Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

Yann Martel

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Todd Rundgren

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Idris Elba

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Ivar Giaever

Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Ian Mckellen

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

Ian Mckellen

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.

Gad Elmaleh

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Gary Hart

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.

Wesley Clark

I said the rosary, and I said the Our Father, as they call it in the Catholic Church. One of the things I learned in the conversion process was to say the rosary, and I had a set of rosary beads. So I said 'Hail Mary, full of grace.'

Viswanathan Anand

I honestly don't remember when and why I started calling my mom 'Momsi'. These are family things; it starts for some reason. It's not that I just call her Momsi; I call her other things as well!

Chris Carter

If you look at 'The X-Files' generally, we did 202 episodes. About 80% of them are not 'mythology' episodes, which tend to be the epic episodes. They deal with the big conspiracies, the search for Mulder's sister. They deal with what I would call the 'saga' of 'The X-Files.'

Don Rickles

I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

Rob Bishop

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.

Nina Bawden

At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales.

Peter Schmitt

That would be obscene. That is not what the people of this county intended when they elected 10 Democrats. ... The Democrats should be in charge.

Heather Danenhower

That was the trend. Marion County hired its first paid firefighter in 1979.

Campbell Mercer

We can't imagine Mr. Spinks wanting to do anything that could be as potentially harmful to Ohio County culture and history as this. If we do receive official notice, then we will respond at that time.

Carl Goldberg

We'll probably look first in southern Bergen County for a suitable site for the Jets. We'll talk to the mayors first and see what sort of land mass is available. I'm sure some communities would be quite enthused about that idea.

Jeff Pollick

We have three dual meets before the Allegheny County tournament. That would give Nathan a shot to reach 100 wins in the finals, if he wrestles five times at the county tournament. It would be great if it works out that way.

A. Hodge

We've gotten a lot accomplished and helped the county quite a bit,

Kent Williams

We've had good luck in the county with the wind farm we have right now ... By and large I think the greatest percentage of our population has been very supportive of the project.

E. P. Thompson

We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County . We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

Rick Moranis

By the time I got to the point where I was 'starring' in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn't for me. I'm really not an actor. I'm a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody's precious words work.

Paul Blank

Today, Wal-Mart executive after Wal-Mart executive talked about the responsibility

Beau Bridges

When Spielberg was talking with the other executives about making this movie, he said he was only interested if they were going to tell the truth about the westward crossing, which means how the Native Americans were disrespected.

Mike Cooke

I was very surprised. I assumed, probably like most senior executives in most organizations, that I knew all of what was going on around here,

Bill Cosby

I was told maybe nine years ago by an executive who was working for a major network that the networks from now on are going to be entertaining 13-year-old people, and that's what you see today.

Mike Carter

We're not under pressure to fill (Howard)'s seat. We'll take the remainder of this year to search out the next executive director.

Irwin Cotler

I would be surprised if that would be something they would seek to do by way of executive fiat. In my view this would be something you would need to have the House speak to.

Mark Ryan

I worked my way up from starting out at the warehouse, and now I'm the executive chef.

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,