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,

Ken Ham

What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God's Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years.

Don Tapscott

Kids are very savvy about the technology. But I'm not sure they totally understand the implications of a billion people being able to see them doing whatever is posted.

Doug Elliott

I would think his election increases the likelihood of a pension bill this year.

Bill Harding

I think investors have become more serious about the impact of taxes because they were saddled with tax bills in 2000 -- but many funds performed poorly as the market crashed.

Tony Buzan

The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time.

Muhammad Yunus

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

Nandan Nilekani

Going forward, we expect revenues to cross the two billion dollars mark at 2.14 billion dollars by March 2006.

Gene Munster

Hitting the 1 billion mark means that the business of selling music online is real. Over the next 10 years, the retail music industry will be turned upside down and 25 percent of worldwide industry sales will be made online.

James Wolfensohn

I think the immediate needs of HIPC, subject to the passage by the U.S. Congress of the U.S. contribution, are probably met, ... I think the $2.6 billion to $2.8 billion target is achievable, and then we will need to consider funding the rest of it.

Rush Holt

I would say the president has the power to help us get to the bottom of this matter. And we in Congress want to do this not so much for what has happened but to prevent such a thing from happening again.

Mike Woodson

I think it goes without saying that Joe is a huge piece to what we're trying to do in terms of turning this thing around and ultimately making the playoffs, which is the bottom line and why I'm here.

Brian Hill

He just has a lot of pain in that abdominal area, and we're just trying to get to the bottom of it.

Seth Shostak

The bottom line is that the position of the Sun relative to the stars slowly changes for any given date, and over the course of 26,000 years, it can easily slide between constellations. So you may think you're a Pisces, but you're actually an Aquarius.

Chip Babcock

There are so many insiders from the top and bottom who have pleaded guilty. I'm not sure as a juror I'd be too suspicious of them.

Gary Sheffield

The only thing that saved that man that night was I didn't have mine. That was it. Bottom line. I just slipped that night. But I won't ever slip again.

Peter Jacobs

I think the key is that next year, even though Boeing will see about a 15-16 percent decline in revenue, they should still be able to show improvement in the bottom line.

Don Cooper

We took it out for a little test run, and it was as much mental for him as it was physical. But the bottom line is he's feeling good.

Alex Sanchez

We told them we understand that they are concerned about excessive risk. We also said we don't want the bottom to fall out of the market.

Reagan Silber

Kevin brings a level of expertise and credibility that perfectly matches the status and style of the destination we are creating here in Las Vegas.

Jim Leyland

Kenny Rogers made the All-Star team this year. He's 50-some games over .500 lifetime. He brings a lot to this party. I think we got a tremendous deal here.

Roy Williams

Kevin's our third guy right now, and he brings veteran leadership to this group. But we do make fun of him because he's so small. He looks like he's 5-7 out there next to us. But he does make plays.

J. Nicholson

Ken Holland brings a wealth of experience in preparing a team and he has had great success in selecting championship teams.

Tom Doyle

Keith brings a level of professionalism to the team that will help us get to the next level. He has been working with NBA caliber players and knows how to get these guys ready to play at that level.

Jim Kubinski

Just the name Augusta brings to mind thoughts of championship golf. I feel we are ready to start playing our A-game, and what better place to do it than Augusta, Georgia.

Rob Sands

Jon brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to Constellation Europe as we continue to implement our international growth strategy.

Robert Stevens

Joanne is a highly capable and effective leader who brings vast experience to her new position. Her close working relationship with Tom Marsh over the past few years has provided superb preparation for her new role and I am confident of a seamless transition.

Carrie Davis

It brings us frighteningly close to a show me your papers society.

Scott Stewart

I was actually quite shocked when I found out I had a couple of clients that were paying $30,000 (a month).

Rachel Zoe

I think they hired me because several of my clients are the people in the weeklies,

Doug Balog

Today marks a milestone for Blade.org with 60 companies joined together to speed the creation of innovative products and solutions to clients around the globe.

William S. Burroughs

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

Sean Coffey

Our clients were quite impressed with the vision of Nortel's new management and the plans for the future.

Joseph Pores

Our clients stay with us because we are a proven, dependable communications partner.

Scott Harrison

Our clients don't want to manage a home, but they do want to live independently.

Gerald Shargel

The jurors are crying, our clients are crying and the lawyers are trying to keep from crying.

Jim McVay

You want to make sure your package has value. Our clients need to feel they're getting more value than the cost. It's important to give people their money's worth ... This has become more than a game.

Bible Bible

I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

Ben Wallace

He didn't cut it, did he? Good. I like that hair. I'm rolling with him.

Erik Thomson

He can see something and in a quick and unemotional way he can cut the fat off. You trust him implicitly because of his track record.

James Leavitt

He is probably physically incapable of doing the sort of thing they are suggesting he was doing. It takes a lot of work to cut through a limb. He maintains his innocence completely.

