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,

Hasim Rahman

I suspect that. I saw him a week after the alleged injuries and he's walking around like he is today, ... I know one thing -- he won't be faking it November 12th.

Joshua Dratel

Here's a guy that does not have a history of violence -- was alleged to have carried out logistical tasks. He was not involved in the bombings himself, and there was nothing in evidence that he knew about the bombings.

Ronald Reagan

In spite of the wildly speculative and false stories of arms for hostages and alleged ransom payments, we did not -- repeat did not -- trade weapons or anything else for hostages nor will we.

Joel Isaacson

They deny committing the crime. The defense is they didn't do what's alleged by Mr. Perez.

Stan Twardy

They were alleged to have been involved in a massive fraud. The fact that Duncan is cooperating with the government will make it very difficult.

Jose Diaz

They will verify reports of alleged human rights violations and compile information on the causes and perpetrators.

Gil Gall

At this point, we're happy to know that what he alleged to be true ... has enough validity for an independent board to bring charges.

Woody McMillin

A parent came into the school with her daughter and reported inappropriate contact between a P.E. teacher and her daughter. Her daughter alleged inappropriate contact, and we take that very seriously.

Andy Stahl

The key to effective censorship is to make sure no one's looking, and this time everyone was watching. If BLM can point to a single other instance where it has suspended scientific research because of alleged illegal lobbying, I'll eat my hat.

Jay Larranaga

I just looked on the Internet for certain trends and if anything pops out in the games that Michigan State lost. I think when they attempted less than 16 free throws, they lost every game, and they are a great free throw shooting team. I think there was also was a great discrepancy between wins and losses and how their inside player Paul Davis played. When he played well and scored over 18, 19 points, they usually won.

Joey Skaggs

In 1968 I organized the Hippie Bus Tour to Queens as a satirical cultural exchange tour and I attempted to burn down a Vietnamese Village Nativity I erected in Central Park to protest the war in Vietnam.

Brad Soderberg

I know that topic keeps coming up, but I'm most interested in quality basketball. We're having a hard time sustaining quality basketball, and tonight was as bad as it gets. Everything we tried didn't work. Every shot we attempted seemed a little off rhythm.

Kathleen Blanco

The Corps Of Engineers has attempted to fix the situation under emergency conditions, ... They're not the best conditions, and probably too little, too late.

George Washington

The consciousness of having attempted faithfully to discharge my duty, and the approbation of my Country will be a sufficient recompense for my Services

Keiji Fukuda

This has never been attempted before. There is a very good chance that we will fail and that we will not be able to stop it.

Jonathan Stamp

It's not a documentary. It's a historical fiction. But we have attempted to make the world, the background, the detail of that world as authentic as possible.

E. B. White

Everyone has been wonderful, ... So many people have sent me supportive e-mails or attempted phone calls.

E. Hicks

The attempted murder charge is farcical because the Americans have already said David has never fired a shot at any coalition forces or civilians.

Dennis Hastert

Whatever we do, before putting in billions of dollars, let's make sure lives are not put in jeopardy,

Michael King

Ring tones will be a nice little revenue bump for carriers going forward but it's not as if there will be billions and billions of dollars in their pockets tomorrow,

Jeff Bingaman

Reducing the federal government's massive energy waste offers enormous opportunities to save taxpayers billions of dollars for decades to come and improve the environment, ... We're starting to make progress, but there's no excuse for this much waste when leading companies in the U.S. energy-efficiency industry are willing to provide the money for improvements at no up-front cost to taxpayers.

George Bell

If you were to build a Yahoo! or an Excite today, the cost of doing so would have to be measured in the billions of dollars,

Jordan Barowitz

The administration will aggressively pursue the billions of dollars that the state owes New York City schools and our children. If the state does not fulfill its obligations to the Department of Education capital construction plan, the opening of critically needed new schools and vital renovations will be delayed.

David Trone

Its track record is outstanding, they've earned tens of billions of dollars over the last several years and they've never come close to having a negative trading line. I'd say that's reasonable risk-reward.

James Gattuso

Congress was more concerned about constituents waking up in the morning sometime in 2009 and finding out that their televisions didn't work, and they couldn't get the sports show that they wanted. They were more concerned about that than they were about reducing the deficit or keeping taxes low or saving billions of dollars for the taxpayers.

