Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Cosby

People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That's a lie. I've got five of them. They only tell the truth if they're in pain.

Nancy Gibbs

I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and leaky fireplaces and an electrical system that protests when too many people are trying to vacuum and microwave at the same time. But charm is not always user-friendly.

Pierce Brosnan

Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps.

Richard Jefferies

If every plant and flower were found in all places, the charm of locality would not exist. Everything varies, and that gives the interest.

Tony Johnson

We wanted to maintain the integrity of the older home, preserving the charm and feel.

Mohamed El-Erian

After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.'

Jason Segel

I would love to play a villain someday in that I think that what I've done with my whole career is walk this tightrope between charming and creepy, and I always fall on the charming side. I'd like to fall on the creepy side and be like one of those scary old men, like really charming villains.

Peter Capaldi

I was initially rather charmed by David Cameron, but I think he's revealing himself to be a slightly darker and less charismatic figure than he first appeared. There's a brutality about him.

Hal Sparks

The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?

William Christopher

I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic.

Sandra Ford

We're very pushed to have our grades on target so we can play. We have to make sure all our homework is done.

Gil Brandt

Usually they're in the ballpark. Seldom do you have a third-round grade and the guy is picked in the first, and seldom do you have a second-round grade and he's picked in the sixth.

Xiao Yaqing

The quality of the bauxite is lower than the top grades in Australia, but it's much better than those in China.

Sean Hayes

We are really pleased with our results and 69% of students received A to C grade passes.

Eric Johnson

I was terrible my first year. In 10th grade I was still bad, but the team needed someone that small. I knew that I just needed to stay off my back for the team.

Michael Keaton

My first day in grade school, I was plain scared. I left the comfort of my run-down house, which I loved, and went to school where it was cold, it smelled, the lighting was bad.

Mike Davis

We're moving more than a grade level a year. That's way more impressive than anything we've done so far.

Gov. Carcieri

We are going to know what is going on with learning in grades 3 to 8, and we are testing for that, so the light will shine.

Paul Bloom

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us.

Jon Wooten

We wanted to make it patriotic, yet also grasp the speed at which these guys move.

Edward Kennedy

He did indicate that he's an older person, that he's learned more, that he thinks he's a wiser person and he has a better grasp and understanding about constitutional rights and liberties.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

There are people I've worked with who have never understood how fashion works. They keep saying they love fashion, yet they've never actually grasped that this isn't yoghurt or a piece of furniture - products in the purest sense of the term.

Sullivan Sykes

People always say that hard work pays off. I never grasped that until now. I worked the hardest I've ever worked -- period.

Susan Yolen

It is hard to get a grasp on how U.S. policy is working in another country. We and he were interested in learning more so we could be better advocates.

Fisher DeBerry

We had it in our grasp and we let it slip away.

Marty Hurney

It's just one piece of the puzzle. It's a guideline, but obviously you're looking for players that can come in and grasp the system you're teaching and what you want to do.

Peter Fader

It's not like Sony is going out of business, but there are so many stories to tell about the company's inability to grasp opportunities.

William Allan

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

Bruce Weber

I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.

Brittany Howard

A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.

Brian Kernighan

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

Bonnie Bassler

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.

Nancy Gibbs

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead.

Bertrand Russell

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

Seth Numrich

Theater has been my way of learning about everything.