Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beth Haiken

When (home-price) appreciation gets too far away from income, you are more likely to see a decline in home prices.

Mary Jo White

I think what I brought from the private sector was a real appreciation of how much leverage - respect, if you will - that the SEC has. Major companies, in particular, really don't want to be at war with their primary regulator. The SEC may not have appreciated just how great our leverage is.

Serge Payer

It gave me a new appreciation for life. I don't play any differently. I've always been a hard-working guy, and I like to play that way.

Carolyn Lund

I did really gain an appreciation for the strong work ethic of the Japanese people. I had the opportunity to teach English every week ... They'd been learning English, some of them since elementary school. Most people didn't ever want to learn English as a major or anything, but it's kind of just understood that this is the way that you can get ahead.

Richard Owen

Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.

Richard Dawkins

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And in today already walks tomorrow.

Walt Disney

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Ronald Reagan

The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our forefathers greeted the American West. Many laws protecting environmental quality have promoted liberty by securing property against the destructive trespass of pollution. In our own time, the nearly universal appreciation of these preserved landscapes, restored waters, and cleaner air through outdoor recreation is a modern expression of our freedom and leisure to enjoy the wonderful life that generations past have built for us.

Bruce Myers

I think the contract started out at maybe $500,000, and they had a change order to get it to $700,000, but they ended up paying like $1 million, and there was no evidence of any other change orders or any other board approval for that last change.

Andrew Forman

These fines and the permanent injunction demonstrate that there is a strong system in place for ensuring that pharmaceutical companies fully comply with all aspects of the drug approval process.

Bill Corr

This is one tax that voters like. Raising cigarette taxes is a win-win-win solution for state legislators and governors as they face challenges in the next few months. The evidence that voters support cigarette tax increases is clear and overwhelming. Last November, 65 percent of Washington state residents voted approval of a 60-cent increase in their tobacco tax.

Tom Harkin

This has created ridiculous situations where companies have sought $5 million and as a condition for approval they have been required to have that much money in the bank, ... If they have that much money in the bank, why would they need the loan?

Christopher King

All clients are thoroughly screened before starting weight training, everyone must first obtain a (physician's) approval.

Charlie Cook

A less visible part of the damage done by Katrina may be what's happened to the President's approval rating.

Rob Laird

We are continuing to make sure we get all the business approval that is required. We expect that will happen here very shortly.

Jonathan Allen

There was approval at ambassadorial level but not ministerial level.

John Kinsey

These things are just small, tuck-in acquisitions. The banks are still waiting for the approval to merge. That will be the icing on the cake for them.

Nancy Cartwright

I will not say ""Springfield"" just to get applause

Oliver Goldsmith

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping

Ken Blanchard

I once heard profit is the applause you get for taking care of customers and your people,

Russell Crowe

I'll pass that applause on to my mother.

Larry Foote

I'm from Detroit, but I haven't had the great career that he has. He deserves all of the applause and honors that he's been getting. He's always been a hero of mine. He's earned this. What did he call it other day? A dream? I know it is, and that's why everybody's happy for him.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

Anne Paige

We're going to hope for the best and hope that there's a lot of applause and cheering because he likes that. And we'll see what happens.

Dan Stevens

The Broadway audiences are very vocal and seem very engaged. For certain shows, especially with a show like 'The Heiress,' the audience's reactions sound like 'The Jerry Springer Show' sometimes. That seems to be a very New York thing. Oh, there's also the entrance round of applause here, which we don't get too much in London.

Thomas Gray

Th' applause of listening senates to command, / The threats of pain and ruin to despise,/ To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, / And read their history in a nation's eyes.