Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

Isaac Brock

Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.

Garry Hynes

I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.

George Allen

Election Day 2010 saw the culmination of years of aggravation and resentment toward a federal government that became disconnected and disdainful of the values and priorities of Americans.

Donald Trump

I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.

Vivek Wadhwa

After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn't want to go back to the corporate world. So I became an academic.

Vivek Wadhwa

When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.

Billy Graham

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

Wynton Marsalis

I became a man in New York. New York made me the musician that I am and the person that I am, so it's impossible for me to say I regret having lived there.

Julie Zawisza

We will review the public comments as soon as practicable and, taking those comments into account, decide how to proceed.

Randy Beaulaurier

We've gotten lots of good comments about the copper roof.

Danny Thompson

We've gotten a lot of comments and thanks from parents since we started this part of the program,

Tom Wilson

We've had far more positive comments than negative. The girls look beautiful. They don't look sleazy or cheap.

Mike Thomas

My comments were not in any way specific to the University of Cincinnati.

Michael Driscoll

Microsoft is a tech bellwether. Even though technology has had less impact over the rest of the market than in the past, it's still a huge component of the market. We'll see if Microsoft's comments force people to sell the stock .

Orrin Hatch

Michael Moore is free to denounce every manifestation of American foreign policy; is he not? And we are upholding his right to do so, as ridiculous and inane and asinine as his comments are.

Tim Heekin

You'll see a moderate move off of Greenspan's comments tomorrow. But at this point, it's pretty well anticipated by the market.

Tim Heekin

You'll see a moderate move off of Greenspan's comments tomorrow, ... But at this point, it's pretty well anticipated by the market.

Xavier Becerra

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

Timothy Noah

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.

Giles Foden

I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.

Gilbert White

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

Donald Trump

Obamacare is, number one and maybe least importantly, it's costing the country a fortune.

William Shatner

I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog.

William Whitelaw

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

William John Wills

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

Valerie June

I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.

Mike Babcock

We're all human, and sometimes when things are going good, you get a little complacent. Obviously that was evident for us.

Jim Schoenfeld

To come back from two goals down on the road showed tremendous character. It's pretty evident that a lot of hard work they put in conditioning paid off. It wasn't picture perfect, but there was a lot of heart in that victory.

Tom Powers

Here it is evident that the money we are spending is supporting rescue efforts.

Grant Wistrom

Karma is never more evident than in a kicker's life. I think that shows up more (with kickers) out of any other demographic of society.

Michael Leavitt

I think it's evident it's in the thousands.

Gary Powers

He is so strong, and that was evident that last home run. He got jammed on the pitch and was strong enough to pull it out of the ballpark. That is good, hard work getting rewarded right there.

Mike Hoffman

He had a solid preseason, ... Teams got to see what he can do. It's evident by all the teams that have called. He just needs to be polished a little.

Craig Heisinger

I don't know that there's been any surprise but the one thing that is evident is that his passion to play is unbridled and it's rubbed off on some other guys.

Roy Halladay

I could see the light line, it was evident from the X-rays, ... I recognized it right away.

JC Chasez

I think I look for a muse in women. Someone I can just picture in my mind. Someone who respects herself and others. It isn't so much the things she says, it's mainly what she does. That's what make her all the more beautiful.

Frederick W. Smith

I was so despondent, wondering what I am going to do, and then the minister herself called.

John DeVries

Katie was playing well. She'd get herself open and put herself in position to score ... she makes things happen.

Jeremy Baker

Kate Moss has got to suffer, throw herself to public opinion and plead for mercy, and then she can rebuild her career.

A. S. Byatt

I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.

Mary Parks

We pledged we would tell her side of the story and stay with her until she turned herself in.

Tina Deese

Holly was big. She was in the pen, and I told her to get herself right physically, get herself right mentally, and she did. She did that very well.

Cesar Rodriguez

I would hold her up to the mirror and make her look at herself and I would say, 'Do you really want to live like this? Look at yourself. Talk to yourself. How do you feel about yourself?

Martin Cohen

must disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which his or her impartiality might reasonably be questioned.

