Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Frosh

The real issue at this point is Joe Steffen confirmed what they have denied all the way through this, which is they were firing file clerks and secretaries to make room for people they wanted to get jobs for, ... They were using those low-level jobs as patronage.

John Luke

Front desk clerks at Hilton are generally empowered to listen to any reasonable request. We probably wouldn't treat you to a $500 dinner for two, but if you're walked from the New York Hilton and Towers, we might take you over in our limo to a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria.

Sugata Mitra

The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore.

Stephen Breyer

I would guess my law clerks could meet (that standard) every day,

Albert Einstein

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks,

Dana Williams

We've been working as fast as we can since Feb. 1. But it's a 30- to 60-day process. I know the clerks are under a lot of pressure. This has just been perfect storm situation.

Hortense Calisher

How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.

David Graddol

Honduran cooks learn Mandarin. Mexican clerks learn Korean. Most often, people learn Spanish.

Luc Montagnier

We are working with a biotech company, Calypte, which has designed a urine test for the HIV antibody.

Brenda Powell

The postures are designed in a specific sequence to make sure all the muscle groups are being hit, and the immune system and internal organs.

Guy Gavriel Kay

When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful of ergonomics and suchlike concepts. When reading for pleasure, I take advantage of the 'recline' in recliner.

Neal Patterson

I designed and developed an unbelievable number of applications early in my life.

Michael Unzueta

Whether they are designed to smuggle drugs, people, weapons or other contraband, these tunnels pose a threat to our nation's security.

Michael Griffin

What we're really developing is the shuttle's successor, ... The CEV is designed to go to low-Earth orbit.

Erik Lomis

We're going to make money with this picture. It was designed so that if it (grossed) $20 million or more we would do well. From what we know right now, it's going to go significantly north of that.

Mike Hooper

The protocols were designed to help protect the athletes' rights. We're not trying to withhold anything; we're doing what we're supposed to do in relation to a robust anti-doping program.

Steve Wozniak

When I designed projects in college, he said, let's sell it.

Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Charles Stanley

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Alan Watts

Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

Alan Watts

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Al Sharpton

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

Edward Gibbon

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

Cardinal Richelieu

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...

Takeru Kobayashi

I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight.

Edward Said

We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)

Edward Said

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

Dana Gioia

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

Mark Romanek

You can have it all, my empire of dirt. I will let you down.

Ian Shepherdson

It is disappointing in the wake of the huge rise in the Empire State survey -- the indexes are usually at similar levels,

Lucy Lawless

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

Alfonse D'Amato

The potholes represent the hopes and aspirations of our people, and the little people have needs, ... I fight with the bureaucrats every day, because they have to be told they are not the people who run the government, and they exist for the people.

Nina Jacobson

When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.

Lydia Leonard

I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.

Richard Boucher

We're not going to provide any quid pro quos for North Korea to live up to its existing obligations.

Amy Tan

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

David Bondy

We found perhaps many of our existing policyholders would shift their work focus away from what they had been doing to trades and operations that were more in demand.

Dr. Dicpinigaitis

We're just saying that those studies don't exist that these products work.

Ayn Rand

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

Catherine Deneuve

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Nell Newman

I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.

Richard Thomas

We're manning up production as much as we can, ... We can only produce so many.

Max Bukovac

We're going to produce some runs, and I would be surprised if we didn't.

Bob Lutz

You cannot buy a bad automobile any more from any producer. We have to do more products not because we're looking at a particular segment, but because it's a great vehicle.

Jim Thomas

With nanotechnology, you can produce steel that's 100 times stronger but six times lighter.

Ken Reeves

The reality is for most of the East, the ingredients just didn't come together to produce the type of storm that many were claiming.

Mike Nichols

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.

Anne Anderson

Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,

Randy Copeland

Sir, two of those schools aren't even under our jurisdiction.

Cal Jillson

For most voters, schools are the No. 1 issue,

Ron Messick

Lauren's so big as a player. A lot of schools are starting to take notice.

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.

Kevin McKenzie

All my experiences with Lonoke schools have been great.

Justin McNaull

It's all over the map. Here in the D.C. area, schools don't get out until Thursday, making for a very short travel period.

Joe Zwilling

Now is the time for the schools to have the input, to tell us what's unique about their situation.

Clare Callahan

They have it in the schools over there.