Fired Quotations

Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.

I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate.

I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.

The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people.

The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.

Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They'd be telling our soldiers: 'That's enough. You've fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!'

I have a personal barber, Mister C. He lives in Brooklyn, but he travels with me. He used to cut Lady Gaga's hair, but he fired her to work for me.

Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.

About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp.

In 1999, I got fired as coach of New England. In three years in New England, we actually did better than most people think. We were 27-21, won the AFC division title, went to the playoffs twice.

The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers.

They fired director Richard Donner because they didn't want to pay him, and he's the reason the franchise became so successful in the first place. There's a big part of Superman II that he did that no one has ever seen.

The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.

It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'

I worked at a movie theater in Tempe, Arizona, when I went to community college there. And I got fired because a sorority had rented out a theater to watch 'Titanic,' and they were being really rude to me while they were waiting for the movie. So as I tore their tickets, I told them the end of the movie.

And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way.

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

I want my kids to have passion for life, to really have a passion for life. I think when you have a passion for something, you can overcome obstacles, if you float through life without having anything to hold on to or get you fired up emotionally and to focus on, I think it's really hard to overcome things.

As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on my mind. Throughout my struggle to secure national freedom for China, I have continuously dreamed of the day when she would assume the full stature of an independent, democratic nation.

I've learned through experience that you can't ever predict what's going to happen with any show. When I signed on to 'Ugly Betty,' I just prayed that I wouldn't get fired after the pilot, and four years later, I was still doing it.

A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is disappearing, and that is a problem.

In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.

I still remember March 31, 1981, when a deeply disturbed John Hinckley Jr. took aim at President Ronald Reagan and fired shots that hospitalized the Commander-in-Chief and two others, and left his Press Secretary James Brady paralyzed for life.

The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.

The ouster of Jill Abramson as executive editor of 'The New York Times' sent shock waves through the media landscape. Reports that she was fired thanks in part to a soured relationship based on the 'Times' alleged sexist pay discrepancy only made those shock waves stronger.

I got a job working at a publishing company, Balmur Music, which was a company that Anne Murray was a co-owner in, as a tape copy guy. Eventually, I got fired from that job.

We appear to be moving in the right direction. There appears to be less and less shootings in the city and we won't stop until the final shot is fired and the individual is arrested.

We are preparing for as many as 20,000 people, just to be on the safe side. People have been fired up over the past month, especially military family members, and they want to be heard.

We started off pretty fired up and intense. The third or fourth game we started to unravel a bit. I was proud that we fought back. Valley is a very good team, and they're scrappy. They're a bit smaller than us, but they work hard.

We're going to South Beach. It's on TNT. It's 8 o'clock. We'll be fired up. There's no reason we shouldn't play with intensity.

We're going to gear up and make our lineup as strong as possible. It's always been a fun thing. It's more fun if you win, obviously. We know we're going to have some strong competition. It's always been a fun thing for us. We're going to get fired up for it and go as hard as we can.

What this group has gone through since Jan. 4 (the day Bob Weiss was fired as coach), they need another week after the All-Star break. The losing wears on you. They need the break, there is no question about it.

What he does when he gets fired at the top of the order is very destructive and that is something he had done successfully in the past.

We felt like in game one, our pitching got it done, but our batters didn't. So we came out fired up and put a lot of runs on the board.

We're fine, but we did not play well (at UCLA and USC). It's early; we know what we didn't do. It's not rocket science. We'll be pretty fired up.

We're fired up. There's no doubt. We know how hard it was to get there last year, and to be able to back it up is just a tremendous accomplishment for the group of guys on this team.

We're fired up but the next game's only going to be harder.

We're fired up about it. It's really picking up now.

We knew (who) he was. We knew he was a shooter. Coach mentioned that, and once he fired them up, they were gone.

We knew this was going to be the toughest game, by far, being up 2-0 and coming into their barn. They were going to be fired up.

We knew they were going to be tough here, and this game would be nothing like the one at our place in December. We knew they would be fired up and we were going to get their best shot, and we did.

