Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Leigh

The astronomical scale of the amount of benefit money being lost through fraud and error is vividly brought home to taxpayers by the astonishing fact that the figures are rounded to the nearest half-a-billion pounds.

The American people deserve a 'rebate' for the wasteful costs imposed on them by our broken tax system. The dollar amount exceeds the combined revenue of Sears, Walt Disney, Microsoft, Rite Aid, and McDonald's, while the yearly paperwork volume is staggering: over 1.3 billion information items and 8 billion pages of forms and instructions. The hours expended annually in this ritual is equivalent to the labor of over 2.5 million people. Don't we all have more productive things to do with our time?

That was when the contractors got their fingers burned. They thought the proximity to the UK market would still have a positive effect, but there just wasn't the out-and-about mentality of '96. They were holding out for an enormous amount of money and they pretty much bombed.

That was the first time in recent memory that their estimation tools have not captured what is the current amount of risk in these businesses.

That would amount to an encroachment of China's sovereignty and territorial integrity,

That was probably the least amount of curveballs I've thrown in my entire career. I had a pretty good cutter today and I was locating my fastball pretty well, so I stayed with that all day.

David Shields

The 10 billion barrels would be a substantial amount if there were a basis for it, and there's not at this point.

Steve Mason

That was a lot of snow in a fairly short amount of time, and it's going to melt fairly quickly with these temperatures going up as they are.

that was not expecting that amount of electicity.

That was our best, likely our best overall game of the season. I thought we had more control of the puck than we have a lot of other nights, and so we ended up taking a lot less amount of penalties (than) we have gotten in the past.

That was one way to go from a small amount of money to making a lot of cash. Many of these guys weren't necessarily good at developing, but they were in the right place at the right time.

That was a new brand, and certainly now that it's established with a very loyal following and given the amount of hype and buzz they created, that is one barometer of what possibly could have been.

David Coleman

That's the largest amount since they've been in business that we've gotten.

That's very good business. Bruce Springsteen is grossing a similar amount of money, but he's playing smaller places at twice the ticket price.

That's the way it should be. The amount of time and energy we spend on that is a fraction of what it was in the past. Our job here is all about performance and making sure athletes are taken care of at the games.

That's the saddest part of this, is that he works with children on a daily basis. He shows probably a genuine amount of commitment to them, and has never indicated any toward his own son. It's just not fair. I mean, if you don't do your fair share, nothing will ever be right for you as an individual. And what's worse, it furthers the cycle of what's not right onto the next generation.

That's a very significant amount to lose, and we have a fairly good attendance.

That's a very popular program that's come a long way in a relatively short amount of time.

David Cox

That's a tremendous amount of work. That's a good example of what can be done.

I was privy to all the information in terms of the transfer deal and the offer made to the player by Leicester City. He turned it down. He was 100 per cent prepared to stay at Dundee, and take a reduction in wage. Not only were they offering him a considerable amount more than what he was contracted to be paid here, he was actually going to reduce it. In effect, he was going to pay us to play for us!

I was really excited and surprised to see the amount of votes we did receive, ... I'm looking forward to the general election.

I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.

I think after the amount of time we have been there, we need to start reducing the number of men we have there.

I think it's up to Don. Don has an incredible amount of pride in his work. I can see where he wouldn't want to go out of coaching on a year like this. But that's his decision.

I think it sounds like a tremendous amount of money, but I don't think the people of Missouri know the tremendous amount of money it takes to educate children.

I think it's normal for a city to lose people. However this does seem to be an extraordinary amount of people, and I think that's a leadership issue.

I think it takes a tremendous amount of chutzpah to set up a fund after he killed the child. I think without consulting the family, such behavior is, at the very least, in poor taste.

Mark Turgeon

I think it takes a significant amount of doing well in the NCAA Tournament before it changes your recruiting. But hopefully we'll get lucky over the next six months and get some good players.

It gives us a tremendous amount of confidence. You're not having to use that first 10, 20 minutes in the first half of the game to get used to each other's style. We already know from the tip that this game's going to be a track meet. Both teams love to score, and both teams love offense.

Kevin Johnson

It gives us a huge amount of credibility.

It got down to about 20 degrees by 4 a.m., but judging by the amount of ice we laid down, it looks like we got through okay. But it was a very long night.

Ray Stevenson

It got bloody and it got messy. There was a huge amount of work done by a tremendous Italian stunt team ... and we'd be thrown into the melee.

It gives you a nice boost for occupancy. They stay an extended amount of time. That's always good in our business, especially over the weekend.