Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerrold Nadler

The other thing that I wanted to say -- and that I will say at this point, even though the chairman is not going to listen,

Natalie Massenet

I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.

Gary Weiss

When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.

Kevin Yoder

To go from chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Kansas Legislature to one of 50 on the Appropriations Committee and one of 435 in the whole House, it is more difficult to directly impact policy here.

Ahmed Tugod

So far there's nothing new. We heard from the AU chairman the same proposals we'd heard before from the AU mediation team. It was very disappointing.

David H. Murdock

Even though I am Chairman of Dole Food Company, I do most of my own grocery shopping.

Neil Abercrombie

I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, 'Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?' 'Well, we have no mechanism to do it,' I was told.

David Rosenberg

We're not sure what to make of the fact that we find out from a reporter about comments that the Fed chairman made at a dinner two days earlier.

Robert Hormats

We are massively reliant on foreign capital. One of the jobs of the next Fed chairman will be to keep investors confident in the economy.

Todd Akin

We have never embraced a system in which it requires 60 votes to confirm a judge, and we should not be doing that now.

Tom Coburn

We want judges who are well qualified. Ginsburg was confirmed with 96 votes. . . . I would hate to see a double standard,

David Zavoda

Whether they wish to exercise that is entirely up to them. I'm not either going to confirm or deny anything he may have told you.

Reinhard Kurth

Unfortunately it has been confirmed that the swans were infected with H5N1 from Asia. We have no doubts whatsoever any more.

Reinhard Kurth

Unfortunately, it has been confirmed that the swans were infected with H5N1 from Asia. We have no doubts whatsoever any more.

Matthias Rubisch

We're finally seeing hard data that confirm the recent positive sentiment indicators. We expect a strong export performance well into 2007.

Mary Wilhelmus

To perhaps confirm the teacher?s knowledge of that child?s learning already., so that, yes, we are going to work more on his numbers sense. We are going to work more on their grammar.

Jack Straw

very distinguished and experienced internationally. If his appointment is confirmed we look forward to working with him.

Dick Pound

We want to make sure that we do the right thing because, if we are forced to confirm the declaration of noncompliance, this will have serious consequences for football and governments.

Patrick Smith

We've already been discussing that. It will probably go to two shifts a day before it goes to that.

Catherine Peters

We are at the stage now where we're discussing with those individuals.

Dick Hamm

We're meeting and discussing and we really have a lot of things on our plate. We're trying to come to a conclusion.

Bud Selig

We're not discussing contraction at the major league level.

Eric Kandel

I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.

Sean Rooney

We had been speaking about a 51 percent to 49 percent split, but we're open to discussing any percentage,

Simon Crisford

We'll see how he is over the next week or so before discussing plans. But if he is to run in the Kentucky Derby, he will go straight there without a prep race.

Nobu Matsuhisa

One evening, Mike Myers and Steven Spielberg were discussing 'Goldmember,' and I just happened to joke, 'If you need a Japanese character, let me know!' The next day, they called me for audition! I find it's always helpful to maintain a sense of humour.

Michael Slattery

Nothing is concrete. We are just discussing issues informally.

Kevin Hallinan

The person knew where he was sitting and positioned himself perfectly.

Leander Paes

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

Mark Ruffalo

What makes Hulk afraid? It's himself. It's a version of himself that's weak. It's a version of himself that's vulnerable. It's a child inside of him.

Robert Walzel

When you think of Mozart's piano concertos, you think of them as masterpieces. He invested so much in them, since he wrote these for himself to play.

Jonathan Meyers

Tom runs a very tight ship. You do not turn up late and you don't muck around - he's strict with himself and everyone he works with.

Dick Cheney

Tom Ridge is not a candidate, because he took himself out, ... Wolf Blitzer Reports.

Robert Taggart

We know who the shooter is, ... It would be better for him to turn himself in before we have to find him.

Italo Calvino

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, the Lord Himself is the Appraiser, who distinguishes the counterfeit from the genuine.

Kevin Henkes

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.

Sam Aiona

There are various interpretations of the new law. It is setting us back.

Mike Harris

She's our unquestioned leader. She does so much, whatever we need, whether it's points, rebounds, assists, setting up plays. She does it all.

Veruschka von Lehndorff

In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.

David Leslie

I don't think it's so much of a disadvantage setting up from scratch.

Ariel Sharon

I have begun, with my colleagues, setting up a new party,

Gilbert Arenas

I'd been setting up my team all night, ... I'm going to win the game. That's what I do. . . . They didn't say it was going to be easy.

Ruby Dee

We've got the possibility of setting things right,

Yvonne Martinez

We've got two teenagers we're talking to right now, and one of them has confessed to setting the fire.