Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Thill

Regardless of the outcome, we still believe Oracle's current financial health remains intact. We do not believe there are hidden accounting issues.

Greg McBride

Pay your bills on time, and pay your debt down over time. Together, those factors account for 65 percent of your credit score.

Susan Thomson

Part of the idea was to help our financial consultants focus on their bigger accounts, the ones that are more labor intensive, ... This also gives smaller accounts the service they need. They can call three or four times a week and have all their needs met and not have to split their attention and time with financial consultants who have $5 million accounts.

Shirley Norton

Our new city administrator has been great, because I had no experience as a finance director. I am an accounting person, which is a bean counter and finance is a little different than being an accountant. Accountants are more exact and finance people have more vision. He's got the vision. He's been a good compliment to me and has helped me a lot and I really appreciate that. He's a little more involved... For the most part everybody has been great and I have enjoyed every minute of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

David Markowitz

People often use Internet trading accounts to try to conceal their trading activity. People don't realize with that there are different types of evidentiary trails being left behind.

Ken Worthington

Such fees help to get rid of non-profitable accounts or turn them into profitable ones.

Michael Harrison

Stern as a property is far more expendable to Clear Channel than to (Viacom), taking into account the money involved and the politics of dealing with the FCC.

Gary Ambrose

Splitting up the portfolio is more than an accounting measure. I've handled cases where the portfolios were really diverse. If I hadn't stepped in, the wife would have been stuck with capital gains that she had no clue about.

Sergei Lavrov

Our stand is crystal-clear - we want peace in Ukraine, which can only be attained through broad national dialogue in which all regions and all political forces of the country must participate.

Igor Ivanov

Our common goal is to ensure that Iraq should not have weapons of mass destruction, ... It must be attained on the basis of the U.N. Security Council's resolution No. 1441. All other goals go beyond the limits of our interests.

Motto

I will attained victory by God and my sword.

John Corcoran

I was just ecstatic. We've set a lot of goals throughout the years and this is one we've never attained in my 14 years of coaching,

Dan Radakovich

I watched the people around me and how they attained their success. They were like silent mentors. I watched them and tried to mimic their enthusiasm.

Rabindranath Tagore

We can look upon a road from two different points of view. One regards it as dividing us from the object of desire; in that case we count every step of our journey over it as something attained by force in the face of obstruction. The other sees it a

Prem Rawat

Today I will speak about love. What is love? How can one get love? Why should one get it? There are two kinds of love. One is the worldly connection. The other is attained through Knowledge. In this human body exists the love we have to discover. You should love one another and behave lovingly because when love comes, everything comes. You should speak to one another with love and humility. Love is the essence.

Tawakkol Karman

Women were free in older times when the Islamic nation was strong. There are so many examples in history, not more than a thousand years ago, when Muslim women were leaders, scientists, professionals, and so on. It is all about justice, and justice can be attained through having the rulers accountable to their people.

Abigail Adams

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Jeff Garcia

Part of me was going one way, the upper part of me was going the other way and my foot didn't give, ... It stuck in that turf out there on that field. Unfortunately Buffalo has been a difficult place for me the last two times I've been here.

Frederick Turner

Stand at Cumberland Gap and watch the procession of civilization, marching single file - the buffalo following the trail to the salt springs, the Indian, the fur-trader and hunter, the cattle-raiser, the pioneer farmer - and the frontier has passed by. Stand at South Pass in the Rockies a century later and see the same procession with wider intervals between.

O. J. Simpson

Jessica, you want some buffalo wings?' 'Sorry I don't eat buffalo.

Cory Yeoman

Kyle's a big, physical kid who not only has great hands, but outstanding strength which helped him to be a terrific blocker. I'm excited for him because I think Buffalo will be a good fit for him. He not only has the chance to compete in a great conference (Mid-American), but to also be an impact player right from the start.

Darris Kilgour

Johnny and Jason worked together for three years in Buffalo . . . so we were very happy to get Jason back.

Kevin Hart

I'm a health nut, but when I eat, I go hard. I'm a Buffalo wing magnet, a sandwich fanatic, a cheesesteak guy. But I'll only get a cheesesteak in Philadelphia. No one else does it right.

Sam Adams

I feel the organization did what they felt was best. Playing in Buffalo was one of the greatest experiences for me. I hope it works out for everyone.

Warde Manuel

If it makes a difference for some to have an African-American head coach, fine. But that's not what we're out there selling: 'Come to Buffalo because we have three African-Americans.' We're proud of that, but we want you to come to Buffalo because we have three great, qualified people.

Andrew Peters

My first season at Buffalo, Geoff was at Rochester and I would come down from Buffalo to visit him all the time. It was 50 minutes away. I'd drive up and we'd go to dinner.

John Kirkwood

Patients with this disease face a desperate situation for which we really lack any promising approaches,

Mary Parker

I thought we were all kind of desperate housewives. Mine was just a little more desperate than they were.

Stephen Joseph

It is nonsense on stilts and seemingly the work of a desperate journalist...

Seth Payne

Ideally, you're desperate every week, ... It's hard to get a win in this league no matter how good you are, so whether you're 0-3 or 3-0, that next win is tough to come by.

Chris Drury

This was a good game on our part in the desperate part of the game.

Bruce Gersh

Given Coty's outstanding track record in the fragrance market, the Desperate Housewives scent is guaranteed to be a hit with women everywhere.

Mike Williams

Jackson is to be commended to extend something like this, however (in this case) this is a desperate move to win this election.

Rod Keogh

Josh was desperate to play last Saturday and should be okay and Leigh is moving much more freely than he was.

