Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Young

A's Baseball remains one of the most affordable entertainment values in all of sports. The average ticket price in 2006 will be $25.48, which still ranks in the lower third in all of baseball. And the average ticket-price increase from 2005 to 2006 will be 7.24 percent, which is the second-lowest increase over the last six seasons and lower than the last two seasons.

Craig Barrett

The bottom line is that we want images on PCs to become as easy to use and as ubiquitous as text is today. If digital imaging is easy, affordable and fun for consumers, we believe it will spur PC demand and contribute to the ultimate goal of creating new users and new uses for the PC platform.

Lisa Carlson

People assume they've got to go the traditional route. But we are beginning to see a lot more affordable low-cost options.

M. Wolfe

A few years ago, you could heat a home for $500. Now it takes $1,500. Energy has become a lot less affordable for low-income families.

Fernando Ferrer

That's why I'll cut their taxes. That's why I'll also provide 167,000 affordable homes and apartments. Those fees, those fines, those penalties do little to help middle-class and working-class people be able to live in their own neighborhoods, to be able to live decently in their own city - to be able to pass on dreams and hope and opportunity to their children, to their families.

Terri Sewell

We could have done a better job explaining what was in the Affordable Care Act, but when you talk to people and you don't label it, people get really excited about what's in it. It is going to make a big difference for people.

Alex James

We decided what we wanted in our house and built the solar system around that. Our house is an affordable house and is an interpretation of what a solar house of today could look like.

Andrew Cuomo

Cuts that Congress is considering to HUD's budget would deprive 97,000 people of jobs, 156,000 families of affordable housing and 16,000 families and individuals who are homeless or who have AIDS of vital housing assistance, ... At a time of unprecedented national prosperity, Congress shouldn't rob the poorest Americans to provide reckless tax cuts and create a new deficit.

Skeet Jernigan

You are passing along the cost of the affordable unit to the entire project.

Steve Bennett

As our customers run their businesses or manage their personal finances, dealing with tax requirements creates a lot of opportunities for Intuit.

Mindy Lubber

Dozens of U.S. businesses are ignoring the issue with 'business as usual' responses that are putting their companies, and their shareholders, at risk.

James Joyce

We did do very well in the transactions over $100 million that we chose to pursue, signing 11 and losing only one competitively, ... But the consistent deferral of mega-deals resulting from customers caution about their own businesses in this economic environment has had a significant impact on the growth of our outsourcing revenue.

John Lee

Diversified businesses are growing at a faster rate than we thought.

Craig Lesser

Different businesses have different needs. But most are concerned with finding a location close to their customer base.

Russell Simmons

I'm a creative guy. And I only do businesses as a result of like I've - I'm try to find what my gifts are and give them immediately. As soon as I get them and I understand, I give them back.

Michael Logue

We go to the guy who already has the contract and can deliver the product. I know that's hard for some businesses to hear. But we really don't have the luxury to wait.

Canning Fok

We expect continued high coal and natural gas prices to provide challenges for our generating businesses going forward.

John Mack

We certainly see a lot of people coming to us with Internet businesses to sell, ... But the deals are not getting done because these companies have no revenue and no tangible assets.

Chet Culver

As a lifelong Iowan who has been a farmer, a registered nurse, a small businesswoman, a state senator and secretary of agriculture, Patty has spent her life devoted to her community and her state.

Jen Schlegel

Our theme is, ?Every walker counts in a community that cares,? because a walk like this shows the number of people who do care. I think the numbers speak loudly and are overwhelming that this is a great place to live.

Jeff Corey

are the types of tragedies that impact entire communities.

Danny Saenz

A positive response has occurred and we hope to continue to work together with the community to have a nicer place to live.

Mariana Boneo

The site is not perfect. There are a lot of community members that feel uncomfortable about that.

Alan Goldberg

The scientific community would like to go to in vitro approaches. They're quicker, offer better information, and are more humane.

Linda Williams

is honored for her dedication and generosity of resources and time given to projects enriching lives and enhancing the community through the arts.

John McNeil

I've been very happy serving in a smaller school. It's a way of life for me. The interests of mine and the community have been the same. Rural schools have been my life. Montana is one of the most rural states. There's a need to educate every kid in the state.

