Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peyton Knight

Landowners who earn credits would have a vested interest in increasing the value of their credits. The value can be increased by either more stringent regulation or reduced species populations that require a reduction in the number of credits available.

Kenneth Turan

He credits a watching of 'King Kong' on TV when he was a kid with making him a film director,

Louis Leterrier

When you do a first movie, you're contractually supposed to do the second one and then you don't do it, you become an executive producer. That's why there are a ton of directors who have executive producer credits on other movies.

Amando Tetangco

The deceleration in liquidity growth may be traced mainly to lower net credits to the public sector as a result of the improved fiscal performance.

Alan Greenspan

Much fiscal policy is implemented, not through spending increases, but through tax credits and other so-called tax expenditures. The markets should respond to them as they do spending cuts, with little contraction in economic activity.

Jan McDonald

Under the school policy, they would be able to come back to school. They have to reapply. All of them have been encouraged to do that, and it will just be up to them if they would like to do that. I know some have already made plans to come back to summer school to get their credits and all that, so we will be in good shape for next year.

Steve Harris

We've been guaranteed by the program that we will receive the credits we've expected by the end of the semester. But at this point, it seems like the semester is a lost cause.

Leonard Burman

The experience with past employer (tax) credits is they're not particularly effective,

Karl Gawell

We've got to have a longer term policy. These tax credits need to be extended.

Greg Romano

Our goal is to serve God, and it's harder to do that when you're in debt.

Jeff Green

Our goal is to keep our debt level from rising. But as revenue rises, the debt will be less of a burden.

Howard Dean

Rising interest rates, rising debt and fewer good-paying jobs are making it harder for America's families to make ends meet, ... The president should use his Texas vacation to spend time overhauling his economic policies, not staging photo-ops.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

John Tysoe

I think the worry for investors is that they can't see an end to this process. They see that the level of debt has risen and risen yet BT seems not to be doing anything about it.

Alan Greenspan

Large deficits will result in rising interest rates and an ever-growing ratio of debt service to GDP (gross domestic product),

Bill Vaughan

In the midst of life we are in debt.

Ellen Miller

I'm so glad I'm not paying off loans to the bank, ... If you get into debt, you can get creamed real fast.

Sam Brownback

Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.

Frank Fish

Regarding the volume of weapons, it's directly in proportion to the number of students that we're training. We don't have a stockpile of weapons that we've just cached up here to use later for some foul purpose. These weapons are used specifically for this particular client.

John Connor

reflect some guarded optimism in the direction the market is taking.

Ken Walsh

Our No. 1 job was to hire the most dynamic, energetic director that we could (for the job), and we feel we got our No. 1 free agent.

Ralph Kauffman

Our members seem to have digested the energy price increases, and so the direct effect of energy price moves is less.

Jake Barton

People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.

Tai Hui

People have more faith in Hong Kong's logistics. Low value products are shipped directly out of Shenzhen to the world, higher value products come out through Hong Kong. It's the guarantee of safety.

Sophie Turner

Stephen Daldry would be a director that I would love to work with as well as Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, and I'm very lucky to have worked with Isabel Coixet, who is also one of my favourite directors.

Susan Davis

Stamford is proposing a low-volume program. Stamford's program would have a direct impact on St. Vincent's program.

Susan Davis

Stamford is proposing a low-volume program, ... Stamford's program would have a direct impact on St. Vincent's program.

Jim Calhoun

Regardless of our success over the years, whatever it may be, Providence has always played us close. Providence has given us a lot of problems.

Richard Hartley

Previously, I wouldn't have given us a good grade at all. But since we have (business manager Renee Hinton) in place, we're doing a much better job. I don't know if I'd give us a letter grade.

Wang Jian

Our research showed that about one-fourth to one-third of the tickets to a performance are given to government organs without charge.

Jerry Rickrode

Our mental psyche has not been real strong. But I'll say the guys haven't given up on it. We're working hard and trying to make adjustments.

Margaret Keane

Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.

Eric Smith

Some of the requirements had given us very challenging manufacturing tasks.

Chris Klein

Our problem is holding that lead and making Houston or any other team panic when they're a goal down. We've twice now given up that lead too quickly.

Patrick Manteiga

Our staff has given them some break. This is just a group without a lot of money.

Robert Sasaki

Our scenario in 1999 is that 10,000 on the Nikkei is a given - 8,000 is possible. We think that if the market goes to 8,000 it's good. It's not going to stay there for very long.

Kevin Furtado

Pinot noir is very site specific. You can recognize a Russian River style. The area's influences is why the taste is so unique.

Bill Crawford

To influence others, we must know what is influencing them... and they must know that we get it.

Todd Oldham

I want to thank him for being such a kind influence to me personally. There's a lot to learn from someone who celebrates life in that bigness.

Dean Clark

I think there's a tremendous influence on the community.

Peter Fisher

I think that's their major source of influence.

Vicky Rideout

I think parents' media use is probably an important influence on kids' media use.

Jim Haslam

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

Gordon Drummond

James has been a tremendous influence at the club, not only with his performances on the field, but also with his coaching,

Bob Kinniebrew

I would say that every person who is successful in the mortgage and title business, Mel had an influence on.

Kenneth Starr

He was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.

Luis Federico Leloir

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

P. J. O'Rourke

As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.

Doris Lessing

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

Tim Hunt

Winning a Nobel Prize isn't about being clever at all. It's about making... at least in physiology or medicine, it's about making discoveries, and you don't have to be clever to make a discovery, I don't think; it just comes up and punches you on the nose.

Shuji Nakamura

I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.' So, I was so, so happy, and I was so surprised.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.

Mark Moller

She's in the pocket of the president who nominated her,

Noah Wyle

Boy, oh, boy, people get jaded fast. I got nominated for an Emmy.

Jenna Elfman

It's a cliche, but just being nominated is cool.

Al Gore

Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

Douglas Rushkoff

Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen.

Andre Agassi

That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers

Bob Ross

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

Jeremy Rifkin

In the 21st century, hundreds of millions-and eventually billions-of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store those energies in the form of hydrogen and share electricity, peer-to-peer, across local, regional, national and continental inter-grids that act much like the Internet.

E. B. White

It's always very rewarding to be recognized by our peers in the industry.

George Soros

The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.

Garry Wills

As a framer and defender of the Constitution [Madison] had no peer.

Frank Herbert

The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Winning prizes is always a pleasure, and especially these because they come from your colleagues.

Christine Parker

We'll have thousands of prizes to give away.

Jim Crace

I've been very lucky with prizes. But the thing about prizes is that, when you talk about a prize-winning author, you can be talking about one that is well-regarded but doesn't sell any books.

Martin Parr

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

Saint Ignatius

The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

Joe Solmonese

I don't think it has anything to do with the subject matter.

Dan Smith

He was getting at a really important subject and he did it thoughtfully and gracefully.

Alan Simpson

Whatever he does, Dick will do it his own way, because whatever he does, it will be the subject of ridicule.

Robert Luskin

Mr. Rove is still a subject of the investigation.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Garry Wills

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.