Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lorie Kessler

The bottom line is that, when you start taking a look at the accounting differences, it comes down to we're about $117 million higher than Consumers and about two-thirds of that can be attributable to health care and pension benefits.

Steven Snyder

This contract is another opportunity to apply and demonstrate ACS' aptitude for innovation. We look forward to creating and implementing customized collection and loan accounting solutions for DT that will provide a solid foundation to support its rapid growth objectives. Our Consumer Finance Solutions team will bring ACS' proprietary technology and best-in-class service and support to DT.

Gerardo Copca

Each day the uncertainty surges and investor non-confidence increases amid the rise in cases of creative accounting in the United States.

Michael Davies

Establishing LEA Europe and LEA Asia Pacific enables us to deliver a unique advantage -- best-in-class strategies and processes, faster new service development cycles, improved recruiting and retention and accelerated profitability -- to accounting firms around the world.

Marjorie Brody

What seemed to be doable in July all of a sudden seems to drag and drag, and at the last minute, there's this crunch to meet shareholder expectations or the accounting end of things,

Paul Sutcliffe

For the first time, this document proposes international accounting standards for the recognition and measurement of the main sources of revenue for most governments and their entities - that is, taxes and transfers, including a wide range of non-exchange revenues. The exposure draft will provide guidance to those countries searching for accounting policies to deal with this complex area.

Michael Ramsey

I think we're going to have a case that's largely about accounting allegations...where the government is going to refuse to call either David Duncan, who was the chief engagement partner for Arthur Andersen, or Rick Causey.

Michael Gross

Investors looked to KPMG for tax advice. They looked to us as an investment adviser to execute a variety of stock and option transactions, We got out of the business of working with large accounting firms more than five years ago.

Bill Brunson

If you want to be an expert in accounting and tax law, then the Internal Revenue Service is the place for you. In fact the IRS is one of the largest single employers of professional accountants.

Mike Greene

This is huge for the town. We will now use this Internet utility for economic development and distinguish ourselves.

Wang Ziqiang

This is not because of foreign pressure. This is about the country's economic development.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

Mir Nasir

The miserable power situation must improve to help sustain our economic growth.

Thein Sein

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

James Gaston

You can't do right by the students in an economic vacuum,

Tom Schrader

We had such big gains yesterday that it is not unusual for us to consolidate a little bit. Then, oil's down but gasoline is up and that is counterbalancing each other. The economic news we had this morning was less than inspiring.

Lauryn Hill

I had an economic system imposed on me.

David Emery

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

Michael Ching

We expect to maintain our estimates at $1.05 a share for 2000 and $1.43 for 2001, so Motorola remains the most attractively valued stock in our universe, at 23 times 2001 EPS estimates.

Ralph Acampora

In technology, I think I would go with the big ones. I'd go with IBM ( IBM : Research , Estimates ). That would be my first pick in the technology area.

Kevin Good

When the spread is wide, packers are forced into the market and producers have leverage. When the spread narrows, packers have the leverage.

E. P. Thompson

I thought it was a really good team effort. I thought we played well, defensively, and we forced them to take some tough shots all night. We did a good job on the boards.

Daryl Hall

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

Randy Dunn

In one sense, we have now a much better picture about (how) various groups of students are doing, because this law has really forced us to peel back and look back at performance for various groups of students.

Bernard Haykel

Being put on top of each other and forced to masturbate, being naked in front of each other &#8212 it's all a form of torture.

Don Davidson

We had some nice looks, but not a lot of them. We had trouble moving the ball, and we forced some shots also.

Bobby Knight

They impress me as much as any team I have seen in this league. We made a lot of mistakes, but most of them were forced as a result of the way they play.

Meat Loaf

It may have made me stronger because I was forced to be on my own when I was not very old-18,

Charles Clark

It's going to decimate business. We're forced to find another use for the site.

Douglas Coupland

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

Burt Rutan

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

David J. C. MacKay

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

Sid Ryan

Every day that they put this legislation off to the future is more time to negotiate.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

Pattie Boyd

I'm one of these people who couldn't imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day.

Ashton Whidden

We gave it to them. It's a little hard to swallow, but you have to look to the future and hope to get better at what you do.

Bill Evans

The original mission of the Partnership for America's Future was to celebrate, enshrine and archive the great ideas of America's youth.

Steve Jordan

We hit it off during those sessions. I was very impressed with his guitar playing, more than anything, and I thought I would like to work more with him in the future on various projects. So any time I got something that I thought he might be interested in I would let him know.

Ryutaro Kono

The rise in the numbers shows that growth is on a solid footing.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Sidney Poitier

I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

Peter Graves

I wish this season were two weeks longer, as these men and women are getting better by the week. What's really pleasing is that, to a person on this squad, the technique improvements and the growth in speed and tempo are really on the upswing.

Stuart Rossmiller

If they're going to get a venture-capital rate of return on what has traditionally been a slow growth business, they will have to revolutionize the educational publishing market.

Kent Newcomb

Sixteen percent growth is outstanding. There's no other way to put it.

Wayne Pivac

I've been in touch with Nicky and will be doing the same over the months to come.

Scott Speedman

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

Charles III

For those two months of off-season in November and December, it's nice to be able to practice whenever you choose, not when the weather chooses.

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Yann Martel

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

Ashley Giles

I haven't been able to sleep for months because I was too tense. Now I can't sleep at night because I'm too excited.

Liev Schreiber

I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't.

Richard Greenberg

It's weird, because I don't feel prolific. I don't write anything for months at a time.

S. Truett Cathy

If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.

Shaun White

I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.

Michael Ian Black

The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

Teri Garr

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women

Max Scherzer

Instead, the Nationals will pay Scherzer $15 million per season, but do so for 14 years; essentially, they’ve deferred half of each season’s salary seven years into the future.

Tom Taulli

Seven years ago Buy.com had sizzle. But this doesn't have a lot of sizzle to it.

O. Singh

Seven shots around here is not much at all,

Fabiola Gianotti

String theories, for instance, they require seven additional dimensions. So, as experimentalists we should, with our high-tech instruments like the Large Hadron Collider, just listen to nature and to what nature wants to tell us.

Fiona Apple

The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Andre Dubus

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

Larry Wall

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Mackenzie Astin

Life can only be understood backwards.

Tim Bedwell

We are short on the street, but they're in the pipeline.

Brad Williams

Women feel safe with me. Because a woman with me knows that she can stop the situation from advancing to a point that she's comfortable at any time.

Russell Dynes

We really haven't had a situation like this.

B. R. Hayden

We'll have to take a look at it and see what the situation is and find out what's going on.

Bill Belichick

Every situation is independent. It takes two parties, or three to a point, to make a deal, and when that happens, we have one, and if it doesn't, we don't.

Sha Zukang

This situation is very undemocratic, unfair and unreasonable,

Christopher Paolini

Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?

Alicia Keys

If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.

Steven Soderbergh

I find myself in situations a lot where I have to say to someone, "This can be better," and it's hard to say that.

Viktor E. Frankl

Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!

Michael Lombardi

This is not about justice, this is not about the law. This is about politics. There is a lot at stake here for us.