Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meta Minton

We know how our school districts struggle with finances. Obviously if there is greater (financial) support (from the state), they're going to have a better performance as long as they try to work within a budget and framework.

S. Walker

We've actually started the budget hearings tonight, thanks to you folks,

Bob Woodruff

We started out with a package, ... Now we're down to 25 percent of our employees participating in that package. I just cannot get comfortable with 25 percent of the employees helping us with our budget problems. I like a package where everyone can contribute.

Alan Thompson

(We're) in such a tight budget - like we have had every year, ... (If) you can increase reserves at all, it's a feather in your cap.

Eric Hyman

We have to have a grasp of where we are from a budgetary standpoint. We have to have better accountability and we have to run it like a business.

Michael Shermer

In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.

Norman Wisdom

Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.

William Kovacic

We're going to put some controls in during the budget process.

Robert Morgan

When we examined budget issues last year, we realized if we kept going the way we were going, we would have to increase taxes 28 percent over four years and we had to look at ways to compromise.

Charles Dudley Warner

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

Charles de Lint

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

Charles Simmons

Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.

Charles Stanley

The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.

Alan Autry

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we make a choice today, we are deciding who we will be tomorrow.

Chris Christie

Remember, this is a binary choice. It's going to be the approach that Donald Trump takes or the approach that Hillary Clinton takes, not some other approach. And the Clinton approach is just a completely unacceptable one, it's an unlawful one.

Darren Shan

When he faced me again, he looked ashamed of himself. "I have gravely underestimated you, Darren," he said. "I will not do so again. I made a wiser choice than I realized when I chose you to serve as my assistant. I feel honoured to have you by my side.

David Rakoff

Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life. That's the hope, anyway.

Charles Walters

I had to work harder. I couldn't do the social thing, and play the game the others were playing. I had to work that much harder and handle the 'evils' by doing good work.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Alan Perlis

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Alain Prost

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Al Pacino

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

Akshay Kumar

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

Chris Cleave

It was hard not to be full of hope

Tyrell Thompson

We know Woodlands is going to be hungry. We have to come out and play harder or this will be it for us.

Scott Borg

We started seeing huge vulnerabilities. And portions of those systems were extraordinarily secure. But they were Maginot Lines.

Luis Rivera

We still need to win three games. I feel like if we win those three games, there's going to be a huge celebration.

Bill Halbrehder

When you take a player off the ice, even if it is your own team, that opens space and can be a huge advantage, especially when you have a player like Allie. She is just so dynamic... one of those worth-the-price-of-admission kind of players.

Bart Bryant

There is no question he played a huge role in getting me going as a pro,

Lisa Papademetriou

I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'

Paul Campbell

Whether or not a land is for sale weighs in hugely for criteria.

Pete Carroll

We're so young in so many areas. These next two weeks will be huge for our development.

Kent Beck

There's a huge latent market for software development that's just flat-out honest.

Harvey Jewett

With the limited monies we've got, we know it's going to show the need for a huge appropriation by the state.

Sung Sohn

Until and unless there are significant increases in jobs over a period, tighter monetary policy is out of the question.

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

Anthony Burke

We're seeing tremendous increases each year in the number of taxpayers e-filing their returns from home.

Robert Toll

Since Katrina, instead of going up $5,000 or $10,000 every week or two, we have been limited to no price increases or very limited price increases,

Nigel Evans

There are millions of people out there who don't get inflation-busting increases whatsoever.

Kim Beazley

It increases the pressure for Howard to appear.

Peter Johnson

Price increases there are at a more modest level which looks much more sustainable,

Hans Trousil

We not talking about any major increases here.

Alan Watts

You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into the middle of situations, then intelligence arises automatically.

Jeff Hickok

We knew they were ready to jump on us after that brawl with Santiago. We weren't wrestling as well as I thought we could, so I was concerned. They were ready to jump on us.

There are two types of paparazzi. The ones who hide who get you with your mouth hanging wide open or jumping up and down like an idiot on the street. I much prefer them to the ones who come out and follow you.

David Brooks

Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.

Catherine Bell

I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff

Will Blalock

We're not going to settle for jump shots because they say they are going to stop it. They still have to stop it. We're going to run our offense.

Bill Russell

A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy next to him. Sometimes he will have to, but most of the time he will not. Most of my rebounds came from positioning, where I was able to get the ball while in heavy traffic.

