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.

Jeff Montgomery

We have to go out to see what others are doing in order to bring new things back here. We try to give back to our communities.

Thomas Donohue

We have to get over the paranoia and start bringing people to the US.

Ian Collins

We have a special player in Andy. He always brings his best.

Brian Nelson

We have no intention of duplicating those efforts. We get incredible content from our partners, but in this case, we are covering largely under-reported stories and bringing them to our audience.

Tommy Amaker

We have no choice and it's going to be a tough game. It's going to be a competitive game and I'll be very disappointed if we don't bring the fight and spirit that we had here tonight.

Scott Hodkinson

Whenever we play Lee you know they are going to bring some intensity with them. I was pleased with our effort.

Bree Larson

Whenever something good happens in the game before, we'll bring it into the next game and carry it through.

Barry Ritholtz

When you see a 250-point spurt like that in less than two months, that's not sustainable. What this pullback is doing, and I think will continue to do, is bring us back to a more sustainable level.

Toba Beta

When you saw a wounded who cry out for help, you may be the one sent by God to bring a favor.

Jim Sherman

We've seen where young guys are somewhat already damaged goods when they come out of high school. They've had some problems before, but it really doesn't come to the forefront until they get to college.

Geoff Coulson

We have reports of damage -- tree damage right now fairly significant, also some reports of some vehicles that were overturned, and reports of damage to at least one home in the area.

Nobutaka Machimura

There is no doubt that (the visit) will damage Japan-China relations,

Leigh Matthews

The poor bugger. It's been 12 months (since he initially damaged his knee).

Don Childress

We are going to make it very specific as to what the process will be and what the differences are between a general season, a management season and a game damage season.

Eva Vertes

It seems that cancer is a direct result to injury. If you smoke, you damage your lung tissue, and then lung cancer arises. If you drink, you damage your liver, and then liver cancer occurs.

Jeff Schexnaider

We did not execute the simple plays. We were not prepared mentally, and when we did get focused, the damage had been done.

Jeff Schexnaider

We did not execute on the simple parts of the game tonight. We were not ready mentally and when we got focused, the damage had been done. Hopefully, we can come out and be ready to play a full nine innings on Saturday.

Dave Miller

We did find some damage we didn't find before.

Kevin Campbell

We want to provide an educational model where students can operate on a smaller scale and not fall between the cracks. We want to make sure the teachers know the students on a deeper level, their passions and the things they want to pursue in the future. That makes education relevant for them.

Donald Driver

We have to get ourselves out of the hole, ... Right now, we are in the deep hole.

Charles Spurgeon

I am not superstitious, but the first time I saw this medal, bearing the venerated likeness of John Calvin, I kissed it, imagining that no one saw the action. I was very greatly surprised when I received this magnificent present, which shall be passed round for your inspection. On the one side is John Calvin with his visage worn by disease and deep thought, and on the other side is a verse fully applicable to him: 'He endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.

Terry Hoeppner

There are a lot of dimensions to Lance Bennett. He's deep and wide.

Marty Stuart

When I did suit back up and put the Superlatives together, I had a lot of trouble in my mind following ( The Pilgrim ). I was doing a session one day with Cash, and I said, 'You've made lots of brilliantly deep records that weren't on anybody's radar except yours. I'm having a tough time following this Pilgrim thing.' He said, 'The only thing I can tell you is that your next record has to come out of your heart like that one did, or it's just a wasted work. Once you make a record like that, you can't go back and live with yourself.' And he was right.

Azim Premji

You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.

Terry Hayes

On a deeper level, I think many stories - especially thrillers - can be a journey to the heart of darkness.

Nancy Buirski

What we do is we see it deeper and we see it more focused.

Enya

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

John Hall

We'll see what happens, ... We don't really know how extensive it is, so we'll wait and see.

John Eklund

She does have a pretty extensive history. But she's never been a violent person.

Paul Powers

Because of the extensive damage, there are many isolated outages that take more time to restore.

Charles Carlson

No one thinks of them being overwhelmingly important, but our relationships with them have been really intensive and extensive over the years.

Rubin Carter

I have mandated to our staff to get out and meet coaches. They need to see our logo. They need to know that we are out doing extensive evaluations on their players academically and athletically. FAMU will be visible.

