Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Elliott

The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world. The positive results this year compared to last are a result of accounting decisions as to how much of the longer-term losses to reflect last year, this year and presumably next year. We still have an average loss of $7 billion to $8 billion a year for the last four years.

Douglas Elliott

The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world, ... The positive results this year compared to last are a result of accounting decisions as to how much of the longer-term losses to reflect last year, this year and presumably next year. We still have an average loss of $7 billion to $8 billion a year for the last four years.

Donald Berwick

The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out there. There is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.

Nina Easton

A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges - the grief and loss for birth mothers, the uncertainties for adoptive parents operating under a patchwork of state laws.

Brad Durham

The 27-week inflow streak into Japan equity funds ended this week as accounting irregularities at an Internet company and a systems failure on the Tokyo Stock Exchange shook investor confidence.

Ron Ryan

The accounting rules for pensions allow people to do things you wouldn't believe. The rules are the problem.

Norihiro Fujito

The accounting problems in the U.S. seem to have crossed a significant hurdle on Wednesday, and the external pressures on the Japanese market in general have probably peaked.

David Healy

The accounting charges seem to be mostly timing -- instead of earning in one period they have to state them in another period.

J. M. Roberts

The answer is there was a shift, not a drop, in demand. Chinese shipments of computers were up more than 20 percent nationally, but fell almost 60 percent in Laredo, more than accounting for the drop in overall Chinese imports.

Tyra Banks

I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.

Yann Tiersen

In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.

Imelda May

I'm not saying that women shouldn't pursue careers, but if it is going to be equal in the workplace, it should certainly pan out to be a little bit more equal in the home, too.

Imelda May

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

Iggy Azalea

I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!

Ice T

I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.

Ian Mckellen

Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

Ian Mckellen

It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

Gianni Agnelli

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

Gary Meyer

The only reason we are talking about this (wheel tax) is to get a vote (for the EMS budget), and I have a real problem with that. The feeling I'm getting here tonight is that I'm buying (Williams') vote so that he'll get the Capital Improvement Plan in gear for 2005.

Nikki Reed

I do feel like by buying rats from a pet store, you are saving them because if not, they would get fed to a snake or something.

Lyndell Zanotti

That was his big thing. He did that several times. He was extremely generous. He was always buying things, just doing whatever he could. He used his own money. He liked helping the kids because he didn't have any kids of his own. He was very good to the girls.

Atsuko Abe

That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. Japan must have its own resources.

Todd Rosenbluth

We have a negative outlook on the telecom-services sector, preferring smaller, rural providers and one in Canada that, in our view, have stable margins and are paying out dividends and buying back stock.

Barbra Montez

We can't keep them in stock. People are buying them by the handful. They are so cute and cheap.

Raymond Burr

I once had a long relationship with a lady, and wherever I went in the world, if I saw something she would look great in, a gown or gloves or a ring, I always knew what color she liked most. I knew her size, what material she appreciated most, and I spent the whole time buying gifts for her. And I loved her very much.

Arthur Tucker

We have those indicators that kids are buying into the magnet school concept and that parents are supporting the magnet school concept.

Ismail Kadare

For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.

Giovanni Agnelli

And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.

Wesley Clark

Ukraine is a big country. It is 45-46 million people. It has got a lot of modern industry; it also has a lot of very key resources. There is no reason for it not to be one of the leading countries of Europe.

Christien Meindertsma

In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a population of 16 million people, we have 12 million pigs. And well, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs. They eat about one-third, and the rest is exported to all kinds of countries in Europe and the rest of the world.

Des Browne

Are we prepared to tolerate a world in which countries which care about morality lay down their nuclear weapons, leaving others to threaten the rest of the world or hold it to ransom?

Barack Obama

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Perhaps I'm just fickle by nature and get tired of countries the way other women do of husbands or lovers.

Malala Yousafzai

I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.

Pauline Neville-Jones

Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.

Todd Edwards

Mexico's stocks and currency did not lose as much as other markets in the region on news that the Argentine government's plan may be in trouble.

Brian Kelley

You'll see very shortly a plan to generate a currency that can generate that value for Ford shareholders.

Colen Garrow

Manufacturing will be under pressure because of currency strength. It will hold the sector back and (keep) growth from reaching its potential level.

Laurence Godfrey

We get a wide range of responses (to our phone inquiries and visits). Some people are surprised there is a fee to pay. Music is a part of the fabric of society and people forget that it is a currency - the finished product of someone's creativity. Others understand that this (music creation) is a business.

Craig Chan

From the currency perspective, there's definitely been a search for yield. The general weakness in the equity markets hasn't provided any support to regional currencies.

Rupert Stadler

For this year, there is actually no risk (from currency effects), that matches with our hedging rate.

Frank Vargo

What we want the government to do is to make it plain that currency values should reflect economic fundamentals, and governments shouldn't interfere with that.

Andrew Pyle

(It) comes down to watching the data, and data reflecting the impact of this move in the currency is not going to come out until we get into the summer.

John Faucher

We think given guidance is roughly in-line despite the negative currency impact.

Igor Luksic

It's definitely the development that has changed the way Montenegro is seen in the eyes of the world.

Will Yun Lee

Whenever you're fighting with weapons, there's a level of reality because people don't understand that these are still metal or hard rubber with sharp points - that if the timing's wrong, you could definitely get hurt. There's nothing like working with an actor who doesn't know what they're doing, because you're always in fear of losing an eye.

Will Champlin

I'm definitely a fighter, like Christina Aguilera would say.

