Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our attorney general's office has objected to role because they are assigned to represent various public bodies, and they see it as a conflict.

Howell Raines

That story was something I've never had occasion to discuss publicly, ... I assigned it because I was interested in this question: Here is a network that was once iconic in American broadcasting, that was traditionally, in the years of Cronkite and his predecessors, identified as being on the forefront of social policy reporting and coverage of the civil rights movement. Now it's basically at the mercy of the Masters, and what does that say about what had happened at CBS? What did it say about CBS's relationship with the Masters, and what did it say about CBS's relationship with its sponsors? That was the story that I was pressing to get.

Imre Kertesz

It is often said of me - some intend it as a compliment, others as a complaint - that I write about a single subject: the Holocaust. I have no quarrel with that. Why shouldn't I accept, with certain qualifications, the place assigned to me on the shelves of libraries?

Ideally, early in the planning stages, before reporters and photographers are assigned to a story, we like to be involved at that point, to make sure the content gathering keeps our needs in mind. If we don't find out about it until the night before, we're often not able to produce an interactive graphic.

He wanted some sort of deal from the district attorney's office for his cooperation, and he wanted an attorney to assist him in working through this negotiation. The sheriff and I unsuccessfully tried to get him a public defender assigned as soon as possible because of the urgency of the situation.

Eddie Jordan

He is really embracing the role that we assigned him as the defensive captain.

Dick Cheney

He legally and irrevocably assigned them and he receives no tax benefit from them,

From the very beginning, this redistricting has been about racial balance. Should children be assigned to schools based on skin color? That decision was made early on in this process.

busy preparing other work that I have assigned him.

Howell Raines

I was assigned to write the color story in the stands and on the sidelines in the Alabama-Auburn game at Legion Field in 1964, ... My first byline was in the Post-Herald and it was about Bear Bryant. So that's about as good as gets in Alabama.

Under our proposal, ZIP codes could still have a significant impact just not the main impact. Theoretically, if you assigned 20 points to each of the top three categories, you could still assign 19 points to ZIP codes.

John Brady

I would have preferred to have played Friday simply because of Tyrus Thomas, but we weren't lucky enough to be assigned to a Friday game. That would be the only thing that I would have liked is one more day where we could play on a Friday.

He was assigned to some of the most dangerous missions you can have. But it's what he wanted to do.

He was a little bit stubborn early on, but as the season progressed, we worked with him, and his work ethic got better as the season went on. He started to buy into the role that we assigned to him, and he really improved and came on strong at the end of the year.

Jim Ross

He was the kind of writer who took a person's life and made it interesting. If you wanted to get the humanity of a story, you assigned it to Tim.

He will be assigned to our special offenders unit. He'll be watched very closely.

We've taken all the known problems and solved them. We know for these 25,000 that they've been correctly assigned to a prescription drug plan.

Mr. Swope never would overrule a man to whom he'd assigned a job.

Sidney Spencer

One person might be assigned to her but our whole team has to guard to her. It's going to be guarding by committee.

Sathya Baba

Occupations and resultant attitudes have been assigned to the various stages of human life.

No one should be denied housing because they require a guide dog, an assigned parking space or some other reasonable accommodation because of a disability.

Christiane Amanpour

More times than I care to remember I have sympathized with too many of them assigned like myself, to some of the world's royal bad places.

Matthew Pearl

My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.

Jimmy Carter

showed up when assigned to duty, and he served with honor and distinction.

We're excited that the Sharks made us a part of this process and for the chance to see some of their young talent play in game situations. Not only will we be able to get to know some of the guys that might be assigned to us in the future, but we'll also be able to get a first-hand look at guys that we might want to recruit in years to come.

We're not changing anything. We've assigned the world's best referee, Joe Cortez, for the rematch. We'll take the same safety precautions we always take.

We're not changing anything, ... We've assigned the world's best referee, Joe Cortez, for the rematch. We'll take the same safety precautions we always take.

John C. Calhoun

Be assured that, as certain as Congress transcends its assigned limits and usurps powers never conferred, or stretches those conferred beyond the proper limits, so surely will the fruits of its usurpation pass into the hands of the Executive. In seeking to become master, it but makes a master in the person of the President.

William Campbell

When I found out what ship I had been assigned to, I immediately went to the ship's website and researched it.

Charles Francis Richter

We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

Charles Francis Richter

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.

Lauren Willig

I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels.

Khalil Gibran

When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.