Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Hill

A deficit of only $8.4 billion in fact is not as much of a drag on GDP growth. It keeps things faster and also means that American exports continue to remain competitive in a market where the world is growing generally slower than we are.

Russell Baker

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom!

Charles Schumer

The states have a total of $80 billion in deficit spending. What are they going to have to do? Well, they are either going to have to cut programs, which will drag the economy down, or they are going to have to raise taxes, which will drag the economy down.

Gordon Sinclair

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

Elon Musk

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

Paul Wolfowitz

It's not an exaggeration to say that 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty need a result from Hong Kong,

Tyson Slocum

Noble has made a billion dollars in profits since 2000, but it doesn't pay its fair share in taxes. Taxpayers are being gouged at both ends of this deal. Noble is getting rich off high energy prices, while the Department of Energy is giving away taxpayers' hard-earned dollars in the form of an unnecessary grant.

Richard Kogan

The administration's forthcoming budget is expected to have approximately $200 billion in missing costs in the fifth year, ... Once these missing costs are taken into account, the deficit is seen as being in the range of $500 billion in 2009, or around 3.5 percent of GDP. That is not close to cutting the deficit in half.

Robert Greenstein

The Administration estimates that its HSA-related tax proposals would cost $156 billion over the next ten years, which would worsen the nation's fiscal problems. Professor Gruber's study raises very serious questions about the wisdom of these proposals.

William Stairs

As far as the timing of the budget is concerned, he hasn't made up his mind.

Gary Goddard

The budget is pretty self-explanatory, ... This is a very readable document.

Carolyn McLaughlin

I understand we have a lot of streets to repave and not a lot of money in the budget.

Jim Horney

We had a very serious budget problem before Katrina hit.

Martha Holler

When students graduate from college, the first rule of thumb is to create a budget and stick to it. Be sure to make your student loan payments on time, every time.

David Kern

It has become clear that Gordon Brown's budget forecasts are no longer in the realms of possibility.

Gerald Curtis

Handling the budget is a big part of the job, but you have to realize that 70 or 80 percent of the budget is mandated by the state; you can change very little of it. But you do have to look at cuts.

Tom DeLay

There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.

William Stewart

(Residents) have to recognize the selectmen drive the manager in this town. Budgets are not made up at the last minute . . . If you're going to make changes you have to make it at the selectmen level.

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Brad Gushue

There will either be a lot a lot of sick days or a lot of TVs in offices. In Newfoundland, nothing has ever come close to this.

Alaina Huffman

I ultimately wanna do big movies, and I've been so close so many times. They keep giving my roles to girls with just a little more exposure than me.

Walter Rodgers

This is a terribly closely contested election in a very tough campaign.

Rick Comley

This is a team that's needed validation and it's earning respect. It's all very encouraging. I don't think we've come close to peaking yet. We can get better.

Howard Rogers

This is a sport a lot of kids have taken to. They may not be playing other sports. It gives close to 100 kids something to do between the hours of 4-6 when they could be doing who knows what. Why not vote for it?

Geno Auriemma

This is the game that puts you in the Final Four. To come this close and not win and have to come back and wait 12 months and be lucky enough to do it again, it's unbearable.

Henry Tang

This is the first time that Hong Kong films have been selected to close and open one of the major film festivals in Europe,

Stephen Hess

This is not a full-fledged mea culpa. But by presidential standards, it's there, or pretty close to it, ... The government did screw up, and he is president of the United States.

Terence McElroy

I don't think passing on the suppression costs would be done just as a deterrent. The fact of the matter is many people have lost their property and homes and someone has to pay for that. Under the law, someone is liable for it.

Javier Bardem

There are so many movies and it's a waste of time and a waste of money. Basically, movies are made with what it costs the external debt of all Africa.

Marilyn Rush

It costs so much money, and we're poor people.

Ari Fleischer

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

Aristotle Onassis

In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.

Stuart Cohen

E-mail is the primary source of viruses. So cutting off e-mail before midnight seems prudent.

Clara Barton

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

Alison Elliott

It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.

Anthony Jeselnik

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

Ann Brashares

No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

Ann Coulter

All Democrats for the last 30 years have tried to stimulate the economy by giving 'tax cuts' to people who don't pay taxes.

