Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Hayes

Kirk's father was pretty good at it, and now Kirk -- they're the best, ... They give you good advice, and if you bring something back, they don't argue with you. They turn out to be your friends instead of just somebody in a store.

Thomas Piketty

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

Lonnie Bunch

Going past the '70s and '80s there was a great reliance on the celebrity, the movie star and the person who sold a million records. People would argue that Ebony didn't become the journal to discuss substantive and thorny issues.

John Taylor

He secretly knows what happened. You're always looking for the right place, which was here. Board members didn't argue about petty things and wanted to do the right thing. I used to tell friends I knew I had found the right place.

James Mullen

I think we've been one of the real innovative states. It doesn't mean we don't argue and fight we do because we're human. But what will sustain the state of Washington is that we have an awful lot of dedicated emergency managers who have worked together for years.

Ken Kramer

Recreational interests of our members was not sufficient to give us a claim to be able to contest the permit. However, one of the three state environment commissioners disagreed with the majority and indeed felt that Sierra Club should have standing. So, we think we have a pretty strong case to argue that because of the recreational interests of our members in Sam Rayburn.

David Garrity

In my view, shares of Ford would probably become more attractive if it got down to say $22, $23 a share. Although, I would argue that as long as these investigations are continuing, they'll probably serve to put a lid on the stock price performance. Other stocks in the auto sector we are more positive on include General Motors ( GM : Research , Estimates ). Also at GM, you've got a change in management -- you've got a significant outside shareholder developing in Carl Icahn, owning 30 percent in GM. There's just a lot of value to be realized in the group.

Willie Mullins

I never thought I'd say this but you could argue that he's a bit of a handicap snip now!

Bruce Anderson

In fact, it tends to argue the opposite.

Tsuyoshi Shimizu

Investors have started selling real estate stocks on speculation higher interest rates in Japan will hurt their earnings as borrowing costs trim their future profit.

Learned Hand

I submit to you that we must press along. Borrowing from Epictetus, let us say to ourselves: "Since we are men, we will play the part of Man".

Norihiro Fujito

Higher borrowing costs will lead to a shrinking housing market and a slowdown in the U.S. economy. Overseas investors, being concerned about the U.S. economic outlook, will pull their money out of the Japanese market.

Terry Bradshaw

We're dealing with all the money those Cup teams have. But we're begging, borrowing and stealing trying to make it.

Dean Baker

It does pull a lot of money out of people's pockets. Even if it doesn't go back up much, it translates to a 50-to-60-cents-a-gallon gas tax. But for the borrowing that people were willing to do, it probably would have led to recession.

John Snow

Government borrowing is having the effect of crowding out lending that could be made to the private sector,

Steve Baker

We don't have that kind of borrowing power.

Kevin McCloud

We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet.

Donella Meadows

The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not only by piling up money debt, but also by degrading the resources from which all real wealth ultimately comes.

George P. Shultz

Strong growth means increased use of energy at a pace that can strain the capacity to supply what is needed at a reasonable price.

David Fyfe

Historically, spare capacity of 1 to 2 million b/d is still very low considering all the uncertainties on supply in Nigeria, Iraq, Iran and the Gulf of Mexico and it means there's not a huge margin of flexibility if anything should happen to those producers.

John Parry

What might have been lost in terms of production and refining capacity was more than made up for by the hurricanes driving oil prices up a couple dollars a barrel.

Leendert Staal

There is nobody who can, with any certainty, forecast demand. But there is definitely not a need for increased capacity for custom manufacturing. Speculative investment of several hundred million dollars is not the wisest move.

William Rochelle

We just have one catastrophe after another in the industry. I'm not sure any of them have the capacity to respond on their own.

Newt Gingrich

To David Sarnoff, the creator of NBC, the word 'visionary' meant a capacity to see into tomorrow and make it work.

Lester Brown

Humanity's collective demands have exceeded the earth's regenerative capacity by 26 percent,

Chris Bown

He taught me how to do things for people that they wouldn't do for themselves. He had an endless capacity to give.

