Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kris Vancas

Kara Myers continues to be hot at the plate and Amanda Gordon hit her third home run in four games. Jaime Leitch is turning into a very potent No. 9 batter. Toot McCool continues to do a great job at the top of the order.

Ann Powers

He couldn't hold a job and he wouldn't watch the kids while Amanda worked.

Mike Pomerenke

Hannah and Amanda are very fluid together. They're very quick, got quick hands and quick feet. Defensively, they help us in a great way.

Debbie Shelton

I think that Amanda is a very brave, courageous, and strong individual.

Kimberley Nixon

I get mistaken for Amanda Holden; I've had that since I was 12. I get Carey Mulligan, too. We look quite similar, and she does 'Bleak House' and I do 'Cranford,' so people mix us up. I'm sure we'll play sisters at some point.

Becki Newton

In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was able to reinvent my type a bit, which was essential in booking the role of Amanda on 'Ugly Betty.' I don't believe I would have auditioned for that role in N.Y.

Margie Wright

Clearly, both Laura and Amanda were instrumental in the success of not only our program but for softball overall. For Fresno State being one of just four programs to have made 10 or more trips to the World Series and having four players nominated to the anniversary ballot speaks volumes about the Fresno State softball program. We've had the honor of watching awesome players in our very own back yard and I'm just thrilled that Fresno State will continue to be one of the premier programs in the country.

Alison Lacey

I knew Amanda was out (in the first quarter), and I had to take control a bit and just be a good leader. I wanted to make good decisions so my teammates could follow, and I think they did a good job.

Kevin Thompson

These are people you feel connected to, ... Amanda Bynes was on Nickelodeon. . . . Hilary Duff is my 6-year-old daughter's favorite celebrity. . . . She started out on (the Disney Channel).

Kathleen Hanna

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

Keira Knightley

I really believe that in this industry women have to be very true to themselves about what they're comfortable with.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Dave Mirra

I was like, 'Dude, I can't believe it,' ... I don't know where I fit in, but I'm psyched. Whatever.

Jason Schmidt

I was laughing at myself. Every time I'd throw one 85 and Jeff Kent would pop it up, I was like, 'Oh my gosh,' ... There are other guys in the league who can do it, and it made me a believer in how you can get guys out doing it.

Hal Miller

I was lucky to get away from that with only a few small injuries, ... The next day I looked at the car and just couldn't believe I had survived it.

Iain McKie

I was in the police for 36 years. I always believed fingerprints didn't lie. Now ... I know different.

Hosni Mubarak

King Hussein was a great leader and brother and a dear friend ... he believed in justice and peace,

Laura Wasser

I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.

Dan Harmon

I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.

Kenneth Turan

I think this film makes news casting really exciting. It's a film that really holds you because it's an enormous dramatic conflict.

Kimberley Nixon

In my last year of drama school, I was Abigail in 'The Crucible' and Nina in 'The Seagull,' and I did some Shakespeare with the RSC. That's what casting directors saw me in, and I got put up for a lot of period drama auditions. I always get told I suit the costumes. I don't think I have a very modern-looking face.

Roger Ebert

Sometimes it's all about the casting.

Sharlto Copley

I'm not interested in going to casting after casting, trying to get into that game. So there is a part of me that knows that I will do more characters, even if I have to produce those projects myself to get those projects out there. If the right characters come along, I would love to. I would jump at the chance.

Bruce Beresford

I have some director friends who have said that they don't really like working with actors - directors who have said 'I wish they would just get on with it. I don't want to talk to them,' which always struck me as strange because I certainly like talking to actors and I have spent a long time casting them.

Richard Price

The character Jack Nicholson played was a physical giant, and then here's little beady-eyed Jack Nicholson and everybody was aghast at this casting gaffe.

Ruby Rose

The greatest thing about having done 'Orange' are the doors that have opened for me, and people have been able to see me, like the executives and the casting directors - also, all of the fantastic directors and writers for independent films.

