Famous Quotes & Sayings

I wouldn't like to speculate on how much money it would cost us, but I know it would be substantial.

I wish there was a way to expand what we've got, ... That also comes into hiring more personnel to cover any new areas. It would all cost the county more money.

I would expect costs to rise as the year goes on. They shifted some savings into this quarter.

I wish I could have had it back. I made one mistake that cost us.

Basically, our internal forecasts were overly aggressive, ... When you fall short of your internal forecast, two things happen: costs go up as a percentage of sales and margins go down.

I have a nice life here. I can concentrate on my work. If I lived in LA or New York, I'd need a full-time job just to cover the cost of living. I don't need to do that here.

Tom Allen

I have a problem with the way we're getting to the finish line on privatization. . . . Sometimes, it costs us money. It costs us embarrassment, too.

Martin Freeman

I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I keep forgetting to think of 'Charles II' as a costume drama.

I felt as good as I have in a long time. When I was missing, I was missing down. The one pitch I left up was the triple. That nearly cost me the ballgame.

If a defensive tackle goes to the wrong gap, nobody knows because the linebacker made the play, so they don't know they screwed up. On offense, a guy can screw up and it can really cost you. On defense, a guy can screw up but people can rally around and cover for him. Everybody is going in the same direction, running to the football.

If a mistake was made, we want to tell people about it. The good news is that the program is going to cost less money to taxpayers than we thought, and we hope it signals that evacuees have found places to go.

I don't think we played real well as a defense. We missed a lot of tackles and played over-aggressive. We missed a couple of assignments here and there. We didn't do it consistently enough where it cost us, but we also didn't consistently stop them, either.

Carlos Lopez

I don't think we want to go forward any more. The costs are only going to get worse; they are only going to escalate,

Samuel Goldwyn

I don't want any "yes-men" around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.

Mark Brown

I estimate it costs me $15,000 a year for everything,

I don't think it's a fad. It's a matter of cost. You can do an entire season of 'The Bachelor' for the same cost as one episode of 'ER',

I don't think publishers should give things away for free, but I think cost simply has to be reduced. We will not do this unless the cost is 50 percent off or more from the hard copy.

I don't think passing on the suppression costs would be done just as a deterrent. The fact of the matter is many people have lost their property and homes and someone has to pay for that. Under the law, someone is liable for it.

For the retail investor, a stock that costs $1 seems easier than a big-cap stock that costs $30, $40 or $80, so people are pushing into small caps.

Given what illegal immigration costs each year, given that 30 percent of inmates in our federal prisons are illegal aliens and given the strain illegal immigration puts on our health care, it's a small price to pay.

God help me if this costs me my job.

Global manufacturing weakness has persisted longer than we anticipated, ... In particular, aerospace, industrial gas turbine and telecommunication markets remained soft, reinforcing the need to increase the scope of our cost savings and restructuring initiatives.

If it costs them more, it'll cost you more.

George H. W. Bush

If it costs me politically, it costs me politically,

If it cost my team a victory, then I'll be man enough to say it cost my team a victory. I'm not going to let anything rattle me. I don't think that penalty cost us the game by any means.

If it comes down to it, it's going to mean cutting down on your operating costs to pay for your fuel costs.

What would it cost to put that in the paper?

Chellie Pingree

Having started and owned two small businesses, I know what a challenge it is to keep up with the rising costs of your employees' healthcare premiums.

P. J. O'Rourke

Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.

Gold Fields had a stellar second-quarter earnings release Thursday, with a combination of a strong Rand gold price, slightly lower production costs and an increase in production to 1.04 million ounces (from 993,000).

Going by the cost of finding and developing oil today, there is no reason why the long-term price should be at $50-plus.

Scott Russell

He (Sean) made one mistake. He went to his back one time and that's what cost him the match.

He shared in the cost for the privilege of being the pilot, ... It worked out well for all of us -- we finished our project and he was part of a grand adventure.