Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Johannessen

Our agency will pay for this if we have to. It's too critical to get caught up in a question of who ultimately is going to pay for it.

Alex Roland

The shuttle could never do what the agency tried to make it do, and so they traded off safety. I don't blame the managers; they were presented with an impossible job.

Jerry Angelo

The one position I think ? not think, but know ? has been undervalued with free agency and expansion with 32 teams now is the offensive line. The colleges just aren't generating enough offensive linemen to facilitate all 32 football teams.

Jerry Adams

The old days of coming into an agency and staying for 30 years are gone, ... Today they stay a few years. And then opportunities open up ... and they go.

Ali Larijani

The most logical way was to have the case with the agency and to have the agency's supervision.

Joe Gibbs

Somebody's going to get a real opportunity to play for us. There still may be a solid guy there (in free agency now or after the June 1 cuts) that we feel like might come up, but that's something everybody is concerned about.

Kieran Suckling

Species on the candidates list are allowed to languish for decades without protection. This is an agency policy used to prevent people from filing listing petitions.

Walt Rulffes

Sometimes we feel like we're the most audited agency in the state, but perhaps for good reason because we are the largest consumer of tax resources. If we're going to ask the Legislature to make greater investments in educational improvements, then taxpayers need to be assured that the dollars are well used.

Mark Brown

Right now we are trying to get a letter sent to the Postal Service to ask them if it would be possible, and what would be involved in switching the north end of town to the same ZIP code that is used in the south end, ... Because the Postal Service is a federal agency we might get a better response if the request came from the congressman's office.

John Hawkes

As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.

H. Hunt

As a striker you automatically follow everything in because you don't know if it's going to come off the bar, the post or the goalkeeper. That would normally have been my reaction but I just thought it was going to bounce into the roof of the net. I was convinced. People ask me why I didn't just knock it in but I thought it was a goal. It was an automatic reaction.

Soichi Noguchi

As a rookie astronaut, I could not ask for more. We had three spacewalks, two bonus extension days in space and one great crew.

Soichi Noguchi

As a rookie astronaut, I could not ask for more, ... We had three spacewalks, two bonus extension days in space and one great crew.

Zoran Djindjic

As a U.N. member state, we are obliged to fully cooperate with The Hague tribunal and have asked all state bodies for full cooperation.

Bob Margolis

As a councilman, they asked me to intervene and I did. My job is to protect the neighborhood.

Patricia Sullivan

As a female it never crossed my mind to feel uncomfortable around Professor Schaffer. I would often stay after class to ask personal questions,

Dave Foreman

As a musician I guess the only thing I would ask from a listener is to put the CD in, close your eyes and forget about all the peripherals. I guess that's a dream that may not happen in my lifetime, but I listen to music from all sorts of people and I think there is an open-minded individual who will be able to listen to music of all types.

Andy Kopplin

The burden of suggesting good ideas, you get asked to contribute to the implementation.

Dr. McKinlay

Dentists and parents, I think, can be very assured from the results of this study that they can continue to put silver amalgam in children's mouths to fill cavities.

Mike Pence

Some (soldiers) were worried that the resources they need might be diverted, ... I assured them I would do what was needed to win the war and get them home safe.

Mohamed ElBaradei

once you have that assured supply, you have taken away the justification for countries to say, 'I'd like to make my own fuel,' and that's 80 percent of the problem.

Bob Riley

I've talked with federal officials and they've assured me this disruption of the gasoline supply is one of their top priorities and they're working to correct the problem, ... I'm hoping this will be a short-term disruption. In the meantime, citizens can continue to do their part by purchasing and using fuel responsibly.

Gene Dolnick

(Dr. Long) has assured us that educational leadership has to be a top priority. It is our priority. We believe it is his priority. I hope that we can embrace this choice.

Wim Duisenberg

European citizens can be assured that the future of the euro is that of a strong currency, based on price stability and the strength of the European economy,

Emily Harris

You can never be assured of removing all breast tissue. But it is a huge reduction in breast cancer.

Emmanuel Mwamba

We had assured the government that he will return back home immediately after the conference but they declined to sanction his trip.

Debbie Casto

Every game is huge. We're at the point now with three losses that we have to win every game to be assured of a spot in the regional.

Bill Murray

As far as the consumer is concerned, they think it's a stand-by ticket where you have to sit in the back by the toilet,

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Michael Chambers

Real discretionary spending has been cut to the bone. That would gel with the sense we get in Indonesia of a very sharp drop in consumer durable purchases, motorcycles. If you go to electronic shops you'll see a sharp decline there as well.

Mark Batty

People are worried about possible net interest margin compression and credit quality deterioration, as well as slowing consumer loan growth.

