Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maureen Johnson

'Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a children's book.

Shah Rukh Khan

In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.

Clarence Briggs

There are some who've asked us if this isn't simply part of the cost of doing business. That high a cost is neither acceptable nor tenable.

Pam Carpenter

We expect to have a lot of first-time, in-person voters taking advantage of a more acceptable process.

Brooke Smith

I think that as a team we've come a tremendously long way since November and December. But I don't think that makes this loss more acceptable or makes it hurt any less.

Francesco Cossiga

It is not acceptable that our soldiers should put themselves at risk or even sacrifice their lives for a fundamentalist, illiberal regime.

Lionel Jospin

It is not acceptable that certain member states indulge in underhand competition to attract international investment and entice European companies to relocate their headquarters.

Noeleen Heyzer

It is not acceptable for women to constitute 70 percent of the world's 1.3 billion poor. Nor is it acceptable for women to work two-thirds of the world's working hours, but earn only one-tenth of the world's income and own less than one-tenth of the worl's property. Many fundamental changes must be made.

Ahmed Qurie

It is no longer acceptable to out conditions on reviving the peace process,

Abdul Aziz

I will not go back to that village where I lost my wife, my relatives and my friends.

Charles Collins

He had a lot of friends, and you always saw him socializing with the other kids.

Will Rogers

We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.

Indian Proverb

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.

Friends

I'll never win that battle. 'Friends' was a juggernaut. It's not going to happen like that again.

Andy Hartmann

I'm just happy to have him. He was one of my friends when he went to Hollywood. We used to hang out. I'd go watch his games, and he'd come watch us. Now, it's just great that we can be on the same team.

Bill Tyler

I liked helping people. I loved being a policeman. I had a lot of friends there and I really missed it when I got off.

Jeffrey Robbins

I've had friends jumped before, but it wasn't with weapons and nothing on this scale.

Shawn Woods

It's good to be at home, ... It's neat to have parents and friends come and watch. We had more than 100 people there, and that is a good crowd.

Frank Luntz

It can be done more wisely and effectively, or hey, not at all! We're okay with that too!

Harry Redknapp

He should be okay for Saturday but he's going to have play through the pain barrier.

Richard Paul Evans

The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

Ryan Reynolds

When you sign on to say, "Okay, yeah, let's develop this," usually that turns into, "Oh, he's doing it." But there's no script for some of these things.

Nancy Moore

You don't have to touch him sweetheart, but if you want to it's okay. There are some snakes it's okay to touch.

Magnus Carlsen

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

Nicholas Brendon

No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us.

Sarah Alexander

Is it okay to shoplift from a store that's doing well? It's called piracy, but the reality is that it's nothing more than theft.

Elizabeth Pisani

I don't get how it's okay to keep someone alive once they're sick - but not okay to stop them getting sick. I just don't get that.

Ken Young

I was a little angry. We didn't talk for a while. But I'm older now. I realized that I was too sensitive.

Kim Weston

I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance.

Venus Williams

I will always be the older sister. That's never going to change.

David Montgomery

I like older people, ... How can't I?

John Croft

Dan, Bee's older brother, is still very sensitive about it, and angry, I guess, about the whole thing. He didn't want any mention, in fact, of the tsunami or Thailand.

Diane Holley

All of the elevators are aging. Uniformly throughout the campus, they're older elevators.

Steve Leven

A lot of people say, 'We're a young team; we have to grow.' That time's over. There's no one on this team that's a freshman. We've all got to step up - us older guys, even the younger guys. It's on our shoulders now.

Helen Christensen

Also, the older you are the more protective (against depression) it is to have children.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The years pass more quickly as we become older

Jeff Berg

I think in time, once the production catches up with demand, that this won't be a problem anymore,

Igor Shuvalov

Having this tension is okay, it's a problem with any growth.

Ron Dennis

His problem was not the engine, his problem was the tyre selection.

Youssef Squali

I think it's a trend. Problem is, you can't quantify it.

John Carter

It could be a problem at that point.

Johnathan Frakes

I think the problem with the soaps is that because they make 280 shows a year, the writing suffers.

Tom Collins

It isn't a problem unless you want it to be

Judy Orihuela

He's been very cooperative. We've had no problems with him whatsoever so far.

Timothy Fisher

The range of a vehicle on one tank should be about the same as what we have today, 300 to 400 miles. And the fueling process should be about the same as what we're used to, it shouldn't take much more time than it takes today. And there are some serious problems with that.

Charlie Anderson

He did not yell anything, he did not say anything, he just ran his truck over the crosses.

Sean Fleming

He is the type of wrestler who can be ranked in the state and do some big things in tournaments.

Zac Sandvig

To come up here and shut out a ranked team like this is really something.

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

Larry Brown

He doesn't know any plays. Not that we ran any the first half.

Robert Pattinson

I'd like to be called Ransom Spunk or Spunk Ransom.

Maria Sharapova

I just kind of ran out of gas, basically.

Malik Rose

I ran right by him. I didn't touch him.

Don Shuler

Christiansburg's ranked nationally in the top 10. They don't have many weaknesses. They're strong from top to bottom. Fortunately, there's only one of them in each weight class.

John Updike

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.

Eduardo Paes

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

Dick Durbin

He said he spent more time worrying over and working on that decision,

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Ernest Cline

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Marc Warren

Apparently, if you live until 75, you'll have spent 25 years in bed, so it makes sense to have a decent mattress.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Brian Dake

I spent a lot of time up there; I'd say all of it.

Jenna Morasca

I spent 39 days in the Amazon, and I could not even find a fish to catch.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Andre Iguodala

I was just trying to put on a show.

Sally Kellerman

I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!