Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Buckley

Jamie was without artifice. He spoke plainly and directly. And he talked the same way to the office clerk as he did to the president - politely, and without too many wasted words.

Mike Dunne

I WAS THERE because I'm supporting Jeff. We have been friends for 15 years. County clerk is an administrative office, not a partisan one.

Richard C. Armitage

I did quite a lot of menial jobs. I was a waiter, an inventory clerk touring round properties listing cups and saucers, and a laserquest marshal.

Sugata Mitra

The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore.

James Cash Penney

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

John Luke

Front desk clerks at Hilton are generally empowered to listen to any reasonable request. We probably wouldn't treat you to a $500 dinner for two, but if you're walked from the New York Hilton and Towers, we might take you over in our limo to a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria.

Sgt. Phillips

He shot the clerk when he said she was gong too slow.

Stephen Breyer

I would guess my law clerks could meet (that standard) every day,

Albert Einstein

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

Lara Ramsburg

Regardless of when their next scheduled inspection is, the governor wants all mines to be inspected as soon as possible.

Margita Thompson

Our of respect for the will of the people, the governor will veto (the bill).

John Hoffman

Stern quotes the law, and that's correct. But obviously, if the governor of the state recommends somebody, we'd give that strong consideration.

Jeff Tittel

Overall, there's been a lot of spin and no real policy. I think the next governor should hunt for a new commissioner.

Donald Harris

I'm hoping the governor can step in and help out.

Tim Clark

The announcement by the governor is two weeks late.

Kevin Mannix

That?s the kind of governor I would be.

Jimmy Johnson

I think this offense has got a governor on it. It's called Joey Harrington.

Patrick Dillon

It doesn't matter who his running mate is, he is the one running for governor and he is the one who would wield the veto pen in office.

Alan Foreman

Parliament would be doing a Pontius Pilate to wash their hands of the issue this week.

Kyle Deines

Stay back, stay tall, throw your hands at it and try to take it to right field.

Michael Brown

Some of these kids think this is a game. They somehow got their hands on a weapon. They think they are playing Pac-Man or something and shooting at people.

Sergio Ramos

Our season is on the line. It's in our hands and we'll only win if we leave it all on the field. We all know that a loss would be a disaster.

Swami Ramdas

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Jonathan Bass

Pilate's Bowl. He said they had washed their hands of responsibility for racial justice in Birmingham.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.

Becca Fitzpatrick

First,” he said, coming behind me and placing his hands on the counter, just outside of mine, “choose your tomato.” He dipped his head so his mouth was at my ear. His breath was warm, tickling my skin. “Good. Now pick up the knife.” “Does the chef always stand this close?” I asked, not sure if I liked or feared the flutter his closeness caused inside me. “When he’s revealing culinary secrets, yes.

Sarah Davis

People have been cooped up in their house all winter. They want to get out and this is the perfect weekend.

Kathleen Blanco

Start making preparations to leave now ... Prepare your family, prepare your house for evacuation.

Jim Hagan

Some legislators left the State House to join us and get on the right side of the issue,

Dan Hawkins

I might actually have them pull that house around the track.

Billy Corgan

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

Cecelia Ahern

There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.

Carrie Brownstein

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

Carrie Fisher

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Bernard Berenson

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

Bebe Neuwirth

I loved Jay Thomas as Eddie LeBec. But there was a point where they [thought] maybe we would live together, and I didn't like the idea of Carla being with somebody because that would make you feel like [you're] not part of the people in the bar.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Are you keeping anything else from me?” “I’m keeping a lot of things from you.” “Like?” “Like the way I feel about being locked up in here with you. You have no idea what you do to me.

Barry McCaffrey

We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones

B. H. Liddell Hart

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

Larry Martin

We need plans and ideas from outside this committee.

Billy Corgan

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.

Bill Shankly

My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.

Bill Crawford

When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.

Bhagat Singh

It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas.

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Bob Davis

I think Seattle is going to become a laughingstock. ... We are going to look like the Moral Majority up here,

Diane Hochevar

It depresses me. It surprises me that the majority would not want to protect a viable unborn child.

Jim Owen

I would say the majority of those are opposed at this point in time,

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Wayne Cornelius

The overwhelming majority would go one way or another.

Michael Stoops

The overwhelming majority of perpetrators are teens and young adults. We need to start with young people in public and private schools.

Joe Biden

He doesn't speak for me with that kind of rhetoric, and I don't think he speaks for the majority of Democrats, ... This Week.

Uma Bharati

Party workers are at cross-roads, in a state of shock and confusion.

Beck

Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Too bad. There's a party on the coast. I thought we could go." He actually sounded sincere. ( a bit after) I affected a yawn. "Well, like I said, it's a school night." In hopes of convincing myself more than him, I added, " if this party is something you'd be interested in, I can almost guarantee I won't be." There, I though. Case closed- page 77

B. J. Novak

It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

Bill Shorten

Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.

Bill Shorten

I want to build a Big Labor party. A party of big ideas. A party which is deeply connected to the community. A party which reflects our diverse nation.

C. S. Lewis

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

C. S. Lewis

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

Cecelia Ahern

I was the life and she was the soul of every party.

Clare Short

Reckless with our government;reckless with his own future, position and place in history.

Gholam Elham

Our position is very clear. We will not back down.

Javier Solana

Our position is that the (Iran) dossier should be referred to the council.

Lee Pelekoudas

Our position is that a 19-year-old shouldn't be put in a position to have to pitch. We feel we've got a pretty solid case.

Michael Burke

Our position is clear. The IFC can go someplace else,

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Rita Leckie

Some of the principals in the corporation are the same people. We took the position that it was the same company.

David MacGregor

Overall, (Maytag's) competitive position right now is pretty weak.

Andre Miller

I think they know we'll be around every game. We've been in this position before. If we come out with a better tempo at the start of the game, we'll have a better chance.

Allan Bense

Hopefully, the Senate can muster the votes as well,

Pauline Hanson

She may not be sitting in the Senate but she's still standing for us.

Richard Lamm

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

Gary Brown

We're not done yet. We know the Senate has to take it up yet. We're a ways away from groundbreaking and a ribbon-cutting.

Powers Boothe

I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

Gordon Smith

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

Henry Hyde

The Senate shouldn't tell us how to try our case,

Harry Reid

the Senate must be vigilant in considering this nomination.

John Deane

The Senate has the right to look at Roberts' papers.