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.

John Aragon

That was a very good doubles team they just beat. They really move well together and make plays at the net.

Dave Howard

That was a tough way to give up that first run; it was a tough double play.

Rob Simmons

The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings, investment and hard work. That's wrong, and that's why the double tax on Social Security must end.

Greg Shivers

That was a great day for Nikki. She was just a double away from hitting for the cycle.

Richard Davies

That was a good little double move. You can tell he's been trained in our game. Looks like he has good hands and dimensions.

Tom Duffy

We need to improve our doubles game. They're all very young ? all but one of them is a freshman. But overall I was pleased with how we played. But Miller Place is a very solid team from top to bottom.

Victor Harris

We have two in the finals, which is pretty good. ... It would have been nice to get one of our doubles (teams) through, but I'm pleased in general.

R. Robinson

We'll probably do it as an appetizer. It will be about $8, I guess. For the hearty ones, we give them a double portion for dinner.

Ally McBeal

We're women; we have double standards to live up to

Bill Vaughan

We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.

Bill Vaughan

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

Kevin Renbarger

We have had great teams and individuals play at Oak Hill. These kids get to go down in history with those guys as a part of Eagle basketball. They got to do it with a win at home on senior night.

William Shakespeare

But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.

Sean Payton

I worked with Joe at the Eagles and the one thing you can say is that his players always excel.

Dusty Rhodes

He said, 'I'm flying off like an eagle off the top rope. I'm going to fly like a bird. I'm flying like an eagle, Terry ... and when you go down, 1-2-3, they're going to shower me with flowers.

Jeff Landy

He needed a place to practice so someone from those two families told him to come to Mt. Pleasant. They showered at the armory on Eagle Street and stayed at the National Hotel on Main Street.

I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he's flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that's a documentary.

Chip Kelly

I'm not going to mortgage the Eagles' future for Marcus Mariota.

Tim Threlfall

We have black, white and yellow Egyptians and Nubians. Race enters into it, but race is not the major issue of the show.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal.

Russell Crowe

What is Egyptian cotton, and why would I travel with my own sheets?

Peter Lacovara

We approached the Egyptians first. It was kind of the reverse of normal. ... At first they had to be convinced.

Anthony Sampson

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

Mohammed Morsi

Egyptians are always and will always be supportive of their Palestinian brothers, all Palestinians.

Shereen El Feki

We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my childhood, we were the only members living outside of Egypt. So between my father's prestige as the eldest son and my own exotic pedigree, I basked in the spotlight.

Elliott Abrams

I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.

Meles Zenawi

I am not worried that the Egyptians will suddenly invade Ethiopia. Nobody who has tried that has lived to tell the story.

Gary Hart

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Gallagher

I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Vicente Fox

The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy,

Bruce Jackson

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

John C. Calhoun

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

Ken Ham

We just can't get comfortable with the stability of the situation for this particular opportunity. So we're going to officially wave you off for 24 hours.

Jeff Nettles

I thought I had seen everything. Now I've officially seen everything.

Jenny Frost

We haven't officially split up - we are still together as a band,

Eric Christensen

We're officially abnormally dry, but we're not in a drought.

Jeff Foxworthy

I never thought I would do a game show, but now I guess I'm now officially in that genre.

Ken Ham

We are going to officially wave you off for 24 hours.

Ken Ham

We are going to officially waive you off for 24 hours.

Michael Bennett

My injury, ... is officially a thing of the past.

Tom Swan

For him to officially get in, we're going to need to recruit volunteers from every town.

Mike Allen

Most homeowners, if not all homeowners, should have experienced some reduction in their property taxes.

Laura Wood

little disappointed, but satisfied (the prosecution) proved he was on the property for an unlawful purpose.

Charles Abrams

We don't think for a second the property won't be developed. We aren't naive. We just want something that's reasonable and well thought out and well financed.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Cheng Chin

We are controlling the fundamental property of material.

Mike Cohen

The property is zoned agricultural-residential. This is not agricultural or residential.

Peggy Moriarty

The property is rare. It reminds you of Camelot. It's just perfect.

James Augustine

We have to win it to stay in the running. We've been making steps. Hopefully, we can go to Wisconsin and pull it off and play the same way we do here.

Charles Leonard

We have to look at all the numbers. I am not going to pull any punches.

Siretha Woods

We need to pull together focus. And, you know, come together, and let's turn in these guns.

Tim Jensen

I think this is a time for communities to just pull together.

Bob Hofman

Man, that was like pulling teeth out there tonight.

Chris Kelly

We ain't pulling out. Much to their dismay, I'm sure.

Susan Rosenberg

I was thinking, straight zipper. But when it was installed, and you could see the undulations and the pull ...

Melissa Fumero

I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I'd audition for comedies and think, 'I can't pull this off.'

Anthony Robbins

It doesn't pull away any wax that it says it's supposed to.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Brad Lancaster

We're 20 to 40 students away from being a Recognized district. It was close, but we're not taking any chances.

A.J. Pierzynski

Yeah, I got recognized more at home. That's for sure.

Allison Tolman

I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.

John Eberle

The propeller sputtered and that was it ... we recognized it was an emergency.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

Warner Johnston

Our city's playgrounds are nationally recognized for safety.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

I think the ruling recognized the government's stance and its assertions.

Robin Weigert

I remember when 'Deadwood' had first come out, there was this whole deer-in-the-headlights sense of feeling really uncomfortable with being recognized in public.

John Buskirk

That was a tremendous punt return. Robert's punt return really kind of put us over the top. That put us in a real, real strong position.

Peter Jackson

'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.

Peter Sis

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

William Shakespeare

Ready to go but never to return.

Robert Anderson

My tax return is in a sense very ordinary,

Mike Leach

On that play, we had a return on, ... I thought (Douglas) did a tremendous job.

Carlos Menem

Here we are. What Evita (Peron) said is being fulfilled: I will return and be millions,

Rick Perry

I can't say in strong enough terms that those who evacuated that they should not return at this time,

Chad Harbach

There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Lu Donnelly

Barns are for sale on the Internet. The wood is sought after now.

Keith Alexander

His sale to Watford is another filip for the youth set-up.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Paul Bishop

We feel that (the $30 came) from the sale of marijuana.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Ricky Gervais

Where did you get that? ... Is it on sale already?

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Allen Perry

The place was vulnerable during construction, and most of the things stolen were smaller.

Nathan Fillion

I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

Halldor Laxness

What you have stolen can never be yours.

Neil Finn

What was stolen must be returned

Guy deBord

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Bill Vaughan

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

Giulio Tremonti

We have been united in government, and we will be even more so in opposition.

Noam Chomsky

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.