Famous Quotes & Sayings

Astro Teller

We are proposing that there is value in a totally new product category and a totally new set of questions. Just like the Apple II proposed, 'Would you reasonably want a computer in your home if you weren't an accountant or professional?' That is the question Glass is asking, and I hope in the end that is how it will be judged.

John Heine

Usually a lawyer looks at the narrative portion of the registration. An accountant looks at the financial statements. As they're reviewing the documents, they make notes about areas where they have questions or concerns about the adequacy or quality of disclosure, holding it up to the rules we have in place. On the basis of those notes, the staff composes something called a comment letter, which is sent to the filer.

Robert Scheer

So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote.

Mark Hamilton

Technology is enabling the restaurant industry to use the accountant very similarly to other industries.

Robert Goodman

You would never hire an accountant to just put in the income side of how much you earn if you have a business. You put in the income and expenses and come up with a net figure.

Jonah Goldberg

You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it.

Zarin Mehta

I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.

John Lennon

I don't know how much money I've got . . . I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper.

Joseph Meyer

My response is they should talk first to an accountant to find out what the alternatives are,

John Mogg

The U.S. safe harbor principle meets the test of adequacy as required by the (privacy) Directive.

John Koskinen

We think the adequacy of health care will be fine. You'll get good treatment wherever you go.

Sheila Garrard

The operating trend is as I expected, although revenues are of slightly better quality. But it's disappointing that they haven't made progress in dealing with the capital adequacy position at this stage.

E. Stanley Jones

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

Albert Bandura

Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes

Albert Bandura

The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

Noam Chomsky

. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.

Tang Shuangning

The purpose of engaging strategic investors in the shareholding reform is not to collect funds to raise the capital adequacy ratio of the state-owned commercial banks, but to learn from the expertise of our foreign counterparts in service, management and internal control to improve the competitiveness of China's banking sector.

Adam Osborne

Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.

Tom Hansen

We want them to test the waters. We want to see if other areas are attractive to us.

S. Hughes

We want the kids to learn about working on yachts, crewing them, marine electronics, boat building and design, interior design and engine repair. Since we have many brokers in the area, we will even have people teach them how to sell yachts. There are so many areas they can pursue.

Dick Thompson

The outbreaks in those areas are being contained, ... There's still disease, but the disease is largely contained in hospitals.

Marco Rubio

The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities.

Larry Burns

The postal service operates everywhere in the U.S., giving us maximum flexibility to expand the relationship in areas or regions where a hydrogen infrastructure gets kicked off.

Mark Dantonio

We are pretty banged up in some areas on our team, but our attitude was outstanding this spring, and we look forward to the 2006 season.

Jim Murphy

'West To A Land Of Plenty' shows a family heading west, first on board a train, and then going into areas as yet untamed by rail by way of an ox-drawn wagon.

Jeff Fleming

We are looking for what is best for Kingsport and most of our plans for annexation are for areas east to Kingsport.

Bill Belichick

There are certainly areas that you can improve in and develop more consistency (in).

Linda Shelton

We want them to grow up and have a solid psychological and physiological basis for success. I love to move more than life, and want to empower girls and women to feel the joy of movement.

John Connell

We are seeing certain markets where housing costs and rents are going up on a monthly basis because of limited inventory, especially in developing Eastern European markets and major centers such as London, Paris and Moscow.

Terence Gabriel

We are probably going to see another 75 basis points.

Mike Street

We are pleased to have concluded the basis and substance of a deal with Gate Gourmet. The key to unlocking this dispute now lies firmly in the hands of Gate Gourmet and the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU). They must sort out their differences for the good of our customers and the employees of Gate Gourmet.

Wu Bangguo

There are both solid basis and immense potentials for cooperation between China and Morocco. Enhancing cooperation in various fields will definitely bring tangible benefits to the people of the two countries and play an important role in facilitating world peace, stability and development.

David Brown

We still think that the bigger 50 basis points move is the odds on favorite judging by the current strength of the euro,

Scott Snyder

We still see more value in the Asia-Pacific region than in the U.S. market, where people are still panicking over inflation. On a 15- to 20-year basis for a country like Japan, which has had years of market turmoil, there is certainly still room to run.

David Sobel

Where the basis of the request comes from is that the government itself has revealed nothing about these initiatives. The objective here is to move beyond unnamed DOT sources to really make public on an official basis some of the details.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

We are in the midst of an exciting canvass... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.