We knew they'd be fired up. We've all gone through something like this during our careers when there's a shakeup or a tough change and you band together and get fired up. They battled and competed and found a way to get that third goal that we didn't get.

Ultimately, I'm the guy who pulled the trigger that fired the round that hit Harry.

We're looking for intensity and guys to be fired up, but we can't be stupid about it either. All season long, we've made mistakes, and other teams have capitalized.

We're looking for a good ball game. Our team is blue-collar and the kids are fired up to play. If we can make them change their game plan a little bit, we feel like we can give them a tough game and be right in it.

We have no idea who fired the fatal shot.

Whenever you beat a team once and you have a second game against them, they're coming in even more fired up. They're going to come out intense, and that's how they play.

When he gets going, everyone just kind of falls in (rhythm) with him and he just brings out the best in people. Being as relaxed as he is, I didn't think he'd get as fired up as he does for competitions.

We were a superior team, but we brought out some bad intensity. I think it starts from practice. We need to get fired up, get focused and have good work habits.

There are some ramifications. But I don't think it matters going into a game. You get fired up for them regardless.

We're at a time when everybody is doing a lot of different music, but the opportunity arose and Rob was available to do it, so we can get the machine fired up again.

The one thing they could tell me they could hang their hat on was, they had never fired a coach. They had always let him finish out his contract. It's very interesting that the next coach they hired, they didn't allow that to happen.

We're here right now to win. We had to come out fired up.

This really is a crucial tournament for us and all the boys are fired up.

We needed a good start because (the Patriots) were coming out fired up, ... We wanted to show that we're ready, too.

The primary goal for this meet was to get the kids fired up and emotionally involved. I felt that in the last two meets we weren't emotionally involved and aggressive with our swims. We really took care of that today. I was very pleased with the attitude.

Making Horseshoe Bay into a city isn't going to get that water cooler fixed (at the golf course). People complain 'They fired the tennis pro' or 'They fired the golf pro.' Well, the Dallas Cowboys fired Tom Landry.

Leader No. 1 is Courtney. In second, you have Lindsey. She gets fired up in games. She expresses herself and her teammates respond.

Last year, they took our chances away for the championship. We're going to be really fired up.

She's just as fired up. She probably still thinks she never commits a foul.

She's just an awesome team player. She's mentally tough and such a competitor. She hates losing, and there's an energy about her that gets everyone behind her fired up.

She's definitely fired some people up this week.

Oh yeah. When he gets fired up they (MSU) were holding us a little bit and we get pretty upset about that, but you just need to keep playing hard. And that's the thing: everyone on defense is playing hard and A.J. is no exception. He plays hard every play. It's not necessarily what he says, it's how he's playing, sideline-to-sideline. Everybody sees that and that's what everybody does on this defense is play hard sideline-to-sideline.

She came home and she said they fired him because he married a teacher.

Since I could only see the headlight of the locomotive in total darkness, I did not know until the flash was fired that I had captured this prize.

She's a firecracker, I just love her. She gets everybody fired up. The team loves her.

She just wants to get them fired up, to get them excited about the potential of losing weight.

She made a good point that only one team was in it (in the first half). We weren't giving the effort that was required. I know it got our team fired up.

Mau was so fired up tonight -- he was a spark plug in the middle. He did a good job, hustling, getting digs. He'll have to take the (libero) jersey.

One security guard was wrestling with him while he was shooting. The El Al security guard left the counter, fired one round at some range, then fired one or more rounds as he closed because that man continued to fire and also had the knife with a six-inch blade in the other hand.

Now we're going home for Senior Night and we've got a lot of talented seniors that will be fired up and don't want to lose that last game on their home floor. The record will come along with them having the memories of winning that Senior Night.

Now that Nick went down, it gives a lot of people opportunities to step up and play. And a lot of people are excited about that and fired up. I think you could tell out there in the last game.

NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.

Now you sit there and shut up...and the next time the President gets fired up to take strong action against Corporate Crooks, like he did last January, shut your yap, stop worrying about over-regulation and market dips, and let him do it, ... That way I won't have to be the one who's supposed to look tough.

