Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Cherry

The other thing about the Cape is it's fairly compact. You're never really that far away.

Austin Grossman

Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.

Negeva Norval

There are only about 50 fashion capitals in the world and Cape Town is one of them.

Helen Zille

So, here we stand with the greatest challenge we have faced. We have got to provide a stable government in Cape Town.

Erin O'Connor

I have two curiosity cabinets at home filled with finds from jumble sales, markets and my travels. My favourite piece is a voodoo mask from just outside Cape Town.

Wilbur Smith

I live in Cape Town but my favourite holiday destination is Hermanus, a little seaside town about a 90-minute drive away, over the pass and down to the sea, on the sunshine coast. It's where I love to escape to with my wife for a weekend every now and again.

Alan Huffman

Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.

African Proverb

When you are at home, your troubles can never defeat you. - Cape Coast, Ghana

African Proverb

Though the lion and the antelope happen to live in the same forest, the antelope still has time to grow up. - Cape Coast, Ghana

Herb Trimpe

I had joined Marvel in 1967, after a year in Vietnam and three years as a student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Stan Lee, then the editor-in-chief, hired me as a production assistant.

Mona Williams

We acknowledge we should have had better safeguards in place to make sure our (floor-cleaning) contractors hired only legal workers.

Kenneth Langone

Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.

Cynthia Lowery

We have hired some young people. If you hire somebody without experience, it's going to be lower.

Bradley Cooper

It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for me, it's just I want to keep doing different things because I want to get better, so hopefully I'll be hired to do them.

Kelli Williams

I'm convinced that I've been hired for jobs because I can cry on cue.

Jeffrey Robinson

There is a teacher I have hired and I don't know if he's with us on our team. I know the unions have their rules and something must be done about the unions.

Tony Fernandes

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.

Tim Maloney

Getting hired under 18 is somewhat of a privilege.

Robert Reich

What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.

Kevin Brownlow

To me, film is a religion. I don't expect to get paid to make it, but I do expect total dedication.

Kathleen Sebelius

If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.

Maurice Williams

Whenever you see your quarterback on the ground, especially rolling around in pain, it's not good. We get paid to protect him. That's what we want to do and when we don't, our week is long.

Christopher Plourd

She paid it all off, but somebody never picked up on that.

Dave Ramsey

Work-get paid; don't work-don't get paid. Everybody is on commission

John Schwartz

Legally, this is referred to as an increase. There's no two ways about it on the ballot. However, if you look at the preamble, it says this proposal would reauthorize the levy. That tells taxpayers this is something they have paid before.

David Steinberg

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

Lela Rochon

I'm glad that I ran track in high school. I think it paid off.

Alan Rickman

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Charles Kuralt

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

Beau Bridges

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

Ben Bernanke

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.

Hannah Baldwin

We're just a little town that did things that were unheard of at the time.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.

Charles Bukowski

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

Edward Abbey

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Alan Rickman

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Charles Kuralt

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

Beau Bridges

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

Ben Bernanke

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.

Charles Bukowski

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

Edward Abbey

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Estelle Parsons

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.

Dustin Lynch

My favorite thing about touring is the new towns and new faces every day.