Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Hader

I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.

Bill Hader

I'm crazy lucky. I was trying to be a filmmaker. I was doing Second City classes as a way to be creative. I was a PA for a long time. I was working as an assistant editor on 'Iron Chef America' when I got 'SNL.' It was one of those situations where you're concentrating in one thing and the peripheral thing popped.

Christine Pelosi

Once Joe Paterno learned that his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was showering with a young boy in the Penn State football locker room, he had two choices: think of the child as his own and call police. Or not. He chose the latter.

If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal.

Aspen's investment in TesoRx will assist in the work being undertaken to bring this product to market and in investing behind TesoRx's pipeline and technology that has the potential to be used for a wide range of different applications.

Stephan James

While shooting 'Selma,' I would train on my off time with the assistant men's track and field coach at Georgia Tech.

Lauren Stamile

There was an assistant professor I kind of had a crush on, but I was far too awkward and far too nervous to ever say anything.

E. B. White

We are having local expenses due to assisting evacuees that are in our community,

We are going to work with law enforcement in whatever way we can. This is an incredibly important safety and quality of life issue. In the process of assisting Katrina evacuees, we want to make sure the laws are followed in this state.

Laurence D. Fink

I am pleased to be part of Promontory's steady efforts to assist banks and other financial firms in meeting legal and regulatory obligations and challenges.

I am very grateful for the dedicated work and intellectual contributions of generations of talented postdocs, students and research assistants without whom none of the work from my laboratory would have been possible.

Vash Young

My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.

Bobby Scott

One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.

Tracy had been a great support player in the midfield. Many of our goals are made from her contributions in assisting or setting plays.

Today, people expect wireless services to be as fast, reliable and secure as their wireline connections. Nortel's DO Rev. A and IMS/MMD solutions will help make tomorrow's service aware networks more intelligent, and assist CDMA operators in increasing profit potential by creating new business models and service bundling opportunities to enhance the subscriber experience.

For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.

Willie Geist

I'm 6-foot-4. If my life depended on it, I could still dunk a basketball. Then I would need assistance from a first responder to get down from the rim.

William Bligh

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.

We are always interested in helping the community in any way possible, but any assistance would have to be within reasonable financial parameters and would have to go before the Board of Trustees.

We're not there to help hunters. We can educate them, but assisting them is out of the question.

Nick Young

We are pleased that the contract with Tier will improve services to Virginia's child support clients. We expect the center will receive and respond to more than 1.4 million calls each year to assist families with child support questions.

We are on the edge of a nursing shortage, because we can't replace the early Baby Boomers who are retiring. Occupational and physical therapists are very popular now, too, as is the physician's assistant degree because you have a lot of the same rights and privileges as a doctor, including good pay, with fewer responsibilities.

We are on the city's schedule as to when they can inspect the new high school. We are here to assist them in any way it may need.

Glenn Ford

I don't know how it is now but the assistant stage manager had to understudy several parts. You had to be ready to go on at any time if the actor couldn't make it to the play. I didn't think anything of it.

Abraham Lincoln

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

W. S. Gilbert

We are looking for a more lasting relationship with our sponsors. We are involved in negotiations with a marketing company for outsourcing sponsorship to assist us.

Michael Brown

We recognize your immediate focus is to provide relief for the hurricane victims in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, but hope you will reconsider your denial of individual assistance for our communities.

We recognize that this has been a difficult process for our employees and shareholders. We continue to make all efforts to assist the SEC in completing their investigation as expeditiously as possible.

A lot of people are surprised economists are assisting with kidney exchanges. Exchanges are what economists are good at.

Stephane Hessel

For me, true and authentic democracy occurs when the privileged groups assist the unprivileged groups to become more privileged.

Geoff Hoon

This work sets out how military arrangements for liaising with the civil authorities could be enhanced and how best to coordinate military assistance to them if requested.

We have already been in touch with Chang and they are working on the ground already and doing a lot of things to assist in that area. We want to work with them and do whatever we can to help.

We know that we have things to do and we think that we're headed in the right direction and we look for Tim Dillingham and the support of the (environmental activists) to assist us in maintaining our beautiful coastline.