Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Hanauer

The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things.

Frances Beinecke

The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.

Gordon Nixon

We are pleased with the strong earnings growth and ROE (return on equity) of 23.9% in the first quarter.

Jim Roche

We are pleased with the performance in the quarter, with the return of sequential revenue growth and with the solid earnings results,

Steve Previs

There are some disappointments in earnings and obviously Hewlett-Packard is a big one.

Chuck Hill

We still think we are on track to see earnings growth of 23 percent for the quarter.

Tom Daschle

where I come from would earn a trip to the woodshed.

Richard Chamberlain

When you've never had much money and earned little as an actor the first two years, you tend to save your money.

Holly Lisle

I earned my writing stripes with a large man's shoebox overflowing with rejection slips... more than 100 before I got my first, 'Yes, we want this,' accompanied by a check.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

Tim Ryan

Luis does all the things that enables your team to be successful.

David Selby

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.

Eric Ripert

Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.

Leon Max

I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.

Wendy Kopp

Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

Alan Moore

Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.

Anita Borg

The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy.

Harriet Lamb

Only as we expand the market can we enable more and more producers to come in.

David Kay

In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.

Carl Levin

The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist

Carl Levin

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror

Carl Levin

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world

David Horowitz

The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East.

Asne Seierstad

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

Dennis Kucinich

Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.

Dennis Miller

I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum. I say we invade Iraq, then invade Chirac.

Edward Kennedy

It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.

Robert Fisk

I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

Tariq Aziz

Singling out the question of inspectors is wrong. There is the Iraqi issue, and in that issue, there are many items, there are many areas, and some of them are very, very important to the Iraqi people.

Lawrence Eagles

Most of these projects were supposed to be done last year. If U.S. money had been made available, Iraqis could have done the job faster. Whichever way you look in the short term, it comes back to security.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We are going through many of the issues, outstanding disarmament issues. The Iraqi side is providing explanation on some of the issues ... We are discussing, but we have to wait until tomorrow.

Zalmay Khalilzad

The reaction that's needed by the Iraqis -- they need to come together.

George H. W. Bush

positive day for the Iraqis and as well for world peace.

Jalal Talabani

Furthermore, the Iraqis do not want to be more Palestinians than the Palestinians themselves,

Muqtada Sadr

We urge the Iraqis to be up to the level of responsibility... to keep Iraq's unity and safety.

Mark Kimmitt

I suspect that most Iraqi people were as horrified,

Lawrence Eagles

Most of these projects were supposed to be done last year. If U.S. money had been made available, Iraqis could have done the job faster. Whichever way you look in the short term, it comes back to security.

Zalmay Khalilzad

The reaction that's needed by the Iraqis -- they need to come together.

George H. W. Bush

positive day for the Iraqis and as well for world peace.

Jalal Talabani

Furthermore, the Iraqis do not want to be more Palestinians than the Palestinians themselves,

Muqtada Sadr

We urge the Iraqis to be up to the level of responsibility... to keep Iraq's unity and safety.

Sherrod Brown

We should not mislead the Iraqis into thinking they have unlimited time to reach a settlement. The longer they think that, the less likely they will be to act.

Bayan Jabor

We as Iraqis are responsible for solving our own problems,

Amr Moussa

I salute the Iraqis and wish them victory.

Richard Lugar

It's very unlikely that we're going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder.

Al Ries

The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

Akon

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

Mike Butters

We want to see who we're going to keep around next season.

Chris Cooper

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Greg Stuart

We are making a dent, but we are not going to be at 10 percent of total spending by next year.

David Foster

We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning.

Bill Porter

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

Dave Barry

I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?

Daniel Goldstein

Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

Drew Rosenhaus

We had a productive meeting. We talked about things important to us, and they talked about things important to them.

Stanley Hauerwas

I'm a happy and productive person. I'm very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I've got a lot of energy.

Nick Saban

He has been one of our most productive players.

Peter Wallace

You can be productive while you are doing that. Time is money.

Hal Mumme

We haven't been as productive as we'd like. We just have to keep working.

Daron Schoenrock

All of those were shots. He shortened his swing a little bit. He has been a little long. He's got enough strength where a short swing like that can be productive for him.

Ayn Rand

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

David Taylor

We're getting a lot of good, technological resources we can use.

Jon Purnell

There are only so many resources that can be allocated to these programs.

Brian Tracy

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

William Green

I'm using all my resources to help me with that and I feel the sky is the limit for me.

Norm Zada

We don't have the resources to sue everybody.

Alain Ducasse

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

Pauletta Vaughn

There are so many more resources in Harrisburg. I have a boatload of supporters there.

Brent Nelson

We're trying to make sure that the residents that are out there have the supplies and resources that they need, and that they are safe.

Sue Densmore

You have more resources than you can probably imagine.

Tony Johnson

We shifted because we didn't want them sold off individually. Then we could end up with absentee landlords.

Brad D. Smith

The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way.

Walter Kirn

We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

Robert McGrath

Somehow society shifted and took these things seriously.

John Krasinski

I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides.

Marty Turco

You play it one game, one shift at a time.

Marcel Dionne

There was tremendous emotion. Every shift was so emotional.

Jamie Russell

You have to give Wisconsin credit. I thought they outworked us shift in, shift out.

Riley Nelson

Their whole team works hard, which is tough because you can't take a shift off.

Rabih Alameddine

Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

Chris Rainier

I am a storyteller who uses a camera.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.