Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Mershon

The pleas entered today are admissions of guilt in one of the largest corporate accounting fraud schemes on record. This apparent but ephemeral performance by the company propped up its stock price, causing investors to suffer untold losses when the scheme collapsed.

Robert Peterson

We are pleased to report that all outstanding issues involving the SEC's financial review, as well as the accounting issues related to DFG, have now been resolved, ... Today's earnings release brings this matter to a close and we now look forward to proceeding with the Tyson transaction.

Steven Milunovich

We believe that the accounting seems to proper and the company reports that it has been reviewed and approved by its auditors.

Mitch Daniels

We stand to gain up to several thousand more jobs at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service center, ... and the commission listened to our recommendations for Crane and saved half of the jobs that were recommended for transfer elsewhere.

Bill Brunson

Whether you are starting a career or you are a seasoned tax professional, the reasons to bring your career to the IRS keep adding up. If you want to be an expert in accounting and tax law, then the Internal Revenue Service is the place for you.

Steve McCraw

We've asked for all Texas officials to keep an accurate accounting of costs that are directly related to the relief effort so that we can ensure these are reimbursed." ()

John Roberts

We can contend that we have already done what the statute envisions, ... The president has demanded an accounting from the Soviets, and has done so repeatedly.

Howard Silverblatt

We believe this project will have a significant impact on evaluations, income and balance sheets, and will become the major issue in financial accounting over the next five years.

John Tyson

Unfortunately, it will be impossible to complete the cash tender offer by the 28th. IBP continues to work with the SEC to resolve their accounting issues. After that work is complete, we will determine what effect these matters will have on our deal.

Tom Hansen

We want them to test the waters. We want to see if other areas are attractive to us.

S. Hughes

We want the kids to learn about working on yachts, crewing them, marine electronics, boat building and design, interior design and engine repair. Since we have many brokers in the area, we will even have people teach them how to sell yachts. There are so many areas they can pursue.

Jim Richards

We know what areas we need to improve on defensively and what areas we need to improve on offensively,

Donald Rumsfeld

vehicles operating without appropriate armor in areas outside of protected compounds.

Dick Thompson

The outbreaks in those areas are being contained, ... There's still disease, but the disease is largely contained in hospitals.

Marco Rubio

The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities.

Larry Burns

The postal service operates everywhere in the U.S., giving us maximum flexibility to expand the relationship in areas or regions where a hydrogen infrastructure gets kicked off.

Mark Dantonio

We are pretty banged up in some areas on our team, but our attitude was outstanding this spring, and we look forward to the 2006 season.

Jim Murphy

'West To A Land Of Plenty' shows a family heading west, first on board a train, and then going into areas as yet untamed by rail by way of an ox-drawn wagon.

Clifford Jordan

We want to serve our state and our country, that's basically it.

Robert Glauber

We know from research we've conducted that a high percentage of service men and women lack basic financial knowledge.

Nancy Giles

Waiting. Waiting. What would you do if your family was starving and you saw people dying in the streets? 'Love thy neighbor.' Didn't I read that somewhere? The real war is not in Iraq, but right here in America. It's the War on Poverty, and it's a war that's been ignored and lost. An estimated 37 million Americans are living in poverty. New Orleans is one of the poorest cities in the country, with 40 percent of its children living in poverty. Mississippi has the highest poverty rate of any state. We've repeatedly given tax cuts to the wealthiest and left our most vulnerable American citizens to basically fend for themselves.

Mark Ferguson

Vernal pools can be found in a number of places. From high-elevation saddles between mountaintops down to flood plains in the Champlain Valley. Basically any place that will hold water for three or four months at a time is a potential breeding site.

Jose Ferreira

Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can be turned around by fixing a few basic things.

Robby Reasonover

Vaughn does a good job driving and trying to draw a foul. We tried to press some, but we mostly stayed with our basic man defense.

Lukas Haas

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

Louis Navellier

I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.

Louis Sachar

'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.

Kofi Annan

We know from experience that if the international community does not support these control measures now, the potential cost to the world will be much higher in the long term. Past outbreaks have already cost more than $10 billion in economic losses.

Jiang Zemin

The people will always remember him, ... We have 1.2 billion people, but the life of every Chinese person is precious.

Sean Wargo

We are projecting an increase in sales of MP3 players to $4.5 billion in 2006, with 30 percent of all MP3 players sold having video playback capability.

Saparmurat Niyazov

We are prepared to supply 30-40 billion cu m of gas to China.

Shripad Tuljapurkar

We studied different countries around the world that are representative of different situations and took a look at where they'd end up. One thing that happens right away, which nobody seems to have thought of, is that the total global population increases dramatically. From an original projection of 8 billion we end up topping out at 10 to 11 billion. In many countries, this would have an enormous, and not necessarily positive, impact. For example, the idea that China would go from 1.5 to 1.8 billion, just because of this, is a bit frightening.

