Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Affleck

I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was a casting director, so really, as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

We want to make calculations based on AT&T's (Wireless) share price at the end of tomorrow, and take any necessary accounting measures,

We believe CFO Mike Lehman is one of the most conservative on the Street, and we have no reason to believe there are any accounting irregularities at the company.

We are moving to a double-digit current account deficit. I don't see how we escape it.

There are a variety of different credit card processing fees, and trying to figure them out is a difficult task for an untrained person. The merchant account companies purposely make their statements and fees difficult to understand, and that makes it hard for the average person to figure out if they can save money with a different company.

Volatility has certainly reduced despite a widening current account deficit, but capital inflows have been strong and this has helped.

Tom DeLay

Upon learning of these accounting irregularities, I immediately requested that the trust undergo a full and complete audit from its June 2000 inception through 2004 to determine if any additional accountancy problems existed with the trust.

Emmanuelle Seigner

I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.

Orville Wright

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

Dan Buettner

I have always followed exactly what interests me and never really worried about the money. And when you think about it, to be able to travel the world... on an expense account and do exactly what interests you, it just doesn't get much better than that.

Bob Newhart

Probably the best advice I ever got in my life was from the head of the accounting department, Mr. Hutchinson, I believe at the Glidden Company in Chicago, and he told me, 'You really aren't cut out for accounting.'

The question is not whether the U.S. current account deficit will fall in the future but whether the inevitable adjustment is likely to be painful and disruptive of U.S. economic growth and stability -- a hard landing.

Dmitry Medvedev

The proposed plan is a step toward Ukraine. But this step fully accounts for the interests of Russian producers and the state.

The proposal is an exercise in financial engineering and does not take into account McDonald's unique business model. While we remain open to ideas, we simply will not jeopardize the long-term health of our company, nor our relationships with customers, franchisees and suppliers for such a financial engineering exercise.

The only reason we didn't go on and win it today is because we weren't physically strong enough and good enough to do so. When I don't get three points I'm always disappointed so although I can take into account the circumstances behind it, it's not going to send me home a happy bunny.

Track accountability is the best way to describe it. You're looking to see which dog accounts for the most tracks in the smoothest manner.

Toy breeds are very fashionable at the moment, with celebrities such as Paris Hilton unable to leave the house without them, but I am not so sure that the professional judges will take this into account when the winner is announced.

This standard seeks to ease the burden of verifying complex hardware designs, which can account for more than 60 percent of a design cycle,

This special is yet another hilarious and surreal account of D-list celebrity survival in a business that Kathy knows all too well. Kathy brings her outrageous stories to the stage to reveal her own vulnerabilities in Hollywood as well as her unbelievable encounters with some of the most well-recognized Hollywood names today. This helps to fill the D-List void before the launch of her second season of 'My Life on the D List' on Bravo this summer.

Today's announcement reflects many months of careful work to ensure a full and open competition among some of the best advertising agencies in America. Both the U.S. Army and the America public are the clear winners given the dedicated professionals we've had working on the Army account in the past and the creative talent we'll be working with on future communications about Army recruiting.

Today premium branded products account for 11 percent of new vehicle sales. In '96 they accounted for 6 percent of the market.

I came up with the idea for what later became Paychex in 1970 when I was working for Electronic Accounting Systems, a company that sold payroll processing to companies with 50 to 1,000 employees.

Taissa Farmiga

I'm on Twitter. I created my account for my fans, and I do respond back once in a while, because they're so great.

Alexa Von Tobel

I started LearnVest with a tiny savings account where I paid designers, technologists, and even bartered... Because I started with paying for things myself with my own savings, it sharpened my focus of how to spend money.

Robert Green Ingersoll

As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power.

When AOL announces a rate hike, it's leveraging its customer base. They have the multiple e-mail accounts and user lists, which makes it difficult for people to switch services.

Virender Sehwag

It doesn't matter if you have one billion rupees in your bank account or one rupee. This is one life you get, and you'd rather spend it enjoying whatever you have, rather than thinking, 'Oh, I should have scored seven more runs, or I should get more money.'

Vladimir Putin

We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich.

Nigel Hamilton

I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous patient. That was true but unfair. Although their authenticity as contemporary, daily accounts is often questionable, the observations are quite wonderful.

Loretta Lynch

In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. In so doing, he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken.

Loretta Lynch

Members of organized crime continue to exploit their victims the old-fashioned way - through violence, threats and intimidation. As law enforcement has so successfully done before, we will employ our own time-tested techniques to bring them to justice to account for their crimes.

The crimes that were committed were unspeakably heinous. And the details about the (ordeal) that are emerging each day in media accounts are increasingly disturbing.

Robert Nozick

It's the level that allows us each to live our own chosen lives. But I notice not everyone agrees with the primary importance of that level, and I try to account for how they don't.