Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyra Banks

I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.

Yann Tiersen

In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.

Imelda May

I'm not saying that women shouldn't pursue careers, but if it is going to be equal in the workplace, it should certainly pan out to be a little bit more equal in the home, too.

Imelda May

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

Iggy Azalea

I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!

Ice T

I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.

Ian Mckellen

Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

Ian Mckellen

It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

Ian Watson

Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.

Marcus Buckingham

My career expertise is as a psychometrician - somebody who builds tests to measure personality. Companies would employ me to build interviews to measure the talents of people before they were hired.

Carol Browner

We're very, very concerned right now here at the EPA when you are getting this level of heat in the summer months -- we're driving our cars, we're running our power plants -- more pollution builds up.

Jayne Anne Phillips

I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about - and I'm thinking about it all the time, but I'm not really inside it, inside the writing.

Source Unknown

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

David Wilmot

White laborers known for their enterprise, their diligence, their economy, which builds up new empires in the West.

Dustin Lanz

I think just knowing we've been in those situations before helped. You could tell they weren't stressing, and they put in the extra effort. This is something that builds a lot more confidence.

Orison Swett Marden

It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.

Igor Luksic

Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.

Geoff Davis

This campaign was special because we always kept the challenger mentality we had from the start. We managed to keep the against-all-odds, can-do spirit that kept us going when no one thought we could win.

William Cameron Forbes

At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to death to make this transportation plan a success.

Peter Gardner

The police say they patrol the campus as much as the ville, but that's just untrue. They said they stay on the road, but I've seen them on paths around Sharples and McCabe. I've heard rumors that they are going to increase their foot patrols. There is definitely an increase in police presence this year.

Brea Grant

Oh my God, I'm so excited. I love Comic-Con, it feels like a weird nerd camp. All my nerd friends are there and all the comic book writers I know and then a lot of actors, too, and you hang out with these people for just a few days, but you hang out with them all day, every day. It's like camp - it's like a weird camp. I love it.

Bob Schieffer

Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that.

Bob Kaufman

We have a new campaign that started in the past couple of days, called Interns,

Joe Trippi

We have a national campaign, and running a national campaign is more expensive than running in just a couple of states.

Bob Marcusse

We could not have imagined a few years ago that the Dream It Do It campaign would lead to this, but it has, and we are grateful and pleased.

Kofi Annan

the overall epidemic continues to expand with much of the world at risk of falling short of the targets set forth in the declaration.

Bruce Jackson

The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.

Donald Trump

It's my life. It just continues to go forward from 'The Apprentice.'

Rick Rubin

I always feel like there's something magic in recording studios. There's a reason good music continues to be made in them. It's just some mojo element.

Dale Buvid

Timely hitting continues to be an issue. We had a great time, the weather was great and we got everybody into the game.

Bruce Arena

Tim continues to be a very talented goalkeeper that we think, given time and the right opportunity, is going to continue to improve and be a terrific goalkeeper at the international level. One day he will be the No. 1 goalkeeper for the U.S.

E. O. Wilson

We've learned that the crimes are greater than anticipated and reach as far as Southern California. The number of victims continues to grow.

Paul Tang

US import growth continues to slow as we see home sales there have peaked and interest rate hikes continue.

Paul Tagliabue

Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana.

Geoff Hoon

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

Paul Johnson

I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could have become a dress designer: Dior was willing to take me on as an assistant, but he did not have an immediate vacancy.

Ken Lisaius

The pilots determined that to be safe rather than sorry they needed to make an emergency-style landing.

Victoria Strauss

When I was submitting my first novel, I had no idea that publishing scams existed. I never encountered any, but I could have - and knowing how easily I might have been taken advantage of makes me determined to protect others from falling into that trap.

The Others

The arbitrator has determined that the counterclaim will not be considered.

Larry Rothschild

That will be determined as we go. We'll see. He's where he should be in rehab. There have been no setbacks. As long as we can keep progressing, that's what we're after.

Rob Stillwell

We've looked at who are our employees going to be and is there enough of a population to draw from, and we've determined that there is.

Steve Ivcic

We just couldn't put anything past Perry. He's been like that all year. ... It was important for us to be determined and persistent because if you put enough pressure on any goalie, eventually the wall is going to crack.

Marc Andreessen

I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember.

Imelda May

I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.

Colm Keaveney

Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.

Emma Watson

I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

Elizabeth Warren

I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

Cherie Lunghi

The lines on your face are your medals. You've earned them, so why shouldn't they be worn with honour?

Bonnie Tyler

I went to all the shops in the village looking for work. I didn't have any qualifications. I ended up working in a grocery shop for about a year and then went to a confectioner, where I earned three pounds 10 shillings. I gave the money to my mother and father, but I also managed to save five shillings a week.

Bill Cosby

There should be more on television that uplifts people and shows them how to better prepare themselves for earning a living.

Barack Obama

Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

Mortimer Adler

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

Bill Hader

I'm a huge fan of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Patrick Schwarzenegger

My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.

Paul Sabatier

During the period 1901 to 1905, together with Senderens, I showed that nickel is very suitable for the direct hydrogenation of nitriles into amines and, no less important, of aldehydes and acetones into corresponding alcohols.

Peter Sallis

I think if Nick had something cracking, he would have said. I suspect he's taking a rest.

Danny Huston

Nick was wonderful to have around because he's just such a straight talker,

Dustin Lanz

Nick was unbelievable. He had a stellar night.

Steve Wilmot

Nick Price was one of our most popular champions.

Grant Wistrom

Nick Going?s going out really put a damper on their running game.

Ari Millen

Nick Abraham and I had known each other from Ryerson University.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Bill Hader

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Rosario Dawson

That was something that we really worked on, not repeating ourselves. But I was like, 'This is not going to be a problem because I'm playing a woman.'

Chris Masoner

That was really important for us. We really wanted it ... It's so important for us to go into the playoffs playing like this.

Tiger Woods

We need to keep playing more in Ohio. It's that simple. We don't have enough tournaments here.

Kobe Bryant

We have to understand that we're not playing for right now; we're playing for the long haul. It's important to be patient. It will come.

Paul Eenhoorn

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

Landon Donovan

We were getting slaughtered, ... We weren't playing well at all yet we're up, two-zero. But that's soccer.

Kevin Williams

We were still playing for a title, because we were playing for second.

Colby Armstrong

Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time.

Bernard Berenson

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Allen Ward

We know the cabin, we know the people, we know the training and we know the job.

Corey Brewer

We told him to get some training wheels.

Mike Thibault

From that standpoint, it kind of makes for a very competitive training camp.

David Ginola

I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.

Alan K. Simpson

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

Alan Kay

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

Bernie Mac

I've been in training for stardom.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

Barry O'Farrell

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Pontius Pilate

Whether will the twain will ye that I release unto you?

Dick Hill

You can always find Curtis, whether it's the Jeep or the Big Bird.

Kevin Lowe

Whether I can get it done is another question.

Bill Smith

Whether he didn't see him or doesn't want to say, I don't know.

Martha Stewart

Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

Cary Finberg

Whether you win by one-point or 20, it doesn't matter. You still get the title.

Jim Lehrer

Whether you're 9 or 90, you can play this game.

Hugh Shelton

I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat.

CC Sabathia

It's not as bad as it was last year. It feels good today.

Cecelia Ahern

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

Cecelia Ahern

I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.

Carrie P. Meek

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie Fisher

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

Carrie Underwood

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Carrie Underwood

I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday. Either I could live with that or stop eating meat. I choose the latter, and I'm happier for it.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

Carl Rogers

Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.