Famous Quotes & Sayings

Burn Gorman

I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Empire' and 'Hot Dog' had great reviews, and finally he's been accepted as the new Bond. So many millions go into that franchise that if you make a mistake, it's awful.

Kelly Smith

Consumers will be able to request information on all ethnic restaurants within, say, a one-mile radius or eight-mile radius of where they're going to be. They could ask what nearby restaurants are open at certain hours that accept MasterCard. One could imagine being able to identify a child-friendly, moderately priced restaurant within five blocks, open now when you have a car full of hungry kids.

Sergio Aguayo

You have clear alternatives. This is new. The question is how far will the candidates go to win, and will the losers accept the results?

Chris Coleman

We all make mistakes and I have had referees admit them before. But when you get something wrong that badly I am not sure I could accept it. It was just unbelievable, not even close.

Gholamhossein Elham

There is no reason for us to accept the suspension of our research activities nor to renounce our rights which conform with international rulings.

Gil Garcetti

There is no legal authority for the chief to thumb his nose at us -- and I won't accept it, ... I won't tolerate it.

Thomas Hill

We have a criminal system that makes mistakes. If you accept that proposition, that means you have to be prepared for the inevitability that some are sentenced to death for crimes they didn't commit,

Jason Kello

To assume we're going to have our head over a barrel and be forced to accept some sort of compromise bill is not the position we find ourselves in right now. The moratorium remains in effect. There is nothing new; the only thing new is this tendency to provide an alternate plan to one that wants to drill closer to Florida's shores.

James Rubin

to accept the Rambouillet accords, including both their political and civilian, and military implementation elements.

Kevin Boyer

The win was almost perfect. It was our last conference game at home; it's nice to go out on top.

M. Thompson

The wind pattern is almost identical to the one we had when we broke the record on Lakota. We should have a fast run up the north sea to coincide with a low pressure arriving in the Shetland Islands.

Paige Patterson

This is definitely the most demanding role I've ever had. It's almost like a job. I've found myself having to do research and really work at this character. It's much harder memorizing lines when they're all in a thick Irish accent.

David Koo

This is an exceptional period of time for astronomy, because for the first time we are able to combine data from almost all of the important wavelengths.

Bill Gibson

This is really a great prize -- all the bowl games, flying on a private jet, staying in nice hotels. I'm a big college football fan so I'm looking forward to seeing some great games. I still can't believe I won. My sons put me in front of the computer almost a dozen times to register, and luck took care of the rest.

Kris Draper

You put Pavel in there, it puts us almost to the upper echelon to compete with the high-end teams.

James T. Walsh

Crooks move into disaster areas almost as quickly as relief workers do, ... These scammers will run every kind of rip-off, from conning people into signing over emergency benefits to signing usurious loans to fronting construction work that's never begun.

Bam Margera

Dude, we took Fireball Ministry out on our last Europe tour, ... We were so psyched on them that we asked them to come back. They put on a really good show and they're almost like the new Black Sabbath in my book. The Knives are really cool too. We've been friends with them forever. They have a cool Queens Of The Stone Age-type vibe. I just got their record and I like it a lot.

Gregory Davis

Blenders, bar accessories, cocktail shakers, ashtrays, cocktail glasses and little tiki bars, ... Anything you would normally stock a bar with, we carry. The '50s was a big cocktail era, and we sell almost every bar we get within a week or two.

Lenny Goldberg

Various companies have sought refundable credits, and those have been rejected as essentially corporate welfare or handouts based not on economics but solely based on special pleadings.

Justin Hawkins

There's no way that a fan of The Darkness, based on what we did on the last record, is not going to love this record even more than the first one.

John Galbraith

The traveler to the United States will do well to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.

Walt Jocketty

We signed him with that purpose in mind, based on his past career. It provides more depth to our rotation, more depth to our pitching staff, and that has been the priority of our off-season plan.

Harvey Pekar

I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos and the underlying structure that it's based on, the chord progression. That was pretty easy to do in the swing era, y'know, when jazz was, like, pop music, you know. It had made the charts and everything like that.

Shek Borkowski

Well, that is pretty subjective. It's not like they have seen us play or anything. The ranking is based on last year's championships in the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) and the Women's Open Cup.

Alix Smith

What I find most satisfying about photography is the way in which it allows me to document 'reality' while at the same time creating my own version thereof; in other words, the reality I present is a reality based upon what I choose to include in the frame and what I choose to leave out.

Michael Woods

What I felt from George is a sense of confidence - he will know the numbers well, talk to people in laymen's terms about those numbers and win people over based on those numbers,

Liane Moriarty

Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again.

Tom Ellis

I feel like I'm giving back to society a little bit. There's a lot of causes out there, and 99% of them are for people. There is very little out there for the animals.

Michael Gartner

He's involved in a lot of central Iowa causes and issues and is just a terrific guy.

Gigi Hadid

If you don't like it, don't follow me, don't watch me, cause I'm not going anywhere.

Thomas Huxley

Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors.

Henry Ford

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

Manly Hall

Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously declares there is nothing more to know!

Mahatma Gandhi

Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.

Luther Burbank

Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.

Sidney Hook

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Sheryl Sandberg

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

Sharon Salzberg

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

Sharon Salzberg

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Ron Moody

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.

Chinua Achebe

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership,