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.

George Vasic

The potential for additional gains for stocks is limited given that we've had such a good run-up. We've been telling people to pare back a bit and reduce equity holdings.

Tim Hardaway

The post-game concert series is a tremendous additional entertainment feature for Florida Pit Bulls games,

Anita Steeves

We appreciate that the DPUC had responded to some of the concerns we had expressed about the draft decision. This additional revenue will defray some but not all of our increasing operational costs.

Dean Breest

We appreciate Judge Gropper giving the parties additional time to work out their differences.

Tony Tyler

We are prepared to charter additional aircraft and rebook passengers on other airlines. For the moment we will continue to operate normally and take bookings on future flights,

Michael Brown

We've already started calling in additional troops that we have available to us like the Coast Guard Auxiliary, ... We have plenty of resources, plenty of people.

Randy Falco

We've already amassed the ratings equivalent of a Super Bowl and we still have two weeks to go. Sunday night has become the toughest night on TV, and it speaks to the power of the Olympics that they bring so many additional viewers to the television, who otherwise wouldn't be watching.

Andy Miller

We are pleased to award additional grants in support of project planning and evaluation, expanding our support of community-centered, cancer survivorship initiatives.

Ian Telfer

We believe that the increased purchase price is justified as a result of recent increases in gold prices, the exploration success at Red Lake ... and additional synergies and tax efficiencies that we expect to arise from a friendly transaction.

Karen Hughes

Unlike Vice President Gore, Gov. Bush says what he means and means what he says. He has said all along, for more than a month now, he wants three debates: Today our campaign has agreed with the Gore campaign to have three debates.

Pat Thompson

We've already agreed (with the county) that we'll end it (our contract) at the end of this year. We both agreed on it. They're not paying me to move out, and I'm not going to stay and take care of my contract. We both agreed that this is the best thing for both parties.

Robert Kritzman

We've all agreed to certain priorities and I think that's really the important aspect, and the state's been very cooperative.

Pam Bondi

We've all agreed that if we can find a residential facility that we approve of, as well as the court, he can be released at some point to that facility to attempt to get some help.

John Brady

We've agreed to the game, and we've sent the contract. We look forward to continuing our series.

Jack Straw

We've agreed to set up a monitoring mission that is going to be launched on Thursday,

Mohammed Sharaf

We've agreed to a review to see what the security issues are and what the requirements will be.

Steve Bruce

We've agreed the fee and we'll take things from there.

Chris Hamilton

We've agreed that Craig will keep up his fitness, and after that work is finished we'll speak with him again.

Larry Brown

We started out good. We all talked about respecting them with Allen out. We had a seven-point lead and then we just completely wilted. We had a lot of guys that didn't bring it to tonight and they had a lot of people that brought it.

Mark Mears

We started off a little slow, but I thought the guys wrestled well. Outside of Allen (Park, at 119), everyone's still in it. We've got nine guys still wrestling, and five in the semis.

Nayvadius Cash

G-Rock from the Westside, from Allen Temple. He gave my name, The Future; he was like, 'Man, you the future.' Just stuck with the name.

Maurice Cheeks

We have to get other guys involved. We're not just trying to win games with Allen and Chris doing all the scoring.

Kyle Korver

We?re just playing together, we?re playing with a greater sense of urgency, and Allen is leading us. I really feel like he?s the key. He?s the leader and he?s been playing great. He?s been a lot more vocal. He has a different look in his eye. And when he has that look, he?s pretty tough to stop.

Jack Bicknell

We're basically back to where we were last year. Matt Kubik will start based on the fact he played the most last year. Donald Allen will play early on and we'll leave it at that and see where we go from there.

Corey Stoll

Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.

Mimi Melgaard

Mackenzie Allen comes in and tries to follow her heart in the job. She doesn't have to give up her femininity for power.

Seth Shostak

We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove that we're not.

Richard Riordan

Where I've been -- I think, a good leader -- is by saying I've got a great chief of police, I'm going to back this chief, I'm not going get out there in public and emasculate him,

Marguerite Gardiner

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Andrew Forman

Working in the White House is a tremendous privilege. But it is even a greater honor to serve as the president's chief of staff, especially to you, Mr. President.

Kariya Munda

Definitely, a non-tribal can become chief minister in Jharkhand.

Evan Bayh

Like all Americans regardless of party, I hope and pray that he will be a great chief justice. Time will tell,

Ted Cruz

We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.

Red Cloud

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

Zhang Qiyue

Since the two chief weapons inspectors say they need more time for the weapons inspections, I think that's reasonable,

Reuben Mark

Since he will soon be chief executive, he should take all of the vacations he can prior to that because there will be precious little time then.

Scott Moore

We're in a David and Goliath type struggle, and we're David, ... And David won, as we all know.

Hermann Eilts

David Bruce, I think, is one of the outstanding persons for whom I've ever worked. He had a sense of balance. He was interested in everything that went on in the Embassy. He delegated authority, but at the same time when you needed the Ambassador's help on anything, you could go to him, and he would immediately respond.

