Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Fried

I was lucky enough to meet him a few times and to work with him once. I felt as if I had been allowed to try on the Crown Jewels. He was a great, remarkable man.

Robert Scheer

I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He didn't look at his watch, and he didn't allow his campaign aides to cut it off.

Brian McInerney

I think it's a general rule of thumb ? the force of the water will not allow you to walk through if it is over your knees.

Jack Daley

I think it opens up a can of worms and I'm not really sure what the rationale is. I just think it's a mistake to allow transfers just for sports. We're about school first.

Margaret Davis

I think it is very important that they look at the categories that allow direct instruction to occur. At this point it looks like the governor is excluding some opportunities for this,

Jim Tressel

I think in this day and age, you've got to be able to attack with a lot of different things. There are so many good guys out there that can throw and catch, and the evolution of football -- there's so many good ideas. Sometimes, things trickle down a little bit from the pros. Now, the pros don't allow their quarterback to get hit quite as much as we do in college football in our spread offenses and so forth, but I just think because people are so well-schooled on defense, you've got to give them more problems. I think if you have that as part of your package, it can give you a chance. Some of the people in our league do it very, very well.

Dick Vermeil

It ain't going to happen here. I won't allow it. Not today, not tomorrow, not next week.

Samuel Hopkins

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, ... to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm done with the nicknames. Actually, when I obtain my doctorate, I will not allow people to call me Shaq anymore, either.

Stephen Fried

I was lucky enough to meet him a few times and to work with him once. I felt as if I had been allowed to try on the Crown Jewels. He was a great, remarkable man.

Tommy Amaker

He's a good basketball player, certainly he played very well this afternoon. I think that he was the catalyst that allowed them to get such a big lead early.

Deborah Ann Woll

I think that part of the difficulty of being a celebrity is that you may have to hide what you're feeling and you aren't totally allowed to be yourself, because you're in the public eye.

Ben Crane

We've been trying to pick up the pace and start playing a little faster so we put something in place this week that's allowed me to pull the trigger a little faster. This was just kind of a trial week to see what would happen, and obviously it was a great result.

Lindy Ruff

We took the penalties that allowed them to have the five-on-three.

Jeff Sadosky

We are fully allowed to give gifts to our members. We paid for it, and we have all the checks to reimburse the party for it.

Ian Bradshaw

I thought that we should have restricted them for less, we allowed the run rate to get away in the middle period when I believe we were trying too hard to make things happen and our consistency suffered because of that.

Tanith Belbin

I think that moment was one we hadn't even allowed ourselves to imagine. We didn't want to create a dream we couldn't attain because of something out of our control. It hasn't really hit us, but when it does, it'll be quite overwhelming.

Paul Twenge

I think we started a little scared. We allowed too many guys to get on base and it caught us. Austin Peay is always ready to play.

Kelly Shackelford

Kids are being told they can't mention God.

Lionel Anderson

Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.

Linda Jones

Kids today need to know that people think they're special. Each day and each thing that they do is so precious.

R. L. Stine

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

City High

He didn't have to run. A lot of kids wouldn't have,

Steve Collins

He just plays the game. You've got to love kids like that.

Thurston Moore

Kids think of us as being totally over the hill.

Steve Earle

I love 'Harry Potter.' I love those books. That started because I lived with a woman who had kids who were, like, 10 and 7 when they moved in with me.

Spoken Reasons

YouTube is the new TV. I'm the voice of the young people. I feel like kids these days don't watch TV anymore... No, I will never leave YouTube. Never ever ever... If I do, you can do whatever you want to me.

Carolyn Brown

I think the ACLU may be able to support the law here in Kansas. It is being written in a way that does not take away the right to assemble.

Dick DeGuerin

He looks at the law and he sees what he wants to see, and he prosecutes what he thinks ought to be prosecuted, rather than what it is.

Tullian Tchividjian

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

Trevor Phillips

You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.

Sara Sheridan

The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

Sarah Orne Jewett

we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.

William Blake

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

Wernher von Braun

There is beauty in space, and it is orderly. There is no weather, and there is regularity. It is predictable. Just look at our little Explorer; you can set your clock by it-literally; it is more accurate than your clock. Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws, and obey them, space will treat you kindly.

Werner Erhard

If you keep saying it the way it really is, eventually your word is law in the universe.

Mo Johnston

He said he was sorry. End of story. I'm not worried about that. He buckled down in the second half. Normally in the past, he would be sent off.

Bill Ward

I think it's just going back to a more normal level.

