Quotes of: Conferred Keyword

I like the quiet life sometimes. I also love a bustling press conference sometimes as well. I love a 600 metre red carpet.

Martin Freeman

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

John Lennon

When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!

Derek Jeter

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Bertrand Russell

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

Caleb Cushing

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

W. Averell Harriman

Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

Jane Fonda

Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.

Natalie Massenet

The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

Pope Benedict XVI

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

Tertullian

No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us.

M.F. Moonzajer

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Richard M. Nixon

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

Andy Roddick

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

Ellis Peters

When Warren Buffett invests in a company, he is conferring upon that company something very unique: his credibility.

Bethany McLean

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

Joyce Carol Oates

I couldn't care less about league tables. I'm more interested in kitchen tables and conference room tables.

John Stumpf

Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

Chris Martin

I'm friends with James Cameron. We've spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.

Sylvia Earle

Wizard of Oz: To confer, converse, and otherwise hob-nob with my brother wizards.

The Wizard of Oz