Demetri Martin

Jumping jacks are easier to do than crawling jacks.

John Orton

We set up a wiretapping operation in a flophouse where we listened to their conversations, which were in German, and then translated and recorded the conversations of the Nazi spies,

Tessa Thompson

I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year I listened to Joni Mitchell.

Dan Quayle

We've been in your home, we've been on your farm, we've been in your workplace. We have listened to you. We have talked with you,

Kim Gandy

We told him what he needed to hear. And I think our messages were received. The vice president shared some of his ideas, listened to ours and offered to have an ongoing dialogue.

Lee Dean

I sat and listened to the katydids, ... That's how quiet it was.

Don Harrison

I reviewed the budget, went to the workshops and listened to people, ... I have a problem with the budget.

Laura Mvula

My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.

Susan Shreve

My mother listened to everything I said, carefully - not that what I said was particularly interesting, but I was her daughter.

Sherwood Boehlert

Our voice is being listened to now more than it has in the past.

Lorraine Bracco

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

Michael Franti

I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less.

David Duchovny

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

Axl Rose

In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

The Talmud

There is no pity for a man who moans about living in one town and does not move to another.

Sathya Baba

There is no living being without the spark of love; even a mad man loves something or somebody.

Carol Lewis

Throughout history, when our national security has been threatened, we have responded by reducing liberties, ... we ask: We not only want to survive, but survive living under what conditions?

Caitlyn Jenner

I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

Star Wars

Rick: We're all going to look like ... in our living rooms.

Sam Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with respect to strategic reserves,

Samuel Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves,

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

Sharon Stone

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Tim Jones

When this occurs we have to start investigating and if necessary start a search.

Angus King

If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it.

Amanda Schull

If it isn't necessary I would rather not subject my skin to too much, so if I don't have anything special to do for the day, I try not to wear any make up.

Cindy Sheehan

I think this is so urgent and necessary that this is what I have to do.

Adrian Edwards

It is not the U.N.'s wish to have these barricades and things in place, however, as part of security provisions for doing our work here, they have been necessary in the past.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Moore

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Chris Christie

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

Charles Taylor

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.

Charles Dudley Warner

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.

Charles de Lint

It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself, to pen pals (I had a lot of them, all over the world). Of course this was in the days before computers were everywhere, and anyone could access the Web. You had to make an effort keeping up a correspondence, and the arrival of the mail once a day was a big deal. I think if modern technology had been around when I was a kid, I would never have left my bedroom except to take the dogs out for their run three times a day.

Charles de Lint

She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.

Charles Dickens

He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Charles Edward Merriam

[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of the function of the state. The theory that the state originates in an agreement between men was assailed by the German thinkers and the historical, organic, evolutionary idea substituted for it.

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Moore

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

Alan Moore

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Bennett

My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.

Larry McMurtry

She trusted us more than she should have. She trusted us not to make the story unless we could make it right.

Aesop

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

Jim Hines

If I would not have trusted him (Collins), he would not have been there.

Sidney Sheldon

He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.

Werner Herzog

Netflix trusted me in a way that was very, very pleasant.

Linda Wells

A hairdresser holds a trusted place in a woman's life

Brooke Niquette

We're so young, but we're willing to learn. We can do well.

Ed Stewart

Unfortunately, no one other than Southwest has been willing to come to the table.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

David Jones

He's disappointed, but he understands that's what you have to do. He's willing to go in and work a little harder.

Ben Jonson

I have a humour, / I would not willingly be gulled.

Loui Antonucci

I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight.

Bryan Winkler

I don't have a lot of hair, but I'm willing to do that.

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

You shall more command with years than with your weapons.

I am declined Into the vale of years.

I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That'll always outweigh the good times.

If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is.

I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now.

He had supposed for years that he had no secrets from himself. Here was proof that he had a great big secret somewhere inside, and he could not imagine what it was.

Martin Scorsese

I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of pictures in the last 20 years and the response I have to give them is that I still consider myself a student. The more pictures I've made in 20 years, the more I realize I really don't know. And I'm always looking for something or someone that I could learn from. I tell the younger filmmakers, and the young students, that do it like painters used to do—that painters do—study the old masters, enrich your palette, expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.

The seasons change their manners, as the year Had found some months asleep and leapt them over.

Mike Griffin

What he did tonight, he did all year for us.