Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Cross

As for Tenacious D, of course it could work as a full length movie; all it requires is a great writer and great director with an ability to think outside of conventional film comedy.

David Holmes

As a team we have the ability to win a lot of races, including most of the relays, but we don't really have the squad depth to challenge UMBC and Stony Brook.

Tom LaSorda

As a supplier, an ability to operate in multiple geographic locations simultaneously is a competitive edge.

Steve Jennings

As a staff, we are extremely pleased with the talent and ability of this year's class. There is great potential in the group and we expect them to push the level of the squad immediately.

Eric Kadooka

As a sophomore, for him to pitch well in this league is a credit to himself. He's worked hard to physically be able to (do well) and more so with his ability to throw strikes in tough situations.

Steven Aftergood

As a society we seem to be losing our ability to rationally debate complicated policy decisions. Secrecy aggravates the problem by excluding people from the debate, or by narrowing their frames of reference. Nothing less than the future of American democracy is at stake.

Debora Spar

As a society, we need to think about what fairness means. Is the ability to reproduce a basic human right? Is it part of medical care? And does it extend to all people, regardless of their age, sexual preference, and health condition? Once we get even a rough consensus around this issue (even if it is forged at a state level) we can begin to craft policies that make sense. Where should we draw the line on what kinds of children people can create, and what kinds of technology they can employ? We've already said no to reproductive cloning.

Michael Wallace

As AOL continues to expand onto non-PC services, we believe their ability to create seamless integration between their core PC service and new services like AOL TV will be key to AOL Anywhere's success,

Sean Mackey

As an example, we asked them to think about changing the meaning of the pain. Instead of thinking of it as a terrible experience, to think of it as something relatively pleasant. Then the patients were turned loose. Over time, subjects showed an increased ability to change their brain and by doing so to modulate their pain.

John Hawkes

As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.

H. Hunt

As a striker you automatically follow everything in because you don't know if it's going to come off the bar, the post or the goalkeeper. That would normally have been my reaction but I just thought it was going to bounce into the roof of the net. I was convinced. People ask me why I didn't just knock it in but I thought it was a goal. It was an automatic reaction.

Soichi Noguchi

As a rookie astronaut, I could not ask for more. We had three spacewalks, two bonus extension days in space and one great crew.

Soichi Noguchi

As a rookie astronaut, I could not ask for more, ... We had three spacewalks, two bonus extension days in space and one great crew.

Zoran Djindjic

As a U.N. member state, we are obliged to fully cooperate with The Hague tribunal and have asked all state bodies for full cooperation.

Bob Margolis

As a councilman, they asked me to intervene and I did. My job is to protect the neighborhood.

Patricia Sullivan

As a female it never crossed my mind to feel uncomfortable around Professor Schaffer. I would often stay after class to ask personal questions,

Dave Foreman

As a musician I guess the only thing I would ask from a listener is to put the CD in, close your eyes and forget about all the peripherals. I guess that's a dream that may not happen in my lifetime, but I listen to music from all sorts of people and I think there is an open-minded individual who will be able to listen to music of all types.

Andy Kopplin

The burden of suggesting good ideas, you get asked to contribute to the implementation.

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Rick Carlisle

Our decision making and turnovers were our undoing in the fourth quarter. We were forcing them to take tough shots, and then we just made terrible errors down the stretch.

Rosevelt Colvin

People tend to talk about the 3-4 and 4-3 like it's two totally different entities, and it's not, ... A defense is a defense, no matter if this guy has that gap and that guy has this gap. Somebody's an end, and somebody's a linebacker, regardless who you put in there. I'll be dropping and rushing, whether we're in a 3-4 defense or a 4-3. That's one thing that factored in my decision to come here. I'm going to get the opportunity to rush the passer, because that's what I love to do.

James Cobb

People die in the buses. If you make the decision to voluntary evacuate, folks are going to die.

Frank Robinson

On Tuesday, I'll make a decision on that,

Larry Coker

Normally, I try not to make a decision like that in the heat of the emotion. You have no sleep, those kind of things. So I'll give that some thought and analysis.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Harry Browne

A show's a show, and this is for a good cause.

Erica White

As good as this feels, we're not done yet.

Chris Nelson

As good as (Southern Nevada) is, to come in and win in their park, that's a good thing for Derek.

Robert Esche

As good as it may have seemed, we still lost the game. So, it wasn't that great.

Jay Bilas

As good as I thought they were going to be, and I thought they would be in the NCAA tournament, I didn't think they were going to be this good. I didn't think they were going to be this mature, this polished and this resilient.

Brad Skoglund

As good as catch, maybe better, than the one at state.

Louie Golden

As good a player as he is, he's so unselfish. He makes teams go. He makes it happen.