Debbie Wing

We're not going to speak about litigation. I don't want to comment on anything in relation to this case. That's for the courts.

Lester Bagley

We have no comment on the latest Culpepper e-mail.

Rae Tyson

We have no comment on it until we're ready to release it. It's still a fluid process at this point. We look forward to significant fuel savings without sacrificing safety or doing harm to the American economy.

Karen Rugen

We have no comment as to whether or not we are being investigated by the U.S. Attorney's Office.

John Burness

Until we have greater clarity, it would be inappropriate to comment further.

Erica Abbett

Until we actually see a suit of any sort we can't comment on anything.

Dean Acosta

Until the study is complete and presented to NASA and DOD senior officials in October, it is premature to comment on specifics and possible recommendations.

Norman Finkelstein

The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing with a strictly psychiatric question.

Adam Putnam

While I would ordinarily not comment on conversations with my constituents, Ms. Meeks has given me her permission to do so,

Darrel Good

The persistence of moderate to severe drought conditions in parts of Illinois, Iowa, and much of the southern Plains increases concerns about yield potential. As usual, forecasts of summer weather conditions are not consistent at this time.

Kofi Annan

There are concerns that if we do not make progress ... desperate people will resort to violence again,

Eric Johnson

There are concerns as to whether Ralph will continue to make headlines that are harmful to the party.

Samuel Bodman

There are concerns about the supply of natural gas,

John Connolly

There are some concerns there, which will probably see us including quite a number of props in our training squad so that we can get a handle on it. Getting the front row right is expected to be an evolving process.

Toshihiko Matsuno

There are some concerns that stock prices may be too high, and that seems to be weighing on the market.

Tom Schrader

There are some concerns about retail sales but they don't seem to be weighing on the market.

Felix Lanters

There are some big concerns about the U.S. economy and the stock market will struggle a bit. Interest rates do matter.

Ten Eyck

The reason for a review is concerns relating to the way that parents have some say and participation, ... Our problem is the process is so limited. They're looking at the bylaws with the intent to modify them for parental participation.

Alan Greenspan

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas, Greenspan said. While he hasn't seen such spreading yet, I expect to.

Daymond John

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Mike Hansen

We are prepared to take a look at our financial situation this spring.

Nader Agha

We are prepared to make the offer, but we need some more financial information.

Van Honeycutt

We are pleased with our financial performance for the third quarter during a challenging and turbulent period for IT service providers.

Lisa Alexander

We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation where they have to make financial decisions.

Charlie Munger

'F.A.S.B' ... 'Financial Accounts Still Bogus'.

Alan Greenspan

While (Japan) has made some important efforts, it has yet to make significant progress in diversifying the financial system,

Ben Bernanke

We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Joe Torre

We're in a situation where we can't be thinking about holding our own. We have to make an impact. The only way we can do that is by winning the first game.

Mark Rodgers

We're still sitting tight to see how this is going to break. We're kind of in a holding pattern.

Anne Bacon

We're still holding out hope and praying for their release.

Simon Phipps

We'll see some waves of improvement in 2003, but I'm not holding out hope for a huge rise.

Jim Angstman

We are all in a holding pattern waiting to see what happens.

Paul Cunningham

The referring physician doesn't really have a stake in it because he is not providing the service. So the hospital is left... holding the bag.

Steve Bellino

With the inventories where they are, and prices were they are, they don't equate. It's geopolitical tension that's holding us up right now.

Kyle Visser

We're excited. We have hope now. We were holding on to very little hope. That's a big thing for us. We see we can play as well as we can.

Charles Stross

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

William Shakespeare

Let us kill all lawyers

Charles Hamilton Houston

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

Jonathan Todd

Whether or not the new transaction will have to be re-notified will be something that the parties and the lawyers of the parties will have to study very carefully. If, for example, it is a different type of transaction it might have to be re-notified.

Angela King

Women were professors, lawyers and judges. They were journalists, writers and poets.

Tom Waits

and I have lawyers over there investigating my options.

Jeff Fisher

There isn't a lawyer in this town who didn't learn something from Ronnie.

Kent Schaffer

This is where we'll see what the lawyers really get paid to do.

