Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Scott

If there are cuts to be made, why should we make them on food stamps? ... This is the meanest cut of all.

If there's a morale problem at United Airlines, the employees aren't telling people about it. Their service is at the cutting edge of excellence.

If the (next) government does not on its own cut spending and introduce reforms, the market will force it to do so.

Ken Kesey

If Shakespeare were working right now, he wouldn't be working with a quill pen. He would be working with whatever the cutting edge of theatrical drama would be. And this is where literature is headed.

If you can cut that second-biggest monthly expense in half, groceries, that makes a huge difference in the family budget.

If we can cut down on errors, we should be alright.

If Volkswagen wants to cut 10,000 jobs they will need at least this sum.

If you have any kind of cut or a neutral bias, the markets will move higher.

Jerry Johnson

If you cut off snowmobiles in Yellowstone tomorrow or for next season, it would devastate our community. I'm talking about your fire department, your police department, your school system,

Tom DeLay

If you raise the taxes on these people, you might not have the jobs to provide, so the tax cuts are incredibly important.

If you put marijuana in a regulated system, it can't help but further cut down on teenage use.

If you're not disciplined don't do it. Cut 'em up, melt 'em, put them in the oven, let it go to 400-degrees and watch 'em go. Man that's fun to do. Just don't use them if you're not disciplined.

Kevin Constantine

If you look at the way we do our scrimmages here it's all about keeping the game moving and having less whistles, ... It's a more-fun way to watch the game. So I think from a fan perspective, anything in the game that can keep the puck in play and cut down the waiting around for referees to drop pucks in face-off situations are good. So I have no problem.

Damien Chazelle

If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.

Jeb Bush

If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement, put me in, coach.

Gilbert Arenas

In the first half, we forgot our game plan and (James) was just getting down the lane. In the second half, we tried to cut the lane off, and I don't think we gave him a field goal.

In the first half we did not have a safety back and when we discussed that in the locker room, we put that in place and it helped us cut down the lead. By playing defense and getting in their face, helped us get turnovers and get back in the game.

In the first half, they were penetrating real deep. Number 41 (Chester's Hampton) was giving us a fit. We had to find a way to slow him down. Then after we were able to cut off the penetration, their shots would not fall.

Freddy Garcia

I don't know if I will cut mine -- we'll see.

I don't know if I cut more poison ivy than brush, ... I had perpetual poison ivy for five years.

Jennifer Brown

I didn't feel we could wait any longer since we had a soft cut date set, ... And it didn't start working until August.

Billy Donovan

I didn't feel like the game was over. They made some 3s to cut it to 12 and we had to make some free throws.

I didn't expect to be that high (in the rankings). It's a big accomplishment, but it doesn't really mean anything. That's why, instead of cutting back, I'm going to work even harder in practice.

I didn't remember anything, ... She told me all about the accident. I cut my hand trying to get out of the window.

Indira Gandhi

Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

Ingmar Bergman

It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.

Jack Lemmon

I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.

Issey Miyake

Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process

Ingvar Kamprad

Simple routine have a greater impact. It is not just to cut costs that we avoid luxury hotels. We do not need fancy cars, posh titles, tailor made uniforms or other status symbols.

Jack Nicholson

I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.

Jack Nicholson

I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in salary, so I didn't.

Jack Kerouac

I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be born in the first place, and only so we can have our poor gentle flesh laid out to such impossible horrors as huge mountains and rock and empty space,' and with horror I remembered the famous Zen saying, 'When you get to the top of a mountain, keep climbing.' The saying made my hair stand on end; it had been such cute poetry sitting on Alvah's straw mats.

Jack Kerouac

The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world, actually easier than walking on flat ground which is monotonous. The cute little problems present themselves at each step and yet you don't hesitate and you find yourself on some other boulder you picked out for no special reason at all, just like zen.~ Japhy