Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

John Roberts

We can contend that we have already done what the statute envisions, ... The president has demanded an accounting from the Soviets, and has done so repeatedly.

John Tyson

Unfortunately, it will be impossible to complete the cash tender offer by the 28th. IBP continues to work with the SEC to resolve their accounting issues. After that work is complete, we will determine what effect these matters will have on our deal.

Sam Buell

WorldCom could occur in any era, it's more traditional book cooking. It's hard to think of another one of these cases really is like Enron in the sense that it raises fundamental questions of accounting and financial reporting.

Sean Clark

We feel that the traditional accounting measures designed to capture physical assets are deficient in capturing the full value of a firm.

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.

Nick Jones

Until now, mobile e-mail has been a senior executive toy. We're at the cusp of when it starts moving from an executive niche market to a mainstream corporate market.

Scotty George

What we're seeing today and what we have been seeing for the last week is a drying up of sentiment as investors wait for some definitive resolution of world events and some new corporate catalysts.

Carl Hiaasen

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

Art Hogan

We're still in the pre-reporting season, so, we'll hear more warnings from corporate America, hopefully more positive than negative in terms of guidance.

Jimmie Johnson

We're still at the Brickyard, right? It's all corporate dollars and we all have to do what we can to put food on the table.

Joseph Quinlan

We've got a strong tone for the market. Expectations for corporate earnings are good, economic growth is good and there's good M&A activity.

Pierre McGuire

Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux created a whole new genre of players.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism.

Michael Steele

The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.

Ghazi Hamad

The position of the (Interior Ministry) general inspector was not created by the government, it had been there before the new government was formed.

Aaron McFarland

We were totally playing their style most of the game. Then their player got hurt and we started playing our style which is 1-2 touch pass. We didn't wake up but once we did, we created chances.

Anthony Romero

There is no question that U.S. interrogations have resulted in deaths. High-ranking officials who knew about the torture and sat on their hands and those who created and endorsed these policies must be held accountable.

The Edge

One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community, and I feel very much part of it.

Tom Brookes

What we're saying is that the documentation has been created to the same standard.

Steve Sampson

What a disappointing way to finish the match, especially after creating so many opportunities that we should have put away. It should have easily been 2-1 at halftime. We played to win, we created enough opportunities to win, and we didn't handle the last few minutes of the game very well at all.

Ken Burns

We want them to stop the current arrangement, share it with the public and hold hearings.

Ian Shepherdson

There are currently more than a million displaced people, and I don't expect many of them to be back at work by the time of the September payroll survey.

Wang Li

There are currently many problems at the policy level, the technical level and the administrative level.

Kevin Flanagan

We still think the fundamentals will come back and rise from current levels.

Jim Copeland

We're in pretty good shape, considering the current landscape.

Ed Churchwell

We're incredibly excited about this. No one, on my team at least, and no astronomers that I know, could ever in their wildest dreams have expected to find a single region like this with so many stars currently in the process of being built.

John Thain

We have to focus on the revenue side, we have to focus on the expense side and make sure we can earn to justify the current market value.

Charles Horton Cooley

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

Hal Rogers

There is no question that mistakes were made; however, it is currently hard to separate fact from fictions and reality from rhetoric,

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched.

James Blumenthal

What the studies are showing is that exercise, at least when performed in a group setting, seems to be at least as effective as standard antidepressant medications in reducing symptoms in patients with major depression,

Bob Ross

If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.

Jeff Gundy

There is no question that he will be competitive and high energy. But how effective he would be, really, I don't have any idea. We'll have to see.

Nicholas Jarecki

I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.

Larry Lucchino

Tom Werner said this is a happy day for the Red Sox, and I agree. We?re a stronger, more effective and bolder front office.

Marlon Defillo

We're still functioning and we're a very effective department.

Ron Artest

We've got guys that can play. Whatever I can do out there that's effective and positive, I just try to do.

Stuart Roy

What's so effective is the messengers. The returning veterans are talking about what they saw in Iraq. The family members are talking about their loved ones.

Gore Vidal

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

Paul Brennan

We found protective effects with at least weekly consumption of cruciferous vegetables,

William Vollmer

They don't have to go on medications, which have side effects and a cost.

Kiki Nesbitt

The rendering is really incredible, with lighting and smoke effects with all these wonderful projections. Technology is always going forward and giving us more tools to work with.

Jeffrey Greene

There's a medical side of that and a recovery side for the parents. We don't know about the toxic effects of methamphetamine,

Gary Thompson

People forget about the past too easy, and the effects terrorism has in all its forms.

Ken Stein

These nonprofits will start to feel the effects soon and over the next several months, and we want to try and help them as much as possible.

