Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Davidson

When your colleagues put that confidence in you and congratulate you on a job well done ? I'm pretty honored to get it.

Evan Bayh

This proposal emphasizes accountability. That is something that is long overdue. The fragmented structure that my colleagues have mentioned has prevented us from having accountability,

Michel Gauthier

What I can tell you, in the name of my colleagues and our leader Gilles Duceppe, is that we've had enough, ... Together, all the Bloc MPs intend to reverse the trend.

Andre Geim

Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.

Jim Carroll

Many of her colleagues knew him and it was very emotional in the office. She had that memory in the back of her head while she was being threatened.

Martin Hughes

We are gratified by the strong financial performance and customer service delivered by our colleagues at Talbot since they joined us in 2004. They have earned these payments through dedication and improved financial returns that exceeded our initial projections.

Ronnie Barker

Next week we'll be investigating rumours that the president of the dairy council has become a Mason, and goes around giving his colleagues the 'secret milkshake.'

Tom Rath

If my colleagues stop eating donuts and are more active, it saves me money on next year's insurance premium, and I get to work with people who have more energy and creativity each day. Yet most organizations fail to make health a cultural priority. Instead, they treat healthcare like any other expense.

Nick Park

My colleagues and I have to constantly remind each other that we must keep our own view on the world while making films. With 'Chicken Run,' we learned how easy it is to be influenced by outside forces, but you mustn't lose the heart and soul of what you are doing.

Michael Dawidziak

Wayne was the kind of guy who would get in your face until he convinced you ... or he just wore you out.

Natasha Trethewey

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

Annalee Newitz

When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.

Kate Klise

I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.

Jules Verne

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

Italo Calvino

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

Vladimir Putin

I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.

Joyce Banda

I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.

Kylie Minogue

I'm convinced there are a lot of couples who have got together while listening to my music. My songs are not exactly unsexy.

Debbie Anthony

But it was beautiful, isolated and near enough to anything you could want.

Jeff Fontaine

I think it is an isolated situation. It's just a piece that wore out. I don't think it's symptomatic of a larger problem.

Donald Rumsfeld

I would characterize it as an isolated problem.

Dan Castellaneta

Marge, old people don't need companionship, they need to be isolated and studied to see what useful nutrients can be obtained from them...

Greg Sparling

We wanted to kill the clock. We wanted to get Lance isolated so he could make the shot.

E. Hurley

People said, 'Maybe this is an isolated event,'

Peter Sorensen

After 16 years, we're there. We've isolated it, and we can synthesize it.

Abraham Maslow

During all my first twenty years, I was depressed, terribly unhappy, lonely, isolated (and self-rejecting).

Richard Kelly

It seems to not be an isolated incident.

Andrew Ramirez

We were treated very well, and we're doing good, ... We're healthy. As you can see, we're very happy. Mostly happy.

Isabella Rossellini

The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.

Sigmar Polke

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.

Donald Trump

I've always been covered by a press that's mostly financial press.

Chang-Rae Lee

I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.

Nathan Lane

Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people's motives. Is it just because I'm him - I'm Nathan Lane?

Mary Wilson Little

It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.

Oren Peli

The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon - which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.

Mike Farrell

It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'

Alan Rickman

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'

Alain Robert

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

Alan Alda

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

Al Neuharth

Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.

Chris Claremont

I'm the best there is at what I do but what I do best isn't very nice

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I am aware that I have been incredibly fortunate in my life to work with the people that I have worked with and pursue the projects that I have been able to do. There are so many films that I have done that I really, as a film person, as a film fan, that I like. And that is a nice place to think of a career in.

Chet Baker

I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.

Dave Franco

Recently I've been looking for something new. The past few projects I've worked on, I keep getting cast as the asshole. I promise I'm a nice guy and not the asshole that everyone keeps seeing.

David Schwimmer

I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think I'm very supportive.

Alan Paton

Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

Alan Ball

Once Everton has touched you nothing will be the same.

Colleen Segarra

When you touch the animal, all you feel is bone.

Charles Kuralt

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

Edith Wharton

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

Bob Ross

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

Charles Spurgeon

When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.

Mark Hughes

Touch wood there has been no reaction, so we are very hopeful.

Estee Lauder

Touch a face. Touch a hand. Say, "This is for you, this is what I want you to wear.

Lance Gross

If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.

Tom Colicchio

I don't have a Facebook page and I don't think I will but Twitter for me is a way to take control of the message. Kind of wrestle it back. It's something I'm enjoying.

Banks

I've never really been into social media - I don't have a Facebook; I don't do Twitter or Instagram or anything.

John Knapp

Twitter is the samizdat of the 21st Century.

Andrew Luck

I don't know how old my phone is, but it was only $10. It is a nice subconscious way of not having the Internet at your fingertips... e-mail, Twitter or Facebook.