Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Green Ingersoll

As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

We are planning to have extra chairs up front, but expect there will be some people standing.

Ultimately, it's the (department) chairs and deans who are accountable in hiring and promoting people.

Bill Gates

Started from the chair hop now we here.

Dorothy Thompson

We actually purchased those real tall tables and chairs like you see at Starbucks.

Louis MacNeice

Time was away and somewhere else, / There were two glasses and two chairs / And two people with one pulse.

Ani Difranco

When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.

The Democrats could play musical chairs in Illinois and get a better lineup than they have now.

The debate over should oil be at $60 or $80 is like a debate over rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Some of our county chairs have said that if Jeanine was not the candidate, we should reach back out to Ed, and that's something we'll be talking about within the party. John Spencer is also out there right now, running for the nomination.

Nobody was throwing chairs or anything like that. We discussed it and we handled it in a professional manner.

There are times when we have people on standby or other weather-related things where they have to stay in. There are a few chairs in the engine bay, but that's really all they have for space.

I suppose Swedenborg might have been pleased to have a room named after him, a wall-papered room with two chairs and two doors and a simple painting of a landscape containing a tiger and a serpent and a few birds.

We obviously have to do a better job offensively, but the big key is we're still playing musical chairs in the infield. We have to come up with some kind of a defensive infield. That's been our Achilles' heel. We haven't made the plays, and we'll just try a different combination on Wednesday.

It's definitely much better news than we had last week when it looked like they were just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, ... But I'll wait until I see the details until I'm convinced that it's unambiguously good news.

It's not too much fun coming up two points short of playing for the state championship. But don't fault our kids. We fought them tooth and nail, and if we have a couple plays go our way we'd be sitting in different chairs right now.

Pete Domenici

The Federal Trade Commission is not specifically subject to the jurisdiction of this Committee, but any oil company that is price gouging will find themselves in those witness chairs where they will be made accountable,

Anthony Marra

I joined a writing class at a nearby community center, where I was the youngest participant by about 40 years. Once a week, I'd funnel down a staircase and join the dozen retirees crowded in folding chairs around a table to discuss one another's stories.

I like all the chairs to talk to one another and to the sofas and not those parlor-car arrangements that create two Siberias.

They'll pull chairs out of the back if they're really busy.

They are moving around the deck chairs on a sinking ship but are trying to convince the American public that they are moving mountains.

A revenue-neutral proposal is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

This may simply be rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Pete Domenici

Any oil company that is price gouging will find themselves in our witness chairs where they will be held accountable,

This musical chairs that they keep playing with the judges raises profound questions about the credibility of the court.

Graham Chapman

Bring out... The Comfy Chair!!!!

Everything we have today is donated. We have men with charcoal grills, we have tables and chairs donated. We have foods, drinks.

We've had people come in, in wheel chairs and crutches bandaged up. It looks like a mass triage unit.

The town chairs say, 'Ned, go for it, but I can't say anything publicly.'

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.

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.