Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

Will Poulter

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

Wendy Kopp

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Zubin Mehta

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

Yani Tseng

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Colin Baker

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Chris Carter

I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

Debasish Sen

The police have been asked to carry out investigations and carry out the required proceedings.

Morgan Tsvangirai

The people are now crying for peace and national healing,

Rod Steiger

Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting.

Mr. T

My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That's what I do.

Barbara Turner

It doesn't feel like it's Senior Night. I guess it will probably hit me around 7 o'clock. Of course, we will have emotions before the game. It will be sad. But we have to make sure we don't have those same sad emotions and crying after the game because we lost. We want to go out with a win.

John Leguizamo

Well, look at me for crying out loud,

Chad Hedrick

I was scared. I've never been in the situation where I was crying before a race. I kind of felt like a sissy, but it worked out.

Dorothy Hallas

I was scared. Except for a few people, we were scared. People were crying and wanting to leave.

Deirdre O'Kane

I have never, ever slept through my child crying unless I have had a sleeping tablet; and I only take a sleeping tablet when I know Steve, my husband, is on duty. We take turns: he does one night, I do the next.

Ana Chapman

When he saw this place, he started crying and said this is exactly what he needed. He hasn't painted anything in a year...and I told him I would hold his feet to the fire and I would hold him accountable.

Idris Elba

Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.

Ian Mckellen

Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.

Yo-Yo Ma

My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter.

Chris Carter

Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'

Chino Moreno

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

Lyle Gramley

That wouldn't happen with just any Joe Blow.

Vincent Creel

That would be the worst thing that could happen to us, to be all casinos, and we've known that since Day One. We don't want to be the Las Vegas of the South.

Jake Bacon

That will not happen again. We've improved, and we're much better than that now.

Kevin Garnett

That was so unfortunate. It could have happened to any of us. I kept telling him, 'You'll be OK. We're right there with you.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cecelia Ahern

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

Bertrand Russell

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

Jim Edmonds

The always-important last at-bat. That's big, especially here.

Charles Hayward

The $5 million will not last us until the summer.

Thomas Carter

That was it, that was the last straw,

Jeff Adrien

That was the first thing I said when I got back in the locker room, I can't wait until Monday. It's a big game, national TV.

Tracey Tipton

Like I told them in the locker room, in my mind they are the No. 1 team in the country.

Ruth Gordon

. L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.

Kevin Rogers

Nobody in (our) locker room condones that. Nobody does.

Russell Robinson

I don't think we're underdogs. I don't think any of the people in the locker room think we're underdogs.

Rick Byrd

I don't go on stage, and he doesn't come into the locker room.

Phillip Fulmer

We're going to miss him in the locker room as a leader. I know Jason. He'll be around and part of what we're trying to do.

Keegan Bradley

I love team environments, like the Celtics, the Bruins. I love going into the locker room and meeting these guys.

Larry Brown

With this win, in that locker room, they needed something positive.

Vince Clarke

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.

Carrie Fisher

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

Bill Bruford

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

Madonna Ciccone

I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.

Pat Nixon

I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.

Tony Russa

I think the thing not to misunderstand is that he has not been sitting in the training room or on a bench. He's been taking 100 swings a day.

Richard Riley

little room for testing or for any slippage in their schedules.

Terrence Holt

I still have my same room over there. I can still crash.

Richard Kovalcheck

We don't have room to not be focused,