Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sandy Prince

I was an accountant and tax-preparer for over 20 years. I enjoy the creativity and making people smile.

Robert Scheer

So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote.

Mark Hamilton

Technology is enabling the restaurant industry to use the accountant very similarly to other industries.

Robert Goodman

You would never hire an accountant to just put in the income side of how much you earn if you have a business. You put in the income and expenses and come up with a net figure.

Jonah Goldberg

You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it.

Clara Shih

I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.

Buck Showalter

Joaquin was outstanding. His background is that he struggles from the fourth through the sixth. It's been a challenge, but today he was outstanding,

Grant McCasland

He comes from a really tough background as far as growing up in Brooklyn and he's helped really helped our team by being someone who can go and get a tough basket or a rebound. We're going to need him to be successful at the regional tournament.

Nick Saban

He is respected throughout the league and has a strong background in player personnel,

Mikhail Baryshnikov

No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.

Arnold Fielkow

I think it's important to let the presentation be made. Because I think you have to give some background to it.

Kantathi Suphamongkhon

He has management skills, and he has international experience. He is dedicated to the work of the international community. So he has the strength, background and experience, ... We feel that he is appropriate for that position.

Russell Baker

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

Stephen Briggs

Remorseless buying of precious metals by investors has pushed prices higher. Quietly behind in the background is dollar weakness.

Roger Clemens

just to try and look at the details of everything that happened.

John Hume

He knows details about the machine ... this is model X and why. That shows a really involved collector.

Katherine Collins

He refused to elaborate; he wouldn't give any details as to what that meant.

Robert Esche

He's a great man. I like him a lot. Obviously, stuff will come out. I don't really know the details of it. But I do know he is a good man.

Ann Beattie

Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live.

John Schneider

Going forward from here, we'll take what we've done and probably go back into a small group arrangement and be more detailed on what the steps would be in these various areas.

Tony Blair

His WMD program is active, detailed and growing. The policy of containment is not working,

Eva Nogales

We are gaining information on the differences and similarities between viral mechanisms and eukaryotic mechanisms. Getting to the molecular details of these gets to the possibility of learning one mechanism versus the other so you can try and stop (the virus from attacking) the human cell.

Shawn Ashmore

I think, ultimately, those little details come through, even if it's just in my head.

Abdul Aziz

I will not go back to that village where I lost my wife, my relatives and my friends.

Charles Collins

He had a lot of friends, and you always saw him socializing with the other kids.

Will Rogers

We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.

Indian Proverb

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.

Friends

I'll never win that battle. 'Friends' was a juggernaut. It's not going to happen like that again.

Andy Hartmann

I'm just happy to have him. He was one of my friends when he went to Hollywood. We used to hang out. I'd go watch his games, and he'd come watch us. Now, it's just great that we can be on the same team.

Bill Tyler

I liked helping people. I loved being a policeman. I had a lot of friends there and I really missed it when I got off.

Jeffrey Robbins

I've had friends jumped before, but it wasn't with weapons and nothing on this scale.

Shawn Woods

It's good to be at home, ... It's neat to have parents and friends come and watch. We had more than 100 people there, and that is a good crowd.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Vladimir Guerrero

I swung after they took me out (Thursday), ... I just wanted to make sure I could tell (manager) Mike (Scioscia) I was OK. I didn't want to wait until (Friday).

Brandon Graham

And it was me, Troy, Jerone, Mike and Anthony.

Brandon Siler

That's sweet right there. I couldn't even have the possibility of doing it. That's so sweet. We've got the utmost respect for Mike and the things he's done here.

Terry Stotts

They obviously made Mike a priority. They didn't give him any open looks.

Lesley Manville

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.

Tom Arnold

That's funny, Mike Tice. Is that your joke?

Jamie McMurray

There's something about when Mike Helton talks, everyone listens.

Wayne Puglisi

Buddy, Mike and A.J. have played together forever. They should be in for another big year on offense if they stay healthy.

Nicholas Hytner

Mike was a little nervous ... We weren't, because his reputation is so immense.

Dinara Safina

I think I played well today. I just missed some really important shots.

Thomas Ken

Redeem thy misspent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last.

Jeff Burton

He said it in a way that you couldn't miss it.

Buck Showalter

He's a treasure. Every day that passes, we realize how much we miss him.

Jack Ferraro

I think the players that we have right now are very good. But one thing we don't have is that big-time scorer. We're going to be missing Piazza, but somebody's going to have to pick up his slack.

John Shadegg

I think we need an idea person. It's something we've been missing for a long time.

Claude Tarver

I think a lot of them are wondering if they may have missed out on him.

Kitty Wright

I think a lot of people misunderstood, (thinking) that they were going to be there forever. Now that they're gone, they're missing them.

Rick Barnes

I think it was a situation on this night that (Tech) missed a lot of shots. We were obviously taller and longer, so we could get those rebounds.

Amy Robach

Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.

Spike Jonze

If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.

Lykke Li

Being on tour really takes a toll, so you have to find ways to stay healthy.

Z. Sheppard

I'm getting better. It takes a little time, but I'm getting better.

Jennifer Walker

It takes us a while to warm up, for some reason.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Karel Amaranth

It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.

Jane Smith

This kind of work takes too much time. Mine's all needlework.

Eido Carney

It's at least 15 years. It takes that long.

Jon Lovitz

There are some actors who say, 'What do you want me to do? I'll do whatever you want,' and that's all they do, ... I kind of go to the other extreme. I say, 'I have an idea. Can I try something?'

Kiki Vandeweghe

He's a very, very important part of whatever we do. We want Melo with us for a long time.

Katharine Liell

It didn't matter. Whatever he said, he was going to be arrested, wasn't that true?

Long Qiming

I was doing my job. I'm a Chinese, and I had to do whatever was needed.

Orlando Dominguez

Whatever we can do to better our responses, we'll do.

Richard Lies

Whatever they want to do has yet to be worked out.

Chico Lynch

Whatever they did there, it has worked out well.

Robert Broadfoot

Whatever they achieve, the word that's going to be used will be cooperation, coordination.

Andre Cohen

Whatever she went through, I went through. We never separate.

Joseph Pierce

Can I make the play, ... Am I willing to make the play?

Nathalie Sarraute

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Mike Tomlin

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

John Piper

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.