Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Elliott

The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world. The positive results this year compared to last are a result of accounting decisions as to how much of the longer-term losses to reflect last year, this year and presumably next year. We still have an average loss of $7 billion to $8 billion a year for the last four years.

Douglas Elliott

The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world, ... The positive results this year compared to last are a result of accounting decisions as to how much of the longer-term losses to reflect last year, this year and presumably next year. We still have an average loss of $7 billion to $8 billion a year for the last four years.

Donald Berwick

The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out there. There is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.

Nina Easton

A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges - the grief and loss for birth mothers, the uncertainties for adoptive parents operating under a patchwork of state laws.

Tom Golisano

I came up with the idea for what later became Paychex in 1970 when I was working for Electronic Accounting Systems, a company that sold payroll processing to companies with 50 to 1,000 employees.

Friedrich St. Florian

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.

Warren Rudman

We are looking at all the accounting issues we have looked at all along, and at this point, we don't have any conclusions. We are still hoping to wrap up the investigation by the end of December, and if we don't make it we'll do it in January.

Tom DeLay

Upon learning of these accounting irregularities, I immediately requested that the trust undergo a full and complete audit from its June 2000 inception through 2004 to determine if any additional accountancy problems existed with the trust.

Bob Newhart

Probably the best advice I ever got in my life was from the head of the accounting department, Mr. Hutchinson, I believe at the Glidden Company in Chicago, and he told me, 'You really aren't cut out for accounting.'

Vladimir Potanin

The Interros strategy toward various assets generally depends on the stage of their development and level of their maturity.

Dale T. Mortensen

In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners and firms did attempt to increase savings in financial assets by reducing expenditure on durables.

Bernard Ebbers

We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business.

Ban Ki-moon

The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.

Sumner Redstone

We have made a strategic decision that the future of Viacom lies in maximizing the value and potential of our core entertainment assets. The sale of our education, professional and reference publishing businesses will further refine that focus on software-driven entertainment, unlock the substantial value of these undervalued publishing assets for our shareholders and dramatically improve our capital structure.

Lapo Elkann

Italy's assets are her style, her beauty, her creativity, her passion, her energy, her technology; and these will be core brand values of all our cars. Fiat as a company has a long way to go and a steep road ahead.

Carlo Panunzi

We are concerned about the fact that this value creation could be a risk within a larger group as it is proposed today. Simply because of the value of the assets that are lying on the other side and in the competitors' hands.

Clarissa Ward

When you're out in the field and spending time in these different places around the world, humility is one of the most important assets that will serve you well.

Jeff Smulyan

We're encouraged with how strong the quarter finished for our radio stations, which outperformed their markets for the sixth straight quarter, ... As we continue to focus on operations, the disposition of our TV assets continues. The sale of 9 of our 16 stations will result in proceeds that exceed expectations.

Brian K. Vaughan

I love other movies that have been made since, but I think more than any comic book movie, 'Superman' just totally seemed to capture superheroes in ways that others have not.

David R. Ellis

It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it.

David Horsey

Americans rightly, but sometimes excessively, celebrate every person in uniform as a hero, but seldom honor the difficult and often dangerous work being done day after day by members of our diplomatic corps. Warriors capture the popular imagination more easily than peacemakers.

Ray Charles

I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script. It should really capture me, do something for me. If I don't get it, it's not going to move people, and if it's not going to move people, it's not going to happen.

Nick Woodman

If we can become the de facto standard for image capture of unique perspectives around the world, we have a lot of growth ahead of us.

Nick Woodman

In France, a hip replacement was captured using two GoPros in a stereoscopic 3D arrangement. Students can watch the surgery using a virtual reality headset.

Nick Woodman

I originally started GoPro with the sole purpose of helping surfers capture photos of themselves and their friends while they were surfing. I thought it was crazy that very few surfers had any photos or videos of themselves.

Vint Cerf

With Internet technology you can capture a photo, a quote, or an article, store it locally and upload it into the Net more than once, if you wish, to multiple sites. Can you imagine then forcing the search engines to somehow not index that information?

John Barnett

We have learned over the last 10 or 15 years that images captured on film show only a very small part of an event.

Brian Bell

I never have used any other artist as a model for a sound or a song. It always has to come from an emotion, and capturing the essence of that emotion in a song.

Carol Guzy

I think a lot of times, especially for certain stories, photographers travel together for safety reasons, and they also invariably cross paths. But you could have 10 photographers shooting together in the same spot but capturing different images.

Nigel Barker

Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I'm very passionate about.

Brian Clarke

We are delighted to participate with Stream Theory in capturing our share of the burgeoning online marketplace,

Nick Woodman

I think that devices like Glass are going to do a terrific job of capturing your first-person perspective. And that's what people first think of when they think of GoPro.

