Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Patrick Shanley

I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.

Mary Gauthier

I was adopted when I was about a year old. My adopted parents tried, but their marriage was doomed. Music saved my life. I couldn't relate to things in Baton Rouge, but I found songs that spoke to me.

Ed White

I think what happened is we all adopted each other.

Richard Thompson

Intelligent design is now being adopted by a number of credible scientists. If the Dover school district wins this case, you're going to see intelligent design popping up on school board agendas all over the country.

Ann Wilson

I'm a single mum and my daughter came from a really potentially tragic situation. If I had not adopted her she was kind of like a lost lamb.

Dave Walker

I'm pleased to receive this award, ... I have been a constant with this organization for many years now, but we wouldn't be here today if I wasn't surrounded by many other talented people along the way. I'm extremely proud of the Burlington community's dedication to professional baseball as evidence by the fact the Bees have survived and now prospered as the smallest full-season market in the Minor Leagues. I'm also pleased with the response we've gotten on a regional basis from the baseball fans all over Southeast Iowa and Western Illinois that have adopted the Bees as their hometown team.

Ed Smith

I never heard people speak about segregation as some great cross that they were bearing. They just went on about their lives. Some of them had good contacts with white people that they were serving in someone's home. Sometimes those white families almost effectively adopted you.

Steve Johnson

In legislation that became effective in 2005, Congress adopted a uniform definition for most people. It won't change what they can take, but it'll make it easier for them to understand.

Pat Toomey

The F.E.C.'s claims and legal theories are a bizarre interpretation of the club's mission, the Constitution, the laws adopted by Congress and their own regulations,

Delise Denham

Kindergartners are aware the mill has moved. (My 6-year-old daughter) told me the other day there's only going to be three kids left in the school.

GM Howson

He's got great speed, good offensive awareness and great vision. He's just got to get experience, become an elite player at the college level. He'll play in the World Juniors, I suspect, next year and hopefully, he'll become and elite player at that level, too.

Tim Neale

There is a greater awareness of what the regulations are.

Tim Jones

The people in our county were not aware what was going on.

Christopher Sands

The people here are following the issue carefully enough that they're aware of that detail.

Buck Martinez

We talked about the talent in the room, the fact that we represent the United States of America, and just making sure they understood how everybody is coming after us. . . . They're all aware of (doing) whatever it takes.

Jane Howard

We try to make our customers aware of the issue. And it is their responsibility. However, we do work with them initially to make it possible for them to pay their bill.

Kelly Stephens

We're now aware of the rules and we have to adjust. We can't do anything about the officials. They're calling everything.

Jackson Pollock

When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

Ram Kapoor

Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.

Geoffrey Rush

I mean, we are talking about one of the most celebrated and twisted characters of Western tradition. It gives you a sense of a do-or-die bravado.

John Adams

It ought to be celebrated by pomp and parade, ... with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other ...

Lord Mayor

We went on and celebrated and had a great, great party.

David Liss

Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

Mohammad Hamid Ansari

I extend my greetings and good wishes to all our citizens on the joyous occasion of Deepawali. The festival of lights, celebrated with gaiety and enthusiasm all over the country, signifies the victory of good over evil and is an appropriate occasion for us to resolve to follow the high ideals in life.

Deborah Moggach

I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What's that all about? I haven't even thought about turning 60 yet, but so many of my friends have celebrated it by now that it's lost its terror. And I don't mind being 58; it's just such a surprise when one doesn't feel it at all.

Nancy Cooper

Mardi Gras is celebrated all up and down the coast, so it seemed like a real symbol of the region to me.

Fernando Alonso

I was told that 50,000 people celebrated my win. They were dancing in the fountain in the city center, and even in Madrid as well.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Steve Harvey

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

Richard Owen

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

Richelle Mead

See? Things are already looking promising.

Rose Macaulay

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

Whitney Cummings

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

Wayne Dyer

When you have a choice whether to be be right or to be kind, choose to be kind.

Van Morrison

I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

Walt Whitman

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Sarah Dessen

You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.

Nancy Hague

I'm not a competitor. I do it strictly for me.

Steve Lekwa

And it will be strictly enforced. There will be a lot of unhappiness about it.

Gregory Peck

Ramon, whatever happens, it's strictly between you and me and the horse.

Roman Jakobson

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Deirdre O'Kane

You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Silas Lee

There's a lot of frustration. Whether or not all the incumbents get defeated, that is to be seen.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Thomas Boykin

We're going to try to see whether he can go. We feel we're going to need him.