Dr. Santoro

These new findings suggest the possibility that if a woman starts hormone therapy sooner rather than later, perhaps we will see some of the protective effects on the heart that natural estrogen provides - or at least it won't increase the risk of cardiovascular-related harm.

David LaPointe

I've seen the first-hand effects of one thing leading to another.

Zhang Guobao

The outcome of evaluation on the oil and gas resources was better than former data.

Solomon Makgale

As far as we are aware, the evaluation process is continuing. We are awaiting the outcome.

American Society

An inspection is an objective visual examination of the physical structure and systems of a home, from roof to foundation, ... When problems or symptoms of problems are found, the inspector may recommend further evaluation or remedies.

Eugene White

Teachers understand if they have testing in the spring that test will be an evaluation of that teacher who has had the kid all year.

Greg Hamilton

This is an important tournament to us. It's competitive and it offers us a good evaluation tool.

Bill Cowher

That's good judgment. If you're a rookie, I can sense if you use good judgment or not. So, I can tell how smart he is. It's a good evaluation process for me.

Steve Stanley

That's not exactly an evaluation which would suggest that Friday's number will be a blowout to the upside.

Sergei Bogdanchikov

There is a schedule for work, the evaluation is in the process, the subsidiaries' structure is being decided. Nothing is being delayed; everything is going as efficiently and quickly as possible.

Bruce Lee

Evaluation by others is not a guide for me.

Bryan Hassler

We want to take it a step further and start promoting some of the solutions to not only the short-term issues but also the long-term solutions.

Jacques Rogge

We are preparing for the joint team, which is going much further than just two teams parading together.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by the reporting that Mark and Lance did throughout this story and in all the stories that were published in the paper. And if and when Mr. Conte speaks further about this, I'm sure we'll report about that as well.

Margaret Chan

Until we see further evidence, we are still at Phase 3 of the pandemic alert,

Alia Faraj

We're going to study the matter further and review all the information that will be provided to our office.

Todd Lewis

When we conducted a further investigation of his so-called hospitalization over the weekend, the indication was they didn't think anything was wrong with him and they were trying to get him out the door.

Source Unknown

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

Drew Mitchell

We're in the sweet 16. We've gone a lot further than we thought we would.

Charles Smulders

With Vista further out in the future, sales are less likely to slow down now.

Claudia Baucus

It's a highly uncertain regime after that date. Nobody wants to be the first to try out a new law.

Chu Shulong

It's a highly personalized rule, much more personalized than even Mao's time here.

Paul Denham

It's a tragic situation but it's also highly unusual,

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

David Healy

People think highly of Henderson, but I'm sorry that Devine is leaving. He tells it like it is, and he's a known quantity.

Yoshihiro Kawaoka

Application of the new system may be especially advantageous in situations of outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses.

Mark Fagan

The threat is still there, especially with young trees. They're highly susceptible to citrus canker and all you need is one windblown rain event.

Ron Forman

After a series of interviews with a number of the highly credentialed law enforcement professionals from around the country, I think we've identified three outstanding candidates,

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

David Bryant

Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached

Carlos Slim

When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.

Yumi Nishimura

There was a string of positive trading incentives today.

Dan Ariely

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

Abraham Verghese

Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients.

Mickey Maurer

We want to offer as little incentives possible and still land the deal.

Dan Fogleman

We will be receiving local incentives in a very small number of these projects.

Andrew Lincoln

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

Jim Grant

It's not that we're concerned. We have plenty of options for the space.

Harold Williams

There was one recommendation, and from that we agonized over the plan. Other options should have been considered.

Jeremy Bates

The whole tie this time around with the team I have got has got more options than I have ever had,

Bill Elliott

You never put your options away. I wouldn't say never. It would have to be the right deal.

Frans Houten

There are various M&A options we will explore.

David Chamberlin

An IPO is one of the options we are considering and at the top of the list.

Robert Ritchie

The options there go all the way to a fly-in subdivision.

Dave Dickson

The options are out there for consumers. They have voiced their preferences through their purchases.

Xabi Alonso

We are trying to use all the options we have at the moment, but I think you can see we still need a little more,

Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Albert Murray

If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

Russell Tovey

I came out to myself when I was about 15 or 16, and to my parents when I was 18. When you come out to your parents, that's when it's properly official.

Errol Morris

I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?

Gregory Petsko

Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.

Julian Baggini

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

Charles W. Pickering

The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

Charlie Munger

See's candy company was the first high-quality business we ever bought.

Bill Belichick

All sources are not equal. When you get information, you take the information, you evaluate it, and you do the best you can with it. So, there's a variance in the quality and the amount of the information. It's a case-by-case basis. Each one's different. There's no set formulas.

William Shakespeare

The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

Camille Paglia

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

There is somebody in our lives that we could call the Energizer Bunny and we admire for those qualities.

Carl Levin

It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably