Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maajid Nawaz

I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.

Mohsin Hamid

Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Lyle Kessler

I was born in Philadelphia, and I've tried to escape that city all my life. I end up writing plays that force me back to Philadelphia, at least psychologically if not physically.

Marisa Miller

I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, and the whole lifestyle revolves around the beach. My parents met surfing, and the beach was a major part of our daily lives.

Nicolas Maduro

Venezuelans have a long history. So we are able to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From here were born the liberators of the region, and they said before and after that process we have a culture of political action. We are not in despair. That's the image broadcast to abroad.

Charlie Bell

When he finished last season, he came on like gangbusters once we got to know him and once he got the feel of varsity football, ... He was showing us all summer what we've got, offensively and defensively, so there's no surprise to us. Josh is just born with talent and skill, but to his credit, he works extremely hard to maximize it.

Chantal Kreviazuk

Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Alan Rickman

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

Leslie Robinson

We want to thank everyone who came out to support United Way agencies. The $11,500 will go a long way to help those in need.

Rep. Caruso

We want to see how the process came to be. He really matches up a lot of the missing pieces.

Chow Yun-Fat

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive

David Hockney

How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.

David Hockney

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

Audrina Patridge

I definitely feel much more comfortable in front of the cameras after 'The Hills.' Before, it was much more nerve-racking.

Richard Oster

We actually go to king school to learn to use the scepter. You first acknowledge the people upstairs who came to view.

Juror No

We actually challenged one another in the deliberation room. We challenged the issues, and we came to the decision that pointed to reasonable doubt.

Kevin Quinn

We started the program nine years ago with kids that were just learning to play hockey, so this is a fulfilling day for me and a lot of original parents who helped for the organization. We're extremely proud of these kids, particularly, and for all the people who laid the groundwork.

Robbie Stancil

We started out in a match-up zone. But we've worked and worked and worked on our man defense, and we did an outstanding job with it after the first quarter. I think we got Murdock extremely frustrated, and we kept (Marietta's guards) pretty contained.

Sam Allardyce

Where our finishing was very, very good last weekend it let us down tonight. We really should have put the game away in the first 90 minutes and we haven't done that and have paid a heavy price for it. We are extremely disappointed.

Nick Woodman

I'm just extremely excited to explore the planet that we're living on.

Don Flanagan

We want people to come support us, and I think they're going to see a great game. They are an extremely quick team that plays hard. It should be fun to watch.

Alexander Payne

'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's such a pretentious term, but it's auteurist cinema. Director-driven, personal, auteurist... Whatever word you want.

Neel Mukherjee

Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the U.S.S.R. They wring your soul.

Helio Castroneves

We're not here to make a statement. It's good the results are showing up at the track. The last few years we've been working extremely hard. Toyota worked hard with us, and unfortunately, Honda was always at the top of the game. Right now things are more balanced, so we are very happy those two years paid off.

Kathy Olivier

We've turned into a possession team. That's what good teams do. To be honest, we learned that from Stanford. There's a team that's extremely disciplined and they don't make a lot of mistakes.

Alan Paton

One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue

Jeff Tageant

We started out kind of slow but we finished strong.

Nia Long

Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper.

Tim Fletcher

We?re starting now to get the work finished prior to the summer travel season.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

WORMS'-MEAT, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material.

Dan Flores

We're still talking. Though we want to get it finished soon, I just can't speculate on when it's going to be.

Jessie Evans

We've wanted to do it all year. He just hasn't given us a reason to because he hasn't finished plays.

Jeff Carter

We knew what we had to do. And we went out and finished it off.

Nick Anurak

We knew we were working hard so we knew we could do it. We executed and got it done. We did everything perfect and we got nine champs and everyone placed. That was our goal to get everyone to place and we did. We feel good but we feel incomplete because we are not finished yet. We are out to win the state championship and that's what we're striving for.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Alan Perlis

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Alain Prost

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Al Pacino

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

Akshay Kumar

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

Chris Cleave

It was hard not to be full of hope

Eddie Marsan

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Ed Bradley

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

Joey Kalmus

With the wind that was blowing, I didn't see how he could throw strikes, but he did. I'm very proud of what Josh Reed did.

Billy Mitchell

I told Josh if he had a shot, take it. We were down by a lot. He had some looks. I told him 'don't worry about being unselfish, take the shot.' He took it and he made it.

Ben Howland

Josh Shipp's minutes tonight were critical. He was spectacular.

Lonnie Brown

Josh played 32 minutes and led the way for the whole game.

Trent Suzuki

I talk to Josh about 77 times a day.

Reed May

We made some personnel changes. We put Josh at slot, and that helped. Plus (Levi) Shiner is back. We're playing like we should finally. We're starting to put things together.

Richard Davies

I don't condone what Josh did, but I do like the resolve.

Joe Godinho

And Josh looked really tough in doing it.

Mark Shapiro

We've got to get him more work. He's another switch-hitter and a solid receiver. It wouldn't be the worst thing for Josh to play more.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

Edith Piaf

I can die now. I've lived twice.

Eartha Kitt

I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

David Ricardo

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

Barry Commoner

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

Debbie Ryan

A lot of people think it is important about starting, but it really isn't. It is about trying to maximize the talent that you have on your team.

John McDonnell

This is a movement to treating patients, rather than treating the symptoms and coding the system to maximize the reimbursement.

Joanne Davis

They're trying to maximize what they can do out there.

William Lerach

They feel they want to maximize whatever recovery they can.

Timothy Noah

The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members.

John Fithian

The reason movies are released in this sequential pattern is to maximize profit for makers.

Keith Trauner

We were quite vocal about trying to maximize value. We thought it was worth a lot more.

Jack Nerad

Maximize everything else you've got going for you,

Ned Yost

I was just trying to maximize our matchups, ... It didn't work out.

Nicki Minaj

Like to me, I did the 'Harajuku' stuff. I did the crazy stuff. And now I kind of want to tone that back, and it's not toning my personality back, it's just showing like I don't only have to do that.

Johnny Gimble

It's just a real thrill when you're showing somebody a chord progression or something, and you see that light come on, you know. You see 'em 'get it.'

Paul Stanley

It's one way of showing there are no junkies on patrol.

Gilbert Arenas

They are better than what they are showing now.

Leo Atkinson

It's about always showing new stuff. Do not become stagnant.

Penn Jillette

At least it's showing that words have power.

Craig Brodie

It was a very, very disappointing showing out there.

John Patterson

I shouldn't have done it. He thought I was showing the umpire up.

Keith Adams

These are sensors that we use on the machines. I am showing them how they work and the different ways we use them.

Charles Dickens

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens

This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.

Charles Dickens

A tranquil summer sunset shone upon him as he approached the end of his walk, and passed through the meadows by the river side. He had that sense of peace, and of being lightened of a weight of care, which country quiet awakens in the breasts of dwellers in towns.

Charles Dickens

The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the few whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure, or scarcely less unfortunate pursuits of business, cause them to be well acquainted with the scene. There is an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely-shut buildings, which throughout the day are swarming with life and bustle, that is very impressive.

Charles Dickens

From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman

Charles Dickens

....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.

Alan Jay Lerner

The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.

Al Jarreau

I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room, and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.

Deb Caletti

It's shocking the things we call love.

Ben Nelson

We are at that time of year where we have surprises with the strengthening of storms.

Arturs Irbe

When we got the lead, it was a surprise for the American team.

Cathleen Schine

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

Dede Miller

We'll see. There are still a lot of other issues. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if she did.

Charlton Heston

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

Meredith Patton

We're going to come out and surprise a lot of people. We're a young team, but we never give up.

Franz Beckenbauer

It only surprises me that no one thought of it before.

Randy Leliaert

It was a surprise in some ways, but in some ways not.

Denzel Washington

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

Charlie Kaufman

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

Billy Wagner

You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too.

Calvin Trillin

I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

Dick Cavett

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

Edgar Degas

It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.

Ben Affleck

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

Elyse Bogaert

We're getting better and have a ton of talent. We're trying to just get things down.

Dan Davis

This is the most talented team we've ever had, and is one of the most talented teams in the state,

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Andy Reid

We'll see what's out there. We've evaluated a lot of players. We'll see how it all works out here.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Dan Ryan

It (mousetrap car) always works better at home.

Anita Frazier

This is the year when we will see what works and what fails.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

Scott Thompson

and that's why it works in our system.

Darren Howard

Anything is possible. It's going real well right now, but we'll just see how everything works out.

Reggie Bush

Sometimes it works in your favor, sometimes it doesn't.