Famous Quotes & Sayings

S. Walker

We've actually started the budget hearings tonight, thanks to you folks,

Michael Shermer

In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.

Norman Wisdom

Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.

Bill Jones

We're still a number of days away from going through the budget process.

Joe Tucci

We're seeing a firming of IT budgets throughout the United States, ... We are seeing budgets get set.

Steve Lyle

We were in a series of budget reductions. It was not something we wanted to do. We will stay with the present arrangement. The budget climate really hasn't changed for us.

Andrew Lochart

What makes it a problem, regardless of why, is that smaller companies are the ones who have fewer defenses in place. There are no large dedicated IT staffs in place, or large budgets for technology, so it's a double whammy.

Joanne Vavrek

We?re going to have to budget $10,000 for gas.

Alan Greenspan

Unless the situation is reversed, at some point these budget trends will cause serious economic disruptions,

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!"

Chris Christie

We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to raise it with these cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what's going to happen: They're going to have to lay people off.

David Horowitz

Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.

Jeff Campbell

The positive news is we're making progress on the cost front, led by painful concessions by our employees and suppliers, ... The tougher news is while the revenue environment has improved, it's still depressed by historical standards.

Ed Bolen

The person who decides is dictating why the costs are what they are.

Rajiv Dube

We are looking to establish quick gains, though it is too early to quantify what the cost savings will be.

Ron Jones

We spent the last few weeks talking about how good the team's effort was and tonight was the first time that we didn't play with the effort that I felt we should have. We did some of the same things that have cost us games this year but it just looked like the energy level disappeared in the second half.

John Felmy

When you take all those costs out you're not finding unreasonable profits for everything we have to do to get (gasoline) to consumers. These requests are just unfortunate.

Jim Gingrich

What these guys are saying effectively is that pricing is tough. There's not a lot of growth, so you've got to get your cost structure in line to be able to play.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Alan Watts

Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen is simply the sensation and the clear understanding ... that there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy -- and it appears as you, and everything is it. The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to "feel it in your bones.

Alan Watts

Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.

Alan Greenspan

Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.

Alan Greenspan

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

Alan Beck

Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy....A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger, wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

Alan Blinder

In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters. And there would be an inventory pileup. And then - bam - businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.

Chris Chocola

Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives.

Chris Colfer

I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!

Castor Pang

The plunge yesterday was driven by panic selling, the rebound today is a strong signal for buying.

Michael Leunig

The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.

John Lampe

Would any of these people let their family or driven themselves in a Ford Explorer with these tires if they thought there was a problem?

Kevin Murphy

A lot of investment internationally is driven by people's understanding of the places that they visit.

David Briggs

This particular stage of poker on television is driven by people who have been playing offline for the last 10 years.

Mike Schussler

This means the market is being driven by fundamentals, not speculation.

Donald Broughton

There was volume growth, but these results were driven by yield improvement and operating-margin improvement. We also saw productivity gain and more packages moved per employee.

Jonathan Cain

There must be something in the heart of the music that speaks to different generations. We were never part of the c--k-rock, we were never a politically driven band, and we sing about universal things.

Richard Cripps

It's all driven by Microsoft at this point.

William Shakespeare

The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.

Ed Helms

I've been to Indonesia, but I've never been to Thailand. I hear the people are lovely, the food is delicious, and that the heat and humidity are lethal.

Cindi Nicholson

They put out heat at table level rather than up so no one has to stand up to get warm.

Charles Adams

It's three inches thick, so it's going to keep all the heat inside your water heater that otherwise would be radiating out into your room.

Joel Parkinson

It's the way surfing is - you grow up surfing together, and then you're thrown into a heat at Pipe or a world title bout against one another.

Mark Krikorian

There were players on the Olympic team like Abby Wambach, Shannon Boxx and Heather Mitts who were not on the national team right out of college,

David Alan Grier

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

Laila Sadler

A whale in the shallow water of the River Thames is like a human lost in the heat of the Sahara desert.

Will Rogers

Any nation is heathen that ain't strong enough to punch you in the jaw.

Andi Anderson

We usually redeem ourselves in the second half. We just had to play more steady and we had a lot of turnovers.

Ben Roethlisberger

We still see ourselves as the underdogs. We always have. If people want to pick us, they can.

Steve Sullivan

We were being embarrassed. We were being intimidated, we just sat and told ourselves that we can outplay them.

Denny Rinehart

We're going to throw ourselves right in there, headfirst, and see what we're made of right from the beginning.

Greg Kraft

We're going to find out a lot about ourselves this weekend.

Proverb Proverb

When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Gloria Starr

We're ruining ourselves around the world by using inappropriate verbiage and symbols.

Jeanie Simpson

They must be anticipating problems, I don't know. They'll let us fend for ourselves after a while.

Ben Wallace

It wasn't really about making plays but making stops. We know we can make plays, we just need to make stops and give ourselves the opportunity.

Bobby Robson

I took a risk in putting Dyer on because I trusted our public. They didn't let me down,

Tyler Oakley

For any YouTuber, if you're too nervous to have somebody else document, it may be that what you're putting out there isn't authentic.

Michael Rodgers

The situation is serious. That's why I recommended no travel for this year. We've been putting this off, and the situation hasn't improved.

Gene Luen Yang

The most labor-intensive part of putting together a comic is the drawing.

Maxwell

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

Philip Kerr

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

Kourtney Kardashian

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

Ernest Borgnine

Even radar was unheard of when I first went into the service. Then suddenly, they started putting bedsprings up on the tops of ships.

Joe Klein

We're putting our teams together now. If he comes, it's a bonus.

Theron Roschen

It's thinner than conventional asphalt, and that's where the savings comes in.

Robert Mahon

That's not a real savings for the taxpayers.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Clifford Garnto

We wrestled better than we did in the first. We got after the guys, and they wanted to get to the state final.

Paul Tagliabue

to play in the state in which they're franchised.

Mark Warner

A lot of states wanted to help, but there was no place to turn.

Troy Pachner

They made the type of adjustments that a state championship team makes.

Tim Koerber

This ain't getting any easier. The top two state teams were in our region. You just never know.

Eddie Rodriguez

It's not right. The United States is nothing without immigrants. The United States is nothing without Mexicans.

Adam Campbell

It's the state tournament. Everyone comes to play.

Brian Roper

They are a very disciplined team, and you can see why they are two-time state champions.