Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Chappelle

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

Wayne Lee

The only difference between our August announcement and today is that the SEC put its stamp of approval on it,

Greg Abel

We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on schedule to close the transaction by the end of the first quarter.

Mary Andrews

We believe that no child should suffer from a preventable or treatable disorder. With today's FDA approval, we are happy to know that there is a new treatment option for children suffering from short stature caused by severe Primary IGFD.

Bill Maher

The president is not doing well with African Americans. His popularity rating - his approval rating - with blacks: two percent. Two percent. That is somewhere between Mark Fuhrman and sickle cell anemia.

John Bryant

Whether it takes us one day to approve a loan or 40 months, we find out why you were denied for a loan, and we back into a loan approval by working with you and carrying you through the process, which starts with economic education.

Craig Moffett

Watchdog groups and tech companies are likely to press for 'Net neutrality' as a condition of merger approval in Washington.

J. C. Watts

We found information in support of a small break and encourage the senate to vote in approval of it.

John Ensign

We know what we did was right and fine and within ethics rules, and we wanted a stamp of approval from the Ethics Committee.

Alexis McGee

We also train our investor clients to develop win-win scenarios that benefit both the homeowner in distress and the investor. That way the troubled homeowner can sell their way out of foreclosure and conserve some equity for a new start, and the investor can realize a reasonable profit on resale of the home. That's much better than seeing the owner lose everything in an auction on the courthouse steps.

Gerald Lucas

Whether that's bad news for the upcoming auctions depends on whether you take a cup-half-empty or cup-half-full perspective.

Mayor Mazzarella

We would try to block the auction if they try to sell the license. It's city policy that we do that. The license is for the business that you give it to.

Tohru Sasaki

Should foreign investors, who have helped fund U.S. twin deficits, show weaker demand at the 10-year auction and the trade deficit widens, that may make it easier to sell the dollar.

Britney Spears

Since bidding for my jewel-encrusted bra in the eBay charity auction has exceeded our original expectations, I'm concerned that some of you may be confusing this bra for something that it's not.

Craig King

Mr. McKenzie has an incredible track record in developing the Lake Fork area, and this auction will enable him to sell a substantial portion of his inventory in a single day. With 28 sites selling absolute, it's a rare opportunity for some people to obtain a site for their lake home at a great price.

Mark Davis

We hope to serve over 100 dinners tonight and we would really like to thank the local businesses that donated the silent auction items.

Soichiro Kimura

Yesterday's auction showed strong demand for debt and people were looking for a reason to buy.

Cyril Beuzit

We've seen there's demand for longer-dated securities. The auction will go quite well today.

David Seabury

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

Michael Moriarty

I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one man's idea of American freedom in exile.

Bill Thompson

The people who live there don't consider it a casino. It's a luxurious place to go for an evening out.

Jim Cicconi

The point is the industry itself shouldn't be straddled with constraints that many of our direct competitors don't have. We feel the number 30 percent isn't really justified. It's very, very arbitrary. We consider a number around 40 percent to be more appropriate given the economics in the industry.

Chris Hanson

We usually wait until an athlete's senior year to consider going to Arcadia.

Michelle Clark

We strive for excellence, and we empower women. We consider ourselves the ladies on campus.

Naylond Hayes

When you've been here, and you consider it your house, you're at home.

Grace Morgan

When you usher, you meet a lot of people who are not involved with the theater, but (who still consider it) a very big part of their lives, and love to see the shows,

Laurent Brancowitz

I always considered technical musicianship as something you should be ashamed of - I don't know why.

Paul Clarke

The outcome helps us fulfill our duty of providing maximum returns on our investments to fund the work of the church.

Li Zhaoxing

The position of the U.N. ... must be strengthened so that it can perform its duty of safeguarding peace in a more effective way,

Edith Wharton

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

Charles Buxton

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

Benjamin Franklin

Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.

Kerry Greenwood

I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.

Eric Brown

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

Kathe Kollwitz

It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.

John Abizaid

Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.

Tim Roberts

There are some good individuals there. You can either help yourself or hurt yourself for seeds (in the Individual District) Saturday.

