Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

Alan Greenspan

American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

Alan Greenspan

We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

Jamie Shea

We want them to have the benefit of summer months to help to rebuild their homes and lives. But obviously, we want them not to go back until there is a secure presence, to ensure that the refugee return can be done in an organized way.

James Hood

We want to stay in the port; we feel we have been a good tenant. We provide an economic benefit, a net positive revenue flow, which goes to the general revenue of the state.

Andrew Golden

We want to spend as much of the endowment as possible, subject to two constraints ? preserving purchasing power into perpetuity and assuring that the spending stream is relatively stable. Your great-grandchildren need to get the same economic benefit that you're getting now.

Pat Keliher

We want to see the biggest public benefit come out of this, but we have to take it at step at a time.

Louis Navellier

I want attractive stocks that will benefit from persistent institutional buying pressure.

Kevin Logan

The only reason we wouldn't be able to make it (to the benefit concert) is if Pete got listed and we needed to leave. As soon as they list him then we need to get him down immediately.

Monica Lewinsky

I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty.

Scott Long

Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward.

John Bolton

We are preparing a resolution for the full council to adopt. It would impose the sanctions. It's a down payment, and certainly not the end of the sanctions process.

Michael Dell

There are certainly very high-growth markets outside the U.S.. China is the fourth-largest market in the world for Dell to sell its products and we're growing fast there.

Alan Davis

There are certainly some solid growth prospects for Microsoft but it's not going to be the glory days again.

David Hallberg

There are certainly some artists in New York that I would love to work with. One is Sarah Michelson.

Nadine Smith

There are certainly issues that keep people from pursuing hate-crime charges. It's a system that's fraught with challenges because of the under-reporting.

Charles Clark

There are certainly hundreds of individuals who we have been watching very closely and continue to watch extremely closely ... because of the threat they offer,

R. Robinson

There are certainly human rights concerns. Very serious human rights concerns that I would like to have fully clarified,

Alan Greenspan

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Alan Autry

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Adnan Badran

We want to strengthen the commercial, economic relationship,

David Suzuki

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

Stephen Leeb

We are probably on the verge of an economic recovery.

Zeng Peiyan

We are at the stage of economic development where we do not have the luxury to be wasteful,

Mary Farrell

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

David Briggs

We're in a narrow range, moving around about 1 percent over the last three days, and it looks like the markets are waiting for some economic figures or waiting on oil because there's really no reason to push anything now.

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Alan Watts

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Alan Parker

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Patricof

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

Alan Rickman

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Nancy Talanian

We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

Mary Mark

Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

Reuben Jr

We want to keep this project local. There are people locally who will invest.

Ricardo Garcia

We want to keep that money here, and we want to use local people.

Keith Cooper

We want to keep it local and we want to keep it Canadian.

Ewan McGregor

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Harold Jones

What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.

Jason Stanford

We're going to have to use the word million in the plural, but with that being said, we're not going to have to outspend Rick Perry to win this thing.

Katy Perry

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

Michael Schwartz

Three years into American involvement in Vietnam they were up to 500,000 troops in-country and there probably were already a million who had returned home.

Frank Moss

Three years ago we received 7 million applications. This year, we project 13 million applications. Next year, 15 million.

James Frecheville

Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

F. Stone

Let's just say it would be in the millions of dollars,

Ted Cruz

And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Joseph Kabila

Whatever happens, if there are summits we will be there, provided it takes place after the funeral,

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Al Jourgensen

I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

Tom Kenny

There has been a lot of testing done on the racking strength provided by different types of spray foams, ... And the strength provided by closed-cell foams can be substantial.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

McGregor Scott

Trends in communications and convergence provided a one-two punch.

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Deborah Harkness

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

David Morris

Flintshire provides one quarter of Chester hospitals' work - look at an atlas.

Scott McClellan

Dick Clarke, in his own words, provides a point-by-point rebuttal of what he now asserts. This shatters the cornerstone of Mr. Clarke's assertions." ()

James Goss

They had talked about that possibility. Between publishing and broadcasting and interactive, that provides them with enough to do.

Daniel Edwards

Spears provides inspiration for those struggling with the right choice.

David Linthicum

What this provides us is a quick turnaround. We get there, we get to go do the tips on the show, and we come back tomorrow.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Dan Rooney

Revenue sharing is a tough thing but it's great.

Clint Stretch

But that's not where the revenue comes from,

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Martin Pyykkonen

It confirms what I've been thinking about revenue deceleration.

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Gene Upshaw

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

Robert Klein

I still think the Legislature has to do the right thing (about the disputed revenue sources).

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.