Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rent is often the largest chunk of a family's monthly budget. So the concern would be that these families would be tempted to use money they don't have by putting it on plastic.

This is a large chunk of the employees' income.

That makes things a lot easier, because you can really focus in on what you have to know specifically. As time goes on, we'll learn more and more, but right now they're keeping it to nice bite-sized chunks that we can digest easily. And that should let us have an impact right away.

It's very important to see others than those of us coming in with a big chunk of money participating in the university's expansion. People who give $100 or $1,000 are just as important as those who give $1 million.

It's not describable. It's a big chunk of our family. It's just gone.

It's not describable. A whole chunk of our family is just gone. We're all kind of numb, trying to figure out what happens next.

It's a large chunk of time out of the instructional day and it's large chunk of time out of the instructional year. The Connecticut test is a good test. It has open ended (questions) and is a good assessment. That makes it more palatable.

It's a very big chunk of energy, there's no question about that.

Whenever you have a big chunk of people coming in at once, it takes a while to get everyone on track.

Lynn Coady

Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing.

An important chunk of Apple's market is people who use Adobe applications. Those folks are going to stay away from the new machines until they're sure their software works.

Robert Chapman

A fair chunk of people signing up for this course are from the public sector, ... But surprisingly there is a lot of interest from utility companies and financial services where there is obviously a strong adherence to procedures and processes.

Dan Quayle

It would be actually foolish for me to spend a big chunk of money in a straw poll,

Jim Woodring

I used to publish these stories in 32-page comics, and I would either do short stories or break the long ones up into chunks so there would be some variety inside the comic. But since then, people have been doing more and more long, standalone works, and the term 'graphic novel' has sort of become the codified term now.

The way we recycle unwanted tickets needs improving. A whole chunk are given to FIFA to redistribute and suddenly you can get a four-week sales process to recycle them.

A significant chunk of this operation will target the big cities - especially Delhi and Mumbai - as we would like to tap these markets first.

Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.

There's probably a 5 to 10 percent premium in construction costs for a high-performance, sustainable school. For a high school that may cost $50 million, that's a chunk of change.

We haven't given up the big run, the 25-, 30-, 40-yard run. But we have given up way too many for big chunks on early downs. We have to get better, it doesn't matter who's playing. I have confidence we'll stop the run.

Bob Schneider

(But) we're talking ice a millimeter thick just adhering to the outer surface of the wing. A big chunk of clear ice. I've never heard of anything like that.

I don't think it's reasonable for him to be skating and feeling the way he would need to for next Tuesday. But five or six days after that, which is a pretty big chunk of time, is the window that the doctors are talking about.

GM may have to enter this situation and take a good chunk of Delphi back.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Somebody has to pay our editors, writers, journalists, designers, developers, and all the other specialists whose passion and tears go into every chunk of worthwhile web content.

If I put $60 a week into gas, that a huge chunk of my disposable income even for a moderate income household.

Cheung Kong is still experiencing pressure on the MSCI removal because fund managers still hold quite a big chunk of the stock so it will take time to offload.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Nagasaki is not just a few hazy images. I remember it as a real chunk of my life.

That's usually a big chunk of the sightseeing itinerary,

Microsoft has always felt threatened by the Internet, because it is an open world. It sees it as essential to extend its presence there and move chunks of it into a proprietary world.

I decided to just cover it because she was still right there; she didn't go away and I know how her hands are. I didn't think it was a good idea to chunk it because she's got bionic wrists. I just held on to it and hoped to finish out the game.

Winona LaDuke

The United States - you know, native people are large landowners, but the military has a huge chunk of our territories. And in those, there are a number of places that are our sacred sites.

We don't have a vehicle with three rows of seats now, and we know we're losing big chunks of customers because of that. But next year, we'll have three (vehicles with three rows of seats).

We're losing nine guys, that's a huge chunk of this program. We have got to concentrate on the younger guys and get them out there quickly.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo.