Famous Quotes & Sayings

He'll seek to fill the position as expeditiously as possible.

Norman Vincent Peale

Help us to be thankful for this day and every day and treat each one as a preciousgem to be filled to the full with meaning and with love.

The people have been so generous. We already have enough items to fill up two pickup trucks.

Dorothea Brande

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Tom Rachman

At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple up your pages and toss them away. On one side, the dustbin would fill up, and on the other side, pages would rise into a novel.

C. S. Lewis

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily

Mountain streams and rivers that were orange when I was a kid are now filled with fish, are now lined with trees and rhododendrons, and that's progress.

David Eagleman

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

One of our goalies is out sick and our other goalie Jordan McCormack was filling in and she did a great job.

Benjamin Franklin

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.

My horse didn't start off too great, but he's improving finally. He was immature a little bit, but he's starting to fill out.

Now that Justine's leaving, someone has to fill her spot as the universal swimmer. She's good at everything, so I'm hoping that I will be the one.

Obviously, Nate is important and we'll see what happens there, but we think people will fill the spaces and we will get through it. We have a lot to improve on after a 35-0 win.

Obviously (losing Keys) impacts our team, but other people have to step up and fill the void. That's part of the game. Injuries are part of the game. We're sad we don't have Sabrina out there, but we still have a lot of talent and other people have to step up.

We want to make sure that women are getting their prescriptions filled in the stores that they go to.

The pitfalls are unconsciously standing by the table. Take the opportunity to socialize. Fill up a plate and walk away.

She's going to fill the spot well. She's looking really good for her first year.

She sets our standards. She's great. Filling her spot is going to be hard.

So many wait until Friday. Every five minutes we were filling out fishing licenses.

She really hasn't had a lot of experience, but every race she seems to get better and better. She's maturing and filling out and if I can just keep her mind right, she'll last a long time.

Most stores are filled with polar fleece and sweaters, but in 85-degree heat when people are wearing shorts, it's hard to sell those items.

Chuck LaMar

Most of the teams are going to be holding on to what they have. We're going to do everything we can to fill those holes, but I'm not going to overpay financially or with prospects.

There are ways of filling the gaps, but it's not going to happen as immediately as people would like.

Michael Williams

Last year, registration filled up in 12 to 17 minutes. In 2003, it took three weeks.

She was a great lady. I am still trying to fill her shoes. It's about the kids. That is what it is all about to me.

Dennis Ritchie

Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data.

Robert Osborne

I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.

Isaac Brock

Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they had my late slips filled for every day of the school year in advance, so all they had to do was fill in what time I got there.

Isabella Bird

An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a frequented track is nothing but a series of pits filled with mud and water.

Don Shula

You can't play enough golf or do any of those other things that fill that kind of excitement that coaching gave me in the big games.

Beeban Kidron

This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.

Tavi Gevinson

If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

It's a fun job, but it's stressful because you have to be funny. You have to have punch lines and captions. Be funny now! And if you're not inspired, they don't care - be funny now! They have to fill that hole the next day.