Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Howe

The others had contracts that were up during the course of the year.

Dave Lewis

We are pleased to have Henrik and Daniel under contract for another year,

Joy Bacon

We were arrogant, we thought we were safe because we had our production contracts with the big studios. Now we have to look at new ways to grow.

David Davies

Whether that leads to a contract is another matter entirely.

Tamara Faulkner

We're going to prevent what is still going to happen, contract procurement irregularities.

Bernie Bickerstaff

When we come to a decision, we make that move regardless of when it is. Some team could pick Kareem up at a nominal cost and still have the right (to pick up the option on his contract for next season).

Willis Reed

Yes, because the contract that they forced us into, the previous contract three years ago, in my opinion, I already gave them their raises. That's why I had a wage freeze in the first three years (of the new contract proposal).

Jay Fiedler

With my contract situation and the team moving in a new direction, it was pretty much a done deal.

Shaun Rinier

We're expecting a contract (today). The association has pretty much made their point to me, they want this resolved (today) or there could be another work stoppage.

John Ruskin

The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the well-informed, the improvident, the irregularly and impulsively wicked, the clu

Luiz Scolari

The performance of the entire team was good,

Joe Crocco

We are looking forward to a good week of practice, going over some things and getting ready for Jericho. That's where our entire focus is right now.

John Gray

We struggled again. It was one of those nights. We only scored (seven) points the entire second half.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.

Jody Kielbasa

We want to pound home the idea that the festival is for the entire Gulf region.

Jim Hale

We have never talked about being ranked No. 1 or being undefeated at all the entire season. Those numbers aren't important to us.

Mark Driscoll

We want our fans to show their support for our program by wearing green. We want the entire stadium in green.

Natasha Trethewey

The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues.

Kelly Clark

We let them go because they expressed an interest in working with law enforcement. We haven't seen hide nor hair of him since. He didn't hold up his end of the bargain.

Kevin Bishop

We hear from seniors, pharmacists, everyone in the program about some major headaches involved. There are a substantial number of people who expressed dissatisfaction with the program.

Om Puri

When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.

John Saul

Dictionary: Opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

Robert Barnes

You know who you can know, and you know who you can like, and there are affinities that are expressed without ever having an explanation.

Simon Van Booy

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.

Luc de

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.

Unknown

May the love you've expressed to each other today always be the first thoughts during any trying times in the future.

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.

Terry Tamminen

Mandatory reporting is something we need to get started on as soon as possible. You can't make targets if you don't have anything to measure.

Christine Whitman

I don't think we'll get to the protocol without mandatory caps.

Dan Goossen

This was a mandatory fight. And this has to be mandated to do over again, because we've got to get a winner out of a mandatory fight.

Jim Smith

We're not opposed to being generator-ready. We're opposed to the mandatory installation of generators.

Steve Gross

We run rain or shine, they just make the rain tires mandatory on a day like today.

Denise Bottcher

The mandatory evacuation order was never reversed - quite the contrary.

Jon Coupal

As a matter of policy, we never like mandatory insurance.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Steve Salwei

We started out real flat. Once we got that first period out of the way, we started playing a little better.

Benjamin Walker

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

Andrew Flintoff

We bowled well as a unit which we have been doing for a period of time,

Richard Donnell

Vendors are going to have to be more realistic about prices. We are going to see a prolonged period of underperformance.

Frank Haith

Like anything you do, it'll work for a short period of time. But he's so intelligent that he's going to keep working.

Timothy Bottoms

Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film.

Kurt Angle

There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds... it confuses the younger demographic.

Tim Finchem

Working in Washington, trying to make a difference, that was a very meaningful time for me, a period of personal growth.

Asghar Farhadi

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

David Guetta

I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.

Caio Fonseca

It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.

Ariel Pink

I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that.

Candice Bergen

I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

Ashley Benson

I had a gothic phase, and now I'm more edgy chic.

David Barry

Since then, we've always been in one phase or another,

Jim Higgins

Phase three is going to be the really tough one. They need phase three to make this a viable company.

John Cook

Phase 2 may have to be altered. It may need to be shrunk because of parking.

Kate Thompson

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

Charles Dickens

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

Carlos Slim

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

Edward Kennedy

No one who works for a living should live in poverty.

Charles Lamb

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Charles Lamb

We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.

Charles Lamb

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

Charles Baudelaire

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

Benjamin Franklin

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

Charles Spurgeon

If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.

Alan Watts

The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!

Derek Jeter

Everyone fears rejection.

Carol Leifer

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

Beth Moore

The next time you feel rejection's sting, remember God's words to Samuel: "It is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me." (1 Sam. 8:7)

Aya Cash

Being an actor is definitely not the hardest job in the world - it's definitely a first-world problem to have, but I'm not very good with rejection. I constantly question whether or not I'm suited for this business, because it is your job to get rejected.

Brian Tracy

Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business.

Brian Tracy

Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal.

Elizabeth I

When I was fair and young, and favor graced me, Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be; But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore, "Go, go, go seek some otherwhere! Importune me no more!

Curtis Green

She's polite, but she's a little naive. That's what worries me.

Kate Winslet

There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.