Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Johnson

Our assignment has never been about what we can do for God, but what can God do through us.

Jeff Sprouse

We blew an assignment and she made the shot.

Kurt Ebenhoch

With the low fares that exist in the market today, load factors are higher than ever. As a result, customers value seat assignment more than they have in the past.

Kevin Mitnick

The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler to write a program to get the teacher's password and all the other students' passwords. And the teacher gave me an A and told the class how smart I was.

Kenneth Joseph Arrow

My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.

Tom Wolfe

The greatest promotion I ever had on a newspaper was when 'The Washington Post' suddenly promoted me from city-side general assignment reporter to Latin American correspondent and sent me off to Cuba. Fidel Castro had just come to power. It was a very exciting assignment, but also very serious.

Clint Hurdle

We decided to eliminate the uncertainty. There's no timetable (for his recovery). We need him healthy. Once he is able to play, we will get him out on a (minor-league) rehab assignment and get him some at-bats.

Kelly Graves

She's great. I wish I had 14 of her. She's perhaps our most consistently hard worker. She has struggled with her offense, but she had a breakout game with 15 at USF last week. She is always one of our best defenders; she always draws a tough assignment on the perimeter. What gets lost is she's a great team defender, and we're the best defensive team in the league.

Frank Quattrone

I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple.

Mike Alley

We've been able to get a lot of guys in. We know that we're going to see tougher tests down the road and we're just dedicating ourselves to keep working hard and try to stay physically ready.

Nick Estis

This race is for him. I'm dedicating my spring season to him.

Bruce Boxleitner

It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

Jimmy Johnson

After all the trouble this team has been through and all the criticism, I'm dedicating this to the haters of the 48 team.

David Chalmers

They are dedicating a large part of their lives to this choir. Any gift from God is meant to be shared.

Bhagavad Gita

Dedicating all works to Me in a spiritual frame of mind, free from desire, attachment, and mental grief, do your duty.

Laura Birks

Sometimes we get 25 people at the drop-in nights, which is great. It just happens that people prefer their mountain sports as opposed to dedicating their lives to basketball. The level is still quite high.

Joseph Murray

Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

But I plan on dedicating specific training to track this winter for the next racing season.

Alan Rickman

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

C. Wright Mills

My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies

David Menlow

We are looking for the energy sector to be the odds on favorite for market leadership that could reawaken the sleeping IPO giant.

Tyler Brand

We stressed in the locker room before the game that we wanted to come out with energy and intensity, and we didn't do that right at the start. But I was happy with us extending our lead and making that run.

Flip Saunders

When you watch film, you see we're maybe not getting to spots quick enough. Or there are some things where we lack the energy that I know when we get rest that we have. So we'll see.

Gretchen Rubin

A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

Edward Hopper

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.

Ed Begley, Jr.

For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.

David Walton

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

Henry Townsend

I think (his father) was his reason for going after the music. When he was younger, he was going after it with all the gusto he could put into it.

Kirstie Alley

I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.

Sparky Anderson

The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over.

and City

When you vote yes or no, ... it takes you out of the negotiations, and I don't ever want to be out of the game.

Wayne Stroupe

We're going to go where the truth takes us.

Kelly Sears

We're going to do the things that it takes to manufacture those runs.

Charlie Smith

We're just not doing the things it takes to win.

Glen Smith

We know what it takes to get them satisfied. They didn't just walk up and give us a jackpot. It's not like that.

Mark de Mori

Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Jack Toney

Timing matters. It typically takes a week or so, but after the sessions begin, it could take longer.

Harry Triguboff

We can't express ourselves always at the time we should. Sometimes it takes time.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Eden Sher

I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

Benjamin Walker

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

Cecile Richards

We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.

Abraham Lincoln

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more.

Boris Johnson

Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.

Adnan Pachachi

There are other volunteers who take turns, up to 50 of us here.

Rita Carlson

We pretty much have our same volunteers that come back.

Celia Imrie

There are actresses who've had expensive work done and look great, so I'm not holier-than-thou about it. But it wouldn't be for me, perhaps because I've already been in hospital and wouldn't want to volunteer myself for it again.