Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Woodhouse

The only thing more unpopular than private accounts was benefit cuts.

Nikolai Patrushev

It has been established that he took direct part in the funding of several such organizations. Embassy payment documents signed by Doe on money transfers to NGO accounts at our disposal prove this.

Bill Cole

I think we are all aware that some accounts have a deficient balance.

Terry Turner

Robert, my son and I do sales. Cathy is in charge of ordering supplies, accounts payable and accounts receivable, payroll, and keeping track of workers compensation certificates on all subcontractors. Barb schedules all the different stages of the job, applies for permits, and calls in all inspections. We all work pretty well together.

Maxine Sweet

If you notice anything questionable, such as accounts you don't recognize, or payment disputes, deal with those issues before applying for a home equity loan. It can also be helpful to have your credit score which will tell you specifically the factors in your credit history that could be considered risky by lenders.

Gene Sperling

If you look at what is clearly in their plans, it will cost a lot of money. We have not seen the details and ... are claiming that by all accounts it is being paid for with the largest amount of gimmicks, supply side growth, and double counting in history.

Beth Givens

If you've given them your credit-card number and/or bank-account number, you should watch those accounts very carefully.

Kenny Marchant

In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.

Carlos Gomes

In Ontario, job losses in manufacturing have accelerated in recent months alongside announced layoffs in the key auto sector. However, Ontario's economy is well diversified and strength in the service sector, which accounts for more than 70 percent of overall employment and economic activity, should support vehicle sales of about 590,000 units in 2006 - in line with the average of the past two years.

Dusty Rhodes

I thought coming in we needed to take eight of the 14 matches. Unfortunately I was right. They were able to get the extra bonus points in a few more matches.

Marty Holah

I think we played pretty well in some sections of the game and we're pretty pleased to come away with a decent win and a bonus point. We put a lot of pressure on their scrum and made it difficult for them to release the ball.

Kevin Blackwell

Once again, the fact that he's around the place is a real bonus for us at this point in time.

John Anderson

It's nice not to sweat one out for a change. With the big lead, I was able to give a lot of guys chances tonight, which is always a bonus for me.

Al Frost

It's going to be an extremely tough dual. On paper, they are a stronger team than we are. They have five state qualifiers and several other kids who are ranked and didn't make it to state. Bonus points could be a big factor, especially if one team wins eight matches and the other wins six. In that case, bonus points will be a big factor.

Karrie Webb

The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.

Mike Myers

Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.

Oprah Winfrey

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Geddy Lee

If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.

Fred Funk

I would think 99.9 per cent of the guys love this course because we don't play many like this. If you play well, you can score.

Stacy Stewart

Katrina could reach category-one hurricane strength before the center reaches the southeastern coast of Florida.

Stieg Larsson

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

Drew Gilpin Faust

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.

Bill Brown

What we have here is the first, and probably only, thematic science center in the world. It's quite sophisticated.

Chris Connolly

He's 100 per cent (fit) in terms of once he recovers from his soreness.

Vito Fossella

Goodbye and good riddance, ... The IFC will not stand on the hallowed grounds of the World Trade Centre site.

Hersh Wolch

His whole concern is the effect it is going to have on him emotionally once it is done. He's giving it 100 per cent effort, but whether he can handle it, I don't know.

Billy Graham

History is full of surprises, and the next century will be no exception.

Kay Redfield Jamison

When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Know how to listen and be sure that silence often produces the same effects as science.

Roland Rust

I think it has a huge impact. It's become more important, rather than less, because mass media has become less effective. It's particularly more effective than an advertisement, because people's defenses are down.

Brian Archer

I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really understand how much the weather really effects our energy consumption and our energy supply.

Alexandra Stoddard

What we do today, right now, Will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.

Alexandra Stoddard

What we do today, right now, Will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.

Mike Kemp

I think it's going to have a very positive effect on our team. When we went up to Northern Michigan, we were really banged up. We were playing at about 75 percent.

Stuart Rothenberg

I think we do know for sure that there are plenty of interesting races in the Senate and that this will be used in Senate races but we don't know exactly what kind of effect it's going to have.

Michael Kane

It has an inflationary effect in that so much of what we eat, for example, is transported by truck,

Luis Derbez

We think that it will be around January or February maybe

Carl Neill

RSI reached the lowest level ever in the history of the February contract.

Mike Hansen

We really don't know until we get through February and March.

Jim Irsay

Those things have a way of working themselves through. You just don't know what's going to be the situation when you get into February and March.

Chris Davenport

If we get to the end of February and I've only skied a couple, I'll start to worry. I need to stay positive. The silver lining is that it is snowing, so there will be a longer spring for skiing.

Bill Bradley

By the time we get to February 1, people will know who I am, what I believe, what I'm for, and what I would like to do if I were president,

Colin McGranahan

January and February is actually a pretty important time of the year for the TV cycle.

Rob Miller

Some of the Northeast's most memorable snows occur in late February and March.

Terry Stotts

We need March to be a good month for us. Between home games and everything else, we need March to be a good month. We were one game under .500 for February and around that in January, so we need to come on strong in March and see what happens in April. But this is the time that we should be able to separate a little bit.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Jim Pugh

This was not unexpected. Madison is a government town.

Richard Posner

MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here does not authorize any judgment about the content of any speeches. ... A park is a limited space, and to allow unregulated access to all comers could easily reduce rather than enlarge the park's utility as a forum for speech. Just imagine two rallies held at the same time in the same park area using public-address systems that drowned out each other's speakers.

Richard Perle

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Richard Holbrooke

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

Ruben Hinojosa

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

Richard Owen

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

William S. Burroughs

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

Woody Allen

The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.

Richard Rohr

To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . .

Samuel Johnson

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

W. Somerset Maugham

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

William O. Douglas

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

Joseph Addison

When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

Tom Peterson

Our middles are very good. We passed really well and that opened things up for our offense.

Jeff Hironaka

In the first half, we (hit the 3), and that opened things up. We had better opportunities to go to the basket. That's how we have to play.

David Cross

If the owner hadn't come and seen the smoke, by time this place opened tonight it would have been rolling.

Sue Leibold

A new world opens up for parents because a new world has opened up for their teens.

Joan Laporta

Racing was very ordered until we opened the scoring.

George Vecsey

Title IX, whether voluntarily or via court cases, opened gymnasiums to women, produced uniforms and schedules and buses.

Shigeru Yoshida

Japan has opened a new chapter in its history.

Emma Morrison

I saw that the were squeezing Brandy at the corners. So I had her do a push-bunt and that kind of opened it up for us.

Nicolas Kiefer

I'd never played him and did not know what his tactics would be. So I opened strongly and that's paid off.

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Charlie Smith

Her performance really surprised me, considering she's on a taper for states.

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Jim Tracy

I think the personnel is here to get that done.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Steve Tisch

I think that's the perception and I'm not saying it's not accurate.

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Richard Bernstein

At the rate it's going right now, profitability will accelerate, but at a very, very slow pace, ... much slower than what's implied by valuation in the market.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Chuck Palahniuk

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Mark Luscombe

Generally, the unemployment rate is pretty low. I'm not sure they do at this point.

Bill Belichick

I don't rate 'em, but he's pretty good. There isn't much he can't do.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Rob Halford

They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

Richard P. Feynman

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.