Famous Quotes & Sayings

Linda Gray

We want them to have exposure to females who have a career and a family. We want to let them know that you don't have to choose one or the other.

Ed Asner

I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

David Horowitz

I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have been not only the key to much of the knowledge I have acquired, but also have given me a direction within my profession. The best thing about the library is that it is available not only to me, but to everyone. It does not discriminate.

Ben Stiller

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.

Bear Grylls

I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

Audrey Tautou

I'm not inspired by any career because I don't have any expectations.

Antony Sher

The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.

David Icke

There are many things that we can understand, but in the end it is a case of 'anything is possible'.

Paul Phillips

There are cases where new evidence causes doubt, but this is not one of them.

Rocco Buttiglione

There are cases of waste and privileges that must be seriously restructured,

John Mogg

Where the report has found evidence of market abuse, we welcome the Commission's commitment to pursue such cases urgently and vigorously.

Mark Kennedy

A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child protection cases in the state.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.

S. Hughes

We're going to offer them contracts. They are really important players for us, and we've very hopeful in all three cases of getting them signed up and resolved.

Kendrick Meek

We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.

John Love

What we're seeing initially is a reduction in the number of cases allowed. Many of these will eventually get a patent, though.

Charles Dickens

Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.

Charles Dickens

The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.

Charles Dickens

Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.

Charles Dickens

The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.

Chris Colfer

When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out

David Weber

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.

David Remnick

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

David Ricardo

The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.

David Ricardo

It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.

Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Alan Watts

Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

Alan Watts

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Al Sharpton

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

Al Pacino

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

Mark Kennedy

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

Nick Offerman

There have been a few occurrences where people in restaurants have sent me a rasher of bacon, which I am not going to turn my nose up at. I never let them down.

Nnedi Okorafor

I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.

Nonso Anozie

'Ender's Game' is fantastic, and I've gotten to see quite a few bits, and I love the way it's turned out.

Raghav Bahl

When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.

Joe Glenn

We're not going to reinvent the wheel. We just have to make fewer errors.

Jovon Johnson

When you run a blitz, a lot of things have to happen. It might take a few games for it to feel natural.

Ryan Gentles

We were trying to do less media and fewer big things. We could have done as much as the first album, but we just turned some down on purpose.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Chuck Feeney

I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.

Eason Jordan

North Korean officials have told me that those visits are OK with them. They are ready for them to happen,

Christopher Hill

I understand we have some North Korean visitors here today.

Brian Tee

I've always been a fan of Korean cinema but never really pursued it, as I wanted to pave my way here in the States. I figured, once I established myself here, Korea might take notice. And it did.

Jay Lefkowitz

We will be in a position relatively soon to welcome North Korean refugees in the United States.

Min-sik Choi

Western ghosts are evil, but Korean ghosts are about making peace. That is part of our Korean psyche.

Hans Vestberg

Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.

Donald Sterling

I like Korean employees and I like Korean tenants,

Anthony Bourdain

I'm really happy to see the explosion of interest in Korean food, and this hybrid Korean-American [food].

Brian Sky

To our knowledge, this is the first (designated) film school in Northern Colorado.

Jeff Perreault

They're undefeated and the #1 ranked team in North Dakota. Their program is very strong.

Ramon Ramirez

They used to migrate to here. Now they migrate from here. They may go to work in Florida, North Carolina, New York. But they come back here.

Rick Moody

They tell them to just keep walking north and don't look back. We've tried to apprehend some of these bandits.

David Cook

There's a lot of flatland in Texas and in the northern part of the state.

Tom Greene

It's all Northern Telecom. It was U.S. selling; they just started selling it and it took a lot of the other tech stocks with it.

Hugh Willoughby

This is the nailbiting time for forecasters, ... We're waiting for Bertha to make her turn to the northeast but there's some uncertainty about when it will happen.

Craig Gibson

They play well, they play hard, they don't make mistakes. I don't think they're going to pitch as well as North Florida, but they're very similar. They're well-coached and they play hard.

Vladimir Putin

Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

Andrew Mitchell

There don't seem to be any surprises in here.

Ken Koelbl

As I watched, it didn't seem like they missed.

Maureen McClay

As we look at it now, it doesn't seem to work for us.

Mark Hatton

It's just didn't seem like that. We got the shots off.

Janet Anderson

It's just really unfortunate that there seems to be shortsightedness in this whole situation.

Scott Gomez

It seems like it's early. But it isn't. We need these points.

Jeffrey Cohen

It seems like a wonderful thing to do.

Jim Smith

It seems like a simple business. But it's as complicated as it can get.

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Fred Coan

We've got kids, I'm sure, who have never been out of South Carolina.

Belle Boyd

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Charles Kuralt

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

David Sibley

They talk about Southern hospitality, but Southern hospitality has nothing on this place,

Jimmy Barros

It's tough to come back in on that ledge when the ocean's flat. With today's 3-foot south swell and the easterly wind swell, it was even more dangerous.

Randy Julander

Southern Utah is having a terrible year, unbelievably bad.

Ryan Holmes

South America's most populous country, Brazil, is also emerging as one of the region's most social-media savvy.

Larry Coker

There's always been talent in South Florida, it just didn't stay here.