Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Ward

We have no basis to know whether it's a legitimate expense or not. What do any of us know about accounting? That's what we hire professionals to do.

Tom Gallagher

What these numbers have done this morning is raise a question: Does the Fed have the nerve to raise by 50 basis points (a half percentage point) next week?

Richard Cripps

We've set up a situation where a 25 basis point (a quarter percentage point) cut is good but you're looking at a market that's desperate.

Brett Scallions

The exposure will be great and plus -- it's Aerosmith! ... They're legends. It's going to be really cool. I mean, how cool would it be to be on a first-name basis with Steven Tyler?

Suzanne Collins

There's a basis for the war, historically, in the 'Hunger Games,' which would be the third servile war, which was Spartacus' war, where you have a man who is a slave who is then turned into a gladiator who broke out of the gladiator school and led a rebellion and then became the face of the war.

Stephan Pastis

The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it's constantly this fire at my heels.

Tom Hopper

I think I found that when I was doing a show on a regular basis and just acting constantly, that was when I was at my happiest.

Tony Hoare

It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and at the most unexpected times - will be the basis of revolutionary improvements in the way that we exploit the power of our future computing devices.

Sue Trinh

The outlook for rates is to the downside on the basis of the slowing growth environment. Any view that the relatively high nominal interest rate structure will be enough to insulate the New Zealand dollar is dead wrong.

Marion Blakey

We have simply concluded that the gap between us is too large to continue these negotiations.

Elan Steinberg

Six months after we concluded our negotiations with the Swiss, the Soviets disclose records showing there is much more Nazi gold in Switzerland.

Rush Limbaugh

From my point of view, the end result will be as if I had gone to court and won, but the matter is concluded much sooner. I have spent thousands of hours and millions of dollars with lawyers over the past 27 months fighting this at every stage.

Christopher Bond

I have concluded that the current controversy has completely overshadowed our efforts to expand the American dream to all Americans.

Alex Spanos

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

Edgar Ramirez

I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist.

Conrad Black

From the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties, I approached Rome at a snail's pace. Having concluded that God existed, I could not seriously entertain the thought of not trying to be in contact with Him.

Carlton Cuse

When 'Lost' was over, we expected that there'd be some people who'd really like it and other people who wouldn't. The Emmy nominations are an indication to us that there were a fair number of people who did like the way we concluded our story.

Kevin Lewis

We concluded we were looking for something new and students were looking for something new.

Quincy Allen

We want our customers to be able to tell the difference.

Sandy Carter

We've seen a trend in the marketplace for customers who are really looking for a more lightweight ESB product.

Jeff Benjamin

We've seen a slight increase. Some of the customers that we've had who haven't been with us for a few years are starting to come back. I wouldn't say it's huge, but it's a noticeable increase. I just took a rough figure last week, and I think in one day we had 30 to 40 tons to be delivered.

Tom Henley

The fact that natural gas prices are going down now is obviously good for us and the customers and what we have been hoping for.

Susan Rosenberg

We have so many customers with merchandise sitting on loading docks. We think we've got a long way to restore trust in our customers.

Ed Fuller

We set out to find out what our customers wanted and that's what we have delivered.

Craig Beilinson

We know customers can't just flip a switch and move to a new OS. We want to make sure they simply deploy the pieces they're ready for, when they're ready for them.

Shane Evangelist

We know Blockbuster Online customers love the value and flexibility the free in-store movie rentals offer, so we decided to give them even more.

Peter Graf

Vendor consolidation is a major trend that forces customers to consolidate their IT (information technology) landscape, ... They're redrawing their landscape without those smaller vendors who they see as being most at risk.

Marcus Giles

We want to prove that we're going to be someone to deal with in this division.

Richard Costigan

We have no idea until the federal regulations are promulgated how, in fact, they will deal with California.

Charles Sumner

We have never dealt with the dollars we are dealing with today,

John Howard

What the show deals with is how difficult it can be. It involves people from every walk of life and they all take an enormous risk.

Art Hogan

When you see a deal of this size, obviously (Washington Mutual) is still acquirable,

Rich Cleveland

When you score five points in a quarter, even when they score only 10, it's hard to deal with. The guys lost some confidence.

