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.

Emma Watson

I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

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.

Yann Martel

If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The range of ingredients available to home cooks has expanded dramatically. People are incorporating herbs and spices like lemongrass, smoked Mexican chile, sumac, and za'atar mix.

Scott Burnell

The overall available crop of scientists and students is not what it used to be. We are aware we need a continuing stream of science and engineering expertise.

Peter Coleman

The outlook is very good and Ben should be available for selection in three weeks.

David R. Ellis

We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects.

Donald Norman

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

Mark McClellan

The alternative is having one drug plan that does not reflect what some want, and that costs more and offers less coverage than what is available now,

John Woods

That would be a boon. It has always been a problem to obtain quickly viruses from Southeast Asia. We sincerely hope viruses from Turkey would be available very quickly.

David Nabarro

The $1.9 billion shows that the world cares greatly about the issues we face and that governments want to be sure that there is enough cash available to do everything they have to do to get the current epidemic of bird flu under control and make sure that we can prepare for a human pandemic.

Elizabeth Warren

Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick.

Phyllis Moen

That works well when one person is a homemaker, ... That frees the other person to pursue their career, the prestige, the job security. And that worked for middle-class families in the middle of the 20th century. But today, there are very few families where there's a full-time homemaker.

James Donahue

We have two families that have intersected in time and the tragedy is horrendous and there's nothing we can do about it. It's just very, very sad.

David Vitek

We can send the families to see the stone in a place of reverence.

Peggy Noonan

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.

John Norris

We wanted to offer something new to the people who come to the park, who are mainly families from western New York.

Andre Brown

we've got so much stuff now, we're giving stuff to other people, other families that come from New Orleans.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened.

Ken Sunshine

Most celebrities work hard, they have families and want to spend time with their kids. It isn't that exciting.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Imelda May

I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

Gwen Moore

We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.

Gail Carson Levine

Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

William H. Macy

I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.

William Joyce

I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.

Wendelin Van Draanen

You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

Vanessa Hudgens

My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!

Wyclef Jean

As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick.

Christine Gregoire

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

Ruth Rendell

It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.

Source Unknown

On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.

Wally Snyder

I had wanted them so much to be like the other kids. There was no reason for them not to have the kind of things that they ought to have.

Robert Morrison

To do what ought to be done but what would not have been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty.

Louis Stokes

Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.

John Maynard

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

Jane Austen

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

Ben Nelson

If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.