Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alafair Burke

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

Shawn Mendes

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

Eric Hughes

We started rehearsing this backwards ... so that once the students were on the spot, they would be more confident with that.

Guy Laliberte

Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again.

Jesse Williams

As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with.

Travis Plunkett

Bankruptcy is an important safety net that families hit by unforeseen circumstances depend upon. The federal government should be bending over backwards to help Katrina's victims get back on their feet, not throwing up new barriers to bankruptcy.

Jeremy Bulloch

Other projects later this year, but I think it's going to be a very very busy year this year with Star Wars and the re-release, so I'm sort of running about going backwards and forwards to America, Japan, Mexico. So there will be a lot of things to do.

Patrick Fulton

Some people may be suspicious of the timing (of his leaving), and from the outside it may look suspicious. But, I flat out did not start the fire and I have no knowledge of who did. I have bent over backwards to help with this investigation.

Scott McCown

The Ruiz litigation transformed our prison from a backwards Southern plantation-style system into a modern penal system." ()

Kenneth Grahame

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.

Rafael Benitez

He's a clever player, he plays well between the lines he can play on the right or the left side. He gives us more chances, more opportunities, more space and more game intelligence.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

Richard D. James

It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'

Ray Walker

He was one of a kind. Not only did he have a great voice, he didn't pander to the lowest common denominator. He did word games, all sorts of clever stuff. He was very entertaining.

Steve Bruce

He is going to have an X-ray but it is not looking very clever.

Robert Smith

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

Walter Cronkite

So now the question is, basically, right now, how will the Osama Bin Laden tape affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing.

Wallace Shawn

I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to actually enjoy it.

David Duncan

search personal files and search extraneous items that wouldn't be part of final work papers and get rid of them.

Kori Bernards

People are illegally swapping files all around the country. With these lawsuits, we're saying we're going to hold them accountable.

David Nash

We have tons of files on this one.

Scott Storch

I think it's just sad in this industry that sometimes the pressures of being successful make you say things that are untrue.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

Erin O'Connor

In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.

Ben Wood

The industry will be lucky to get it out in 2008. Issues with rights, regulations and standards need to be overcome first.

Alan Autry

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

Bobby Frankel

I want to be the Martha Stewart of the health-food industry — without the jail.

Toshifumi Suzuki

The Japanese retail industry is totally unique. To be successful, you have to have a thorough knowledge about the market.

David Sowerby

It's more and more the sobering acknowledgement that the industry is significantly challenged.

Ken Hill

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Ken Hill

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Swae Lee

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

Andrew Lack

has got two revenue streams: one from our music and one from the sale of his iPods.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Winnie Holzman

I think we put on a real old-fashioned musical in some ways,

Donna Norris

I would tell him the 'Bad Man' took her and did this to her. The name just kind of stuck.

Diaa Rashwan

Here in Egypt, his name doesn't represent anything for us.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Alice Cooper

He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

Richelle Mead

Your boyfriend and Micah will both be speechless." I unfastened my seatbelt. "That's the third time I've heard 'your boyfriend.' What's going on about that? Why won't anyone say Brayden's name?" Neither of them answered right away. Finally, Jill said sheepishly, "Because none of us can remember it." "Oh, come on! I'd expect that from Adrian but not you guys. It's not that weird of a name." "No," admitted Eddie. "But there's just something so...I don't know. Unmemorable about him. I'm glad he makes you happy, but I just start to tune out whenever he talks.

Richelle Mead

My name's Jet Steele.

Richelle Mead

The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.

Umberto Eco

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

Rick Riordan

This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.

Sean Parker

Ever since Napster I've dreamt of building a product similar to Spotify.

David Boies

Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

Dan Farmer

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

Don Stewart

I think that the staff are all very well versed in the process and in this particular nominee, but so are the senators. I think you will see, and already have seen, quite a lot of support out of the senators.

William Golding

I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.

Guy Ritchie

I like to think it's not violence for the sake of violence and in this particular film, it's actually violence for the annihilation of violence.

David Lee

All these things were on her mind, stewing and stewing. And all these things boiled to the surface in one particular moment.

Richard Cook

It is very much premature to say it is any particular cause.

Kyle Williams

At a meet, if you need him in a particular event, he's there to step up and get points for you when you need them.

Tim Johnson

They seem to be targeting this particular group.

Scott Anderson

I try to find time to umpire and referee, but have had to reduce some of that, in particular the basketball.

Connie Sellecca

The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy.

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Russell Baker

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Troy Polamalu

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Robert Shaw

You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.

Warren Buffett

Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

Ryan Reynolds

If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!

Tyson Chandler

I wouldn't consider myself Goth, but I love Gothic pieces.

Tyson Chandler

Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.

Larry Harris

Then she starts pointing towards me and shooting and I was shooting back to her.

Tim Ritchey

That is the race I've been pointing for.

Claudio Piron

Overall, the long-term trend is going to worsen. All indicators are pointing to a possible recession.

Ann Barney

It was more us putting everything together as a team.

Jeff Ross

I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.

Mike Pearson

We've been working on putting this in place for two years.

Joe Humasti

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

Luis Sojo

If they don't come to practice, they don't want to be on the team. This isn't about individualism, it's about putting together a team that can represent us with honor.

Dr. Wielgosz

It is as simple as putting a measuring tape around the waist. That will give an indication.

Dennis Lobenberg

Most of them are in my garage. I haven't worried too much about putting any signs up because of the weather.

Bubba Crosby

I was thinking about putting down another bunt.

Nancy Grace

What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?

Walter Molony

We think 2006 will be another record for second-home sales.

David Walker

I think a lot of teams would probably have the same record if you look at who they've played,

Jeff Corey

I think they have a much better team then their record indicates.

AJ Michalka

I want make more records with my sister. I want to go on the road. I want to tour around the world. I want to continue to make great films and work with incredible directors that I respect and look up to.

Brian Setzer

He was just thrilled, ... He said, 'Oh my gosh, you want to record that old song? I think I got it up in the attic!'

Regina Spektor

I don't really make records chronologically.

Robert Crumb

I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Warren Buffett

An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks.

Elizabeth Dole

Today I am not going to get into the specifics of the legislation.

Justin Vernon

I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there.

Bob Hamilton

We?re still proceeding at best-possible speed and we?re still trying to get the specifics on the street.

Michael Brown

Thanks for update. Anything specific I need to do or tweak?

Clara Shih

Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.

Robert Aitken

The Universal is always the same, the specifics are always different.

Michael Robinet

When the new vehicles arrive, you don't want too many of the old ones on the lot. I see this as a specific case, not a wide-ranging trend.

Shannon Edge

Even though you do not live in a specific area, you can come to any of the meetings.

Romany Malco

The Universe responds to specificity.