One of the disconcerting things about writing for publication is that you're trying to clear your little parcel of land in a field where Taste is king - and, as we all know, there's no accounting for Taste.
Darin Strauss
KingWritingAccountingTryingYou
At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
I. King Jordan
CollegeAccountingThinkAttention
The revenue stream for Social Security benefits comes from payroll taxes, which are credited to the Social Security Trust Fund - accounting for the program's finances separately from the rest of the budget.
Jerome Powell
TrustAccountingRestSecurityTaxes
I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.
Jean Shepherd
AccountingYouWhiteDownDamnSee
Some of what I consider my best work, and some of the best films that I've ever worked on, kind of disappear without a trace. There's no accounting for it. Something connects, or something doesn't.
Roger Deakins
WorkBestAccountingKindWithout
Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and already made a profit.
Chris Cornell
MoneyAccountingProfitWayOut
Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.
William Wilberforce
LifeGodAccountingUps And Downs
While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.
Mark Udall
AccountingBelieveFinancialAmerican
There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.
Gerhard Herzberg
GoodScienceAccountingWrongLead
We don't understand the equity market well, and so we deploy funds in fixed-income securities, and like any other securities, investment in those securities also need to follow the mark-to-market accounting principle.
Chanda Kochhar
AccountingInvestmentUnderstandNeed
We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe.
Saul Perlmutter
AccountingUniversePictureSomething
I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.
Bernard Ebbers
TechnologyDayFinanceAccounting
If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
Adam Davidson
CrazyAccountingWeirdAmericaAlien
With greater extensibility and programmability, bitcoin can evolve to enable transformations in how all forms of property are secured and exchanged, how voting and governance function, including spilling into the automation of commercial law, audit, and accounting.
Jeremy Allaire
LawAccountingVotingAutomation
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.'
Amity Shlaes
EducationChildAccountingParent
Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.
Ron Lewis
IdentityAccountingImmigrationCards
I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.
Brian Ferneyhough
AccountingGoSometimesPersonalHow
We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.
Susan George
AccountingToolsKnowNeedTellUs
The bailout of Fannie Mae is completely off the books. It's going to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet nobody is placing this in any type of column in accounting for federal debt.
Leonard Lance
AccountingNobodyDebtCostGoing
The Glassco Commission was really not interested in good science. It was interested in good accounting.
GoodScienceAccountingInterested
Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.
Bethany McLean
MoneyAccountingSittingSomewhere
Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.
Reince Priebus
GovernmentToughAccountingChoices
I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.
TechnologyAccountingEngineering
It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
Daisaku Ikeda
LifeAccountingRealityEarthWay
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