Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathryn Minshew

If you're able to arrange a trial period with a new hire, do it. It will give both of you a chance to make sure the position is a good fit - and can help you avoid being in the awkward situation of wanting to fire someone three or four weeks in.

Katherine Paterson

Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.

Matt Bomer

You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.

Neal A. Maxwell

How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?

Mikhail Lermontov

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

Mitt Romney

I like being able to fire people.

Princess Diana

I should never have played with fire and I did. And I got very burned.

Publilius Syrus

Divide the fire, and you will the sooner put it out.

Corin Nemec

I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.

Amanda Seyfried

I'm never going to be with a guy that can't deal with my friendship with him.

Andrew Vachss

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

Joe Thornton

Those guys are going to get signed. It's just a matter of time.

Ricky Jay

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

Tom Petty

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

Rihanna

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Richie Sambora

I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.

Tim Allen

I'm one of these guys that just spoils the environment. I like ATVs and snowmobiles. I have a motorcycle up there, and I like cruising through the hills.

Charles Bukowski

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

Daniel Woodrell

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

Anne Lamott

The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.

T. S. Eliot

If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard, The Word without a word, the Word within The world and for the world; And the light shone in the darkness and Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the center of the silent Word. Oh my people, what have I done unto thee. Where shall the word be found, where shall the word Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence

Simone Elkeles

Say it again,” he says. “That whole drawn-out speech?” I remember something about a solar system, but I’m too light-headed to recite the entire thing all over again. He steps closer. “No. The part about you fallin’ for me.

Roland Gift

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light,

Steve Coleman

Light is my brush. Film is my canvas.

Stephen Spender

Since we are what we are, what shall we be But what we are? We are, we have Six feet and seventy years, to see The light , and then resign it for the grave .

Stephen Spender

Death to the killers, bringing light to life.

Mahatma Gandhi

A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

Rick Baker

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

Reggie Bush

I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best.

Tom Hodgkinson

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.

Toni Morrison

I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me.

Tom Verlaine

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

Scott Adkins

I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will

Fannie Lou Hamer

I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Jack Nicholson

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.