Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darrell Braden

We have no benefits at all -- no sick leave. What most people have, we don't have it.

Ed French

We want our members to be able to maximize their point earning potential. This card not only allows members to earn more Marriott Rewards points, and it also gives them many benefits such as a free-night certificate yearly, and 15 nights towards Elite status.

M. Wolfe

We want market share at the end of the day, ... You've got to have it because those are the companies that are going to have pricing power, and  they are going to enjoy the benefits of margin expansion on the back end of this.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

Michael Ryan

The fact that pay for performance is reinstated demonstrates that council recognizes the quality of staff that we have here. And it shows that they understand the benefits in rewarding and retaining quality service.

Donald Kennedy

The process benefits enormously from the kind of candor that results when referees know that their identity is held in confidence.

Robert Bonner

The reality is these are major companies we have dealt with for years .... We got tremendous security benefits by essentially embracing the private sector in what is the largest and most successful government-private sector partnership to form after 9-11.

Sergey Galitsky

When you make money, it's natural to enjoy all the benefits it offers.

C. S. Lewis

Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

C. S. Lewis

At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it.

Richard Clarke

We want to provide a link between the classroom environment and what you are doing outside of the classroom.

Kim Anderson

We have no idea how to classify ourselves. We pull from everything -- rock, hardcore, punk, indie.

Todd Apo

What the public wasn't envisioning was a swim through, swim with the dolphins kind of thing. They were looking for a truer aquarium, so the plan has developed into a classic aquarium with of course interactive features.

Greg Amundson

Whenever you can hold a Class A team to just three field goals you are playing pretty solid defense.

Wendy Kopp

Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

Jeff Judkins

When you're up 25 points, you pull your starters out with 1:54 left in the game. It's a classy way. You don't need to rub it in.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We want people to know that classical music is for everyone. A parent or kid might be terrified of this music, but after they come to us, they'll never be scared of classical music again.

Theodor Mommsen

Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.

Margot Asquith

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

John Boyega

My earliest vivid memory would be my Nigerian mother. She would wrap me on her back. I remember being on her back a lot. It felt like a ride, like I was riding a dinosaur; going everywhere and seeing everything.

Lemmy Kilmister

My earliest memory is shouting. At what and for what reason, I don't know. Probably a tantrum; or I may have been rehearsing. I was always an early starter.

Rick Bayless

My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant.

Mohsin Hamid

My earliest memories are of watching 'Star Trek' and 'MASH' while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through.

Jonathan Nolan

My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.

Ellsworth Kelly

My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci. But it has all these seals on it of people who've owned it, and one of the great portrait painters of England, Reynolds, had owned it, so that's the earliest.

Justin Timberlake

My earliest memories as a kid was I would always try to make my mom and my stepdad laugh at dinner. Or make my friends laugh in class. And, I don't know, it's something I just really enjoy doing.

Gov. Carcieri

We are going to know what is going on with learning in grades 3 to 8, and we are testing for that, so the light will shine.

Gerald Wilson

My grades weren't what they should have been, so they sent me back to the ninth grade. I was glad, because I wanted to study music, and Cass Tech was second only to Juilliard. We studied all kinds of music, harmony and orchestration.

Jim Lampe

There are 20 grades of turkey breast available. We use the top of the line.

Nikki Reed

My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money.

Xiao Yaqing

The quality of the bauxite is lower than the top grades in Australia, but it's much better than those in China.

David Nicholls

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

Patrick Arney

That's what it's all about. No one knows what's going on right away. You don't know grades or transfers or graduations, so that's why we play these games.

Sandra Ford

We're very pushed to have our grades on target so we can play. We have to make sure all our homework is done.

David Tarantino

The specifications haven't lessened. The NRC grades us on inspections. If we missed one, it would be a serious violation.

Thom Mayne

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

Johan Reinhard

I'd much prefer that they not be displayed, just because of all of the headaches.

Chris Roberts

Obviously, we would have preferred that it wouldn't have been taken to this stage.

Conor Oberst

I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring.

Alan Alda

I have a strong preference for being alive.

Alexandre Père

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

Angelina Jolie

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

Peter Doust

We would all prefer for this to be resolved sooner rather than later.

Kristine Fauerbach

We prefer to give them away than to have them go somewhere where they will be turned around and sold again.

Dr. Manniko

This year she has qualified for the Olympics.

James Garner

What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

Elizabeth Dole

go for the most qualified people, but there's not going to be a litmus test.

E. O. Wilson

Marv is a very qualified individual, and I don't know whether that will take place or not.

Jack Warner

I still want to get (sophomore) Leah Kincaid regionally qualified in the long jump, and I would like to get the (400-meter relay) team regionally qualified.

Brenda Cleary

Right now, we're turning qualified applicants away from schools.

Tom Johnson

They're very well qualified to talk about what they're going to talk about.

David Velasquez

To have those relays qualified this time of the season is fantastic.

Pat Buchanan

There's no way this woman is qualified for the United States Supreme Court,

Jean Prewitt

If anything is going to get around a quota, it is those big projects. What is not going to make it in, is the smaller product.

Fred Jones

We're trying to keep it in smaller modules.

Billy Beane

Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.

George William Norris

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

Lilly Singh

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

Marc Galanter

The smaller the jury, the more variance you get just from the play of the numbers.

Daniel Craig

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

Gopal Ahluwalia

It's not need; they have smaller families. It's lifestyle.

Russ Swartz

It's nothing that we're not used to all year. We're one of the smaller teams in the league.

S. Hughes

One of the things we're striving for as a team is to find the knockout punch. Today we were able to do that.

Juan Torres

Without a (an executive) director, we don't have much. That's what we've been striving for for the whole year.

Michael Garcia

We're all striving to get back to normalcy,

David Gunasegaram

This is about striving to be more environmentally friendly.

Patrick Ford

Each year, we're striving to make smarter, safer, better products.

Brian Dawkins

It's simple, ... I'm always striving to do more. Whatever I accomplish, it's not enough. I don't get satisfied. That's not my nature.

Carol Kane

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

Peter Flynn

We want students to take these tests very seriously,

Andrea Ruedi

We'd especially like to see students from the hospitality program.

Robert Mason

We have a school, ... The students know they have a school.

Jane Jacobs

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

Jan Morris

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

Bob Inglis

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

Jim Henderson

Until now students take the tests and nothing is done with the information.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

Carlos Mencia

I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.

Dave Barry

I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were.

Bryan Stevenson

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.

John McEnroe

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

Alan Watts

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Alan Paton

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Juvenal

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

Cass McCombs

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.