Sean Randolph

Research and development never stopped, it was going on all the time. The entrepreneurs didn't vanish. The creative people and the scientists did not go away. Yes, employees were lost and profits fell for a while. But the fundamental capacity of the region, the foundation for new technologies, never was impaired.

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Scott Anderson

Job growth is the main engine for consumer spending.

Wayne Ayers

I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer continues to hang in there, and that's essentially the only thing that's going to keep the economy on track.

Gerard Kleisterlee

There is a lack of value creation, particularly around consumer electronics,

Mark Boudreaux

We sympathize with consumers paying high gasoline prices. We are trying to help public-policy makers understand what makes prices high.

Ted Sarandos

I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.

Carl Gipson

It gets tough when you try to tailor-make a plan for every single person, but at the same time we are paying for things we never use. Right now, it is kind of a one-size-fits-all approach, and from a consumer standpoint, someone who purchases health insurance, that doesn't go a long way in curtailing health-care costs.

David Rosenberg

I think that the U.S. consumer is hot to trot. I think you're looking at a first quarter that's going to easily top 10 percent (in retail sales increase) on an annualized basis.

David Rosenberg

I think that the U.S. consumer is hot to trot, ... I think you're looking at a first quarter that's going to easily top 10 percent (in retail sales increase) on an annualized basis.

Richard Le Gallienne

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

Vladimir Lenin

Crime is a product of social excess.

Samuel Johnson

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

Philip Coyle

If Portsmouth were to be closed, the U.S. would be left with only 8 percent excess capacity,

Suzi Quatro

I have record approximately 10 studio albums. I had 16 top ten singles and sold in excess of 45 million records all over the world.

Sir Donaldson

In a normal winter flu year... flu actually kills in excess of 12,000 people,

Henry Adams

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.

William Blake

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.

James Chanos

Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.

Dave Curry

There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.

Bradley Hunter

When home prices are so much higher than median incomes, it makes for an unhealthy economy.

Tom Daschle

We've got to rise to a higher level,

Josh Bernoff

I thought they would start higher and work their way down. The problem is, you can't go up.

Sarah MacQuiddy

I think we'll have to push the higher ed piece.

Tong Lixin

In South Korea, short-track speed skating is the popular sport, just like the table tennis in China. The level of its young skaters is much higher than the youth in China, where the sport is only practiced in two provinces with about 300 registered skaters.

John Rother

Clearly, the COLA is not going to be enough to offset these higher costs, particularly in heating,

Mitsushige Akino

Higher oil prices and a strengthening yen accelerated selling.

Gregory Klump

In general, the higher end of the market is holding up much better than the lower end.

Ric Keller

The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

Francois Bourguignon

Remittances are hard-earned income that, in most cases, has already been taxed,

Martin Nissenbaum

In Florida, there is no income tax but there is an intangible tax, so they will be able to deduct both.

Stephen Baldwin

All the toys are gone. Everything's gone, and I'm making 25 percent of my usual income. And my wife-couldn't be happier.

Evelyn Morton

It's the only inflation-adjusted income source most older Americans have,

Andrew Black

It's likely these new-to-wireless people might be lower income, and pre-paid might actually be perfect for them.

Karl Marx

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Pete Seeger

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

Steve Forbes

I like his rational for why I'm not in the White House. I'll take it. It's better than some I've gotten.

Thomas Malthus

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

Donald Berwick

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.

Menachem Begin

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

Kenny Brown

We'll probably have to ration it all out to him.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

I think it's going to be a little different for him because he's going to play the same team so many times. But we're going to see an even better side of him because he's going to be able to adjust.

George Clooney

I think it's important to be on the right side of history.

John Stevens

We're on the wrong side of being close.

Joe Mires

There is another whole side of her when she is playing.

Carl Jung

Mine. I'm on my side.

Will Wright

Everybody has a different definition of the good side.

Vincent Van Gogh

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides...

Salman Rushdie

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

Virginia Madsen

The actor side of me loves to get dressed up and I feel like Cinderella when I'm in diamonds.