Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Andrew Lochart

What makes it a problem, regardless of why, is that smaller companies are the ones who have fewer defenses in place. There are no large dedicated IT staffs in place, or large budgets for technology, so it's a double whammy.

Charles Dickens

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Charles Caleb Colton

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

Charles Dickens

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Charles Dickens

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

Charles Stross

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"

Alan Greenspan

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

Alan Greenspan

...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

Alan Greenspan

What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.

Alan Greenspan

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

Jay Graham

We want to show people that we're the team that everyone should be gunning for (in the Capital Hockey Conference). We want to keep distance between us and everyone else because we want to win the league. ... That's why the lapses are very concerning.

Jeanna Mastrodicasa

We are a unique community because of the university. We should capitalize on the opportunities with the university.

Justin Dew

There are certainly plenty of opportunities to put $500 million worth of capital in the hedge fund space. I think by and large Yale is looked upon as a preferred investor, and therefore I think a lot of managers would be open to having discussions with them.

Gary Capaldi

We still wanted to get an inside game, we thought that was our strength tonight. But they made plays and Tory Jackson found the open man's hands. ... They had the momentum, they had that run and we just couldn't capitalize on anything.

Megan Schwab

Whenever we get those opportunities (to score), we want to capitalize on those situations.

Matt Ridley

Watching those people on television made it hard to feel sorry for myself, ... That was misery - capital M.

Scott Parker

When we got a good offense going, we would lose it on defense. We couldn't capitalize when we would get a steal and run it down the floor. We're a Jekyll-and-Hyde team.

Peter Coolidge

We're going to have to see economic data that suggests capital spending is on the rise and corporate confidence is rising before we can move up significantly. We need to see concrete results.

Mark Wagner

We're going to have to play three complete periods (today). We'll see a better team (today), a team that will capitalize on your mistakes and jump all over you.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Charles Sturt

If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Alan Watts

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

Alan Watts

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

Alan Perlis

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Gerhard Schroeder

We want to send a clear signal that the region can very much rely on the fact that we are not just talking about providing assistance, but that we really want to help, and will help,

Chogyam Trungpa

Things get very clear when you're cornered.

Lorraine Toussaint

I love to see how a character unfolds off the page in a project. I don't always know how the character is going to turn out, even with the script being there. It's not always clear where that character is going to take me. Or where I will take them.

Douglas Altabef

The potential is that there could have been a surprise that could have influenced the Fed next Tuesday, and clearly that hasn't happened. But employment is a lagging indicator. So the report is not a reflection of where the economy is going, but where it's been.

Peter Varney

The position remains as we have clearly stated it on many occasions.

Erik Friedly

The people who were involved in this, it's still pretty clear in their minds. Jim Sullivan is one of the big ones.

Barbara Ryan

The only company which is a clear growth vehicle in our view is Schering-Plough.

Grover Cleveland

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear consciencewill overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness andhigh achievement.

Sean Tipton

We are pretty clear that egg freezing is a pretty experimental technology and should only be offered to patients in that context. We think there might be a rush to offer this service before it's completely reliable.

Charles Dickens

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

Charles Caleb Colton

When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.

Alain Prost

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

Al Neuharth

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

Jay Wright

We want to shoot 3s. We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.

Jay Wright

We want to shoot 3s, ... We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.

Chogyam Trungpa

Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.

David Storey

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge

Carter G. Woodson

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

David Joy

The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.

Gary Campbell

We are positive on stocks, especially those that are benefiting from very strong U.S. consumer demand.

James Carrick

We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.

Alan Ackerman

There are continued uncertainties, ... The U.S. economy is slowing and commensurate with that is slowing consumer spending and corporate spending.

Scott Brown

There are some encouraging signs in retail sales, but if you look at what the source of consumer spending is, it's really income growth, and wage growth has been lackluster, suggesting the consumer will not be robust going forward.

Bob Brown

We want to provide unfiltered and unbiased consumer education about the impact of what life insurance does, rather than how it works.

Steve Stanley

While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.

Janet Jenkins

We've become a customer service department for some of these companies. So many consumers can't seem to resolve their issues with telephone companies.

Michael Gallelli

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

David Joy

The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.

James Carrick

We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.

Steve Stanley

While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.

Janet Jenkins

We've become a customer service department for some of these companies. So many consumers can't seem to resolve their issues with telephone companies.

Michael Gallelli

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

Bill Gates

We're going to gain a lot of share here. We're going to make a lot of consumers happy.

Kurt Barnard

We found out, from talking to consumers and store operators all over the country, that low-dollar items went very fast. Forget about high-end items.

Jonas Persson

We find consumers very reluctant to pay for new services at all. Corporations are more willing to pay for new services. And from corporations, come consumers who have gotten used to using the services at work.

Scott Hoyt

Year over year, the data shows, this will be the strongest holiday season since 1999. But because consumers have been spending since September, there's not much pent-up demand. Consumers have already spent up demand.

Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens

I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Charles Stross

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alanis Morissette

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Alan Arkin

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Alan Ball

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Al Michaels

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

Catherine Keener

The people who make those movies tend to be studios, because they need a lot of money to do it, and those people don't hire me.

