Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Berger

Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.

Mickey Levy

We're looking for increases in employment, but because the labor force is growing 1 percent a year, we need 125,000 new jobs per month to stabilize the unemployment rate. We see the unemployment rate drifting slightly higher and lingering higher for the next year.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The more we treasure the words of the prophets and apply them the better we will recognize when we are drifting off course-even if only by a matter of a few degrees.

Tim Heekin

It's just drifting up today, there's no one catalyst,

Tom Schrader

Augusts are tough months. We've pretty much got the meat of the earnings out of the way, and now we've got to drift through the summer doldrums.

Tom Schrader

Augusts are tough months, ... We've pretty much got the meat of the earnings out of the way, and now we've got to drift through the summer doldrums.

Kim Miller

The smoke has drifted farther south. In some areas, the visibility is about 10 feet. As soon as the visibility improves we will reopen those roadways.

Jon McGregor

It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it.

Jarvis Cocker

You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.'

Hanya Yanagihara

Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.

Joan Chen

All my girlfriends were learning musical instruments - forced to learn musical instruments because if they knew a musical instrument, they would be in the performance troupe. Even if they were sent down. Then they wouldn't be in the fields. Then they'd probably be treated a little better. That was the hope.

Matt Dubay

It's just not fair. She has options in this. As a man, I have no options and am forced to live with her choices.

Christopher Young

A lot of our people were forced to work overtime.

Bronwyn Belling

A lot of people thought they were secure. Then, lo and behold, the pension plans go under, the market takes a downturn, and they're forced to look at their house as a more liquid asset.

John Galsworthy

A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappy until he can get out of it

Linda Curtis

They have a plan for making the free frontage roads slow. So slow that if people wanted to get anywhere, they would be forced to take the toll lanes.

Chris Quinn

They got up in us, made us do things we didn't want to do. They forced us into some tough shots.

Grady Bennett

They stop the run and make you throw. That's what they want you to do. They forced us to play their game.

Steve Hall

We're still on a trend that is taking us downward.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Ladrika Gross

They're taking this pretty easy. They're taking it better than I thought they would.

David Carr

They're taking their time with him, and that's good,

Carol Olson

It's not like we're taking from other facilities. Everybody's experiencing an increase.

Laura McElroy

For him, repairing something is like taking a walk. He fixes everything.

Lee Gierczynski

This is very atypical. It's taking a very, very long time.

Kurt Tsue

Right now, the tides are taking it out. Should the wind change, it could come right back into shore.

David Carr

I see us taking more of a businesslike approach,