Dannielle Romano

People are witnessing how interested consumers are in experiencing digital music, consuming it that way, and having the convenience of consuming it that way. It's a quickly growing, voracious audience.

Alan Greenspan

Despite the combination of somewhat slower growth of productivity in recent quarters, higher energy prices, and a decline in the exchange rate for the dollar, core measures of consumer prices have registered only modest increases,

Anne Sweeney

The strategic utilization of new technologies to meet consumer needs is of paramount importance to the growth of the Disney Media Networks Group.

Eric Wold

A few years ago the big question was could IMAX get Hollywood content on their screens and theaters to sign up. But studios now see the value of putting movies on IMAX screens since consumers have much better home theaters.

Mel Karmazin

Satellite radio is very hot and is continuing to be one of the fastest-growing products in consumer electronics history.

Pat Taylor

As a result of the campaign, we've done 27 million dollars of construction on campus.

David Anderson

Prices are rising because of expectations. If we have it in our heads that oil is going to do well and we start putting dollars into it, then the prices will iron out.

Tom Barrett

Quite candidly, I think there are sufficient dollars to do both.

Chris Patterson

Performance incentives focus education dollars on effective teaching and student learning.

Bob Fox

Think about the people that have maybe 100 horses. That's thousands of dollars for them this year.

Stephen Wood

This is taking dollars from Wal-Mart and giving it to Shell. It's shifting the money. It's not increasing inflation.

Alex Knott

Your local taxpayer dollars are being used to employ a lobbyist as a middleman to go out and get your federal tax dollars. It's a situation that's increasing.

Brian Jacques

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!

Bruce Kovner

Place your stops at a point that, if reached, will reasonably indicate that the trade is wrong, not at a point determined primarily by the maximum dollar amount you are willing to lose

Harry Browne

A show's a show, and this is for a good cause.

Erica White

As good as this feels, we're not done yet.

Chris Nelson

As good as (Southern Nevada) is, to come in and win in their park, that's a good thing for Derek.

Robert Esche

As good as it may have seemed, we still lost the game. So, it wasn't that great.

Jay Bilas

As good as I thought they were going to be, and I thought they would be in the NCAA tournament, I didn't think they were going to be this good. I didn't think they were going to be this mature, this polished and this resilient.

Brad Skoglund

As good as catch, maybe better, than the one at state.

Louie Golden

As good a player as he is, he's so unselfish. He makes teams go. He makes it happen.

Jessica Springsteen

As for singing, my parents say I have a good voice, but then again, they have to say that.

Rocky Carroll

As an actor, you can think your way out of a lot of good things sometimes. I trust my instincts as an actor, and I trust the instincts of the creators, so it's a good combination.

Nicola Sturgeon

Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Jane Siberry

'The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song.

Martin Rees

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

Louis Reigel

After 9/11 there were some of these sites. It was much greater after the tsunami, and it's even greater after Katrina,

David Williams

Once you understand your inventory, then you can start integrating at a greater level.

Francesco Cossiga

Perhaps, my dear, young Mr. Gates, before putting your new products on the market with so much publicity you should have them tested for longer and with greater care.

John Curtis

The Rockies, by all estimates, will play a much greater role in natural-gas production over the next 25 years.

Enrique Pena Nieto

The United States is already Mexico's largest trading partner.

John Davidson

I still like Maverick Tube, which is the largest provider of tubular product to that industry,

Robert McKinley

If you're looking to transfer a $5,000 balance, you need to look to the largest issuers.

Dan Woods

The largest need right now is to move students out of there,

Joel Silver

(The) four-volume set is the largest project of its kind done up until its time.

Martin Winterkorn

The Volkswagen Group offers the world's largest low-CO2 fleet.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To wish to progress is the largest part of progress.

Howard Stern

Yeah, OK, Michael, ... That's why I've received the largest fines in history.

Kevin Nelson

We had 80 entries for the parade and about 150 vehicles and floats. This is probably the largest parade we have ever had.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

Oliver Kahn

Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept.

Ann Gerhart

Perhaps this is how she is spending her capital,

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

Robert Richardson

Any organization of reasonable size is going to be attacked.

Frank Lautenberg

This is a reasonable standard we know will save lives.

Dustin Penner

That's what I was doing in Portland. When I got up here, for some reason I wasn't doing it, I was trying to (pass) too quick.

I. Stone

You want a reasonable standard so you can receive and send help.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Charles Darwin

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Diana Wynne Jones

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

Brendon Burchard

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

Aristotle

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Robert Soper

The track has its own taxes that are distinct. It's not 55 percent, that's for certain.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump have proposed an approach that has a $4 billion tax benefit for your family.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Herbert Hoover

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.

Jim Ramstad

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.