Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Davidson

We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker.

Paul Thomas Anderson

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

Felix Rohatyn

Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.

John Tory

Were all the protests really necessary? People have the right to expect better and more competent leadership than that.

Juan Guzman

If he's been declared incompetent by justices in human rights trials, I don't see how these same courts will declare him competent for economic trials,

Nelson Mandela

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

Nico Rosberg

My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.

Robert Edmunds

We don't have to do this to get accredited, but when (North Central) reviews the materials they look for how we are sure students are competent in areas. Every university is faced with accountability.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We are right now going through the process, and it is -- as you know, it's always very important that we appoint the right person and the most competent person, the person that really is skilled and has the experience,

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

I was lucky to book a show pretty quickly after getting to L.A., but I struggled getting started in Vancouver. If I had gotten those earlier roles in Vancouver, I wouldn't have gone to L.A. to get the show that launched my career.

Tony Raines

Knowing how we ran early in the race and how I think we could have run, I was disappointed. But at the same time, I went there knowing I was going to race for a finish. I didn't race anybody.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

Manny Acta

I would start spring training a week earlier so the players would get five or six exhibition games in before starting.

Mike Ledsome

Katie was ready to go (Thursday). She got into a groove early and started hitting her spots and pitching stronger as the games progressed.

Rich Brands

Just looking at their results, I think it will be a pretty even match. We want to come out and not make any mistakes early on. We want to try and exploit some of the free kicks and throw-in stuff we've been working on.

Ben Gordon

Just like Tuesday (against Dallas) we struggled early and in the second half we were able to make a run. It was just a little to late.

Teresa Kerry

John is a fighter. He earned his medals the old-fashioned way, by putting his life on the line for his country,

Bible Bible

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

Bob Paduchik

Ken Blackwell is either a huge hypocrite or very incompetent.

Peter Greenaway

I think it is really important to be in some way provocative - either intellectually or viscerally - in the films one makes.

Shimon Peres

It can't happen as long as there is still shooting. Either there is shooting or there are talks,

Steve Smith

He can play either position equally well, and I don't often say that about guards. I hear that and when I see most kids, I think they become one or the other. He can honestly play either. And that helps.

Richard Berner

Greenspan's remarks will be significant, either because of what he does say or what he doesn't say, ... They will move rates higher this year but the timing of that may have changed.

Brad McClellan

He should either be running for office or be an impartial elections officer and not try to fool the voters that he can be both.

Clint Hurdle

Hitting a Major League baseball. I wasn't that good at either one. I think I've got the marriage thing nailed down now and that took me three tries. I know I can't hit the fastball anymore.

Jerry Falwell

It could have gone either way, right to the last minute of the game. I think the players took something very positive from that game, that if they play up to their potential, they can be a competitive squad.

John Hobbs

It could have gone either way. It was pretty volatile there for a while. Thank God it didn't turn out to be a free-for-all.

Sophie Winkleman

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'

Elizabeth McGovern

Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick!

Bill Walton

It is a big deal, because it is money and it's money we always meant to be able to pay (the state), but the money was never there to pay them.

Lorraine Kelly

I think we were meant to be painting outside originally,

Joe Wilcox

It is meant to be an idea factory.

Josh Harding

I went outside and talked to Manny a bit. He said that every goalie has to go through it. It meant a lot for me that he was there.

Peter MacKay

This was not meant to be a slight to anyone.

Brian Greene

There was a time when 'universe' meant 'all there is.' Everything. The whole shebang. The notion of more than one universe, more than one everything, would seemingly be a contradiction in terms.

Coach Blount

It's not a problem for me, if it's meant to be, it's meant to be. We'll do what we have to do.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Abbott L. Lowell

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

Antoni Gaudi

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

Lord Shaftesbury

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

Mike Kemp

I think that might have been a turning point in the game.

Siri Hustvedt

Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely.

Mike Hargrove

He might as well have been wearing a sandwich board, with 'Eat At Joe's' on one side, ... and 'I'm bunting' on the other.

Richard Paul Evans

Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.

Richard Dawkins

I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.

Samuel Beckett

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

Salman Khan

If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.

Wesley Clark

You have to take a plan that might work and make it work

Walt Disney

The worst of us is not without innocence,although buried deeply it might be.

Rian Johnson

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

Veronica Roth

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

Lionel Blue

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

Leo Tolstoy

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

Ralph Goodale

Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts.

Paul Krugman

The economic expansion that began in 2001, while it has been great for corporate profits, has yet to produce any significant gains for ordinary working Americans. And now it looks as if it never will.

Katharine Hepburn

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

Jonathan Franzen

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

Commissioner Robinson

I'm very uncomfortable. We need to get it resolved as quickly as possible.

Don Gould

You'd be surprised how quickly you get used to having them.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

David Ayer

Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Gibbs

I think we realized what was at stake,

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Steve Jobs

Oh, I never realized that those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped!

Nancy Roman

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

Michael Newdow

And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit.

Jesse Spencer

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Steven Lopez

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Robert Duncan McNeill

I directed an early episode of 'Supernatural' the first season called 'Skin.'

Sandra Cisneros

I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

Mitchel Goldman

If you want anything more than that, you'll need to come to us for more than a skin cream,

Mila Kunis

If you imagine whipping your skin every day, that's what it does and it's a full prosthetic piece.

Jose Saramago

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon.

Joe Chung

We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.

Marya Hornbacher

I wish I could find words to explain what this kind of cold is like- the cold that has somehow gotten in underneath your skin and is getting colder and colder inside you.

Patrick Jones

these are the screams within these are the life streams bleeding from skin

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Tamra Strano

Once I turned in the packet, I didn't have another thought about it.

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

William Bass

No, ... That's just how it turned out.

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.