Billy Duffy

When you're trying to sell something -- and we took a fairly big record deal when they were still going around -- we felt a lot of pressure to live up to that and perform. I think that at this point, we're a lot happier just playing live music. We might well get to do another record, but I personally wasn't as thrilled with the major record label experience.

Mark Hamilton

We want seminars that will really engage these delegates in discussions about the issues that must have been dealt with at the Constitutional Conference,

Eddie Jordan

We wanted to win this game in the worst way. Its a tough, tough loss, but we have to deal with it and get ready for Miami tomorrow night.

Robert Duncan

There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise.

Barclays Capital

The possibility for a non-benign solution to the dispute leaves open the risk for higher prices in the short term.

Juvenal

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

Aristotle

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Michael Birdwell

We're hoping that it will generate some interest and support so we can go back and finish up and settle the dispute once and for all, without a doubt.

Mike Gascoyne

Obviously it is the end of an era but nobody can dispute that Toyota has made a big step forward over the last two seasons.

Hans Hofmann

Nobody would dispute that I'm giving him a centrality he doesn't generally have.

Mandy Moore

I had just laid down to go to sleep and got up to use the restroom and I thought it was just like a dispute or something.

Rep. Lang

I had hoped to use my appointment to overcome the dispute over individuals. Unfortunately, my own appointment is now suddenly drawing unnecessary controversy which risks further undermining the commission's larger purpose.

Jeff Moore

We have safely evacuated 1,303 employees and contractors,

Terry McAteer

The fact of the matter is, that was a school day because we called our employees to work. Therefore, they were paid for that day of service. So it can't be a snow day at the point because you have your employees at the work place.

Karen Friedman

There are a lot of employees who are going to be fighting back this year. That's another story -- the employee pension revolution!

Kim Petersen

The people working in these port operations, regardless of who owns them, will be exclusively American ... the same employees working for P&O.

Cathy Mann

Where they're getting those details, we don't know. We did have three employees killed ... not four that they're reporting.

Bill Daly

We rescheduled this game because so many fans and Panthers employees have left the area, and because we want to ensure safe travels into and out of Florida for the teams and the officials. We thank the Senators and Panthers for their cooperation.

Mario Hernandez

We've got a massive operation of vendors. We want to grow this facility to 10,000 employees with Toyota and vendors.

Dustin Moskovitz

Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.

Bob Phillips

We respect the right of our employees to organize,

Dave Lockett

From an organizational standpoint, there haven't been any discussions; he's still firmly entrenched (here).

Condoleezza Rice

I can tell you firmly and without any contradiction that this is a terrific list, a really good government, and we are very pleased with the names that have emerged.

Stanley Fischer

The recovery is not firmly in place. There is no reason to withdraw stimulus right now. The need is to make sure that the recovery in Japan is self-sustained -- and that means it's hard to see any good reason for monetary policy to tighten.

Jiang Zemin

We will firmly ... safeguard the Hong Kong residents' rights and freedoms in accordance with the law,

Cecily Strong

When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea.

Tamara Tunie

Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

Brian Young

He was firmly opposed to oppression and he recognized God in everyone.

Jonathan Klein

I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp.

Ivo Sanader

It is not true and I firmly reject it,

Phil Smith

We were at the gate and refused entry.

Cheryl Crowder

Until that's done it's still kind of guessing. We had 11,000 through the gate last year, and I feel pretty comfortable saying we had at least that many.

Stacy Adams

When I was manning these gates with the military, we had between 20 to 25 officers. But the normal operation for this management is 10 to 14.

Mayor Cartmell

Maysville really couldn't do without it now. It is an extraordinary gateway to Kentucky.

Danielle Tiedt

Search is now the Web gateway to information. It's not just search for what's on the Web. Our end goal is, every question somebody has, we want to be able to answer. You can't do that with just Web pages.

Fred Perry

With the statue and gates with my name, it's all a great thrill. People are now saying ' I'll meet you at the Perry statue'. It's a strange feeling, makes you feel a little queasy. It's a beautifully-done statue. People don't know how I used to be, they only know me as I am now.

Dave Heiss

We knew they were going to come in here and battle. They started out of the gates quick and we were a little sluggish, but I thought our kids kept their composure.

