Famous Quotes & Sayings

The out-of-pocket cost is usually about $50 to $55 a day (per inmate) that we pay to another county to rent the space, ... But we also have to pay for our officers' time to transport them and the cost of transport, like fuel costs.

David Thewlis

I had such a nice time making it, and I can't wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids - even my driver.

David Hewson

The problem is not that the PC you need always costs more than you can afford. The problem is that whatever the price, it is still too much.

John C. Calhoun

I am impressed with the belief that our naval force ought not to cost more in proportion than the British. In some things they may have the advantage, but we will be found to have equally great in others.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

What good is making a jewel if nobody see it? But cost depends on the story. To get those performances in 'Biutiful,' you need that time. You need 60 takes in a scene and a year to edit. It's not realistic to do it any other way.

When are people going to link up the costs of rebuilding New Orleans with the cost of rebuilding Iraq? It's going to equate to, where are we spending our money and what are we doing?

Virat Kohli

During my school days, I was doing a play, and my costume fell on the stage. I really wish it didn't happen.

Whittaker Chambers

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.

We did some things uncharacteristic of us throughout the game. It cost us over the long haul.

We didn't realize that fuel prices were going to cost us an extra $150,000.

Robert Shaw

We are having a delayed response to an improving market because construction and land costs are creating a situation where the new projects can't be underwritten. The rents aren't moving enough to support a lot of new development.

Anthony Wong

What you wear or who you are with or how much your meal costs have nothing to do with the public interest.

We are not likely to get a sudden drop in production because farmers have fixed costs that must be covered, irrespective of whether they produce.

John Sculley

We see healthcare shifting from a procedure reimbursement, where in this country doctors are reimbursed for how many procedures they conduct, to a world where people will be reimbursed for the outcomes - did the patient actually get better, and what was the total cost of the cycle of care.

James Fallows

As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying.

We had an incident where a gator got hold of one hunter's dog. The dog got loose somehow, but it cost the man around $700 after rushing his dog to the vet." ()

Nolan Bushnell

The big problem that UWink had was we were essentially building tablets because they hadn't been invented yet. That drove up the cost a lot.

Aldo Leopold

We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.

You lose your privacy, but the cost is reasonable.

Orla Brady

Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion.

Atul Gawande

Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.

We dodged a bullet. But it's still probably going to cost insurers in the vicinity of $4.5 billion.

We dodged a bullet, ... But it's still probably going to cost insurers in the vicinity of $4.5 billion.

Mike Hart

We were able to maintain flat costs in 2005 despite high inflationary environment through tight cost management and greater efficiencies in our processes.

Colin Clarke

We definitely deserved to get something from the game. We played well enough, even with 10 men, to get something from the game. But our own errors cost us two goals in the first half,

We gave them extra outs and it cost us.

We don't know, we won't know for several months, how much this will cost us,

We do gasoline promotions and heating oil promotions regularly ... there is a recognition that these are popular items due to the high cost of gasoline and home heating oil prices.

Rick Scott

Taxpayers need a businessman who knows how to create jobs, cut costs and balance budgets.

Rose George

Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped.

We started using a lower octane a while back when the prices went up, ... I'm looking at some other ways to cut costs and still protect the people.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.