Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Schumer

The states have a total of $80 billion in deficit spending. What are they going to have to do? Well, they are either going to have to cut programs, which will drag the economy down, or they are going to have to raise taxes, which will drag the economy down.

The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.

Gordon Sinclair

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

Lindsey Graham

The transportation and the energy bill would have been a good place to go back and revisit for some of the spending that occurred there.

Saxby Chambliss

Let me be clear -- the Congress will be writing the next farm bill in 2007 and I am deeply concerned the (Bush) administration is using the current negotiations to reshape farm policy without the full input of Congress and grassroots support,

Octavio Dotel

One thing Billy taught me is to know how to handle the situation. I learned how to handle the situation, ... It's hard to know how to handle it.

Dick Morris

Is Bill Clinton serving as a lobbyist and public-relations guru to the government of Dubai? It sure looks like it.

J. K. Rowling

Bill, don’t look at me — I’m ’ideous.

Peter Jacobs

I think the key is that next year, even though Boeing will see about a 15-16 percent decline in revenue, they should still be able to show improvement in the bottom line.

Leroy Hill

Relentless, hungry, a bunch of different words. All underdog words. We're fighting from the bottom trying to get up to the top. We're just going to stay that way.

James Toney

I'm the heavyweight champion of the world. That's bottom line,

Aaron Rowand

I'm surprised more guys didn't get thrown out by what was going on in the dugout. I thought we lost (first-base coach Marc Bombard), Chase and Charlie. I told (Howard) half our roster is gone. Sometimes that lights a fire under your (butt). It's nice that we came out and got the win, bottom line.

Jorma Ollila

The first quarter seems to be the bottom of the industry, ... Unforunately, it's been a slower recovery in our view than what we saw a few months ago... that's because the rebound of the economy has been slower.

Rocky Jarvis

The guys tried real hard today, but we just couldn't match up with their experience. They were just stronger than us, especially at the bottom of the singles rotation.

Dan Popowics

The key is to keep them in the stores a little longer. Certainly they're in a turnaround situation. Now they need to move to month-in, month-out having stronger same- store sales and bringing that to the bottom line.

Darwin Walker

All we can do is try to win with the guys we have in the locker room. That's the bottom line.

Corey Jenkins

The fourth quarter, we were really strong and pulled out our delay game. We took care of the ball, bottom line. We hit our free throws in the last couple minutes of the game.

Ricky Jay

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

Tom Petty

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

Tiger Woods

There are guys on Tour who hit the ball further than me. I always thought it was important to have power, but more important to have power in reserve.

Steven Wright

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

Steven Wright

Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written.

Steven Wright

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

Steven Wright

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.

Reggie Jackson

You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.

Tom T. Hall

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

Oscar Hammerstein II

The dearest things I know are what you are.

Ellen Hopkins

The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

Lord Kelvin

To measure is to know.

Maika Monroe

You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

Haruki Murakami

Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?

Lee Dashiell

The mating was ferocious. Every day for two weeks. Who knows what they did at night when we went home.

Charlie Munger

Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.

David LeBlanc

There are a lot of people wondering what is going to come out of this. No one really knows where it is going.

Alanis Morisette

The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss.