Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Benson

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.

William Williams

The business of love iscruelty which,by our wills,we transformto live together.

David Healy

The business does not deserve a huge premium. It's a cyclical business, earnings are erratic.

Steve Bennett

As our customers run their businesses or manage their personal finances, dealing with tax requirements creates a lot of opportunities for Intuit.

Jim Allchin

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

Niklas Zennstrom

People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.

Don Logan

The narrowband business is a highly profitable business, and it's going to continue to be so for a long time to come,

Mindy Lubber

Dozens of U.S. businesses are ignoring the issue with 'business as usual' responses that are putting their companies, and their shareholders, at risk.

Paras Adenwala

Demand for power equipment is very much there but supply is not. It is a good situation to be in. Business prospects are good.

Melissa Cross

Corey Taylor from SLIPKNOT is a master. Keith Buckley from EVERY TIME I DIE .

David Thornton

Corey Simon can help us out a lot. He's a veteran to provide leadership and a big man who can plug things up in the middle, ... He'll help with the run defense and put pressure on the quarterback.

Louis Leterrier

Corey said, 'You know Louis, I won't be able to do it,' ... 'If Luc finds out, I'm gonna get fired and so are you.'

Marlen Ronten

Corey is our sparkplug. He's a good little shooter. When he went out, that was a turning point.

Brian Gray

We had a good laugh, ... Candace always made sure she was around when Corey needed her.

R. Inge

Is there, as the medieval mystics taught, a "spark" at the core of the Soul, which never consents to evil, a Divine nucleus in the heart of the personality, which can take no stain?

Michael Sheldon

So far, we haven't seen a major increase in core inflation, all we've seen is a sharp rise in energy prices. It seems logical that higher energy prices should start to feed through to higher inflation.

Evan Bayh

We need to mobilize our core constituency to vote, ... especially at a time of low turnout, when each vote is more valuable.

Dom Capers

Right now, if we had to play this week, Corey Bradford would be a question mark. He's getting an MRI today on his groin.

Kevin Logan

Prices played a big role here. A lot of the increase was due to higher energy prices, particularly for oil.

Tom Maier

Our fall in the last two weeks is due to several injuries and if we hadn't had them we might have fared better. But those are all part of the game.

Peter Cardillo

The selling in financials is an anticipation of lower earnings due to a slower economy, ... From the point of view of interest rates not going up, it's positive.

Charles Corp

The significant increase in 1999 planned expenditures is primarily due to the company's plans to enhance its systems capacity.

Richard Burr

see through the stereotypes, which were made due to a lack of information.

Mark Smith

It was the technology, and NASA was the attraction. The reason NASA the technology were here, if you want to go one step further, it was due to Wernher von Braun.

Ayman Nour

This is not about winning or losing, but about due process. Whether we got 1 percent or 51 percent, if you feel the process is flawed, we are going to take legal measures.

Mark Shields

Due to the vast quantity of material, it will take some time to review them all, but so far we have observed no celebrities, no politicians, no senior police officers, members of the clergy, or sporting figures on any of the images.

Kathleen Farrell

Due to the success of the yard sale we held on Sept. 10 at which $1,600 was raised, ... we are having another sale this weekend, Sept. 24 and 25, rain or shine.

Mike Greene

This is huge for the town. We will now use this Internet utility for economic development and distinguish ourselves.

Wang Ziqiang

This is not because of foreign pressure. This is about the country's economic development.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

Mir Nasir

The miserable power situation must improve to help sustain our economic growth.

Thein Sein

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

James Gaston

You can't do right by the students in an economic vacuum,

Tom Schrader

We had such big gains yesterday that it is not unusual for us to consolidate a little bit. Then, oil's down but gasoline is up and that is counterbalancing each other. The economic news we had this morning was less than inspiring.

Lauryn Hill

I had an economic system imposed on me.

David Emery

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

John Snow

While this will elevate spending levels for '06, primarily because that's when the major effects will hit, we're going to stay on track with the president's deficit-reduction program,

John Snow

While this will elevate spending levels for '06 - primarily because that's when the major effects will hit - we're going to stay on track with the president's deficit-reduction program,

Pearl Bailey

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us -- not our effects on others.

Scott Ransom

We know in the past that there are effects that have hurt our surveys.

Davis III

I was right back to work the middle of the day Monday, in the gym, and practiced yesterday with no lingering effects from last week. And that's a major step for me, that I'm feeling better, I'm stronger.

Wendy Wright

Is this safe for women, when in fact there have been no studies done on the long-term effects on women who take the morning-after pill, and there are no studies that have been done on multiple use -- if a woman uses it more than once.

Brian Gorman

This would be unprecedented and, needless to say, would have tremendous effects on fishermen. But we don't see around this, is what we're saying. No flexibility.

Peter Jackson

There was a great magazine in the '80s called 'Cinemagic' for home moviemakers who liked to do monster and special effects movies. It was like a magazine written just for me.

Peter R. Grant

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

Laurel Scherer

As hostile as they've been it would not be a good working environment.

