Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Hooper

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush.

Carolyn Russell

You hear about all kinds of things that go on; you turn on the TV, hear a patient has been murdered or robbed. I think a background check and registry is a very good idea.

Rob Neyland

Nobody else has a ski resort in the background to make their snow.

Nell Newman

My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.

Samuel Palmisano

Shirley Ann Jackson's significant background and experience in technology and her leadership at one of the most highly regarded technological research universities in the world will make her a valuable member of our board. We are very pleased she is joining us.

Kantathi Suphamongkhon

He has management skills, and he has international experience. He is dedicated to the work of the international community. So he has the strength, background and experience, ... We feel that he is appropriate for that position.

Maajid Nawaz

I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

Eric Johnson

I hear background noise, but I haven't heard any specific legislation or author.

Councilwoman Mackin

It's unbelievable. With the background we had on that transit center parking lot, now this soil ends up in a residential neighborhood. How?

Jesse Berger

As Doug invests in Charlotte, he begins to transform himself, and she has to transform herself and survive while preserving pieces of history for us.

Rick Barnes

Back in the beginning of the season when I was looking at the schedule I knew it was going to be a tough finish for us.

Tim Evans

Profit-taking was the most widely employed term for what (happened Friday), but we see the potential for this simple turn to develop into a much more substantial decline, as the fundamentals behind the push higher were not all that strong to begin with.

Dwyane Wade

Our defense is coming along. We're getting our rotations down. The communication is better. The main this is we're all beginning to understand what everyone is doing.

Joey Kalmus

People should not judge us on where we stand at the beginning of the season. If we start 3-7 in our first 10 games, it's OK if I see promise.

Brad Cashman

An unintended consequence of such liberalization has been the often-reported blending of the dark-colored home-team jerseys and the light-colored visiting-team jerseys, creating confusion on the part of players, officials and spectators. Beginning in 2010, that confusion should be eliminated.

Joan Rivers

Once you begin to believe there is help ""out there,"" you will know it to be true.

Linda Pagnella

Some people say it's the beginning of the social season, whatever that means. It has normally been scheduled around the end of January/Valentine's day, so people do mark it on their calendars around this time of year.

Jessica Bird

The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

Russell Baker

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Brenda Frese

Coming up to the arena, most of the players had no idea what we were doing. It showed them what we were playing for.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

John Gibbons

Coming in we knew we had a good one,

Jason Simmons

The thing with Pittsburgh coming into town, whenever they give you an opportunity you have to capitalize, because they are a team that's big on turnover ratio.

Jeff Rolen

Once you see what's going on here, you just want to reach out and help them. I'm coming back. I just don't see how I couldn't. Other volunteers are saying the same thing.

David Perkins

Now, gas prices, ... they go to $10 to the gallon, we're still coming to the races.

Paul Elliott

As a team, I think we're right where want to be (entering the conference schedule). I'm happy with our effort so far.

Jamie Dixon

Our conference has prepared us better than any other conference since I've been around the Big East. I'm not surprised how it has played out because of how many good teams there are here.

Brian Barber

Southmont is a conference rival, and it's a senior-dominated team. We know they're going to come after us. We're going to have to win three games to win it, so we have to go the long route.

Bill Fennelly

It would be a phenomenal upset for us to go real deep in this tournament. The conference tournaments were created to make money and give teams hope. The Big 12 can make the money, and we'll have the hope.

Derek Dougan

The way he pitched tonight he's looking really good. He's definitely going to be a factor in this conference season.

Joe Dumars

That's what we all have to live with, because we've set a very high standard here. We've been at least to the conference finals three straight years and we've been a 50-win team four years in a row.

Britt Bonneau

We've still got a lot of conference play to go. We've won five out of the last six, though, and the good thing is that eight of our last 12 conference games are at home. But this one? Yeah, this one's a big one for sure.

Sue Johnson

There is no doubt in my mind that Ray would be the top player in the conference if she were healthy. But she?s giving us great minutes when she?s out there.

Steve Alford

Everybody thought they'd be a very, very good team, but it's kind of hard to duplicate what they did a year ago. And yet, here they are going into conference play undefeated again.

Scott Adams

One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.

Robert Henri

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

Elizabeth Kenny

One of the puppets is a drawing on my thumb. That is Handsome Percy.

Daren Causey

I have always been interested in drawing as long as I can remember.

Henry Moore

I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

Gerald Scarfe

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

Vince Vaughn

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

Allan Hale

If you're looking at the numbers of people that we can draw, the state lakes makes us a destination when it's drawing that many people, ... If you take that away, we could be lacking in the volume to be called that.

Vincent Van Gogh

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing

Mike Hansen

We really don't know until we get through February and March.