Jessica Springsteen

As for singing, my parents say I have a good voice, but then again, they have to say that.

Rocky Carroll

As an actor, you can think your way out of a lot of good things sometimes. I trust my instincts as an actor, and I trust the instincts of the creators, so it's a good combination.

Ken Green

Other people are going to have to play better. Other guys are going to have to get some quality minutes and make some plays.

Jon Kitna

Other guys were shocked, ... It was discouraging.

Stephon Marbury

Other guys had it going, so I took a back seat. I'm just trying to win.

Jason Treutelaar

Other guys are stepping up for us offensively.

Rob Murray

People say Danbury always wins, but it's different kids each year. These guys have nothing to do with the kids that one that first title back in 1991.

Doug Moe

Of course, you have to remember, the little guys have to be pretty good. They can't be stiffs.

Luis Escobar

Of course, you guys are in our league. I don't know what we're going to do about that.

Tim Bates

Offensively, we still have the philosophy of we want to score every inning. We want to get seven runs a game. We're not always doing that, but we have had some timely hits this year. The guys are working hard. They're excited. They have confidence.

Mike Giordano

Off the mat she's reserved and mature. On the mat, she's very tough. I wish some of my guys had her ability, her heart and her desire.

Juan Avila

Thank you to all the people who helped us get this house.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Cheech Marin

It was about taking the show and shining a different light on it. Each monologue was like a separate jewel that I helped thread into a necklace.

Pat Riley

I should have played him in New Jersey. I regret that. He could have helped on (Vince) Carter.

Karen Brown

I should have helped in some way. I should have put my life on the line.

Peter Diepenbrock

They all helped out on (Gordon). From top to bottom, this was truly a team effort.

Tricia Gaither

This is the first time we've had him for a whole year, and his program is one of the best. I think the sport specific things he does have helped me a lot and our team a lot.

Bruce Cunningham

This is special for him. He tried to stay with Shawn and that helped him stay focused.

J. M. Roberts

That's like saying you shouldn't nominate Roberts because he helped with Roemer v. Evans,

Liu Peng

During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now.

Rob Hayward

Predictions that pubs will be open for 24 hours were wide of the mark.

Greg Oden

It was two hours of that, ... Pizza and Nickelodeon.

Nancy Sudduth

These were people working hours each day, who'd never done anything like this before, and then hurrying back to do their jobs.

Jeffrey Archer

I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.

Roland Herwig

Things are back to normal after about two hours of special security activity.

Kate Thompson

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

Bob McKenzie

Crews will be working 24 hours a day.

Margaret Murphy

Crews were able to get that back on within two hours and that's really the only weather-related outage we've seen,

Brad Little

Your keeping the rich rich and the poor poor,

Miley Cyrus

I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!

Robert Holsworth

At the end of the day, people thought keeping things going on the same track was more important than electing a Republican. In that way, the natural tilt of the state (favoring Republicans) was overcome.

Marlinda Martinez

Losing weight is usually at the top of everyone's resolution list, and keeping it off is the challenge.

Martin Brassil

He's great. We'll do very little work with him now, it's just a matter of keeping him ticking over.

George Orwell

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

Frank Warren

Trade your secrets and become who you are.

George Bernard Shaw

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Brad Ranson

I think we got the cobwebs out in the second quarter. At first, we were a little nervous. I thought the key was the second quarter, getting up by a big 10 points and just keeping the lead throughout the game.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

William Poole

that one might reasonably regard as commercially significant.

Ben Dattner

You should be truthful, constructive and not personal, vindictive or petty. You might say, 'Here are some suggestions for the next person who has this job.

Paul Kemp

That's what modeling does, it makes something real before it happens.

Robert Mintz

He was a model of contrition on the stand.

James Allan

It is a reasonable model which could be used in other ways.

Gigi Hadid

In California, I'm more of a beach chick, and I kind of take on a model city girl when I'm in New York.

Wade Lange

It's really a model for how to do these things.

John Mozeliak

It may seem like it, but it's not a strategy. Is there a risk to running that model year after year? Sure.

Shannon Elizabeth

When I was modeling, I worked out every day or other day.

Toshizo Tanaka

The IXY model sold well without steep discounts,

Nils-Axel Morner

Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing.

Al Gore

that they may be returned to us safely and soon.

Jeff Boogaart

That's going to be a big game. They won at our place, and we'd like to return the favor.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have to return some videotapes

Eduard Shevardnadze

I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.

Don Nickles

I ALWAYS intended to return to the private sector,

Desmond Tutu

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

David Livingstone

Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

Allison Pearson

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.

Richard Butler

After I said that to him, Aziz replied: 'then we can't talk any further.'

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Brian K. Vaughan

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

Calvin Coolidge

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.