Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

Will Poulter

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

Wendy Kopp

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Zubin Mehta

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

Yani Tseng

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Colin Baker

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Chris Carter

I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

Emma Watson

I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

Igor Luksic

It's definitely the development that has changed the way Montenegro is seen in the eyes of the world.

Will Yun Lee

Whenever you're fighting with weapons, there's a level of reality because people don't understand that these are still metal or hard rubber with sharp points - that if the timing's wrong, you could definitely get hurt. There's nothing like working with an actor who doesn't know what they're doing, because you're always in fear of losing an eye.

Will Champlin

I'm definitely a fighter, like Christina Aguilera would say.

Billy Graham

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

Emma Roberts

New York is a fun place to shoot, but it's definitely hectic.

Ben Affleck

I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen.

Helane Becker

The pilots definitely have the power in this relationship. If they don't want to fly, you don't fly.

Patrick Callahan

The pendulum is definitely returning and has been for a year.

Mike Connors

The penalty is definitely one that fits the crime.

David Friedman

It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.

Bethenny Frankel

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

Katy Miller

That was a surprise because if we see a special defense, it's usually a box-and-one on Ashleigh. It was frustrating and hard to get open. Now I know how Ashleigh feels sometimes. But now that I've been in her shoes, I see how important it is for us to set good screens to get her open.

Ed Belfour

That was a great win. I felt good tonight, I saw the puck well. It feels like things are getting back on track.

Kaitlin Carney

That was a great way to start the season. We were able to get off on the good foot and that's what we've been working toward. It really feels good, but we're just going to take it one game at a time.

Scott Eastwood

I like working with my hands. It feels good to build something yourself.

Mark Ronson

I think I have an inherent modest level of stress, but I'm only super-aware of it when it goes away, when I'm on holiday and I think, 'Oh this feels pretty good.'

Robin S. Sharma

I used to be incredibly afraid of public speaking. I started with five people, then I'd speak to 10 people. I made it up to 75 people, up to 100, and now I can speak to a very large group, and it feels similar to speaking to you one-on-one.

Rickey Henderson

I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first.

Michael Hepp

The people are frustrated because there's still no power and no telephone, and it's hot down here as we speak.

Rene Preval

The people are frustrated and they have the right to demonstrate, but they should respect the rights of others.

Scott Severance

We have to use all 32 minutes. We got frustrated in the third quarter. I thought we did some things down the stretch that can help us.

Dave Uhrich

We were getting a little frustrated just in that we were looking for some good weather. And for the third meet in a row we didn't get it. This time of year it's kind of hit and miss, and we have been unlucky.

Randy Carlyle

We were frustrated by our lack of offensive punch. We had our chances, but didn't finish.

Doyle Geddes

We were frustrated at the half, but the second half made up for it.

Johnny Damon

We will score runs. We just hit a little dry-spell Yeah, we're frustrated we're 1-4, frustrated that we just lost, but there's plenty of season to go.

Damon Sublett

You'll have those times when it's frustrating, and you get frustrated a lot. You've got to know that these guys have been here 28, 29 years. They know what they're talking about. You've just got to listen to him, even though sometimes you get a little frustrated.

Joseph Addai

You kind of get frustrated a little bit, but I think everything happens for reason. I just kept doing everything I needed to do to get better. I kept working on the little things. And I think that helped me out.

Yanis Varoufakis

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

Wayne Rooney

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Viswanathan Anand

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Age Hareide

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

Darren Mathews

We need to have these kinds of games to prepare us for late in the season.

Tom Typrowicz

We could lose a million games and I wouldn't care. I want these young ladies to leave these games knowing what life is about and what it's going to take.

Brett Tomko

We can't let these opportunities slip away. Before we know it, we're going to be out of games. This next series is huge. If we can take three, then we've got a shot.

Tim Brasic

We can't let guys come in here and do what they're doing to us at home. Our last two home games have been just embarrassing.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Moises Arias

I can see myself doing production work and handling projects behind the scenes.

Mike Strong

We just did a nice job handling their pressure.