Peter Charlton

As long as there are no major shocks and the interest rate environment remains the same, I expect it to go on into the first half of 2006 at the very least.

David Minsker

The more connections students make with teachers and administrators, the better environment a school will have.

Rex Tillerson

This is an industry that lives in cycles. The price environment we're in today is not sustainable.

Chad Calabria

The University of Iowa was the talk of the town. There were no pro sports. It was a nice environment and seemed like the right place for me.

Camila Alves

A lot of people, sometimes they're so stuck on, 'I gotta get married, I gotta get married.' They forget that the really important thing is to have a healthy home, a healthy family, a healthy environment for your kids and to have everything going in a good, peaceful way.

Ban Ki-moon

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

Kerry Healey

I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always do in a public school setting.

Doug Dacar

Environmental issues have always been important to me.

Kathleen Blanco

We don't like looters one bit, but first and foremost is search and rescue.

James Kim

The second quarter should see a marginal improvement.

Jeff Malloy

I've seen a lot of improvement. This year she has a better mastery of her pitches.

Dale Short

We've seen a big improvement at No. 2 and No. 3 doubles, and we've seen a big improvement at No. 4, 5, 6 singles.

Jared Diamond

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Tom Daschle

We're disappointed this couldn't be better, ... this is a substantial improvement over what we started with.

George Carlin

When something is 'new and improved', which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.

Ferdinand Porsche

Change is easy. Improvement is far more difficult

Bruce Campbell

I can't think of any organization where there isn't room for improvement.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

Joel Slemrod

Things that some people have come to view as income and are used to being taxed on would not be taxable anymore.

Albert Einstein

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

T. Harv Eker

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.

Ronald Reagan

The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

Ron Paul

Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.

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.

Ludwig von Mises

Nothing is more calculated to make a demagogue popular than a constantly reiterated demand for heavy taxes on the rich. Capital levies and high income taxes on the larger incomes are extraordinarily popular with the masses, who do not have to pay them.

David Mamet

We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the production of goods and services necessary or attractive to the mass. A financial system which allows this leads to inequality; one that does not leads to mass starvation.

Tetsu Emori

The oil market is now down because most people are taking profits after seeing a sharp increase last week.

Sergei Ivanov

Russia has no intentions to increase its military presence in the northwest.

Dan Ballister

These are the lowest increases we've done in over 10 years.

Doug Tumen

You should increase weekly mileage no more than 10 percent. If you run 20 miles this week, then you should run no more than 22 next week.

Tony Gerlicz

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

Todd Tiahrt

Earmarks are supposed to be bad. But they don't increase spending.

Liang Guanglie

China-US military relations, an important part of overall relations, have seen an increase in exchanges.

George Goncalves

Mortgages were super, super rich in February. It made sense for them not to increase their portfolio using mortgages, but they did increase it, and it was mostly floating-rate type products, mortgage-related securities and those kind of asset-backed products.

Sherry Sylvester

Neither man ever met a tax increase they didn't like.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can.

Mother Maribel

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

Al Lang

It was unacceptable play on our part. When we get down there, we have to score six points instead of three.

Mike Morse

I've been through a lot worse. I need to get at-bats, play every day, instead of being up there just sitting around. I look at it in a positive way. I need to show them I belong.

Odette Annable

If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.

Andy Warhol

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Jay Campos

We want to find out where we're at in the regular season, instead of waiting for the playoffs.

Bob Brennan

You have to use your mind instead of gears.

Mike Stack

We're taking a proactive approach, instead of waiting or seeing if anything happens.

E. B. White

The most vulnerable part of the network are the undersea pipelines.

Richard Fox

you must have a network in order to make this a continuous, profitable scheme.

Robert Nelson

He's worried he's going to be fired. And there was no social net back then.

David Vyborny

I didn't know how much time was left. I had a wide-open net and I just put it in.

Matthew Felling

That was really a retelling of an old tale at that point, and that's not what most people turn to news networks for.

Andrew Heyward

Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.

Marc Berman

Each network has at least one new show that's doing well. That's a real positive. There's not a single network where everything bombed.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Mitch Metcalf

It's the loneliest night of the week for network television and television in general.

John Hall

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

Brian Tracy

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

Arianna Huffington

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Edward Abbey

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Alan Mulally

We were on a very positive track and this is just a sad thing for all of us,

Don Ward

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

Craig Thompson

The state of your psyche is reflected in your body.

Ken Starr

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Jane Austen

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Ann Macbeth

Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.

Duke Ellington

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

Ricky Martin

I'm like a shark, right at the top of the food chain. I take what I want, when I want. I truly am the reflection of perfection.

Stanley Hauerwas

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

Sebastian Faulks

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

John Ralston Saul

Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.

Brett Tomko

This is as sharp as I've been all year, ... made my slider better, my splitter better, made everything better.

Riley Wallace

It disappoints me that we're not as sharp as we should be at this stage. But it's a win.

Brad Richards

I can just tell, personally, that we're just not as sharp as we were in the past,

Chris Duerksen

This is simply something you don't have right now.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Michael Dean

I have not talked with Terri in weeks. We were simply brainstorming.

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Howard Hawks

I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.