Quotes about cut
cutting states greece
We had about 60 regions in Greece and now there are only 13. It'd be like cutting down 50 states to 13 and making it more efficient. George Papandreou
cutting simile figures-of-speech
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out George Orwell
cutting thinking passive-voice
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
cutting ideas glee
But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and having an idea is difficult! Fyodor Dostoevsky
cutting reality doe
Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.
cutting jewels land
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace. John Ruskin
cutting exercise men
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction John Owen
cutting animal agriculture
Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than 4 billion people. In addition, if all agriculture were organic, you would have to increase cropland area dramatically, spreading out into marginal areas and cutting down millions of acres of forests. Norman Borlaug
cutting weekend strive
I'm not original, but I strive toward it as much as possible. I tried really hard on Weekend Update to do something that I considered original, which was, I tried to cut all cleverness out of the joke. Norm MacDonald
cutting balance sushi
With sushi, it is all about balance. Sometimes they cut the fish too thick, sometimes too thin. Often the rice is overcooked or undercooked. Not enough rice vinegar or too much. Nobu Matsuhisa
cutting humanity republican
When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress. Robert Hass
cutting january taxes
We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen. Rick Perry
cute eyebrows together
You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together. Rick Riordan
cutting fortune demigods
At the Feast of Fortune, she'll awaken, and the demigods will be cut down like-- like---" "Like our low prices at Bargain Mart!" Stheno suggested.
cute mom years
If my mom told one more story about how cute I looked in the bathtub when I was three years old I was going to burrow into the snow and freeze myself to death.
cutting data interest prompt rates unlikely weak
The GDP data (is) unlikely to be weak enough to prompt the MPC into cutting interest rates in November,
cut effect hair willing workers
The effect of bankruptcies is to give all the workers so much of a hair cut that they are still willing to come to work, but they are just willing to come to work,
cut dvds editing great hike nobody sit
The DVDs are not cut to be stimulating visually. They're cut actually more to be soporific, in a sense. If you go on a hike and you get to a great view, you sit down and look at the view. There's nobody editing it. Chris Blackwell
cut energy giving happens increases inflation leeway price until wait
The ECB will come through with a cut, but it will wait to see what happens on the inflation front. They'll wait until this year's energy price increases come out of the (inflation) number, giving them leeway to cut rates.
cuts gains months mostly rate reflect
The gains mostly reflect expectations of more rate cuts in the months ahead. Carlos Gonzalez
cutting issues complicated
It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself. Edie Falco
cutting reality thinking
Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does. Eckhart Tolle
cuts falling high inventory massive price production reflect sales shift tactics vehicle
The massive cuts reflect high inventory levels, falling new vehicle sales and a shift in automaker tactics from price cuts to production cuts,
cuts investors markets nervous president tax
The markets are getting a little nervous . On balance, investors want to see this president and the tax cuts preserved. Hugh Johnson
cuts exactly fed help hitting makers market point policy putting rate short whatever yield
The market reacted exactly the way they wanted it to, which was to flatten the yield curve. I think the point is clear: Policy makers are going to do whatever they can to help the Fed. The rate cuts that the Fed is putting through are only hitting the short curve; they're only psychological.
cutting item parks people spending theme ticket
Theme parks are a big ticket discretionary spending item for consumers. And people are cutting back on discretionary spending items.
cut fed market mind rate
The market has to make its mind up what the Fed rate cut means.
cut draw greenspan market morning quarter rate
The market has priced in a rate cut, of at least a quarter point, ... and this morning it was for a rate cut of .75 - and I think that is where Greenspan would draw the line.
cuts market rates saying surprise terms
The market is saying what we're not going to get is a surprise in terms of rates -- we're not going to get some cuts because of storm-damage problems.
cut foreign helping investors market rate strong
The market isn't cheap. But I think strong participation from foreign investors is helping and the (planned) cut in the (U.S.) capital-gains-tax rate makes the market cheaper.
cutting the-end-of-the-day directors
In theater, you're in charge of your performance, and at the end of the day you're the one who gets credit because you're in front of the audience doing it, and in film and TV it's the director who gets to decide when to cut to you on a line, which take he uses. Jonathan Groff
cutting long trying
I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting. Jonathan Demme
cutting work-out people
At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died. Jonathan Davis