Jim Moffat

I have lads here who have played for Dunfermline or who played under Davie at Livingston and they are desperate to get through. They want this tie and they want to have a go at Dunfermline. But we are not under-estimating Huntly.

Kim Powers

Our goal here is return every loved one to their final resting place as quickly as we can. We're handling this recovery with dignity and respect like it's the first time.

Jon Voight

I think he taught people the dignity of life and the dignity going into that last phase, toward death,

Pat Riley

Maybe something happened at the other end of the court, but I don't like that. There has to be dignity at the end of the game.

Pat Riley

Maybe something happened at the other end, but I don't like that. There's got to be some dignity at the end of the game. I've got to talk to him about it. I didn't like that.

Eleanor Catton

I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of their time but then to see that they have moments of grace and dignity that everybody has.

John Bacon

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

John Bacon

It comes down to the way you treat people, ... When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

Rick Carlisle

I don't think it shows much dignity to make excuses after you get your butts kicked. It was like they're everywhere and our feet were stuck in mud.

Susan Sarandon

Under pressure, she embraced her personal struggles with dignity and humor and always with the focus on the greater good.

Vincent Truglia

Japan is gambling that its policies will result in beneficial, self-sustaining results.

John Waldron

That's the million-dollar question. Why would such a good kid with so much promise do this? We know he had a gambling addiction, but why didn't he seek other options? That has everyone scratching their heads.

Craig Benson

I do not support gambling in this state.

Randy Carter

He kept gambling even though he didn't need to. But he got that one.

Charles Darwin

But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics.

Nathan Barankin

Many of California's gambling laws were written in the 19th Century, and some of them need to be modernized.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

Albert Einstein

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

Matthias Platzeck

I will do everything to pay back this gigantic offering of confidence.

William Bryan

Gigantic troubadour, speaking like a siege gun / Smashing Plymouth Rock with his boulders from the West.

David Friedman

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!

William Ernest Henley

Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.

Tom Riley

What you don't get necessarily at drama school is a gigantic mix of people. At university, there's people from every social background, and you get to go through that period of being naive and not quite sure who you're going to be.

Andrew Motion

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Hugh Laurie

The first big stars, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, you know, these were gigantic stars. I even wonder sometimes whether all music actually comes from women, whether the first glimmering of music is a mother soothing a baby.

Bill Clarke

You didn't realize how gigantic these things were. Wow!

Lindsay Davenport

I want to win this title again. I think that you are really, at the end of the day, judged on how many Grand Slam titles you have, and probably how many titles you have.

Buck Showalter

I was happy with the outing, as I was with his last one. We had opportunities to make the grand slam not matter.

Ernie Els

I'd like to win the Masters and the PGA and complete the career Grand Slam.

Goran Ivanisevic

He is strong in the head. You can't win a junior Grand Slam and knock out the world's No. 25 player in your first senior tournament if you're not strong in the head.

John Whitehead

We are going to open up Monday at 7 a.m. and we are going to stay open until 12 p.m. Tuesday. After that, we are going to reopen Wednesday at 7 a.m. and have our grand opening just as we had planned and stay open for 24 hours.

Elena Dementieva

I feel much stronger now and I know what it takes to reach a grand slam final. I just feel I need to take one more step and I think I can do that this year.

Thierry Fremaux

If 2005 was the year of the return of the grand authors, 2006 will be all the opposite.

Graham Cluley

Globally, we have a grand total of zero reports of damage.

John Cornyn

I wouldn't want to speculate as to what's happened or not going to happen with regard to the grand jury, ... I simply don't know. In fact, I would suggest that none of us know, since it's supposed to be a confidential proceeding, by law.

Mike Smith

Some of the more popular schools could be filled.

Lucio Gutierrez

I will regain the presidency by way of the constitution, the truth and popular support,

Johnny Depp

That would really send my popularity to the depths.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Will Wright

I think the primary thing that's made the Sims popular is that they're accessible,

Dan Furmansky

He wants to place our rights up for a popular vote on the ballot.

Sam Martin

He was a very popular young man. The students are taking it hard.

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Al Gore

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Kevin Constantine

That will be very rare and very welcome. It's been very unusual when we've had to do that.

Aaron Peirsol

I think it's rare you surprise yourself like that,

Karina Lombard

I don't wear perfume, and I rarely wear jewelry.

Albert Einstein

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

David Horsey

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

Donald Trump

I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

David Harsanyi

If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.

Brandon Boyd

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

Stewart Butterfield

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

Pat Harris

Some (hospital) units can't take any more. They have to set a limit. They don't want this to be a source of turnover for their staff.

Bill Hybels

You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?

Thomas Friedman

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

Ayn Rand

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

Mitch Kapor

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

David B. Coe

The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be...

Elaine Post

Until you know where the source is, how do you know you're treating the right one?

Calvin Trillin

There's always a source for humor.

Hayan Saad

What? He is the source of our troubles.

Barry McGuigan

I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

Billy Corgan

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

Bill Taylor

Players win games, teams win championships.

Bill Tilden

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life.

Bill Simmons

You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.

Bill Simmons

I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30 had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.

Bill Shankly

I never drop a player I only make changes.

Bill Cowher

We're not attempting to circumcise rules.

C. S. Lewis

A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.

Brenda Jones

I always like to say he'd be another Tiger Woods.

Greg Patterson

I think we've got a tiger on our hands.

Joey Sindelar

Tiger has the viciousness and the charm. Vijay is just military. He's just precision. But when he's good, it's scary.

Tim Finchem

If I want to make something known, I have to make a concerted effort to get the word out. Tiger Woods, on the other hand, only has to say something, and it's tomorrow's headlines.

Tammy Quist

This tiger was probably not being aggressive. It was being a tiger.

Jorge Luis Borges

Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.