There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
~By Sam Walton ~
It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.
~By Tracey Ullman ~
My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
~By Noel Coward ~
Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.
~By Rahm Emanuel ~
Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.
~By John McGahern ~
We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.
~By Michael Bay ~
I don't get bothered by people saying what they say. I'm a happy person and I'm happy with my looks. I'm not an insecure person. I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else.
~By Ashlee Simpson ~
It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
~By William F. Buckley, Jr. ~
I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.
~By Paul Kantner ~
I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.
~By Rick Moranis ~
There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.
~By Renny Harlin ~
They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.
~By John Mica ~
The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
~By R. Lee Ermey ~
Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though.
~By Arlo Guthrie ~
You gotta have a body.
~By Jayne Mansfield ~
The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
I thought 'God, what have I done?'... I realized I would be in serious trouble. I thought the best way out of the mess was to make sure she could not tell anybody.
~By Peter Sutcliffe ~
I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm.
~By Vanessa Marcil ~
Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
~By Randy Johnson ~
Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city.
~By Richard M. Daley ~
You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.
~By Amy Tan ~
But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.
~By Marc Wallice ~
I saw a bank of white light, and then I saw all my beloved animals. For a moment I stepped out of my body.
~By Roy Horn ~
Everybody thought I was crazy. They thought I should take the money and run. But there was just something special about being a senior at Chapel Hill. I just couldn't leave.
~By Lorrie Fair ~
The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
~By Sally Quinn ~
I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.
~By Britney Spears ~
When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.
~By George Shearing ~
It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.
~By David Antin ~
But as far as, for I think it will be amazing you know where I find myself years from now because of this film. It's just amazing, I think everybody's going to kind of know this film and because of it, me. So I you know it's crazy.
~By Brandon Routh ~
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
~By e. e. cummings ~
Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.
~By Jim Henson ~
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
~By Henri Bergson ~
Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.
~By Thom Yorke ~
I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.
~By Lesley Visser ~
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
~By Diogenes of Sinope ~
The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares that much about a baseball player.
~By Bernie Lincicome ~
I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.
~By Robert Benton ~
I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I'm actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day.
~By Sean Bean ~
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
~By Pat Summerall ~
We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.
~By Moon Unit Zappa ~
Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
~By Joseph Butler ~
The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.
~By Rachel Bilson ~
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business.
~By Scott Caan ~
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
~By Ron White ~
I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.
~By Christopher Eccleston ~
When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.
~By Rick Moranis ~
Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.
~By Luciano Pavarotti ~
In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.
~By Catherine Zeta-Jones ~
I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick, t like my body.
~By Alicia Keys ~
I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.
~By Mary Chapin Carpenter ~
Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.
~By Andrew Lloyd Webber ~
Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
~By Irving Berlin ~
It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!
~By Sally Ride ~
Nobody's perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them.
~By Neil Schon ~
I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
I played Baby New Year. When everybody started hollering and throwing confetti, I thought it was for me.
~By Frederick Kelly ~
That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.
~By Ringo Starr ~
When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.
~By Ashlee Simpson ~
We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in their right mind would argue that. Nobody in their right mind would do that.
~By Kurtwood Smith ~
It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.
~By Roger Moore ~
If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.
~By Janet Reno ~
Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there's not much bad to say about him. I don't know if he sucks at videogames or not. I don't think he plays them, but he could have this whole secret life I don't know about.
~By Rachel Dratch ~
I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.
~By Bill Condon ~
There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes.
~By Haley Barbour ~
I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.
~By Ken Burns ~
Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
~By Erich Fromm ~
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.
~By Luther Allison ~
You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.
~By Jerry Pournelle ~
The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone.
~By Robert Asprin ~
I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.
~By Brooks Robinson ~
This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid.
~By Russel Honore ~
Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
~By David Antin ~
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
~By Andy Warhol ~
Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.
~By Leslie Fiedler ~
I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.
~By Tommy Lee Jones ~
A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.
~By Adam Sandler ~
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
~By Manuel Puig ~
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.
~By Ayrton Senna ~
If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.'
~By Dick Wolf ~
I had to lie so much about sex, first when I was 15, because I wasn't supposed to be having it. And then when I got older, I lied to everybody I was having sex with, so I could have sex with other people.
~By Cybill Sheperd ~
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
~By Grenville Kleiser ~
Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
~By Jack Lemmon ~
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
~By Georgia O'Keeffe ~
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.
~By Jewel Kilcher ~
No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
~By Jim Henson ~
It is, therefore, a fact that anybody who wants to realise Truth or who wants to be humane, must follow non-violent ways of life, otherwise he will not be able to reach the Truth.
~By Morarji Desai ~
People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry.
~By Jim Lehrer ~
Eventually I became involved with somebody, and I was fired.
~By Tommy Kirk ~
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