Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Schwertner

It's very difficult to census turkeys. It's a nut we've been trying to crack for quite a while.

Paul Auster

I took a job with the U.S. Census Bureau. In The Locked Room, the third volume of the New York Trilogy, there's a sequence where the narrator talks about working for the census, and I took this straight from life. As in the book, I wound up inventing people. Kind of curious.

Li Deshui

These census results show that the economic structure is actually better and healthier than our previous judgment.

John Edwards

This is an especially valuable survey, because it drills down into the benefits, costs, challenges and unexpected consequences experienced by managers; much more than the census type research of employees produced to date.

Kenneth Prewitt

There's more information on your driver's license than on the census short form.

Orlando Rodriguez

Census 2000 did not do a good job with group quarters, but they have a major impact, particularly in small towns.

Heather Boushey

Given that the Census doesn't seem to have a clear plan, and given that it's taken about seven years to develop a new survey historically, I don't see that it will take only two years to develop something better than we have now.

John Laird

Given what happened to the Central Coast, it's hard to support the current system, but since the last census 3.6 million people have been added. And to turn over the most diverse state in the union to a panel of retired judges, which is a very undiverse group ... I'd support an independent commission, or an independent commission with legislative review, or some other kind of hybrid.

K. V. Thomas

There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.

Matthew Ellis

As we learned in Economics 101, a declining manufacturing sector is part of the normal process as an economy develops.

Gore Vidal

Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.

Ted Hamer

The number of students drive the budget. When you start having declining enrollment, it takes a while to filter through before you can start reducing costs.

David Goss

Prices have gone up this summer, instead of declining as they typically have done during the warmer months; they are at levels twice as high as a year ago,

Ani Difranco

People talk about my image, like I come in two dimensions, like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind, like what I happen to be wearing the day that someone takes my picture is my new statement for all womankind

Anthony Chan

A declining deficit may be signaling a slight loss of economic growth momentum.

Josh Bernoff

Stores will close. It's already happening. Being a music store by itself is a declining business.

Jason Schenker

The service sector performed well, with new orders rising, prices declining and employment inching up.

Ann Turner

The shop contributed funds to our programs with varying degrees of success, until the last four years, which have seen steadily declining sales.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant. You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

E. O. Wilson

There is no population in there. It's deserted.

Marc Lumpkin

It's a way to go after another segment of the population that wants to sign up for satellite-TV service but hasn't had a way to do it.

David Price

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

Brian Behlendorf

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

Jared Diamond

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

Kelly Wood

The population is healthy, but it's not like we've got a lot of them.

Charlie Roberts

The population is growing, the unemployment rate is dropping. It's a combination of those two factors.

Laurence Parisot

There is always a risk in singling out a section of the population for separate treatment - especially the young.

Ed Sullivan

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

Terry Wogan

All reality TV shows are a triumph of voyeurism. They choose contestants who are ill-suited and slightly freakish.

Steve Forbert

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

Norman Wisdom

I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about.

Paul Pierce

I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows.

Drew Bledsoe

A win like this shows what we can be when we get out of our own way,

Judy Gold

I've never been on one of these shows where you have to make alliances and be a team player.

Carine Roitfeld

The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.

Sean Hayes

The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date.