Chris Davenport

If we get to the end of February and I've only skied a couple, I'll start to worry. I need to stay positive. The silver lining is that it is snowing, so there will be a longer spring for skiing.

Bill Bradley

By the time we get to February 1, people will know who I am, what I believe, what I'm for, and what I would like to do if I were president,

Luis Derbez

We think that it will be around January or February maybe

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Ryan Madson

Stuff started happening pretty quick, and I wasn't thinking out there like I should have been. I was just out there throwing.

William Stafford

So, the world happens twice --once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.

Mike Trewick

Sometimes I feel like we play a little scared. I think we play not to lose rather than play to win sometimes. That always happens when we start pressing a little too much.

Frank Beamer

These are all unusual things that can happen in a ballgame,

Kobe Bryant

It was very disappointing so I just try not to think about it too much. I just let it go. Everything happens for a reason, and this for whatever reason is the time for me to be on the team.

Ricky Nolasco

The way I'm just going to take it is everything happens for a reason. I went out there, trying to get some outs. It was a tight game.

Freddie Shepherd

That's going to happen sooner rather than later.

Skip Carr

That (game) was something we talked about before today. We wanted to make sure that didn't happen again. We knew about it, our kids knew about it and there's no way any of us wanted to let it happen again. Once we won the first (game) to get to 13 (wins), we knew we had to get to 14.

Robert Hormats

We have a conundrum. We have a strong economy, but lots of people feel insecure.

Tom Jankovsky

We haven't been sold. There have been lots of people looking, but that's it. There have been no offers.

Terry Chapin

Because of these feedbacks, there are lots of reasons to think that this warming will continue.

Dan Gelber

Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better.

Julianne Moore

She won lots of stuff. She'd win these prizes. What she didn't want to keep, she'd sell. She won a trip to Switzerland, she'd sell it and put money toward the mortgage.

Sarah Chang

But I have lots of friends, because I'm a real people person,

Andrew Card

He's still working... still considering lots of options.

Alexander Ovechkin

We played very well, but we had lots of penalties.

Julia Voth

I am big in Japan... heightwise! But, yeah, I started modeling there in my teens and into my 20s. I did Calvin Klein, Uniqlo, and lots of magazine covers. It's such a beautiful country, and they have beer vending machines right on the street. Love that!

Steve Nash

You replay and you rethink. The mistakes really hurt.

Ned Yost

He's as tough as they come. He doesn't make mistakes.

Bill Gray

We made too many mistakes on special teams, ... That can't happen. We pride ourselves on special teams at Samford. So we've got to get that fixed.

Pavol Demitra

We made too many mistakes, it was everybody. We look like we are so nervous, like we don't want to play.

John Gibbons

He wasn't real sharp. But they have a good-hitting club. They make you pay if you make mistakes and that's what it was.

Ray Rivera

He made that one mistake. What can you do?

Jorge Rodriguez

I'm no angel. I make mistakes like every other human, but I try to do what's right.

Tyler Palko

All of the mistakes we've made are very correctable,

Julie Johnson

They do as well as they can. Everybody's human, they make mistakes,

Wayne Pivac

I've been in touch with Nicky and will be doing the same over the months to come.

Scott Speedman

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

Charles III

For those two months of off-season in November and December, it's nice to be able to practice whenever you choose, not when the weather chooses.

Martin Havlat

If we don't play, then my month is over. That'd be just great.

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Yann Martel

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

Ashley Giles

I haven't been able to sleep for months because I was too tense. Now I can't sleep at night because I'm too excited.

Liev Schreiber

I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't.

Zheng Jingping

So there must be trade surplus in the processing trade.

Martin Eggleston

The whole process was done very wrong, very unfairly.

Mark Williams

The process is working. It's not working perfectly, but it is working better than it was on Jan. 1.

John Anderson

The FAA has not conducted this process in a very transparent manner. What little we know we've had to get off the grapevine.

Bob Poser

You can tell that he's processing everything when you're talking. You can see that his wheels are churning.

Carl Rogers

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

Steve Siegel

We're in the process of returning it to its rightful owner.

Lloyd Dobens

It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together.

Eric Stoltz

Roger visited us and got to know and spend time with Nestor before he died. That's an important part of the process of portraiture. And, of course, we have thousands of photos.

T. S. Eliot

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Mason Cooley

Either offer me something I really like, or stop trying to tempt me.

Fulton J. Sheen

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

Walter Bagehot

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Wayne Dyer

Beware of the temptation to see yourself as unfairly treated.

Henry Rollins

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

Mark Twain

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

Bertolt Brecht

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

LaMarr Woodley

You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.

Kathryn Harrison

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.