Contractor Quotes

#1. My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor.

Mitch Pileggi

#2. Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.

Paul Tonko

#3. I didn't know you were such a caveman."
"I'm a damn contractor. Of course I'm a fucking caveman.

Madeleine Beckett

#4. Any contractor who would construct a flat-roofed, two-storey building in Northern New Hampshire was enough of a moron to not know how many assholes a human being had.

John Irving

#5. If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.

Robert Metcalfe

#6. In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.

Machado De Assis

#7. By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been designed, as that's always done during a project's pitching stage.

Rhianna Pratchett

#8. Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?

Joel Salatin

#9. With an accelerated schedule of launch in just two months, NASA and contractor launch and support teams labor steadily with six-day work weeks by day and night shifts

Martha Lemasters

#10. I'm a private contractor now. I choose my clients, not the other way around.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#11. I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that.

Christopher Meloni

#12. I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.

Gary Miller

#13. The federal government began investigating allegations of fraud against the Coalition Provisional Authority, a U.S. contractor accused in a bid-rigging operation involving millions of dollars. Asked to comment, a spokesperson for Halliburton said, 'Millions? With an M? That is adorable.'

Amy Poehler

#14. Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.

Zooey Deschanel

#15. Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.

Brock Yates

#16. We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Frank Ocean

#17. My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.

Bette Midler

#18. IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

Douglas Trumbull

#19. An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply
low rental.

Jane Addams

#20. Prince Charming can go suck rocks. I've met my true love and he's a contractor

Yasmine Galenorn

#21. At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order ...

Augustus

#22. I now have learn'd Love right, and learn'd even so,
As who by being poisoned doth poison know.

Philip Sidney

#23. Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy.
But you can't buy fighting spirit.

Robert A. Heinlein

#24. I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion not as a product of a pious dream, but as a concrete result of experience gained in the work of the Grameen Bank.

Muhammad Yunus

#25. They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.

Ruth Handler

#26. One finds both good men and bad in the Church. By our fruits we will be known, not by what name we have called ourselves. I have come to believe that there is more grace in becoming wheat then there is in pulling up weeds.

Michael Flynn

#27. Nobody can help me, those are my secrets, scarring my soul just as surely as that razor blade scarred my thighs all those years ago.

Cindy Vine

#28. When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.

Neil Abercrombie

#29. Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

Errol Morris

#30. I'M PRETTY GOOD at multitasking, so I figured I could flee in terror and argue at the same time.

Rick Riordan

#31. The government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#32. The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.

Roger L'Estrange

#33. No legacy is so rich as honesty (All's Well That Ends Well)

William Shakespeare

#34. The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked.

Indro Montanelli

#35. Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

William Wordsworth

#36. Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity.

Mac Anderson