Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Rankin

Whether Rebus's 'skills' are ones his bosses would wish retained is a moot point, but it seems I have my 'get-in' clause should I need one.

John Challenger

A lot of people leave jobs because they say, 'I had no freedom. I had no say,' ... People don't want bosses who are ... just telling them what to do and not creating a strong collegial relationship with give and take.

Paul Stone

They don't make bosses like that any more.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It's the union bosses that run the state of California.

Peter Foley

It started in America. These are the kinds of sports done now, that modern people participate in. It's awesome. I'm really happy we're successful. It's great. I told my bosses we could get at least six medals and we've done that.

John MacPhee

At his point, my bosses are telling me we have to evaluate how and when to proceed, ... We're evaluating the plans and our options. What's going to be built is what the market demands...we're going to retrench and figure that out. Stay tuned, we'll be back in touch.

Nick Fry

It's at times like this that the bosses have to hold their heads up and really earn their money. We have a fast car and we just need a few things to go right in order to prove its performance. There will be no knee-jerk reaction. Honda are in formula one for the long term and the pressure on us to perform is self-generated from within the team.

Peter Foley

It's awesome. I want everybody to do well but I'm really happy that we were successful. It's what I planned to do. I told my bosses we could get six and we have.

Stewart Butterfield

I tend to be a lot more honest and transparent with employees than most bosses are. But I've had people tell me - even those who love working with me - that I'm terrifying, which is hard for me to imagine.

Charles Dickens

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

Charles Dickens

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Alain Prost

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

Alain Prost

I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.

Linda Gray

We want them to have exposure to females who have a career and a family. We want to let them know that you don't have to choose one or the other.

Hiltrud Breyer

We want to show the red card to forced prostitution. It has nothing to do with fair play, it's a crime.

Chris Bennett

Everything you do has to drive content, and the rest takes care of itself.

Chris Bangle

A car designer is really a sculptor.

Chris Bangle

Cars are the sculptures of our everyday lives

Nick Hanauer

The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things.

Frances Beinecke

The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.

Gordon Nixon

We are pleased with the strong earnings growth and ROE (return on equity) of 23.9% in the first quarter.

Jim Roche

We are pleased with the performance in the quarter, with the return of sequential revenue growth and with the solid earnings results,

Steve Previs

There are some disappointments in earnings and obviously Hewlett-Packard is a big one.

Chuck Hill

We still think we are on track to see earnings growth of 23 percent for the quarter.

Richard Chamberlain

When you've never had much money and earned little as an actor the first two years, you tend to save your money.

Holly Lisle

I earned my writing stripes with a large man's shoebox overflowing with rejection slips... more than 100 before I got my first, 'Yes, we want this,' accompanied by a check.

Ken Hitchcock

We want first badly. As hard as we've worked, we've earned that right. At one time, before we were decimated by injuries, we were first overall in points. Today and Friday are points we must have.

Clint Hurdle

We want to see his command, we want him to utilize his pitches, ... We also want to see him use his two-seam fastball and sinkerball.

Fisher DeBerry

The other team had a lot more Afro-American players than we did and they ran a lot faster than we did.

Ken Hitchcock

We started off fast and we kept it up.

Bob Baffert

When you've got a 20-horse field and a fast pace, anything can happen out there.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Bill Murray

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

Meles Zenawi

We have no intention of playing fast and loose with this document, with the OAU process, ... We only hope that this time around the other side really means what it says.

Scott Skiles

We were too fast on offense, our spacing was poor and we missed some shots.

Nick Bostrom

Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

Mark Kennedy

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

Nick Offerman

There have been a few occurrences where people in restaurants have sent me a rasher of bacon, which I am not going to turn my nose up at. I never let them down.

Nnedi Okorafor

I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.

Nonso Anozie

'Ender's Game' is fantastic, and I've gotten to see quite a few bits, and I love the way it's turned out.

Raghav Bahl

When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.

Joe Glenn

We're not going to reinvent the wheel. We just have to make fewer errors.

Jovon Johnson

When you run a blitz, a lot of things have to happen. It might take a few games for it to feel natural.

Ryan Gentles

We were trying to do less media and fewer big things. We could have done as much as the first album, but we just turned some down on purpose.

Heikki Kovalainen

I enjoy playing golf, but no, I don't think golf helps driving. It does take my mind away from driving, though; every time I play golf, I don't think about Formula 1.

Richard Miranda

We're meeting to go over laboratory test results and formulate a plan for what we're going to do about this.

Johnny Almaraz

We're going to formulate individual plans for every player. We'll pull back when a player's fatigued.

Marco Trbovich

Radical surgery like that proposed at Delphi is no solution at all. It is a formula for demise, if not confrontation.

Todd Trubey

Oftentimes that is a formula for decay, but Pannell has been able to make that work.

Aguri Suzuki

I've always wanted to own a Formula One team. Without the help from Honda, we won't be able to get started.

Igor Ivanov

Some participants are trying to put formulas unacceptable to Russia, including on Chechnya, into the declaration,

Jim Tressel

You've heard our formula many times. You ... need superior special units, relentless defense, mistake-free and opportunistic offense.

Brooke Langton

Simple formula for the actor: prove you're creative enough to get the job, sane enough to keep the job, and hungry enough to give up everything else to keep them happy.

