Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Louis MacNeice

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

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.

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.

I think we're toward the end of a period of real weakness and, by the third quarter, all the money (Fed Chairman Alan) Greenspan and the Fed have been pumping out will start to be spent.

I think what really triggered the rally was the surprise cut by (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan) Greenspan in interest rates. But earnings have been good enough to continue the rally. Now the concern going forward is: Can earnings grow in 1999.

I think that Christopher Meyer should leave his position as chairman of the PCC.

Dorothy Thompson

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

I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.

With the chairman off, a downgrade and the Japanese no longer likely to bid, the shares are unlikely to make further progress in the short term.

John Gray

We've now made it so that the chair has to be independent from any media organization.

Alan Sugar

My main regret about my years in football was keeping my mouth shut like a little mouse, not daring to speak out because I was told you left the managers to get on with the job and that the chairman must never interfere with the manager's decisions or the performance of his team.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.

Doug Jones

My favorite thing to pass the time in the makeup chair is YouTube videos of talking cats. I don't know why, but they make me laugh.

Robert H. Schuller

I have had more honors than I've deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, 'Well, I'm going to retire.' But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don't let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.

When my husband Charles passed away in 2000, I took over as chair of our family's foundation. As I was mourning his loss, I also had to keep the foundation moving forward and to chart a course into what was then a very male-dominated philanthropic world.

Benjamin Franklin

To the discontented man no chair is easy

Al Roker

Truth be told, I didn't want to be on T.V. I was going to be a writer or producer or a director, and at the end of my sophomore year, my department chairman put me up for a job doing weekend weather in Syracuse, New York.

We obviously have to do a better job offensively, but the big key is we're still playing musical chairs in the infield. We have to come up with some kind of a defensive infield. That's been our Achilles' heel. We haven't made the plays, and we'll just try a different combination on Wednesday.

Bill Taylor

We have the party chair from every state. If you can demonstrate the security of doing that at the Democratic National Convention, why can't we do this somewhere else?

LaMarcus Aldridge

When I first got here (to UT), my release was ugly. I think using the chair is one reason my free-throw percentage is getting better. I have better mechanics.

I would like to say how very pleased I am to be able to spend this day in North Carolina, ... I would like to thank the chairman for inviting me.

I would like the opportunity to discuss what happened with the board. I have called Chuck Hunter, who is chairman of the board, but he's never called me back.

Most of the people of the public education community felt we had a Public Education chair who didn't have a lot of respect for public education employees.

Will has done an outstanding job as the chairman of the competition committees and rules. The Masters owes him a debt of gratitude for his many years of tireless and exemplary service.

Anita Hill

Why was it important to come forward? ... I felt that he showed a personal indifference to the issue in his own behavior. But more importantly I thought it showed how he dealt with issues of power generally and his use of power -- in terms of intimidating me, and as it turns out other women on his staff. And how he viewed women generally, which would impact his role as a Supreme Court Justice as it had impacted his role as the chairman of the EEOC,

Whoever is chosen, the new chairman will go through a proving period.

Laurence Meyer

When the chairman made his recommendation at the start of the go-round, the game was up, it was over. Everybody knew what the chairman would be in favor of.