Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwin Eisendrath

Mr. Blagojevich has been campaigning at taxpayer expense for months. Now he will have to rely on the state contractor and lobbyist contributions to pay for his efforts.

John Edward

When the only shot many people have is a good job rebuilding New Orleans, the president intervened to suspend prevailing wage laws so his contractor friends can cut wages for a hard day's work,

Robert Wallace

I find it embarrassing to try and sell stuff, ... and I think I'm quite outgoing by contractor standards.

Paul Tonko

Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.

Robert Palmer

The contractor said that he had a small window in order to put it up, so we decided it was the right thing to do,

Marjorie Anders

The contractor is on schedule and the work is 80 percent complete.

John Woods

Everything seems to be on schedule. We've started the demolition, the pruning and removal of diseased trees, and the contractor is starting the underground utilities and walkway layout.

Mark Lewis

We conducted this drill to make sure that our spill response contractor is familiar with the route to the installation. I also wanted to get the response team familiar with the procedures of getting onto the post.

Tim Geagley

I was married at the time, and my ex-wife's father was a contractor here in Sevier County. I went to work for him doing odd jobs and drew unemployment for as long as I could and went to class. As far as going without a paycheck, my wife worked and we had some income, but it was a hard time.

George Herbert

Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.

Jerry Rice

My hat goes off to Drew and Cheryl. It's well-deserved.

Tom Izzo

I don't think I can be harder on Drew than Drew is on Drew.

David Ware

If ballplayers were women, Drew Rosenhaus would be a pimp.

Dick Vermeil

I hand drew all of them with a template.

George Lois

From the time I was three or four years old, I drew all the time. Drew all the time, every second.

Gail Carson Levine

I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

Nolan Bushnell

When I was running Atari, violence against humanoid figures was not allowed. We'd let you shoot at a tank... but we drew the line at shooting at people, with blood splattering everywhere.

Deryn Brace

When they drew at our ground early in the season, I was impressed with them. It was one of the few games we didn't look like winning.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect. These guys are awesome. This is a farm team.

Buster Keaton

Life is too serious to do farce comedy.

Erica Mann Jong

Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by its very nature, orders things and life really has no order.

Jason Breiholz

Making it as far as he did was incredible, and getting there and winning one match is incredible with the top 16 in the state.

Mike Levine

Licensees have gone as far as they can go,

Don Mattingly

Looks like he's just starting to tune it up a little bit. Hideki, he's just so solid as far as his work. He never gets out of his program. His work is the same if he's going good or if he's going bad.

Victor Murphy

Last year was really phenomenal as far as rainfall goes. This year, total opposite. It's feast or famine.

Charlie Brown

Last year was a record year for us as far as we can tell.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.

Richard P. Feynman

Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'

Bible Bible

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Bible Bible

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Marcus Aurelius

So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father

Mike Dunne

Mike was the kind of guy who would give the shirt off his back for anyone. He was like a second father to my kids.

Angela Carter

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods

Raj Kapoor

My grandfather was a judge and my grandmother wished that my father Prithviraj Kapoor too would study law and become a judge like her husband.

Stephen Pagliuca

My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.

Robert Kazinsky

Nothing is as hard as working on a British soap in this industry.

Dave Balza

Like I said, it's hard. It's hard to be positive when you're losing.

Viktor Kozlov

Like I said before, it's like a lottery. It's hard to score in the shootout.

Tim Kearney

Luckily he didn't have to work as hard or often in as other games. When we need him to step up, he does.

Pamela Smith

Lucinda was my only child, and she was God-given, and I know somewhere, somewhere I will come to terms that it was her time. But it was how it happened, and why it happened, that I have a hard time with. I miss her so much.

Kayla Rengel

Make sure we keep our focus, make sure we practice hard all week, and sleep well when we do have our off days.

Ozzie Guillen

Losing Tony is something that is hard on the Latin community.

Nicole Ohlde

Losing a player like her was hard because she does so much on and off the court.

Jerry Stackhouse

Last year, we had a letdown. We didn't want to work as hard as we did this season, then give it away. Now hopefully we can do what we did on the road last year.

Martha Stewart

Many, many people have suffered. People have lost jobs. I am very saddened and very, very sorry for that.

Jim Talent

Missouri is going to be better off because we've kept these jobs in Missouri.

Walt Fennell

One of our jobs is to be a greeter. As a resident, I like that too.

Roger Williams

One of my major jobs as secretary of state is to get people to vote, and I'm going to do my job.

O. J. Simpson

No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed.

Jay Shows

One thousand-plus jobs within a 40-mile radius represents a major labor provider.

Ray Giacoletti

Money is the crux of our business. People take jobs because of money. Money ruins everyone.

Roger Schagrin

Numerous plants will be shut down, thousands of workers will lose their jobs and communities will be devastated.

Dito Montiel

When I had jobs, I was always doing manual jobs because I couldn't think. I worked at the docks, unloading trucks, and did ridiculous jobs.

John Mayoue

More people are getting married older and wealthier. And they have more to protect today than ever.

Charles Spurgeon

You must be DIVORCED from your SIN, or you cannot be MARRIED to CHRIST.

Dionne Warwick

It was fashionable, youre supposed to be a married lady, so I did.

Dionne Warwick

A case of can't do with, can't do without, that's why I married him again.

Delise Denham

I didn't get married to be a single parent.

C. L. R. James

I may as well say it, I have been married three times.

Gene Tierney

My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.

Nick Lachey

We're planning on being married for a long, long time.

William Shakespeare

I will do anything ... ere I'll be married to a sponge.

Matthew Prior

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

Ridley Scott

Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting.

Dean Young

Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.

Elizabeth Emken

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

James Woods

I would give you seven to one odds that this is going to be a slash piece, but that's OK. I'm willing to take the heat.

Garry Hynes

The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.

Patricia Clarkson

And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.

Alan Watts

It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.

Charlie Munger

I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.

Charles Spurgeon

Show me 12 drunkards and I will show you 12 nagging wives.

Dick Van Dyke

My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing ...

Dominic West

Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.

David Bowie

I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.

David Bowie

I couldn't stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.

Dave Pelzer

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

David Neeleman

Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.

Robert Wilson

My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.

Malcolm McDowell

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

Jorge Cruz

We're not doing anything bad. We just need the work.

Adoniram Judson

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

Kathryn Minshew

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Kathryn Bigelow

My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Josh McDermitt

One person I haven't worked with yet, who I find hilarious, is Chad Coleman.

Stephanie Herseth

I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.

Kyrsten Sinema

I think there's this pressure to get rid of the fun that makes us human. It hasn't worked on me.

Ryan Smyth

I got lucky, I guess. It worked out.

Sally Kellerman

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

Jeremy Corbyn

I have always worked long hours and very hard. It is the way I am. Same as always. Up about seven and get to bed about 12 to 1, something like that.

Sallie Krawcheck

Some of it is because things haven't worked out as well as we hoped.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.