Cindy Winstead

We're not your normal organization. We have no funding, it's just me.

Tyne Daly

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

Roger Mudd

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

Vince Gill

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

Jody Allen

In this tournament, we didn't do that. We're not in school during spring break, and we're not in our normal pattern and routine.

Tom Myers

In the fall, he was just a normal young person that comes to us who tries to press and do a little too much.

Michael Lamb

I have no reason to know, nor do I care,

Orrin Hatch

It is important that I keep working on all options to protect our state,

Dan Becker

There's lot of options out there for me.

Jarno Trulli

I am not in a rush and we are talking but I have other options and I don't want to wait until September to sort out my future.

Fabio Capello

We had other options but Vieira was the one I wanted,

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm just doing what I've been taught by my parents to do, ... This is the right thing to do, and I'm trying to urge other people to do it.

Ann Jackson

You've got the new parents like myself who don't know what to expect, ... For me, as a first-time parent, I think it's good.

Wendy McGonigal

A lot of it has to do with parents who smoke. It was a part of their culture.

Chuck Amato

I've talked to our trainers and managers. If we can't get (the running backs) in the game, we'll let them run the water out during timeouts. That way I can tell their parents they got on the field.

Andrew Solt

It was the only show I watched with my parents as a kid,

Jody Ault

They all have wonderful personalities and a wonderful work ethic. Their parents are hard-working people.

Margaret Atwood

They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to

Pete Carroll

We're always worried that the parents are going to be shocked.

Maria Jimenez

We are studying here. We want to be able to work here. My parents are immigrants, too.

Nicole Scherzinger

We're on a wave, ... And we're going to ride it as long as we can.

Patrick Surtain

We told him to get out, but he wanted to ride it out. He was a little stubborn,

Kevin Mahaney

If you're going to ride a bike, the ultimate ride is the Tour,

Tracy Anderson

The trick this year is the '1080'. If you can't do that you won't get on the podium. Riders are airing much better.

David Robinson

This is all just a part of the roller-coaster ride of a winter we're having this year.

Rudyard Kipling

There's a little red-faced man, / Which is Bobs. / Rides the tallest 'orse 'e can - / Our Bobs.

David Marcus

The secret is getting in early. You want to get in when it's a ripple, before the wave hits. Then you ride the wave.

John Bryan

The ride is set up to showcase South Carolina. We're trying to show off our state.

Gerald Laird

If it's the shoes, we'll ride it as long as we can.

Jimmie Johnson

It's just one of the risks that go with it.

Azouz Ennifar

There are risks that it doesn't work and there are risks that it works.

Richard Madden

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Ronnie Dunn

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

Tyler Hilton

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

Tyler Blackburn

I was kind of a floater [in high school]. I got along with different types of people but I just was not cool, and definitely a late bloomer.

Tyler Oakley

I came from a pretty accepting community, and my school had a lot of openly gay and LGBT-plus people. When I joined YouTube, I saw a lot more hostility than I saw in my everyday life.

Tre Cool

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

Travis Barker

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

Travis Barker

My chops are still up, even though I`m not still in high school.

William Friedkin

I had absolutely no focus as a kid. I never paid attention at school, I never went to college. Not because we were too poor; we were. But if I wanted to go to college, I would have found a way.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

George Pataki

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

Dave McCoy

I'm real ecstatic. This the first time we've won in the state team tournament. We did very well. I was kind of surprised." ()

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Nancy Frazier

I want to make a statement to other businesses,

Khadijah Rushdan

They have what we want -- the state championship.

Ethan Zohn

I wake up in a different state every day, but that's important to me.

Saoirse Ronan

All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I would dye my hair every week. I wanted to be a really goth teenager.

Sara Paxton

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

Wesley Morris

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it.

Samantha Bond

Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

Mal Peet

I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.

Neal Shusterman

Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.

Mikhail Prokhorov

Frankly speaking, I like women. In my heart, I am still teenager. And I am very open and I don't want to hide this.

Mila Kunis

It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager.

Loretta Young

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

Gaspard Ulliel

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

Jennifer Garner

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

Kathy Gallant

I was used to teens who had everything they needed.

Amy Heckerling

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Richard Dawkins

All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four billion years.

Roz Savage

A few years ago I wrote two versions of my obituary, the one I wanted and the one I was heading for. They were very different. I realized I needed to make some big changes if I was going to look back and be proud of my life. I am making those changes, and now I have a life worth living.

Tyler Hoechlin

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.

Reza Aslan

But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.