Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Ritholtz

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

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.

E. O. Wilson

It's amazing. We couldn't even afford an extra $50 in our bank account at that point.

Andy Reid

It looked like he was the one guy that they didn't account for.

David Bloom

It's very possible we're at the beginning of a current account deficit that is going to widen substantially.

Brad Adams

It's time for the Chinese government to give a full account of what has happened to these five men, including any charges against them. Independent doctors and lawyers should be allowed to meet with them to ascertain their condition.

Robert Uithoven

They created an e-mail account to mislead voters. It's what we've come to expect from the Bob Beers campaign.

William Boyd

The vote during this weekend's meeting on the compromise, or 'alternate proposal,' is not necessarily prologue to passage up the NAIC committee hierarchy and certainly not in legislatures. Regulators will have to take into account what legislators think about the internal accounting content in the proposal that is derived from Sarbanes-Oxley.

James Leach

The use of false pretenses to retrieve confidential customer account information not only victimizes those consumers whose privacy is violated, but also compromises the security of financial institutions that strive to increase customer convenience by making such information more easily accessible,

Jim Clyburn

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.

Jeb Bush

We need to have capabilities second to none. We need to create a situation where Chinies know that there will be adverse impacts if they continue to do what they're doing.

Jeff Olson

You can gauge the limitations of a person's life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person's life has by the size of the problems he or she solves.

Jean Renoir

I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

Gelsey Kirkland

At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.

Harry Chapin

The reason nobody else in my business has any impact is because they're all comatose.

Gwen Moore

There are a lot of people in Milwaukee who have had adverse impacts from Scott Walker. He's managed to mess over everyone in Milwaukee.

Joe Kernan

I don't think in retrospect that it had much of a political impact one way or the other,

Ted Jr.

I didn't know what impact I would have right away, ... but I really wanted to show my teammates even though I looked like a small guy, I could make some plays.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Jonathan Nolan

I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a filmmaker is to tell stories and so you hope that they will have resonance for people and for the kind of things you're talking about.

Jonathan Sacks

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things...

Jonathan Safran Foer

I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits....

Jack Welch

The quality of an idea does not depend on its altitude in the organization...An idea can be from any source. So we will search the globe for ideas. We will share what we know with others to get what they know. We have a constant quest to raise the bar, and we get there by constantly talking to others.

Henry Rollins

One person's disaster is another person's talking point.

Malcolm X

I am not a Republican nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it. I am one of the 22 million Black victims of the Democrats, and one of the 22 million Black victims of the Republicans, and one of the 22 million Black victims of Americanism.... You and I have never seen Democracy, all we've seen is hypocracy.... If you go to jail, so what. If you are Black, you were born in jail. If you are Black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. As long as you are South of the Canadian border, you are South.