Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Torres

It appears that this is a win for consumers. This bill would definitely fix some of the accounting problems that we've seen crop up ... over the last six months.

Elizabeth Harris

History has always come to me easily, but economics and accounting were real challenges. Students identify more easily with instructors who can tell them of their own struggles .

Dave Knapp

We feel it's unreasonable that for a minor accounting infraction, we essentially had our entire slate eliminated. You're talking about 66 percent of the people running for election.

Michael Ramsey

I think we're going to have a case that's largely about accounting allegations...where the government is going to refuse to call either David Duncan, who was the chief engagement partner for Arthur Andersen, or Rick Causey.

Ned Hill

Our accounting faculty has done a terrific job building an innovative and practical curriculum.

Frances Johnson

Results from 1,177 polling places of the 3,070 polling stations have been counted and tallied, accounting for 378,008 of the votes cast so far,

Brent Thill

Regardless of the outcome, we still believe Oracle's current financial health remains intact. We do not believe there are hidden accounting issues.

Shirley Norton

Our new city administrator has been great, because I had no experience as a finance director. I am an accounting person, which is a bean counter and finance is a little different than being an accountant. Accountants are more exact and finance people have more vision. He's got the vision. He's been a good compliment to me and has helped me a lot and I really appreciate that. He's a little more involved... For the most part everybody has been great and I have enjoyed every minute of it.

Michael Gross

Investors looked to KPMG for tax advice. They looked to us as an investment adviser to execute a variety of stock and option transactions, We got out of the business of working with large accounting firms more than five years ago.

Keira Knightley

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.

Kristin Degnan

Knitting is one of the fastest growing crafts in the business.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Al Gore

I would not want to win the presidency by a few votes cast in error or misinterpreted or miscounted, and I don't think Governor Bush does either.

Chen Yonglin

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

Scott Auderer

I would say, mentally, our guys are stepping it up. We're not changing anything in our approach. It's business as usual. We're going to work to improve things here and there.

Russell Crowe

Just this one night is going to raise $1 million so I am going to get my nuts busted with jetlag for a couple of days, but it is really worth it.

Roger Warren

Joe has developed an exceptional track record in creating and marketing a wide variety of programs and services for PGA members and the golf industry, ... Most importantly, he has a dynamic vision for the future of the PGA and our leadership position in the game and business of golf.

Michael Gray

I think it's a great idea. It gets busy at times and the expansion will be able to accommodate more people.

Brad Davis

I'd always heard big-league camps are relaxed and easy. He's making me better and that's what I want.

Dominic Modise

I plan on holding camps and recruiting once I take a little break. Recruiting should be easier with the season we've had, and hopefully I can recruit better players to play for Nicholls State.

Kristine Lilly

I just run the camps to teach kids soccer, give them some confidence out there. I just want them to succeed and through soccer, hopefully, I can reach them and help them become better people.

Simon Wiesenthal

I have never stated that 'there were no extermination camps on German soil.' This quote is false, I could never have said such a thing.

Gemmo Lodesani

The main problem is protection of civilians in rural areas, in villages and outside the camps in general.

Brad Coker

There seems to be a lot of mixed feelings on the issue. Voters seem to be split into three different camps on the big picture question, and a good chunk didn't know if they fell into any of them.

Patch Adams

I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.

Ron Redmond

We reminded the government of Chad that it has the primary responsibility for ensuring the security of refugee camps on its territory.

Jake Palumbo

Coach Cole first saw me play in the Carpenter Cup and after that he stayed in touch. I really like the school and Coach Cole. I looked at a couple of other schools, but a Penn education is hard to pass up. I went to camps there in October and January. I'm grateful for the opportunity.

Glenn Beck

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.

Clay Johnson

Katrina has sharpened everyone's focus on spending the taxpayers' dollars wisely.

Ray Manzarek

John is going to get about a million dollars for doing nothing. He gets an equal share as us, and we were out there working. A free million bucks. That's a gig I'd like.

Mark Dobson

I also want to make sure student tax dollars are spent responsibly. Regardless, they are spent on the students who pay them.

Richard Bernstein

Historically, S&P 500 earnings growth, on average, has been negative when the dollar has appreciated 10 percent or more in a 12-month period.

Shaun Osborne

His speech was hawkish in the sense that there would be more interest rate increases. But again, there's something for everybody in his speech, including dollar bears.

David Mozina

I think it's great news for the dollar and it will probably solidify the strong upward moves that we are seeing in today's session.

David Brazil

We've done well with their contract-in dollars and in service.

John Heisdorffer

I think it's possible. We have about a half million dollars walking into the office or by mail every day.