Scott Meyers

You can have a 19-year-old kid handling the refueling of a B-2, ... That's a billion-dollar asset.

Linda Fox

I think they're fabulous, the way they're handling this. I didn't plan on doing anything today. I can't shop or anything.

Jay Dillon

People were very upset but were handling it well.

Randolph Bourne

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

William Poole

From what I know of that situation, markets are handling it very well,

Dan Edwards

We're pleased she is safe and that the police are handling this situation.

Peter Jackson

We take as much inspiration from what he's doing and how he's handling it as he takes from the club.

Keay Nakae

The overall number where there is actually a problem is still low, but more importantly, you've got, once again, a revelation that the problem is a little wider than first thought. What people had been hoping to see is some end to this.

Bill Vaughan

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

Wally Caldwell

That was a total shocker. I think the kids were really hoping to wrestle Wells and turn some scores around.

Ron Jones

We have a nice season going and we're hoping to keeping going this week.

Don Jordan

We were hoping the outcome would not be what it was. We know, though, what the scripture says about children: Their souls go straight to heaven.

Kimberly Smith

We were hoping maybe when she went down there we would find them.

Rick Carlisle

We were hoping it would feel better (Sunday). But you never know with those types of injuries.

Melissa Cook

We were hoping he'd be in someone's shed.

Jose Sosa

We were hoping for a top-10 finish. We were 26th a year ago, so this is a big improvement.

Randy Houser

First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.

Mikhail Gorbachev

You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out.

Glenn Hoddle

Michael has got a 12-inch gash in his knee which has been stitched up,

Zhang Dan

I still have a little pain in the knee from the Olympics. So we have not been able to train much.

Arthur Rhodes

When it happened, I went in and they said, 'OK, we'll say your knee was hurt,' but my knee wasn't hurt. We'll just leave it at that.

Hannibal Buress

Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.

Philip Hoffman

I wish there was a podium here - you wouldn't see my knees shaking.

J. Taylor

Basically, my knee popped out of its socket.

Norv Turner

Jake had his knee scoped this morning. It was a very short procedure. He has a slight torn cartilage edge, and it was scoped. It's probably in that three-to-four week range.

Cilla Black

'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.

Alex Brink

We just didn't play 60 minutes of football, or 65 minutes, of football, or whatever it was.

Ron Zonen

You just witnessed the worst seven minutes of this boy's life.

Sandy Wright

You just can't take a quarter off. You can't take off two or three minutes in our league. We have to find ways to answer.

John Jay

Where we are right now, I'm going to try and get as many minutes as I can out of each starter.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.

Thomas Dawson

We'd probably have to wake up 15 to 20 minutes earlier.

Greg Gard

Whether you're home, road or neutral, you can't go 8, 9 minutes and not score.

Maurice Jackson

We can't be out there for nearly 20 minutes when there is only 24 minutes in a half.

Bill Bryson

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.

Bernard Arnault

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

Antoine Rivarol

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

Bill Bruford

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

Rick Clark

We need to have some time to get some practice in now. We need to get a little rest and work on our timing.

Steve Long

We wanted to have a place where our practices were together.

Dan Miller

We have a lot of cheerleaders who come because they can better their routines with the practice they get here with the classes.

Philip Morris

merchandising practices at the wholesale and retail levels.

Mark Patton

It didn't surprise me to be honest. I've seen him shoot that same shot in practice.

Hasso Plattner

Fans don't like owners. They know they are somewhere - actually, in Germany, some owners are anonymous. Fans don't sympathize with owners, so ownership stays in the back.

Pete Jeffries

whatever was said in the room, stays in the room.

George Coleman

He waves and that's about it. He stays to himself.

Mark Rey

We want everyone to be comfortable with every half-acre that stays on the list.

Leonardo da Vinci

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Gordon Strachan

Naka is the same in that he stays on to practice. I just want him to keep doing what he does.

Alice Lowe

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.

Richard Barber

But it stays within bounds, and that's an unusual system,

Joe Frazier

He's good. I think he's still a young man. If he stays here and works with us on the basics, we'll make him better than good.