Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Kelly

Keating understood the power of tradition yet he loved to break the rules and create a new orthodoxy. That's what he did as treasurer saying, in effect, that Labor runs a market model with equity, and it worked. When he became PM, he tried to construct a new set of Labor beliefs based on Asian engagement, reconciliation and the republic. For Keating, these weren't just policies; they were the new Labor template handed down from the mount. The trouble, of course, was his inability to convert a lot of the public.

Gong Li

I have been waiting around to get the right script and the right director. For example, in the past, if a Hollywood director came to me with a script and wanted me to play a character, and she was a stereotypical Asian woman who gets into a fight and gets killed off quickly, that didn't seem to have much interest for me.

Colleen Hanabusa

Hawaii's own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Andy Lau

He said if the stars can work together, we won't lose to any Asian movies or even foreign films,

Zhang Qiyue

It hurts the feelings of the Chinese people and other Asian countries. We urge the Japanese government to treat seriously the issue with the correct attitude.

O. Singh

I think the HSBC Champions is going to be a really exciting fixture on our golfing calendar and with a prize fund of US$5 million, the largest in the history of Asian and Chinese golf, it is an event we all want to win.

Richard Florida

L.A. draws highly skilled Asians and San Francisco draws highly skilled gays, but D.C. draws highly skilled everybody -- gays, Latins, Asians, Africans, scientists and so on, ... The trick will be to avoid pricing ourselves out of that creativity.

Desmond Lachman

I think what's very disturbing about the present crisis is that there are a number of things going on at the same time, all of which aren't very good. We've got the Japanese yen going to eight-year lows, we've got talk about devaluation in China, we've got Hong Kong coming under attack and we've got a number of other Asian economies just showing incredible signs of weakness.

David Nicol

It has been an exciting year (2005) for me, and now, I am looking forward to doing well in the Asian Championships, the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games. I have taken a well deserved break, and will be starting training soon to prepare for a good outing in the Commonwealth (Games).

Jimmy Lawler

Kevin just missed it. We had the tying runs on and Kevin at the plate. I'll take my chances with that most every game. Garcia won that battle and you have to tip your cap to him.

Andy Reid

I wouldn?t say lucky. You?re going to have these types of games and it?s important that you come out of these on our side of the stick and that you battle through it. Everything is not going to be a 42-3 game. You?ve got to have the wherewithal to battle a little bit, and our guys did that.

Drew Bennett

I would say it was a pretty good battle over the years. I'd say it was a pretty good competition,

Rob Wostratzky

Joe is a senior, he's been our rock all year. Then we lost Jon ... the teeth didn't look good. But maybe this will be beneficial to our guys who had to battle through the adversity.

Paul Denning

John had one target only and that was to win. It looked like a straight battle between John and Valentino Rossi, but I think they pushed each other to the limit and both ended up watching the last 10 minutes of the session.

Edward Kennedy

He was a constant profile in courage on countless issues, continually insisting that the Senate live up to its ideals and always willing to wage lonely battles for noble causes.

Walt Whitman

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won

Stephen J. Cannell

So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous and the other guy is the dirtbag. They waste tons of energy on it, create all kinds of darkness around themselves and the other person. It gets you nothing.

Koy Detmer

He's definitely hurting; there's no question about that. He's been taking some shots all season, and his body is feeling it. At the same time, I know what type of a warrior he is, and he battles through a lot of things. You can never count him out when things like this are going on.

Dan Reynolds

I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.

Mark Richt

I would say you're running it up if you've got your first-team players in the game with five minutes to go and you're up by 40. If you're still throwing bombs, maybe that's running it up. I think it's the defense's job to slow people down anyway.

S. Walker

Just under ten seconds...call it nine point five in round figures.

Don Waddell

Just think we're going to have this player for the next five years.

Ken Valiska

Jose has got phenomenal skills. He's got great moves with the ball, a really quick shot, he'll probably be one of our top five starters. I've been very impressed by him. He's a great player with a great attitude.

Peter Donovan

He was a full-time mortgage-broker and poker was a pursuit. He was doing about four or five hours a week, just like we would play tennis or watch TV.

Bobby Frankel

He couldn't have rode a better race, ... She had never been a mile-and-a-quarter before. I wasn't really comfortable until five jumps from the wire.

Jim Courier

He'll be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.

Mike Madden

He literally, probably stood there in shock for about four or five minutes.

John W. Snow

I would think that next month we would see better numbers,

Bob Israel

It could be six months before many dealers reopen doors,

Martin Freeman

I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.

Jim Heath

We tour or play irrespective of any release. We do a lot of a month on, a month off.

Whoopi Goldberg

If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Veronica Roth

A lot can happen to a person's appearance in three months.

Yann Martel

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

Mark Levin

I get about 5,000 people a month downloading my podcast, and that is growing.

Jim Boeheim

His side of the room was always neat,

Peter Max

When I am in New York, you know, my studio is big, about 20,000 to 25,000 square feet, and I have painting rooms and rooms I do etching in, rooms I do lithographs.

Jim Martin

When he spoke, the room was quiet. It was very moving.

Bob Geldof

We've got to go up to the room now.

Rosie Jones

Laura's never been in our team room so I don't know how she can say that.

Richard Baxter

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

Tyler Cowen

Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.

Zig Ziglar

Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.

Nancy Pelosi

The only time I'm the only woman in the room is when I go to the leadership meeting.

Jannie Coverdale

He's just trying to save his own skin.

Mike Kuntz

I think it's going to save a lot of lives.

Wade Redden

He was there to save us. We've got to be better for him (tonight).

Richard Lee

If you save one soul, your work has been done.

Sue Lyon

If you take down a tree to save a house, you should save the house. Don't come tomorrow and want to take down the house.

Marsha Blackburn

If you see something suspicious, don't just walk by. Notify authorities. Get help. You could save innocent lives.

Mike White

You come to a point where you realize your work doesn't save you.

Kurt Russell

All I wanted for him was to save the world,

Henrik Lundqvist

It was one of the most important saves of my career.

Bob Baffert

He just had little pesky injuries. He's showing his stuff now.

Tiki Barber

I think we have the components, but we've got to keep showing that we can win a lot of different ways, like we already have,

John Cena

Whether you like me or you don't, I still dig showing up for work.

Chris Marshall

It's showing our talent off to the scouts.

Pat Fowler

(Counseling centers) aren't going to find it just showing up on their doorstep.

Dalai Lama

If you are showing love to your fellow human beings, you are showing love to your God.

Samaire Armstrong

My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.

French Montana

Every time I look at Twitter, there's always somebody showing support.

Alia Shawkat

With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. It's not just like I'm showing up and there's another actor on the call sheet; you're very attached to it.