Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.

Gail Kelly

You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

Chelsea Clinton

My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So I grew up around a lot of tea. And I also really love tea. But I'm not one of those people who has ever felt the need to choose between coffee and tea. I think that is a completely false dichotomy.

Bruce Afran

The people are the ones who are entitled to choose who occupies elected office, not the party.

Natasha Trethewey

It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

Rick Perlstein

It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses to remember the right-wingers of the last generation as sort of cuddly.

Nick Carter

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.

John Brady

We can't just use the weekly points to choose the team because if a team has one or two dominant players others in that side won't get any votes.

Linda Massey

We have two fine men to choose from.

Timothy Noah

Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it.

Wesley Clark

Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president's highest duty is to protect the security of this country - our national security.

John C. Calhoun

The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, powers necessary and proper to carry into effect all the delegated powers wherever vested.

Bill Vaughan

When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.

Stephen Ambrose

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

Kevin McCarthy

We know the Constitution gives the purse strings to the House.

Pat Oliphant

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

George Casey

We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.

Roy Moore

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

On my set, people have to respect the actor's process. I totally respect what actors do. I give them whatever time they need, and I never scream out directions from the camera. I take the time to walk up to them and talk to them personally.

Ellen Key

What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?

Nicolas Roeg

Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.

Jim Paxon

With the fire spreading in so many directions it will be a long time before we can get it contained.

Marcia Adler

We can pull all the facility services in one place, so that we no longer have students running in so many directions to get their wellness needs. It is our opportunity to give students more services and big space in a more modern fashion.

Steve Jones

Frankly, the directions this program could take are limitless.

Van Baker

Ultimately, for them to sustain their growth and be successful in the long term, they're going to have to move in new directions and tackle some new product lines that they don't have and haven't historically done. That's going to take significant investment.

Yale Hirsch

Nasdaq is not just another little place for a few stocks, ... It dominated the market and went in different directions than the Dow.

Cliff Lee

It is about doing skills, but it also really about teamwork, following directions and so forth.

X. J. Kennedy

As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Leeks are normally given the job of flavouring other things, such as stocks and soups, but I find their creaminess and sweet, oniony flavour very satisfying.

Wentworth Miller

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.

William J. Mayo

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

William John Wills

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

Frederic Ruffy

The pattern has given rise to the adage, 'Sell in May and go away' with respect to stocks.

Buck Leonard

I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. When an offer was given to me to join up, I was too old, and I knew it.

Nayvadius Cash

I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift, and I'm making the most of my opportunity.

Nate Ruess

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

G. Hannelius

My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

John Caldwell

The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away

Ogden Nash

The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Gives us ham and pork and Bacon. Let others think his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.

Common

I feel like God gives you what you deserve. Whatever that time is, you get what you deserve.

Bethany Mota

I always use dry shampoo, even if my hair isn't oily. It gives me so much texture and that bedhead vibe.

Daniel Kahneman

People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability.

Frank R. Wolf

When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.

Lauri Hakala

That way when the opponent thinks I'm going to hit it hard, I can tip the ball. That gives you another weapon.

Bill Self

That was a great victory by (A&M). It gives us a chance.

Gwen Moore

I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.

Cathy Rigby

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

Bergen Evans

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

Bergen Evans

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

Bill Bradley

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Joe Mihalich

That whole team is on a mission. They have the senior leadership and they can win this.

Jessie Evans

We need to have more patience. We need better leadership ... especially from our perimeter players.

Yoshihiko Noda

China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

William Shatner

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Frank Marshall

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Carrie Underwood

[When] opportunities present themselves, I take them. It's just how I roll!

Carl Sagan

Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.

Ashton Kutcher

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

Ashton Kutcher

Opportunities look a lot like work.

Arnold Rothstein

Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none…so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all,

Antoine Fuqua

I like the opportunity to make films.

Bob Mulholland

Voters want to know, 'What are you going to do for me in office?' That's what it's about.

Mark McKinnon

Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.

Cooter Failla

I wish it had been a unanimous vote but we had some outstanding candidates.

Jim Hall

I won't vote for it for any reason.

Hal Brown

I still have concerns, but I'll vote for it,

Dick Gephardt

one of the most important votes we will take in this Congress.

Joseph Biden

Judge, if I look only at what you've said and written ... I would have to vote 'no,'

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.