Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Ramsey

I think we're going to have a case that's largely about accounting allegations...where the government is going to refuse to call either David Duncan, who was the chief engagement partner for Arthur Andersen, or Rick Causey.

Michael Servetus

And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh.

Vincent Sarubbi

they didn't suffer from any diseases or any genetic defects that would account for their stunted growth.

Bill Simmons

I started my Twitter account for selfish reasons: I wanted to have a place to post updates on my book signing tour and stuff like that. I never realized that I'd have so much fun tweeting. It's become the deleted scenes for my DVD of columns and podcasts.

Barton Gellman

Suppose a bad guy guesses the password for your throwaway Yahoo address. Now he goes to major banking and commerce sites and looks for an account registered to that email address. When he finds one, he clicks the 'forgot my password' button and a new one is sent - to your compromised email account. Now he's in a position to do you serious harm.

Yoshiro Mori

We will continue to carefully watch progress made regarding nuclear non-proliferation, including signing of the CTBT, and take into account various factors, including our bilateral relations.

Bobby Martin

Somebody told me this the other day, but J.C. could probably average 30 points per game on another team. Or vice-versa for Ridge. But by sharing it makes us an even bigger threat.

Bobby Rahal

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

Florence Nightingale

Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

George Orwell

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

George Orwell

As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.'

Cassandra Clare

It's Simon. He's missing." "Ah," said Magnus, delicately, "missing what, exactly?" "Missing," Jace repeated, "as in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared." "Maybe he's gone and hidden under something," Magnus suggested. "It can't be easy getting used to being a rat, especially for someone so dim-witted in the first place." "Simon's not dim-witted," Clary protested angrily. "It's true," Jace agreed. "He just looks dim-witted. Really his intelligence is quite average.

George Eliot

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

Fred Allen

The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.

Marilyn Mackes

By and large, the average salary increases employers offered to new college graduates were respectable, and some were standouts.

Lawrence Lindsey

That $40,000-a-year family with two kids could really use that $1,600 to retire that credit card debt, make a down payment on a car, and that's what we really want to see happen,

Matt Taylor

Mercury teamed with CRS, Inc., an electronic cash register and point-of-sale solutions provider, to enable a total credit and gift card processing solution throughout the entire franchise.

Virada Nirapathpongporn

It's great. I've worked for that goal for a long time. And to finally get that card and get a chance to get on the LPGA is exciting. I get to go out there and see what I can do.

Gerri Detweiler

It's worse to lose your home than to miss a few credit card payments, frankly.

David Osgood

I want Janie's credit card to be taken away. Janie has spent money into oblivion. They will tell you that the income over the past few years earned them $47 million, but what they won't tell you is that they spent $48 million, which is a huge net operating loss.

Bruce Hoffman

They are the terrorists' trump card -- and our Achilles' heel.

Brit Beemer

It's like free money. If an item is $50 and you have a card for $35, then you get something for only $15. Psychology takes over.

Paul Lopez

It's like saying the Internet is a crutch because back in the day we used to go to the library and pore through the card catalogs to spend two more hours finding some information. That's not what happens in the workplace anymore, so why teach it? This is about new modalities here and everywhere. It will not reduce the college experience. It is in line with modern and practical expectations.

John Sharp

The Lone Star Card will make food stamp coupons obsolete.

Bill Brady

We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

Irv DeGraw

February is going to be an extremely weak month. But some of the companies that go out are going to be a lot more interesting and a lot more valuable.

Paul Nolte

Few companies are pounding the table and saying things are terrific so there's not the wild enthusiasm you would expect with a good earnings season,

Christopher Chute

There's seven or eight companies fighting for 20 percent of the market.

David Carey

There's probably only a handful of companies we could imagine doing something like this with and Target is at the very top of the list,

Len Yaffe

There's isolated incidents of companies (warning) because of patent expiration or pipeline problems or both, but they are very isolated.

Richard Smith

There simply aren't hundreds of derelict companies out there. It could happen on an isolated basis, but the mechanics don't exist for this to happen every 15 minutes.

Peter Doyle

There's going to be pockets of technology that do incredibly well, ... But the valuation is still being the core of the very large companies are quite high, especially if they're really cyclical in nature.

Franklin Morton

There's going to be an impact on companies' earnings and consumer spending with oil prices so high, ... will be high enough to be felt once companies start reporting third-quarter earnings.

Mike Halpert

Spring is oftentimes very difficult to forecast. Tomorrow it might snow and a weekend ago, it was 85.

Peter Kwong

Living in this gentrification environment is much more difficult for residents. Actually, what they're doing is killing the indigenous culture.

Amanda Burton

I think this is a very difficult job, especially for women - there are too few roles around. I never let myself rest on my laurels.

Jon Kyl

I think this will be a difficult race,

Nick Skiming

I'm still positive on the market but the oil price is starting to tick higher and I'd like to get us through these earnings figures. We're actually entering the most difficult part of the year.

John Gorman

We never pinned our hopes on the legislative process. It's a difficult process. It's fraught with many land mines as you go through. We've hit a couple, but it doesn't mean we won't see a good bill.

Ken Holland

We'll be a difficult team to play against.

Mandy Moore

We live in a world where it's difficult to be a woman who is strong and confident, so I like to surround myself with friends that embody that same principle and idea.

Alan Johnston

That was the most difficult game we played this season.

Jay Gibbons

First I've got to figure out what team I'm on,

Tony Bethel

We were just out of sync. We couldn't figure out how to get back in sync.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Torin Francis

We didn't panic at all. Hard work, you can't really work on that. It's just something we have to do.

Mark Riggin

We didn't hit the ball, and it's hard to win with only one run.

Sammy Day

We didn't hit it as hard as we have been, but we got the job done.

Stan McCain

We didn't have to do a whole lot throwing the ball. We're kind of hard headed. When we see a play that works, we stick with it.

Glenn Roeder

We had plenty of possession but we didn't make their keeper work hard enough.

Aaron Smith

We went there and it was hard work.

Robin Dezarn

This will be a very hard day for me.

Irish Proverbs

What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone.

Henry Ford

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

Robert King

This is all the money in the city, sitting right here,

Enid Bagnold

There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.

Bob Groves

The 'flex' money is an unusual, one-time expenditure. As for the rest, some of it would be spent over several years.

Richard Morris Hunt

The first thing you've got to remember is that it's your clients' money you're spending.

Gary Brown

You don't have to spend $300 today. Do it over time.

Napoleon Hill

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Napoleon Hill

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Ogden Nash

He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Yvon Chouinard

The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

Zac Efron

There's no point in being scared of just trying.

Zach Braff

Its not that I'm in love with myself, I'm just trying to pick up everyone else's slack.

Yuri Kochiyama

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

Yuri Milner

I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.

Yuri Milner

I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

Zhang Yimou

This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

Ziggy Marley

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.