Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shelley Long

I'm not as klutzy as I used to be . . . . I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on-camera because I do them in my life all the time.

Bobby Rush

I'll be talking with the chairman of the transportation committee when i get back to Washington to see whether or not there's anything that can be done to look at this particular piece of track.

Kelly King

If you have six chairs open, you need 12 guards on duty. One sits in the chair, and the other patrols the beach.

I met with him earlier today he was in a great mood. He has gotten up in a chair today.

Tom Johnson

I met J.B. Fuqua in the early '60s. I was then a young reporter and he was the chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia,

If I were chairman of the board, I would turn to Mark and tell him to do exactly what you have been doing a while longer. Improve margins further, keep establishing your credibility on Wall Street, and go get more market share now that Dell is on the run.

Jacques Rogge

I have no concerns. The chairman of the coordination commission has no concerns,

I had to push my chair back to get up.

It was not a called meeting, but there were several committee chairs there, probably six or eight people,

Brian Jones

It is right down to the wire. Of course we're hopeful and we're secretly confident, but we can't sit back in our chairs and make the winds take us there.

It's like we're going to a kindergarten with those little chairs ? but the women don't fit. The doll concept of life was the men's world, and their idea was to try to fit the women into it, to cut them down to size ? to put them in little wigs, with eyelashes and makeup and make them fashion items in this particular world ? so they could control it.

It's hard to know what they were thinking. It's never too late for the chairman to make the right decision. But if the chairman insists on it, we'll go forward with that hearing. We fully expect to win. My hope is they put down their objections and move one.

Paul Rodriguez

It's a very complex bill, so we're going to take some time to examine it. But we look forward to working with Chairman Barton on these issues.

It looks like they're shuffling deck chairs for the family. Given that this company is a family dynasty, I don't think it signals any major changes.

In the first place, the chairman shouldn't be weighing in,

In the days before term limits, politicians who knew they weren't ever going to be governor were content to stay in the Legislature. They knew that being a Senate committee chair was a better job than being lieutenant governor.

I'm surprised. This is probably the first time that the defense of 'I didn't know' denials has worked for a former chairman or CEO. This may be the first time that the Sergeant Schultz defense has worked.

I offered her a chair and got her a folding metal chair. I offered her some water,

David Davis

Clearly it is an embarrassment that the party rank and file turned down a proposal from the leadership of the rank and file - from the chairman - but that's by the by, we have to deal with that.

Being Fed chairman only increases his value that much more.

Leah Chase

Chairs are not pretty when they're empty. Chairs are pretty when you have people in them!

Chairman Young has long been the construction foreman for our united efforts in Washington.

Cheryl has the personality and temperament to be an excellent chair for the festival.

Neil Abercrombie

I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, ''Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?'' ''Well, we have no mechanism to do it,'' I was told.

I know Coach. He was probably sitting on the edge of his chair on every play, hoping a guy would make a tackle or force a turnover. He knows the game. He understands it, and I'm just glad we could give him some comfort for three hours.

Ronald Reagan

So the ... the helm is right here. And that means right in this chair for now, constitutionally, until the vice president gets here.

We went through like three or four. We just really wanted to get the chairs right.

We have discussed the revolving chair with a number of people. We're nowhere near making our minds up,

Brian Kennedy

This document was intended to illustrate not just for leadership but for members of the House that the chairman feels we have no choice but to open (the refuge),

With the chairman off, a downgrade and the Japanese no longer likely to bid, the shares are unlikely to make further progress in the short term.

Pull out your table and chairs and get the grill going, then just sit back and wait for people to wander over to you. We've met so many wonderful people over the years that way.

They're entitled to their opinion. I don't think that's the proper forum, to take on the chair and question his integrity. In that situation, I think it was wrong, ... terrible.

There's a lot of musical chairs going on.