Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Burke

We are pleased to welcome Fred to our board and look forward to benefiting from his knowledge and experience. Fred's global view as well as his background in finance will prove invaluable to the company.

Lesli Linka Glatter

My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.

Noel Wells

I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies, direct movies, make movies, but it took me a really long time to be honest with myself about it because my background is that my family was very poor.

Bill Clayton

We want somebody who is experienced in national and international fundraising. We have to continue the growth of the museum or else it is going to dissolve, ... As we work to build a new funding base, having an executive director with a different background will help us to make that possible.

Wayne Rosso

We were always in the background trying to get licenses and in those days we would get one of two responses -- either, 'We're not going to reward pirates,' or 'Shut down and we'll talk about it.

Rachel Tucker

When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

Tom Smith

What we're looking for behind the scenes are background checks for known felons and other things that are publicly available, to make sure these don't get in the hands of a criminal.

Mark Pasdon

When we did our first international shipment, we had no idea what we were doing. I don't have a background in logistics. I had no idea how it works. I knew FedEx could get it international. As a small business, trying to get through different governmental bodies that regulate that, I didn't have a chance.

Annette Griffin

We're going to have fully certified teachers that have had a background check and it's going to be done faster ... than school districts can do it.

Ron Moore

We are proactive. We respond to complaints and proactively check neighborhoods for violations.

Ariel Garten

We've all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn't deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier.

Michael Shermer

There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's checkers.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

We stopped the war in Afghanistan. We abolished censorship. We abolished the special commissions that were checking on Russian citizens going abroad. I am very happy that in history my name will be connected to this period.

Andrew Kerr

We started out really good and were just pounding them, going straight down and having some quality passing, and intensity was high, and then we started to slack off, but then the last 15 to 20 minutes of the second half we started checking and working together.

John Zupanc

We spent the last couple of weeks getting everything in order, checking out the equipment and the timing system. So, I think we're all set. I think everything is in great condition and we're ready to go.

Leander Paes

When the headache persisted, I checked myself into an emergency room. When the doctor used the term 'brain tumour', I feared the worst. My whole world shrank around me.

Henry Samueli

We are happy to get great technology from anywhere, and we have eyes and ears that are checking out companies all over.

Galit Chait

We actually don't know what it was for. We will have to check what happened later.

Kelly Avants

We had been told by other participating districts to expect an initial enrollment of 500 students.

Lisa Jackson

She gave me all the names of the school districts and told me to apply.

Ron Miller

The reality is the local school districts are the ones who are enforcing them already.

Woody Smith

Last year we had one senior, and this year we have six. Last year, we learned a lot from the Southeast game (final season loss) and the players want redemption. Our goal is to win districts and put something together in the playoffs.

Peter Erben

Last year, there were a number of districts where the vote did not take place. This year we hope we can do it in all of them,

David Goodman

(The penalty) was a misunderstanding on the second hole. I was pleased with the way I played. I didn't shoot lights out but I'm happy to be going to districts again. It's nice a teammate (Karsten Reis) made it too so I won't be going alone. Overall, I'm pretty pleased.

Jack Foster

We still have some work to do to be ready for districts this week, but we will be ready.

Russell Schweiss

This would essentially make the drawing of districts a judicial function. The Governor does not feel that this should be a judicial function.

David Valadao

I'm happy to work with Democrats. After all, they have to represent their districts just as I have to represent mine.

Fisher DeBerry

The other team had a lot more Afro-American players than we did and they ran a lot faster than we did.

Bill Murray

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

Nathaniel Rateliff

My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.

Megan Smith

We're going to get her times down faster once she gets in shape. She still has a ways to go on that, but she has a lot of natural ability.

Steve Jobs

We're going to keep going until we're faster than those guys,

Sandra Smith

We're going to have to figure out a way for students to go through school faster so more can come in.

Anatol Popovich

We're faster and plus we play a quicker game.

Joerg Appenzeller

Ultimately, it will be much faster than it is now.

Craig Forman

The process is very seamless, and allows us to handle more loans with the same number of people. As we go forward, we can give the brokers a faster response.

Johnnie Cochran

What he's doing is violating attorney-client privilege in this whole situation and I'm not sure he fully understands or comprehends the import of what he's doing,

James Anderson

We're just watching the other things unfold in the east. We're fully operational.

Richard Rowe

We're fully integrated with the Special Operations Command. We have people who've done operations from a Special Ops perspective.

Linda Hamilton

Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

Terry Richardson

Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

John Mortimer

should recognize the true importance of a single moment in time, the instant when you are fully and completely alive.

Richard Holbrooke

Milosevic is now fully discredited or will be shortly whether he is in the Hague or in a Belgrade cell. Politically he is over.

Melanie Gruer

Mr. Murphy co-operated fully with the RCMP review and is pleased with the outcome.

Josh Billings

There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Moore

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

Alan Moore

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Bennett

My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.

Alan Alda

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Chris Crutcher

If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.

Wendy Kopp

The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.

Avi

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Mary Quant

As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.

Dave Craig

Saturdays we always have a lot of browsers -- teachers and tourists.

Peggy Smith

Some teachers are better with adults and some aren't.

Catherine Johnson

If you've ever been in a classroom, you know these teachers are underpaid.