Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Rankin

Whether Rebus's 'skills' are ones his bosses would wish retained is a moot point, but it seems I have my 'get-in' clause should I need one.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The fact is that the employee union bosses have simply too much power over the budget, too much power over their members' paycheck and too much power over our state,

Ted Cruz

What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.

Kevin Spillane

Frankly, a lot of insiders think it's the most important measure on the ballot. If it wins, it will be a victory for the governor, and a real defeat for the labor union bosses and their allies.

Newt Gingrich

I think a lot of our members resent the kind of muscle that the union bosses have brought into the Capitol,

Just Fontaine

Our team bosses were so convinced we would be knocked out that they only gave us three shirts each, so we were totally free from pressure.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Paycheck protection means protecting the paychecks of the workers. It means protecting the workers themselves. Right now, union bosses take the money out of workers' paychecks and use it without their permission.

Joshua Micah Marshall

That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.

John Stumpf

I think great bosses hire great people. 'A' people hire 'A' people, but 'B' people hire 'C' people; they're worried they might be shown up... they're concerned that that person might make them look bad.

Michael Dawidziak

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

Alexei Navalny

I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.

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.

Vladimir Putin

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

Kevin Brady

We're going to have to find a way to serve our constituents and our taxpayers better and quicker and more accurately with fewer workers. I'm convinced we can do it and we don't have a choice.

Jon Gruden

We might have a scratchy throat, we might have something wrong with us. But if you can play, by gosh, we're going to play. Carnell Williams is that type of kid. ... If there's any way he can play, I'm convinced he would go.

Greg Gardner

We met with family members of the suspect and convinced the family members, when they heard from their son to have him turn himself in.

Ed Schulz

She's convinced it's him and the FBI is running like it's him.

Charles Sumner

Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.

Charles de Gaulle

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

Charles de Gaulle

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Spurgeon

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Dell Leonard

We've won some big games at the line this year, and we've lost some at the line. We know how important free throws are.

Yannick Noah

Marley, I can sing half of his repertory, but the influence it had on me is more in my way of seeing the things from a strictly musical point of view.

David Ginola

It has simply been a time of reflection.

Yannick Noah

Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

Yannick Noah

Your child is happy. What else could you want?

Bernard Hinault

He has a head, two arms, two legs, just as I.

Bernard Hinault

I slept like a baby the night before, because I knew that I'd win the next day.

Bernard Hinault

Everyday there's something that reminds me why I love this sport.

David Ginola

The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth.

Just Fontaine

As soon as he thinks about the record, he's finished. The secret is to put it out of your mind.

Rafael Benitez

We knew they needed rest to recover but the problem that gave us was they were all missing the Newcastle game.

Catherine Deneuve

But I never gave up personal things to work, never.

Lisa Goodman

The person who gave the most money to my campaign, I voted against.

Richard Rosen

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

Mark Woodworth

We struggled in the first game. We gave up those three in the sixth and that hurt, but we were already behind.

Erik Kimrey

We stress not giving up big plays on defense, so that was a little disappointing. But I was glad to see the way we responded as a team after that score gave us a little reality check.

Bonnie MacPherson

When you take into consideration that we started with a 23 percent increase in season passes, so I think that gave us a good hedge on the roller-coaster ride that the season was.

Deidre Hall

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

Billy Sheehan

I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.

Brandon Claussen

When I walked over there, he wasn't moving. He was knocked out. He wasn't moving at all.

Ken Rhoden

She was one of our main contributors and knocked in the winning run in the state championship game.

Shawn Nelson

She had a rhythm look and knocked it down.

Larry Coker

From my understanding, they were knocked unconscious with a helmet.

Kathleen Blanco

knocked us down but they did not knock us out.

Robert Vaden

I went up and got it. I don't know how. It was pretty high, like a 40-inch vertical or something like that. But I went and got it and they left me open. I just jumped up and knocked it down.

Nick Jones

I get knocked down and I get up again,

Scooter Dunn

He knocked the stitches out of it over at practice.

Todd Fischer

Mathematically, I could get knocked out, but I'd have to be very unlucky on my part to do that, ... just to try to make sure I don't get that unlucky break.

Cesc Fabregas

If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me.

Maria Schmidt

We're overwhelmed by the bidding. This is already way over what any of us thought the shirts would bring.

Peter Kovacs

We showed up with just the shirts on our backs, and they took us in. That's how we got back into operation.

Travis Johnson

He took like twelve shirts from my closet.

Neil Young

You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.

Nate Parker

You can be addicted to White Supremacy and all of the benefits, you can be addicted to male privilege and all of the benefits that comes from it. It's like someone pointing at you and you have a stain on your shirt and you don't even know it.

Lisa McMann

So, ah, I'm not sure if you know this, but you're not wearing a shirt." "Distracting, isn't it?

Thomas Carlyle

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

Ray Parlour

John Terry wears his shirt on his sleeve

Alan Pardew

I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here

Alan Hansen

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

Alan Hansen

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

Alain Prost

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

Alain Prost

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

Alain Prost

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

Alain Prost

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

Al Michaels

There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe.

Al Michaels

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

Steve Alford

We've already got three up on the board.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Anton Chekhov

When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

Billy Sunday

Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Larry Coker

We were totally inept, to put it bluntly.

David Schultz

The real breakthroughs will be in a totally different category.

Jordi Molla

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

Parris Chang

We won't be totally disappointed because there will be other goodies in the package,

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Howard Davidowitz

Kinko's is under assault, and I think what Kinko's is doing is totally rational.

Steve Bennett

I would say our two weeks down there were totally different than their two weeks.

Sofia Vergara

For me, this is a totally new thing,