Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Degen

Previously, someone like a plumber, who may have run his office from home and had a secretary there, could not take this deduction because he provided goods and services outside the home. Of course, the IRS realized the inequity there and changed the rules.

Liz Boyd

Our position hasn't changed and we would expect her to veto this legislation just as she did before. It's a divisive piece of legislation. The suburban communities and the city need to work together on these issues.

James Nykolay

Our relationship grew when we stopped hungering to be noticed and we started to meld into each other. We talked about how the weight was lifting and how our world changed overnight.

Craig Fugate

Our recommendations have not changed since I've been here we need to get people to evacuate from storm surge, ... If you're not in that evacuation zone, the safest place for you may be in your home.

Nancy Engel

Our ranking hasn't changed much over the years of doing this survey.

Aaron Parchem

Our mind-set and preparation have changed so much over the season. We are two totally different people than we were in October. Now we get to do some fun things like shows and seminars.

Alan McMillan

Oracle's changed the game in terms of its acquisitions. IBM's stated policy is that it will not compete with applications vendors, but I'm curious if that will change going forward.

Kathy Reichs

People love the cliffhanger endings to chapters. I get a lot of comments that I've changed people's lives, how they've never read and now they have, how they were depressed and now they have a passion.

Kathy Reichs

People love the cliffhanger endings to chapters, ... I get a lot of comments that I've changed people's lives, how they've never read and now they have, how they were depressed and now they have a passion.

Richard Boucher

Reconstruction work is not possible while the fighting is going on or while the insurgents have been in charge of the town. But once it's back in government hands, we'll be able to get on with these projects very quickly.

Denise Bottcher

Reinforces the notion that she's not in charge and LA (Louisiana) needs to be federalized.

Joseph Annotti

Regulatory modernization would keep states in charge of regulating insurance, but create a set of federal standards that would eliminate price controls and controls over policy forms.

David House

Our partnership with Costco is a giant step forward in our strategy to increase retail coverage and charge volume and to expand the number of customers we serve.

Bonnie Musfelt

People just don't realize, yeah, we get charged for this stuff.

Karl Rove

People have raised an issue about security. That is entirely appropriate. But upon examination, it's not the company that's in charge of security, it's the United States' government that's in charge of security.

Owen Davis

Staples no longer charges these shipping damage fees and hasn't done so since May 2002. The issue is solely about whether Staples must be registered to sell the shipping damage coverage as regulated by the state insurance code.

Avery Johnson

Some of our players have made fun of our charge drill. But when you see them taking more charges in the game, it doesn't seem so silly.

R. Robinson

Robinson later retracted his insane cannibalism charge ? but said that he stands ''behind everything else I wrote without reservation.

Alan Foreman

Parliament would be doing a Pontius Pilate to wash their hands of the issue this week.

Kyle Deines

Stay back, stay tall, throw your hands at it and try to take it to right field.

Michael Brown

Some of these kids think this is a game. They somehow got their hands on a weapon. They think they are playing Pac-Man or something and shooting at people.

Sergio Ramos

Our season is on the line. It's in our hands and we'll only win if we leave it all on the field. We all know that a loss would be a disaster.

Swami Ramdas

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Jonathan Bass

Pilate's Bowl. He said they had washed their hands of responsibility for racial justice in Birmingham.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.

Becca Fitzpatrick

First,” he said, coming behind me and placing his hands on the counter, just outside of mine, “choose your tomato.” He dipped his head so his mouth was at my ear. His breath was warm, tickling my skin. “Good. Now pick up the knife.” “Does the chef always stand this close?” I asked, not sure if I liked or feared the flutter his closeness caused inside me. “When he’s revealing culinary secrets, yes.

Kelly Kennedy

Our arson investigators have worked in all kinds of weather.

Ichiro Suzuki

Physically I'm fine. All I have to do is get my timing back, those kinds of things. Physically it's no problem at all.

Jeromy Burnitz

Man, it's been like that since day one. There's all kinds of strange stuff going on.

Ozzie Guillen

That's the way people should be playing baseball, play hard. I like those kinds of games.

Debra Lee

I was working on all kinds of projects. Every six months we were starting something new.

B. R. Hayden

It demonstrates that these kinds of things can, and do, work.

Tim Sanders

I think it would be a neat idea, though. We need to redirect people to the lakeshore for all kinds of recreational opportunities.

Tim Sanders

I think it would be a neat idea, though, ... We need to redirect people to the lakeshore for all kinds of recreational opportunities.

Pat Massey

I think they're different kinds of runners. I look at Smith as a little quicker, shiftier runner. Young is taller (6-5, 233 pounds) and has that long stride.

Patsy Crisel

(Relay) is important because the money raised stays here.

Tom Lewis

Our political system has become more about money than it has about people,

Phil Hardberger

or at least give us the money to do it.

Jay Johnson

People laugh, but we have to move money around occasionally.

Deborah Voso

People often underestimate how much money it takes to live in retirement.

Nancy Bain

Surveyors could make some money on this one.

Peter Schiff

Some of the smaller stocks have been moving, but the big stocks are going to take real money to move.

Francis Maude

Some of that money may well have been from overseas sources.

John Nicholson

Our staff needs raises; we need roads, parks, all the things that this money can provide,

Laura Bush

I think it's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous comment, that's what I think.

Napoleon Bonaparte

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

Lord Shaftesbury

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

Barbara Kingsolver

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

Edward Abbey

Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

Donald Judd

If a chair or a building is not functional … it is ridiculous.

Daniel Craig

I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!

Dylan Moran

I've lived in the UK for longer than I lived in Ireland. I'm not worried about myself, but it's ridiculous for youngsters.

Anais Nin

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

Haim Saban

Me? I don't know what you're talking about.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he’ll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I can't imagine why you're so interested." He shook his head. "Interested? We're talking about you. I'm fascinated.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're going to have to drive off the road and park behind thoses bushes," I instructed Vee. Vee leaned forward, peering into the darkness. "Is that a ditch between me and the bushes ?" "It's not very deep. Trust me, we'll clear it." "Looks deep to me. This is a Neon we're talking about, not a Hummer.

Bill Engvall

Because we've become so ecologically minded now, they have developed a product called Rapidly Dissolving Toilet Paper. Just how rapidly are we talking? 'Cause I don't want to have to play Beat the Clock in the thicket.

C. S. Lewis

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

C. S. Lewis

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Carrie Fisher

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

Bill Bryson

Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.