Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Cole

I think we are all aware that some accounts have a deficient balance.

Gene Sperling

If you look at what is clearly in their plans, it will cost a lot of money. We have not seen the details and ... are claiming that by all accounts it is being paid for with the largest amount of gimmicks, supply side growth, and double counting in history.

Beth Givens

If you've given them your credit-card number and/or bank-account number, you should watch those accounts very carefully.

D. James

If rural exports lift as expected in coming quarters and support expanded export capacity in the mining sector, the much fabled improvement in Australia's trade accounts will be a step closer.

Peter Orszag

We're not fully using those accounts and they're not working as well as they could. Let's take those accounts we already have and make them work better, rather than creating a new system of accounts.

Ben Bernanke

The banks have accounts with the Fed, much the same way that you have an account in a commercial bank.

Chris Davies

The auditors have refused to specify what steps must be taken if the EU accounts are to be given a clean bill of health. It's like telling an athlete to run a race without announcing the distance.

Brad Jarvis

It's really encouraging to get a monthly update on my accounts and see we're that much closer to having a positive net worth,

Al DiGuido

Consumers are increasingly managing their accounts online and more and more move in the direction of managing all accounts online.

Keith Haring

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Amy Walter

Kerry's focus and his message has really been middle class, middle America, 'I'm standing up for the little guy' and middle class investors respond to that, but that raises the question of how do you go back and talk to the business community after that.

Colleen Atwood

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

Marge Schott

Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

Jim Rice

Knowledge is power. Your education is the most important thing you can do.

John Fogerty

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

John Adams

Keeping an army in America has been nothing but a public nuisance

Fred Gaudelli

Just those words, 'Monday Night Football,' and America knows what you're talking about.

Maria Salas

Just the fact the movie is out there has a positive effect and presents an element of diversity to Americans. The exposure of sexual orientation and diversity in America is important to all elements of our society.

Mark Ryan

It's nice to know in this day and time of automated call centers that no matter when you call poison control you get a person who will not only help you but also check in on you later.

Bill Doyle

It's something of a Holy Grail. We do hear from the private banks a bunch, that they feel compelled to provide their clients with a comprehensive view. ... But it's not something that's done easily or been automated by anybody.

Ed Downey

It's an automated process using a smaller needle. It takes the blood out of the body and puts it in a machine where the red cells are separated and saved in a bag. Then the plasma and platelets are put back into the body with a little bit of saline.

Jeff Schuster

What we're doing is continuing to invest in our automated software quality solutions.

Jim Dean

Eastern Maine Electric was the first utility in the state to use widespread automated meter reading. The Turtle meter reading system was funded by research dollars from co-ops like EMEC. Now it's also used by investor-owned utilities like Maine Public Service as well. By improving a utility's efficiency, this technology saves energy users money.

Mary Roach

To keep your he-man jaw muscles from smashing your precious teeth, the only set you have, the body evolved an automated braking system faster and more sophisticated than anything on a Lexus. The jaw knows its own strength. The faster and more recklessly you close your mouth, the less force the muscles are willing to apply.

Bill Clancey

A total systems perspective - developing our software in a setting analogous to where it will be used - provides direct experience and new insights about how people and automated systems can be designed to fit together.

Sarah Owens

Everything is automated nowadays and no one wants to be active.

Jeff McCracken

We will not be using this automated system until we make sure everything is gonna be in top shape." ()

Howard Davidowitz

Kmart went into bankruptcy a cadaver and it'll come out of it a cadaver,

Joyce Chapman

I think it is important for youth to grow up giving back to humankind, and West Bank enjoys getting behind the school and supporting them.

Peter Foley

He did everything right. Rado would get a gap on Seth by running low in a turn, but Seth knew better than to drop low with him. He stayed high, where he could ride the bank fastest, and just waited until he could pass him.

John B. Robinson

Gold is used to a certain extent; but the great bulk of the money in use is not gold but promissory notes, called bank notes - paper money, in short.

Li Ruoyu

It indicates the central bank still wants to keep its control of money and has no intention to get expansive. It is still emphasizing prudence.