Billy Graham

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

Emma Roberts

New York is a fun place to shoot, but it's definitely hectic.

Ben Affleck

I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen.

Helane Becker

The pilots definitely have the power in this relationship. If they don't want to fly, you don't fly.

Patrick Callahan

The pendulum is definitely returning and has been for a year.

Mike Connors

The penalty is definitely one that fits the crime.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Deborah Eisenberg

It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.

Donald Trump

Speeches are much easier if you read them. I just find when I do that, it's harder to fire up the crowd.

Bill Bowerman

It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.

Glen Flanagan

That would make it easier to scout, that's for sure.

Celso Amorim

That will make it easier for Brazilian firms to participate in infrastructure projects.

Daisuke Matsuzaka

That was something I've never done in my career. When I was getting ready to throw, I had the feeling something was about to go wrong. It wasn't a one-run game, so that made it easier for me to take.

Jay Marston

Val is doing very well. She got some experience last year as a junior. Now she's our go-to pitcher. She's making it easier on everyone.

Peter Roskam

Harnessing new communications technology offers one promising way to make public participation easier and more effective.

Yoshihiko Noda

I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.

Des Browne

Nuclear weapons are infinitely less important in our foreign policy than they were in the days of the Cold War. I don't think we need nuclear weapons any longer.

Vladimir Potanin

For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.

Bill Vaughan

Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.

Samantha Power

History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.

Menachem Begin

You annex foreign land, not your own country.

Pico Iyer

I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at the same time, I would never want to be Japanese, because they are subject to stresses that I am not.

Richard Engel

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

Bill Richardson

We have a good relationship with Russia, ... President Yeltsin was not pleased he was not consulted, but the Russian government -- the foreign ministry -- said that they supported the effort.

Frank Quattrone

Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.

Justin Pascoe

Most investors will view the Link REIT as largely a yield play, with some potential upside through rental increases.

Mark Sue

I think investors are relieved about these results because there were thoughts they would have to ratchet down for this quarter.

Chris Shilakes

With the stock trading at premium multiples and momentum investors exiting the stock, it may take some time ... to re-establish an upward trend.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Mark Mahaney

Yahoo! and Microsoft have reminded investors that search is not a monopoly,

Aaron Patzer

I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money.

Joe Osha

We'd love to tell investors that we anticipated Intel's problems, but we did not.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Actually, I think that 'Seinfeld' tackles the same kinds of issues as 'Six Feet Under,' just in a different way.

Barack Obama

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Cecil Taylor

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Cecelia Ahern

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

Carl Sagan

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

Art Alexakis

I've always cared about the world. That's never been an issue. But with learning how to smile, it's been learning how to feel comfortable within my own skin, and to feel accepted, and to feel empowered, and to feel worthy.

J. C. Watts

We need to keep these issues on the table.

Bill Holmes

We could have issues with the scoreboard, ... The scoreboard is a $1 million piece of equipment.

Pat Call

We know that we have significant water issues here.

Delmon Young

That was smoothed over when they took the prior ownership out.

Mike Jacobs

We're in for a period of uncertainty as we wait for new ownership to emerge, I really don't feel unwanted. I think there's going to be quite a lot of interest.

Vince McMahon

So, I don't know why Bret would think that he should have some right to ownership or right to usage of videotape, which is no different than any actor who performs in any sitcom or television show.

Brian Berger

They have ownership of this field, it's their baby. It's going to give them a sense of pride.

Becky Zaheri

We have got to take ownership in our city. We can't wait for somebody else to do it.

Kristen Stewart

When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, "What is this?"

Byron Dorgan

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.

Jeffrey Skilling

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.

Jerry Lewis

The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

Errole Rembert

We'll play the j.v. and they play the varsity. Rather than get destroyed, we get (our kids) to play the right way.

Mary Hansen

Most of them do walk rather than take the bus.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Michael Long

I think I would rather that he didn't run.

Zana Marjanovic

The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Tanith Belbin

We'd rather it be here than at the Olympics. So in that respect, it's good.

David Chaney

We'd rather her be here, even if she does win all the time.

Tyler, The Creator

Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

Jill Scott

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Marsha Thomason

I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.

Tom Sizemore

I think I may be in - potentially - three classics. That sounds like I'm bragging.

Marney Cox

On the one hand, it sounds like we may be a little weaker going into 2006.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like coach.

Robert Blake

I'd like to say that I said that because it sounds lovely. But I have no recollection that I said that.

Cindy Davidsmeyer

I did talk to him (after the angioplasty) and he sounds wonderful.

Nelson Peltz

The name 'Mondelez' I hate. It sounds like a disease.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Hans Kunnen

The big-picture fundamentals for commodities stocks is still in place. Nothing has actually changed. The sell-off in some sectors was not warranted.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Steve DeLuca

These stocks come in and out of favor.

Kate Warne

Everybody's worried that the stocks that have done so well have really overshot,

Nick Zito

He worked well and is on target for Tampa.

Kevin Appier

I can't see your target because of the sun, so you'll have to tell me where it (the ball) goes.

Alan Rudolph

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

Jon Sakoda

Worms that are traditionally targeting MSN will also target the Yahoo users,

Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot see.

Ashleigh Brilliant

To always hit the target, throw a dart, then call whatever you hit the target.

Joe Cunningham

We probably could play him at first (base); he just wouldn't be a very big target to hit.

Andy Gray

If you don't hit the target, you're never gonna score

David Buik

It is a takeover target as well, to be candid. Someone is going to have a nibble.