Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lenny Goldberg

The fact that Hollywood productions use famously creative accounting is no reason to compromise a basic principle of our tax system.

John Silvia

The outlook accounting for Katrina suggests growth will slow in both the third and fourth quarter due to slower consumer spending.

Mark Mershon

The pleas entered today are admissions of guilt in one of the largest corporate accounting fraud schemes on record. This apparent but ephemeral performance by the company propped up its stock price, causing investors to suffer untold losses when the scheme collapsed.

Robert Peterson

We are pleased to report that all outstanding issues involving the SEC's financial review, as well as the accounting issues related to DFG, have now been resolved, ... Today's earnings release brings this matter to a close and we now look forward to proceeding with the Tyson transaction.

Steven Milunovich

We believe that the accounting seems to proper and the company reports that it has been reviewed and approved by its auditors.

Mitch Daniels

We stand to gain up to several thousand more jobs at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service center, ... and the commission listened to our recommendations for Crane and saved half of the jobs that were recommended for transfer elsewhere.

Hiroshi Sato

With this accounting treatment, aimed at disposing bad debt, we are now bracing for a turnaround.

David Schertler

We're seeing cases of accounting improprieties that are being prosecuted criminally today that would not have been prosecuted that way 10 years ago.

Phil Ruffat

We're seeing basically complete distrust in financial accounting in the Western Hemisphere. People are going to pack it up and go.

Van Allen

We have never had this much depth on the women's sprint side. We have very healthy inter-team competition and the results have been apparent at the meets.

Steny Hoyer

What the panel seems to offer with one hand, it apparently wants to take away with the other.

Raymond Jones

We've spoken to them and apparently their house wasn't too badly hit.

Steve Fitzgerald

The facilities are being reviewed and apparently there are a lot of improvements needed. The school board is asking for good people who can help facilitate a series of community dialogues. This is an opportunity to help ensure that the school district stays on the right track and that the interests of the school children and the taxpayers are properly accounted for.

Thomas Mallon

The Czech Republic, severed from its old Slovak half, sits in apparent landlocked contentment, inside the European Union but outside the troubled Euro Zone, set into the new Continental mosaic like one of the small sturdy paving stones, just a few inches square, that form the sidewalks under the visitor's ambling feet.

Thomas Pogge

It's easy to complain that pharmaceutical companies place profits over people and apparently care more about hair loss than TB. However, many in the pharmaceutical industry would be glad for the opportunity to reorient their research toward medicines that are truly needed, provided only that such research is financially sustainable.

Kage Baker

I saw the Kino print of 'The Man From Beyond,' but apparently a superior new print has been produced by Restored Serials. Maybe a few snippets of missing footage will close up some of the plot holes, but I have my doubts.

Thomas Hobbes

The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental.

Michael Vinciquerra

We believe that shares reflect significant optimism about the future of the combined NYSE/Archipelago model, and . . . challenges will only become apparent as the hybrid system and Regulation NMS are implemented during 2006.

Jon Huntsman

We have resources, yet, were dealing with imported oil prices that are causing pump prices to go through the roof.

Jeb Bush

There is deep concern about this storm causing more flooding in New Orleans,

Lucy Powell

Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and our reliance on oil will come to an abrupt and tumultuous end, causing global economic and social turmoil.

James Thompson

Unprecedented natural gas prices are causing the price increase.

Judith Curry

With this new paper, we firm up the link between the increase in sea surface temperatures and hurricane intensity, which has been a key issue in the debate about whether global warming is causing an increase in hurricane intensity.

Max Heindel

There is a side of the Moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor in causing the ebb and flow of the Earth's tide as the part of the Moon which is visible.

Sathya Baba

Meat and alcoholic drinks take a heavy toll on man's health, causing many a disease in him.

Jim Pringle

Last year was particularly mild. This year is closer to normal snowfall. I wouldn't be overly concerned with the late spring snowmelt causing flooding.

Frank Keating

severely compromised, causing undue hardship on livestock owners.

Carol Roth

Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal.

Robert Watson

We want to reinforce the fact that we're a global company.

Mark Hurd

We have to grow our company, invest and deal with competitive forces at the same time we need to be efficient on the cost side,

David Brown

We have no plans to make any significant changes. ... The mill won't close. We understand the importance of the company to the Longview community. We would expect a significant portion of management would stay in place.