Kurt Woerner

I've been doing this job (in different cities) for 25 years. This is only the third time in any community that I've seen anything this bad.

Sathya Baba

This is bad; this is good - can such judgments be ever made about anything in God's creation when all are manifestations of His will?

Brian Eno

I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

John Ray

The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.

Steve Stanley

At the same time, notwithstanding the lack of job creation, the economy is generally strong.

David Barton

You've GOT to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.

Anthony Chan

This report is actually quite favorable for financial markets since we see very little inflation pressure while simultaneously seeing job creation inching up,

Pat Taylor

As a result of the campaign, we've done 27 million dollars of construction on campus.

Tom Fitzpatrick

The broad-based picture of dollar strength remains intact and further gains look very much in the cards.

Simon Derrick

The big support that Fed rate increases had been giving the dollar is starting to wane and the minutes made that clear.

David Anderson

Prices are rising because of expectations. If we have it in our heads that oil is going to do well and we start putting dollars into it, then the prices will iron out.

Michael Klawitter

The theme in the market remains interest rate differentials, it's not surprising to see the dollar come under some pressure.

Jens Nordvig

The thing to watch now, once the 15 minutes' 'noise' after the number is out of the way, is whether there will be a resumption of the weak dollar trend.

Stephen Wood

This is taking dollars from Wal-Mart and giving it to Shell. It's shifting the money. It's not increasing inflation.

Boris Boehm

The weak dollar hits our economy at the worst possible moment. We had just seen the first signs of a small recovery. It hits our export-related companies.

Ed Rogich

The Wheel of Fortune dollar system in Mississippi is statistically overdue to hit.

Mike Greene

This is huge for the town. We will now use this Internet utility for economic development and distinguish ourselves.

Wang Ziqiang

This is not because of foreign pressure. This is about the country's economic development.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

Thein Sein

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

James Gaston

You can't do right by the students in an economic vacuum,

Tom Schrader

We had such big gains yesterday that it is not unusual for us to consolidate a little bit. Then, oil's down but gasoline is up and that is counterbalancing each other. The economic news we had this morning was less than inspiring.

Lauryn Hill

I had an economic system imposed on me.

David Emery

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

Alexei Kudrin

Lowering inflation to 3-4% annually should be a priority, a major instrument of economic policy, and we have the means to lower inflation to this level.

Tim Powell

The BRAC issue is as important as it has always been, but things are fast and furious here, ... We are fully engaged and sustaining lives.

Ira Sorkin

As I understand the law, all the jury has to do is find is that somebody at Andersen engaged in illegal conduct. They don't have to be unanimous as to who at Andersen is the agent.

Kenzaburo Oe

During the last few years I have been engaged in writing a trilogy which I wish to be the culmination of my literary activities.

Marcus Williams

So much so that who he really is and the world around him has sort of passed him by. He lives in the past and he's not very engaged at all.

Joseph Biden

The American public must become engaged on this issue,

Joseph Castelo

I can't wait to start working on something else. You make a film. You are very engaged and insolated. And you come out on the other side, it is over and everyone wants to know what do you mean by this and that?

Tom Kehoe

I hope the village gets engaged in it because there's a lot of serious things going on.

Jim Clark

It was a very touching service that engaged the hearts, the minds and the souls of the participants, ... It made us feel like we're glad to be who we are and to be able to be of some help. God has given us something to share with other people because there are a lot of people who don't feel they have something to share. We need to help them feel like they can be full participants at the table again.

Saint Francis de Sales

Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.

John Johnson

A small engine will keep it aloft when needed, but most power will be provided by thermal updrafts and other atmospheric winds.

Bill Peters

A fire engine from the 1940s wouldn't have the same pump power. The tank wouldn't hold as much water. It wouldn't provide as much safety for firefighters as new equipment does.

Roland Herwig

It was a Boeing 737 and it was doing an engine run up for a maintenance problem and a person was sucked into the engine.

Mitch Kapor

There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent.

Rex Osborn

Don't leave the engine running or the keys in the ignition. Park it in a garage if you can.

Joanna Lumley

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality ...

Alfred P. Sloan

Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far.

Andrew Cuomo

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.

Membathisi Mdladlana

Once there's equity in the workplace, the law will become redundant.

Terence Winter

I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.