Jack Nichols

We are pounding our heads on the wall trying to get a solution, ... It's just a little overwhelming.

Hayley Orrantia

I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.

Michael Turner

We have to get our heads and telescopes around that.

Charles Rhodes

We're going to play through it. I know it. It's just, we got to keep our heads up. It's frustrating. I'm frustrated. But we're going to learn from our mistakes.

Jim Steets

When we first got these findings we were scratching our heads because it does raise questions about what the source (of the leak) really is.

Matt Murphy

We're still scratching our heads over that one. We'll have to re-measure.

Phil Garner

We let them off the hook and let them keep their heads in the game,

Maura Harty

a big heads up that this is a big management concern.

Joe Crede

It's just a matter of us putting things together. We'll be fine. We know things will turn around. We've seen enough to know that we just have to keep our heads up.

Dwane Casey

We always hold out hope. Mathematically we're still in it. Every time we walk out on the floor, we're playing for something and we're playing for improvement.

Dave Sanchez

We started today in third. We just couldn't hold on to that lead.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Kevin Towers

We're not going to rush him. We're not going to hold him back, either. But I'd like to see him get more innings at the professional level.

Ertharin Cousin

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

James Blake

Wow ... that would be something. I?d think we?d need to hold a big party at Fairfield High. It would be huge.

Mark Rodgers

We're still sitting tight to see how this is going to break. We're kind of in a holding pattern.

David Briggs

We're still in that pattern. Everyone is on hold and waiting for the next (quarterly results) pre-announcement season in September.

Anne Bacon

We're still holding out hope and praying for their release.

Joseph Barker

The built-in trunk is long overdue. Leave it to Honda to do the simple things and do them well.

Valentino Rossi

Before that everyone thinks you must ride Honda to become world champion. Yamaha had not won the championship for a very long time.

Ron Cogan

Honda is an engineering company; Toyota is a marketing company. It really is just the Honda way.

James Bell

It's seen as a very smart or sexier alternative to a Honda Accord.

Natsuki Takaya

Yuki: "Honda-san... you'd better stop, or he'll get a swelled head." Kyo: "Doesn't Shigure already HAVE a swelled head?

Alan Hovhaness

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

Alan Autry

I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.

Alan Alda

For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff. One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn't go back.

Al Pacino

The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.

Al Pacino

The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Nothing is complete in itself but requires something outside itself in order to exist.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.

Chico Hamilton

A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

Al Pacino

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

David Tudor

I persist in performing.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Martin Broughton

The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,

Anthony Chukumba

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

Neve McIntosh

I haven't done any 'Fringe' shows since I was about 17. Then I performed with my youth theatre in a show where we all had this old-fashioned make-up on and giggled through our lines.

Bob Gunton

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Michael Holmes

All of us are very excited. By the end of the week, we will be ready to perform there.

Dan Wheldon

It's just practice, it doesn't matter, ... You can feel brilliant, but if you don't perform tomorrow and Sunday, you're going to be nowhere.

Mark Richt

A team that can put pressure on the quarterback without blitzing I'm more worried about than a team that blitzes. Blitzing teams are vulnerable to the big play.

Nate Gallick

As much pressure as I probably should be feeling, I really don't feel any pressure.

Mike Childress

It's just like a pressure cooker at home.

Greg Jackson

They put a lot of pressure on us and we didn't respond to it.

Greg Brunner

They don't have a lot of pressure on them. More of the pressure is on us.

Lelani Gordon

They were just relentless in their pressure and there wasn't anything we could do about it. And everything (Cannon) threw up went in.

Brian Meneely

They turned up the pressure after that happened. We started to stand and watch.

Shannon Glidwell

They put so much pressure on us. I think they out-played us for a big part of the game.

John Nelson

It's not like we've been putting pressure on her. She wanted to take the job.

Beth Moore

God often proves Himself when we feel we have the least to offer.

Ralph Nader

We're going to prove them wrong in November,

Billy Donovan

We're right back to where we were before the season started. We've got to be able to prove ourselves. I think it's very, very evident, we're not a Top 5, Top 10, Top 15 team.

African Proverbs

The young can't teach traditions to the old. - Yoruba proverb

Carlos Arroyo

They've already proved so many things, but they always feel like they have to prove something. That's part of what makes them the No. 1 team.

Mike Lieberthal

It's time to play. We can talk all we want about how talented we are and things that. You have to go out and play and prove it.

Steven Duke

They're liars, ... I can prove that they signed them. I will do that through notaries and through photographs and witnesses.

Robert Hormats

They're doing what's proved to work in the past, which is to tighten rates.

Gene Keady

At least now I can actually prove to my wife that I did something for once,

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

Cheryl Strayed

You get to define the terms of your life.

Joe Lhota

Would I be the 3rd term of Rudy Giuliani or the 4th term of Mike Bloomberg? It'll be neither. It'll be the first term of Joe Lhota. We're all different.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

David Lange

Death is very, very terminal.

Bruce Cutler

You never used the term 'bulls' in all your testimony!

Bridget Riley

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Harry Larrabee

We're very balanced. Within games, we get spurts from different players.

Rumi

You have Within you more love than you could ever understand.

Prem Rawat

What you are looking for is within you

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,