if I was Houston, that's what I would do. I would blitz and blitz and blitz. I expect everything but the kitchen sink being thrown at us.

Mark Campbell

It was three years after I'd finished the script for Gregory's Girl that I got to make it, but I prefer That Sinking Feeling as a film.

Bill Forsyth

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Charles Francis Adams

When you have a population that is immobile, no matter how you plead for them to leave no matter how early you get a start they can't leave! It's like the Titanic is sinking. They couldn't just say, 'Everyone off!' There's no place to go. You're stuck!

Jeremy Davenport

The higher the stress, the more liquid the quicksand becomes, so movement by a trapped body causes it to sink in deeply.

Daniel Bonn

The upcoming presidential elections can result in a new era for Haiti or sink the country into further poverty and violence.

Susan Lee

I've always been more interested in the kitchen-sink elements.

Tony Richardson

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.''.

Andrew Young

He was real consistent down the stretch last year, and he's carried it over to this year. He was fighting himself. He didn't have a lot of sink all night, but he got through it. He battled without his best stuff. You look at the games where he's pitched well and come up empty, it's good to see him get a win.

Blaise Ilsley

I think we're going to have to begin to believe that we're not in an inflationary environment. Sooner or later it's going to sink in.

Maureen Allyn

Dinners back then were the event of the evening ? it took several hours to eat. I guess you could say they ate enough to sink a ship.

David Kaplan

He's a big, strong, athletic kid. He's got a good fastball with excellent movement and good sink. He's got a major-league slider. Obviously, the stuff is there and the ability is there. He needs to pitch a little bit more and get consistent outings.

Ben Cherington

That requires the heavy lift ship to actually ballast or flood down. It could appear to the casual observer that a ship is sinking in Elliot Bay.

John Lockwood

When he said it, everybody wanted to scream. But nobody had the energy and it took a couple of minutes to sink in.

Steve Hutchinson

Coming into the Big House and getting a win can be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. You want to do everything you can to let it sink in.

Victor Abiamiri

It's another one of those more serious contraction phases that are followed by buying on the dip. I don't think the catalysts are there yet to sink the ship. I'm still on the side of the angels, although I recognize that we can easily have a 15 percent correction here.

Ulric Weil

It's amazing what we've done. But after today, it won't sink in until later. We hate losing.

Lee Coleman

We don't want heavy equipment on saturated soil because we've already had a problem with sinking.

David Mcsweeney

It's still sinking in. It means a great deal. It means I'm recognized because I'm trying to do something with my life.

Brittany Smith

The insinuation was that, if you don't support us, you have a room of people, who, from a political standpoint are going to sink you.

Joe Jaynes

When you have 5,000 people all standing around in a tent the ice will actually sink and everyone will stand in the water and it's a possibility it wouldn't break but it would sink.

Don Herman

I have not yet begun to fight (as his ship was sinking, 23 September 1779).

John Paul Jones

The adjuration to be 'normal' seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of 'normal' to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.

Dr. Karl Menninger

We were able to battle back in the last 40 seconds and get rid of this funk. The last few minutes were crazy (with) highs and lows (and) sinking feelings when they got their goal.

Scott Hartnell

With a good wind these boats can fly. You can't sink them; they're practically indestructible.

George Domenech

This was absolutely an important win for us. We had been out of sink in our last few games. We came out and put it all together tonight. Johnny was great tonight, and he's been like this all season. That's why he's our ace.

Anthony Campanella

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

John C. Calhoun

Instead of generating cash, they're burning cash. We are not jumping into Internet stocks at these valuations. I think the Internet sector is going to continue to sink.

Paul Wick

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.

Charles Bukowski

We will be doing a moment of silence on board (the Queen of Prince Rupert). This is the first time a B.C. ferry will pass by the site of the sinking of the Queen of the North and our crew certainly want to recognize that.

Deborah Marshall

The system is in great shape, but the levees are sinking. If we don't get the money fast enough to raise them, then we can't stay ahead of the settlement. The problem is the federal funds have dried up.

Al Naomi

We probably didn't realize (we had won) until it hit us in the fourth quarter. Coach started telling us during to timeouts to look around and let it sink in and just cherish the moment. That's when we realized we were going to win.