Bill Hader

I've always admired Jeff Bridges. I really like how one can never get a handle on what he's doing.

Mavis Staples

The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.

Ben Stroud

I think Jefferson will be right up there with what we saw (in Salt Lake City). I'm not sure about Florida, but I think on paper, they should be as good.

Rick Comley

I thought Jeff was really sharp, and the puck is starting to go for us.

S. Hughes

I thought Jeff was in the zone today. His passes were crisp; they were on the money.

Tracy McGrady

I would have griped about (being taken out) because we were playing so well. We wanted to win this game. I was really going to talk (coach Jeff Van Gundy) into leaving me out there, even though they wanted to keep my minutes down.

John Young

I didn't want people being trapped in Jefferson Parish without these services.

Jay Johnson

Where Jeff could score 25 or 30 points now we're getting 12 points from this post player, 12 points from this post player and maybe six from another. It's more evenly distributed.

Bob Stanley

We got word that they're looting on Jefferson Highway, which is our neighborhood. We've quit worrying about the water. Now we're worried about the looting.

Donald Trump

Ronald Reagan became, you know, not only a Republican but a pretty conservative Repub - not the most. But a pretty conservative Republican. And he's somebody that I actually knew and liked. And he liked me. And I worked with him and helped him.

Will Chase

In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.

Clint Eastwood

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

Neil Simon

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

Dan Hinds

That was the turning point right there. We knew right there we'd be able to punch it in.

Jeff Hawkins

That was the turning point right there. That's when we knew we had them.

George W. Bush

That woman who knew I had dyslexia: I never interviewed her.

Pam Schild

We have always been supportive of his decision. We knew he would never do anything half-heartedly.

Matt Baker

We could have won the game. We knew we were in position. We took a shot and lost on it.

Jim DiNello

Michelle is a four-year player who in the past has also played soccer and softball.

Jim Hopson

Michelle doesn't represent the values of this institution.

Mark Rolfing

I think Michelle will make (the cut) and I think she'll do it dramatically.

Irina Slutskaya

I was so upset Michelle doesn't come. I was waiting for her.

Jason Wu

I don't feel comfortable talking about the specifics of how it all comes together, but the truth is, I don't ever know when Michelle Obama is going to wear my clothes! She, like everyone else, picks her outfits and wears them when she wants - sometimes two or three times. It's not ever calculated.

Kael Ashton

There is no way to shut Michelle down completely. I've never seen a team take her totally out of a game.

Madchen Amick

I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.

Mike Lambert

I wish he was younger or the Olympics were this year. I wish he picked me up earlier, but he didn't think too much of me then.

Jeff Buttle

If we can make it through the Olympics without any scandals, we'll be all right.

Bill Toomey

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

Blanka Vlasic

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

Bonnie Blair

I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

Evan Sayet

At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water.

Laure Manaudou

Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

Eric Shanteau

Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.'

W. S. Gilbert

I saw rowing in the Olympics and I said, 'I want to do that. That's my sport,' ... I had always been a swimmer, but when I saw rowing, I said, 'That's it.'

Tim Fletcher

F--- the effects, plug in and feel something.

Willie McGinest

Having him back helps. I don't know if he can plug all the holes, but it'll help.

Paul Davies

We've still got it. We've just got to get that spark plug going into March. We've done it before.

Jeff Segall

A third tower would plug right in. We would already have connections for utilities and everything.

Pat Brisson

Once in a while, we will try to plug in.

David Guetta

I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.

Lesley Stahl

They pulled the plug on you, what you wanted to say.

George Foster

We should do OK. We need to stick to what we know, keep plugging and see what happens.

Jim Gray

Did they pull the plug on us in a way that I just think is despicable? Absolutely.

Carl Sagan

We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

Bette Davis

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Bertrand Russell

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

Jackie Spinner

That was a sign of respect for her. She was able to make a connection.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

Rob Brzezinski

We have a lot of respect for Seattle. This wasn't about trying to be antagonistic or anything like that. It's business.

William Shakespeare

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I am not going to respect ... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

Preston Sturges

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.