Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Knopfler

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

Dieter Kosslick

We don't have any formal motto this year.

Michael McDermott

We feel that his due-process rights were violated. He was never given a formal hearing, he was never given a right to refute anything.

Karen Henderson

There are people who think this is a more formal place, for holidays.

David Hamm

Somebody could be in police work for umpteen years and doesn't have the formal side of the training, yet is very qualified to hold the job. This would be a way of tying the two together in a way that is fair.

John Paquette

We're acknowledging that a mistake was made on the play. We don't have a formal statement on it.

Reint Dykema

Solidarity members joined in at midnight. There are no formal offers at this point.

Nimrat Kaur

I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her.

Bill Nye

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.

Joseph Wise

Through informal discussions two or three months ago, I thought it was premature with all the work I was doing in Christina and it didn't feel right,

John Calhoun

I think it is very important that we understand that these are informal discussions,

Peter Post

The reason why I think we see this increase, today it's a more informal world; we're a friendlier world, perhaps, and people like to feel I think a connection.

Neelie Kroes

We have had informal complaints, and we are using our time now to look at them. We're not going to wait and do nothing.

Tom Kelly

There have been high-level, informal discussions over the last week, face-to-face discussions.

Mary Powell

Is there interest? Absolutely. Just from informal conversations we've had with people, there's a lot of interest in our project and Ellicottville in general.

Christopher Morley

Informal is what women always say they're going to be and never are

Steve Brown

It's sort of an informal kind of prank the members have with one another.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Alan Watts

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Alan Parker

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Patricof

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

Alan Rickman

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Charles Stross

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Al Sharpton

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

Chris Chocola

Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.

Gareth Peirce

Why the delay? What were the police doing investigating themselves when that was not their role?

Eddie Izzard

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

August Strindberg

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

Dick Durbin

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

Dennis Kucinich

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.

Bill O'Reilly

The one thing the police cannot protect us from is a politician like Bill de Blasio.