Jasmine Stohr

The Melvin probably was the only destroyer to sink a battleship in World War II.

Jack Green

I completely agreed with him, ... These are basic human principles, when you're talking about kindness and compassion and the innate desire for happiness. But it still doesn't hurt talking about it ... You never know when it's actually going to sink in and a person is going to implement it in their own lives.

Howard Cutler

I am delighted but I don't think it will sink in that we have won the title until the last game of the season. Their minds have been on Hampden but it has been difficult to point a finger because it is a natural thing.

Rowan Alexander

I wanted to create the ambiance of a garden. In the 17th century this probably would have been a reception hall for important people, but I even put in a sink for cutting and arranging flowers. I think it's where the nuns used to keep their toiletries.

Patrice Nourissat

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The question is whether we're ready to undertake responsibility for overcoming the crisis or will again sink in debates, mutual recriminations and half-steps.

Yevgeny Primakov

It's nothing more dangerous than what's under your sink.

Amanda Milburn

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

Carl Lewis

If they have to sit and hand write it and look at the file, maybe it'll sink in that maybe I shouldn't have done this. You know, they're all to the age where they're smart enough to know what they've done.

Judy Eyer

I think if they keep going like that for a few months there won't be 10 or 11 (penalties) a side. If they're just consistent and make sure they call the penalties, it's going to sink in.

Mats Sundin

I expect the market to constantly get knocked on the head, and eventually it's going to sink in.

Ross Margolies

[The Dane was one up through 22 holes, but lost seven of the next eight holes - a run which included McGinley sinking an 85-yard pitch for an eagle 2 at the 29th.] I was the last man in and hopefully I'll be the last man standing, ... Maybe fate and destiny are on my side.

Paul Mcginley

T he same rules apply at home that do here. We have supper, we read, we do our abc's and we try some type of education with out kids. I bathe our children in a sink.

Patricia Olson

The Big Blue ship is leaking and creaking, and the new skipper says there's no need to change, ... Just keep those fingers plugged in the leaks, as we rehearse the sinking ship drill at Armonk. Well, investors think there is good reason to change. They are voting with their feet, just as we predicted back in January.

Bob Djurdjevic

You need a guy like (Best) on a day like today, with a sinking ball like that.

Rayner Noble

We expect they'll be many more. Our plan went out about 8 days ago-it's just beginning to sink in.

Tom Depatie

Venezuela helped me a lot. I'm fine now. All of my pitches are sinking and I've got my change, my curveball, everything. I just have to show I can pitch.

Ramiro Mendoza

He grabbed the ball after I caught it, but I knew it was a touchdown. I was just waiting for the referee's signal. It didn't really sink in until I got to the sideline.

Limas Sweed

I was wondering if we were going to sink. It was very, very wobbly and very, very dark.

Douglas Rice

This was a big win outside St. Croix. We had to throw the kitchen sink at them.

Donald Bough

She had such a huge heart, ... It hasn't had time to sink in.

Kevin Clark

Hartmann was great again. His slider and changeup were working for him tonight and he had some great sink from his fastball.

Butch Hobson

The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.

Amy Alcott

We're beside ourselves ? all of us are stunned. We can't comprehend what happened. It won't sink in.

Ben Martinez

We keep sinking our hopes with self-inflicted wounds. Once we eliminate the mental mistakes and blown assignments, we'll start seeing the wins.

Tony Travis

It's hard to put into words right now. I think it'll sink in in the next few days. But to be the first team from Canada to win a gold medal in the men's competition ... it'll be great.

Mark Nichols

We're all going to sink or swim together. The people who don't fix their problems will hurt the people who do.

Skip Patterson

Upstate is absolutely sinking under these mandates. We've got to see some change, because we're dying here.

Sandy Parker

It's still pretty surreal. It might not sink in until they're home, or until they go back to school and the other kids are all talking about it.

Keith Terry

Some of the reason levees aren't as high as they're designed to be is because they sink. We don't have a good enough handle on the rates of subsidence, and it doesn't subside everywhere at the same rate.

Charles Groat

Even other adulterers considered him several levels below despicable. How could a man sink that low?