Bob Gammage

There are businesses in our state that make billions and pay no taxes at all.

Peter Feinstein

We're interested in watching the next phase of high-rise condos going up, and we're interested in seeing how the Stardust comes together with their new $4 billion product. We have cash flow we can sit on while we're watching the market.

Jeff Kinney

We're incredibly excited to welcome the 500 millionth Poptropican into our virtual world. When we started in 2007, we never could have imagined that we'd see a day when half a billion avatars inhabited Poptropica.

Sy Montgomery

We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus.

Charles Dickens

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Charles Dickens

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Charles Dickens

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Charles Dickens

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

Charles Caleb Colton

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

Alan Rickman

I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.

Chloe Grace Moretz

If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.

David Duncan

search personal files and search extraneous items that wouldn't be part of final work papers and get rid of them.

Shirley Williams

It is our goal to provide full public access to as many files as we possibly can.

Scott Culp

The only thing that a Web site can do with this is read selected files from a users machine if they know the name of the file.

Kori Bernards

People are illegally swapping files all around the country. With these lawsuits, we're saying we're going to hold them accountable.

John Stossel

Why try to squeeze a 19-inch screen on a 3-inch display? What do you want? Files and e-mails. Let's get them and be done with it.

Hugo Young

If these files are as full as people say, they are going to get more names and so it's become a large public issue.

Don Bishop

We really read these (application) files carefully. I think there is more leadership in this class, and we're proud of that.

David Nash

We have tons of files on this one.

Brad Rubin

If it's a long, blown-out strike, GM files within four to five months because they've run out of cash.

Katsuhiko Machida

We want to start outsourcing within this fiscal year.

Taro Saito

The profit forecasts are rather strong, because I had thought that they might present nearly flat growth in profit in the new fiscal year.

John Robertson

We've seen a lot of override attempts, pretty much all over the place in the past three years. And the fiscal pressure is not going to go away.

Tom Hunter

We in Scotland need fiscal responsibility. Quite simply, we need to be responsible for what we raise in tax and what we spend in tax.

Matt Sundeen

Many are reacting negatively to it. Real ID ... will have significant fiscal implications for the states.

Glenn Hubbard

Gradual fiscal consolidation may also be stimulative in the short run.

Tom Greene

We've been increasingly fiscally conservative, knowing this could happen.

Jerry Taylor

I feel like that is up to the fiscal court,

Steve Brice

From a local perspective they're saving a lot of money at the moment and their fiscal surplus was 15 percent last year and is going to be 14 percent this year.

John Byrne

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

Howard Thompson

The proceeds are used for the operation of the Bedouin Shrine Temple and to support our transportation department,

Paul Costa

There is a possibility that we will have to stop operations by the end of the year.

Shamil Basayev

live participant of that operation who is ready to testify.

Mark Cooper

Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.

Cilla Black

I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.

Max Mathurin

Voting operations (in the countryside) are normal, with some exceptions.

William Bratton

We have a very robust counter-terrorism operation here in LA, similar to New York and Washington because we are always a prime target,

Kofi Annan

when it comes to operations on that continent, we tend to do it on the cheap.

Pat Coyle

We're always physical, we'll always play like that. We're going to play a lot quicker than we have played. We're going to press a lot more. We have the personnel that can play the way we want to.

Mike King

I can't get into specifics regarding personnel issues.

Jim Tracy

I think the personnel is here to get that done.

Gerald Myers

It is pretty unique. They probably have all the Texas Tech tapes, and know what the different personnel does.

Paul Davies

I don't think you can shut down all three of us. If it happens, somebody (else) has got to step up. We do have the personnel to step up and score for us.

Markku Niskala

If we don't get money, we must withdraw personnel and slow down the reconstruction of houses.

Chauncey Billups

We wanted nothing but a win, not showboating or any of that. That's just how we play. ... We don't have the personnel to play that other way.

Chip Hester

They're starting from scratch on defense, so we don't have any film of their personnel playing that defense. We do have an idea what they'll do, but we know we'll have to make some mid-game adjustments.

Breaux Greer

Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.

Dieter Zetsche

I feel it is correct to publish the salaries.

Richard Bayer

Whoever mentions salary first is in the weaker position.

Donna Morelle

This is about positional adjustments so the salary scale is competitive.

Joe DiMaggio

If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I'd have to say, 'George, you and I are about to become partners.'

P. T. Barnum

A salary was not sufficient for me.

Gene Tierney

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

Jerry Buss

Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention.

Howard Stern

I don't talk about my salary.