I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.
~By Bella Abzug ~
Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.
~By Albert Ellis ~
It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months.
~By Phil Collins ~
The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.
~By Arthur Capper ~
As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.
~By Brad Sherman ~
Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.
~By David Ogden Stiers ~
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
~By Richard Bach ~
Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.
~By Michael Chabon ~
I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race.
~By Al Unser ~
The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
~By Ben Stiller ~
The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.
~By Martina Hingis ~
India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
I get to work at about 7:30 or 8 unless I have a breakfast meeting.
~By Donna Shalala ~
Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives.
~By Chris Chocola ~
He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do.
~By Maurice Ashley ~
Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.
~By Edward Grey ~
Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.
~By Anita Hill ~
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
~By Carl Jung ~
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.
~By Marcia Gay Harden ~
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
It sounded good. It was a story that Victor Conte told me to use. I was contacted by Dr. Goldman, and that's how the story came about. And that was my first time ever meeting, or speaking, to Dr. Goldman.
~By Kelli White ~
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
~By Charles Dickens ~
With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.
~By Louis Auchincloss ~
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
~By Havelock Ellis ~
We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses.
~By Jon Porter ~
There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
~By Emmeline Pankhurst ~
While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans.
~By Sue Kelly ~
I don't flirt and I don't play the people that I'm meeting with.
~By Sherilyn Fenn ~
Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.
~By Sammy Hagar ~
Then I contacted Ken, then he called me back, then we had a great meeting. Then he called and asked if I would come back to the show. Which was awesome.
~By Austin Peck ~
Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
~By Felix Adler ~
I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.
~By Stella McCartney ~
In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.
~By David Amram ~
Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet we will not know until after that time probably, until after that meeting, whether this is a weapon in our hands or not.
~By Henry L. Stimson ~
We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.
~By Adam Jones ~
One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.
~By Rupert Grint ~
I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything.
~By Laura Hillenbrand ~
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
~By E. T. Bell ~
I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.
~By Dave Heineman ~
We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.
~By William P. Leahy ~
There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things.
~By Mark Goddard ~
It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've ha - never had a problem with meeting with American journalists.
~By Hassan Nasrallah ~
I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
~By Barry Sanders ~
I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
I loved planning 'The Tyra Show' more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I'm more excited being in a meeting than being on TV.
~By Tyra Banks ~
In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.
~By Laura Bush ~
I've had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team.
~By Peter Hain ~
Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.
~By Paul Kantner ~
But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.
~By Robert Conrad ~
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 suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.
~By Janet Suzman ~
No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
~By Gail Sheehy ~
Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families.
~By Kim Campbell ~
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
~By Ugo Betti ~
We had our first meeting yesterday, and we just laughed all the way through, so if we can bottle that, then I'll be happy. We just get on, and that's half the battle.
~By Allan Carr ~
By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
~By Djuna Barnes ~
The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
~By Lane Kirkland ~
Later, I made a movie with him, 'That Touch of Mink,' and we became good friends but any woman's initial meeting with Cary is right up there with the big moments of her world history.
~By Audrey Meadows ~
I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.
~By Edward Dmytryk ~
Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
~By Lorna Luft ~
Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos.
~By Chuck Zito ~
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
~By Harvey Cox ~
Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.
~By Tom Peters ~
We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.
~By Paul Ryan ~
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
It will never be mistaken for a high school gymnasium or a meeting room in a Midwestern motel.
~By Donal Henahan ~
I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.
~By Joely Fisher ~
I've spent a lot of time researching the subject and government deception. So to be involved in Star Trek is perfect for me. I enjoy meeting the fans and discussing my interests with them.
~By Dwight Schultz ~
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
~By Tecumseh ~
I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.
~By Geena Davis ~
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
~By Natalie Clifford Barney ~
The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.
~By Art Rooney ~
Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.
~By Jose Mourinho ~
When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to the point. It was nice to see him after a long time, and we met in a hotel room.
~By Ian McDiarmid ~
I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.
~By Jim Wallis ~
I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
~By Latrell Sprewell ~
We are meeting with Sony, and we have a couple of other labels that suddenly have interest and that's really great because none of them have actually heard our stuff.
~By Shane West ~
And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.
~By Julian Bond ~
I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'
~By John Sayles ~
Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.
~By Sydney Brenner ~
One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.
~By Alvar N. C. de Vaca ~
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
~By Simone Weil ~
It was quite nice meeting up because we went through a lot together and we haven't really seen each much other to communicate one to one for quite a long time.
~By Graham Coxon ~
John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off.
~By Donald Pleasence ~
I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade.
~By Howard Coble ~
I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things.
~By Ricky Williams ~
People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.
~By Lee Scott ~
One often forms a mental image of an artist through his work and is often disappointed on meeting him.
~By Alun Hoddinott ~
We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
~By Jack Welch ~
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