Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Torres

It appears that this is a win for consumers. This bill would definitely fix some of the accounting problems that we've seen crop up ... over the last six months.

Elizabeth Harris

History has always come to me easily, but economics and accounting were real challenges. Students identify more easily with instructors who can tell them of their own struggles .

Dave Knapp

We feel it's unreasonable that for a minor accounting infraction, we essentially had our entire slate eliminated. You're talking about 66 percent of the people running for election.

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.

Brent Thill

Regardless of the outcome, we still believe Oracle's current financial health remains intact. We do not believe there are hidden accounting issues.

Shirley Norton

Our new city administrator has been great, because I had no experience as a finance director. I am an accounting person, which is a bean counter and finance is a little different than being an accountant. Accountants are more exact and finance people have more vision. He's got the vision. He's been a good compliment to me and has helped me a lot and I really appreciate that. He's a little more involved... For the most part everybody has been great and I have enjoyed every minute of it.

Michael Gross

Investors looked to KPMG for tax advice. They looked to us as an investment adviser to execute a variety of stock and option transactions, We got out of the business of working with large accounting firms more than five years ago.

Bill Brunson

If you want to be an expert in accounting and tax law, then the Internal Revenue Service is the place for you. In fact the IRS is one of the largest single employers of professional accountants.

Timothy Ghriskey

I just think there's nothing that's come out over the last couple of days that counters the primary issues (that) the market has been punished for over the last couple of months, which is loss of investor confidence over corporate malfeasance, accounting and terrorism,

Mike Mislak

Jon is a gifted athlete who likes to take the big shots. He is popular among his teammates, has a sharp wit and a great sense of humor. His versatility is a great strength and causes match-up problems for other teams.

Stephen Gengaro

Halliburton's product and services, down at the operating level, are among the best in the business. He leaves it in a better position than when he began his career there.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.

Marc Basnight

Ham was a great senator and a great North Carolinian, but first and foremost he was a great American. He was the most special among us and he will be missed - God gave us the greatest when he gave us Ham.

George Ryan

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

Trevor Noah

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

Tim Crawford

There are still signs that Scotland is faring better than the U.K. as a whole, with pessimism among businesses less widespread and new order levels rising.

Drew Gilpin Faust

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.

Unknown

Here's to health, peace and prosperity. May the flower of love never be nipped by the frost of disappointment, nor shadow of grief fall among your family and friends.

Keith Murphy

The larger sheet size and extensive automation on the Mitsubishi press give us greater capacity and efficiency.

Sheila Baker

Those are all things that are causing the IT systems themselves that are under management to be a lot more complex. And what we've seen is automation is difficult.

Dale Lee

These subject matter experts are managers in industry that work with and supervise automation professionals. They work in process and manufacturing automation industries.

John Slenker

Another reason for fewer jobs is the increased productivity by companies. More production is gotten out of few people because of automation and improved manufacturing processes.

Michael Shea

CSC has built a strong reputation in the Chicago-area market, distributing some of the same brands of office automation equipment that we have in many of our locations.

Robert Schwartz

We see growing revenue from vertical and horizontal applications developed by Salesforce.com and partners, as well as continuing momentum for the core sales force automation offering, ... We believe the deployment of these applications will result in more subscribers to Salesforce.com.

Roger Oberg

We started using the product a couple of years ago ourselves because we didn't have anything like it. This will be our build management and automation capability going forward.

Gregg Robinson

Last year's efforts brought 175 more positions. The major deterrent is not so much the movement of plants overseas as the automation built into new plants.

Dale Lee

ISA is lucky to have valuable expertise in our membership and to be able to utilize that to benefit the rest of the profession. We were able to develop a comprehensive program that every automation professional will find valuable. We are looking forward to delivering that program in Houston.

Jean Coutu

We look forward to capturing integration cost savings since we eliminated the dual head office infrastructures during the first quarter of fiscal 2006,

Gary Weiss

Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.

Scott Smyser

Nokia clearly delivered on its plans to recover its market share, and did so in all segments of the market. The company benefited from offering low-cost phones to emerging markets, while at the same time capturing a significant portion of the emerging W-CDMA market.

Nick Woodman

I think that devices like Glass are going to do a terrific job of capturing your first-person perspective. And that's what people first think of when they think of GoPro.

Klaus Toepfer

While the most important solutions to climate change will remain energy efficiency and cleaner energy sources ... capturing and storing carbon dioxide can supplement these other efforts.

Carlos Santana

capturing the sound -- to be soulful, sincere, simple, be true to the motives of honoring the music. And that's all I concentrated on.

Chris Jones

Capturing particles from a comet as it whizzes by is a way of looking back in time.

