Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Johnson

You can't collect money from someone who doesn't have any, ... If they're operating on a shoestring budget and you have a $4,000 judgment, how are you going to get that?

We've gutted the parks division over the last 12 years. Our operating budget was higher in 1994 than it is today.

We also did consider what were the things in the project we could be scaling back on to make it fit within existing budget revenues.The reality was that in doing so we were going to strip away the elements that made it different from your typical sidewalks and light project.

Every penny that we lower it, that's $5 million from the budget.

Every imaginable expense is taken care of by the budget.

Bill Richardson

Every dollar governors are forced to cut out of our budgets is a dollar that's not going into the economy. . . . Every job that must be cut is another statistic in already escalating unemployment figures. . . . Every person who loses the support and services on which they rely for their livelihood and security leaves us poorer as a people and as a nation.

John Thompson

(Commissioners) could work and take some dollars out of this budget if they choose to, and they have a couple months to work on that.

Paul Scheer

The most frustrating part of working in TV and film is that you have to convince someone to let you make what you want; in comics you can do whatever you want and for 1% of the budget of TV and film.

Shreya Ghoshal

It is only your passion which takes you forward. So it is my gyaan to all budding singers that keep faith in your passion and prepare yourself, because you will get that opportunity sooner or later, and if you can prove yourself, people will line up for you.

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

To me, it's incredible for us to low-ball our budget like that,

Dean Falk

Total budget that includes programming, staff and facilities is something over half a million dollars a year. And, that doesn't include a budget for large infrastructure investment.

This new budget clearly shows Bush's lack of commitment to the businesses where most Americans work. I expect it to have a significant negative impact on legitimately small, women-owned and minority-owned businesses.

We should commit resources, as we did to conquer polio in the fifties. We could quadruple the Alzheimer's budget and not saturate all clinical trials and possible targets. If we don't there will be hell to pay in twenty years.

We're disappointed, frustrated and angry. Small business is not a part of the Ontario plan for this budget and there is nothing.

We are very pleased that the money has been placed back in the budget and we can continue to patrol the parkways with no expense to our taxpayers.

We are going to defeat you in the budget process and debate process until you cry uncle,

We are going to be facing some major choices as we go through the budget process,

Ron Wilson

What's even worse is we won't be back here for three years, so the Bruin fans and all his buddies won't see him for three years here in Boston. That's a shame.

What is likely to happen as a result of strength in the economy, I think government revenue will continue to exceed expectations, which means the budget deficit will come down faster. That is a marginal plus.

What I would love to see is getting rid of silos and pooling budgets so we can do what the individual client needs.

Candace Smith

We finished the fiscal year at the end of June $7.5 million over budget for fuel costs. If we continue to pay $2.07 a gallon until the end of next June, we would finish it $8.6 million over budget.

We give school chefs enough produce for three or four days. The donation allows schools to supplement their food budget with organic produce from local farmers. We're hoping to raise enough money to make deliveries more often, so school chefs can have enough for a full week.

We have a budget that we set; we're on target with that plan. Campaigns make strategic decisions. You can decide to put somebody in a room on the phone for six hours a day (raising money) or you can try to get them out in the public, and that's what we did this cycle.

Brad Moore

We have 250 employees, ... The maximum impact on the budget would be $43,750.

Helen Zille

We cannot use the full budget to build just one stadium.

We want to nip this in the bud so that Chuck's directive can be changed. We are meeting with the Pueblo Lodging Association next week and we want to make sure we do everything we can to maintain our relationship with CHSAA.

Together with the Weinstein Company we have been able to show these designers' passion for creativity and incredible talent to an ever-growing audience. We can't wait to get back out there and give another crop of budding designers the opportunity of a lifetime.

You may have very strategic knowledge of what's going on. You may have good knowledge of budget or budgeting process. It doesn't mean when someone structures the transactions, you get there and roll the sleeves and sharpen the pencil, do the pricing and negotiate the derivatives and sales. That is what the issues seem to be, and nobody expects the CEO to do that.

Rodrigo Rato

This year is going to be challenging for the budget in the U.S. and probably we are going to see a resurgence of a deficit, which is not good news.

When you open a building, you incur all those budgetary concerns, and if we close the building, we don't have to pay for all of those things so we can save that money.

John Keats

To set budding more, / And still more, later flowers for the bees, / Until they think warm days will never cease, / For summer has o'erbrimmed their clammy cells.