Famous Quotes & Sayings

S. Walker

We've actually started the budget hearings tonight, thanks to you folks,

Michael Shermer

In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.

Norman Wisdom

Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.

Bill Jones

We're still a number of days away from going through the budget process.

Joe Tucci

We're seeing a firming of IT budgets throughout the United States, ... We are seeing budgets get set.

Steve Lyle

We were in a series of budget reductions. It was not something we wanted to do. We will stay with the present arrangement. The budget climate really hasn't changed for us.

Andrew Lochart

What makes it a problem, regardless of why, is that smaller companies are the ones who have fewer defenses in place. There are no large dedicated IT staffs in place, or large budgets for technology, so it's a double whammy.

Joanne Vavrek

We?re going to have to budget $10,000 for gas.

Alan Greenspan

Unless the situation is reversed, at some point these budget trends will cause serious economic disruptions,

Nick Woodman

As long as you can bootstrap, not at the sacrifice of competitive advantage, bootstrapping is a really powerful thing because it allows you to be totally devoted to your vision.

Lesley Manville

I have been devoted to my son, and there have been lots of jobs in the past that I haven't done because I didn't want to be away from him.

Marjorie Belka

There were volunteers who would go to that theater at, say, 9 o'clock in the morning and work upstairs on the third floor. They were so devoted that they would stay for the evening performance.

Denny Green

This man was loyal and very devoted to his job.

Camille Paglia

Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.

Larry Peterson

As he has done before when he's been president, he will do an excellent job. He's been devoted to the port and to the things we're trying to accomplish.

Moran Atias

A relationship takes time, and you really have to work hard at it. I'm devoted to my profession, but when I find the right guy, I'll work just as long and hard for him.

Joe Tracy

These Star Trek people. I mean, you know, these are serious, devoted fans.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Priesthood lessons are regularly devoted to topics of family leadership, and quorum leaders everywhere are feeling more and more their responsibility to teach and train their quorum members to be better husbands and fathers.

Harry Davis

It's all about due diligence, due diligence, due diligence.

Bible Bible

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

Charles Canady

A diligent effort was made to eliminate matters that did not have evidentiary value.

Lorne Hamblin

I've been watching Ryan for a long time. With his skill level, if he's in the right frame of mind, he can make every shot, and that's what we're looking for. I look for what you can see in their eyes -- the rest you can teach -- but you like to see that they are fired up. And B.J.'s history and due diligence about everything make him a great player. He eats, sleeps and drinks curling.

Scott Thaler

You have to show the studio that you've done your due diligence.

Scott Berman

Every time there is a fraud, investors profess to do more due diligence and this is no different.

Benjamin Franklin

Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never

Sheldon Jacobs

Nobody who's following (Steadman) even with cursory diligence would have stayed with the funds, ... No-Load Fund Investor.

Joseph Conway

Now we have to be even more diligent about it.

Mohammed Habib

The others have refused due to personal problems that have to do with home, children, breast-feeding or husbands.

Steve Crawford

We stand for liberty. We stand for due process of law. And yet we're keeping someone locked up and away from his family that has been found not guilty. It's embarrassing. We need to do something about it.

John Fitzgibbon

We have seen an increase in postponements or cancels due to market conditions. That's now starting to become more commonplace than it was three months ago.

Franklin Johnson

Until we do our due diligence, no one knows, ... Once you get in there, who knows. If they're enthusiastic, they might want to go for more.

Kevin Doll

We're speculating that the shooting may have occurred from a moving vehicle. Due to an ongoing investigation and no eyewitnesses to the shooting, we're still piecing this together.

Paul Christopher

This suggests the economy is due for a slowdown, much like the one we had in 1995,

Katherine Young

We knew we wouldn't be able to use the Garland lot as of last year due to all the construction. We had started thinking of alternative locations then.

Freddy Adu

We knew we were due to just explode and have a lot of goals in one of these games sometime soon. It's a really good feeling.

