Cost famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.
-- A. O. Scott -
Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.
-- A. Theodore Tuttle -
But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
-- Abel Ferrara -
Pharmaceutical companies are very annoyed with niacin because their products have to compete with it. Some of their cholesterol-lowering drugs cost up to $150 a month while niacin costs about $10.
-- Abram Hoffer -
Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only the owner to bear the costs of replacing it, but costs those whom he planned on using that money to buy from. The same goes for wars. The warlords--of war and peace--destroyed so much, not only what existed, but all those new things that could have existed, if only individuals were left in peace.
-- Adam Young -
I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to 'this costs too much' or 'that's impossible'.
-- Adora Svitak -
There are two types of films - one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some producers who make films for the heck of it, they complete their films for small amounts, sell it at low costs with almost no publicity.
-- Ajay Devgan -
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
-- Alan Perlis -
If you look up into His face and say, "Yes, Lord, whatever it costs," at that moment He'll flood your Life with His presence and power.
-- Alan Redpath -
We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
-- Albert Camus -
We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.
-- Aldo Leopold -
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
It is haram [religiously forbidden] to use narcotics in any way because it results in considerable adverse effects in terms of personal health and social cost. By the same token, it is haram to deal in narcotics in any way, i.e., carrying, transporting, storing, selling, buying, etc.
-- Ali Khamenei -
The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
Terrestrial scenery is much, but it is not all. Men go in search of it; but the celestial scenery journeys to them; it goes its way round the world. It has no nation, it costs no wearinesss, it knows no bonds.
-- Alice Meynell -
The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value - that is, something that makes living worthwhile.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
When you only have a million dollar annual budget and a Super Bowl ad costs $4 million, you have to do something very creative to get onto the Super Bowl.
-- Allen St. Pierre -
Time is priceless, yet it costs us nothing. You can do anything you want with it, but you can’t own it. You can spend it, but you can’t keep it. And once you’ve lost it, there is no getting it back. It’s just gone.
-- Allison DuBois -
What does it cost us to say: "My God help me! Have mercy on me!" Is there anything easier than this? And this little will suffice to save us if we be diligent in doing it.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.
-- Amory Lovins -
I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.
-- Amory Lovins -
The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.
-- Amy Carmichael -
You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.
-- Amy Heckerling -
Like now what Urban Outfitters has become is very much how I always dressed in high school by going to garage sales and getting stuff for 50 cents. Cost a little more now, to look like crap.
-- Amy Lee -
It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.
-- Anatoly Karpov -
I have to ask you to resist, not comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it, and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.
-- Andrew Lansley -
It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.
-- Andrew Natsios -
The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line "You cannot be turned down for this coverage!" are actually saying, " For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody-and make them pay through the nose.
-- Andrew Tobias -
In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America.
-- Andrew Tobias -
I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
-- Andy Hertzfeld -
We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.
-- Andy Partridge -
There are positive and negative thoughts. And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively .
-- Angelo Dundee -
Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.
-- Ann Macbeth -
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
-- Anna Julia Cooper -
Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.
-- Anne Campbell -
The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy -
Bottled water costs about 2000 times more than tap water. Can you imagine paying 2000 times the price of anything else? How about a $ 10,000 sandwich?
-- Annie Leonard -
Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime...Please, treat your garlic with respect...Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation.
-- Anthony Stafford Beer -
It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
-- Antonio Porchia -
The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.
-- Aristotle -
The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.
-- Arlen Specter -
It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.
-- Arlen Specter -
The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.
-- Arne Duncan -
I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.
-- Arne Jacobsen -
The Creed of the Assassin Brotherhood teaches us that nothing is forbidden to us. Once, I thought that meant we were free to do as we would. To pursue our ideals, no matter the cost. I understand now. Not a grant of permission. The Creed is a warning.
-- Arno Hintjens -
If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.
-- Arnold Bennett -
Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.
-- Arnold Bennett -
When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer.
-- Arnold Kling -
An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.
-- Arthur Bloch -
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
-- Arthur Miller -
The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years.
-- Arthur Rock -
How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there.
-- Atom Egoyan -
Nothing compares to pizza, and you discover and rediscover it when you are much too old, and you have got too much cholesterol and triglycerides...A collector is someone who is ready to devour the work of art that he wants to possess at all costs.
-- Augusto De Luca -
I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.
-- Aulus Gellius -
Margins on other sales and revenues grew as a result of the growth in extended service plan revenues, which have no associated cost of sales, and the growth in our service margin, reflecting improved overhead expense absorption.
-- Austin Ligon -
There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.
-- Axl Rose -
I want to live fully, very intensely. I would never want to live partially, suffering from illness or injury. If I ever happen to have an accident that eventually costs my life, I hope it happens in one instant.
-- Ayrton Senna -
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
-- B. C. Forbes -
I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from affectation at all costs, as if it were a rough and dangerous reef, and (to use perhaps a novel word for it) to practise in all things a certain nonchalance [sprezzatura] which conceals all artistry and makes whatever one says or does seem uncontrived and effortless.
-- Baldassare Castiglione -
To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
All I want to do, if you've already got health care, is lower your costs.
-- Barack Obama -
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
-- Barbara Bush -
No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.
-- Barry Boehm -
Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.
-- Barry Boehm -
It really doesn't cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable
-- Bear Bryant -
It will cost me a lot to send you with Scott wearing that dress but, just so you know: if you come with that dress slightly wrinkled,I will trace Scott, and when I find him, it's not gonna be pretty
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.
-- Ben Affleck -
It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.
-- Ben Bernanke -
Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
-- Ben Feldman -
There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality thing because every time you move, it costs time and money.
-- Ben Wheatley -
Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.
-- Benjamin Constant -
I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. Â And the cost is more than I can bear.
-- Benjamin Martin -
The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
-- Betty Smith -
Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.
-- Bill Delahunt -
I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.
-- Bill Gates -
Tea Party has now cost the Republicans 5 senate seats. My next donation is going to them.
-- Bill Maher -
In FY 2006, interest payments alone on the national debt cost us $406 billion. . . . What a waste. . . . That $406 billion is pathetically squandered on interest, just because we lacked the discipline to pay our bills when due.
-- Bill Press -
Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.
-- Bill Shorten -
Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have
-- Billy Graham -
The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
-- Bjorn Lomborg -
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
-- Blaise Pascal -
The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.
-- Bob Dylan -
Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!
-- Bob Dylan -
That's what love does - it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you'll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
-- Bob Goff -
A credit card sometimes adds to the high cost of living but more often to the cost of high living.
-- Bob Phillips -
In this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.
-- Bob Taft -
You can win, it'll just cost you some money.
-- Bobby Heenan -
Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.
-- Boris Becker
