Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Josh Elliott

As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.

Carlo Rubbia

As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.

Jonathan Levine

As a director, there's no natural career progression. So after 'The Wackness,' which was very personal to me, I was very, very picky about what I was going to do next, to the point where I think that I was almost too picky.

Jim Lanzalotto

Anyone who has worked for a big brand-name company with a good reputation, and was successful there, has a real advantage, especially in moving to a different industry. Hiring someone is really a leap of faith, and interviewers know they can only tell so much about you from the interviewing process, so having that brand name in your background is important. It's almost like an endorsement.

John Shields

As a judge, you look at the basics of a recipe: Does it make sense, does the ratio of ingredients make sense? And is it a crab soup? Some of the entries we get are almost anything but.

Daron Malakian

As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.

James Zogby

The bottom line is that NSEERS is a failed and unfair program. An understaffed INS (Immigration and Naturalization Services) couldn't implement the program and almost 14,000 of those who complied were placed in deportation proceedings.

Josh Bernoff

The cable operator almost has a responsibility to give you a tool to better figure out what to watch, now that it's given you all those choices.

Dan Dakich

The thing about being here, is if kids fight you, and they all fight you to start with, but if kids fight you, then it's difficult. I can always tell when a kid has really bought into what we're all doing, and when they do that, they become special.

Joe Coleman

I've never called for an emergency but I bought one for myself. It's not something that's physical condition related.

Jeff Capel

I've never bought into the theory of you have to have a ton of experience to get it done.

Margaret Atwood

I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way.

Casper Dien

I've already bought a script - a love story - that I plan to produce.

Colby Rasmus

I wanted to get something that was a little nicer, but he brought me back down to earth. But with the money, I bought him a truck.

John Adams

The old boys are really looking forward to this. Some of them have gone out and bought new berets or blazers just for the occasion, so they'll look their best.

Kevin Logsdon

After Christmas, the kids bought into the fact that defense will keep you in games.

Ye Ling

Some people come in to buy pieces for themselves, but a lot of our items are bought as gifts.

Steve Schirripa

Some people will humiliate themselves or their families just to be on television.

Charles Bronson

These families have been able to retain ownership of their land through the Depression, droughts, freezes and the urbanization of Florida. That is a great tribute to the many generations of these families.

Mira Sorvino

These are women who are beaten, raped, sold . . . mentally dominated, threatened that their families will be destroyed, ... They have no other options.

Susan Mitchell

This is a wonderful victory for Milwaukee families after three-and-a-half years of struggle.

E. Hurley

This is a remarkable development for families with children,

Barbara Thompson

This is a particularly challenging time for families and service members.

Roy Hallums

This is a terrible situation for Jill Carroll and her family but people have come through it and families have come through it and get back to a normal life.

Pat Sullivan

This is not just a job for first-responders, ... They're doing this for their families and their communities. Some of these guys don't want to take a break. They say there's too much work to be done. We're tired. So what? But we've got to look at it, not as a glass half empty, but half full, or we'll miss the positive. We're going to make it through this.

Jonathan Murray

The mission is to identify nice, rich families to work with. That is what we want - nice rich people. We have turned down investors with $10 million because they were jerks and didn't share our values.

Jan Hammer

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

Brennan Manning

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

Bono

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.

Aristotle

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

Andrea Vogel

You have to know your limits and those of your partners. Otherwise it's impossible to turn such a project into reality.

Georg Simmel

Very often it is impossible for us to restrain our interpretation of another, our theory of his subjective characteristics and intentions.

Ken Keller

There's no reason to think that that's impossible for the United States to get to that point. I think we will get to that point. That doesn't seem to me to be out of the realm of possibility.

Allan Bloom

Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.

Alberto Giacometti

What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.

Liaquat Baluch

The results are totally managed, planned and rigged.

Linda Blair

I had planned to retire when I was 13, ... I had wanted to be a veterinarian.

Sarah Allen

I had planned to adopt. I was single.

Kathy McKiernan

This is a long planned transition and it will be a seamless one.

Chuck Wagner

We have a lot of things planned for the evening,

Barbara Mikulski

There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Jane Green

Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.

Cameron Diaz

When things are meant to come together, they come together.

Cesar Chavez

Together, all things are possible

Dennis Crowley

I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.

Deepak Chopra

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

Deepak Chopra

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

Anna Jameson

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

Jane Seymour

I love doing comedy. Absolutely love it. After 'Wedding Crashers,' people suddenly realized that it was something I could do.

Brent Weeks

Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded to action, my husband, and I choose you, and I will choose you every day for the rest of my life.

Amy Poehler

When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.

Douglas William Jerrold

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

Anita Diament

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.

Victor Hugo

A wedding is not house-keeping.

Stephanie Mills

I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.