E. Hurley

This was on par with a space launch today. This was on par with someone going to the moon. It was the cutting edge of technology. The fact that it was done here, in the backwaters of (what was then) Virginia, is really interesting.

Chuck Johnston

Here's a cute little fish. It kind of looks like a pig, and it squawks and everything.

Adriano Belli

He's a cute little guy, ... I hope I can ruffle his feathers a little bit.

Thomas Miller

Here we had someone who had blatantly failed to follow the plan for the sake of cutting costs.

Dick Cheney

I think the economic outlook makes tax reform, tax cuts more important than ever, ... Because it does look like the economy has slowed significantly.

John Ashcroft

I would say that Mr. Thompson and Mr. Olson are very outstanding individuals, whose records of public service, including service with this Department of Justice, are exemplary records. But those are not my announcements to make, ... Those are presidential appointments and they will require, in each case, the confirmation by the United States Senate.

Stephen Miller

Just smoke everywhere and everyone busy. The fire department running around.

Tom Walters

I think it's a great fit. (Kirk's) been really good with Department 56 and Byers' Choice.

James McDonough

I think it really puts the department on very solid footing to do its missions and do it in a streamlined and effective manner. This is a very healthy and very positive realignment.

Jerry Moran

I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.

Larry Ellison

What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.

Jenny Manley

He sees a discussion about moving FEMA from under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security as an excellent starting point in efforts to make the federal government more responsive in emergencies.

Joel Klatt

I think it's important to most of us because of exactly what it provides to the whole program. Obviously, the whole department gets a little national respect. Hopefully, we go down there and put together a solid effort and get recognized on a national stage where we feel we belong.

Tom Williams

I agree, ... In rural Kansas, in the event of an emergency, people aren't going to look to an emergency management coordinator. They're going to look to the sheriff's department for help.

John Morley

Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking

Jorma Ollila

We expect the market for convergence devices to double to 100 million units in 2006,

Linda Bowman

The devices we found were similar to explosive devices that we found elsewhere in other areas.

Michael Dell

No matter what happens, the more small devices there are, the more large ones there will be, too, ... All these devices, no matter how large or small they are, go to a server when they get online, which is why we're so focused on servers.

Phil Taylor

SLVR, as a 'sexier' looking device, will do better for Motorola than the ROKR.

Gene Munster

About 90 percent of the music store's success has to do with the devices that it works with.

Adi Kishore

This maps onto Yankee Group research. We, too, have found that men are heavier users of these technologies than women, and better educated people tend to have more consumer-electronic devices than other segments.

Nick Ingelbrecht

There's a place for high function, multi-purpose devices but it is a relatively small market.

Mary McDowell

We are making a lot of enhancements to devices specifically for enterprises,

Suki Waterhouse

A certain point came when I wanted to document growing-up adventures.

Chris Seeger

I think they were much better prepared this time. They knew their documents better and their cross-examinations were better.

Arlen Specter

It is imperative that the White House provide expeditiously those documents it intends to release,

Silvio Berlusconi

I can guarantee that there were not any documents passed to the Americans,

Robert Zemeckis

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

John Shelby Spong

I never really liked the Gospel of John because I never could find the humanity of Jesus in it. I thought it presented Jesus as a visitor from another planet; in addition, John's gospel is and has been interpreted as a document that fuels anti-Semitism in the church.

Heather Becker

The first load, 50 pieces were soaking wet, ... We unframed everything, got them stable, lying flat to aerate and dry, and documented each piece with photography. We were able to save a good percentage.

John Siira

The document will say we need the spillway replaced.

Emmett Brown

The documentation was very well put together. It was comprehensive and left no doubt about what the people signing the documents saw and witnessed.

Don Hume

This move has embedded Jaguar in Coventry and will further strengthen our resources.

Judith Miller

I told Mr. Fitzgerald that Mr. Libby might have thought I still had security clearance, given my special embedded status in Iraq.

Jack Thompson

This is not a situation in which the ESRB has been blind-sided by hidden or embedded content.

David Rich

We've taken our high-end processors to the embedded space as well.

John Naisbitt

The future is embedded in the present.

Steve Ballmer

One of the most competitive battlegrounds for our platform as we face the next five to ten years is the embedded space,

Dan Kusnetzky

Linux is seen by many to have a strong opportunity in the embedded operating environments market.

Charles Platt

The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the case. Their prototype used millions of little magnetic particles, black on one side and white on the other, loosely embedded in the surface of a soft sheet of rubber.

Matt Gallagher

Though the publishing industry swears the market is oversaturated, books written by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and by embedded journalists keep on coming.

Thomas Fuller

Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.

Russ Granik

I think the league has never been on a more firm foundation.

Ivo Sanader

It is not true and I firmly reject it,

Brian Young

He was firmly opposed to oppression and he recognized God in everyone.

Kara Swisher

I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.

Brian Lane

In the warm-up, you pick spots where you will make your surges. You get it firm in your mind, this is where you're going to go.

