Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Koenig

Just saying it was approved by the board and accountants wasn't going to cut it.

John Thompson

The only thing that has been approved so far is the subdivision of the land.

Sam Bodman

Last night I approved a company's request for loan from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,

Linda Malec

I am extremely concerned about the recent application, approved by current directors, to convert to a mutual savings bank. And I'm even more concerned about the lack of communication from board members and executive management to members.

J. Taylor

I'm excited and a bit worn out. At the same time we approved this plan I've been hit left and right by new development. We're learning the new code ourselves and explaining it to developers, so it's been exhausting.

Bill Fontana

The first South Korean company, High-Tech Movies, was approved for the program and the Indian government is interested in sending us a company.

Mark Logan

The company is confident in its technology leadership position and sees the ophthalmic community's enthusiastic response to the recently approved VISX STAR S3(TM) laser system reaffirming this view.

Jorge Gonzalez

The market ended with positive expectations that the 2000 budget will be approved in short.

Kofi Annan

The Iraqi people have made their decision and have approved the draft constitution,

Sandy Poferl

Knowing where our budget sits, knowing where our enrollment sits, I wasn't really pleased with the number he threw out for his salary.

Susan Cole

Kids need to learn financial lessons early when they have their parents as a safety net. If you're just learning about saving and budgeting when your first car payment is due, you could be in trouble.

George H. W. Bush

Joel Kaplan is a man of great talent, intellect and experience who possesses a deep knowledge of policy and budget processes.

Gerald Curtis

Handling the budget is a big part of the job, but you have to realize that 70 or 80 percent of the budget is mandated by the state; you can change very little of it. But you do have to look at cuts.

Brett Hall

His voice is strong. He's engaged in everything and wants to discuss what's happening right now with the budget and other bills.

Ozhan Bahrambeygui

I think it's important for kids to budget their time. I'm a big proponent of kids doing multiple sports. I like to think we put an emphasis on balance.

Tom DeLay

There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.

Steve Utkus

We're pretty confident it will be maintained or continued. Unlike other Bush tax provisions, it actually raises tax revenue under the budget rules because participants are paying taxes today.

Tom Daschle

to convey our serious concerns about the deteriorating condition of the federal budget and the nation's economy.

Tommie Harris

I take my hat off to them because they didn't have a bye week and we did. There was really no excuse for us to lose and not play as well as we were supposed to.

Eric Desjardins

I think it's going to get better, but that's no excuse. We were fine going into the third but couldn't seem to find a way to score the big goal and stop them scoring on the power play.

Elizabeth Ryan

I think it's outrageous. I think they're making excuses so they can keep raising it.

Joe Horn

I think that lingered. I think every week, different guys had different excuses why we were losing. And it happened over and over again.

Edward McKendree Bounds

We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Mike Ford

I could stand here and give you all sorts of excuses about why I had the season I did in 2003-04, but I have vowed to be proactive ... in everything I do this season,

Kobe Bryant

We can have all the excuses in the world. You can say we're young, we have guys hurt, but we just have man up and be ready to play every night.

Tyler Posey

I was never NOT confident about doing scenes without my shirt - and now I'll find any excuse to take my shirt off!

Duaner Sanchez

I just didn't make my pitches. It was about location. I won't make (excuses) why I lost the game. I lost the game because I walked a guy. I was feeling good and had all my stuff. But you can't walk the leadoff guy.

Anthony Warrens

It is only in recent years that many of the potential immunological problems, such as transplant rejection, have been solved, meaning the process of transplanting organs from one species into another could soon be a reality,

Devon Williams

The pageant has meaning in the community. I also get to showcase my talent, and spread the word on who I am and what I do.

Richard Jenkins

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

Richelle Mead

Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.

Umberto Eco

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

Reza Aslan

The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical. If we want to make sense of this mess and stop pushing Muslims into the arms of the extremist, we need to make meaningful distinctions between the religion of Islam that a billion Muslims follow and see as a guidance as a peaceful righteous moral life and the puritanical Islam of a minority which so captures the media's attention.

William S. Burroughs

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

William Kristol

Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.

Woody Allen

The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.

Layne Higgs

Their match-up zone presented a lot of problems for us tonight. The zone took away Garrett's penetration.

Shannon Davis

They put together a scholarship and presented it to me,

Michael Levine

Women are presented with wedding gowns. That's all we can say right now.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Derrick Jensen

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

O. Henry

The plaque we presented was to commemorate the installation of the floor.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

David Wojciechowski

He?s going to play. It?s the state championship game.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Taro Aso

international responsibilities and the state of reconstruction work.

Rick Adelman

He's in shape, much quicker. He can do the things he used to do. Now all he has to do is sustain it.