Charles White

I think that's a great deal. This is a stock that was a stellar performer last year, has lagged a little bit this year. But, selling off that division just increased their focus on the more growth oriented businesses, and I think Bank of New York, even after the 2 or 3 point move yesterday, still is an extraordinary value at these prices.

Kathleen Camilli

I think the Fed is erring on the side of caution, as a central bank should. That's why they left the direction in place. It could be this time they're holding tight too long. We'll know that only in hindsight, as unfortunate as that is.

Vincent Farrell

I think the basic fundamental underpinnings are very sound. The banking system's sound, there's no near-term crisis to be had. It doesn't mean the stock market's not overextended - which I believe it is and is due for some sort of setback. But I don't think it's 1987 all over again.

Chris Ball

We thought we would be going there as it is the first game and Wales see it as their banker green.

Alexander Cockburn

England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz.

Margaret Heffernan

Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many other people and issues to think about. But being present makes you effective.

Chet Faker

I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.

Tom Ditt

We're urging people to stay off the roads if they don't have to go. We've got a lot of stranded cars. It makes for delays in clearing the roads.

Danny Sullivan

We often search for private things that we may prefer not be seen by others, even if the possibility is fairly remote. At minimum, police your own desktop by clearing history. That's the most vulnerable part, I'd say.

Al Bloom

Her toys are very popular with our customers so we're excited to have them.

James Collins

heroic levels of customer service, dependability, reliability, and giving people a lot of freedom to try different things that might work.

Bill White

Our meters don't start running until we pick the customer up,

Karl Albrecht

If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.

Jay Allen

Intentionally, we over-react to customers. That's why we've been so successful. If a customer tells us something, we not only react to it, but over-react to it. In this case, over-reacting was wrong.

Dan Butler

I realize you have a personal life outside of work. And when you're here we expect you to put the customers first.

James Carbone

His customers were kids. His customers were young girls.

Robert Spector

If somebody says, This product comes with a money-back guarantee unless the customer is completely satisfied, it should mean what it says.

Christine Chen

I look at it favorably if they have a well-managed outlet policy, but you don't want the outlet driving the growth. But not to be in this market is a mistake since it's an important customer and a different demographic.

John Velazquez

We must have run over two or three geese. One of their feathers was in my foot. It was a delayed reaction. After she went through them, then she got scared.

Janet Callison

It's still a very devastated area. There is still so much destruction and bureaucratic red tape has delayed some of the needed help from getting down there.

Ann Baker

We have been seriously delayed because of a lack of leadership, and I hope one day we can find that leadership.

Dave Bautista

Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

Vicky Gill

I always feel lost when he's not there. I need someone to direct me and push me and then hold me back when I'm doing too much. It's nice to be back and have a mentor there to help me out.

Tom Burt

He can't tell them what to do, he can't direct them, he can't manage them.

Stephen Chbosky

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.

Aaron Johnson

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

Tim Wakefield

I think with Jason as our captain, he can lead us in the right direction.

Richard Ayoade

I was directing before I started doing 'The IT Crowd.' It wasn't something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.

Tony Fabrizio

There is a growing, deep-seated discontentment and pessimism about the direction of the country.

Dale Tallon

We talked about the direction we're going in and how valuable he would be to us on and off the ice with our young kids. He was high on our list.

Tony Raines

Knowing how we ran early in the race and how I think we could have run, I was disappointed. But at the same time, I went there knowing I was going to race for a finish. I didn't race anybody.

Rich Brands

Just looking at their results, I think it will be a pretty even match. We want to come out and not make any mistakes early on. We want to try and exploit some of the free kicks and throw-in stuff we've been working on.

Isaac Stern

His style of playing, particularly in his early years, was a stunning patrician elegance with a very natural musical line which fitted the style of whatever composition.

Ned Yost

His workload has been real heavy. To be thrown into that, even though you're big and strong, it's still a little early to have that type of pressure put on you.

Ben Dell

It could be better than the Barnett. It's in the early days, and I don't think the investment community's really woken up to that yet.

Rob Schimmoeller

I thought we set the tone early defensively.

John Gibbons

I thought Wright looked really good. It looked like he got his fastball back. We didn't see that early in the year.

Drew Stafford

I think when they got out to an early lead it was tough for us to get back on track, but we did. We battled to the end, but when you get down like we did right away, it is hard to get back into it. I'm really proud of the guys for sticking with it.

