Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Natalie Massenet

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

David H. Murdock

Even though I am Chairman of Dole Food Company, I do most of my own grocery shopping.

Neil Abercrombie

I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, 'Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?' 'Well, we have no mechanism to do it,' I was told.

Louis MacNeice

Time was away and somewhere else, / There were two glasses and two chairs / And two people with one pulse.

Gregory Corso

Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that.

Ani Difranco

When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.

Noah Feldman

I have a 2-year-old son, and I know I'm dealing with a big, grand word when I can't point to the thing when I define it. Right? If he wants to know what a chair is, I can point to the chair. If he wants to know what religion is, I can't point to anything in particular. The same is true of the state.

Nathan Fielder

I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.

Dorothy Thompson

We actually purchased those real tall tables and chairs like you see at Starbucks.

David Rosenberg

We're not sure what to make of the fact that we find out from a reporter about comments that the Fed chairman made at a dinner two days earlier.

We are planning to have extra chairs up front, but expect there will be some people standing.

Robert Hormats

We are massively reliant on foreign capital. One of the jobs of the next Fed chairman will be to keep investors confident in the economy.

The departing chairman will have done much of the hard work of tightening before the appointment of the new chairman.

The Democrats could play musical chairs in Illinois and get a better lineup than they have now.

Tamar Jacoby

The debate will be intense and emotional and the senators to watch are the Republican reformers, especially Chairman Specter.

The debate over should oil be at $60 or $80 is like a debate over rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

We probably have a little wiggle room on that March date, but not much. I'm still hopeful and I'm convinced (those who chair the House and Senate education committees) want to do this.

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," ()

Billy Donovan

Maybe we can get him a rocking chair or something.