Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Lewis

We don't factor in the cost of labor, only materials. If we included the actual price of the land, no one (low-income family) would be able to afford one our homes, and that's not the point. Even if someone gives you everything you need, the permit fee is still anywhere from $25-30,000, and depending on the size of the house, traffic impact fees can cost $15,000.

Alan Greenspan

While actual CPI inflation has picked up this year, this rise has not been mirrored uniformly in other broad price measures,

Without an actual coach, guys can kind of stray easily.

Without a doubt, poker is driving U.S. tourists to Las Vegas, Atlantic City and river boats. A safer bet, pun intended, is to invest in actual casinos.

Those of us involved in the actual administration of the Marshall Program had very much in our minds the building of a new Europe.

Unfortunately, there was a set of events that led us to believe that this was the actual controlled substance.

We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.

Holly Black

I wrote a book called 'Doll Bones', which was another middle-grade book, and when I was writing it, I needed a place in the U.S. that made bone china. And there are only two places in the U.S. that make bone china. They made it by grinding down actual cow bones. It was a plot point. It was a creepy doll book.

Hideki Tojo

In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time.

Hannibal Buress

I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.

Portraying Mozart is a scary task. Whenever I'm asked to portray actual historic figures, it comes with extra accountability. Not just to your director and playwright, but to the man himself and the beloved persona that the public forms.

My team and I used the actual footage to create a three-act story of the life of Ayrton Senna. There are no talking heads and no voiceover. Senna narrates his own epic, dramatic, thrilling journey.

One of the big problems we have is every time we have a crisis, we have to go knocking on doors. It could take anywhere from two to four months from the time we get the money to the actual handing over of the food because you have to buy it, transport it, and distribute it. There's a delay in that.

Etty Hillesum

I would . . . be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

Edward Kennedy

But all the Administration released was a glossy brochure and a plan for a single agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, and even that was missing its most important element, the actual operational plans for responding to a pandemic epidemic,

Based on the 70 percent rule, (Brown's) actual prison time will be 9.1 years before he's eligible for parole,

Hu Jintao

China will continue to build up democracy with its own characteristics and improve its people's human rights based on the actual situation and the aspiration of the people,

China's attitude of trying to progress with cooperation is one thing, and whether this attitude is reflected in the actual negotiation is another.

Michael Ian Black

I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons.' Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief.

I have a lot of influence in the lyrics. I tend to write about real life experiences. I write about suicide, actual experiences and things I went through. I try to get something that's broad enough so other people can relate to.

Jasika Nicole

I hate actual newspapers. In my opinion, they are only good for wrapping up presents or cleaning mirrors. Or packing boxes. Or stuffing into knee-high boots to help retain their shape. Or using for fun crafts. Okay, I don't hate actual newspapers, I guess.

Ray Walston

I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain.

Ashley Johnson

I feel like I get more by highlighting with an actual highlighter in my hands. I process more of it. It's a better way for me to study.

Julie Smith

From Chirac and Schroeder we have seen a rhetorical commitment for France and Germany to co-operate but when they have combined it has been to block reforms. They have not produced an actual agenda for advancing the union, unlike the days of Helmut Kohl and Francois Mitterand, when France and Germany really were driving Europe.

From the very beginning, '60 Minutes' was clear that the only response they would take to this story was from President Clinton. . . . They could not have been more vague about the actual allegations.

Craig Fugate

I don't want a system so rigid that the actual victims who need the help are penalized. It's almost like a no-win situation.

Sarah Lewis

I enjoy when we have actual competitions because we finally get to display everything we are capable of. At Glenwood Springs, we have a history of winning. Winning always feels good.

Fortunately, not too many. Unfortunately, we certainly have had our share of actual victims in the state of Idaho.

Forty percent of the actual items, mechanisms and methods used in the show do not exist,

Given the number of major changes consumers have experienced over the past couple of years, the gap between customer expectations and actual service experience tends to widen as uncertainty from mergers greatly influences consumer perceptions. Case in point is the impact major market dynamics plays in future switching intent. Between 2004 and 2005, there has been a 5 percent increase in the intent to switch wireless carriers in the next 12 months -- a reverse from the past two years, where future switching intent remained stable.

David Healy

GM is losing market share overall, but mostly because of its fleet sales. GM's sales to actual retail customers were up a bit in February, so its total market share is down, but in the units that really count, the results weren't that bad.

Here was an actual functioning operating system, and it worked.

Going into this report, many analysts greatest fear was that the Fed may have lost some control of this budding recovery. The actual evidence shows that a moderate recovery is exactly what we are likely to get.