Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Pacino

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

Mark Kennedy

I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs.

Joanna Sikes

When you talk about the glass movement in this country it's actually fairly young and it's at a time when Chihuly and the other forefathers if you want to use that term are still alive and working.

Gunter Grass

It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing good work, from a certain point in time they come alive and start contradicting the author as well.

Don Stark

We have seen an incredible outpouring of energy, support and passion towards the goal of keeping (the temple) alive and vital. When an obstacle presents itself, how do you respond to it- as a tragedy or an opportunity?

Martin Brodeur

We have no excuse to not get back to where we were at or even better. I think the competition will be greater from now on because of the stretch drive. Some teams are going to try to secure playoff spots. Some teams are going to try to get back in the mix. Some teams, like us, are trying to stay alive and move up with the big guys.

Jane Mullan

We want everything to be hands-on. The curriculum should be alive for the students, instead of flat ... They are challenged, but they're able to express themselves and think outside of the box and really understand topics in depth.

Alan King

If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.

Charlotte Bronte

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Charles Dickens

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Akhil Sharma

The little babies are missing their families from their past lives. The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies. The tears loosen their memories so they can slide away. They cry at the life they have lost, and then they cry at everything they'll forget.

Chris Bohjalian

My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.

Chinua Achebe

You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

Chinua Achebe

The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

Edith Sitwell

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

Edith Wharton

I'm not much interested in travelling scholarships for women - or in fact in scholarships, tout court! - they'd much better stay at home and mind the baby. Still less am I interested in scholarships for female Yids ....

Eddie Money

Take me home tonight, listen honey, just like Ronnie sang, be my little baby.

Eddie Murphy

How can you do the moonwalk and ask a woman to dance? Hey baby lets dance... cya later!

Dennis Chandler

We want families to come back to see us and sit around the family dining room table.

Steven Martin

We're hoping for downtown hotel stays. We're hoping for the volume of downtown dining to increase.

Chris Murphy

The most expensive piece of equipment we have in this dining room is an empty chair.

Rich Grant

For meeting planners, dining is one of the most important factors in making a decision.

Jean Turner

There may be a housekeeper working in dining services. We would rather invest in them and invest in their education than hire someone else. Who knows? They (new hires) may not work out or fit in the Erickson culture.

Tom Colicchio

If you're dining with someone who wants the same cut, it's always better to get a 16-ounce steak and split it than to order two eight-ounce steaks. The longer something cooks, the more flavor it develops, so you'll get a better taste with a bigger piece of meat.

Linda Palermo

Do people from the dining room get up and sing? Oh, yeah ? big time.

Adam Christopher

Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to spend as much time in there as possible. There's nothing better while reading or writing than to be surrounded by books.

Lon Simmons

Everything he did, he really got into it. He taught himself how to paint, and a lot of what he did was pretty good. ... And for me, eating is something you do three times a day because you're hungry. For Bill, dining was an adventure. He loved ethnic foods and wines. He studied that, too.

Clyde Prestowitz

The possibility exists that they would get upset with us at some pint and sell dollars. And if they sold all those dollars right away, the value of the dollar would plummet, interest rates would spike and the U.S. would go into a recession.

Nick Woodman

You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about.

Charles M. Schulz

I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars!

Charles Goodyear

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

Ed Whitfield

I'm not a big fan of a lot of government dollars going into research and development for private enterprises... and you're not going to see the House of Representatives, I'm certain, provide a lot of money for research and development for electric vehicles.

Rodney Lewis

When it comes to a big game, a national championship game, either a five hundred or thousand dollar board.

Carl Icahn

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

Kevin Flanagan

We're seeing problems in dollar-yen, but I don't have a good explanation why the dollar is getting hit so hard.

Todd Elmer

We're seeing a weaker dollar mainly because of position covering.

Indy Uhlenhopp

We were a whole different team since the first time we played them.

John Erwin

With the workouts we had, ... I was a little surprised we played as well as we did.

Franklin Gutierrez

Wow, it was a long season. I played in probably 80 games. But it works for me because I come over here in shape. I don't get tired at all. I'm still in shape.

John Tortorella

We're right where we want to be. You want to play the team that is supposed to win it. The result (Tuesday) was not there, but we have played better.

Bill Gardner

We're not going to win the section, but we played this team tough, and if we keep playing like this, we have a shot to make the playoffs.

John Stockton

We've got a pretty young team with a lot of sophomores and some new freshmen, but they've played together a lot,

Jeff Perreault

We're more prepared for it than the first time we played them.

Jason Blake

We're getting our first shots and the goalie was making the save and the second shot was sitting right there for us. I thought we played well. It just didn't go in for us tonight.

Rich Brooks

We're a young team, and we played like it,

Charles Dickens

The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.

Brittany Snow

The thing about 'On the Doll,' I was doing 'Nip/Tuck' at the time, and I was doing only 5 or 6 scenes an episode. So I had some free time, and I wanted to do something completely different than what I've ever done before.

Carice van Houten

In theater, the scenes I like the most are the ones where you are there and you cannot talk.

Claire Forlani

When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.

Bret Easton Ellis

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

Brandy Norwood

It feels so great to be back on the scene.

Mark Spragg

When I look at the film, unlike when you see it, I'll be thinking of the scenes that were cut,

Debra Winger

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.

Shanley Caswell

I try not to think about any of the production side of things. If you do, you tend to get unfocused and distracted. I just try to think about the character and the scene and what I'm doing.

Ed Bradley

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Deepa Mehta

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Bill Murray

I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.

Celia Cruz

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

Paul Phillips

We've got everything documented, got it all in a book, we're just sitting here waiting.

Bill Gates

Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.

Chris Hester

It's killing me. I've got staff sitting everywhere. This year, I don't know what is wrong. Is it because there's no Lance?

Kurt Warner

You don't want to be sitting out the game. You want to be out there battling, no question. But at the same time, when those things happen, what do you do? Do you stew on it and pout about it, or do you do everything you can to get back on the winning track?

Craig Bertelsen

They have more prevalence because they're not sitting right.

Chris Bauer

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

David Hilbert

Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

Mark Reiland

The table was set for us to come in and do that. We just had to come out and put it all together.

Dick Armey

I've been at the table now for two weeks,

Calvin Coolidge

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Dana Perino

I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver.

William Ginsburg

Everything is on the table ... If I were the president, I'd worry.

Eric Brewer

Everything's pretty much on the table as to what we're going to do with that property.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

Bette Midler

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

Sam Bush

It's just wonderful that he's still here, that he's made it this far.

Tommy Franks

They have accomplished some wonderful things out there,

Larry Kane

They had a wonderful sense of themselves, and they were very smart,

Alice B. Toklas

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

Ann Wilson

For Ed to do what he did, it?s a wonderful thing,