Famous Quotes & Sayings

When the hiring manager asks for references, it's a signal the firm is interested in pursuing you as an employee. Wait until you are asked for your references; don't volunteer them.

Kylie Minogue

Funnily enough, when I was leaving school and they asked you what you were going to do, and I just liked acting, that's never what I would say. I would always say I would go into business, even though I didn't really know what was meant by that.

Tom Shadyac

Someone asked me the other day, 'What's the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?' And they started naming filmmakers. I went 'Naw, it's Jesus actually.'

Timothy Noah

GOP candidates routinely sign a pledge never, ever to raise taxes. Democratic candidates aren't even asked to sign a parallel pledge never, ever to cut entitlements.

Todd Rundgren

My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice.

We might be trying to get to some of these communities where nobody's been yet but we'll do whatever we're asked to do,

Mr. Milosevic, I asked you a question. Do you wish to enter a plea today or are you asking for adjournment to consider the matter further?

Mr. Harper's trip didn't do much. At this point, not enough has happened to explain to people why we happen to be there and to really justify the type of sacrifice they are being asked to make.

Mr. Stroh is the one who asked me to try out for the program and it's been an incredible experience. I don't regret one single moment. When I was younger and wanted to pursue singing, Mr. Stroh gave me that push.

Manisha Koirala

Mrs Giri had told me about this interesting project. And she'd asked me to help her find the right people to work out the venture. So I simply carried out the initial introductions. I'm glad this venture is finally on its way to being performed.

John Carney

Mayor, you asked for our best work. We think we've given it to you.

Meghan asked me if she could be an assistant coach. Her presence around the team is so important. She is so respected and liked by all the girls that we felt honored for her to be back with us.

Rita Rudner

Men hate to lose. I beat my husband once at tennis. I asked him, "Will we ever make love again?" He said, "Yes.... but not with each other.

Measure 37 was not a vote on land use. Measure 37 was a clear message that government needs to treat people fairly. It is too bad that the means offered was Measure 37. At some point Oregonians will look at this and decide whether this law is the kind of fairness they asked for.

My last match was very enjoyable. I couldn't have asked for better conditions or better fans. Everybody on the team fought really hard and everyone did the right things, it just didn't work out in our favor.

My first year as president I went around and asked what Marist had to work on. He said, 'He who whispers down a well about the things he has to sell will never have as many dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollers.' I never forgot that.

One of the witnesses asked (Fountain) how Kendrick received the injury. He said (the child) fell down.

One question I get asked a lot, ... is why we think this is such a problem. It's kind of like speeding. If law enforcement stopped writing tickets, it would get way out of hand. That's been our experience. If we don't keep working on the enforcement, it starts to multiply on its own out there. If you have a rule, you have to keep enforcing it. You can't look the other way.

One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness.

Tommy Bond

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'

What we do at this point . . . because it's not a pending election, is that we have asked the people involved to provide their response (to the complaints).

We were cursed when we asked for help for our elderly. We had guns aimed at us by the police who were supposed to be there to protect and serve. They made everybody sit on the ground with their hands in the air, even babies.

We need to play a game. It's important to win the opener. Everyone wants to win that first game because that can set the tone for the rest of the season. Obviously we have some guys that can run the football. Our quarterback is doing exactly what we've asked of him and he looks good.

We need to move forward much more quickly and have much more federal investment, ... It's sort of like with Hurricane Katrina. For years they asked for money to strengthen the levees in New Orleans, and in retrospect, it's too bad that money never materialized.

When we started in 1984 and told banks and others we were planning to build a business making goat cheese, we were asking them to make a leap of faith. When we asked them to help with this project, we were asking them to express their continued confidence in us. It is very gratifying that they did.

Rosa Parks

When they stood up and I stayed where I was, he asked me if I was going to stand and I told him that 'no, I wasn't,' and he told me if I did not stand up he was going to have me arrested. And, I told him to go on and have me arrested,

We've never asked the Commission for help before.

John Wagner

We've never asked for administrative penalty authority. The vast majority of our situations are ones where there are not immediate threats to human health.

The plane was shaking and it was hailing hard, with the ice like marbles, and we asked ourselves if we should really be trying to land in such harsh weather. It just didn't feel right.

I guess if I had to attribute it (the turnaround), it was just the fact that the kids have done what we've asked them as a coaching staff and some of those things have turned out to their benefit, which has helped their confidence. The kids have responded very well and they've worked very hard.

Michael Baker

If we receive a request under that legislation, then we would handle it in the routine way we would handle any such request, and routinely we have granted the request for an investigation if asked by the appropriate council,

If we're asked not to proceed, or ordered not to proceed, then we won't. That's the plan.

Rahul Bajaj

If we had done this 10 years ago, people would have asked what is there in India. But for the last few years, the whole world has been looking at India and investing in India, so there is an Indian story to be told.