Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Elliott

The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world. The positive results this year compared to last are a result of accounting decisions as to how much of the longer-term losses to reflect last year, this year and presumably next year. We still have an average loss of $7 billion to $8 billion a year for the last four years.

Douglas Elliott

The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world, ... The positive results this year compared to last are a result of accounting decisions as to how much of the longer-term losses to reflect last year, this year and presumably next year. We still have an average loss of $7 billion to $8 billion a year for the last four years.

Donald Berwick

The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out there. There is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.

Nina Easton

A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges - the grief and loss for birth mothers, the uncertainties for adoptive parents operating under a patchwork of state laws.

Brad Durham

The 27-week inflow streak into Japan equity funds ended this week as accounting irregularities at an Internet company and a systems failure on the Tokyo Stock Exchange shook investor confidence.

Ron Ryan

The accounting rules for pensions allow people to do things you wouldn't believe. The rules are the problem.

Norihiro Fujito

The accounting problems in the U.S. seem to have crossed a significant hurdle on Wednesday, and the external pressures on the Japanese market in general have probably peaked.

David Healy

The accounting charges seem to be mostly timing -- instead of earning in one period they have to state them in another period.

J. M. Roberts

The answer is there was a shift, not a drop, in demand. Chinese shipments of computers were up more than 20 percent nationally, but fell almost 60 percent in Laredo, more than accounting for the drop in overall Chinese imports.

Gina Bellman

Not surprisingly, there is a cultural divide between American and British actors regarding the self-promotion associated with new media.

John Shepherd

The payroll figures are telling us the U.S. economy is exceptionally weak, and the weakness goes beyond anything that is associated with geopolitical risk and the other excuses we've had.

David Carson

Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.

Mark Howell

The 4.39 per cent product offers clients the comfort of their mortgage payments being fixed at a competitive rate for two years. Whilst the 4.75 per cent two year fixed rate will prove to be attractive to first time buyers, and those who have just five per cent deposit as there is no higher lending charge associated with this product.

Lee Snyder

The Associated Press pulled their poll out of the BCS for a reason.

Jeffrey Miller

The Associated Press merely distributed a truthful story, with photos that depict a topic of great public interest,

Aaron Rowand

That was the special thing about this team: We were a club. The 25 guys we had on this team were as close as any team I have ever been a part of or associated with. Everybody truly cares and pulled for each other all year long. It's something that's very rare; you don't find it very often. And those teams that do have that are special.

Greg Jackson

That was the worst second half I've ever been associated with. If we don't start playing better, we won't have a chance to get where we were last season.

Scot McNeley

That was something that really was a gamble. But I think the site we have chosen will avoid that type of problem, as well as potential problems that are associated with construction of a new school facility.

Ian Watson

That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't... it wouldn't.

Gwen Moore

Healthcare costs are rising, and not just Medicare and Medicaid, but healthcare in general.

Val Kilmer

With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

Colin Morgan

It's weird to be recognised anywhere. The cost of living your dream, acting, is being recognised.

Ernest Walton

A linear accelerator has the advantage that no magnet is required and that its cost should not rise much more steeply than with the energy of the particles required.

Graham Colditz

The overweight have a significantly higher risk of diabetes, gallstones, hypertension, and heart disease, ... All have costs and an impact on the quality of life that get ignored if we focus only on mortality.

Reg Empey

The people are fed up with politicians and the cost of keeping this place (the assembly) open.

Andrew Alberts

The outstanding issue is who will pay for the cost overruns. You don't know what you will hit when you start to tunnel. There are a lot of unknowns.

Gary Hanson

The out-of-pocket cost is usually about $50 to $55 a day (per inmate) that we pay to another county to rent the space, ... But we also have to pay for our officers' time to transport them and the cost of transport, like fuel costs.

Berkeley Breathed

The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.

John Dawson

You are fining students that have no income,

Gerhard Schr

Merkel's policies would mean minus policies, ... It would be a different society in which solidarity would have no place. There would be less security, less investment in research and development and less income for families.

Lee Price

Most of the population, they are not realizing real income gains.

John McGrath

I think in terms of income for Thunder Ridge and taxes for the county, it would be good.

Tom Gallagher

What I'm proudest of, we've done all this without an income tax.

Larry Bloom

I don't know that they want me to get into specific numbers, but he has a yearly income that's substantial.

John Hollyer

From one period to the next, investors could see some income swings.

Bill Gates

Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.

Carrie Brownstein

Just invest in apps. Just download apps and then pay yourself the dividend.

Bethenny Frankel

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

Bette Davis

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

Mark Steber

The AMT is not just a tax that rich people pay anymore.

Sabrina Harris

The 125 years don't have anything to do with my daughter. He killed my daughter, so I want him to pay for it.

Ben Hinson

We can't have people at the partnership wondering if they can pay the bills.

Braylon Edwards

We wanted to pay tribute to him for revolutionizing the position. He was the front-runner.

Peter Schuyler

What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war.

Matthew Stewart

Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Viktor Vekselberg

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

Berkeley Breathed

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Bill Budge

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

Richard G. Scott

The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ.

Barry Mann

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Edie Falco

I was here when it happened. I need more time, but that's just me. I'm personally not ready for it.

Hal Gill

I think if you don't want to wear a helmet, don't wear a helmet. If you don't feel like wearing pads, don't wear them. It solves a lot of problems but I think it's a personal decision.

Bill Ritter

Personal responsibility has to be a part of this.

Mark Mothersbaugh

Personally I'm very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

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.

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?

Albert Murray

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

Gregory Petsko

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

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.

Michael Foreman

Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.

Marie Windsor

This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.

John Ashcroft

These individuals are being restrained and properly so. They are terrorists. They are uniquely dangerous,