Carol Guzy

I think a lot of times, especially for certain stories, photographers travel together for safety reasons, and they also invariably cross paths. But you could have 10 photographers shooting together in the same spot but capturing different images.

Ben Dogra

Jon enjoyed the visit with the Jets. They did an incredibly good job with the visit. They got his attention. But his comfort level is in Philadelphia. Going into this I thought it would be between money and comfort level, in that order. Comfort level clearly proved to be more of a factor. He just decided signing with the Eagles was what he wanted to do.

Bob Dorfman

He did everything right in Turin. He was even crying on medals stand. He lived up to the hype. He's clearly comfortable on camera. You'll see a lot of him.

John Remington

He clearly does not want to get in the middle of the parties and leave them worse off than they were. He will do everything he can to coerce a final settlement.

Doug Porter

It clearly shows that the U.S. economy is very strong and isn't slowing down. That doesn't bode well for the possibility of inflation and it doesn't bode well for the outlook for the U.S. dollar.

Ariel Sharon

The people clearly opted for my plan, ... Political forces must follow the wishes of the electorate.

Rob Glaser

We think that Microsoft disables our product and that clearly there was software that was designed intentionally to do so,

Makoto Yamashita

We can clearly see consumer prices starting to rise and investors are going to demand higher yields.

Jim Morgan

I think we can clearly see that we're in the first phase of a recovery. The recovery is being driven by consumer demand.

Tony Dwyer

I think we are going to get a pause. I do think that the Nasdaq has clearly overshot the fundamentals.

Sean Coffey

Our clients were quite impressed with the vision of Nortel's new management and the plans for the future.

Gerald Shargel

The jurors are crying, our clients are crying and the lawyers are trying to keep from crying.

Jim McVay

You want to make sure your package has value. Our clients need to feel they're getting more value than the cost. It's important to give people their money's worth ... This has become more than a game.

Arthur Conan

And now, Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.

Robert Hartwig

The clock is ticking loudly. Insurers are about to enter negotiations with commercial clients to renew their policies for 2006.

Robert Hartwig

The clock is ticking loudly, ... Insurers are about to enter negotiations with commercial clients to renew their policies for 2006.

Jack Gold

The clients will ultimately be free. You'll pay for it on the back end.

Paul Mills

This is normal with McKenzie Scott clients to see such a compensation package.

Gary Schatsky

Stock options can overshadow the value of a retirement plan in a heartbeat. I've had clients who made millions by waiting a few weeks.

Alan Light

He just digs himself deeper into a hole no matter when he does it.

Mike Strong

We matched up well with them. We were able to push them back off that 3-point line and make them shoot deeper than they probably would have liked.

Robert Southey

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Joey Fernandez

The guys are doing real good. I'm a lot deeper on the guys side than I am on the girls side.

Roy Romer

Education is much deeper than these technological machines and software, but I think technology is going to be a very large part of the system.

Peter Rosenfeld

DaimlerChrysler's goal is to develop deeper relationships and provide more opportunities to suppliers that are proven performers.

Roger Pilon

It's deeper than one mistake. There have been far too many mistakes.

Zeke Jones

It's great that people will be able to get a deeper look into the program.

Mike White

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

Stieg Larsson

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

J. Horton

He's a big-time point guard. You don't have enough text in your newspaper to describe how good he is.

Don Morrow

I think you could probably describe our play for the whole season as skittish; that's the word I've been using. We have moments of doing spectacular things, and then we have moments where we turn around and shoot ourselves in the foot pretty good. We're trying, I swear, to get over that.

Stephen Breyer

I have to, of course, describe the views of those who disagree with my approach.

Bow Wow

I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here.

Bob Sanders

I guess 'harassing' is a good way to describe us.

Shawn Logue

I'm great. One more match and I'm in the finals. You can't have a better feeling than this on the first day. Going undefeated and everything, it's a fantastic feeling. I don't know how to describe it.

Josh Brown

I'm ecstatic, there aren't words to describe it. It's an unbelievable feeling.

Wes Jr

I'm emotionless right now. It's hard to describe how I'm feeling.

Rick Boucher

The Internet has provided a means for gambling operations to evade existing anti-gambling laws.

Benjamin Cardozo

Existing rules and principles can give us our present location, our bearings, our latitude and longitude. The inn that shelters for the night is not the journey's end. The law, like the traveler, must be ready for the morrow. It must have a principle of growth.

Jamal Qureshi

A million sounds pretty high. I have a hard time seeing that from just existing fields and rehabilitation.

Bob Nardelli

It's all about getting more out of our existing assets. It's all about store productivity.