Mark Williams

We want it to be captivating and an emotional vision into what the wedding was, ... Video is a versatile tool to capturing a day like that.

Michael Robotham

The hardest part of ghost writing other people's stories is capturing their voices so that it isn't you talking, it's them.

Jonathan Katz

The major damage is in the outward credibility because Bibi had a way of capturing the foreigners' support and selling everything he was doing.

Sugar Ray Leonard

For the most part, I think video games do a good job of capturing the essence of boxing. However, I'd like to continue to see them push the realism, emphasizing the skill involved.

Seth Berkley

You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens when measles goes through a nutritionally deficient community. It's a horrible disease, and it spreads incredibly efficiently.

Darek Farmer

Most people don't know what a deficient diet looks like, but you can tell from their poop. This is like having a vet in your yard.

Jack Crawford

She was made a scapegoat for a deficient child-placement system. Now she can get on with her life.

George Tullier

There was a lot of wind and their playing surface was quite hard and deficient of grass. I was glad for the girls to get a game under them and do some things to get a win. We'll move on from here.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

Stewart Butterfield

Flickr was designed partly to market itself. There are a lot features, in place early on, that let people take their photo, upload it to Flickr and post them elsewhere, on their own Web site or their blog, which meant a lot of incoming links.

Sean Booth

I hate the idea of getting in a building that someone else has designed and having to do something to it yourself to sort of dress it up - it's like using presets in your tracks.

Sanjay Kumar

Few service industries are designed to be 24x7 in India, and thus there was no 24x7 mentality.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.

William E. Simon

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

Albert Barnes

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

Brad Soderberg

Tommie didn't get a great shot. There's a great player that made a great play. It wasn't a great designed play. He just made it work.

Craig Venter

People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That's why the formula for Coca-Cola was never patented. They kept it as a trade secret, and they've outlasted patent laws by 80 years or more.

Rand Paul

General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.

Ray Lewis

There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed.

Noah Feldman

The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don't respect rights.

Estelle

I grew up in a house full of music. Everything from reggae and afro-beat to Zook and pop.

Eddie Jordan

We played well for a full 48 minutes today. We did a lot of good things out there, particularly with our defense.

Eddie Jordan

We played well for a full 48 minutes today.

Phill Laursen

We opened one of the canisters this size and it was just full of red dust.

Scott Weiss

One of the rookie mistakes first-time entrepreneurs often make is to be too guarded about their idea - in fact, many will actually spend their first $25,000 on patent lawyers without ever fully vetting their product.

Seinabo Sey

It's really important to me that the songs not only stand out individually but work as a full body of work, too.

Chris Gibson

We have a lot of safety measures in place already, so I feel pretty comfortable with those,

Li Yizhong

We've met unprecedented safety pressures and all in all, all the iron-handed measures should be implemented thoroughly.

David Morgan

We have satisfied ourselves that appropriate safety and security measures will be in place.

Jo Bonner

In the time since passage of the act, there have been many successes as a result of the measures put into place by the PATRIOT Act.

Sheila Thomas

A lot of times, patients can't think of a single thing they like about their body. The number on the scale, this measures how they feel about their body. They have a very abusive relationship with their body.

Stephen Byers

These are measures which we will need to look at,

Kevin Shelley

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

Sudhir Kumar

We have taken all measures to see that passengers are not affected. Security has also been tightened.

Thomas Flynn

It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here,

Larry Anderson

We played a lot better in the second half, but they're physical and we didn't get a lot of second chances.

Ansel Elgort

I'm a physical guy. I play basketball, and I rock climb.

Leila Janah

It's really helpful to be physically engaged in something that's completely different from my day-to-day work.

Tom Demko

We didn't play real physical on defense. I didn't feel like we played hard.

Darcy Wingo

We got off to a terrible start and we never recovered. Amador was very quick and very physical. They didn't press, but it was a very physical game.

Cory Booker

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

Miguel Angel Silvestre

I studied physical therapy, and I started to study theater because my aunt is a theater director.

Gary Apodaca

We just didn't come ready to play; I could see it when we were warming up. We were there physically but not mentally, and we had a long talk after the game.

Dave Duncan

To be a vert guy, you have to train and put on your gear. It's physically demanding.

Dick Durbin

We need to know as much as we can and as much as he will tell us about his values and beliefs,

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Wendell Perkins

We know how to value companies. And we go where the value is.

Johnny Depp

There are 4 questions of value in life..

James J. Gibson

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Kathryn Reith

That was only some coolers, so the value was pretty minimal. That has to be done over again.

Gloria Steinem

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.