Patrick Clark

And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

David Herbert Lawrence

I thought we really came back in the fourth quarter. We weren't playing very well until midway into the fourth quarter and then we pulled together and started coming back. If you give Kellen the ball enough, he'll sink them.

Dustin Risseeuw

[It is] much like when you try to remember where you put your keys last night. If you recall that you were washing dishes, that might trigger associated memories, leading you to remember that your keys are next to the sink.

Sean Polyn

If I drop a ball, I'll sink down for the whole game, which I can't do this year.

Anthony White

They're using the kitchen sink approach times one hundred.

Chris Boyd

Untie the rope from underneath the sink.

Steve Relford

Climbing oil prices and the problems with climate change make it ill-advised to sink more money into fossil fuels.

Jeff Mikulina

He's in a battle with everybody and the inventory we have. Geoff made some big strides. He pitched down a lot better and came up with a sinking fastball and a slider to go along with that. The improvement of being under control and confident is the biggest thing.

Rich Dubee

When a customer receives the heat sink, we have tested it thoroughly, thus in almost every case, we are right on target.

Dr. Kaveh Azar

It's starting to sink in, but we still can't believe we got the gold and made ice-skating history. There was an enormous bouquet of more than 200 roses, and now my arm hurts.

Albena Denkova

Mom is holding up pretty good; it really is just beginning to sink in.

Donald Edie

Once I got to the line I knew I had to make the first one. The first one was the key. I had to make it for the guys. I tried to block their fans out as much as I could. I was trying to go through my motion and sink the first one.

David Cripe

The good news is that the risk perception is sinking, and attitudes are rising as the current economic and political situation overshadow the past. The future of the market depends on where the economy goes and how the 2008 presidential elections go, and how these factors are seen by investors.

Michael Lange

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

Lord Beaverbrook

We thought it was our (apartment). Smoke was pouring out of our sink and the floor was getting really hot.

Richard Bailey

The pool always gave people trouble. The pump never worked right, so Elvis ran a garden hose from the kitchen sink to fill it.

Mike Freeman

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

David Hare

Then suddenly it's all over and you've won, and then it's just a matter of it sinking in. I guess that's where I am now.

Chris Moneymaker

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

Jerry Lewis

We have to sink a lot of money into these pools.

Mark Guido

Having just played in it, it was probably the biggest game of my life and it's going to take some time to sink in.

Justin Pogge

In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.

David Smith

It took about two seconds for it to really sink in. ... I was like, 'Oh my gosh, I won!'

Mark Hyman

We had a real quick reflex reaction yesterday to the storm, 'Oh, it's not so bad, let's have a rally, ... Today it's sinking in a little bit more, Gulf Coast production is going to be offline for several days.

Bill Sutherland

I'm getting a lot of flak about overweight bags. People are used to bringing everything but the kitchen sink on vacation. We tell clients about weight limits, but sometimes they don't believe it.

Arlene Blosch

But this time, because of the lockout, we had the whole year to sink our teeth into it. We discussed it with players, coaches, refs and managers, and this was (the edict) to come down.

Colin Campbell

This is one of those things that's going to take a few days to sink in. You don't know how it's going to affect your life.

Linda Fields

You absorb a few losses in a row and spirits start to sink a little bit. Body language starts to change, so the kids left there happy and have, I hope, a little bit better sense of how to play a complete game.

Dan Boyd

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship, ... But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

Robbie Fowler

It's a great way to put stuff out, send it out, let everybody read it and then say 'Oops,' ... You'd hear them screaming like wounded animals if we did the same to them. So that's it. I'm just not going to sink to their level.

Larry Pozner

These four years have been an incredible life-changing experience. I'm sure it will sink in a little more when I have a 9-to-5 job.

Courtney Lavere

I see a sinking ship and I don't want to be part of that.

Ronnie O'sullivan

They just think it's normal, ... When they go back somewhere and tell people they were born in London and then moved to Madrid and then we moved back to London and then we moved to Germany and lived in a castle for a while, it'll be interesting when they look back on it. That's when it will really sink in.

Kasey Keller

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

Tom Cruise

It's hard to realize it right now. It'll take time for it to sink in.

Regina Schleicher

You keep hammering away, ... and eventually the nail is going to sink.

Bhawoh Jue

We will swim together or sink together.