Ann Coulter

Even if corners were cut, (Iran-Contra) was a brilliant scheme. There is no possibility that anyone in any Democratic administration would have gone to such lengths to fund anti-Communist forces. When Democrats scheme from the White House, it's to cover up the President's affair with an intern. When Republicans scheme, it's to support embattled anti-Communist freedom fighters sold out by the Democrats.

Jim Black

That's just the type of player Josh is. He's always been there when we need a big play. That goal made such a huge difference. It was a two-goal deficit instead of three.

Jim Ritterbusch

You still have a sizable year-on-year deficit in distillate stocks, so it's too early in the winter to write off this distillate market.

Jason Chaffetz

While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.

Judd Gregg

It will mean the deficit goes up probably 150 (billion dollars), maybe even more,

Debbie Stabenow

The Farm Bill is one of the only bills that provides substantial deficit reduction that passed the Senate this year. It only makes sense that this deficit reduction bill would be included in a larger deficit reduction agreement.

Chris Patritto

We're looking at a $450,000 to $550,000 deficit right now.

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Douglas Anderson

She wasn't expected to live the first week.

Chris Tocq

Microsoft is taking steps to include its Hailstorm services into all of its products. Hotmail can be expected to be a key beneficiary of that integration.

Don Nelson

I think people expected too much from him. He gave what he could give, and there was a limit to that.

Roberta Baskin

I think most of the American people already expected their representatives to pay their own way.

Joe Girardi

He was a different pitcher. He pitched much better. What we got from him was what we expected to get.

Susanna Moore

'In the Cut' was not what readers expected of me. Before it was published, I was seen as a women's writer, which meant that I wrote movingly about flowers and children.

Jim Calhoun

He?s having the type of season we all expected him to have last year.

Mike Piazza

I think it's important for the teams that aren't expected to be competitive to be competitive for the good of the sport. For players of Italian descent, it's a small sort of way of thanking Italy for our forefathers and mothers.

Joe Crede

During the fifth inning, that was not a playable surface.

Tom Glavine

I was tired (in the fifth). Striking a lot of guys out is hard work. I realized in the fifth I didn't have a lot of ground outs.

Colin Edwards

It?s not front row, but it?s not the fifth row.

Terry Fleming

They can join the team when they are in fifth grade.

Robby Gordon

No. Let's race to win every race. If we can't win, let's take a fifth or 10th or 12th-place finish or whatever it may be. But let's go to try and win every race.

Lesley Sheehan

All of our singles matches were good. They were all close, and it was nice to come out on top in the second through fifth singles matches.

Danielle Brown

We only have four names left on the list this year: Stan, Tammy, Vince and Wilma. If we have a fifth storm it would be named Alpha.

Alfred Kazin

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

Donna Karan

I've been away and haven't seen my family. I speak to them every day though. I miss them, but I love traveling.

Dorothy Dunnett

If I can’t be personal, I don’t want to argue,” said his hostess categorically. “I may be missing your points, but you’re much too busy dodging mine.

Danny Elfman

In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

Jhumpa Lahiri

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.

Goldie Hawn

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood-Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

Harper Lee

Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.

Gregory Maguire

...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Jeff Linenfelser

We put a lot of time in to get him ready. He was 100 percent ready for the fight. What are you going to do?

Pat Griffin

I'd say I spend 90 percent of my time in the Terrain Park.

John Smedley

I'd say we're about 70 percent of the way there.

Lori Anderson

We still get 100 percent of what we were owed.

Graeme Souness

The best signing I ever made at Rangers was Walter Smith.

David Jones

We have always done a very wide range of plays.

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

Kristen Donofry

Now, we want to win and that's the first time I've seen that here.

Hans Blix

they know very well what they should provide. We have not seen it yet.

Kevin McCollum

Theater is about surprises and things that you haven't seen before on stage.

Ricky Proehl

That's as ugly as you get. Have you seen much uglier than that?

Mary Bowen

The devastation that we've seen today is just shocking. Before all this, you would never have thought in these terms.

Michael Gartenberg

A lot of what we've seen in Vista has similarities with Tiger.

William Carwile

This is unlike what we have seen before.

Brandon Flowers

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Dean Young

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Antonya Nelson

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

David Bowie

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Anne Hathaway

It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.

Thomas Sowell

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Michael O'Leary

The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.