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Mike James

If you get that type of lead, the toughest thing is to maintain it. But we did which shows that as a team we're going in the right direction.

Tom Grzymala

You want to maintain a balanced, diversified portfolio.

Fadel Gheit

All they want to do is maintain the same speed.

Michael Costigan

It's important we maintain strong ties with Kankakee at all levels.

Grant Thrall

It's important that communities maintain their sense of place identity, so that they are not just one more blob of suburban sprawl, that they are something special ... People do like themes.

David Nelson

They'll spread rumors and give their peers the silent treatment. They do whatever works to maintain control.

Cheryl Cook

It's a lot of work for the owner ? maintain it, keep it in pristine condition.

Dick Morris

The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.

Cheryl Tiegs

We tried - we tried for a year, and we tried different methods and different - and I had in vitro and it didn't work. It didn't stick. It didn't - didn't produce a baby at all.

Robert Vega

He didn't want to go home. From what we know, he spent the past two nights sleeping in the woods.

Paul Stephenson

I think we were the better side on the night.

Wayne Gretzky

I will say it one more time, I said it the other night, I didn't bet, it didn't happen, it's not going to happen, it hasn't happened, it's not something that I've done.

Maria Hernandez

He's going to come out that gate, and I'm going to be here awaiting him. We are here day and night because we have hope.

Charna Halpern

He was here two nights in a row.

David Dinkins

I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?

Johnny Depp

He had watched the film for the first time that night and said it was brilliant.

Steve Peck

He does that night in and night out, he makes the big save.

Robert Cormier

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

Rick Bragg

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

Werner Heisenberg

In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.

William Faulkner

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

Winston Smith

Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself.

Wislawa Szymborska

I'm drowning in papers.

Will Self

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

Will Rogers

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

Sam Walton

It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.

Pam Smith

If you need paper as a backup, why not just start with the paper?

Lynda Carter

Having them go to these premieres with me and tell me that they are proud of me is pretty cool.

Tom Gorman

We're proud of what happened. It was important for the community.

Manson Hill

We're proud of our players. We outplayed them in the second half, and we had a shot to win it.

Brian Smith

We're proud of Levi. He's one of 11 state finalists at Bellingham.

Kevin Ellis

We're proud of everything Raynham is and stands for. That's why it's worth it.

Greg Zipadelli

What I'm proudest of this season is how we've battled throughout every weekend,

John Torchetti

I was just proud of our whole team. This is a team win if I have ever seen one. From the goalie out, we competed.

Rick Barnes

He had to step back and look at a lot of things. I'm proud of him, because he took a tough situation and got the most out of it.

Rex Ryan

I can't tell you how proud I am to be the head coach of the Buffalo Bills.

Michael Bakwin

I will put (the paintings) on the walls of my house, and in my safe when I leave. I was lax.

Carl Jung

You'll always be safe with me.

Ron Chernow

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

Troy Polamalu

Being compared to the greatest-ever safety is pretty ridiculous. I continue to work toward that, but I'm not there and I know that.

Woody Allen

If you aren't failing every now and then, you're probably playing it too safe.

Richard Gere

Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.

Virgil

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

Will Smith

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.

Warren Buffett

The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.

Ken Stern

It has to come to a head. We won't have Social Security if it doesn't.

Shaharyar Khan

The ECB should not feel insecure. They have strict security at all the grounds.

Gerhard Schroeder

Serbs who live here and who want to live here have the right to security and protection, not only for themselves but also for their property,

Taylor Swift

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

Juergen Peters

We wanted security and security is what we have got.

Fatih Birol

We think security of supply will be a big problem.

Robert Kiyosaki

The more security you seek, the less freedom you have.

Douglas MacArthur

There's no security on this earth, only opportunity.

Colin Powell

Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen.

Dick Durbin

He said he spent more time worrying over and working on that decision,

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Brian Dake

I spent a lot of time up there; I'd say all of it.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

Libba Bray

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

E. O. Wilson

We've spent a lot of time together. If it works out, it would be great.

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Richard D. James

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

Richard D. James

I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.

Valentino Rossi

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

Richard Dawkins

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.

Ursula Andress

Don't take anything from me because I'll track it down.

Robert M. Pirsig

A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes. That’s gumption. If you’re going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate supply of gumption is the first and most important tool. If you haven’t got that you might as well gather up all the other tools and put them away, because they won’t do you any good.

Robert Farrar Capon

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

Robin Trower

I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

Robin McKinley

The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.

Stanley Clarke

I felt like I was trailblazing. And that's what I did.