Famous Quotes & Sayings

Audra McDonald

The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.

Terry Hands

Our contention has always been that Shakespeare is our greatest living author. If he can survive a season on Broadway, he must be.

Max von Essen

My passion was to be on Broadway and to be part of this community because I saw what it was like from the outside as the young kid in and around New York, and I would see things like the 'Easter Bonnet' or 'Broadway Bares,' things I would sneak into.

Michelle Clark

We don't get to do a lot of straight plays or Broadway shows here, and this is a true classic. We don't know how long (Holbrook) will continue to perform the show, so we're really fortunate to have him here.

Mitch Leigh

If I do what I really want to do, I'm not going to do a typical commercial Broadway show, so I'm going to write what I want to write.

Jordin Sparks

In school, when we lived in New Jersey, we went to Broadway a lot, so I saw a lot of Broadway plays, and I just loved being able to see people play a different character and, you know, be able to be themselves at the end of the night. So, I've always wanted to do it.

Nikki Blonsky

I remember seeing 'Hairspray' when I was 15, and it is such a luxury to be able to see a Broadway show, and it is so hard to do if you don't live in New York - plus, it can be expensive to go to the theatre all the time, too.

Emily Kinney

It's definitely one of those things when you decide to be an actor that it would be really cool to be in a Broadway show or a series regular on a hit show.

Rita Rudner

I did six Broadway shows, and I noticed there weren't many female comedians. When I went to a dancing audition, there were 1,000 girls. And there were three jobs. So I said I'll just try comedy. And I loved it.

Riley Wallace

The seniors have led the way, there's no question about that. There was a time during the year when we lost a couple games that they could have gotten down, but they never did that. They just went to work and really kept it going. It all starts at the top with the leadership.

Bonnie Reed

It would be nice if we had a couple thousand more dollars. It would really be helpful to these people.

Al Jefferson

It was tiring. I had a couple dunks and a lot of jumpers, jump hooks and free throws. It was crazy.

Charlie Batch

I've been to a couple of places, but this isn't the first I've been back to Detroit in a while. I was here in our bye week. During the off-season, I'm here twice a month. This is my second home. There are a lot of people I went to school with, a lot of friends I have are still up here.

Mike Fisher

That's nice to get a couple of wins after the (Olympic) break. We played well at all ends of the rink, from the goaltender out.

Chris Warren

That's how I figured it was going to end. But we made a couple of mental errors in the sixth, and it turned into a completely different game.

Sharon Spratley

That's huge growth in a couple of years. It's more competitive now.

Dee Brown

That game two years ago, when we won 51-49 there? Yeah, I remember that. It's a tough place to play. But you have to steal a couple on the road (to win the Big Ten). It's going to be a grueling game. But you can't knock 'em off your schedule. You have to show up and play.

Rick Carlisle

A.J.'s the starter for now. We'll see how the next couple of weeks unfold. We were in this same situation in January and probably rushed him back too soon.

Maripol

Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way.

Les Moonves

There is a genuine question whether people are going to want to pay $12 a month for (Howard Stern).

Chris Eigeman

I genuinely don't like Los Angeles. L.A. is this little petri dish of lack of morality.

Ephraim Sneh

What has to worry us is whether it will be a genuine deployment or a make-believe deployment, and at present the impression is that it will be a make-believe deployment,

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Paul Allen

The Super Bowl. Wow! It's mind-blowing if you're a fan, how great it is to think of your team winning the Super Bowl.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

J. J. Johnson

The thing about Mike is he's so explosive. And he's going to make plays because he's got great quickness and great pad level.

Vic Wolffis

The thing about Kyle is that you can't say he hasn't only looked for himself. He's done a great job of getting other people involved. We've done this as a team.

David Whyte

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

Faith Hill

There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point. It will encompass much.

Garth Nix

Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

Yolanda King

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.

Elizabeth Taylor

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

Eli Broad

You always learn lessons in business.

John Cage

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

Eartha Kitt

I used to teach dance lessons.

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Pat Olmi

We might go over there and watch 'em. We can sit back and rest a little bit.

Ryan Ward

We might be related, but it's very distant.

Eckhart Tolle

Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.

John Davidson

CPI and PPI next week could be a little light, so that might get some attention,

Arthur Conan Doyle

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

Trent Dilfer

Braylon wants to get better, and he wants to get a sense of timing and rhythm with me. After the one I just missed him down the middle, I went to the sideline and told him we're not there yet but we're going to get there this game.

Brandon Jacobs

On the first one, I missed the guy. He ran right by my face, and that was my fault. But I redeemed myself on the second one, and we took it to the house.

Lars Tiffany

I feel like we missed an opportunity to get better.

Nate McLouth

That's what he threw me before, and they've been working me in. I got it. I just missed it.

Doug Tolin

We really struggled scoring. We missed shots we normally make. We just didn't play as well as we have normally been playing.

Bill Shaw

We really missed Caleb inside. As a team we only had 12 or 13 rebounds, and (Myrtle Point) had at least twice that.

Jon Sundvold

I thought I missed the memo, but there wasn't a memo.

Charli Turner

I don't think that there's been anything that's been said as of yet. But, we've been on the road for a while, so I may have missed a meeting.

Joe Hughes

That's kind of an odd statistic. You don't see that too often.

Ricky Gervais

I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with "The Simpsons"... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse.

Charles Bukowski

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

Robert Kiyosaki

Most people want to be rich but they do not want to pay the price, in fact there are ways of becoming rich in which the odds are in the person's favor

Marina Warner

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

Patricia Clarkson

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

Patricia Cornwell

Thoughts are odd misfires.

John Stuart Mill

The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.

Nick Cave

If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Aung San Suu Kyi

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

Booker T. Washington

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

Antonin Scalia

The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the free-market system. The opportunity to charge monopoly prices - at least for a short period - is what attracts 'business acumen' in the first place; it induces risk taking that produces innovation and economic growth.

Eileen collins

I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Dionne Warwick

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

Rick McCallum

Producers don't really publicize movies.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.