Trevor Manuel

Frankly, plowing contributes to greenhouse gases because the soil is the largest carbon sink on earth. If you turn the soil you release the carbon in the soil into the atmosphere and contribute to global warming.

Duane Grant

It was sentimental and exciting. It was starting to sink in. I wanted to slow things down a bit.

Wade Taylor

When you?re in high school, you think college is a huge step away. Then you come here and you realize that you can play here. Now everything is kind of sinking in.

Cassie Kerns

I think it's beginning to sink in. More and more faculty are reporting plagiarism.

Fran Cohen

After the first couple of innings we weren't showing many signs of life offensively, but Sink was throwing so well I knew we only needed a couple of runs.

Matt Lawson

It'll sink in when they get the shopping cart and go shopping at the (U.S. Olympic Committee) clothing department. I remember that from 2002.

Jeremy Teela

You really need to look at making repairs that are profitable in terms of selling the house. They want to see that pedestal sink.

David Kerr

This is a $10 bill, of U.S. dollars, that was recovered from the bottom of the ocean floor. It's amazing to think that so much paper survived the sinking of this ship that sunk over 90 years ago.

John Zaller

The choppers started sinking in the mud, so they had to work fast. The Taiwanese refused to leave without the body and were dragging it with them.

Capt Burrel Parmer

I was actually washing the dishes when she called and I literally dropped the dishes in the sink.

Michelle Beasley

People understand the disgusting length this organization will sink to, to attack a woman who has dedicated her entire life to children. It will absolutely backfire.

Brennan Bilberry

It's finally starting to sink in.

Danny Baker

So let's sink another drink'Cause it'll give me time to think.

Billy Idol

I read a study from Harvard that said for the brain to memorize muscle movement, it needed time to sink in. In the practice field, you can control the environment and focus everything on what you're doing.

Steve Liddle

We have no time to waste. Everything we do is targeting to getting the sinking done before the start of hurricane season.

Harry White

You can't sink or swim with one guy. If Ricky is out, which is feasible, I think they have to come right back and draft one.

Frank Coyle

It's almost as if all of Pasco County is sinking, which it's not. We need more control over the level of outlandish sinkhole claims in both counties.

Bruce Douglas

Fans of this film are going to go crazy; we've got everything but the kitchen sink on here.

George Feltenstein

The policymakers and political leaders in Memphis and Shelby County cannot accept a business-as-usual mentality if they hope to rescue the sinking ship that is the Memphis-area business climate.

Andrew Johnson

We still don't understand what's happened. This needs to sink in.

Mihails Zemlinskis

I'm the senior, so I thought it was my job to sink those free throws. But we are all pretty good free-throw shooters, so it didn't really matter who was up there.

Teresa Case

I think we have to be careful that it's clear we're dealing with him, but not to go so far that if he in fact sinks ... we sink along with him.

Lawrence Eagleburger

We surprised a lot of people. It's starting to sink in with the girls and the community. The town is abuzz.

Dallas Richter

She had horrible nightmares in the years that followed the sinking. Doctors said that she probably had them because of the traumatic events.

Joan Randall

War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

George Orwell

We ask for no statistics of the killed, For nothing political impinges on This single casualty, or all those gone, Missing or healing, sinking or dispersed, Hundreds of thousands counted, millions lost.

Karl Shapiro

It may have taken a little while for (3M and Lexmark) to sink in. Lexmark is certainly not a bellwether, but it was one of the stable names in the tech sector.

Brett Gallagher

The aircraft will sink into material and it pressing against the front gear will cause much more friction than normal braking would, ... It can stop it very quickly with no injury and very little damage to the aircraft.

Dave Bennett

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

August Strindberg

It's territory we've never been involved in and we're enjoying it. When they walk into that building, it will sink in.

John Wake

There was a lady at the sink and she was trying to administer something to him. She pulled him into her, giving him some sort of medication.

Karen Bass

The park started sinking because there wasn't a profit center built in out there. To further its sinking, the park has been under-utilized.

Jack Mathers

They are moving around the deck chairs on a sinking ship but are trying to convince the American public that they are moving mountains.

Leo Linbeck

Obviously when the boat has gone over it has taken in water and then it has taken in more water - enough to sink it.