Chuck McMeekin

We're in a quandary on what we can and can't do. Either you let the garbage sit outside or people are going to put it in their neighbor's yard.

Stephen Harper

What the prime minister doesn't seem to face is the election is either going to occur now or it's going to occur in January, ... We're not going to wait another four months.

Ivan Radenovic

Whenever we played them, we played well in either the first half or the second half. This time we've got to put it together for 40 minutes if we want to win.

Philippe Val

When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left.

Tim Parmeter

When he gets the opportunity to be in the open court, he's so good with the ball. He makes good plays by either scoring or kicking it out to other people.

Ed Beattie

We were behind, and that forces things to happen. It either makes things better or makes it a little worse, and it made it a little worse tonight.

Brian Norberg

We were an all-zone team early, but we've gone back to a man-to-man late in the season. I feel we can play either one. In the post-season it's nice to be able to fall back on a zone if the man isn't working.

Will Muschamp

We were trying to improve fundamentally. You either take a step forward or a step back every day. You've got 15 opportunities, and we need to get better all 15 times out.

Stuart Scott

People always talk about the nausea that comes with chemotherapy. For me, it's more like a queasiness. And it can be intense. It's an uncomfortable, gross kind of 'blech' feeling.

Sam Craig

There are multiple revenue streams, so theatrical gross is important because it signals the subsequent revenue through home video rentals, sales of DVDs, pay television and others.

Richard Stice

But what worries me is that you're going to see pressure on gross margins as film declines.

David Johnson

I would suggest there's some sloppiness here. Neither mere negligence or gross negligence will suffice.

Brent Sutter

The players thought it was pretty gross because my leg was just black. I limped around until the end of January.

Anna Kendrick

I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.

Laurence Gilman

To say we're unhappy with the performance of the team is a gross understatement.

William Carpenter

To say I find these results unacceptable would be a gross understatement,

Errol Flynn

My problem lies with reconciling my gross habits with my net income

Ann Jones

we have neglected that area. And it will take a big project to really turn it around.

Debbie Carter

She did not look like she was neglected in any way.

Sue Kelly

The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure.

Ellen G. White

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

Joy Behar

You reach a point when you say to yourself, 'Do I want to keep doing this?' There are other things on my plate I want to do - I've been writing a play; I've been neglecting my standup.

Ariel Sharon

Now they're really disillusioned with him because he is doing the opposite. They feel quite neglected because the state used to nourish them. But at the end of the day, they are a small hard-core.

Edwin Morgan

I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

Darryl Paulson

For much of the '70s, '80s and '90s, it was like the neglected stepchild told it was going to have to go to work to support the family,

Ezra Taft Benson

Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.

Charles Caleb Colton

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Charles Stanley

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Charles Spurgeon

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Pam Walker

The possibility for the process to be tainted is just too much.

Pascal Hundt

We are seeing a process of spreading poverty.

Bill Joy

Interleaf is based on the formatting process.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.

Audre Lorde

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Bill Nighy

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

Bruce Miller

We have no idea how long this process will take.

Chandler Parsons

Honestly, I was offended by the whole process,

Barbra Streisand

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Chris Perry

We don't know the rates of (reef) growth.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Ben Horowitz

Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.

Jamshyd Godrej

When there is a situation where one does not see demand for a year or two, then capex is suspended. It will reverse only when the situation improves.

Willy Wonka

We have so much time, and so little to do. Wait! Stop! Reverse that.

Willy Wonka

So much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it.

Japanese Proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Bob Hartley

It was like a photocopy (of the second period), just reverse it.

Javier Solana

For a long time there has been a lot of talk but not much action. I think we have to reverse that now.

Richard Howard

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Bryan Ferry

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

Bryan Clay

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

Cathy Freeman

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

William Shakespeare

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

Arthur Rimbaud

No one's serious at seventeen.

Dee Dee Ramone

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

Bill Nye

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

Bill Day

It is not a wholesale solution, but an important part of what is required.

Greg Meffert

There will be no wholesale demolition of neighborhoods without consent.