David Shapiro

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

Charles Spurgeon

Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

Charles Spurgeon

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

Charles Spurgeon

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

Alan Watts

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

Alan Chadwick

A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

Alan Ball

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

Al Pacino

Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.

Alan Moore

The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

Djuna Barnes

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

David Shields

Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.

David Shields

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

David Shields

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

Carter Burwell

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Ajay Naidu

I hear music as narrative.

Brian Eno

My shows are not narratives.

David Stern

The only record we have are your notes and your recollection.

Sunny Murray

When you take two notes on the piano, an octave apart, and play them in rapid alternation, you get a third tone.

William Shakespeare

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

Steve Denyes

They are still using the original notes from the symphony, but they are personalizing the arrangement and making it their own.

William Blake

The sound is forced, the notes are few!

Augusten Burroughs

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

Grant Tolbert

When he left, he said he was going to take the notes straight to his engineer.

Edgar Allan Poe

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.

David Bositis

For a big portion of the African-Americans, there's not better education.

John Limberopoulos

They're smaller portions of things that are already on our menu.

Jim Barnes

A small portion of several things is probably better for you than a big portion of one thing because you get a wider variety of nutrients.

Alexander Mackenzie

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

Ross Siragusa

The tomato portion of it still is pretty negligible.

Ray Kurzweil

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

Mary Ann Mobley

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

Elizabeth Banks

Portion control is a real problem. My husband and I always split one appetizer and one entree. I'm sure waiters hate us.

Tim Thomas

I don't want to say there's not a problem with that (waivers) portion of the CBA just because I made it through.

Charles Dickens

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

Alan Chadwick

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

Akio Morita

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

Arne Jacobsen

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

Derek Jacobi

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

Denis Waitley

Your habits will determine your quality of life.

Denis Waitley

Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

Julian Baggini

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

Carol Shields

Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Michael Vick

We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Bill Uttley

The more questions that are being answered, the more get asked.

Derrick Brooks

A lot of questions have to be answered,

Lee Powell

For me it raised a lot of questions,

Bill Cubit

For Greg, there was questions about his speed but he solved that at the combine.

Susan Collins

(It) raises very serious questions about whether Sidney Blumenthal was truthful in his sworn deposition,

David Daniel

It raises questions about the stability of all the other walls.

Mark Greene

The time for talking and reviewing and studying is over. I don't want us to wait until it's too late.

Stephen Minarik

I spoke with him yesterday and he said he was reviewing whether or not to run.

Jonathan Diamond

We are disappointed in the verdict and will be reviewing our options.

Richard Head

Those who have been reviewing their statements have seen no unusual activity.

Joe Sakic

With the new rules, we think we can do that.

Patrick Leahy

I want an end to this thing. But where are we? Do we know what the rules are going to be?

Peter Ueberroth

The rules have changed, ... The old thing of 'getting in line,' that's gone.

Harry White

The rules have changed, post-9/11. We have seen some real tightening of security and for all the right reasons.

Angela Davis

These are the rules for the mullet hunt,

Ayumi Hamasaki

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

Paul Archey

Eligibility rules are still being discussed. It will be similar to the IBAF rules.

John Tory

Even the rules that are in place are not being followed.

Kevin McGrath

We all have to live within the rules.

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Nigel Barker

My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.'

Carl Jung

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Jason Calacanis

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

Brian Glenn

It's a shame. We had just sent all our payments in.

Gary Morgan

It's very complicated what we're doing. We're just making sure what we sent out was accurate.

Tom Rose

It?s time to say we sent this on.

David Smith

They are overestimating the anti-gay sentiment in their own organization and the country.

R. Robinson

T here were about 7,000 sent to the Shreveport area.

Cherry Loney

We are already strained in terms of our staff and space.

Fernando Rodney

They have the better staff for starting pitching. I know that. We have the better bullpen.

Ray McDonald

(Ray) wasn't going to say anything. But to me, it was up to the staff to say,

Nancy Barr

The staff was very curious, but they thought it was really neat. I think we are going to work with them again, but we're not sure about the topic or the time.

Brian Marshall

The staff told me they were going to do this. I told them it wasn't necessary.

Oliver North

The teachers that teach here could make more money. The staff could do something else.

Howard Rubin

So really there's no requirement for IT staff to be on site.

Mark Sanchez

That's what the staff wants to do with it.

Kathleen Murphy

That's how I got to know the staff and the director.