Jerry Taylor

It will cost billions to fix it, but unfortunately for environmentalists, it's not a very sexy problem.

Jan Egeland

It will take billions of dollars to rebuild ... To reconstruct this will take five to 10 years,

Joe Pistone

John and I go way back. We worked a lot of cover cases together,

Ruben Donis

We are going to monitor all cases of human exposure, but at this point there is no reason to panic.

Anne McLellan

It is going to take a very long time for them to be able to resume their lives and even in some cases I'm sure determine whether they want to return to homes that have been largely destroyed or whether they want to start over somewhere else.

James Laughlin

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small.

Matt Taibbi

In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's the companies that are lobbying the legislators or whether it's the other way around.

Jason Calacanis

I have hundreds if not tens of thousands of fans... The people who have negative things to say are typically loser-type people who are probably in some cases mentally ill.

Jim Harlan

I don't know of any cases that have actually ended up in the hospital, but it's gotten close.

Condoleezza Rice

He talked... about the cases of these American citizens and permanent residents and the importance of transparency, the importance of humanitarian considerations,

Dirk Kempthorne

He has long-standing ties in the community, and will have an excellent temperament for the bench, ... He has litigated some very complex cases and clearly has demonstrated a keen knowledge of the law.

Nick Shappee

I guess he knew how I wrestle or something, because he just took me out of the way I wrestle. Every time I tried to set something up, he went for a collar tie-up, and he was just so strong.

Jack Ward

Deterrents aren't sufficiently strong because to many white collar crimes seldom result in conviction.

Diana Cooper

I feel in my heart I am supposed to be here right now. We have here an 8-year-old cocker spaniel that I have fallen in love with. He is deaf and has a collar but no tags. Dogs like that are not very adoptable, but someone must love him.

Kurt Vonnegut

Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.

Howard Safir

What we find is that many of the people involved in minor crimes are the same people that are involved in major crimes,

Kevin Wilcox

I think the elaborateness of the crime itself was quite unique and extensive. It seemed to be a full-time job for these two individuals.

Charles Mathews

There is no crime scene, there are no forensics and we have no witnesses.

Mike Forest

Law enforcement is a glaring example. We have separate booking, separate road patrols. We have two crime labs.

Jan Eliasson

International issues are national, and so many local issues - migration, communicable diseases, organized crime - end up touching everyone. At the same time there is such suspicion. It is quite a paradox.

John Sellars

If you're in the right type of wildlife crime the risks are minimal and it is very lucrative.

Bill Hill

His guilt of this heinous crime is not in question,

Jon Bruning

I'm tougher on crime -- I'm so tough it makes me want to throw up sometimes, ... How tough on crime can we get before it gets to be ridiculous?

Jack Parker

I'm not surprised. It's just a matter of time before big-city crime happens here.

Clay Johnson

Katrina has sharpened everyone's focus on spending the taxpayers' dollars wisely.

Mark Dobson

I also want to make sure student tax dollars are spent responsibly. Regardless, they are spent on the students who pay them.

Chuck Adams

He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed.

Harry Smith

I'm proud of myself. People who spent time with me afterward said, 'You're such a humble person.' I'm talking about myself now, but in the game you don't get portrayed as you always are. I want to come away with more than a million dollars with my honor and integrity. And I did that.

Susan Jackson

The last thing we want is for these dollars (for free tutoring) to go unused.

Tom Schatz

Their tax dollars are getting flushed down the drain here in Washington.

Joe Horn

I'm going to try to help, donate money and try to feed the families who have been in the Superdome, do whatever it takes. If I have to spend a million dollars to get food, I'll do that.

Andrew Nikiforuk

When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented.

Jesse Brown

There was a plan to make all of this stuff happen going back over 40 years. But the missing ingredient has been the dollars to fund it.

Mary Shapiro

I don't know whether they will say yes or no since there are all sorts of administrative, financial and legal issues.

Randy Sharp

I think no question this will have a financial impact on American Girl.

Timothy Smith

The financial office still has the power to request financial information from these organizations so we're still not running the risk of giving money to financially unstable organizations.

Oliver Friedrichs

The general trend is that attackers aren't concentrating on 'far and wide,' worms, but on financial gain.

Joe Phillips

This has left us with a serious financial burden.

