Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Douglas

As effective as he's been. I agree with that (decision), I think it's an effective cost savings move. Our office largely deals with three department heads directly.

Kobe Bryant

People that know me understand that's just me. That's not something that was fabricated. The people who don't side with you or agree with you, you use that as fuel. You use that as motivation.

Rafael Ramirez

Of the 32 (companies), we have agreed with 30. We believe this was a mistake on the part of Total and Eni.

Frederick Chiluba

Details of the agreement will be released tomorrow.

Colin Steele

The signing of the addendum to the MoU addresses the valid concerns of the labour movement and speaks to the resilience of the original agreement and reinforces the fact that social partnership and dialogue is possible, orderly and mutually beneficial. Indeed, members of the union movement have signalled that while a new MoU would not include a wage freeze, there are several critical matters which are better dealt with in the spirit of partnership benefiting from research not rumour, candour not deception.

Tom Izzo

The Thursday-Saturday thing was a joke, in my mind, and I think most coaches would agree with that. I turned down going to the NBA ? I didn't think I'd have back-to-backs right now.

John Shelton Reed

The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers.

Samuel Larsen

The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.

Greg Nichols

I've been a free thinker all my life. Frankly, I'd agree with 95 per cent of what Peter has put forward, but then his adversaries would probably agree with 90 per cent.

William Stairs

As far as the timing of the budget is concerned, he hasn't made up his mind.

Ping Chew

The budget should put the country's deficit reduction effort back on track.

Dick DeVos

The budget problem we can deal with, but let's get people in Michigan back to work. Having someone who understands the realities of business sitting in the governor's chair would make a big difference.

Gary Goddard

The budget is pretty self-explanatory, ... This is a very readable document.

Earle Holley

The budget is going to be OK. We're not going to have a windfall of money, but we have resources.

Ron Faust

The budget hasn't kept pace with the need. We're doing more with less.

James Klein

Companies want to be able to plan and budget for their pensions, and that's been hard in the current environment.

Sandy Miller

Despite the success of our efforts to increase productivity and rationalize costs, the impact of September 11th and the continued recession in the travel sector has left Budget Group with a level of non-vehicle debt greater than our operations can reasonably support.

Gary Morse

The state budget hasn't included that item now for two years.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Brenda Frese

Coming up to the arena, most of the players had no idea what we were doing. It showed them what we were playing for.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

J. J. Johnson

Coming off those three losses, it's nice to have a win.

David Kopp

Coming off the starts that I had, I wasn't where I needed to be. We needed this one.

Christian Fauria

Coming off the loss to Carolina, having a really tough game, we just knew this was going to be a challenge. Do we have it or do we not have it?

Paul G. Thomas

Coming off the holiday break, it seems that the Conservatives have had a series of good breaks, notably the RCMP investigation of the Liberals.

John Breaux

a sense of what's happening in Congress and what's not happening.

Neena Moorjani

We're adjourning the negotiations for Thanksgiving and for consultations with Congress and industry,

Tom Schatz

Everyone's opening up their wallets to help (Katrina's victims) -- except members of Congress, who are opening up our wallets.

Dan Webster

Every member of Congress deserves a seat at the table to be involved in the process. I will continue fighting for this to become a reality in Washington, and will be running for speaker of the House.

Dan Webster

Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.

John Keeley

At the first hint of a stalemate in the Senate and the House, Congress may try to pass the elections first and delay this to 2007.

Dennis Hastert

Congress has always been for the people and by the people. And in keeping with the great traditions of our country, we need to keep it that way.

Richard Darman

Congress had embarrassed itself at having produced so little. It had to look as if it could do something.

Wayne LaPierre

Congress finally got frustrated by politicians and gun-ban advocates misusing their trace data in a way that was not only misrepresenting the truth, but was releasing sensitive information that could impede criminal investigation.

A. Hodge

Despite the tax cuts passed by the federal government, Americans will spend more on taxes than they spend on food, clothing, and housing combined.

O. Singh

A rapid reduction to operating costs, especially through job cuts in France, may not be feasible.

Henry Willmore

And the main reason for that will be the job cuts that enabled firms to do a more effective job of holding down labor costs.

David Fleming

To make the substantial cuts in emissions we are going to have to make, there are only two ways to do it - taxation or rationing,

Richard Thompson

Music is a great healer, a great diffuser of things like racism. It cuts through boundaries, and it's a very positive force in the world.

Robert Lynch

If the difference is made up through cuts to public services - like transportation infrastructure, education - then the overall effect on the economy of incentives can end up being negative.

Kevin Dineen

My wife told me, with the cuts and bruises I've received around my eyes, it wasn't very intelligent not to wear a visor. My sons wear them and will continue, moving forward.

Bill Cowher

That was really one of the tougher cuts that we've made.

Becky Lucidi

I was pretty much playing paycheck to paycheck. So instead of playing to win, I was playing to make cuts and earn checks, and you can't play like that.

Stephen King

...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.

Ivo Daalder

He has become a symbol of our inability to solve the problems in the Balkans. We would like to get rid of him but at the same time we are not willing to take the kind of military and other measures it probably would take to get rid of him.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Arnold Palmer

Tell you what ... I'll wear it at the next tournament I play in.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Mike Lamb

This is one of the most resilient teams I've been on. Whether we get shut out, whether we lose, whether we win this team the next day, it doesn't faze them,

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

James Smith

It's a pile of rubble now. It's down and gone.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Brett Ratner

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

Brad Meltzer

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

C. S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Alan Dean Foster

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Bela Lugosi

I'll take any story if it's good.

Elizabeth Strout

All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Robert Soper

The track has its own taxes that are distinct. It's not 55 percent, that's for certain.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump have proposed an approach that has a $4 billion tax benefit for your family.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Herbert Hoover

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

P. J. Harvey

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

P. J. O'Rourke

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.