Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Alan Autry

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Adnan Badran

We want to strengthen the commercial, economic relationship,

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Lou D'Ermilio

We acknowledge it's a valuable graphic enhancement. Unfortunately, in this economic climate, we've been forced to tighten our belt, and it's an expensive enhancement.

Stephen Leeb

We are probably on the verge of an economic recovery.

Zeng Peiyan

We are at the stage of economic development where we do not have the luxury to be wasteful,

Mary Farrell

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

David Briggs

We're in a narrow range, moving around about 1 percent over the last three days, and it looks like the markets are waiting for some economic figures or waiting on oil because there's really no reason to push anything now.

Alan Greenspan

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas, Greenspan said. While he hasn't seen such spreading yet, I expect to.

Daymond John

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Mike Hansen

We are prepared to take a look at our financial situation this spring.

Nader Agha

We are prepared to make the offer, but we need some more financial information.

Van Honeycutt

We are pleased with our financial performance for the third quarter during a challenging and turbulent period for IT service providers.

Lisa Alexander

We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation where they have to make financial decisions.

Charlie Munger

'F.A.S.B' ... 'Financial Accounts Still Bogus'.

Alan Greenspan

While (Japan) has made some important efforts, it has yet to make significant progress in diversifying the financial system,

Ben Bernanke

We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.

John Maroon

We want to reach out not just to sports fans, but parents who are involved in their kids' lives.

Adam Gilchrist

We have to get our priorities right. It is important that selectors, administrators, players and whoever else needs to be involved sits down and nuts that out.

Charlie Kaufman

My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.

Paul Hawley

We're going to shoot the video in Spain, and there'll be water involved -- and I'm going to leave it at that.

Greg Brown

We're going to have 13 different departments involved in this deployment

Jamie Carragher

We're involved in six this year and this is the first.

Pete Bodyk

We're getting more and more local law enforcement involved in our mobilizations.

Brian Sanderoff

Americans are quite divided, but it seems as if they are looking for a solution that involves some sort of legal documentation.

Ken Whisenhunt

They have been sitting through the meetings all year long so I don't think so. They've been involved in it all year long so it shouldn't be a problem.

Dolly Parton

We're phonies if we're not exactly who we are.

John Clarke

He had said he was FBI, he had a badge, it was phony but I didn't know. I thought he was a police officer.

Alan Furst

I look for the dark story, where something secret was done. I read and read and pick up the trail of a true story. I use nothing but true stories. They are so much better than phony ones.

Oscar Levant

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

Chogyam Trungpa

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

David Rockefeller

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

David Hockney

You must plan to be spontaneous.

Barry Commoner

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Phil Orlandella

There are (contingency) plans in place for strikes.

Bill Hogan

We still plan on sending out a notice,

Lori Murray

We started out planting 400 trees. They just seemed to do very, very well. We subsequently planted another 200 and then another 300 the third year.

Holly Holm

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Ken Cohen

If we had a silver bullet, we would be proposing it to Washington right now.

Robert Wyatt

We're proposing a very simple LNG import terminal,

Dennis Godfrey

This year, what we are proposing is one more step in the process.

Claude McDonald

Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke

Ken Dobson

The victims were kind of spread out in the house. Smoke detectors could have made the difference.

Tom McGee

The way they are trying to play it, it's a smoke screen. It's a big charade and very twisted.

Isabella Blow

I smoke so many cigarettes, there's no way I could have a glossy lipstick.

O. Winston

I don't smoke and don't drink. Never did.

Scott Peters

She said that if you wanted to smoke, she could go out there and smoke with her teachers.

Ron Carey

But if it's just a smoke screen, we're out of here,

Greta Garbo

I smoke all the time, one after the other.

Hank Aaron

Can I smoke now without someone taking my picture?

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Al Sharpton

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

Loretta Young

Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.

Randy Waynick

We're in a much different place today than we were a year ago.

Bill Moyers

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

Bertolt Brecht

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Carl Bernstein

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Aasif Mandvi

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

Arthur Conan Doyle

I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. - Sherlock Holmes

Ryan Robertson

We pounded it inside. That isn't something we do real well, but we did it better than usual tonight.

Jamie Oliver

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

Blaise Pascal

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

Phyllis Theroux

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Clara Barton

I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.

Timothy Geithner

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.

Robert Henri

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.