Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colleen Kelley

An increase of 8 cents a mile, while better than leaving the reimbursement rate untouched, falls far short of what needs to be done to help people who must travel to perform the duties of their jobs.

Charles Langley

We've seen our gas prices go up more than 25 cents since the first of the year. This is the fastest increase ever in the 10 years we've done the survey during this time of year.

Larry Brown

Two cents really isn't a big deal, it's the principle of it.

Stephen Moore

For those who are counting, that's a steep four-and-a-half-fold increase in 16 years. When state and local gas levies are included, motorists in many states now pay 40 to 50 cents a gallon. It's hard to say where all the money has gone. Clearly, the nation's roads aren't four and a half times better today than they were 15 years ago. In fact, it seems that there are more watermelon-sized potholes nowadays than ever.

Tom Aldrich

The court decides whether it (a claim) gets paid and if it's five cents on the dollar, or something like that. It depends on how they reorganize the company.

Tiny Tim

I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

Charles Langley

The only consolation is that prices in North County tend to run about 3 cents cheaper (than the rest of the county).

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.

Alex Knott

Your local taxpayer dollars are being used to employ a lobbyist as a middleman to go out and get your federal tax dollars. It's a situation that's increasing.

Brian Jacques

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!

Jim Terry

We have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in this, which is why it is so important to us.

Dave Ramsey

We started in our living room on a card table in our living room, and we have a multi-million dollar company and we know it can be done without borrowing a dime. It takes a while to get it started and to turn the wheel over, but the next time it's easier and the next few hundred times, it's easier than that. Have a budget where you reinvest a percentage of every dollar you earn to grow it.

Stuart Allard

Everything is overpriced nowadays. Three dollars for a small popcorn? Give me a break.

Guns Roses

costing the Guns N' Roses partnership millions of dollars to date.

Bill Young

We are going to get ourselves in trouble at Metro with our healthcare program if we do not get some of those dollars made up.

Ed Frank

What is happening here is that your state and local tax dollars are being used to hire a lobbyist as a middle man to go after your federal tax dollars.

Anne Rice

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.

Davy Jones

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

Marie Dressler

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

Toby Keith

I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say, 'Which of these things do I want to record?'

Dennis Rodman

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.

Clement Attlee

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

Erik Satie

When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty. I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.

Wayne Coyne

People think its more high-tech than it really is with all the video and all that. It's still held together with duct tape.

Teresa Sheehey

Right now we don't have a meeting room in the building, so some of our programs have to be held off site. For example, our summer reading programs have to be held at the Hilltop Center.

Lupita Nyong'o

I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.

Brandon Siler

We held them and we stopped them when we had to. I'm proud.

Mike Brendlinger

Yes, it was. Defensively, we held them down. We hit some open shots. We moved the ball. We played very well tonight. We got them frustrated. Sometimes things like that kind of snowball.

Charles Rangel

And yet, Republicans have held hostage every penny of relief until the Senate passes their special interest tax breaks,

Alexander Mackenzie

I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.

Maria Semple

I attended TED in 2007 and 2008, the last two years the conference was held in Monterey.

Duane Schwab

We've held teams to 54.8 points per game, and we're pretty proud of that. This team has really come together.

Donatella Versace

Hollywood is a very inspiring place.

Rachel Weisz

I find Hollywood really toxic.

John Schlesinger

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

Mark Ruffalo

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.

Doug Hall

Let's just say Hollywood is very different, a world in itself.

Maria Valverde

I always say: you're not going to find Hollywood. Hollywood will find you! But I'm ready for it: for Hollywood, for Bollywood, for everything!

Javier Bardem

There is no middle ground in Hollywood, you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

Robert Earl

We are thrilled to be able to reveal to Las Vegas our plans for the new Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino,

Tom Fuhrman

We'd sit and talk, b.s. about old times ---- about all the Hollywood celebrities and so forth.

Alexei Smertin

I've received an offer from a Russian club.

Ed Miliband

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

Ed Miller

Essentially, through one product, the operator can offer three different services here. We've been shooting for this type of integration for some time.

Tom Peters

It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.

Carlos Gomez

Make me an offer I can't refuse, and you can have the taco stand,

Gene Jr

We made an offer and they turned it down.

Rob James-Collier

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Pete Domenici

Now you know as well as I know that many of them are not going to do anything, but if a senator wants to offer them as a sense, not as legislation, they may do that,

Sheldon Lee Glashow

From 1958 to 1966, I was in exile. I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard.

Laura DiDio

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

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.

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.

Anne Lamott

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

Amity Shlaes

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

Anthony Burgess

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.

Kaley Cuoco

As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.

Thomas Wolfe

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

George S. Patton

Those who live in fear die a thousand deaths.

Allen Moore

It was something I had done a thousand times,

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Haven Herrin

We were turned away yesterday, and we heeded that, but today, we will not be deterred.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

William Bass

No, ... That's just how it turned out.