Jason Segel

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up. I want to bring it back to the early '80s Muppet movies, when the scripts could have been performed by humans.

Mary Shapiro

I don't know whether they will say yes or no since there are all sorts of administrative, financial and legal issues.

Randy Sharp

I think no question this will have a financial impact on American Girl.

Timothy Smith

The financial office still has the power to request financial information from these organizations so we're still not running the risk of giving money to financially unstable organizations.

David Stern

It's our preference, our strong preference, to have the Blazers in Portland, in Oregon, playing at the Rose Garden and being able to be a financial success.

Kathleen Smith

It's important to have a product that investors like. That is a real positive they have going for them. Their financial statements also look good.

Jason Burke

It's interesting that someone the people of Ohio had looked to oversee the financial institutions in the state did this.

Paul Samuelson

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

Niklas Zennstrom

I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

Kinky Friedman

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

Nick Williams

He frets when he travels and he spent Friday night at Don's yard and will do the same on his return journey.

John Triplett

Initially, we thought she was out for the season, but it gets better every day and she's seeing an ophthalmologist in Tacoma Friday morning and we're hoping she can play Friday. It makes it a tougher hill to climb. We won't be able to press as much, because without Marianne we would get tired.

Nathan Fillion

I'm the kind of guy who, I need a watch that tells me what day it is. I need to know it's Friday on my watch. I need to look at it and go, 'Friday today.' Tomorrow I will not know it's Saturday until I look at my watch. My watchband broke, I was crippled. I have no concept of time, I have no concept of dates.

Nicki Minaj

Pink Friday is a celebration of my life at this moment; it is a reflection of me as a creator, and an expression of me as a woman,

Emily Rios

TV kind of worked out naturally for me. I was fortunate to do a show like 'Breaking Bad' and then go straight into something like 'Friday Night Lights.' It's not something I focus on, but when they're great projects, I can't pass them up.

Jimmy Fallon

It's Friday. That's one reason to celebrate. Also, it's the first day in a long time when no one declared they're running for president.

Garrison Keillor

I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.

Kevin Murray

It was our ritual, every Friday night for years.

Charles Dickens

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

David Stanley

He didn't go over to that guy's house for a confrontation, he just wanted to know what was going on.

Mike Moore

We take it from the house and turn it into what you see here.

Robert Hoehn

I think by the end of next week they'll be cheaper. We'll get through some House legislation yet.

Tori Amos

I like cosy, intimate houses.

Winslow Homer

All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.

Rick Riordan

You're a stalker with hooves." "I am not! I followed her to the Big House and hid in a bush and watched the whole thing.

Veronica Roth

The Amity Established this place as a safe house. No conflict allowed." "The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy," says Marcus. "How do you stop conflict without conflict?

Vince Vaughn

I don't like dates. If you meet someone that you like then meet them out somewhere. That's good because that's comfortable. I don't like the feeling of going to pick someone up that I don't know that well at their house and then take them to kind of a formal restaurant.

Vince Vaughn

If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.

Amy Bloom

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Mike Foster

It's going to be primarily a water issue, ... The big thing is going to be the (storm) surge.

Michael Allen

That's what they do. They primarily like going after big markets.

Hootie Johnson

We settled on 18-10 primarily in consideration of our patrons.

John Heimlich

We don't yet have traffic back where we need it, but yes, the problem (of losses) is primarily fares rather than traffic,

Lee Siegel

'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.

Igor Shuvalov

Having this tension is okay, it's a problem with any growth.

Youssef Squali

I think it's a trend. Problem is, you can't quantify it.

Ray Stallone

Well, you have one problem with your rant. We didn't do it.

Mary Matalin

He was strategic in thinking that the way to respond to this problem was to take out the reasons and what sustained the enemy.

David Tom

I don't have any problem with it whatsoever, and I wish her well.

Keith Winkowski

I don't get the problem here at all. We're not making a profit.

Shane Matthews

He'll probably throw it at me first, ... But I don't have a problem with that. I kind of like it.

Ron McBride

He never had a problem doing his running. He usually set the pace.

Virginia Satir

The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.