Kathleen Blanco

I'm just as pleased as I can be that we were able to expedite the process of getting a Louisiana firm on site, working as quickly as possible and actually, I think, a little head of schedule,

James Richardson

And I'm just a firm believer, if God can forgive me all the stuff I've done, then why can't I forgive somebody else?

Christopher Bellew

The downtrend that started immediately after hurricane Katrina remains firmly in place in spite of Wilma and industrial problems at Total in France,

Kris Benson

He's going to make a big impact on all of us.

Felipe Alou

It could be too late but an impact he'll make. It may not be visible big time, but it will be (impacting).

Bob Lohn

I think the practical impact should be quite small,

Ken Simonson

I think the impact is going to be nationwide for construction.

John Beck

To get a player of his caliber, they said they thought they were very blessed. They said he has the potential to be an impact player very soon.

Tony Tan

He has left an impact not only on the United States but on the whole world.

Alex Conant

It has no impact on the Katrina relief effort.

Arne Huse

I think 3.0 will have a serious impact on the world of CRM.

Sergio Aguayo

I think all of us were taken by surprise by the size and impact of the marches.

David Barron

he said. ''He significantly narrowed the scope of constitutional protection. It's an unfortunate turn in constitutional law.

Travis Xiong

It is a lot more complicated than it seems. Back in Laos, there is no law on when one can marry. Only reasonable ages.

Tom Angell

We've been trying to repeal this law ever since it was passed in 1998.

Carolyn Brown

I think the ACLU may be able to support the law here in Kansas. It is being written in a way that does not take away the right to assemble.

Cindy Sheehan

Lawyers in Washington (D.C.) are working on that right now. It should be filed next week.

Peter Andersen

Lawyers can't just get off a plane and walk with their briefcases into the courtroom.

Proverb Proverb

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Jason Young

Law of averages. We've played pretty well in some of them and had some not go our way.

Rev Musyimi

Law enforcement officers were also seen to be wanting by the public.

Darren Gibbs

It will be a while yet before we are printing better numbers.

Noam Chomsky

The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.

Peter Schiff

At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.

Chris Perry

They need to start printing the called-back plays, ... taking those into consideration or something.

Russell M. Nelson

Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary?

John Quincy Adams

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

Ulysses Yannas

Olympus has no printing capability. Opal and Onyx would give them the printing capability.

George Osborne

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

Joe Wiegand

We are not printing a newspaper. We are doing a television advertisement.

Roy Moore

I don't have a solution right now. I haven't studied that.

Dave Tippett

You think about a lot of situations. That's just part of coaching. You're trying to find solutions every day. We haven't had enough of them in the playoffs.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Paul Wolfowitz

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

Andy Miller

We'll see. We are trying to find a solution that works for all parties' interests.

Gregory Nunn

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

Fadel Gheit

And there is no near-term solution for any of these things.

Craig Brown

This is not the right solution to the problem.

Michael Vickers

Essentially what we have is a two-country solution to a 60-country problem.

Walton Goggins

I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in.

W. Somerset Maugham

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Mallory Ortberg

Diapers do not belong on the same table as food.

Scott Olson

They will turn the tables if they know someone is after them.

Julia Sawalha

I don't get inoculations or take anti-malaria tablets when I go abroad; I take the homeopathic alternative, called 'nosodes', and I'm the only one who never goes down with anything.

Larry Page

I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.

Shantanu Narayen

We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

Calvin Coolidge

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

Richard D. James

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

Richard D. James

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

Richard D. James

I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.

Rob Brown

I get nostalgic for things that didn't really exist. I might have a cassette from the first time a Melle Mel track, say, got played on radio in Manchester. And it might be a copy of a copy of a copy of a tape and there's all these weird nuances and distortions that have affected what I know as the truth, if you like, of that track.

Reid Hoffman

It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

William J. Clinton

We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"

Tori Amos

If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.

Valentino Rossi

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

Richard Dawkins

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.

Jon Heder

I think we have a unique voice we really want to get out there.

Richard Dawkins

Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data.

William James

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Will Ferrell

I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.

Richard M. Nixon

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.

Werner Erhard

All it takes to make a difference is the courage to stop proving I was right in being unable to make a difference ... to stop assigning cause for my inability to the circumstances outside of myself and to be willing to have been that way, and to see that the fear of being a failure is a lot less important than the unique opportunity I have to make a difference.

Wayne Dyer

I do not concern myself with being unique, and I do not concern myself with success. I feel I just do and say what I am supposed to. I do not know where it comes from. I go where I am told, and I just allow whatever it is to come out.

Sandra Day O'Connor

For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.

Steve Lambert

I would say that by the end of the month, we will know whether it can work.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Gary Sherwin

If you're part of the community, whether you like it or not, you're part of the brand.

Deirdre O'Kane

You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

Enrique Morones

We still don't know whether it will be a march, a strike, or a fast.

Rivers Cuomo

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.