Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was not a called meeting, but there were several committee chairs there, probably six or eight people,

The remarks by Chairman Kalikow are very unfortunate and do not bode well for these negotiations.

They're entitled to their opinion. I don't think that's the proper forum, to take on the chair and question his integrity. In that situation, I think it was wrong, ... terrible.

There's a lot of musical chairs going on.

Kelly King

If you have six chairs open, you need 12 guards on duty. One sits in the chair, and the other patrols the beach.

In the first place, the chairman shouldn't be weighing in,

In the days before term limits, politicians who knew they weren't ever going to be governor were content to stay in the Legislature. They knew that being a Senate committee chair was a better job than being lieutenant governor.

I offered her a chair and got her a folding metal chair. I offered her some water,

I can confirm that we have been discussing with the chairman of Tata himself over the setting up of a Tata motor-assembly plant.

Comfortable is not a word we'd use to describe our relationship with the chairman of the House Transportation Committee.

He participated in physical therapy sessions yesterday morning and afternoon, sitting in a chair for over 30 minutes during each session.

Anita Hill

I felt that all of those things were relevant for the Senate to consider, just as they had considered many other ways he had handled himself, many other issues in terms of how he had done his job as the chair of the EEOC. And so I felt that it was very relevant and very important for their consideration.

I don't think having your former chairman become vice president is going to hurt your company, if that were to come to be,

Michael Ignatieff

I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to say life isn't for sissies.

Leah Chase

Chairs are not pretty when they're empty. Chairs are pretty when you have people in them!

Chairman Young has long been the construction foreman for our united efforts in Washington.

Cheryl has the personality and temperament to be an excellent chair for the festival.

Being Fed chairman only increases his value that much more.

I'm surprised. This is probably the first time that the defense of 'I didn't know' denials has worked for a former chairman or CEO. This may be the first time that the Sergeant Schultz defense has worked.

Bobby Rush

I'll be talking with the chairman of the transportation committee when i get back to Washington to see whether or not there's anything that can be done to look at this particular piece of track.

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.

I know Coach. He was probably sitting on the edge of his chair on every play, hoping a guy would make a tackle or force a turnover. He knows the game. He understands it, and I'm just glad we could give him some comfort for three hours.

Brian Jones

It is right down to the wire. Of course we're hopeful and we're secretly confident, but we can't sit back in our chairs and make the winds take us there.

I told Paul this, ... I can see one day him sitting in Ozzie's chair or sitting in my chair. I think that much of him. His thought process is very structured, very logical. And his work ethic - I think it'll be transferred from the field.

I told Paul that I could see him one day sitting in Ozzie's chair or my chair. I think that much of him,

They are moving around the deck chairs on a sinking ship but are trying to convince the American public that they are moving mountains.

They'll pull chairs out of the back if they're really busy.

It's like we're going to a kindergarten with those little chairs ? but the women don't fit. The doll concept of life was the men's world, and their idea was to try to fit the women into it, to cut them down to size ? to put them in little wigs, with eyelashes and makeup and make them fashion items in this particular world ? so they could control it.

It's hard to know what they were thinking. It's never too late for the chairman to make the right decision. But if the chairman insists on it, we'll go forward with that hearing. We fully expect to win. My hope is they put down their objections and move one.

Paul Rodriguez

It's a very complex bill, so we're going to take some time to examine it. But we look forward to working with Chairman Barton on these issues.

It's not unusual when a new chairman comes for there to be a number of vacancies at the top.

It's not too much fun coming up two points short of playing for the state championship. But don't fault our kids. We fought them tooth and nail, and if we have a couple plays go our way we'd be sitting in different chairs right now.

It looks like they're shuffling deck chairs for the family. Given that this company is a family dynasty, I don't think it signals any major changes.