Brock Kreitzburg

The Home Depot has provided me with the financial support and flexibility to work and maintain a job while pursuing my Olympic dream. I would not be an Olympian if it weren't for The Home Depot.

Timothy Adams

This is just yet another step on the road to Iraq's normalization with the global financial community. We see this as solid forward progress.

David Stern

It's our preference, our strong preference, to have the Blazers in Portland, in Oregon, playing at the Rose Garden and being able to be a financial success.

Kathleen Smith

It's important to have a product that investors like. That is a real positive they have going for them. Their financial statements also look good.

Piero Fassino

Everything has to be done, and every initiative must be put into play to save these two young women,

Dean Boyer

We want this initiative to be seen as reasonable and fair. Our initiative treats all property owners the same, and we wanted to pick a reasonable period of time.

Steve Kennedy

On the levy, I personally feel it ought to be a November levy and it ought to be done by initiative petition instead of us standing up here voting for it. You have to get 363 signatures to start the process.

Art Hogan

I think we'll start getting investors into the marketplace later in the first quarter,

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

Alan Ackerman

Investors are likely to say, 'Aha! Merrill tried to pull the wool over our eyes,' ... It will make them even more suspicious and cautious.

David Hilal

This is just part of the software world. And because there's a remedy for these problems, investors don't lose too much sleep over it.

Barry Goldsmith

It won't wipe out stock fraud, but it will give investors a much better tool,

Hugh Johnson

They come to me because they want special treatment, ... There is nothing that irritates substantial investors more than paying taxes.

Rich Yamarone

It's more important what investors believe, because those people are willing to put their money on the line like that.

Kenneth Lay

Investors don't like uncertainty.

Kenneth C. Griffin

there won't be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Joe Klein

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

Dave Scott

It's a larger fumigation, but it wasn't the most challenging we've done.

Sean M. Carroll

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Tim Curry

In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package.

Greg Ryan

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that's how we were able to get the patent,

Dean Bonham

The universe of people you can reach is much larger when your target is retail consumers.

Ben Bernanke

A.I.G. was even larger than Lehman, with a substantial presence in derivatives and debt markets, as well as in insurance markets.

Debbie Carter

He said he got disoriented and lost his sense of direction.

J. Horton

He's been there and done that. He won some big games, he lost some tough games. He made some big plays, he missed some plays.

Gary Powers

When he walked Christensen, I thought he had lost it. I let him stay for two more batters and got us in a jam.

Julian Sensley

I think we just got by on talent. If we were playing a WAC team right now, we might have lost this game.

Chad Kroeger

I was very upset, and for two months, if I saw his picture somewhere I would get angry, ... I hadn't lost somebody to a shooting before - it wasn't as though he'd been killed in some sort of accident. He was taken in such a horrible, malicious way that just made it more painful.

Braylon Edwards

We lost to the team with the worst record in the NFL. It's time for some answers.

Patrice Neveu

We lost to a superior Senegal side who were more mobile and put a lot of pressure on us.

Peter Kendall

We lost the markets. We can get the shrimp there's plenty out there. We just can't sell them. There's no market.

Charlie Williams

We lost the game, but I'm somewhat pleased with the effort. We've got a lot of young players. We have a lot of first-year players.

Charlie Strong

I'm real concerned. No one has stepped up. We have the guys. But none of them has taken the job.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

Thomas Lee

I visited with every student here at one point or another and none of them have said they feel unsafe here.

Cristiana Salvi

Twelve (people) are still in hospital, but none of them are in severe condition.

Rick Forney

There's none of that just-down-to-the-foundation devastation that we saw out of Mississippi after Katrina.

Ira Rohter

Right now, everyone is starting from scratch. To me, there's no obvious front-runner. None of them has really set up organizations.

Kim Hunter

None of this has been done before; all of this is new ground,

Jim Cicconi

None of the worst scenarios people have painted here can take place nor are they taking place.

George Krawzoff

None of these things are slam-dunk. That's why we've talked about them more than implementing them.

Amy Bloom

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Duane Ackerman

During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains.

Brandon Flowers

That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

William Falconer

The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

Sandra Cisneros

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

Vladimir Nabokov

To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena — all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.

Xavier Becerra

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

Wynonna Judd

I literally went from the outhouse to the White House.

William O. Douglas

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.