Ben Hatfield

We have no interest in getting into finger-pointing of what went on a year ago. This is a mine that operated for some significant time before my company was involved with it.

Vijay Mallya

We have registered a company in the name of Kingfisher International in the US. We will be flying to India and other international destinations, provided we get all necessary approvals at the right time.

James Falvey

The Exxon-Mobil deal has definitely raised the bar. It's going to be hard to compete with a company that size.

Michael Armstrong

We set out to transform this company from a point-to-point long-distance company. The results today are strong. They need to be better, and they will be. But it's now time to recognize the value creation phase of our strategy.

Thayer David

Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.

Louise Christian

We want to see a prosecution of corporate manslaughter. This report has re-opened that possibility.

Vince Farrell

What the stock market is telling you is that the economy and corporate profits are going to recover sooner than thought.

Lou DiBella

We want his next fight to be in Little Rock, but it would have to make economic sense to us. I need to get a sense of the corporate reaction that, frankly, we haven't seen for the smaller fights in Little Rock. We need a gate that's competitive with Vegas.

Fabian Nunez

The fact of the matter is unions are outspent by corporate contributors 24 to one,

David Cobb

The real crime is the corporate hijacking of our democracy.

Debbie Miller

We developed a solution that extends the identity, security and manageability of the corporate desk phone to the wireless phone. It allows enterprises to be more responsive to their customers, encourages collaboration and increases sales opportunities by providing a mobile user with many essential PBX functions as if the user was at their desk.

Alan Arkin

[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.

Charles Wang

This realignment marks the logical transition from the founder phase of CA to the next level of corporate activity, which is more focused on enhancing shareholder value,

Carl Hiaasen

I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.

Eric Maskin

I entered economics because of a course I took on 'information economics,' which I found fascinating.

Andrew Patel

The plea that will be entered next Thursday will be 'not guilty'.

Ma Huateng

Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.

Stuart Hoffman

There is no question that we've entered a new era. The question seems to be how long it will continue, and the jury is still out on that one.

Russell Feingold

Mr. Chairman, if those items could be entered in the record?

Jakob Bohme

When the Soul that is sprung from God's Word and Will is entered into its own desire to will of itself, it will run in mere uncertainty till it return to its Original again.

Kofi Annan

New threats make no distinction between races, nations or regions. A new insecurity has entered every mind, regardless of wealth or status.

Kim Clijsters

If being the year-end number one was my main goal, I would have entered more tournaments. If it happens, great. If it doesn't, that's not going to make my year worse.

Jonathan Tasini

I entered this race because I refused to be silent about the immorality of the war in Iraq.

Charles Baudelaire

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.

Dee Hock

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

Sid Fleischman

Adult novels are as ephemeral as newspapers. Children's books stay in print for decades.

David Byrne

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

Dan Savage

I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but it's almost like doing radio. It's ephemeral.

Rafael Vinoly

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

Emilio Estevez

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

Frida Kahlo

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

Al Pacino

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

John Payne

The post office is able to measure at least $200 million in mail fraud per year. Anything they can do to prevent that only helps them.

Bruce Springsteen

I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

Bernard Ebbers

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud

Tim Potts

What a fraud this whole thing was. A procedural fraud.

Kevin Wilson

Ms Doherty might have had her heart in the right place for the people of her community, but it is fraud to falsify school roll returns.

Tony Dixon

Unless there is negligence or fraud there must be some sort of limitation of liabilities, such as a multiple of fees earned.

John Cape

We're looking at Medicaid fraud like we're a major company.

Benjamin Cardozo

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

Charles Spurgeon

You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?

Sherri Shepherd

I had a lot of guilt as a single mother trying to raise a child. I had to go to work and Jeffrey was screaming that he didn't want me to. You have to give yourself permission to let go of the guilt.

Brent Weeks

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

David D. Burns

Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is when you feel bad about who you are.

Catherine Deneuve

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

Kourtney Kardashian

After Mason was born, I'd feel guilty doing anything that wasn't related to work.

Jane Austen

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

Janet Reno

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.

Alan Watts

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Craig Callahan

Most people want stocks to go up all the time. We're back to normal and people don't like it, ... Investors that don't have the patience to ride through trading ranges won't be able to participate in the surge.

