Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathan Fillion

I would love to be employed for the rest of my life... But what I would want to do is things that would frighten me, things that would scare me. I've never done that before; can I do that, can I show them that I can do it?

Benjamin Franklin

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.

Ellen Terry

As Romeo Irving reminded me of a pig who has been taught to play the fiddle. He did it cleverly, but would be better employed in squealing.

Christopher Hitchens

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it's employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

Some studies show that while the EU has better social policy than the US, more American women are employed and more of them work in higher positions.

Benjamin Franklin

It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.

Dontrelle Willis

It was all positive. I'm just happy I'm employed again.

Kenneth Cranham

If you swap it about, do television, theatre, film, you can go on surprising yourself. The problem is you get employed to do something you've already done. They want something from that sheep pen of performances they've seen you do.

You have a lot more people employed (in Northwest Arkansas) and they?re a whole lot more food insecure and hungry.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is not a time that you walk through the street, when if you employed your senses, you would not learn something worthwhile.

Mark Geragos

We're seeking appellate relief to prevent a lawyer who was employed for the briefest of times from capitalizing on that employment and violating his oath as a lawyer.

Freedom-of-information legislation would have to be employed to reveal just how often I read it. I love it. Seth is one of the most insanely hilarious people I know. He's the guy who can have people doubled over in laughter at a funeral.

Jerry Mathers

I had a very special family life. My mother and father made sure when we were home, we were part of the family, not a TV star. And the other thing: my father was fully employed while I was doing the series.

I have been employed at Mounds Schools for the past 23 years as a high school principal, coach, and superintendent and have some great memories of what has been accomplished.

Margery Allingham

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in the interstices of floor boards, on the iron of a heel, and can measure it and swear to it and weave it into a rope to hang a man.

Bella Heathcote

I think there is something about L.A., fortunately: once you get one role people think, 'Oh well, someone employed her, so maybe we can.' I mean, that's my idea of it, anyway. 'She can put one foot in front of the other and say a line.'

Donna Roberts

The people that are still employed are petrified.

James Watson

It is necessary to be slightly under employed if you are to do something significant.

I am for Gov. George W. Bush, but it puzzles me greatly that they haven't employed what you would refer to as your thermonuclear weapon,

John Boyne

What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.

Derek Bok

In 1968, the situation at Harvard was not one of which we can be proud. In that year, the proportion of minority persons in salary and wage positions was approximately 3 per cent. Virtually no minority workers were employed on Harvard construction projects.

Christine Lagarde

There is a very strong linkage between U.S. banks and European banks. There are plenty of European employees that are employed by U.S. companies, and there are plenty of U.S. employees that are employed by European companies.

We have women umpires in India, but if there are male umpires employed we don't have any problems if we are getting fair decisions.

CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

Bill Janklow

If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.