Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yael Grobglas

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

Yanis Varoufakis

In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.

Tina Brown

Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.

Ice T

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

Idris Elba

If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'

Isobelle Carmody

I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.

Gavyn Davies

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

Donald Trump

You've seen my statements; I do very well. I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing, and it's ridiculous, OK?

Zadie Smith

It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'

Warren Farrell

We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.

Oscar Wilde

There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Dan McLagan

The politically safe thing to would be to do nothing, and then blame the hurricane for any subsequent problems. But that's not leadership.

David H. Murdock

I once in a while cheat and have a little ice cream, and then I kind of blame myself.

Luca Cumani

The Americans are at home and we are away. He's had a change of scenery and a change in racing conditions. There's less pressure if he runs in the Classic. If you run him in the Mile, he has to win. If he runs in the Classic and doesn't win, we can blame it on the dirt. All in all, it's very difficult, but it can be done.

Norman Ornstein

That would have been a big plus for the president. You get the blame when you're the top dog. And in this case, I think there is no doubt that we had inadequate preparation and we've had inadequate response.

Sebastian Telfair

We need to keep coming out and give an effort and try to get a win. You can blame our (15) turnovers, defense, and you can blame Ray also. He hit shots like I can't even explain.

Pat Brown

We just didn't play with the kind of effort we've been playing with. If we didn't feel like we were prepared, then I'll take the blame for that.

Karson Klass

We played our hearts out in the game before that and we didn't have anything left. I blamed myself (for the loss).

Gabriel Mann

Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobody bothers to hate you unless they actually feel something.

Don Rickles

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

Brittany Howard

Contacts would bother me. I'm just not that used to them. I think glasses are a great accessory.

Craig Conroy

That was the difference tonight. We had some opportunities, some chances to score, but it just didn't go in for us. The bottom line is we're going to score goals. We just have to work hard and keep moving forward and not let this bother us.

Eleanor Norton

We have trivialized this park, residents make too little use of it, and tourists don't know where it is, ... Neither the city or the federal government has bothered to make maximum use of it. The problem is that it had no plan and it's in a state of great deterioration.

Joseph Garcia

We came out lethargic in the first half. Audra (Major's) back was bothering her like it did before Christmas, and the guards really had to step it up.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't follow the form of the novel. It's a different thing completely. It's impossible. You just somehow have to find a structure for the whole thing. You have to crack that.

David Eckstein

We had our chances. I think his hamstring was bothering him. There was a play when he didn't run to cover first base. There may be something there.

Bruce Bowen

We had opportunities, ... We just made a couple mental mistakes down the stretch? That?s what bothers us the most.

Virginia Postrel

Americans hate their cable companies - for bumbling installers, on-again-off-again transmissions, peculiar channel selections, and indifferent customer service. The only thing cable subscribers hate more than the cable company is not being able to get what it delivers: multichannel selection and good reception.

Chris Carter

I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in a row on my cable provider's dial. I can flip from Fox to CNN to HLN to MSNBC, and I find myself at night flipping it back and forth through them, and it's something of an addiction.

Paul Gallant

The arguments in favor of it have a clear political appeal. So cable is taking a la carte very seriously.

Gina Talamona

The antitrust division is looking at the possibility of anti-competitive practices in the international undersea cable industry.

Richard LaGravenese

The territory has changed, and a lot of really good actors want to do cable series, but they don't necessarily want to do network TV and make the commitment of 22 episodes or whatever. They find that the liberties and the creative freedoms that you get in cable is more interesting to them than the censorship of a network show.

Dennis Rodman

We were getting cable TV on his watch.

Rick Jones

Most of the big cable companies provide voice over Internet services that are equivalent to regular wire line phone service. The catch is they don't let customers be nomadic, you can't use a phone number from outside your regular service area.

Steve Ballmer

Microsoft's collaboration with Cable & Wireless and Compaq will mean great new integrated messaging and collaboration tools, ... By basing a range of new services on the Windows platform, Cable & Wireless, Compaq and Microsoft will enable more reliable and more efficient IT services for small and medium-sized businesses.

Randy Falco

We continue to expand our audience, reaching them everywhere they consume media on cable and online.

Warren Farrell

I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Walead Beshty

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

Walter Crane

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

Warren Stephens

We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.

William Kirby

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

Vikram Seth

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

Zubin Mehta

I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

Ellen Key

Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.

