Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Davis

I think they'll be concerned, but ultimately supportive, ... Look, an accountant might have looked at actuarial tables and said it wasn't cost-efficient to have levees to protect against a Category 5 storm because the odds of that hitting the area were slim, and the odds of it overtopping levees even if it hit were slim as well.

Jason Williams

I think that the opportunity to be a kid another year and not have to not worry about the responsibilities of paying bills, and worry about getting an agent and worry about getting an accountant was important.

Sandy Prince

I was an accountant and tax-preparer for over 20 years. I enjoy the creativity and making people smile.

Loretta Lynch

In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. In so doing, he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken.

Maeve Binchy

My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people.

Robert Lefkowitz

I was born in 1943 and raised in the Bronx, in a high rise apartment complex known as Parkchester, the only child of Max, an accountant who worked in the garment district in Manhattan, and Rose, an elementary school teacher.

Barry Ritholtz

Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.

George Morgan

Mike and I have become very good friends. He's a good guy, detail oriented, and you need that. He has an accountant background and is willing to put in whatever it takes to do something. Yeah, I'm going to miss him.

Zarin Mehta

I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.

Scott Patterson

Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this.

John Hawkes

Some friends of mine bothered me for a long time about getting on the social networking pages. They were close friends that I liked to mess with, and I think that I kind of enjoyed for a while that it bothered them so much. Now they've just kind of given up.

Jeff Capel

Our full-court pressure bothered them. We didn't get many turnovers (W&M had 10 for the game), but we contested most of their shots. We went away from the pressure at the start of the second half and then had to go back to it.

Jim Calhoun

Out of 63 kids who had a fourth degree felony, three were thrown out of school, so the percentages were all in his favor. And he was thrown out for a semester for basketball. With that said, I didn't think he had a good game. I do think that things bother him.

Carmen Dolfo

We never really got in a flow offensively. They play such an erratic, in-your-face style of defense. And I thought that we could handle that, but I think we let it bother us just a little too much.

Jeff Gordon

I was just telling Steve that I think we're going in the right direction here. I just reminded him not to let any of the outside stuff bother him.

Cristobal Huet

I think they're trying to bother me and that must mean we scare them in some way. I think they're trying little things like that to get us out of our game. When they try to push things to the limit, I think we have to take that as a compliment.

Steve Urquhart

I think the threat of potential copyright suits by Hollywood and the recording industry makes it difficult for new businesses to compete. Small businesses simply won't bother to enter the fray or will fold at the first threat of a suit even when what they are doing is legal.

Chris Gardocki

Jeff didn't let that bother him, ... He just went back and made the next one.

Matt Maldre

It is better to dork, than to not dork

Kirsten Dunst

She is honest and upfront to a fault. She doesn't have a lot of fear. She's dorky and doesn't care, and in that way she's cool.

Pink

Every album, I'm worried that I'm a dork and a fraud - 'What if I can't sing anymore?' Then I stop thinking and start playing guitar, and I realize that it's okay to suck, and move forward.

Kourtney Kardashian

I think with boys... it's all about shoes. I've seen so many little boys, and their outfits are so cute, and then their moms put kind of dorky shoes on them.

Jessica Simpson

I was a big dork and I cried,

Nate Silver

I've just always been a bit of a dork.

Kari Williams

Starting out, they had puffy eyes. I didn't know if they could see the basket.

Dan Gorbett

Over 25 years I've never gotten over seeing the tears and heartbreak in kids' eyes when you lose. Unless you win a state championship, you will have kids that have been crushed. You never get over it.

John Donne

Pictures in our eyes to get / Was all our propagation.

Christina Rossetti

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away.

Jillian Robbins

I was just watching their eyes, and they were looking at who they were about to pass to. So I said, 'I've got to get this. I've got to leave it all on the floor.' My teammates had my back, so I went for it, and it worked out.

Kirk Hoza

I think the time away let him see the big picture. The technical part which way do the hips face, where do your eyes go that's where there is a little rust. But the spring is where you can shake the rust off.

Joe DiMaggio

It is an interesting coincidence. I guess I am following in his footsteps, ... 'Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you?' I'll tell people my name and they don't get it.

Matt Stout

Jay and Joe are my eyes out on the course. They help me see everything.

Chris Duffy

That's what he should do -- open some eyes and show that he can play. We're real good friends and competitive, too, at the same time.

Kate Bush

I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?

John Tesh

I was a geek in high school. I was about the same height I am now, a 6-foot-6 15-year-old with braces, smelling of Clearasil. The only way out was to get into a rock band. ... By the end, I was a rock and roll keyboardist who smelled of Clearasil.

