Famous Quotes & Sayings

The longer you wait to decide when to start cutting, the steeper the cuts will be.

The local government investment pool, in retrospect, was a good investment. We haven't spent a whole lot of the money yet, but that's because we're spending time doing the planning, trying to get all the land purchases and all that other stuff before we start spending, ... We're following the philosophy of measure twice, cut once.

The main issue is just the heavy cutting of health insurance ... they're doing away with retiree medical.

The job cuts were well priced in. What was not in the price was the results, because the fourth-quarter result was driven by the top line as opposed to anything else.

James Surowiecki

In industries where a lot of competitors are selling the same product - mangoes, gasoline, DVD players - price is the easiest way to distinguish yourself. The hope is that if you cut prices enough you can increase your market share, and even your profits. But this works only if your competitors won't, or can't, follow suit.

James Surowiecki

In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

James Patterson

Angel?" I said. "Baby penguins eat a regurgitated mixture of partially digested fish, krill, and an oily substance form their fathers' stomachs. Are you willing to eat a bunch of raw fish and krill, and then barf it back up into a baby penguin's cute, cheeping mouth? Like, every hour?" Sometimes my crushing logic astounds even me.

James Mangold

Having the kind of infinite loop of what a digital stream is - you can shoot for a long time without cutting - allows me to sometimes perform really exciting things.

Joe Perry

The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n roll thing going on.

Joe Girardi

That's why I cut my hair so short. It was getting a little gray.

Joe Frazier

Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute.

Joan Didion

I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no 'meaning' beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience.

Joan Jett

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

Joan Jett

That was exactly why people didn't want to give us any kind of life, because we were threatening their status quo, and they just didn't want to have room for girls playing rock 'n' roll. It bothered them. First, people just tried to get around it by saying, "Oh, wow, isn't that cute? Girls playing rock 'n' roll!," and when we said, "Yeah, right, this isn't a phase; it's what we want to do with our lives," it became, "Oh! You must be a bunch of sluts. You dykes, you whores." That's what it became. Then it became a name-calling contest.

Jim Morrison

I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.

Eric Snow

Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities.

Eric Stoltz

I try to read all news sources - not just CNN or FOX, but worldwide papers and journals, to get opinions from every end of the spectrum - and then I like to try to find out the cut and dried facts - and go from there.

Eric Thomas

Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut...

Emma Roberts

I don't really have a type of guy I like. It's just like nice guys, cute boys I mean, ones that are funny.

Emma Watson

As I've got older, and since I cut all my hair off, I've felt a bit more liberated about trying different things out.

Heidi Klum

I was determined to experience the birth, and I am so scared at the thought of having my abdomen cut open. So I was lucky that the birth went very smoothly.

Heidi Klum

Models have a sell-by date. There are certain jobs I don't do anymore, like the young, sexy, cute things for teenagers, or even 25-year-old girls. I go in a different bracket now.

Lynda Barry

I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.

Ludacris

Little cute thing said, what's yo' name? I put my necklace in her face and told her read the chain.

Lucas Papademos

More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the eurozone.

Loretta Napoleoni

Europe has been in the grip of a very serious economic crisis for few years, so there have been major cuts to anti-terrorist funding, to intelligence funding. So we do not have the manpower to carry on this kind of monitoring.

M. Night Shyamalan

I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.

M. Night Shyamalan

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

M. Night Shyamalan

My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the better.

Malcolm Gladwell

People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think of crime as another disease, and using some of these same concepts. It was something that was in the air in that world, but it was time to bust it out and apply it to any number of different social epidemics.

Malcolm Gladwell

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.

Maira Kalman

I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It's about having ears that stick out, about breaking yet another glass. It's about seeing something for the first time and making a million mistakes and not ever getting completely discouraged.

Gabrielle Union

Right now, I don't have the same urges as other women when they see a baby. When I see children, I see responsibilities, which I don't think I'm quite ready for. I feel the same about puppies. They're cute for a second, but there's a lot of responsibility involved.