Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.

This will . . . have huge economic costs for very little gain.

This route performed exceptionally well in the 1990s with high load factors and strong passenger growth. Unfortunately, demand has softened and operation costs have risen in the past few years, making this service unsustainable in the immediate future.

This restructuring will make MGM a much stronger and effective competitor, resulting in cost savings and revenue enhancements that will far exceed the related charges,

This requirement, coupled with on-going strong demand and unrest in the Middle East, will keep the cost of gasoline over the $2 mark in the foreseeable future.

Edward Livingston

There is a definite cost to doing nothing,

B. F. Skinner

There is a cost to Virginians to doing nothing in terms of transportation revenue. There's also a cost to Virginians to trying to fund transportation by stealing from schools and public safety and health care.

We knew that material costs would be going up. But we?re not in situation where we are surprised every day.

We knew it would be tough. Missing some easy looks early cost us. (But) we fought.

We think we can put on a better show and do it more cost efficiently.

We're not providing the service right now, so we're gonna look at what our costs are once we get operational.

Anne Edwards

We think the 'livestock show' will make it fun for our exhibitors and the public. Costumes will be allowed, but are not required,

Why are you not getting us some help. There's something wrong with her. He said I'll get you some help after I explain the ticket. She's gasping for air, he's talking to me about points, the cost of the ticket, traffic school and I'm going I don't care. I know how a ticket operates can you just get my mother some help.

We've designed the telescope at a fraction of the normal cost without losing any resolution,

To me that didn't cost us the game.

Too many of these projects were promised money without the money to cover the cost of them.

We got it in time. It cost $25,000 to install the fire system but it was worth it.

We got in trouble in the second game when we served out too many times. Then we made a rotation error that cost us a point and we couldn't recover. When our serve was in, it was very good.

Billy Graham

Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have

Barton Gellman

NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.

Barry Ritholtz

Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs.

When Karl and Lane get in a groove, they are difficult to stop once they become comfortable. And we had some problems on the defensive end that cost us.

Howard Dean

While sales have been strong, this has been a challenging year on a number of fronts, especially with technology issues and cost increases,

Rob Reiner

The marketing costs are insane now. So even if you've got a picture like 'Flipped' which cost under $14 million, or $13.5 million, you're still going to spend on an national basis, if you release with a good national release, you're still going to spend, you know, $30-$40 million.

Ruth Reichl

My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right.

We weren't able to make shots. That cost us the game.

We were very lucky with the 2001 bond. Construction costs have gone up dramatically.

We have many programs that cost us more ... to operate than we take in, ... It's never been our mission to be run totally like a business.

We have made incredible progress in lowering our operational costs for over two years now. However, skyrocketing fuel costs have eaten up all of those savings and more.

Burt Ward

Well yeah, and I must tell you the difference between... we wore costumes. And those costumes were form fitting. They don't wear costumes.

When we made the initial decision on the election date we hadn't really thought about the extra cost and confusion.

When we lose the materials the cost goes back to the families and that's what we try not to do.

Philipp Meyer

When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human lives and blood.