Peter Greene

It seems to me that the market is stabilizing, but the undertone is a negative one. After yesterday's advance, you'd think there would be some follow through. It seems to me the market is tired and due for a rest.

Benazir Bhutto

The U.S. came to understand that Bhutto was not a threat to stability but was instead the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact.

Charles Schumer

This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or that amnesty will work. We are headed into uncharted waters.

Elizabeth Loftus

To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.

Lee Densmore

We guarantee our work and see the process through to the end, no matter what.

Steve Rodriguez

We're a young team making young-team mistakes. I'll guarantee we'll be better.

Richard Holbrooke

This is a big step forward, ... The next set of steps is to talk to all the parties, get guarantees from them about the safety of the U.N. forces.

Susan Little

They spent the money because it was important to them. I guarantee you they are happy with that angel.

Ira Longini

It's technically possible and it is being done in labs. The next step would be for drug manufacturers to make that technology workable on a mass level and guarantee the quality of product.

Ira Longini

It's technically possible and it is being done in labs, ... The next step would be for drug manufacturers to make that technology workable on a mass level and guarantee the quality of product.

Bobby McFerrin

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

Laura Marano

The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been playing piano ever since I have been 9.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

Donald Tusk

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.

Paul Singer

Credit ratings and risk weightings must undergo a thorough process of review and revision. No security or instrument on the planet should have a zero risk weighting.

John Blake

Even if it's been 20 years since you have played and no longer have an instrument we can use everyone. We will find you an instrument.

Pete Harpolis

Through this program, we get an opportunity to see for ourselves if this particular instrument makes sense and what it can do for us. It opens us up to other technologies that may prove beneficial.

Cecilia Bartoli

When you are accompanied by the instrument-on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice-you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.

Steve Salwei

We started out real flat. Once we got that first period out of the way, we started playing a little better.

Benjamin Walker

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

Billy Donovan

We've got a very quick turnaround. We're going to have to get a lot done in a very short period of time.

Nina Tassler

We'll be as competitive in the time period as we can.

Andrew Flintoff

We bowled well as a unit which we have been doing for a period of time,

Aaron Stern

A lot of his stuff was a lot slower, so there was a period of time where we were all worried. I was really worried because I was like man, this is nothing like our old stuff.

Barry Trotz

They threw a lot of rubber at us. The 21 shots in the first period were embarrassing.

Rahul Kohli

For favorite games, I have sentimental feelings toward the Nintendo 64. I don't know why, but that period just resonates with me - 'Goldeneye' and 'Ocarina of Time' and 'Rogue Squadron.'

Nicolas Sarkozy

For a period of 12 days, searches will be possible every time we suspect possession of weapons, ... systematically apprehend troublemakers and systematically prevent a spread of violence.

Les Claypool

For me to do a project - I have a pretty successful solo career, so - for me to even want to do Primus, it had to be a creative step forward.

John Loyd

They did try working one day. The soil could not be worked to reach the project specifications.

Curt Johnson

They're stuck. This project is in serious trouble.

Terry Williamson

It is safe to say that we support projects such as these.

Kay Crites

It's a big project and one that we desperately need.

Damien Chazelle

'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.

Vince Staples

Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.

Kathi Moore

Projects were started but there wasn't a lot of finishing.

Carlo Ciampi

A project once seen as utopian has become reality,

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Chris Phillips

It's a short tournament. If you don't have it, you don't have much time to find it.

Craig Stevens

A lot of this has to do with speculation that there was going to be a shortage of supply,

Derek Halpenny

The yen is being supported by a liquidation of short positions.

David Chase

They're on edge, disquieted, off balance. What a short time we're on this Earth.

Cary Elwes

There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

Cameron Crowe

I wanted it to feel like a short story, but it's a long short story,

Kevin Gray

It would be an interesting test on short notice,

Lois Perrin

It was very likely, and to be done in short order.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.