Obviously, something upset him. Whether it was staged or something -- he seemed genuinely upset about it -- I don't know. He's as fired up and enthusiastic as any player out there.

Nobody's ever had the nerve to say to me, 'You stink' or you had a bad year. ... But I've seen it in the papers. Not in those words ... but that obviously comes from higher up. That's out of my control and that hasn't bothered me, but unfortunately it bothered, uh, I still (think) it's (why) we lost Zimmer. After all, I almost got fired in the midseason. I don't know (how close it was). I only know what was said and (written), but I would assume it was probably pretty close.

People were fired up. We had several recruits at our game, and they're fired up. It's going to be a top 10, possibly better, class in the entire country. It's going to be one of the best classes that I believe, if everything stays on course, that we've had here in a long, long time.

People were fired up. And we had some recruits at (Saturday's) game, and they were fired up.

Police, exercising sensitivity and care, first fired shots in the air to scare him and prevent a graver incident, but despite this he ran toward a crowded area. He was shot and lost his life,

(My teammates) have been waiting for me to do that all year. It got us relaxed and got the team fired up.

My teammates get me fired me up. The sport fires me up man, I love lacrosse. I love being out here.

NBC fired pinhead Peter Arnett. He gave an interview on Iraqi television criticizing the U.S. military and saying our battle plan was all wrong. The good news is, after he said that, today he was given an honorary Oscar.

Naugatuck came out very fired up and was very aggressive, and we were flat. We were missing so many inside shots. Shots just weren't falling for us.

Only on Thunder did I have a producer who was interfering with my work. He was the only one at Universal. After that film I believe they fired him.

On the first day of practice the running game was a concern. But the running game is one of the areas that's probably improving the fastest on offense. I'm really fired up about Jon Cornish.

Only two guys didn't have a break and that was Tony and Tim. Everybody else relaxed and just got away from basketball a little bit and was fired up to come back here and compete and that's what we did.

One of the reasons I didn't want to play Virginia was because of what happened nine days ago. If somebody beats me by 45, I'm going to be so fired up it's going to be unbelievable.

I was fired up, so I just kept shooting. I pulled a three and kept going. I didn't think I could miss. I don't know why I missed that last shot though.

I was fired up. It's Opening Day. Every Opening Day is great. New team. Expectations are high. You want to go out there and prove yourself.

I was fired up. I told them to go out and play with intensity and that's what they did.

I was fired from two agencies, and the first time, they padlocked my office, my assistant was crying and they were literally trying to take my Rolodex out of my hands -- which I later learned you are legally allowed to take -- as I was escorted from the building. The best thing was that they forgot to turn off my company car phone. And back then -- this was in 1989 -- your car phone bill could run $800 a month. I wound up using it for four more months.

I was real proud of the guys because this was South's last game, they were going to be fired up and we had to match their intensity. Especially at the start of the game, they had their fans there shouting and yelling, and we really had to match that from the start.

I was talking to those guys (with the Colts) the other day, and I think they lost five preseason games. But they aren't down. They're fired up. They want to get out there with their No. 1s and play an entire game just like we do.

I was surprised a little bit, ... But as a player you want to go in that situation. I got fired up.

I wouldn't be wasting my time if I didn't think he had a chance. He does have a chance and that is why we are fired up.

I would be writing so many songs in my head while I'm making 30 Whoppers and six fries. That's why it never got me down or whatever. Of course, I got fired because the place got stuck up.

I would definitely say right now we're as hungry and fired up as we've ever been. We've got youthfulness, (and) we've got excitement back in the team.

I got the chance to be myself. They just didn't like it. They fired me.

I don't know what the driver was thinking. He didn't stop so about six or seven guys (on foot), fired into the engine block and finally the car stopped. Two women were hurt, and one was critical for a little bit.

I am a first-time director given an opportunity to pursue an artistic ambition I would not likely have the chance to elsewhere. The budget is excruciatingly tight, I am regularly abused and I expect to be fired sometime before we shoot. It's nice to see that, at Miramax, continuity has been maintained.