Gwen Moore

Healthcare costs are rising, and not just Medicare and Medicaid, but healthcare in general.

Graham Colditz

The overweight have a significantly higher risk of diabetes, gallstones, hypertension, and heart disease, ... All have costs and an impact on the quality of life that get ignored if we focus only on mortality.

David Hewson

The problem is not that the PC you need always costs more than you can afford. The problem is that whatever the price, it is still too much.

John Snow

The achievements in India are significant, but there is so much more to accomplish, ... The pace of reforms will be decided by India's economic leaders and the demands of the global economy, but I think it's important to recognize that there are costs to going too slow.

Dion Shively

We have all the fencing equipment here, so it costs nothing for people to stop in and try it out. They don't have to purchase anything, and we don't do long-term contracts, either. So it's easy for people to try it for a few weeks or months.

Joe Malugen

We have already made great progress in reducing costs and enhancing efficiency. Today's announcement will further our efforts to create value for shareholders and better position Movie Gallery for long-term success.

Stu Rodman

We know that some of our costs are driven by state and federal mandates. So to the extent that we're not receiving funding, I would think that would be a logical thing to consider.

Satyajit Ray

I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.

Marcus Samuelsson

The same ten dollars you spend on lunch is all it costs for City Harvest to feed 37 kids who are hungry. That's pretty astounding.

Marcus Samuelsson

When you're in Portuguese-African Brazil, or Lisbon, or Mozambique, sometimes piri piri is used as a condiment. Sometimes piri piri is just spices from a jar, and sometimes it's made with garlic, olive oil, cilantro, parsley, and some light chilies.

Don MacAdam

We'll pay a reasonable price, but we're not paying $2,000. It's not like we smashed light fixtures.

Sathya Baba

You are in the Light, then the Light is in you, You are the Light.

Mark Spitzer

We wanted to make them as light and as comfortable as eyewear.

William Shakespeare

I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.

Maurice Maeterlinck

I am moved by the light.

Platon

I'm a portrait photographer that's used to shooting celebrities, and I usually need time and all kinds of lights and a studio to set up my shots.

Mark Foster

I think I've got to be more upbeat and lighter on the course.

Colleen Jones

Maybe I'll take a little consolation in realizing that ? even if I'd played lights out too, she was just going to one-up me all the time.

Mickey Loomis

We've had firsthand reports that it's a mess.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

Terry Coleman

You all reported everything. All you got to do is look in the archives. I feel you all were probably too tough on me.

George Meyer

We are a 24-hour department. If you see something amiss, report it immediately. Timing is very important,

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Melvin Maddocks

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.

Phil Hare

Today is really all about Lane. I told a reporter today he has been like my brother.

Anna Olson

There is no fabrication of snow reporting here. We have a reputation, if anything, for underreporting.

Stacy Flores

He did nothing wrong. He was just a victim of retaliation for reporting a crime.

Nick Jonas

I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.

Johnny Damon

That was good, just seeing Keith out there, doing his thing. He's only going to get better.

David Levine

You are going to start seeing a lot of squirming and shaking now.

Cheryl Kirkland

Usually, we're kind of seeing what the other team has...but we were overheated in the beginning. It's just a different temperature down here.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing us on TV. We're on TV so much, it's ridiculous.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing it on TV. I'm sure they are.

Bob Cotton

We are not seeing cancellations, but we are not seeing new bookings either,

John Landis

We were just seeing how wacky you can be.

Von Roebuck

We are seeing some cases. It could be life-threatening.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

Chinua Achebe

The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

Cam Newton

It's no secret that I am not afraid to shine bright and be festive, and I like to encourage that in others.

Darl Keller

They like to shine in this meet. We are just trying to keep healthy.

William Shakespeare

in black ink my love may still shine bright.

Nhat Hanh

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

Bryan Cranston

I've got a whole mantel just waiting for those awards to come, a whole big mantel. There's just so much available space. I've got the light fixtures hanging from the ceiling, all ready to shine on them. I dust it off every day.

David Gower

As they say the sun shines on the righteous.

Myrtle Reed

Somewhere on this great world the sun is always shining, and it will sometimes shine on you.

Matthew Dowd

We can never have enough strategy. We have enough tactics but not enough strategy,

Drew Barrymore

You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach.

Bob Corker

I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position,

Carlos Ghosn

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

Christopher Hitchens

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

Christopher Hitchens

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

George S. Patton

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

Iain Banks

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

Michael Bergdahl

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.