Famous Quotes & Sayings

The problem with Sarbanes-Oxley is that it means 20 different things to 10 different people. There's a tremendous wealth of folklore that has been built up around it in the IT sector. A lot of people are trying to push us into spending money on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, but I trust our auditors.

Graham Greene

Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods.

CSMS is a very interesting platform. It's built from the ground up to provide integration between its various components.

and you have not built a wall unless you have rounded a corner.

Walter Smith

Equity for District residents wasn't built in a day. We've been working on it for 100 years, and we're still not there. But we won't give up.

Everything that I've built is gone. It's like a Ground Zero down there.

Howard Dean

Election by election, state by state, pricinct by pricinct, door by door, vote by vote we're going to left our party up and we're going to take this country back for the people who built it.

Adam McKay

Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.

Jack Adams

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.

Traffic, access, noise, residential protests are problems with outdoor amphitheatres, especially those like White River that are built in rural areas. The traffic issues have to be resolved because ultimately, it's the customer experience that determines whether White River is successful in the long term.

Yes, they are. And they're built better and last longer. So, I'm for doing away with it.

Eric Brewer

You are not going to see gray-and-blue stores being built anymore.

You can never repeal the laws of physics, and a smaller, lighter vehicle is always at a disadvantage no matter how many safety features are built into it.

Nikki Sixx

You can't do this, you can't take a picture of someone who has built their image up, I don't care who it is. You can't use that for your business.

Kyle Busch

You can learn a few things. but it's more so throughout the race having adjustability built into your car.

We had a terrific year. Momentum built with each quarter as our wholesale and retail initiatives produced strong results for our company.

We've had some tough losses in the last couple of weeks. We just decided to go into this tournament and play as a team. We've been on and off in playing together because we don't have the years of trust built up. You get into pressure situations, and it's hard to have that trust level. We said we had to have it and everyone committed to it.

Ron Carter

We've got 1,000 homes that are going to be built near the Square. They're going to want quality entertainment and be able to walk to it.

Tons of tears from everybody. We built quite a family atmosphere. We had a great year on and off the court.

To not take what we built and not use it as a training tool would not take the system up to the level it can be.

We also constructed a large portion of the road job in Celebration near Disney World, created Celebration's golf course and built the infrastructure and bridges, lakes and waterfalls for the World Golf Village in St. Augustine.

A toy train layout is never finished. I have built several over the years, and the ones that I have gotten finished, I either sold or gave away.

Bill Owen

As I come to the close of my tenure as CEO, I am pleased that Nortel can now move from this phase of stabilization with the foundation we've built over the past 19 months,

Common would come to my house and give me a freestyle verse. I'd make a new beat for it and put it with something else. That's how I met Eminem - he came to my house back when he first started. He gave me a bunch of freestyles, and that's how we built a relationship. Everyone came to my house.

Learned Hand

(Common law) stands as a monument slowly raised, like a coral reef, from the minute accretions of past individuals, of whom each built upon the relics which his predecessors left, and in his turn left a foundation upon which his successors might work

Jack Horner

Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.

Contrary to many published reports, the E.U. has not advocated a U.N.-controlled system. Rather, it has called for the creation of a new forum built on existing structures.

Could the pyramids have actually been cast instead of built byteams of men maneuvering hewn blocks?

Pankaj Mishra

The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.

Mel Gibson

Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if it's not rooted to something a little higher, you're just kicking your butt around the corner. You can only take so much of that. You have to have some sort of foundation to explode from.

Sean Parker

It's never the end game. Facebook is now a platform upon which all kinds of applications are being built it's definitely not it.

Robbie Williams

I'm trying to not follow fashion. I don't even like the word. But I do like clothes, and I like nicely cut clothes that last and that are built to be worn for the next 30 years.

To me it's one of the wonders of the world. It was built over 100 years ago and is 300-odd feet high. And I'm lucky enough to live right under it.