Swami Sivananda

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

Alberto Tomba

Giorgio tried to push away from the gates during the race as I suggested to him. But unfortunately he was wrong. He made a mistake. It shouldn't have happened.

Marie Brennan

When I'm working on a novel, I generally do write every day, but in between those marathons, I take breaks. My brain needs time to recharge.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.

Ma Kai

The outline reflects the general will of the public.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

John Noble

'Lord Of The Rings' fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.

John Eaton

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Brent Neiser

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

Leander Paes

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Mike Flynn

arbitrator, negotiator, liberator, judge, jury, coach, mentor, short-order cook, gourmet chef, taxi driver, doctor, nurse and friend.

Sharon Henderson

It's such a strong smell, they think it's a gourmet meal,

Nicole Mones

Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners.

Carol Shields

We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

Carlos Castaneda

Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing me.

Carlos Castaneda

A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.

C. S. Lewis

I don't want to hold you hand!

Aaron Tveit

I can clap with one hand.

Alan K. Simpson

It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the Federal government to reimburse them for costs attributable to illegal immigrants, when on the other hand the State and local governments prohibit their own law enforcement and other officials from cooperating with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to locate or apprehend or expel illegal aliens.

Alan Keyes

Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.

Charlotte Bronte

I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester

Charlotte Bronte

... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.'

Carlos Gonzalez

I'm more focused at the plate- that's the key.

Charlotte Bronte

Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity had not yet found the key.

Charles Dickens

If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine - which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity - it is the key to many reservations.

Charles Spurgeon

A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.

Onnie Shekerjian

When you get to local issues, it's all about problem-solving for the community, and he's a person who'd be willing to do that, to transcend political party lines. That willingness is the key to success.

Frank Allocco

We have six seniors that just play off each other as one. We don't have one key guy. We're going to have to play some defense.

DJ Paul

Now when it comes to getting bread I got the keys to the bakery

DJ Quik

The key to success is to be easy to work with.

David Tepper

This company looks cheap, that company looks cheap, but the overall economy could completely screw it up. The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

Michael Jackson

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.

William Cowper

When this poor, lisping, stammering tongue/ Lies silent in the grave.

Cassandra Gash

I don't know where the responsibility lies, but I know I've done everything I can do.

Mark Twain

I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

Thomas Moore

The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.

John T. Flynn

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

Adlai E. Stevenson

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Imron Cotan

We will be telling lies if we said there has been a genocide.

Martha Beck

Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing, and solving our real problems.

Tom Odell

I think I subconsciously put myself in these situations where the girlfriend isn't pleased with me. I'm useless as a boyfriend. That's how I managed to write all these songs.

Barney Bishop

We are pleased with the turnout. We have some legislators, but we'd like to have some more.

Stuart Rose

We are pleased with the progress we are making but there remains much to do.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case.

Don Horner

We are pleased with the bank's first-quarter performance.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organization.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organisation.

Liz Boyd

We are pleased to see (Lansing) step up.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to report another strong quarter for SAP,

Bruce Eric Kaplan

When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.

Sarah Snook

I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' came out, I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'

Lyle Bauer

What we didn't want was it to be sort of a one-hit wonder.

Nigel Kneale

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

Kiesza

I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea, I tend to just go for it and see what happens.

John Godfrey

Until they sort it out, we're not going to get in the way.

Ernie Hudson

I think it's important to find the joy in your work and the things that sort of renew that.

Paul Souza

We're sort of bucking the trend a little bit.

Desmond Soon

Let's see what sort of spreads it comes out at.

Charles Stanley

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

Diane Wakoski

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

Dave Barry

This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat content.

Chow Yun-Fat

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

Edith Wharton

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Barry Commoner

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

Alfred North Whitehead

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

Karl Marx

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

Nhat Hanh

The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?

Colleen Barrett

We’re in the Customer Service business—we just happen to provide airline transportation.

Jerry Bruckheimer

We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

Vladimir Putin

This is a region [ Far East] with a substantially developed transport and railroad infrastructure. In recent years we have been actively developing road connection.

Brian Herbert

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

James Nesbitt

When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist.

Lech Walesa

I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.

Tony Blair

I think the union has come out of this strengthened, not weakened,

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Bill Shorten

My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the union than not in the union.

Bill Shorten

To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which arent in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.