Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Emily Edmonston

Sandra played exceptionally for us today. I patted her on the back and told her she did her job well today.

Sophia Amoruso

I've never worked in a retail store, but I did sell shoes at Gimme Shoes in San Francisco, a job I was fired from.

Joseph Biden

It was to say to the United Nations, 'By your standards ... you have not done your job relative to Saddam Hussein,'

Ann Strother

It was a little frustrating, but I think for the most part we did a poor job defensively. We kind of slapped at them and let them go by us.

Ben Howland

It was another outstanding job defensively. In the second half, we did a much better job of getting to the line and getting fouled.

Craig Bellamy

I've been told to do a job for the team... but I'm playing out of position and want to go up front.

Anthony Williams

I've been doing the same job for the last 10 years and I just feel that I'm getting a little bored. I'd like to do something that allows me to remain in the tech industry, but at the same time I'm not sure I'd be making what I make now. I'm not necessarily looking for something that would pay me more, just something that I will like doing more and if that means making less, so be it.

Lesley Manville

It would never occur to me not to look dreadful if that's the job description.

Jose Manuel Barroso

I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time.

Al Michaels

It would be a nice way for this whole run to end with the first overtime Super Bowl.

Jonathan Simon

It would be nice if I could come back to Auburn. It would be nice to give back.

Ann Beattie

It was very much a surprise. It's very nice when someone takes notice.

Ryan Giggs

The rivalry between the two teams is massive, so it's always nice to play them and even nicer to win.

Tim Ricketts

This is our third straight win and to win on the road like this is a nice victory.

Glenys Bakker

We're gunning for that. It would be nice to end the season with another win.

Brendan Fraser

It's nice to know that if you've worked really hard at something, it gets recognised with a tick in the success column - however you define that, be it making a bunch of dough, which the actors never see much of, or whether it's a piece that's enlightening or stays with the audience maybe six, seven or even eight or 10 years later.

Jane Kaczmarek

One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.

Ronnie Wulf

You see him playing the game, but you don't really get to see what he can do. At practice, he was just awesome.

Carmelo Anthony

You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest of the way.

Annika Sorenstam

You still are playing the same holes, it's just a different order.

Adam Dunn

You playing today, LaRue? What is it, a spot start?

Stefan Hell

Eventually I realised there must be a way by playing with the molecules; trying to turn the molecules on and off allows you to see adjacent things you couldn't see before.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Sarah Olson

We're playing better as a team. This was more respectable than the first time we saw them.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Pat Summitt

And we talked Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday ... we talk all the time. But did we talk about playing each other? No, because we had a different agenda.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Brandon Jay McLaren

I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.

Barbara Kingsolver

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

Bai Ling

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Barbara Pym

She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

Art Buchwald

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

Art Buchwald

I like champagne because it always tastes as though my foot's asleep.

Ayrton Senna

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

Benito Mussolini

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.