Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Snow

What with the referendum were they truthful about? The taxes people had to pay? No. The finances? No. How much debt we had? No. How much did they get right?

Lawrence Lindsey

What we want to see is have people get more money in their pockets sooner, ... There's some trouble out there, apparently, with the economy, and we want to see people have larger paychecks so that they can either pay down their debt (or) use it for some spending that they may want to do.

Greg Zandlo

Going into debt is never easy and, in your case, going deeper into debt is a necessary evil.

Samuel Johnson

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

Ryan Tedder

When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.

Samuel Johnson

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Phil Angelides

California's level of debt is far greater than when the governor took office 23 months ago. And the state is facing deficits as far as the eye can see,

H. Hunt

In Japan, for example, the debt deflation started in 1990 and price deflation started in 1992 or 1993. That's what we're in for right now.

Max Lawson

The IMF realized that the world was watching and they couldn't deny millions of people the promised debt cancellation.

George Hoffman

I would think that is highly unlikely any of our employees would do that.

George Reid

I think it has improved the safety for the public and the employees that work in this building. For the most part feedback has been positive.

Ian Morrison

I don't know of any president of any corporation in the western world that has locked out his employees five times in the last five years.

Melissa Norcross

In order to protect the privacy of victims' families, we will not release the names of those employees and subcontractors who have lost their lives.

Richard Fisher

I'm worried about my employees more than anything.

Alan Pollock

The employees already have it; they were our beta-testers.

John Holub

The employee may want the flexibility to work through lunch and get out early.

Robert Herta

It's up to the employee to provide the work log and the records.

Eli Broad

A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.

Mr Howard

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Sumner Redstone

We are extremely fortunate to have John, a top-notch executive with more than 25 years of experience in the service-oriented retail business, as the new leader of Blockbuster Entertainment,

James Sullivan

I have been very frustrated with what seems to be the overuse of executive session.

Elizabeth Warren

Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out.

Wayne Peters

Our negotiating team has recommended to our executive that the offer be rejected. Our executive is prepared to recommend to our membership that it be rejected.

Jay Ritter

In terms of the executives involved, they've got every incentive to do a deal, whether it makes sense or not, because if they don't do one, they give the money back.

John Remington

If you really slash executive compensation and perks too much, there will be inclination for people to want to leave.

John Ridley

Not only does Hollywood make money - it seems to make better movies during recessions. I'm sure a lot of studio executives wish we could have one every year.

Lumkile Mondi

The laws effectively require that white executives replace themselves.

Mike Tice

I was a little annoyed, ... The tone was stern, stern. I didn't throw anything, but I talked negatively for the first time in two years.

Enrique Salem

It complements what we already have in our portfolio and makes it so we don't have to provide signatures to this technology.

Mark Brunell

I'm not thinking about my portfolio in the huddle,

Mario Gabelli

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

Hugh Johnson

It's not the stocks you pick, it's the structure of your portfolio that counts,

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Larry Johnson

Don't tie up your retirement portfolio in one stock,

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Julie Daum

Most people, if they can put together a portfolio of activities, find it's very interesting rather than going back to a full-time job.

John Killian

We have the broadest product portfolio of any provider.

Rodel Natividad

It's your temporary "wants" purchasing your unnecessary "needs".

Tom Mitchell

It's a wholesale review of the county's purchasing code.

Judi Dench

... I just had a quick look up and down, like you would.

Commissioner Robinson

I'm very uncomfortable. We need to get it resolved as quickly as possible.

Ned Yost

The first time we saw him in spring training, we realized real quick that he was the same old Maddux.

Don Gould

You'd be surprised how quickly you get used to having them.

Thomas Collins

still have a (quick reaction force) mission, but we can react quicker from the ships.

Fred Ketchen

There was a quick turnaround in New York, which indicates that things are totally under control. After a sloppy opening, they turned around in a hurry.

Laurie Bowlin

That quick set they have is impressive. I don't know how you would stop it.

Jason Bacashihua

It was 1-1 going into the third. We were doing great. Then they got two quick ones and we could not recover. But we will turn this thing around.

John Frost

They were real quick and real friendly. I have a lot of respect for those guys, I really do.

Colin Lee

Jody is very, very disappointed with his reaction

Kate Warne

I think in Toronto we're seeing reaction to the Lucent pre-announcement with Nortel, which is down,

Andrew Smith

Our reaction is there is nothing unexpected here.

Adam Sohn

I'm not going to react to the judge. That would be counterproductive in general.

Morgan Ensberg

Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.

Jacob Frenkel

Congressional prodding historically has resulted in responses and reaction from the SEC.

Leon Trotsky

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

Joyce Meyer

Stop being tomented by everyone else's reaction to you.

Joel Silver

I really was very impressed with DMX during the whole experience on 'Romeo Must Die.' I like working with him. I liked him. And I was very impressed with the reaction of the audience when he was in the picture.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thrift is a great revenue.

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Lawrence Lessig

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

Daphne White

Do we really want 6-year-olds to become street fighters?

Alan Johnson

We were thinking Wall Street would be flattish for the year, but we fortunately may have undershot.

Darrell Sanders

We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.

Eric Fry

There's no visibility, to put it in Wall Street terms,

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Beeban Kidron

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Frank Roder

We've been complaining about 12th street for many, many years.

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Robert Collier

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Russell Baker

A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.

Will McDonough

I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.

Virginia Woolf

If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.

Wernher von Braun

It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.

Tom Rogers

The value of stand-alone subscriptions is much more important to us than DirecTV,

Johnny Depp

There are 4 questions of value in life..

Roy Blunt

This report's only of value if we use it in a positive, forward-looking way, and not try to get into meaningless blaming, who could have done what when; now that it doesn't matter, ... American Morning.

Christine Callies

We think there's a lot of value in semiconductors.

Robert Creeley

It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.

Robert Crais

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Russell Baker

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

Rose Macaulay

The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from ruins one clearly sees; there are no obstructing walls.

Rose McGowan

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

Rick Riordan

Percy glanced over. He saw the fallen giant and seemed to understand what was happening. He yelled something that was lost in the wind, probably: Go! Then he slammed Riptide into the ice at his feet. The entire glacier shuddered. Ghosts fell to their knees. Behind Percy, a wave surged up from the bay-a wall of gray water even taller than the glacier. Water shot from the chasms and crevices in the ice. As the wave hit, the back half of the camp crumbled. The entire edge of the glacier peeled away, cascading into the void-carrying buildings, ghosts, and Percy Jackson over the edge.

William S. Burroughs

His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura of doom and sadness about this trusting little creature. He has been abandoned many times over the centuries, left to die in cold city alleys, in hot noon vacant lots, pottery shards, nettles, crumbled mud walls. Many times he has cried for help in vain.

Virginia Woolf

The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.

William Friedkin

I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.