Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Turner

Ultimately, it's the (department) chairs and deans who are accountable in hiring and promoting people.

Bill Gates

Started from the chair hop now we here.

Kevin Spencer

There are times when we have people on standby or other weather-related things where they have to stay in. There are a few chairs in the engine bay, but that's really all they have for space.

Earl Little

Nobody was throwing chairs or anything like that. We discussed it and we handled it in a professional manner.

Ron Milam

We've had people come in, in wheel chairs and crutches bandaged up. It looks like a mass triage unit.

Harry Tholen

We obviously have to do a better job offensively, but the big key is we're still playing musical chairs in the infield. We have to come up with some kind of a defensive infield. That's been our Achilles' heel. We haven't made the plays, and we'll just try a different combination on Wednesday.

Perry Poe

We are planning to have extra chairs up front, but expect there will be some people standing.

Dorothy Thompson

We actually purchased those real tall tables and chairs like you see at Starbucks.

Robert Green Ingersoll

As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

Mike Twomey

What these companies give in contributions is just a pennies-on-the-dollar investment compared with what they get from the Legislature and Public Service Commission in terms of favorable legislation and rulings.

Bryan Lee

The proceeding has been suspended. It's not at all unusual for the commission to suspend a proceeding with a prospect of a settlement.

Michael Twomey

The real issue: Is the Louisiana Public Service Commission going to make the company wait one or two years to recover these dollars.

Louis Stokes

Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material.

Scott Cowen

Until a commission is sanctioned to sift through all these ideas and coalesce it into a single vision, I don't think people will pay much attention.

Paul Tagliabue

We have had this commission for a couple of years now on cardiovascular health,

Abdul Jalil

This proves that opposition's demand for reforms of the caretaker government system and the Election Commission is authentic.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.

Adam Quinton

With three major U.S. telecoms under Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, we thought little more could happen to dampen already miserable investor sentiment in the space. Now events at WorldCom leave us virtually lost for words.

Carol Roth

Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal.

Robert Watson

We want to reinforce the fact that we're a global company.

Mark Hurd

We have to grow our company, invest and deal with competitive forces at the same time we need to be efficient on the cost side,

David Brown

We have no plans to make any significant changes. ... The mill won't close. We understand the importance of the company to the Longview community. We would expect a significant portion of management would stay in place.

Ben Hatfield

We have no interest in getting into finger-pointing of what went on a year ago. This is a mine that operated for some significant time before my company was involved with it.

Vijay Mallya

We have registered a company in the name of Kingfisher International in the US. We will be flying to India and other international destinations, provided we get all necessary approvals at the right time.

James Falvey

The Exxon-Mobil deal has definitely raised the bar. It's going to be hard to compete with a company that size.

Michael Armstrong

We set out to transform this company from a point-to-point long-distance company. The results today are strong. They need to be better, and they will be. But it's now time to recognize the value creation phase of our strategy.

Thayer David

Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.

Jason Chaffetz

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

Stewart Udall

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.

Dan Hopkins

The process will take as much time as the process needs. CDOT officials and federal officials will run the process as they see fit.

Joseph Biden

Ultimately, all the federal government does is not going to be able to get the job done without your aid.

Alex Penelas

We are holding the federal government responsible, and specifically (Attorney General) Janet Reno and the president of the United States, for anything that may occur in this community,

David Phelps

We are heavily focused on the federal marketplace; it's 98 percent of our revenue.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Larry Wachtel

We remain in a stimulus vacuum and the underlying motif this week will be the Federal Reserve meeting next week.

Charlie Crist

When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.

David Suzuki

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

David Suzuki

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

Jared Bernstein

What you don't hear from these GOP candidates is that they really can't go after this president on domestic production of oil and gas. He's actually done quite a lot. In fact, I would suspect they're environmentalists who are worried that we're doing too much drilling and fracking, in fact. I know that for a fact.

Chris Chocola

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

Chloe Bridges

My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Moroccan Oil is some really good stuff. Plus, I can't live without my Burt's Bees lip balm!

Chinua Achebe

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

Cheryl Strayed

...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

Stephen Stanley

We're in a pretty quiet time of the year. We've been pretty directionless today. Oil hasn't been doing much.

Rafael Ramirez

We have said that this is a structural issue, not a short-term factor, and the price is going to stay the same,

Bret Easton Ellis

Price. You're priceless.

Stephen Davis

We know we'll be successful with this operation. The only question is the price we'll pay.

Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Margaret Thatcher

The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

Brian Tracy

The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.

Brett Ellis

We're starting to see hundreds of price reductions a day.

Bill Hybels

The grander the vision the greater the price tag.

Bruno Tonioli

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

Robert Luskin

Mr. Rove is still a subject of the investigation.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Barry White

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Robert Bennett

I am subject to expulsion if I divulge anything that is going on.

Joe Solmonese

I don't think it has anything to do with the subject matter.

Bill Condon

I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.

Barton Gellman

NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Jorma Taccone

Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.

Ed Silliere

Speculators are tripping over themselves to get out.

Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Stan Eby

My sense is there will not be a rehearing and trade will continue. But we have to be watching all the time.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Barbara Castle

I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

Marissa Mayer

We think this will be a very useful tool, but you will have to give up some of your privacy. For many of us, that trade off will make a lot of sense.

Dave Checketts

When we traded him, I would say that was probably a lose-lose. It didn't work out well for anyone.

Deon Santisteven

We did not actually get to witness the reunion.

Louis C. K.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

Elie Wiesel

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

Kathleen Blanco

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.

Edward Hoagland

A writer's work is to witness things.

Philip Brooks

Witnesses say he pretty much plowed into them, that he just tapped the brakes,

Cheryl Conway

Unfortunately, there were no witnesses and there's very little evidence.

John Pomfret

I think you're a witness and a recorder.

Thomas Harrison

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.