Hugh Johnson

Momentum investors are looking for something that works. What works is technology.

Dirk Becker

Many investors are speculating on a takeover offer.

Hideo Mizutani

Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).

Chris Shilakes

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

Mo Ibrahim

Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.

Ivan Glasenberg

It's nice to do an IPO where your investors get value straightaway and the share price pops up; it proves you left something on the table for them.

Suzanne Fields

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

Kathy Deck

We know we have the largest properties in the sample and what we are missing is going to be very small.

Lee Quillen

The plants that are going to be the largest 10 years from now should be the largest ones you put in the ground.

Craig Anderson

People were so moved by the power of what Sara and Yvonne have done, and it's the largest response I've had for any movie that I've done.

Henry Paulson

China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.

Nick Frey

I don't have any problem with it. It may not be the largest in volume in the state, but the old vines have the longest tradition of the major varietals.

Jeff Cook

This will be one of our largest premarkets we've ever had.

Kevin Nelson

We had 80 entries for the parade and about 150 vehicles and floats. This is probably the largest parade we have ever had.

Rep. Nitz

With agriculture and manufacturing, this package links up two of Michigan's largest industries.

Peter Cardillo

Obviously, we are not going to see some substantial gains, but I think we will be able to retrace some of these losses by the end of the week.

Dontrelle Willis

I don't even know what WHIP means, ... They were so similar, I have no idea. Maybe because I had more losses than him. That's the only thing I can see off the top of my head.

Rick Carlisle

Every win is important when playoff position is at stake. We've had a string of road losses that's been really tough on us so getting back on track was important.

Levance Fields

We've just had some mental breakdowns. We have wins with this young team and we have losses with this young team. It is what it is now. We have to get better.

Sam Powell

We had some unfortunate situations. We had some eventful losses that we probably shouldn't have had, a suspension, and on top of that, we had a young team.

Dan Moser

You know what, if I saw a team with six losses I'd probably think we should go in and spank them.

Michelle Finch

We know that the losses are in the millions.

Arlen Specter

There are some losses that the president has sustained, but by and large, I think that the president has won.

Pat Risley

We're 10-6, but you really have to look at our losses. All of the losses go right down the poll.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Martin Broughton

The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,

Raymond Hack

We are proud of the performance of our team in the first leg.

Anthony Chukumba

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

Brandon Sanderson

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

Brian Tracy

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

Bob Gunton

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Softbank's poor performance is especially weighing on sentiment.

H. Hunt

She stays cool. She pulls out the big performance on the big day.

David Graeber

In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.

Larry Neumann

Understand this about that scrimmage. We didn't scheme any for Jasper.

James Farrior

I think our scheme is very difficult. It seems like we do a lot of different things and, if you don't play us that often and you have never seen anything that we've done, it's going to be tough.

Dave Attell

I have no grand scheme.

Frank Herbert

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

Jack Warner

They are critical, they are important, but in the (overall) scheme of things they are not mind-boggling.

Matt Hasselbeck

There really isn't a weakness I see right now. Their scheme is so sound.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

Jeffrey Eugenides

She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

David Graeber

In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.

Dave Attell

I have no grand scheme.

Frank Herbert

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

Jeffrey Eugenides

She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

Etgar Keret

Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

Holly Black

It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.

Peter Greene

My suspicion is the stock is not doing much now, it's not earth-shattering.

Brian Hill

Obviously, (CMGI) stock should be up with Lycos,

Robert D. Hare

I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.

Joseph Lisanti

We like it even though the stock has been weak recently.

Brunello Cucinelli

I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Monica Seles

What I put in the stock market, I don't have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.

Jim Cramer

I got a subpoena because I said that a stock was going lower.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Charlotte Bronte

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

Charles E. Wilson

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.

Charles Dickens

Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering

Charles Dickens

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Caleb Colton

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

Don Cheadle

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.

David Shore

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

David McCullough

We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.

Carl Bernstein

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Aasif Mandvi

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.

Brent Scowcroft

Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.

Diane Wakoski

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

David Graeber

States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.

Byron Katie

Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.

Olympia Snowe

We are here today because we want to be responsible stewards of the surplus,

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

John Hope Franklin

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.