Michael Korda

I never met Peter O'Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His incandescent performance in David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' is one that nobody who saw it will ever forget.

John Lone

When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.

Elton John

Throughout history, gay people such as myself and David have often been made scapegoats by those who fear that we are a threat to the status quo.

Rob Sheffield

It's easy to see why 'American Horror' is freaking people out. The ultraviolent hallucinations never pause long enough to make sense. In terms of coherence, it makes your average David Lynch movie look like 'Burn Notice.'

Ethan Suplee

David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now.

Scott Aukerman

I grew up loving David Letterman and Pee-wee Herman, but as far as live performance comedy, all I knew were the Jerry Seinfeld-type comedians of the world, and that's what I thought live performance comedy was all about.

M. Wolfe

We needed a big play. I threw it up, David go under it touchdown!

Gerhard Schroeder

Whether it will be a success, I do not know. But I want to help ensure it works,

Tom Vilsack

When we find new markets for our harvest, we ensure the security of our state's economy,

James Larkin

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

Li Keqiang

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve.

Travis Bradberry

Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long.

Fidel Castro

The pope is our guest. ... We will do everything to the hilt to ensure that the visit will be historic,

John Updike

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.

Edward Johnson, III

Fidelity does have a succession plan in place to ensure a smooth transition.

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

It is not enough to receive support, no matter, how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential.

Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Alan Clark

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Mike Harris

We want them to understand we're here to help and do everything we can,

Javier Solana

We want to see how we can help organize the transfer.

Chogyam Trungpa

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

David Shuster

Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.

David Schwimmer

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

David Koechner

All of those measures of relationships that you have in your life help feed your and inform your ability to act.

Dave Barry

Seriously? You won’t help me?” “Help yourself get killed? No, I won’t.

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.

Hector Tobar

You cannot bribe a Chilean police officer - I know this firsthand.

Lawrence Eagleburger

In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.

Bill Dunn

She was D.O.A. when officers got to the scene.

Ken Cooper

The police officer starts to look more and more like a monster.

Mike Sheffield

Mr. Torres tried to kill Officer Brenda Bermudez.

Katia Winter

I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator.

Linwood Norman

But we are, too. We're putting 50 more police officers on the streets.

Ron Moran

But the reality is that we don't live in Mr. Rogers' neighborhood anymore. The reality is that our officers should be armed.

Jay Wright

Getting on the bus, police officers know everybody. People walking down the street know all the players' names. It is fun, but it is a challenge.

Charles Caleb Colton

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Dickens

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

Charles Studd

Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will; Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last.

Charles Studd

Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Charles Stross

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

Charles Spurgeon

It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

Alanis Morissette

Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

Alan Watts

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

Barney Bishop

We are pleased with the turnout. We have some legislators, but we'd like to have some more.

Stuart Rose

We are pleased with the progress we are making but there remains much to do.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case.

Don Horner

We are pleased with the bank's first-quarter performance.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organization.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organisation.

Liz Boyd

We are pleased to see (Lansing) step up.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to report another strong quarter for SAP,

Kerry Stokes

We are pleased to be back in football.

Ray Ozzie

a seamless weaving of hardware, software and devices.

Neil Holloway

Integrating search into those other applications ... makes it very seamless for people.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Alan Moore

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

Alan Greenspan

The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

Alan Greenspan

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

Alan Bennett

The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Alan Alda

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings

Charles Spurgeon

Thankfulness makes much of little.

Alan Bishop

Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

Jim Johnstone

We want to thank everyone for all their help.

David Mitchell

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

Bruce Vento

We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.

Camille Claudel

I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.

C. S. Forester

I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Bryan Robson

When you beat Arsenal, they are a good three points.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

Steve Alford

We've already got three up on the board.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Charles L. Allen

Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it?

Jim Gresh

She's just a tremendous athlete. She can do it all. She's very versatile, and she can really play any position.

Chris Jordan

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.

Michael Foley

There is a tremendous untapped marketplace here in Mexico.

Jane Gardam

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.

Robert Matthews

I had many, many wonderful conversations with her about everything under the sun. She was one tremendous person.

Russ Boyer

He's a tremendous defender. He does a lot for us back there.

Lloyd Carr

He has a tremendous attitude. He's very optimistic. He's very positive.

Joel Quenneville

He's had a tremendous year, I'll tell you,

Steve Coppell

We had a tremendous year. It's been dreamlike in many ways.

Charles Spurgeon

The wishing gate opens into nothing.

Al Stewart

The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.

Al Pacino

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

David Guetta

Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again

Caitlin Moran

I wish I could learn that just three drinks is enough, but I have not learned that.

Bryan Davis

Daryl shrugged. "If wishes were wardrobes, we'd be in Narnia.

Catherynne M. Valente

I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.

William Shakespeare

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

William Shakespeare

If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.