Dave Bautista

Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

J. M. Roberts

John is one of the top parks and recreation directors I've seen. He has a great feel for the needs of the community, and that's reflected in the facilities.

Stephen Chbosky

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.

Bruno Tonioli

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

William Shatner

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

Rebecca Hall

You either are a good director or you're not.

Robert Rodriguez

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

Vincent Cassel

I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.

Sarah Gadon

It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.

Kirk Walters

It is great to have Hassan back. He is one of our leaders. He is a vocal guy on the team and he has been here four years. He knows what is going on. He is an essential part of our offense and defense.

Terry Riley

La monte's idea was just to have this one big form that were just long tones, I think that was the real essential heart of minimalist music.

Kofi Annan

I think it was essential that he paid the money.

Sathya Baba

It is not enough, nor is it essential that you should repeat the name of Rama loudly; respect it in the fullness of love and admiration.

Kit Bond

For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development.

Terence McElroy

He is a free-market person, as I think most Americans are. The one exception is for basic, essential commodities during an emergency.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Discerning our personal gifts is essential if we are to experience harmony in our lives.

Sargent Shriver

A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.

Vinessa Shaw

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

Dario Fo

I am interested, too, in satirical theater, in the grotesque, or even in tragedy at times, but I am mostly comfortable with comedy.

Jami Attenberg

I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines.

Mia Sara

I'm mostly retired. Now I'm a mother with a really noisy, difficult house to maintain!

Ed Orgeron

I'm disappointed we lost, but I'm mostly disappointed in myself not getting the team ready to play,

Michael Isikoff

The news comes in code, and mostly the silences speak.

Chellie Pingree

It's mostly window dressing. I don't think this will pass the straight-face test.

Jim Fischer

It will start out mostly as rain, end up as snow at the tail end of it.

Hamadoun Toure

They are mostly unidentified combatants killed with machetes.

LaVerna Bauguess

It was mostly so she could be with her friends.

Joseph Castelo

It should not strengthen the position of those with a preconceived notion about terrorists.

Greg Stein

The notion of packaged products is really going to go away.

Ray Allen

It seems the referees take these preconceived notions about what he's going to do. It's ridiculous some of the calls.

David Fish

This is the notion of personalization at the intermediary level.

Michelle Branch

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Nicholas Haslam

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

John Doe

We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be,

Dolly Wells

Essentially, we wanted to be in one of Azazel's films, so the notion was we'd simply write an Azazel Jacobs movie ourselves, and then give it to him and be like, 'Right, here's you next film, now direct us. Go.'

Albert Camus

You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.

Ken Starr

It was not our place to reinvent the investigative wheel,

Tony Stewart

We're not going to reinvent the wheel this year. We're just going to keep doing what we've been doing all along.

John Powell

You can't reinvent yourself for every movie.

Charles Bukowski

Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.

Barbara Kellerman

He really does need to reinvent his team.

Pat Riley

We don't have time to reinvent the wheel.

Ken Starr

I also know that there's a time and a season, and I think that time, had there been one, has long since passed.

Michael Hayes

He's crazy. He's always been like that, since we were 13, he's been the same way.

Mike Donato

He's a thoroughbred. We have worked out together since our first year here.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Matt Kiefer

He had a long rehab. Ever since he could play (again), he has been a leader. A vocal leader.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Michelle Gomez

Jack wasn't my type at all. I thought he was too young and too posh, and I told him that. Plus, I couldn't deal with his dodgy bowl-cut. But he wore me down.

Shaquille O'Neal

Whenever I see a celebrity that comes to watch me play, I'm going to do for them the same thing they've done for me - bring them some type of joy.

Nick Cave

I won't go into the details, but I ready myself for the day. I am a high-maintenance type of guy.

Daimon Shelton

He'll come back and get better, ... Being around him for so long and being the type of person he is, he'll respond. We'll all respond.

William Shatner

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

Venus Williams

I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.

Robert Stone

I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.

Winston Graham

I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.

Derek Anderson

I just know this is the type of place you could do that,