Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Pierce

In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has seemed from the start that the idea as applied to him was more than mere metaphor. He is the first president in my lifetime whom the country felt obligated to remind that he know his place.

In terms of food, so far we have only used liquid smoke as a preservative for fish and tofu. But I'm sure it can also be applied to other foods including noodles.

Kelvin Sampson

I really didn't know Jimmy when he applied for the job. I knew he was a worker, a good recruiter and a good people person just from watching him recruit over the summer. The head coaches know who all the workers are.

If you would be applying for a room reservation, say, at 4 o'clock this afternoon, you're likely to get it at a less-expensive rate than if you had applied for it a week ago, simply because the hotel knows that they have that room available and they wish to sell it.

Scott Foley

I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.

Wendy Kopp

I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.

Jeb Bush

I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively. And the net effect was, during my eight years, 1.3 million jobs were created. We left the state better off because I applied conservative principles in a purple state the right way, and people rose up.

Larry Campbell

He came and applied for one, ... And, quite candidly, I've had several calls from people who said, 'What in the world are you doing, Larry?' But the truth of the matter is the man has a master's degree in public administration; he has no criminal record, no convictions, no ethical convictions. He comes extremely well-recommended through the community and people of substance.

He applied the wrong legal standard and ignored the facts.

Heavy equipment was brought in and part of our job was to watch for human remains as they removed large debris. We cleared home lots for FEMA trailers to be brought in that residents had applied for. We helped move the trailers in and hooked them up. 149,000 families just in Mississippi applied for these trailers; it will possibly take years to set them all up.

I developed this thing probably 10 years ago out of frustration of forever having to take my truck box in and out. Then I applied for the patent a couple of years ago.

Clive Cussler

I applied for the job. They had three stores and they were shocked! They said that I was a little over qualified, but they hired me anyway.

Howard Coble

I am pleased that seven fire departments in our district applied for and will receive funds from the Homeland Security grant program.

I am pleased that my full focus can now be applied to accelerating Nortel's business momentum.

How many applied is kind of irrelevant compared to how many will get assistance. If they reported 3 million people enrolled in the extra help today, we would be opening the champagne bottles.

Because DoD contracts out by far the most federal work to private companies, it is especially critical that these provisions be applied to DoD.

Jeb Bush

Chief Justice Rehnquist was a dedicated, effective justice who was one of the nation's premier interpreters of the Constitution, ... He applied the law with great wisdom, fairness, and commitment to the rule of law, right up until his last days.

California has a real opportunity to take a leadership role in how this project is applied in the rest of the country.

Kofi Annan

If the new commitment to intervention in the face of extreme suffering is to retain the support of the world's peoples, it must be -- and must be seen to be -- fairly and consistently applied to, irrespective of region or nation. Humanity, after all, is indivisible,

Jimmy Carter

I personally had, at the beginning, some very serious reservations about this issue, ... This will be, I think, a move forward in getting more people to vote. It would not restrict people from voting. It will be uniformly applied throughout the country, and it will be nondiscriminatory.

If you can demonstrate and prove that that gas already has a similar fee applied to it, then you won't have to pay again.

I honestly think the judge is wrong in terms of how he has applied the law, but I haven't had a chance to read the cases (he cited). My gut feeling is he's wrong when he says if the other side puts on live people, I need to put on live people, too. If he's right, then I goofed; and if he's not right, then he goofed.

It might not change the result in the case -- it could be that the proper standards are applied and Napster still loses. We're totally neutral on the issue of how this applies to Napster.

It's a philosophical difference that Ray and I have about whether the Palo Verde rewards should have gone back to the ratepayer or should it be applied to the city to be used to lower electric costs in providing taxpayer services,

It's very frustrating. You know what these laws are and how they're applied to you, and when you go, they're telling you no.

It's time for this board to look hard and long at minority hiring. We don't have any minorities in technology. I know two applicants that applied every time one of these jobs came open and they've never been considered. The way I look at it, the good old boy system is coming back. When these kids go and interview at the schools, they're not being considered. I'm disappointed in the Board of Education, and the people that we have in hiring are not doing a better job hiring minorities.

It will be the pre-eminent applied research laboratory for Internet technologies. This is a very exciting opportunity for researchers and technologists to have an immediate impact on the next evolution of Microsoft's Internet products and services...

Naveen Jain

The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

The use of the word "great" is so frequently applied to numbers of Presidents that I myself, having once written a series of, I think, extremely poor essays, I regret to say, on the first sixteen Presidents of the United States, I wouldn't try in my own mind to try to fix the place in history of any President until he had been dead for at least fifty years.

Les Paul

They've taken the, the licks and the ideas and applied 'em differently, so it's very amusing, or very interesting, to me to see how they've changed it and made it work, made it so new and different. It's always a pleasure to hear someone creating something new.

They indicated to me they are willing to resume the six-party talks provided the United States lift its financial sanctions that have been applied recently to North Korea.

It?s one of the best jobs in the country, it will be highly applied for. I?m obviously interested.

Joaquin Phoenix

It's more of a statement film and kind of a cynical statement at that. It explores the idea that war is inherent in man, and there's a seeming desire for conflict. It could be applied to any situation and any military.