Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vern Borth

I think it's a legitimate concern (to elect someone who may not be qualified). At least when I was first elected, there were some things from an accounting standpoint that I needed to take some classes on after being elected.

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 .

Jack Kelly

I think with regard to this issue, last week was really the news rather than today. Xerox has been turning things around, other than their accounting, by cutting costs. With regard to accounting issues, I would say they've been closely scrutinized.

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.

Venus Williams

I have to say accounting almost killed me.

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,

Steve Bartlett

I would think it's something that will deserve consideration at some point. But first, they have to find a deal they're interested in, and nothing at this point appears to be on the front burner. I assume that teams will sit back and make decisions closer to the trade deadline.

Capt. Froomin

I would say the odds are very high that it's a homicide. It does not appear to be natural causes or suicide.

Ken Dunham

It actually appears to be a pretty good design.

Kelly Flinn

I think it does give the appearance of preferential treatment with respect to gender or with respect to rank,

Mike Ledford

It certainly appears there is very little control of the procurement cards in the department. It is clear the sheriff is not reviewing what is going on in the department.

Scott Skiles

It appears what is happening to us when we finally do decide to really get after it for two or three possessions (is) we don't have the energy to go get the ball. That's distressing for sure.

Nancy Pelosi

It appears we will only be given one month for that national debate.

Sean Coffey

It appears to us that bankers were more interested in pocketing their fees than protecting their clients.

Tom Shea

It appears to be a disturbing pattern of violations of the law. At best, it's a disturbing pattern of violations of the spirit of the law.

Ron Sims

King County has completed a remarkable financial turnaround that any corporation would envy.

Carla Ponte

It is a great pity for justice that the (Milosevic) trial will not be completed and no verdict will be rendered.

Christopher Williams

We're in the final stages of including strong warnings in . . . the patient information. It's going to be completed by the end of the month.

Gary Doer

What is a concern is the plant-like material that needed culture testing. That hasn't been completed yet. It takes two more weeks.

Rob Katz

We are extremely pleased that we have completed the exchange with the Forest Service for the five-acre Federal parcel. It allows us to proceed to the next steps in the Front Door project.

Tom Daschle

If we completed the count, there is little doubt you'd be ahead, ... In order to win, you have to get the votes. We think you've got the votes.

Bill Pecoriello

restructuring and reorganization plans don't seem to be fully completed yet.

Mark Waggoner

In the next month to month-and-a-half, we're going to hit $70 a barrel, and I would expect $75 to $85 by the summer. We're just going to be taking the supplies down until refinery maintenance is completed around the end of the month.

Kuntoro Mangkusubroto

In the mid of 2007, all of internally displaced persons will live in permanent houses. The facility of health and education will be completed next year.

Jim Fox

Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side.

Brett Johnson

It is a journey of discovery - artistically, sexually, socially.

Richard P. Feynman

We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.

Richard P. Feynman

If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.

Richard P. Feynman

One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, and with the greatest effort, in exactly those places where it seems most likely that we can prove our theories wrong. In other words, we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Russell Baker

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.

William Wordsworth

We murder to dissect.

William James

(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.

Walker Percy

Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

Alejandro Toledo

I think that was the right thing to do. If we would have participated, we would have participated in a fraudulent process.

Frank Scafidi

The fraud comes in when you get vehicles owned by big-time salvage guys or small-time knuckleheads who wash the title through states that don't have strong title laws.

Craig Fugate

The intent of the program was not to provide you a generator for free. We don't want fraud and waste in our programs.

Bruce Springsteen

I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

Eric Carlson

There was just very little fraud going on. I just don't think it was nearly as much of a problem as they suspected.

Adam Ereli

There were major irregularities and fraud that are of serious concern.

Tom Gallagher

This kind of insurance fraud leads to the overall negative perception of Florida's insurance professionals.

Al Pacino

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

Tim Potts

What a fraud this whole thing was. A procedural fraud.

Michel Alaby

He said he greatly appreciated having had the opportunity of visiting the Chamber.

Richard Wagenaar

It is gone. It is literally leveled in places. The power of the surge in this storm was greatly underestimated.

William Gilbert

He is an Englishman! / For he himself has said it, / And it's greatly to his credit, / That he is an Englishman!

Bobbie Williams

That's one contribution to this team that's greatly appreciated. Management has seen the steps that we need and they're making them. I know our linebackers will be happy.

Paul Wolfowitz

That kind of participation in decision-making at the local level greatly helps the development process.

John Greene

For many years, the Taft name in Ohio has been greatly respected. The Tafts were men of sober and conservative temperament. They were somewhat seen as stodgy, but they were men of principle and integrity.

Tom Daniels

It's a tool at this point with a lot of potential. There's really not a large number of greatly successful programs.

Adam Ereli

We respect the Swiss justice system, but we would have greatly preferred that he be extradited here.

Tom Rath

The right choices over time greatly improve your odds of a long and healthy life.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking for a reaction in the second half and I got it.

John Wardle

Kevin has got one and a half seasons to go so we are not silly enough to sit back and say that we are not going to do anything.

Franz Humer

I would say that we would see an acceleration (in drug sales), especially in the second half of the year, with the introduction of new products, with the acceleration also of the penetration of the oncology line in the non-U.S. markets,

Jim Boeheim

He couldn't play those last two games. I had to take him out. He played like himself in the first half and we needed that. Our offense has been terrible and we need him to get it going and we did today for the first time in a while.

M. Thompson

Half the time, we don't even notice that they're there.

Leon Cooperman

Half the stocks I picked are up and half of them are down.

Jeffrey Levi

Half of America's workers have no sick leave.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

Kevin Mench

He said he'd never seen 'turf toe' in the second toe. He said, 'Your shoes are a half size too small.

Francis Bacon

When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter

Rudolf Steiner

The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.

Zac Posen

I am totally unattached to material items.

William Joyce

Recent volatility in raw material prices, however, makes first quarter forecasting difficult.

Jan Connelley

In the past, there has been up to 100 yards of material in the basket.

Lionel Trilling

In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Jacque Fresco

The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society...

Mary Baker Eddy

If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.

Nicki Minaj

See me in that new thing, bums is gaggin

Paul Browne

I think that we are talking about a very, very small risk -- but not zero.

Jorge Cantu

I didn't want to risk it. I'm sure it would have been a risk if I was to keep playing. Let it heal. ...I'll be back.

Reid Hoffman

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Tullian Tchividjian

When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.

Robert Redford

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

Will Smith

Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.

Wayne Gretzky

I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about.

Sarah Dessen

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

Waylon Jennings

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.