Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gareth Williams

The overall distribution looks heavily biased towards governments and academia.

Dylan Walsh

We've made so much headway with storytelling - mostly on cable, let's be honest - but also on the networks and, you know, I think it's about time that the leads are women. I'm not a woman, so I'm a bit biased - I wouldn't mind if a few roles were left over for men.

Paul Di Filippo

More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind, much of our literature is biased toward other pursuits.

Steve Burns

We can't ever have the doc think the device is biased in one way or another. Few of the large pharmaceutical organizations have not approached us.

Stanton Glantz

It is biased too heavily toward the private sector.

Troy Aikman

I wouldn't want to get into why he didn't make it in. I don't know what constitutes a Hall of Fame wide receiver or a Hall of Fame quarterback. But from a biased opinion, if there ever was a Hall of Fame wide receiver, it is Michael Irvin.

Sheldon Brown

I felt it was a biased panel. If they couldn't get people to represent the other side of this, then they shouldn't have held it. I might have learned something if there were two sides represented. It wasn't an open forum.

Wayne Evans

The perception of a growing number of our citizens is that the all-white commission is biased and doesn't care.

Ellen Stofan

I'm so biased to this issue of the origins of life and the limits of life.

Tyra Banks

I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.

Yann Tiersen

In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.

Imelda May

I'm not saying that women shouldn't pursue careers, but if it is going to be equal in the workplace, it should certainly pan out to be a little bit more equal in the home, too.

Imelda May

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

Iggy Azalea

I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!

Ice T

I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.

Ian Mckellen

Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

Ian Mckellen

It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

William Lashner

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

William Lashner

I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

Will Rothhaar

I hope that, when I leave this planet, I will have touched a few people in a positive way. That's really what I hope I am remembered for the most.

Emma Watson

I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

Jeffrey Archer

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

Wayne Schwertner

The past year we should have had a good hatch. We should have had a good hatch for the last few years.

Brian Kernighan

I want students to understand specific technologies, but the real goal is that they should be able to reason about how systems work and be intelligently skeptical about technology so that, when they're running the world in a few years, they'll do a good job.

Bobbi Brown

Many women like to wear nude eye shadow during the day, but it doesn't really do much for you. Instead, try one that's a few shades lighter than your skin tone.

Bill Hader

I met Robin Williams a few times, and he was a beautiful guy.

Mike Gundy

We were making headway until he took over.

Joe Tiller

(The offense) had the upper hand, there's no question about it. I think we need to make some headway in the secondary, I think that's real obvious is it not.

Nayvadius Cash

Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it.

Carl Sagan

The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. . . . Science thrives on, indeed requires, the free exchange of ideas; its values are antithetical to secrecy. Science holds to no special vantage points or privileged positions. Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty.

Bette Davis

They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

Arnold Rothstein

I prefer to make my living honestly.

Bill Vaughan

Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

Bertrand Russell

The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.

Ricky Jay

I do think deception... There's something kind of odd about tricking people for a living, but ultimately, it's a remarkably honest profession, when you think about it. If you violate that code, and you say you're not using camera tricks, and then you do, I actually think that's a kind of serious moral issue.

William Shakespeare

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

Baz Luhrmann

I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

Pierce Brosnan

I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now.

Philip Dow

I think this is a one-day pause. I'd be really surprised if this was all there is to this rally. .. . I don't see anything in the tape today that leads me to think this trend should be over.

Jonathan Chen

Listen to others with an open mind. Normally, that leads to a pleasant conversation.

Mike Haley

We don't have any leads that would take us out of this area,

Damien Hirst

One thing leads to another with my work.

Tim Donovan

For the second match in a row, we have leads and get to 20 points and lose our focus. We have to learn to put teams away when we're ahead.

Vidya Balan

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

Ailyn Perez

Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.

Susanna Moore

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

Norma Aviles

The pictures and the memorabilia, that's the only thing we have left of him.

Wayne Jackson

That win was very sweet to us. A lot of people had left us for dead.

Josh Childress

That zone and press slowed our tempo down. It left us kind of standing around with the ball.

Sean Maher

Right before I left New York, I had my manager tell me, 'You need to get a girl on your arm, or people will start talking.'

Maximilian Schell

I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.

Chris Ross

We had our chances. We left 13 runners on base.

Eric Taylor

Timber left down, particularly snapped trees, rapidly degrades in quality and loses considerable value in the first 60 to 90 days,

Craig Thompson

We have a lot of people with a lot of work left to do.

John Lucas

We've got plenty of work left to do.

Imelda May

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

Idina Menzel

I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

Zaha Hadid

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Warren Farrell

I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

Chuck Palahniuk

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

Clara Bow

The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.

Edward Young

All men think all men mortal, but themselves

Donatella Versace

Women should be sure of themselves because women have a lot of capacities. We can achieve so many different things that men cannot. I think women are stronger.

Beeban Kidron

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.

Todd Rundgren

You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.

Ian Mckellen

I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

Gail Carson Levine

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

Zoe Sugg

I know that I do have influence over the people who watch me, and it's quite a pressure. I have to stay positive, and while I would never use the words 'role model', I am mindful of the responsibilities that come with a substantial viewership.

Zadie Smith

I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.

Webb Simpson

To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.

Wynton Marsalis

Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down, and when I'm sleeping, my mind solves the problems. When I wake up in the morning, I have more clarity on the issue.

Emma Roberts

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

David Byrne

The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

Donald Trump

I've always been covered by a press that's mostly financial press.

Paul Goodwin

We're really not doing much different. Mostly we're doing a lot of nutrition stuff, trying to stay off caffeine.

David Sanborn

Mostly because I don't really feel that I have a methodology.

Stephan Pastis

mostly as an outlet just to do something during class.

Rebecca Stead

Mostly what I try to do is build emotion. Only I'd prefer not to do it by telling you about emotion but by pushing that emotion down.

J. Lewis

Mostly water bottles. I thought they were going to start shooting before we got out of there.

Linda Hargrove

Mostly it was a situation where she was not going to get enough minutes,

Cameron Crowe

Mostly it was about the success of the shoe: Does the shoe come back? I had to look at it without that scene,

Brian Wheeler

I think people in Albemarle are used to us starting earlier. Mostly they just want to know when that day is.

Matthew Felling

That was really a retelling of an old tale at that point, and that's not what most people turn to news networks for.

Doug Gay

It hasn't really surfaced in official networks but that is something we have heard,

E. Hicks

It does make people more vulnerable. The wires aren't there to be seen. ... Wireless networks are much less secure.

Kara Swisher

Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

Ralph Nader

should be stripped of their non-profit status, and television networks who work with them should realize they are working with a political organization, not an educational organization.

Mark E. Smith

Seventy-five percent of our networks are storage related.

Andrew Heyward

Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Stuart Levey

Identifying and designating supporters of WMD proliferation disrupts the networks that are vital to illicit weapons programs.

Cathy Rigby

I will jump into most any role.

Arsene Wenger

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

Kelly Hu

There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.

Catherine Deneuve

I choose my roles carefully.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Caroline Kennedy

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

Alan Watts

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Alan Autry

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Imelda May

I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

Gillian Armstrong

Maybe not many women are going to film school.

Zoe Lister-Jones

I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.

Bella Abzug

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

Bobbi Brown

So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women.

Carrie Snow

If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.

Carrie Chapman Catt

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Carrie Chapman Catt

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Bette Davis

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.