Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Steve Swift

What is the monetary value of that? How many jobs are worth losing that?

Alexander Ovechkin

Nobody ever tells me to give them a pass or anything. My job is to score goals, and if I don't shoot the puck, I can't score goals.

Alexander Payne

I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.

Alex Van Halen

I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.

Alex Tabarrok

College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth.

Alex Gibney

I don't think Steve [Jobs] started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed.

Alex Gibney

Steve Jobs did not start started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed. He believed in making people comfortable with these machines, which is why he spent so much time thinking about how to design them a certain way, how to make them so user-friendly and interactive, and why he spent so much time studying the Zeitgeist.

Mark Martin

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

George Washington

A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.

George Meredith

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

Frank Sinatra

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad--if you're indifferent, Endsville.

George F. Kennan

Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline.

Fernando Pessoa

But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

Henry Miller

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Helen Keller

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

Cassandra Clare

Alec looked horrified, as if she'd asked him to put on a tutu and execute a perfect pirouette.