Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Boyd

Wait until you feel the edge of your chair with the back of your knees,

Ultimately, it's the (department) chairs and deans who are accountable in hiring and promoting people.

Kamisese Mara

I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.

Jerrold Nadler

The other thing that I wanted to say -- and that I will say at this point, even though the chairman is not going to listen,

Chris Hedges

the perfect chair to sit in or porridge to taste.

The point of an election is to evaluate someone's performance my performance as appointments chair, for example, to which the database that I developed is substantially connected. My performance as appointments chair was rejected by the student body.

Bill Gates

Started from the chair hop now we here.

Kevin Yoder

To go from chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Kansas Legislature to one of 50 on the Appropriations Committee and one of 435 in the whole House, it is more difficult to directly impact policy here.

Charles Dickens

. . . when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.

Taya Kyle

With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

The Edge

Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.

Natalie Massenet

I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.

Billy Donovan

Maybe we can get him a rocking chair or something.

So far there's nothing new. We heard from the AU chairman the same proposals we'd heard before from the AU mediation team. It was very disappointing.

She walked the midway, or she'd sit on a lawn chair outside the popcorn stand.

When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.

There are times when we have people on standby or other weather-related things where they have to stay in. There are a few chairs in the engine bay, but that's really all they have for space.

Like all players, if they choose to try to play forever, their number is liable to come up. And in this situation ... (Cammi) and Shelley didn't have a chair when the music stopped.

Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party road-testing and pageantry. And because Chairman Mao's cult of personality led the country into extremism, the Party spent the next three decades engineering its politicians to be as indistinguishable as possible.

One of the Foster Report's recommendations was that a new steering group was formed with the chair of each home country represented on that," ()

Harry Redknapp

I am hoping we still have a chance of getting him. The chairman is working on it and that's all you can ask.

Neil Diamond

I am," I said To no one there And no one heard at all Not even the chair "I am," I cried "I am," said I And I am lost, and I can't even say why Leavin' me lonely still

Chris is ready for this. I told him the greatest distance is that 18 inches from the assistant's chair to the head coach's seat. But he understands his responsibilities and what he has to do.

No one wanted to hear that question then, but they were happy to name me the program chair for the centenary.

Nursing education is very people-intensive. You can't just put one more chair in the classroom.

Obviously the chair itself is not worth $1,000, but what it represents being part of Rusk County history makes it worthy. I feel good about it.

Nobody was throwing chairs or anything like that. We discussed it and we handled it in a professional manner.

Given the circumstances and given the experience CL&P has had in dealing with storms, I don't think they did as well as everyone expected. He's the chairman of the committee. I can't force a hearing, but I hope others request a hearing. Even if the utility company performed the way it should have, the public should be informed about how.

Get up out of your chair and go change the channel instead of using the remote control.

Ed Rollins

From my perspective, if getting 24 percent of the vote is a victory, than we probably need a new party chairman and we probably need a new thought process.

Mona Simpson

If a mother is sitting in a chair at the office, someone needs to be at home with her child. In some cases, that is a father. Much of the time, the material manifestation of the conflict is a nanny.

Muqtada al Sadr

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

I don't want it to sound as if this is all my idea. I'm just the chairman of this board. Do you want us to delay this and study it further?