Kristanna Loken

I did extensive training and through that worked with a nutritionist, so I put on about 15 pounds of muscle mass.

Karl Gawell

There is no state with more extensive resources than Nevada.

Thomas Hanke

We are shocked about the symptoms we have seen in the volunteers. Extensive pre-clinical tests showed no sign of any risk.

Kim Cattrall

A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the actors are learning about the characters.

Jason Chaffetz

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

Stewart Udall

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.

Dan Hopkins

The process will take as much time as the process needs. CDOT officials and federal officials will run the process as they see fit.

Joseph Biden

Ultimately, all the federal government does is not going to be able to get the job done without your aid.

Alex Penelas

We are holding the federal government responsible, and specifically (Attorney General) Janet Reno and the president of the United States, for anything that may occur in this community,

David Phelps

We are heavily focused on the federal marketplace; it's 98 percent of our revenue.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Larry Wachtel

We remain in a stimulus vacuum and the underlying motif this week will be the Federal Reserve meeting next week.

Scott Hand

We have seen a downturn in nickel prices during the third quarter and into the fourth quarter,

Chris Morris

We have to find out what happened between the first four weeks and the past four weeks. This offense isn't as productive. We have the same people, but we're not clicking.

Bob Cavanagh

We have a solid four to work around.

Ron Ledbetter

We have nine kids who have a solid shot of qualifying. Our other four entries have an outside shot of qualifying.

Daniel Becker

What the president is proposing will only save two weeks of oil over a four year period of time, not very impressive.

Paul DiPietro

When you see a team play together like we did, with four lines, that's how teams win. We have great goaltending and then anything can happen.

Kristy Curry

When you see a team do what they did, win four games in four days, that says a lot about their will to get it done.

Gigi Hadid

When you're two, three, four years old, it's not really modelling. You run around, and they give you toys in a fun place, and they take pictures of you playing.

Graeme Souness

We want more of the same from our back four tomorrow. We know that if we can keep Portsmouth out we have the players who can score goals at the other end,

Bill Maher

There is good news. Scientists sent a probe down there in the Gulf of Mexico today and they found traces of seawater.

Bill Zollars

Many of the local programs funded by United Way will play an important role in helping hurricane victims who fled the Gulf Coast, and have at least temporarily relocated here.

Richard LaBounty

We bounced back after a tough loss to Gulf Breeze. I'm very proud of our approach.

John Herrlin

Unless the winter is polar, Gulf of Mexico natural-gas output will be back.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I am so proud to be partnering with Waterkeepers, who are the voice for the Gulf Coast's waters.

J. Taylor

If all the steel is heading to the Gulf for rebuilding because of (Hurricane) Katrina, it could increase our costs.

Richard Knabb

We're looking at a major hurricane in the east-central Gulf later this week.

Andy Serkis

There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.

Terry Francl

The port of New Orleans, the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River system are the heart of the logistical transportation system for our exports.

Larry Ellison

We have no large acquisitions in mind right now.

William Reynolds

We have never seen this large number of people in such a short period of time.

Bob Bertini

We use larger size tomatoes in sandwiches and haven't been able to secure them with the quality and quantity that we would like.

Suzanne Fields

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

Anna Kendrick

When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.

Kathy Deck

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

Ann Davis

Ultimately this is a win-win for TSA in that we are going to be screening a subset of passengers at another location, thereby removing those individuals from a checkpoint line at a larger airport.

Julie Gerberding

The potential for infecting large numbers of people is great,

Nicolas Roeg

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

Bruce Smith

We were blazing. Six months after we opened, 9/11 happened.

Alan Trammell

Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.

Olympia Snowe

The reality is, this is a very different world than where we were even six months ago,

Shimon Peres

The pope said he will go in the first months of next year.

Dianna Agron

There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen.

Jane Austen

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Jane Austen

Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

Delta Goodrem

If I get a cold, it lasts for a month.

Dan Ariely

Why would you take money out of your paycheck at the beginning of the month when you don't know how much money you'll need?

Richard Walker

The offshore oil is vitally important. We have to use the only resources that we have.

