Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacob Lew

The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.

William Penn

A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most . . .

Kate Kendall

It was very exciting. I was just delighted. We put a lot of work into collecting those samples, and we wanted to get as much information as we could from them.

Jerry Yang

I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty.

Ira Glasser

The worry here is ... will the information that is collected here for one purpose be used for other purposes? ... The government history on this subject is not an encouraging one.

This is as good a collection of players as I can remember.

That's how my collection started. I think I have the largest collection of this stuff there is.

Ayn Rand

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

The fact that plaintiffs are using a court order to go into people's homes and collect data for them is unheard of. This is a company that has not been found guilty of doing anything wrong.

The creation of this series will generate collective interest and excitement at a level that has not existed between our great events in the past. The result of these marathons partnering together is increased visibility, exposure, and growth for the sport of marathon running on a national and international scale.

Mark Cuban

Broadcast.com continues to prove that Internet broadcasting is the new medium for companies to interact with consumers, collect valuable customer data, and ultimately drive sales to their products.

Even if you collect 1 percent of the total market, we get to really put Charlottesville on the map in the IT sector.

John Shadegg

While the system runs a short-term surplus today, we collect more in Social Security taxes than we pay out today in Social Security benefits.

We've had a lot of success, even though no one has known about this. We've been slowly promoting it, and we've had various collection drives in the community.

Every dollar we collect down there stays down there.

David Williams

We did a lot of work around integration with this release because we realize compliance is a major priority for our customers. We can collect and manipulate configuration data very well and now we can integrate that into other products.

We're supposed to collect enough revenue to deliver water to our customers and make sure we have a safe and reliable water system.

Robert Jones

We will be calculating and collecting the exact amount.

We will be able to see how the restoration is actually progressing, and if we collect enough data then this could serve as a model for restoration projects worldwide.

Everything we collect after expenses will go to help these folks.

There's not too many things you can do with them, once you collect them, other than melt them down.

The tour is not to collect frequent flier miles. It's a special gesture from the host nation.

Matt Ridley

I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.

What we are is an organization that collects and saves something that hasn't been collected before, and that's food history,

Harold E. Varmus

Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?

Stanislav Grof

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

September 11 was horrific, but I've been through enough crises before that I had my own pattern as to how to collect facts, what a leader should do, how to communicate with people, how to set up operating mechanisms to work our way through it.

Sean Hayes

I'm a hamster person. No - that's so bizarre, I don't know what that means. Please don't say that. Now everybody is going to go, "Do you like hamsters? Why did you say hamsters? Do you have a collection of hamsters?" I'll never live that down. Please don't use that.

No other technology can collect and relay such sophisticated data to people making decisions in the supply chain.

NYC Transit has been exploring various anti-terror initiatives, including the use of alternative means to collect refuse in the system.

Robert Williams

If a county can institute an impact fee, it ought to be able to decide how to collect it.

I was supposed to be collecting the mail for a neighbor next door. One day I forgot, and Dennis started holding it so it didn't pile up.