Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laila Robins

I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

Nita Lowey

Stand up, delink paying the UN dues from family planning. Don't let this issue be hijacked by an extremist group in the Republican party, ... Late Edition.

Dana Fox

I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid my dues when I got to the table, I actually had something to say.

Mark Fuhrman

Johnnie Cochran hasn't spent 20 years serving people in low-income, minority neighborhoods, ridding them of gangs and narcotics. I have. He hasn't been shot at and punched. I have. I've paid my dues to be able to say I'm not a racist.

David Quammen

I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.

Alan Arkin

The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad.

Royce Chadwick

We sure paid our dues this year. It seemed like every time we thought that we got it, we had to back up, regroup, reshuffle and refocus. Last year we were able to gel in late February, but this team never really did. This was one of the hardest years I've ever been through. But, I'm most proud of their fight, vigor and tenacity.

Ingrid Jensen

Unless they show up there as a millionaire, they have to be ready to pay their dues, and that was the first part of me paying my dues in New York.

E. O. Wilson

No one should be forced to pay union dues to get or keep a job.

Yvette Lopez

We probably won't see prices come back down until the fall, so be prepared to pay a lot more at the pump. It's inevitable.

Teri Hatcher

My father would not pay for me to study anything but engineering or math in college.

Sean Quinn

I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.

Lamar Alexander

We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.

Wilfred Grenfell

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

Kristin Armstrong

No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.

Peter Schuyler

What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war.

Ben Hinson

We can't have people at the partnership wondering if they can pay the bills.

Bruce Lakefield

Ticket prices are going up. You have to pay for the product.

Sean Quinn

I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.

Kristin Armstrong

No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.

Hannah Kearney

When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.

Pieter Mulder

We are now paying the price. This should not be seen as a racial argument, but as a simple truth of management.

Joel C. Rosenberg

We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.

John Curry

We are getting ripped off. We are not getting what we are paying for.

Ben Sherwood

You know people out there are paying attention.

Robert Baer

You can't work in Kazakhstan without paying bribes. It's that kind of Wild West. Everyone was doing it.

Steve Letarte

All I did was work. And it's paying off for me now.

Clint Eastwood

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.

Leah Busque

I had the idea for TaskRabbit one night when my husband and I were getting ready for dinner.

Pat Smith

When the township of Edgewater is ready for our ferries, we'll be there.

Bill Ford

We're not going to be ready until January,

Bridget Grall

We are going in there ready to play whatever team is there.

Mike Jaskie

We have a lot of work to do to get ready for November.

Brent Faurote

We have two left, and they have to be ready to go tomorrow.

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

Matt Cohen

Yeah we're there, we're ready to go. We did a whole training, a whole cycle, just to get to this point.

Dean Ornish

There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Mark Zuckerberg

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Kim Crosby

Unless you've been there, unless you've woken up in it every morning,

James A. Michener

Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you

John Owens

Unless you're going to under-developed part of the world, they're everywhere,

Chris Christiansen

Unless you're big enough, biometrics can become prohibitively expensive.

Brad Buckles

Unless you really know the product, you would not be able to tell.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent.