Quotes About Report

And so, year after year, Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual taxpayer, according to the I.R.S. information on high earners—a publicly available database with taxpayers' identifying details removed. Indeed, in 1990 and 1991, his core businesses lost more than $250 million each year—more than double those of the nearest taxpayers in the sampling for those years.2

He [Caligula] also refused to examine a report supposedly concerning his own safety, on the ground that nobody could have any reason to hate him

Bill Maddox reported well of him to the village— "no airs at all and can't be fooled neither; upped with the bonnet and went over her as if he was bred to the trade"—so that by the time he appeared in the Swan with Walter of an evening Salcott St. Mary knew all about him and were prepared to accept him in spite of his reprehensible good looks.

Grant had dealt too long with the human intelligence to accept as truth someone's report of someone's report of what that someone remembered to have seen or been told.

We're talking tradition here, for heaven's sake. Not literary analysis. Do you consider "Good morning" to be a weather report?

What a starship needs is a bar, Kirk thought. A nice lounge somewhere, maybe forward where there'd be a good view, a few tables, a place to go and relax off duty. Perhaps he'd suggest it in his next report.

I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair.

I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair." ? Faith Hunter, Skinwalker

The Yale report explained that the essence of liberal education was "not to teach that which is peculiar to any one of the professions; but to lay the foundation which is common to them all.

I have made it a rule never to deny a false report, except under very exceptional circumstances. In nine cases out of ten the denying of the report simply calls attention to the original statement in a way to magnify it. Many people who did not see the original false report will see the denial and will then begin to search for the original report to find out what it was.

The weather service reported that there weren't any atmospheric conditions present that might have led to fish raining from the sky.

There are five degrees of initiative that the manager can exercise in relation to the boss and to the system: wait until told (lowest initiative); ask what to do; recommend, then take resulting action; act, but advise at once; and act on own, then routinely report (highest initiative).

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument. I call it "The No Fact Zone.

the conclusions reached in the Goldstone Report are not worthy of consideration by people of goodwill.

consideration when the DNA report landed. Bosch didn't think he would have done so, even with a direct DNA match to another suspect. He wrote a note on his pad. It was just one word: Manley. Bosch

coins. "Okay, now what?" I asked as I put my property back in my pocket. "Now we talk," Bosch said. "First off, do you want to file a report on this?" "Why bother? You know about it. It's your case. Why don't you know who this guy is?" "We're working on it." "That's not good enough, Bosch! He came after me! Why can't you ID him?" Bosch shook his head.

Any other vexations to report? he asks. I love the word 'vexations.' It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into an 'x' like that. Just the usual ones, she says. How was the weekend? Vexing. Not really, I just wanted to say it. You?

I must have been in junior high school when a scientist reported (mistakenly, as it turned out) that LSD scrambled your chromosomes; the entire media, as well as my health-ed teacher, made sure we heard all about it.

Science has trouble with this interpretation, however, because, whatever the perception is, it can't be verified by its customary tools. It's an anecdotal report, in effect, and so has no value. Science has little interest in, and tolerance for, the testimony of the individual; in this it is, curiously, much like an organized religion, which has a big problem crediting direct revelation too. But it's worth pointing out that there are cases

It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.

Any idiot can throw together a program or report and shove it out, but to get the balance and to get the skill set, that is what they pay us for. They don't pay us to prattle on the television; anybody can do that.