Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muhammad Abdullah

It benefits me more because I'm more in the box. It puts me in the position where I can make more plays and bigger plays for the team.

Mike Kraus

I think we have new life now. The kids are really excited. We get to play on a college court in a state tournament, and when you're 10-13 that's a big deal. But forget about the records. These kids have worked hard all year long and now they're reaping some of the benefits from it.

Hilary Clinton

I am concerned, frankly, about the size and last-minute nature of this year's congressional spending spree, where they seem to be loading up the spending bills with special projects for special interests, but can't seem to find the time to raise the minimum wage, or pass a patients' bill of rights, or drug benefits for our seniors through Medicare, or tax cuts for long-term care, child care, or college education,

Walter Annenberg

You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.

William Godwin

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.

Yehudi Menuhin

Homeopathy is one of the few medical specialties which carries no penalties -- only benefits.

Philip Kirschner

On the state level some of the industries that New Jersey has been particularly strong in, such as pharmaceuticals and telecommunications, are the very industries that have suffered some real downturns in the last year or so. It's costing jobs, and good jobs. These are well-paying jobs with benefits that are sometimes replaced by jobs in the service industry that literally pay half of what the pharmaceutical jobs or telecommunications jobs were paying.

Jeb Bush

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

George Whalin

Retailers are putting a great spin on this, saying that the customer benefits in the end. However, the self-checkout is not driven by customer service but by the retailer's objective to reduce costs.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Jon Escamilla

I wrestled like I used to. I was good on my feet, and on top, I was getting a lot of turns.

Sean Reilly

I would view it as good news, and I would view it as information that we can use to get on with planning our lives.

Mark Bailey

I would've preferred if ours was the last shot. But we had a good look, and we had the guy shooting that we wanted to.

Billy Beane

Ken did a great job for us. We've always said that. He was a good enough manager for us to want him back before, and he's still a good enough manager to come back.

Tim Crowder

Keeping them at their average, no, I don't think that's going to be good enough to win.

Ric Keller

The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

Martin Nissenbaum

In Florida, there is no income tax but there is an intangible tax, so they will be able to deduct both.

Stephen Baldwin

All the toys are gone. Everything's gone, and I'm making 25 percent of my usual income. And my wife-couldn't be happier.

Karl Marx

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Pliny the Elder

Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.

John Kenneth Galbraith

No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.

John Burdett

In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time rice farmers to feed their families and make a living, it is a natural thing for anyone in the family who can find an alternative source of income to do so.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

Marvan Atapattu

He's been doing a lot of work on his fielding and tonight it paid off in a final.

Russ Adams

He doesn't talk as much as (Hudson) did. But it's all really the same techniques we're using. It's all about repetition and getting to know each other. We're out there every day before and after practice getting our work in and the work has paid off.

Zig Ziglar

When you do more than you're paid for eventually you'll be paid for more than you do.

Mary Bennett

I paid $400 for these seats and they are no good.

Kent Nelson

I paid 10K ($10,000) in May and you said, 'Don't worry about the rotation.' And I waited for two months.

Evan Goldberg

I expect to get paid if I do something.

Ron Nadicksbernd

There were times when I couldn't do anything, and when I did, I paid for it.

Richard Owen

This may be a way for producers to get paid to do something they already practice.

Lisa Bailey

People don't seem to understand that many of these things are mandated by New York State , yet paid for by us residents. If more people would come to these meetings, then they would understand what is really going on.

Ruben Hinojosa

At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security.

Ron Chernow

A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.

Richard Price

The more I hung out with detective squads, the more there was always one guy or two guys or a woman who had a case that they were the primary on years ago, it was never solved, and they take that case into their retirements.

Robert Reich

We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.

Samuel Johnson

Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the living world. The seed of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public. Argumentation may be taught in colleges, and theories formed in retirement; but the artifice of embellishment and the powers of attraction can be gained only by a general converse.

Ronnie Wood

We'll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won't be the last time. Everyone's rocking.

William Vickrey

The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts as if its central political goal is to become the worlds most comfortable retirement home. Too set in its ways, it fears multicultural diversity

Walter Scott

There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity; there are those, too, who have heard its "still small voice" amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err is most frequently impressed upon the mind during the season of affliction.

Richard Madden

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Ruben Blades

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.

Ronnie Dunn

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

Umberto Eco

The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.

Tyler Hilton

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

Tyler Blackburn

High school is a really strange time - you're not a kid, you're not an adult. You're about to be an adult, you're going to have to make some really intense decisions. It's a really pivotal time to have as much self-confidence as you possibly can. Even if that means you have one friend who supports you completely.

Tyler Blackburn

I was kind of a floater [in high school]. I got along with different types of people but I just was not cool, and definitely a late bloomer.

Tyler Hoechlin

I will never be as busy as I was in high school and college.

Tyler Oakley

I came from a pretty accepting community, and my school had a lot of openly gay and LGBT-plus people. When I joined YouTube, I saw a lot more hostility than I saw in my everyday life.

Oscar Goodman

Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about.

Ben E. King

I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.

Vanessa Marcil

I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.

Michael Mina

Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas.

Noel Coward

Las Vegas: It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society

Max Lucado

Never let the church become a place where it's just a Las Vegas display place for you to show off.

George Burns

When I was in Vegas women were throwing their hotel keys at me. But it was after they checked out.

Barry Manilow

There's just no quiet in Vegas.

Ashton Kutcher

We're all living in a casino. It's just Vegas. Everything is on camera. Everything is being recorded. Everything is on audio. The truth is we all have access to everybody else's information.