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.

Dennis Crowley

The misconception about Foursquare is that it's just hipsters in New York and San Francisco checking in at bars. It's happening all over the world. I've seen huge growth in Europe, Japan, South America.

Kevin Krone

With the growing popularity of Web-enabled mobile devices, we wanted to offer our customers the convenience of checking in for their flight wherever they may be.

Petra Haden

That's what I love about those old movies - the music is like a constant companion. Even in scenes that aren't particularly dramatic, like a woman checking her watch, you hear the music as a comment on that action.

Folarin Campbell

I was the one checking him, and they had made shots in my face the whole game. On that last shot, I wasn't sure if he was going to try to go to the hole or pull it back for the 3. When he pulled up for that jumper, I put a hand in his face and was just hoping and praying it was going off.

Folarin Campbell

I was the one checking him, and they had hit shots in my face the whole game. When he pulled up for the jumper, I put a hand in his face. I was hoping and praying it wouldn't go in.

Hal Stratton

It doesn't hurt for a parent to show up on Open House, the first day of school, like I will be doing this year and checking those kinds of things out,

David May

We're checking now to see where the greatest need is.

Phil Reeker

We're checking in with the people we left in France.

Maurice Evans

I'm always ready to play, and I'm always expecting to play. Whether or not I do is another thing. When he called my name, I was kind of double checking to make sure it was me, because I didn't want to get up and then it not be me.

Inga Cadranel

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Alberto Martinez

The overriding theme of these numbers is that these guys are pretty much tied, and will likely stay that way for a long time.

Brian Bell

The guys in the Twins understand that the better Weezer does, the more people will probably care about us.

Wade Henderson

We have a lot of young guys who haven't jelled yet. It's tough when you lose (last year's seniors), but you have to learn to play without them.

Mark Marquess

We have a lot of young guys and we'll see where we stand.

Lindsey Hunter

We need to have our showers, there's some guys in here who should be showering more often than they are.

C. S. Lewis

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

C. S. Lewis

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

Carrie Brownstein

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

Bernard Beckett

I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.

Benoit Mandelbrot

When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.

Aron Ralston

What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone.

Arsene Wenger

I know how important it is to have a helping hand.

Anton Seidl

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.

William K. Sessions

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

Marshall Wittman

The overall problem the Republican Party has is it is increasingly looking like Tammany Hall, ... An odor of sleaziness is enveloping the Republicans and seeping into the administration.

Maurice Greene

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

Pedro Almodovar

My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.

Steve Violetta

You are always looking for something that has the wow factor.

Diane Davey

We've had everything from 80-degree weather to snow on the ground. We're looking for two nice sunny days.

Sgt. Phillips

We're really wide open in terms of looking at some things.

Molly Smith

We're really looking at our target as urban nomads.

Julie Bell

We're really looking at decision-making and problem-solving at the same time.

Mamata Banerjee

We have talked about the infiltration problem but not mentioned any community.

John Panciocco

I was shocked. I didn't know anything about the cyst. He never mentioned it and I never really noticed it.

Pat Summitt

I don't think I've mentioned it to the players one time,

Father Thomas

I already have plans, Stephen, ... but thanks for the offer. Are you sure you have time for pizza, Mark? I thought you mentioned a project you had to work on tonight.

Tom Connelly

What he had in mind was something in the government, but he never mentioned FEMA.

Mark Fallon

I thought they were great, but I didn't think much about them until this year when another teacher mentioned remembering them.

Kathleen Kenyon

It has been mentioned that in Trench I there is evidence of three successive stages of these defences.

Mayor Boswell

About 80 to 90 percent of the things mentioned were already in motion.

Dick Cheney

Not one of them mentioned any of it, ... They're all very thankful where they find themselves right now.

Michael Caine

Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, 'Isn't that Michael Caine a wonderful actor?' then I've failed.

Madeleine Stowe

Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.

Larry Fitzgerald

Michael was just throwing it up and I was just trying to make a play. That's all. I couldn't tell what was going on back there (in the pocket), I couldn't see.

Brian Hill

Michael Redd is an outstanding offensive player. He made some big shots down the stretch.

Dave Whelan

Michael rang to say thanks for trying to sign him,

Terry Stotts

Michael played a terrific game. It was entertaining, but I'm not taking much consolation in that.

Adrian Bevington

Michael Owen will not be travelling with the team to Turkey on Thursday afternoon,

Jean Todt

Michael is normally quite cool, but the way he reacted is quite significant, ... He missed an opportunity, and we know that we haven't had so many opportunities this year.

Mike Gatting

Michael is getting stuck on the crease and is not moving his feet,

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.

Julie LaFreniere

I think they realize now what racing is all about. They need to train how they were racing today... and I think they get that now.

Tim Ritchey

I don't know when and where, but he will return to racing somewhere this year.

Chad Knaus

The racing that we've got in our industry right now is the best racing in the worldperiod.

Charlie Kimball

I wear a continuous glucose monitor when I'm racing.

Charlie Munger

Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.

Denny Hamlin

The recent actions by Kyle Busch are not consistent with the values of M&M'S and we're very disappointed. Like you, we hold those who represent our brand to a higher standard and we have expressed our concerns directly to Joe Gibbs Racing.

Bode Miller

From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.

Bode Miller

It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.

Dennis Anderson

Second place is the first loser.

Gail Carriger

It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.

Mark Tacchi

That was the first time, other than the medley (relay) that we've put Libby (O'Brien) on anchor. Starting her just wasn't working. When Krissy (Brown) starts, that seems to spark her. We get more out of it all the way around with Krissy starting and Libby on anchor.

R. Robinson

I think just watching (tape of) the team we're going to play there seems to be more urgency, there's more awareness, more attitude.

Robin Wright

I think just by watching him, like, 'Let's get on with it. Let's just shoot the scene, and we're done,' which seems logical.

Randy Ready

(Johnston) has been hot. Anything he touches right now seems to work out for him.

Jimmy Baron

I was very concerned, but he seems to be fine.

Jim Smith

I tell them it's the future. It seems to be where truck tires are heading.

Travis Tucker

Yeah, it seems like that. But that's the way we like it.

Mike Sherman

He seems to understand that this is a big year for him. And I think he wants to do something about that.

Otis Smith

We've talked with them, but we've talked to a lot of teams. I still like the team that we've assembled, but we just haven't been able to see it together because of injuries. So we're having to look at some different things. You can't just be stagnant. Like they say, if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

Charley Casserly

We've talked to teams about the pick, and we're willing to move.

Dennis Riley

We've talked to (Pat), and he's going to get back to us.

Robert Philips

We've talked to him about opportunities within our cluster. It's really in Steve's court.

Jody Gravelin

We haven't even talked about winning the league. We just want to play to our potential.

Dan McDonald

We have talked about (going to state) every day this year.

Tim Thompson

When you started thinking your going to make a mistake, you've talked yourself into making it.

Scott Faieta

I talked with the contractor, who is still optimistic.

John Matessino

I talked to them. They said it's just not true.