Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Schwertner

It's very difficult to census turkeys. It's a nut we've been trying to crack for quite a while.

Paul Auster

I took a job with the U.S. Census Bureau. In The Locked Room, the third volume of the New York Trilogy, there's a sequence where the narrator talks about working for the census, and I took this straight from life. As in the book, I wound up inventing people. Kind of curious.

Li Deshui

These census results show that the economic structure is actually better and healthier than our previous judgment.

John Edwards

This is an especially valuable survey, because it drills down into the benefits, costs, challenges and unexpected consequences experienced by managers; much more than the census type research of employees produced to date.

Kenneth Prewitt

There's more information on your driver's license than on the census short form.

Orlando Rodriguez

Census 2000 did not do a good job with group quarters, but they have a major impact, particularly in small towns.

Heather Boushey

Given that the Census doesn't seem to have a clear plan, and given that it's taken about seven years to develop a new survey historically, I don't see that it will take only two years to develop something better than we have now.

John Laird

Given what happened to the Central Coast, it's hard to support the current system, but since the last census 3.6 million people have been added. And to turn over the most diverse state in the union to a panel of retired judges, which is a very undiverse group ... I'd support an independent commission, or an independent commission with legislative review, or some other kind of hybrid.

K. V. Thomas

There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.

Ned Riley

A lot of these stocks were much higher a year ago than they are today. Clearly, the bottom-fishing issue is important and real.

Jim Kolbe

They need to weigh all of this because if you don't sign up for it now and you wait 10 years to sign up for it, when you're 75, you're going to pay a much higher premium.

James Awad

This Iranian issue is lurking as tension in the background. It's going to keep oil higher until it works its way out.

Mark Tolbert

They said that it might have higher than it should have been.

Rex Osborn

There was no risk or any concern. The livestock there went to higher ground.

Susan Gunderson

There's a higher likelihood that (blood profiles) will match within your own minority population.

Loretta Worters

It's all about how much your pocketbook can afford. You can take a higher deductible, but if you have an accident, you are going to pay a little more.

Mike Intravaia

I told the kids the expectations get higher every season because we started with a young group.

Emmanuel Ferry

This is the highest inflation rate we've seen in over three years and much higher than 0.3 percent in June 1999, ... Euro-zone inflation should come in around 2.2 percent in June, and the ECB is likely to respond with a 25-basis-point rate rise in September.

Eddie McGuire

We still remain the highest live television talk show. (Andrew) Denton and Rove (McManus) and all the rest of it get the Logies and we get the ratings,

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Marty Turco

When it comes down to it, the opportunity to win here is at its highest level. That's what I was looking for.

Richard Nugent

We're going to start doing this more regularly, ... I could be mistaken, but that's got to be one of the all-time highs. I'm pretty sure it's the highest we've ever had.

Tom Shannon

With this process improvement, ProFlu-1 is now sufficiently streamlined that it can be effectively used in the highest throughput labs, ... In the first week after release, we have shipped ProFlu-1 to several of the largest and most prestigious US labs.

Vivian Stringer

They're tournament-tested and play at the highest level. They're ready.

Dave Esquer

It's about us-we've got to play well (for) ourselves. If we play at our highest level and (Stanford) plays well, we'll take our chances.

Dave Cole

This is the highest number of reported vulnerabilities we have seen in a 6-month period.

Graham Mudd

This is the highest level of weekly non-travel spending recorded to date.

Paul Alderete

We're still in the process of doing enrollment projections for next year. When the projections are completed, we'll know how many portables should go in and when and where they'll go in by January or February.

Bryant Gimlin

It is typical that in January we will see a rise (in prices), this year it looks particularly volatile.

Kim Fields

It was Sunday, January 29. The world has not been the same since then.

Mark Stuart

I've been shopping with Mike since I was a kid, and, back in January he offered me the business. I got John involved, and it was on.

Seema Williams

This is part of the post-holiday sales fallout. Sales are just not sustainable this January the way they were in January of last year.

Anthony Crescenzi

You're going to get these rallies in dribs and drabs, between now and January

Vijay Dandapani

There are two periods when New York is soft: January and July.

Mike Matta

Every kid on this team has been in the weight room since January 3. Every kid on this team wants to win as much as Pat Devlin does.

Gerry Hunsicker

At this point, things couldn't be any better. But, in reality, you don't win pennants in January and February. Reality will set in in another week or two.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

James Allen

We want to see what's out there and is it worthwhile to take anything to the next level of funding.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Chogyam Trungpa

Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Ben Whishaw

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

August Strindberg

By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.

Michael Moriarty

When I saw Paul Scofield do 'Love's Labor's Lost at Stratford,' that's when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, 'This is what I want to do.'

Jim Boeheim

We struggled at times, but most of it was because of our schedule. It was more the product of our schedule than how we were playing. We really didn't play at the level we could until New York.

Kevin McKenzie

All my experiences with Lonoke schools have been great.

Elaine Hanratty

I've seen different schools and interacted with different disciplines.

Sherry Sturner

Every year, the schools were taking another week out of our summers. It was hot. So I said, 'You know what? I've had enough.

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.

Anne Anderson

Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,

Ron Messick

Lauren's so big as a player. A lot of schools are starting to take notice.

Mark Zupan

Students from his schools come out with real-world seasoning.

Mike Babineaux

They will be monitoring the schools throughout the week. They go in and use a form, similar to the one the state uses when it does its walk through.

David D. Burns

There is no standard 'therapeutic process,' since there are so many different schools of therapy.

Craig Stevens

A lot of this has to do with speculation that there was going to be a shortage of supply,

Cary Elwes

There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

Michael Davies

There's a freight shortage at the moment. They're going to struggle getting a lot of it over there.

John Eichberger

There's not a shortage of supply. It's a transitional issue.

Duncan Sheik

Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog

Roger Miller

We haven't had as many workers over there. We have a shortage of workers,

Jonathan Ames

There's no shortage of material in life.

John Shanley

There is probably, if anything, a shortage of availability of styles.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

John Felmy

We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Mike Kramer

It's been so long since we've won. We've got to get back on the winning track.

Rudy Rodriguez

A lot of firefighters had been there since Day One.

Donna Young

They have just killed us since about noon. It's been crazy.

Kyle Orton

They do a lot of stuff and I'm sure they're going to do more stuff since it's going to be my first start,

Charles Stanley

You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

Alan Watts

Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell?

Alan Rickman

Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there’s that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it’s like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it’s rather tedious to fill in the branches…

Alan Hovhaness

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

Alan Bennett

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

Chris Christie

I'm a conservative, pro-life governor in a state where it is really tough to be both. A state like New Jersey, with lots of Democrats, but still we cut taxes, we balanced budgets. We fought the teacher's union.

Chris Christie

What he's saying is that a Trump presidency will address those kind of things head on without caving into the special interests like the teachers union, which Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton has completely sold out to.

Chris Christie

I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it.

Chris Christie

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

Dave Craig

Saturdays we always have a lot of browsers -- teachers and tourists.

Avi

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Chris Crutcher

If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.

Wendy Kopp

The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.

Catherine Johnson

If you've ever been in a classroom, you know these teachers are underpaid.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.