Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Potts

As far as me getting signed at my age, the chances are less than zero. But if you've got any kind of art inside of you, you have a responsibility to share it with other people. The worst thing that can happen with any artist is not to believe in what you do.

S. Walker

He's extremely mature for his age, and looks 15 or 16.

Catherine Hardwicke

I don't think about age. It's more about the spirit. I've known Nikki since she was five. And Nikki is a special spirit.

Suzanne Vega

I think it's a really good option for someone my age,

George Mikelsons

I am leaving to enjoy retirement like others my age, but am confident I will be leaving ATA in good hands,

George Savile

In this Age, when it is said of a man, "He knows how to live," it may be implied he is not very honest

Colleen Kelley

In this technological age, and with security such a vital concern, it is critical that the federal government use all the tools at its disposal to attract and retain the high-quality employees the public wants and expects it to have. Fair and competitive pay clearly is a major component in that competition.

Carol Thorp

In the tabloid age, people think that they can say what they want. This is not (covered) by free speech. The truth is you can't just say what you want.

Howard Stringer

In the digital age, content lends both brain and muscle to our electronics business,

Jun Fukashiro

Bonds are getting a boost from Fukui's comments. Yields were high enough to attract some investors.

E. B. White

Even though the Swans have been there for over 20 years now and really built up a loyal following, AFL on television does not attract the sort of audiences we would like, ... We would just have got killed if we went in any earlier. We are putting it on at 10pm, which is not what I would call late, but we would get hammered if we put it on live.

Jay Rosen

Big Media does not know how to innovate, ... What capacity for product development do news organizations show? Zip. How are they on nurturing innovation? Terrible. Is there an entrepreneurial spirit in newsrooms? No. Do smart young people ever come in and overturn everything? Never. Do these firms attract designers and geeks who are gifted with technology? They don't, because they don't do anything challenging enough. They don't innovate, or pay well. So they can't compete.

Scott Bender

We've put together a first-rate team that has considerable experience in designing casinos that are visually attractive and fun for visitors.

Nicholas Lea

L.A. to me is not really an attractive place.

Todd Berry

(Miami) is a university where you can go win a national championship. Certainly any coach would be attracted to that. There are an awful lot of positives there. I think I'm a legitimate candidate. It would be a very, very attractive job to me.

Ron Saxton

I will work to attract and support great teachers and principals to our schools, and push to remove unacceptable ones.

Robert Hess

I take this as the last nail in (Brownsville's) coffin. We have no industry, now we have no hospital. What do we have to attract people?

Joanne Sandy

We mainly wanted to find a way to give Nick the information that he could use about our newly-educated work force to help market and attract businesses to the Galesburg area.

Mike Kohs

It was a lack of communication on his part. He?s been clearly frustrated with his injury.

Tzipi Livni

The process clearly is a process that leads in the direction of two states, ... We will lead in the direction of two states.

John O'Neil

Everybody knew Coke was the one that could pay the most if they wanted to. Now, this puts the company back to where it was three weeks ago before the Pepsi bid. It clearly can remain an independent company if it wants to. They are not cornered at all.

Willie Pearson

Coretta Scott King was clearly more than the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King. She was an icon in her own right.

David Page

Contrary to the dire predictions that have become popular over the last decade, the sky is *not* falling on the Y. This research clearly demonstrates that natural selection has effectively preserved regions of the Y chromosome that have no mechanisms with which to repair damaged genes.

Toni Sacconaghi

Since he took over, the stock has gone up 25 percent, so clearly the market...appears to be expecting material cost-cutting, of which I would presume a significant ingredient would be work force reduction.

Pete Nicholas

By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson's.

Suzi Leather

By focusing more clearly on the risk factors that could lead to serious harm, we will have a system that is fairer for patients and more proportionate for doctors while still protecting children's interests,

Matthew Fassler

Home Depot is clearly benefiting from the tail of a powerful housing and refinancing cycle.

Claire Coffee

I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

Ron Paulson

If we are not one of those chosen, then that's when we need people to start to vote. It's critical that if you can't watch, you at least find out how to vote.

Carl Davis

Employees are told right from the start that there is to be no interaction.

Steve Bolman

Each year, we have new employees, and we need to make sure that they and other employees know the process and procedures that are in place.

Lynn Dziad

We handed out leaflets to passengers, (airport) employees and retailers, and their reaction seemed to be 100 percent supportive.

George Hoffman

I would think that is highly unlikely any of our employees would do that.

Janet Hansen

It's an issue of how you treat your employees and make your plans. We're not going to skip any tournaments. It makes me mad, but I'm not going to have the kids suffer for it.

William Drummond

Of this fair volume which we world do name / If we the sheets and leaves could turn with care.

Allan Houston

Even though I wasn't practicing twice a day, I was still doing some stuff, ... So it just really didn't have any time to recover. I don't think it's fair to judge it off training camp, though.

Henry Hyde

We think it would be helpful to hear from the president and we'd like to participate in any fair examination of him,

Terry Wilczek

We had our hands full with him last year. He's a good player. But it looks like they have a fair number of playmakers.

Sonya Hartnett

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.

Ric Ocasek

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

Hartley Coleridge

She is not fair to outward view / As many maidens be; / Her loveliness I never knew / Until she smiled on me.

Darrell Blackman

I felt like I let the team down. I feel like I made a game-changing mistake by making that fair catch.

John Taylor

I feel like he wanted to be as fair and just with the kids as possible.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Eric Stern

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

Stephen Bernstein

But at least we have the federal judge saying he should be released.

Alcee Hastings

Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.

Joe Sinsheimer

We shouldn't have to wait for state or federal indictments to get rid of Jim Black.

Brian McDonald

We think that federal law trumps what's in state law. You would not have to put this to a vote.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Chris Bell

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Larry Craig

We do not take away the powers of surveillance, ... We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

Chris Simcox

We will be going home when the government sends troops or the National Guard to secure the border. Until then, the patrols will continue.

Susie Stonner

We will be contacting local government and the Red Cross. I really don't know how soon.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Tom Udall

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

Mahatma Gandhi

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Lang Lang

So I think for me, it's nice, like a big brother, I can tell them what should pay attention, what shouldn't pay attention, what words you should take, what things you shouldn't take.

Jeff Kagan

People who want traditional phone service will pay what they are paying now.

Benjamin Franklin

Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

Allen Douglas

No one should have to pay more than his or her portion of fault.

Terry Davis

No one can suppress the truth forever, but some people never stop trying. It is the journalists who pay the price.

Carlos Delgado

One time, they didn't pay me. But for the most part, they have treated me well.

Rich Vallinaggi

No one wanted to volunteer, so I did. I thought I'd try it. They were paying for the course.

Charles Moskos

now that we pay soldiers to die for us, that Americans don't want to be reminded of sacrifice?

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Adam Smith

We want the public to be more engaged.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We are not worried by the Security Council, but it is the wrong method.

Tim Allen

I have a thing for tools.

Socrates

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Michael Crichton

To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.

Roberto Unger

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

Irving Layton

My neighbour/ doesn't want to be loved/ as much as/ he wants to be envied.

Tim Danson

He doesn't want to be in the courtroom, he wants to be on the ice.

Dan Hampton

Who wants to play in the band? I wanted to play football.

Chris Pine

Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.

Gareth Gates

I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.