Charlie Crist

When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.

David Suzuki

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

David Suzuki

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

Jared Bernstein

What you don't hear from these GOP candidates is that they really can't go after this president on domestic production of oil and gas. He's actually done quite a lot. In fact, I would suspect they're environmentalists who are worried that we're doing too much drilling and fracking, in fact. I know that for a fact.

Chris Chocola

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

Chloe Bridges

My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Moroccan Oil is some really good stuff. Plus, I can't live without my Burt's Bees lip balm!

Chinua Achebe

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

Cheryl Strayed

...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

Stephen Stanley

We're in a pretty quiet time of the year. We've been pretty directionless today. Oil hasn't been doing much.

Nicki Grossman

We have never, ever been 100 percent full. There are always rooms.

Stan Heath

We've seen some zones this year, but Texas-Pan American will play zone about 80 percent of the time.

Greg Sullivan

We've seen discounts up to 50 percent off, but those are not the norm.

Larry Matheis

We've seen a stabilizing of the market. We're not seeing 80 or 100 percent increases.

David Winters

What we do is quite different from 99.9 percent of Wall Street.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Mario Pescante

We are preparing very well but it is not possible to be 100 percent secure.

Don Davis

We usually keep it between 40 to 50 percent relative humidity, and around 65 to 70 degrees.

Amy Jo Martin

Instagram has become one of my favorite platforms because of its simplicity.

Shari Arison

I don't think of myself as a powerful person. But I do use the platforms I have to make a difference in the world. Anyone who has a position where they can make a difference should use it.

Jim Desler

We feel our products and platforms are as secure as any out there, ... unmatched.

Phil Hill

If you get your education, then you've got your platform set up for you.

Michael Burdette

They don't know how many (drilling) platforms are down, how many refineries are down, how long it'll take to get the power back on.

Dana McClintock

We've been talking and are still talking about new platforms of all sorts." ()

John Carpenter

A lot of things that come out of the university are enabling-types of technologies or platforms that can be licensed.

Brian France

You've got a lot of new platforms that are clamoring for high-end sports content.

Yuri Milner

Facebook is a platform inside a platform.

Grayson White

The production and recording is a big step up.

Ed Miller

We're getting production from different people. They're working well as a team.

Dee Brown

When you get opportunities, you have to step up and take them. We need production from our bench.

H. Hart

We are shooting for resuming the production in mid-September.

Phil Martens

We must be able to ramp up production and migrate the technology to more models, but we can't do that if the know-how resides abroad.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Rick Perry

Hopefully, they'll be back in production very soon,

Mark Klein

I wouldn't want to say how much production has been slowed, but it has been slowed. Definitely.

Michael R. Bloomberg

We have six weeks to go, ... With your help, we can make it happen.

Janice Dickinson

Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections.

Bryan Clay

I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

Betty Shabazz

Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.

Anthony Trollope

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Bob Eastwood

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Jessie Pettit

Six times now, huh. That's not too bad.

Bam Margera

Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.

Linda Price

We're going to be with them a lot for at least the first six months, then slowly wean them. We're not just going to throw them into an apartment.

Bob Bennett

She has no case, she has suffered no damages, she was never harassed,

Luiz Scolari

We suffered a lot, and when it was over, it was over,

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Adam Ferrara

When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Jane Austen

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

Agnes Varda

My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.

Charles Dickens

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

Ricky Gervais

I like my baths really deep and hot. But washing everything only takes a few minutes. So I thought it would be a waste to just flush all that water away. So there was nothing else to do but take pictures of myself trying to look as horrendous as possible. Oh my, what have I started?

Brian Eno

I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle.With a label on it.

Don Cheadle

Water is an issue, and, clearly, what's happening with the filth in our environment and the levels of carbon monoxide in our atmosphere are the really scary issues right now, the very troubling ones.

David Miliband

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.

David Knopfler

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Dave Barry

Sir,” James asked, “what are we going to do?” “We’re going to look for water,” said Alf. “And food?” said Tubby Ted. “Water first,” said Alf. “We can go days without food.” “We can what?” Tubby Ted shouted.

Dave Barry

Turbulence: This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, "Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence." Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water buffalo organs off the windshield.