Dick Tomey

They're not going to take any existing scholarships away. We'll have three fewer new scholarships.

David Bondy

We found perhaps many of our existing policyholders would shift their work focus away from what they had been doing to trades and operations that were more in demand.

Jack Greenberg

As part of this plan, we expect to invest $300 million to $400 million in existing U.S. franchised restaurants in 2003,

David Keuhl

Rather than letting the next subdivision be on the next farmer's field, try to figure out ways to incorporate it in an existing city.

Stephen Byers

our existing security measures had not taken into account.

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.

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.

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.

Ben Shapiro

In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in the United States.

Albert J. Nock

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

Terry Chapin

I think that (packed byline) is an increasing trend when you get real large-scale issues like this. No one person knows how to put it all together.

Song Ho

Individuals are increasing their investments in the stock market, and that kind of trend will continue.

David Mann

It's been increasing significantly over the last year and a half.

Alan Brown

The use of application processors in 3G mobile handsets is increasing the semiconductor value per handset and semiconductor revenue for suppliers of application processors.

David Rinehimer

The market today was responding to the outlook with the increasing possibility we will see an interest-rate cut. And the day's recovery is reflecting the rebound in stocks.

Bernard Thibault

Each day lost to respond to workers' requests is increasing tension. This is turning into a real emergency.

Nawal El Saadawi

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

Mohamed ElBaradei

What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.

Issey Miyake

Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues.

Judy Genshaft

I would say that the Legislature and the people of Tampa made a very savvy investment 50 years ago.

Viviane Reding

Our policy is to encourage investment and promote freedom for industry to innovate.

Warren Buffett

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

John Sims

The investment will take place in three stages - $155 million, 185 million and $180 million.

Shamkhi Faraj

The investment law could take some time and we are not prepared to wait for that long.

Joe Gibbs

It's smart. If you are going to make an investment of millions and millions of dollars, you would research them.

Mike Winer

It went from a terrific value investment to a terrific arbitrage.

Stephen Jarislowsky

They wouldn't make that kind of investment if they just wanted to turn around and sell the bank.

Brian Harrison

It's in response to a very strong investment return last year.

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

P. J. Harvey

going on at the acquisition level and the requirements level.

Scott Butler

I think it's here now, but it may not stay, ... I don't know that it will level out at this amount.

F. Schumacher

I think with 12 to 13 minutes left, we stepped up our level of play. We were in a lull in the first half.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Taizo Nishimuro

It is necessary to raise the level of screening for start-up firms when they are to be listed.

Henry Mason

He's done some things that get your attention. Just like any young guy, you're looking for a level of consistency. That's what we're trying to get out of these 15 (spring practices). We're going to keep him in there and we're going to see what he can do.

Russ Knocke

There are no plans to raise the threat level at this time. These are rumors.

Peter Lai

Hutchison has risen more than HK$10 this week so at this level it will see some profit taking.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Jill Paton Walsh

If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it.

Harold Vogel

In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story,

Johnny Damon

I know how to manage little injuries. I can get through this.

Cyrus Broacha

I have no idea how women manage their hair. Seriously.

Palle Pedersen

In Iowa, we have a 32,000-an-acre plant population, spray, and harvest. There is no in-season management. It's all in the seeds.

Liev Schreiber

I manage to hide in my movies.

Ellis Krauss

You don't have to be young and handsome, but you have to be able to manage the media and project an image.

Dave Williams

I want to show my new manager I can pitch and show my new teammates I can pitch. That's what I'm worried about, just showing them I can win games. Everything else is really minor.

Marco Arment

Making a product better often requires removing features.

Tim Ghriskey

A lot of the higher-margin products are doing well.

Karen Ross

We're working with vendors to tailor products for our members' needs. We view it as a service for our membership.

Anthony Powell

You have to be a product of the product.

Thomas Carlyle

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

Mark Pincus

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

Guy Kawasaki

Provide good content and you’ll earn the right to promote your product.

Steve Mahoney

Landowners can use these products for beautification or for conservation purposes.

Phil Schiller

Our approach at Apple has always been to make products we're proud to own and use ourselves.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

William Cowper

Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I have provided a soundtrack for a scene that I am in which is pretty cool.

Mike Drake

I want to start seeing some of the results and know the provider is up to speed.

David McCandless

Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.

Richard Davidson

That is making it a lot more complicated for all social services, ... We are going to have to 'band' together to provide these services.

Bob Beauprez

It's something we can do an do quickly to provide some relief,

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Ralph Alvarez

This is our way to provide them the taste that they crave.

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

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.

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.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

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,

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.

P. J. O'Rourke

We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.