Jon Cryer

I would always have been the geek who's your friend. I will never be the dark guy with a sensitive side, as much as I yearn to be.

Robert Stephens

The only people who have time to learn all this stuff are geeks who stay home on Saturday night.

Robert Kazinsky

I'm a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play 'World of Warcraft,' I'm a massive gamer, I have 'Star Trek' outfits.

William Zabka

I didn't set out to be a villain in film. I'm a character actor, and if my first movie was a comedy, I could have played a geek just as well.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies.

Corey Taylor

I am the kind of guy who has never taken myself too seriously. I mean, I am very serious about what I do; I'm very serious about the creative process and everything, but at the end of the day, I am just another lucky geek who got to live out a dream, you know?

Chris Evans

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.'

Susan Minot

The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.

Ron Beers

There were a lot of hassles getting this done in a week, but our theme this year is 'Whatever It Takes.

Dave Carini

All new technologies go through the same hassles before they are mature and stable.

David Perkins

Parramatta are only looking at under-15s, unless there is someone exceptional,

Atul Lele

Patrick shares are going to be up near A$8 because that is what the market was looking for before it was blocked. When it got shot down by the regulator everyone was disappointed, but upwards of A$8 is what is needed.

Patti Lovemark

Part of the problem with that is if you're looking at very young students, you're not going to see that big gap.

Darin Erstad

Sure, we know we can get it done, but we feel that way anyway. We have to keep looking forward.

Jack Warner

Our training as a team is on pace. We are looking better than we did a year ago.

Robert Cox

Red-light violations in the first year are typically decreased by 50 percent. That is the primary reason for us looking into something like this.

David Bennett

I was just looking to see if they were going for two.

Roy Williams

I was just, ... looking into his eyes.

E. Hicks

I was just looking for a pitch to hit.

Jim Haslett

Part of me says maybe it's time for a change.

Guy Kawasaki

Statistically it's probably one out of a hundred, so that means there's ten out there. Maybe twenty.

Reggie Bush

Overall, I think I proved I should be the No. 1 pick. I thought I maybe could have pushed a 4.29 out of there, but overall I'm pretty happy.

Matthew Gervais

(Research) is so meaningful and rewarding at this point I'm willing to withhold assumptions on where I'll end up. Maybe I'll find God. Maybe I'll find out science isn't for me. Maybe I'll go sit on a mountain and meditate. The ride will be worth it.

Marilyn Oliveira

Planning the nursery comes soon enough, maybe at the same time. Don't do both.

Nancy Wilson

Maybe our team was a little star struck. But the turnovers had more to do with the size differential and the quickness differential.

Charlie Whitehurst

Maybe on third down, that's where we need to be looking. He always delivers.

Frank Beamer

Maybe one practice day wasn't quite what we wanted,

Sheryl Garrett

Maybe it's a reaction to going overboard in the 1980s and 1990s, but I sense a lot of people are moving away from materialistic things (and) toward more thoughtful and meaningful holidays.

Nina Daniels

People just have to have an open mind and a better understanding of the sport. People don't really understand it, and how it works.

Gitte Lindgaard

People make up their mind very, very quickly about how much they like what they see.

Jon Gruden

Some of those runs you will never forget. And you may never see them again. Those are the one where you say 'Oh, my God! Oh, my God!' They are runs etched in your mind forever.

Chris Martin

Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing... and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.

Allan Ray

That comes with experience. We've been through this. We know we can come back if we put our mind to it.

B. R. Ambedkar

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence

B. R. Ambedkar

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

B. F. Skinner

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

John Kelley

People normally wouldn't do this but they have to come in.

Bob Dickinson

We normally sell those rooms for a lot of money. It was frustrating that no one wanted to come.

Andy Reid

We normally do that if a player is playing his old team.

James Thomas

We normally don't have to go to trial on them.

Carrie Underwood

I consider myself not a celebrity. I'm a normal person that likes [doing] things on stage.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to find normal celebrities.

Ashley Tisdale

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

Howard Wu

I think they're resigned to it, because that's the normal course.

David Wluka

The accelerated sales pace of recent years has all but ended, and we're returning to a more normal market.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.

Bill Shankly

I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.

Carl Rogers

One of the most satisfying experiences I know is fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset. When I look at a sunset... I don't find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a little more on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a little more pink in the cloud color...' I don't try to control a sunset. I watch it with awe as it unfolds.

Carl Rogers

People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.

Carl Sagan

If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?