Famous Quotes & Sayings

Drew Cassidy

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Paul Kreutzer

As long as I can look at Joe and say, 'Is my food cold or late?' Or (if) the quality goes down, (and) all those are answered no ... to my satisfaction, I'm a happy camper.

Clint Hurdle

Offensively, he is finding his niche. I think he is well aware there is probably more there. Most of the questions everybody had about him going in should be answered by now. They have for me.

John Abizaid

And the answer is it is, but it's also a difficult road to go on. There are peaks and valleys that you go through, but overall, the trend is good. We're certainly confident. And the most important thing we're confident about is that the Iraqis want to do this. They want to take the fight. They will take the fight.

Jerry Spinelli

Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project.

Lynn McDonald

Sometimes we shot the ball pretty well, and sometimes we didn't. We got in a deep hole, and it's hard to come out of it. They dominated the boards in the first half, and al-ways seemed to have an answer when we came back and got closer. When you get the open shots and can't make them, it's tough to win.

Andrew Clements

Sometimes kids ask how I've been able to write so many books. The answer is simple: one word at a time. Which is another good lesson, I think. You don't have to do everything at once. You don't have to know how every story is going to end. You just have to take that next step, look for that next idea, write that next word.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Don't be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments.

Lech Walesa

People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders.

Gary David Goldberg

A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.

Jim Davis

We had some chances, I just didn't think we got any breaks tonight.

Joe Sakic

We got a couple of breaks on a couple of goals. None luckier than mine, obviously.

Joe Blanton

We're going out and giving it all we have. It's just a matter of a couple breaks here and there.

Scott Cameron

There's not much to say, really. We gave them four quick goals. You can't give a good team breaks like that. They'll jump all over you. That's why they're in first place.

Chris DiMarco

He's got a few good breaks over his career. So you know what? Darn. It's golf.

Casey Looze

It breaks my heart that she went to federal prison. This lady was so sick, so frail. It just breaks my heart.

Philip Fretz

This was one of those games where we simply got the breaks we needed. We could have been down 2-0 at halftime as Huntington North hit the crossbar twice but couldn't get in.

Mark Bowman

I thought we wrestled well. A couple of breaks go our way and we would have won the whole thing.

John Whisenant

There's nothing like throwing it in the basket, ... I mean, that's why she's our hired gun.

Geoff Smith

We just had to hire 100 more people this year and integrate them in. We're probably pushing 600 people now.

Sam Altman

Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

Tom Smith

If (the company) hired permanent replacements, then they don't have to give the strikers their jobs back upon termination of the strike.

Margie Feinberg

Jared Hunter no longer works for us and can never be hired here again.

Floyd Keith

We don't give favoritism just because an African-American was hired at the institution. That wouldn't qualify for what we're trying to do (by assessing the hiring process, not the outcome). That search probably could have been done better.

Russell Allen

We put a big sign in the window and hired a broker, so it's not like there was some secret deal.

Shawnee Smith

I don't like to see a scary image because it sticks in my mind. Which is maybe why I get hired to do the scary movies because I'm truly scared and upset.

Dave Nonis

I'm not going to talk about individual people. I want to make sure that when we hire somebody, that it's someone that we're comfortable with as a person.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

John Hall

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

Brian Tracy

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

Arianna Huffington

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Edward Abbey

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Alan Mulally

We were on a very positive track and this is just a sad thing for all of us,

Don Ward

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

Pete Hughes

Seeing him get the victory at 103 made me want it just as much.

Tony Soprano

I was seeing a therapist myself about a year ago, ... I had some issues.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing us on TV. We're on TV so much, it's ridiculous.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing it on TV. I'm sure they are.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Buddy Bell

We told Peralta when we sent him down that we'd probably be seeing him soon. We just didn't think it'd be this soon.

Kevin Sheridan

Remember, this has only been operational for 90 days. What you're seeing is version 1.1.

Sam Stovall

In general, we are seeing things that look a lot better.

Michael Goodman

It's sort of like you're seeing Yahoo spread its wings and be more of a portal that ties into the TV in your home.

Frank Melton

The whole thing with Walker was for his own protection. It had nothing to do with getting his testimony.

Dr. Beebe

You've got to try and normalize your life. I just walked around every morning, the same as I do here (in Connecticut).

Teresa Palmer

I can walk around relatively anonymously.

Kathleen Farrell

I thought I was going to just walk in and walk out.

Henry David Thoreau

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

James Bryant Conant

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

Suzanne Lloyd

I can't watch it!' he'd tell me, ... and he'd walk out.

Jerry Bailey

I want to walk away in one piece.

Tracey Gold

My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.