Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Wright

We've won games that way. We've shot poorly and then got on the offensive boards and played defense. They were just too good.

Marcus Aurelius

The perfumes at our board last night - Were exquisite, I won't deny it, But we were starved, we were outright, For meat, could no how come by it

Paul Hodgson

The perception has been growing that it is better that there be a clear line of distinction between the people the board hires and the people hired by the corporation.

E. O. Wilson

The plight of the children on board this ship serves as a timely reminder that slavery and bondage are still realities in the world.

Kerry Killinger

We are pleased to welcome Regina to our Board of Directors. She is a nationally recognized leader in the legal, corporate, and nonprofit communities. Her leadership skills and commitment to promoting economic advancement for all complement the Board and make her a valuable addition.

David Wood

We usually send out information to board members to get their feel for whether we should disseminate information further.

Todd Tripp

We struggled on offense, but we kept playing defense and kept getting stops. I thought we controlled the boards and our defense was good tonight.

Fred Jacobs

There are board members who do not acknowledge the serious problems going on, and I do not know why,

Tim Dorsey

When you want something dumped you would point to the board operator, indicating to hit the button. I would say we use the seven-second delay button often. Everybody does. It's pretty standard in the business.

Barbara Morgan

We've already taken several truckloads of donations to the convention center. We've become a real central donation place.

Barbara Morgan

We've already taken several truckloads of donations to the convention center, ... We've become a real central donation place.

William Bass

We've already got 13,000 homes planned in Central Oahu, and traffic is just unbearable. We'd like to see some requirements put on the development, now. Maybe they will have to make more concessions.

Pavich Thongroj

There are certainly problems in the scoring system. Still, these are not grounds to rush back to the central entrance exams.

Amanda Thompson

We're interested in hearing about supply chain and logistics ideas and problems from central Indiana manufacturers. We have resources to offer them in terms of the expertise of our professors and good students for internships and employment.

Charles Lee

Whether you know it or not, or like it or not, you are planning the future growth of Central Florida.

Don Aaron

We would remind people that the Central Police Precinct is headquartered at the GEC. The police presence will be strong.

Dannel Malloy

We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences.

Diana Ross

It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.

Alanis Morissette

When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and said, "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?" And he said he didn't think so. I remember that felt like a slap in the face, because if my parents questioned Adam and Eve, then they potentially questioned everything within Catholicism. Eventually that idea led to my feeling liberated, but at that time it was very scary.

Alan Bennett

The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.

Al Jarreau

My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's grandfather.

Akon

I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

Nancy Long

We want them to have moms and dads and normal families.

Chick Corea

My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.

Chief Joseph

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

China Mieville

My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.

David Mixner

I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War II, who were sent to work the farms during the war. The metal beds with their thin mattresses could easily be used as a jungle gym and I loved them.

Martin Chalfie

We know what molecules are needed to sense light - what turns that signal that detects light into an electrical signal. We know how smells are detected. But we have a vast number of senses for which we know what the signal is, but we don't know what the receiver is.

Paul Steidler

Vermont Yankee supplies one-third of the state's electrical energy, and we want that supply to remain available,

Wayne Taylor

I think it may have started as an electrical fire because I started smelling something in the cockpit,

Matt Bailey

While much of the work is made from the traditional media of painting, sculpture and photography, other work is very nontraditional in particular those submissions by grad students in the sciences that were done as a part of professional development, such as photographs of spinal cords, reproductions of microscopic views or sculptural models of electrical coils.

Jerry Yang

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

Mark McKinnon

A few words about Sarah Palin: She is one of the most fascinating women I have ever met. She crackles with energy like a live electrical wire and on first meeting gets about three inches from your face.

Paul Thompson

We had a major electrical fault last night which meant we couldn't produce the paper as we usually do.

Lee Kreindler

Evidence is there that a structural, mechanical or electrical failure of some kind led to the explosion.

Rob Williams

This is great news. This is great news for us and it is also great news for the region's electrical energy supply.

Dan Daly

What we're really interested in generating is UA intellectual property. It offers a revenue stream from intellectual property.

Tom Tintor

We are not generating the number of shots we need to get. When you only take 50 shots we are not in good shape we need to take 70.

Kevin Hall

From what I remember about Ronald Reagan, the last thing he would want is for 50 states to expend resources and time generating pretty proclamations that have no practical impact.

Kim Weston

The gallery is generating work for the masses.

Joey Estrella

If we don't score it doesn't matter how much they score. We're not generating and putting any pressure on their defense. If we can't do that, we can't be successful.

Timothy Johnson

If they're able to sell these at a 10% premium, while also squeezing more units into the building, that's generating much more dollars.

Bill Bryson

In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way of generating income that would pay for good-quality investigative journalism.

Charles Moose

The graphic is generating a lot of information, a lot of calls,

Scott Burns

The reason they went with Buckley was that now that they're a lean mean machine, it's time to start growing that top line and generating some returns.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Alan Watts

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Alan Parker

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Patricof

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

Alan Rickman

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Kevin Rahm

My intent was to go to law school... And then what I realised quickly is what I wanted was to be on L.A. Law.

Katie McGrath

I grew up in a small town in Ireland and didn't know any actors. I never thought it was a viable job. It wasn't until I was on 'The Tudors' that I realised it was a possibility.

Douglas Adams

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.

Catherine Tate

I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

James Nesbitt

I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.

Cyrus Broacha

I realised that a television show on political lampoon was one genre that was missing.