Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garry Hynes

I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wendell Mayes

We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

Virginia Postrel

By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.

Michael McLachlan

The policy language is specific and clear, and the jury verdict says that. I feel sorry for these people, I really do. This is a case we should have settled a long time ago.

Anthony Lewis

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

Norman Ornstein

The pending complaint on DeLay was on the Texas case (over political fund raising),

John Danforth

The path is clear for us to get this case to a jury.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

Theophile Gautier

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Imelda May

I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

Imelda May

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

Ice T

When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

Ice T

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

Gillian Armstrong

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

Venus Williams

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

Bill Gates

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Chino Moreno

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

Nicholas Garganas

The overall picture is that the recovery is broadening and deepening. My feeling is that euro-area growth will pick up at a faster pace than generally expected.

Shigenori Okazaki

That was a very big mistake. He should have kept everyone guessing. Now he seems to be losing influence much faster than we would have thought.

Russell Sciandra

That would work a lot faster than the lawsuit.

Quincy Allen

That was two minutes faster than Tuesday and four minutes faster than Monday.

Sam Dresser

That way, we take out that player, put in a faster runner, and maybe score a run.

Rijkman Groenink

We can't go any faster than we are going right now.

Edward Tenthoff

Typically, they are faster to generate revenue and, hopefully, faster to profitability.

James Gleick

Type 'What is th' and faster than you can find the 'e' Google is sending choices back at you: 'What is the cloud?' 'What is the mean?' 'What is the American dream?' 'What is the illuminati?' Google is trying to read your mind. Only it's not your mind. It's the World Brain.

Randy Edsall

We've made up a lot of ground. With each year we've recruited, we've gotten faster and faster. We've increased our team speed each year, but are we to the level of a Georgia Tech? I don't think so.

Todd Rundgren

You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.

Ian Mckellen

I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

Gail Carson Levine

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

Zoe Sugg

I know that I do have influence over the people who watch me, and it's quite a pressure. I have to stay positive, and while I would never use the words 'role model', I am mindful of the responsibilities that come with a substantial viewership.

Zadie Smith

I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.

Webb Simpson

To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.

Wynton Marsalis

Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down, and when I'm sleeping, my mind solves the problems. When I wake up in the morning, I have more clarity on the issue.

Emma Roberts

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

David Byrne

The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

C. S. Lewis

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

Timothy Brown

We can't go without water. We have to be prepared for anything.

Pearl Cleage

When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors away, and talk about what you think the truth is, which I think is really the task of the writer - to get to the truth.

Marc Shapiro

I wish I could tell you, ... We're cooperating with all investigations, and we're prepared to do that as long as it takes.

Billy Corgan

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

William Williams

Thus having prepared their budsagainst a sure winterthe wise treesstand sleeping in the cold.

Carlos Gonzalez

Only when the ETA killers served out their sentences will we be prepared to talk.

Fernando Gonzalez

I was prepared for a tough match. In the second set, he started to serve much better. He started to come on and he had me under pressure.

Juan Montoya

I feel well prepared for the long season ahead. But as always there is a lot of work still to be done.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.

Clint Eastwood

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.

Christina Sims

The are just hopping ready to get there.

Ed Pinckney

That was a long time ago. I'm ready for another one.

Mike Jaskie

We have a lot of work to do to get ready for November.

Brent Faurote

We have two left, and they have to be ready to go tomorrow.

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

Bob Consalvo

We've got our gold-plated shovels shined and ready for the groundbreaking.

Tom Slater

We're very young, with 17 newcomers, so it's especially important to play a challenging non-conference schedule to get us ready for the SEC season.

Bethenny Frankel

I'm stronger than anything in my way. Holla!

Sena Drawer

I think they're each getting stronger and more used to one another on the court.

Chris Sierzant

I have 14-year-olds that are stronger than some adults.

Rusty Agte

Her voice is much stronger than it was, and getting better each day.

Michael Culver

I wrote: Vicki and Michael, stronger than fire.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Eartha Kitt

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

Adam Pine

We've always had it in us. The men's team will keep getting stronger and stronger.

Wole Soyinka

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

John Carey

That was a time when they weren't really sure if things were going to come together, ... And they sure did!

Starhawk Starhawk

That would be great, but I am not so sure it will be that easy.

Tom Jackson

We can surely try to be there for them.

Mark Zuckerberg

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

John Runion

We have the talent; now we just have to make sure everyone's working in the same direction.

Steve Jobs

We're working on that too, but I'm not so sure it will be successful.

Scooter Smith

We just want to make sure we're all together and to have a little fun.

Todd Abernethy

Winning at the end would be big. I don't think it wipes everything out ... that's a lot of games. But it sure would help. It would give us a winning season, and that's better than I've ever done here.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Cecelia Ahern

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

Carrie Underwood

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.