Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Calloway

That?s where the bigger payoff would be. It?s a nice gesture, appointing nonvoting members to the board, but I think their energies would be wasted there.

Lee Epstein

During the first four years of justices' tenure, their voting behavior correlates at a rather high level with their appointing president's ideology, but for justices with ten or more years of service, that relationship drops precipitously,

Don Ward

Appointing a strong Business Development Director with a proven track record, who already knows Constructing Excellence well, is a big step forward in the restructuring of Constructing Excellence. He has an important contribution to make in demonstrating the value we provide to new and existing members of Constructing Excellence.

James Crosby

After more than seven years as CEO, I believe the time is right for someone else to take HBOS forward. In appointing Andy, the board has chosen the best person for the job.

Charles Schumer

The SEC desperately needs someone who both has a deep knowledge of how the markets function and at the same time possesses a rock-ribbed integrity. Bill Donaldson is such a man. I salute the administration for appointing him and appointing him quickly.

Howard Dean

you cannot expect the Iraqis to think that they have their own government if we're appointing their people. We need an election.

Brian Barwick

We will be in the business of appointing who we believe will be the right man to take care of one of the finest international teams in the world.

Mike Gill

We feel like you did the right thing in appointing a planning commission.

Dennis Lillee

If Australia want to regain the Ashes they would dramatically improve their chances by appointing Shane Warne as captain,

Chris Laramore

We want the kids to be physically fit and learn good behavior, sportsmanship, respect for themselves and for others.

John Silva

We actually enjoy them - their behavior and how they bounce around and stuff. They've always been a pleasure. Now rats, that's a different story.

Paul Heldman

We strongly dispute the claim that the behavior of some store managers reflected a corporate plan devised to further the company's position during the prolonged labor negotiations.

Liz Irwin

We have no idea who is doing this, but we cannot tolerate this kind of behavior. Certainly, we support the free expression of ideas, but the freedom to do so must not come at the expense of the rights of others.

Matt Bryden

What the region is looking for - and needs - is a power that guarantees stability through predictable behavior.

Bill Watterson

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification. -Calvin

Leonid Hurwicz

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

Barbara Tuchman

Human behavior is timeless.

Elizabeth Lonsdorf

We found that mothers showed no differential behavior toward their sons versus their daughters. They weren't being nasty to their sons or encouraging to their daughters.

Dirk Johnson

It's just painful, ... I could run on a treadmill forever, but anything side to side was very painful. Rolling out of bed. Getting out of a car. The problem is when you have to open your hips. Which he does every time he drops back.

Scott Hettrick

They (people) suddenly have their interest piqued in Johnny Carson. Clearly, the first week is pretty strong. Then it drops off pretty quickly.

Robert Wiley

Probably one in five (people approached) say they don't want to sign the petition, ... When we talk to them a little bit, that drops to about one in 10.

Don Zilverberg

One day the market can be very good, and then you have an outbreak of something like BSE and the market drops tremendously.

Aaron Rodgers

I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.

George Shiffler

You're seeing price drops and government-sponsored initiatives in many countries, in an effort to get PCs in. But you're still facing low per capita income and an immature economic structure.

James Blake

Your heart drops a little. You feel that in your stomach, once you realize it's over, ... You've got to just walk up there and congratulate Andre. That's all I could do, is think about how proud I am and move on.

Brian Billick

Well, if quarterback drops start going to 40 yards, then we're going to be concerned. As long as they stay in that 10-yard level, we're going to be OK.

Dwayne Bowe

Every great player drops a touchdown pass. I'm just happy I got mine out of the way early. That will be the last one, guaranteed.

J. Taylor

We've won one game. We won four last year. We've got a ways to go before we match last year. We haven't proved anything.

August Wilson

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

Adrian Moss

We always get better in practice because we have four strong, physical guys. It's got to be real hard to play against.

Diablo Cody

For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.

Don Flanagan

UNLV plays four guards. So using four guards was something we were looking at doing anyway.

B. F. Skinner

We are practicing with Hartland and they will get us prepared. They've been there the last four years and we should learn from them. They are a great program.

Jim McCann

We started this on a whim four years ago. We don't want to make it any larger than it is. It really is a lot of fun.

Caryn Jeffreys

We are a fluid, but large group. We do a lot of plays and four shows a years.

Fred Hartsfield

We stood up for four plays and shut them down. The game turned right there.

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,

Matt Millen

We started off the season with high expectations,

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.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Madeleine Albright

I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.

William Mosher

Whether the levels (of condom use) are high enough is for others to judge. But I think it's at least encouraging.

Jonathan Davies

When I was in high school, I wasn't a jock, I was into art, drama, and music, and I wore eyeliner, so I wasn't accepted.

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.

Stephen Hess

The most important thing in the long run in the United States was the appointment of two new justices to the Supreme Court.

Edward Lazarus

This is a situation where, from the very moment the justices start back up in October, they're going to be very divided,

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.

Lewis Wade

They're not going to tell. They'd rather retaliate.

Dryden Mitchell

It was so unorganized. ... It just got silly. We would have rather sat on that record for a year and let Geffen put it out.

Nick Cave

Aw, look, I don't know. I think I'd rather him do that than me.

James Griffin

As long as it is like it is and they tell me not to go back I'm here. I'd rather be up here anyway.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

Bill White

Rather than risk confrontation with (police), we are going to stay at the Capitol.

W. C. Fields

On the whole I would rather be in Philadelphia.

A.J. Burnett

Sooner rather than later, we're going to see a new team on top there.

Kevin Pietersen

Rather him than me in one of those things,

Akio Morita

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

Cheryl Tiegs

I've had four amazing men in my life, very strong, powerful, wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don't think I will get married again.

Chelsea Peretti

If you text 'I love you' and the person writes back an emoji - no matter what that emoji is, they don't love you back.

Chely Wright

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

Charlize Theron

I'm always open to a relationship, but I'm not putting those feelers out there now.

Charlize Theron

When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.

Charlaine Harris

It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.

Charles Handy

Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

Bill Maher

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

Denis Norden

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Bill Anderson

Power thrills, consistency kills.

Brandon Schnittker

We're not going to win the Big Ten championship the way we're playing.

Nobu Matsuhisa

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

Charles Coody

They told me in the tent there I'd probably get Most Improved.

Hugh Johnson

They tend to be like sheep. They are followers. It's called piling on in football, and I think it's the equivalent. It's unprecedented.

John MacArthur

There was a tense atmosphere, ... When the end came, it was very abrupt.

Denzel Washington

Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

DeForest Soaries

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

DeForest Soaries

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

Bob Barr

Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.

Birch Bayh

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

Benjamin Tucker

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

Chelsea Clinton

I'm definitely voting for First Gentleman.

Janet Yellen

If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that.

Dennis Prager

Our youth [with their overwhelming support of Obama] are voting for a permanent tax on their life