Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Barnes

I was also interested in the racial side of it. Even today, the Chief of the London Metropolitan Police is trying to make the force more representative of London and there's a lot of resistance from the predominantly white force.

Cesar Conda

Josh will be a policy-oriented chief of staff. I think that will be reflected in his hiring decisions.

Terry McAuliffe

He'll be back as a United States senator, or he's back as chief justice because he can run again. Or he'll be back as governor,

Matthew Szulik

Hal is an talented chief financial officer who has made valuable contributions to the company, and we wish him well in the future,

Teju Cole

Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in Pakistan in 2009 succeeded only on the seventeenth attempt.

Larry Wall

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Peter DeLorenzo

Heroic in scale and impact, the Super Chief was what concepts should be all about: 'blue sky' thinking combined with an unmistakable foundation in reality. Take a long look at that front end, pickup fans, because that's what the next generation of the F-150 is going to look like.

Ricky Rudd

I have been privileged to drive for some of the best. I also want to thank all of the talented and dedicated people I have worked with in racing over the years, the crew chiefs and the crew members, who put in so much time and effort to give me competitive cars.

Zainab Salbi

Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.

Peter Thiel

I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.

Mark Augustine

We look for in-line fourth-quarter financial results and more upbeat guidance for 2006 than Amgen provided at this time last year for 2005.

Mary Shapiro

I don't know whether they will say yes or no since there are all sorts of administrative, financial and legal issues.

Dick Cheney

He doesn't have a financial interest in the company,

Ruth Handler

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

Al Becker

In the past when we've gone through periods where we're eliminating jobs, we've tried to do it so it'll have as minimal an impact as possible. In this instance, the financial situation is such we're just not able to do that.

Randy Sharp

I think no question this will have a financial impact on American Girl.

Timothy Smith

The financial office still has the power to request financial information from these organizations so we're still not running the risk of giving money to financially unstable organizations.

Oliver Friedrichs

The general trend is that attackers aren't concentrating on 'far and wide,' worms, but on financial gain.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking for a reaction in the second half and I got it.

John Wardle

Kevin has got one and a half seasons to go so we are not silly enough to sit back and say that we are not going to do anything.

Franz Humer

I would say that we would see an acceleration (in drug sales), especially in the second half of the year, with the introduction of new products, with the acceleration also of the penetration of the oncology line in the non-U.S. markets,

Michael Schiavo

He wanted to go out into the hall and have a fistfight. It was ludicrous.

Jim Boeheim

He couldn't play those last two games. I had to take him out. He played like himself in the first half and we needed that. Our offense has been terrible and we need him to get it going and we did today for the first time in a while.

Shirley Sippel

He'd be playing that old piano at the town hall waiting for the meetings to start.

Sean Penn

Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was.

M. Thompson

Half the time, we don't even notice that they're there.

Leon Cooperman

Half the stocks I picked are up and half of them are down.

Barbara Matthews

Right now police officers are trying to keep people off the road.

Don James

It puts officers in a situation where they have to think about protecting people or violating policy.

John Shelton

Randy is qualified as a police officer for the state of Ohio, If he's called, he has got to go.

Keith Ellis

Another officer walked in when this was occurring.

Kofi Annan

Washington will not put an American officer on the ground.

Charles Ramsey

There was a convoy of delegates that got trapped by the crowds, and the officers were trying to get them out,

Bill Chase

By the time the officer got here, they thought it was this monster.

Mike Sheffield

Mr. Torres tried to kill Officer Brenda Bermudez.

Tommy Davis

We have over 27 students accounts, approximately 30, that said no officer was struck,

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

F. Stone

We had so many talented receivers, but our quarterback was being very rushed.

Pat Riley

There's not many who have a better or more talented (trio).

Dan Hendricks

I think this is a very deep, talented group.

Mike Sillinger

He always makes the right shot, the right move. He's a talented young player.

Laura Thomasson

There are a lot of talented choreographers around here. I think of this as a mini-ADF.

Charles Seaton

What makes them so valuable is their familiarity with our system, ... a specialized location.

Tom McCarthy

It's become more valuable to every film that we do.

David Hare

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Charles Frazier

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

Henry Ellis

The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.

Alfred Marshall

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Jack Canfield

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

Mark Richt

He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while.

Woody Allen

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

William James

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Roald Dahl

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

Robert Smith

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

Sara Shepard

My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true

Samuel Johnson

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

Sarah Dessen

Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring