Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Bodine

We're just trying to get track time, get teams acquainted with the vehicles and give them a chance to get drivers in them. This will give them an opportunity to see the differences of what in what they used in today's car against the Car of Tomorrow on back-to-back days. It's nothing more than a learning day.

Charles Eastman

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

Mike Pelfrey

Right now, I'm just trying to get acquainted with people, everything and the whole situation.

Robert Frost

I have been one acquainted with the night.

David Gonzalez

You are pretty much stuck. I'm not even acquainted with what anyone is calling this decade. There is no catchy phrase.

John Abernethy

We must adopt loathsome diseases for our familiar associates, or we shall never be thoroughly acquainted with their nature and dispositions; we must risk, nay even injure, our own health in order to be able to preserve or restore that of others.

Brian Bell

Seeing people ahead of time and getting acquainted with the space you're playing in is important to getting comfortable in that place.

Leo Ornstein

Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.

Vitruvius

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.

Nate Hurst

The fact is employers like Wal-Mart are good for working families.

Thomas Perez

Clearly, apprenticeships are a win-win: They provide workers with sturdy rungs on that ladder of opportunity and employers with the skilled workers they need to grow their businesses. And yet in America, they've traditionally been an undervalued and underutilized tool in our nation's workforce development arsenal.

Dallas Salisbury

Until recently, it was an expensive and complicated thing to do because of the integration of systems that employers had to do. Now, most of these are put together with a Web-based interface and individuals are able to do most of the stuff themselves.

Sal Souto

We've become a 24/7 society and employers are taking it out of the hide of the working people. Employers are paying them less, not paying them for the hours they work.

Michael Farr

Lots of employers don't want people around who aren't loyal,

Mary Long

Many of the employers mentioned that the job seekers seemed more prepared for the event and more qualified for management positions.

Erich Klemm

We're not after a strike, but if the employers don't move, then we will have no other choice.

James P. Hoffa

We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.

James P. Hoffa

We're going to be very strong with employers in all of our aspects, because I think there's been too much of this idea let's try and get along here, and we've eroded some of our standards.

Bob Kendrick

This will provide a glimpse of what life was like in the Negro Leagues.

Chogyam Trungpa

Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.

Lea Thompson

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.

Dean Koontz

In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.

Matt Hasselbeck

My teammates and I have just seen a glimpse of what it would be like to win a world championship. And as hard as it is right now -- 'cause it's hard right now -- we know what needs to happen to get it done, and I can promise you that we are all going to do everything we can do to get it done next year. Thank you for your support this year!

Ben Long

I was flabbergasted. I was trying to get a glimpse of him, and there he was, sprawled out on the ground right there.

Steve Sullivan

Tomas made some really timely saves for us and we went the other way with it. We play them so often, you never want to give them a glimpse of hope that they're in the hockey game.

Jon Gruden

We hope it can grow. We got our first glimpse of what these guys can do wire-to-wire.

Anaxagoras

Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.

Chip Conley

Someone could be amazing at what they do, but if you don't like them, why bother hiring them?

Casey Daigle

We've talked about hiring a personal trainer, and she wants to play about three weeks to a month after she has the baby.

Kevin Madden

I don't have an opinion of what they're doing. The practice of encouraging trade associations or private-sector firms with regard to their hiring practices is not something this office directs or is interested in directing.

Jeff Evans

One of the things that spoke to me in hiring these ladies is that their No. 1 priority is to have fun. They want to use the program as a stepping stone to get to the next level of competitive softball. Lori has been there, so she knows what it takes to get there.

Donald Trump

We're thrilled to have an Olympian in our midst. And while we've let the viewers do the hiring ... I'm still doing the firing.

Mary Landrieu

We don't need to be laying off people. We need to be hiring people.

Brad D. Smith

The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees?

Tom McMillan

We were hiring people as it went along. We were in the process of ramping up our staff. Some new people got a real indoctrination. We had to tell them it's not always like this.

Tom McMillan

We were hiring people as it went along, ... We were in the process of ramping up our staff. Some new people got a real indoctrination. We had to tell them it's not always like this.

Ramon Sanchez

The process of interviews is not working properly. The mistreatment of people is taking place out there.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.

China Mieville

The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it." -Amazon.com interview

Bob Ross

I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.

Diana Vreeland

I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked.

Damon Lindelof

When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.

Eli Wallach

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

Charlie Rose

The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.

Ben Harper

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

Lou Davis

We have no sour grapes. We're looking to the future.

Fred Thompson

We have no idea at this time (why he killed himself), ... But we are looking into it.

Neil Shubin

We were always looking over our shoulders; we saw lots of tracks.

Lisa Dutton

We were always looking for the open player. Sometimes we took a shot too soon.

Jeremy Sweet

We were always looking around for cottonmouth, rattlesnakes and alligators.

Robert Wood

We've seen the report and are looking into it.

Jason Koumas

We've still got a lot to play for and we're looking to win in Poland, definitely,

Adolf Rosenstock

The outlook for recovery is fading. We are looking at another possible recession in manufacturing which would not bode well for the overall economy.

David Young

Ulster will be a much tougher side than Connacht so we will be looking for big improvements.

Michael Carty

We're seeing a little turnaround, after so much negative news. It's also the end of the quarter, so portfolio managers need to do a little window dressing.

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Bill Lee

Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us.

Ted Lindsay

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

Namie Amuro

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Michael Bell

We've talked to a lot of students and property managers about this, and we're trying to sort out the pros and cons, ... A staunch position, yea or nay, can't be reached at this point.

Carol Leifer

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

Carlos Fuentes

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Duncan Fletcher

We want to rest Freddie whenever we can. We saw this as an opportunity the other day.

Fran Dunphy

When your opportunity comes, it's not what you do right as much as it's what you don't do wrong.

Abba Eban

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Aasif Mandvi

When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.

Alan Stern

Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.

Alan Rusbridger

There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge opportunities there. I made the point in my supplementary statement that the Guardian is now a very considerable global player, but there are huge challenges in terms of making, of finding, the convincing business model, so I want to see Guardian journalism continue and thrive, although whether and to what extent that is in print or in digital is a sort of second order matter.

Alan Shepard

So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Charles Spurgeon

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Martin Seligman

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

Paul LaViolette

We're going to run some new plays, and we think they're going to provide us some more momentum.

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

John Barnett

We're being called on to provide services we don't have,

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.