Luis von Ahn

Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire people who are going to play nice.

Herb Trimpe

I had joined Marvel in 1967, after a year in Vietnam and three years as a student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Stan Lee, then the editor-in-chief, hired me as a production assistant.

Mona Williams

We acknowledge we should have had better safeguards in place to make sure our (floor-cleaning) contractors hired only legal workers.

Bob McAdam

We were being attacked. We wanted to hire people who knew how to respond.

John Cottreau

We don't have any equipment. We would hire it and right now that's still to be determined.

Carol Farley

We're going to hire a lawyer, ... It's the only thing we can do.

Kenneth Langone

Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.

Sam Altman

Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

John Hahn

She holds us together. She shoots some big threes and she's my first 1,000-point scorer in the six years since I've been here.

Jeff Reed

Second, I passed one of the numerous records he holds in the NFL. Gary's the most-respected kicker who's been through this league. It means a lot.

Betsy Ross

Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world.

Connie Mack

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.

William Kingdon Clifford

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

Phil Johnson

Phoenix has been very effective. But we'll see how it holds out over the long haul.

Ming-Na Wen

'Mulan' holds a very special place in my heart. It's been 16 years since the film, but hordes of fans still come up and tell me how much she means to them.

Angus MacKenzie

MOTOR TREND holds a distinctive place in the landscape of automotive journalism. It is a strong and influential publication that is poised for tremendous growth. It is the right time for Ira to take MOTOR TREND to the next level.

Taylor Twellman

Obviously, we've missed Pat tremendously his play, the way he holds the play up. It's a pleasure playing with him, and hopefully we can do well together in the playoffs.

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Charles Spurgeon

economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Alan Watts

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Alan Watts

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Alan Paton

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

Alan Greenspan

As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.

Alan Greenspan

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

Bob Mould

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

David Rockefeller

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

Bruce Smith

We were blazing. Six months after we opened, 9/11 happened.

Alan Trammell

Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.

Gary Griffin

Whether it takes two months or two weeks whatever,

Barbra Streisand

I'm a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can't lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.

Delta Goodrem

If I get a cold, it lasts for a month.

Dianna Agron

There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen.

Shimon Peres

The pope said he will go in the first months of next year.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Irv DeGraw

With the rebound in the semiconductor industry, we think it'll do pretty well.

Rahshon Clark

We let them get a lot of rebounds that we should have come up with that were real crucial.

Hugh Godsey

She got some big rebounds and some big shots for us.

Don Bringle

We've got to rebound and become strong. It will take a little time to do that, but we will, and we'll survive that process.

Avery Johnson

He got some big stops and rebounds for us and stopped them from getting some rebounds and that is what he's here for.

Matt Gibson

We had a team that could have competed in the championship game. But we didn't rebound well enough.

Wayne Simien

to rebound and defend. That's what the team needs.

Joe Crawford

It didn't surprise me because they saw that they were getting the rebounds and they stuck with it.

Harry DeFrank

I was worried about the boards. They've got three strong girls, and we had to rebound with them.

Chris Chocola

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

There are so many great moments in Yankee Stadium. There is nothing better or no better place better to compete when you are good and the Yankees are good and you are playing a big series in September in Yankee Stadium, four game series, there is no greater excitement anywhere than the Yankee Stadium.

Brent Scowcroft

The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.

Jane D. Hull

We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.

David Cooper

Since September 11 we have been continually challenged.

Barbara Olson

What do I tell the pilots to do?

Dick Cheney

We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

Ali Khamenei

No, we did not do this, and we are not with you.

Bill Gerstenmaier

We probably won't make the September 22 window.

Casey Stengel

I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

Charlie Hunnam

It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.

Bob Marley

Money can't buy life.

Bob Marley

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

Stephen Taylor

We're finalizing a settlement. It should be signed soon.

Tommy Shaw

Make sure you know what you are signing when you sign a recording contract.

Brian Mulroney

Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

Dennis Weaver

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

Asa Hutchinson

She delivers the signed affidavit to Mr. Jordan,

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jonathan Moreland

Why spend time trying to read this guy's tea leaves?

Neville Marriner

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

Theaster Gates

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Kourtney Kardashian

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.

Tyra Banks

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

and City

When you vote yes or no, ... it takes you out of the negotiations, and I don't ever want to be out of the game.

Wayne Stroupe

We're going to go where the truth takes us.

Kelly Sears

We're going to do the things that it takes to manufacture those runs.

Charlie Smith

We're just not doing the things it takes to win.

Glen Smith

We know what it takes to get them satisfied. They didn't just walk up and give us a jackpot. It's not like that.

Mark de Mori

Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Jack Toney

Timing matters. It typically takes a week or so, but after the sessions begin, it could take longer.

Harry Triguboff

We can't express ourselves always at the time we should. Sometimes it takes time.

Fernando Alonso

I need to find new targets because this one is done.

Patrick Stump

Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Lysander Spooner

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

Austin O'Malley

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Deb Kottel

You do not need to be a tax expert. In fact, you can be a tax idiot.

Adam Smith

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.