Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Valenti

We want to tell American parents that they and they alone have total power to control every hour of television programming that comes into their home.

Michel Onfray

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.

Morgan Wootten

It's amazing the things you hear from your players talking to them one on one. I never embarrassed a player, I spoke with him alone.

Cameron Crowe

The powering thing behind the movie was to capture the feeling of being alone and going back to Kentucky and getting walloped by a sense of family I hadn't realized was so much in place,

David Lord

We are pleased to have received such broad support from the employer community. No one payer can implement this program alone and not only employers, but health plans have recognized that this is an important investment to make.

Naveen Andrews

We're in the 9 o'clock slot now. Men and women alone on the island, they have needs. Needs that must be fulfilled.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone.

Margaret Chan

The World Health Organization did a world health report in 2006. In the whole world about 60 countries are in dire situation in terms of having enough doctors. And many of these countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa. You know, that part of the world alone needs one million doctors.

Tim Chapman

We appreciate the help, from the (county jail) inmates and from everybody involved. One outfit alone would not be able to handle a project like this.

Tom Burnett

We want to see our coaches move on to head coaching positions at a higher level.

Florentino Perez

The person who coaches Real Madrid needs to be disciplined, rigorous and professional.

Robert Whitney

We are pretty much on the same page on everything, ... She coaches third, I coach first, and we have been in the same programs since we were little and have had the same coaches. We know how important it is for the girls to have good coaches and a good experience, and we are making sure they get both.

Derek Thomas

We've already talked about it. And a lot of other coaches have noticed it as well. There's nothing we could do about now.

Rubin Carter

We still won't be great risk-takers. That is something that I am going to mandate for myself. We have to do a great job of evaluating potential recruits. It's also our role as coaches to motivate and let them know what they need to do to graduate.

Omar Stoutmire

When you've got as many guys as we have getting significant playing time during the playoffs, it makes you feel like a starter and part of the system. They're counting on you. You don't want to let your teammates down, let the coaches down or let the organization down.

Nell Fortner

When you've got a program that hasn't been tended to for 40 years - and that's not to disrespect any coaches or players or administrators - but a program that hasn't been tended to by the administration - then you've got a lot of ground to make up.

Tyrone Willingham

When you take that job, you understand. And I think that's one of the reasons that I took the job, because it is a place that has had some of the most prestigious coaches in the country with some of the greatest accomplishments in football. So, you take it knowing that. And hopefully you're prepared to try to live up to that type of manner.

Wayne Norton

We actually didn't get the place we thought we were going to get, but we have very high expectations each year in this event. Taking second, fourth and 10th place is very good, but our coaches are still not necessarily satisfied. But this was a great start for us and hopefully we'll have some more good things happen (Saturday).

Catherine Keener

The people who make those movies tend to be studios, because they need a lot of money to do it, and those people don't hire me.

Luis von Ahn

Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire people who are going to play nice.

Herb Trimpe

I had joined Marvel in 1967, after a year in Vietnam and three years as a student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Stan Lee, then the editor-in-chief, hired me as a production assistant.

Mona Williams

We acknowledge we should have had better safeguards in place to make sure our (floor-cleaning) contractors hired only legal workers.

Bob McAdam

We were being attacked. We wanted to hire people who knew how to respond.

John Cottreau

We don't have any equipment. We would hire it and right now that's still to be determined.

Carol Farley

We're going to hire a lawyer, ... It's the only thing we can do.

Kenneth Langone

Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.

Sam Altman

Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

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?

Dick Cavett

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

Ed Sullivan

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

Monica Raymund

Lie to Me' is one of the smartest shows on TV. We have something different, unique and new to say to the audience that they're not going to get from any other show.

Stephen Urban

We don't have any documentation that shows ownership,

Demetri Martin

I never set out to do a sketch show.

Tracie Thoms

I like shows that are ensemble-based, that explore the humanity of every character.

Brian Henson

The show is probably 60 percent improvising and 40 percent not. So there's quite a bit of it that we do have prepared and that part of it, you have memorized and you've rehearsed and you're prepared, just like any show.

Callie Khouri

Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.

Earl Nightingale

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Chris Crutcher

If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.

Wendy Kopp

The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.

Avi

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Mary Quant

As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.

Dave Craig

Saturdays we always have a lot of browsers -- teachers and tourists.

Peggy Smith

Some teachers are better with adults and some aren't.

Catherine Johnson

If you've ever been in a classroom, you know these teachers are underpaid.

Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Wendell Perkins

We know how to value companies. And we go where the value is.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Miriam Santiago

Times have changed. It has already worn out its value,

Adelaide Clemens

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

Heather Brooke

The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.