Barbara Steinmetz

That was a thing we were getting away from when the equity markets were on a tear. Everybody thought you were a fool to get into anything else.

John Schwartz

We can use the fund equity to get us through the next year. It's stable so we're able to do that.

Hans Johnson

I thought what we would find was that it was only people who had equity or very high incomes who were getting into the market. But that's simply not true.

Sandy Baum

The question for parents is: Is it better to take out a PLUS loan or is it better to take out a home equity loan? They need to look at all their options.

David Reed

As a parish priest you're formed much by the people you serve and live with.

Richard Lewis

Back in the day, people used to have more patience for the long form and for storytelling,

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs

Paul Richards

The thought was that it was better to withdraw the proposal rather than risk a formal veto at this stage,

Walther Bothe

During conversion, the newly formed nucleus is not always immediately in the ground state, but is at times in one of the possible activated states.

Alan Greenspan

While these forms of protection have often been imposed under the label of promoting so-called 'fair trade,' oftentimes they are just simple guises for inhibiting competition.

Seth Godin

We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between,

Jacques Rogge

We are still in the preliminary phases of the general outlook of the torch relay but the route is not yet defined. The practical circumstances of the torch relay and the whole format is still under discussion.

Brad Smith

We want to formulate a new framework and new principles. Principles need to emerge.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Steve Chercover

The stock (Monday) is trading higher than I think it's been in a long while.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Anne Donovan

The way of the WNBA playoffs, it does not put the higher seed at an advantage, ... You have to go in there and make the most of it.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

David Fields

a full-range of housing for all incomes and all people who wish to live in the neighborhood.

Judy Burkett

The statistics show that 30 percent of the housing inventory is spoken for, but that's not accurate. There's not that much inventory.

Bill Graham

Well then there would have to be housing for them to move to and we're looking at all possibilities but we obviously have to have a practical solution as well.

David Church

Lower-income housing has been a problem, and it's only getting worse.

Bereket Selassie

Housing is a huge retention issue for the military.

Gregory Gieber

Without question, the housing market has peaked out. However, I think it will be a modest decline.

Tony Gerlicz

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Mike Lomas

There will be an increased interest from visitors who want to know how to get in this club.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Ratner

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Brian Sandoval

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Jane Austen

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Anton LaVey

Do what you want as long as it's paying off for you. But once it's become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.

Joey Skaggs

You go to school. You stay out of trouble. You get a job. You get married. You have a family. You pay taxes. You pray to the right god. You get old (if you're lucky). And you die.

Scott Hartnell

We were paying the price but the puck wasn't going in for us. (Auld) played well.

Kelley Cradduck

We understand some don't do it intentionally, they're just not paying attention. But in the end, they end up getting stuck in the intersection.

Donald Trump

The best investments you ever make are investments in yourself - and your education. Those investments always pay big dividends.

Don Hewitt

I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.

Dick Gregory

You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.

Kesha Rogers

I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.

Robert Klein

They do not come to represent those institutions.

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

Al Gore

that they may be returned to us safely and soon.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Connie Smith

This is not about me. It's just that social workers are needed. ... It really does a lot of good.

John Schneider

You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

Solomon Asch

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.

Maureen Dowd

Tweetin' ain't cheatin'.

Jerzy Kosinski

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

Lawrence Krauss

That would give social structures more time to adapt.

Gore Vidal

I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.

Jeremy Rifkin

Being both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology.

Gary Johnson

It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.

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.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

King Krule

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

Hunter Hayes

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Carnell Williams

Sometimes you need this. It's tough, but now we can stop talking about 13-0 and start talking about being this 0-1 Tiger team and what we're going to do about it.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Nick Jones

Tech blitzes so much, the only way you can get them to back down is start to gash them,

Linda Bannister

Things look bleak. It's unclear when things are going to start to look better.

Jeff Kish

This is not how I wanted to start the New Year.

Edwidge Danticat

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

Dwight Howard

This team is trying to go in a dramatically different direction. We're starting over young.

Flip Saunders

We got pretty much what we wanted offensively. Defensively, we were like vultures to start games.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Robert Soper

The track has its own taxes that are distinct. It's not 55 percent, that's for certain.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump have proposed an approach that has a $4 billion tax benefit for your family.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Herbert Hoover

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Lyndon B. Johnson

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.