Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Ritholtz

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

Michael Ramsey

I think we're going to have a case that's largely about accounting allegations...where the government is going to refuse to call either David Duncan, who was the chief engagement partner for Arthur Andersen, or Rick Causey.

James Atlas

An account of some of these acts makes Henry Miller's crudest imaginations seem as chaste as a nun's diary.

Cervantes Saavedra

All the physicians and authors in the world could not give a clear account of his madness. He is mad in patches, full of lucid intervals.

Michael Servetus

And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh.

Deepak Shah

The market staged a smart rally in the last few sessions, defying expectations of a correction at higher levels mainly on account of large-scale investments by fund operators.

Larry Fischer

The media people say, 'Great idea, you should talk to the creative guy.' Then you have a third meeting with the account guy. That's the frustrating part. I'm presenting game-changing technology that will enable them to market goods and services in a way that's never been offered before. And they don't even see it.

Leila Janah

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the nonprofit world, the right picture is worth tens of thousands of dollars. I use PhotoPad to sync our Samasource Flickr account to my iPad and slip it out of my purse at cocktail parties to tell our story.

Janet Yellen

Food and energy account for a significant portion of household budgets, so the Federal Reserve's inflation objective is defined in terms of the overall change in consumer prices.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Mike Reagan

The event is good way to get students to register to vote. I think it helps with democracy more than anything. It's a good way to get a lot of student support.

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Brett Ratner

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Lindy Ruff

I was trying to get him the last one, and why not? He's a rookie who's played very well for us. He'd only played about four minutes going into the third period, so it was great to see him get it.

John Rother

We really need to think about four pillars for retirement.

Russ McKenzie

John was a large part of our success over the last four years. He continually improved throughout his career. He won a lot of big matches for us this year.

Shawnda Vines

I can't be any more proud of them. We've been in a must-win situation for four games now and they've been able to come through and get the wins for us.

Morgan Betscher

We thought we got gypped a little. We thought we'd get a four or a five.

Jason Brandt

I thought we played well defensively. We had some good quality at bats. We only had four hits to show from it, but I was very pleased.

Richard Stengel

It gets us out of these four walls.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Amartya Sen

You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop them?

Andrew Weil

Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

Andrei Sakharov

Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.

Chuck Hagel

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

Chuck D.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

Andrew Card

There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Sonakshi Sinha

I enjoy my work, no matter who I am working with. Even if you give me a solo silent film, I will enjoy it.

Erinn Smart

Being one point ahead at the end - that's all that matters.

Steve Frank

It doesn't matter what he says; it matters what he does.

Jeremy Lin

I struggle with pride every day, but the one thing that I try to remind myself everyday is that I'm still a sinner no matter how many points/assists/win I get on the court.

Angelina Jolie

We'll be on our way to Pakistan in a matter of days.

Jeff Gordon

I'm not a fighter, trust me. But I am someone who can get angry. I have a temper at times. Sometimes it gets the best of you no matter how you manage it.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point. ... Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. ... Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)