David Tucker

It was an odd feeling. The first few days it didn't sink in that we really did it.

Brian Reilly

We're not going to let the ship sink. It makes me sick to think that losing one kid can do this to us. We're going to keep working and maybe all of this will help us down the road.

Chris Timlin

Kitchen sink will consume less and ... restaurants that are paying higher prices for coffee might not top off your cup anymore. They might not offer you that second cup so freely and that's probably the only area where you'll see the slippage.

Judith Ganes

To rise above tree line is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into birdsong, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.

Gretel Ehrlich

The man has the gradually sinking feeling that his role as provider, the definitive male activity from the primal days of the hunt through the industrial revolution and on into modern life, has been largely seized from him; he has been cuckolded by t.

George Gilder

I was raised in a different era: Loose lips sink ships. I've learned to be quiet about (the draft process). I try not to talk about it.

Bill Polian

Without it, I can't complete anything. I can't even run a sink of water and do the dishes.

Wendy Roberts

At that point I had a real 30-year narrative to sink my teeth into.

Jeff Chang

If you have snowshoes that are the correct size, you're going to float better on freshly fallen snow, which sometimes you'll sink into up to your knees on cross-country skis.

Jim Warner

You could see him sinking smaller and smaller as the sentencing got closer and closer.

Norman Williams

It feels great. I don't know what to say; maybe it will sink in tomorrow.

Andy Pipher

The experience itself was amazing, ... To realize you're competing in the Olympics, I tried not to let the magnitude of it sink in.

Brandon Hill

I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedies- my taste goes much more to the offbeat and dark. I'd love to sink my teeth into something like 'Fargo'.

Courtney Cox

People need to understand there is a big picture, and regardless of how big the waves are, they will not sink.

Charles Hamowy

To get this far is a great achievement. It's going to take a little while for this to sink in for the girls, because they wanted this so much, but we had a pretty good year.

Curt Dehaan

Calderon largely is going to sink or swim on Fox's record. The more (President) Bush makes Fox look like he got nothing from this stronger relationship he wanted with the U.S., the harder it will be for Calderon.

Jorge Castaneda

We offer a water purification system that offers pure water for the entire house. With our product, whether it be in the shower or at the kitchen sink, our customer is always getting water that tastes like bottled water.

Kelly O'connell

You have a declining urban core (in Baltimore) and a fairly buoyant state. And that's tough if you're the captain of what can be seen as a sinking ship, ... He's dealt a fairly hard hand.

Joel Kotkin

It is disturbing that substantial numbers of children and families are sinking more deeply into poverty when we have the strongest economy in decades and when substantial amounts of funds provided to states to assist these families are going unused.

Wendell Primus

They are reviving the Dodge Charger for boomers. But they don't advertise that the instrument panels are larger, the bucket seats are an inch wider on both sides or that the seats are a bit higher so you don't sink so low. The car is designed for you as you age, but they won't say that.

Sarah Zapolsky

I didn't think I would get any offers, especially this early. Then I got the offer from Iowa first, and I was kind of shocked. I didn't think they could offer you this early, but now it's all starting to sink in. I'm going to have a chance to play football for a long time, and that's really cool.

Jayson Palmgren

He tells everyone I tried to sink his boat. It probably wasn't that bad an idea, but I wasn't that creative.

Jay Shippole

New Orleans was slowly sinking, literally and figuratively, well before Katrina.

Lawrence Vale

If we don't pull the hazardous materials out of the marsh, they're going to sink in and we're going to be looking at groundwater issues and wildlife issues and adverse impacts to recreation for decades to come.

Evan Hirsche

We really don't know what happened. The last time we saw him was like 15 to 20 minutes before, and he was washing in the sink.

Elliot Cohen

Unbelievable shot. I was able to sink a twenty foot putt and we had eagle.

Ed Dudes

So far, it's at the level of an expression of interest, as opposed to something you can really sink your teeth into.

Earle Mccurdy

Sink or swim doesn't fly in this situation. We're all in this together.

Ed Sills

It's a decision the whole family has to make; there are four other heirs, we haven't wanted to count the chickens before they hatch. Let's let it sink in a little bit. No decision has been made yet.

E. Randol Schoenberg