Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.

M. Night Shyamalan

I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

Peter Power

We are at a loss to understand why Norway has chosen to go down this particular route.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She was one of those natural moms who really took to it. Her chosen profession was teaching. She loves kids. But she was extremely frustrated and unhappy because for much of my life she was a stay-at-home mom.

Roger Wicker

We were available, but FEMA chose to send them to San Antonio or Utah or other far destinations,

Neneh Cherry

Some people might be groomed for success; I've just always thought I've got a hell of a lot of things to learn and places to go. Creatively, I couldn't stay on the same treadmill. I chose to be off-centre and do collaborative work.

Neneh Cherry

I found my place when I moved to London, where I chose to live, making my own tribe who were all from different backgrounds and places. The class thing is very dominant there, but in the cultural cross-fertilization, I felt a sense of belonging.

Tod Nielsen

Therefore, Borland has chosen to focus wholly on its ALM business.

John Greenwood

We're frustrated. I think they've chosen to play hardball and it's unfortunate.

Robert Long

We got whacked on the Fed comments (Wednesday), but that reaction doesn't make sense, ... Don't you think if the Fed is hinting that interest rates will go up sooner, that suggests the economy is doing well? I think the comments bode well for the GDP (gross domestic product) report tomorrow and next week's monthly employment report.

Adam Ereli

We're issuing this in the wake of some comments by President Chen in Taiwan that we don't want to be inflammatory or send the wrong signal, so we thought it useful to reiterate US policy on the subject.

Ed Goren

It's not easy to have valid comments over the course of a three-hour broadcast. But Troy knows what happened before the replay comes up. He leads us. He has valid comments and is opinionated. He's making his mark week by week.

Alan Ruskin

There was not much of a dollar reaction because her comments were not terribly fresh.

Kevin Kelley

There were some comments that were a little contentious, but no one approached me personally expressing any specific dislikes for what they heard.

Tom Vinger

There were some comments from the public as well.

Mamoru Ashimoto

There may be some comments or text which will offer Fed views on the recent soft economic data and monetary policy.

Laura Lopez

It provides an opportunity for everyone to share their comments and learn what we're doing.

Howard Dean

This kind of statement is hardly compassionate conservatism; rather, Bennett's comments demonstrate a reprehensible racial insensitivity and ignorance.

John Bolton

We strongly support the commission's investigative efforts. We expect the government of Syria to comply with these requests fully and unconditionally as the Security Council resolutions require.

Dick Pound

This independent opinion confirms that FIFA anti-doping rules do not comply with the World Anti-Doping Code.

Ralph Smith

They're really not paying more (in fees), they've just been shifted to comply with the law.

Stephen Hadley

As part of that cooperation for our part, we comply with U.S. law. We respect the sovereignty of the countries with which we deal. And we do not move people around the world so that they can be tortured.

Eric Rosenberg

Once you are registered, anything that you have saved, the SEC has the right to review it. It is going to take people who have never had to deal with a SEC regulatory environment and force them to comply with a variety of rules and regulations.

Charlie McCreevy

One can stay within the legal rules, but not completely comply with the spirit," ()

Joe Intiso

Sometimes you have to do things in our work that don't, um, comply with the rules.

Newt Gingrich

I urge Saddam Hussein to save the people of Iraq from violence, ... I urge him to take a step toward ultimately someday lifting the sanctions, I urge him to comply with United Nations resolution, and I want him to know that.

Nathan Barankin

This issue arose when tribes informed the division that under their interpretation of tribal sovereignty, they did not need to comply with the state's certification program.

Victor Conte

way less significant than the consequences that I mete out every single day for crimes that are far less significant.

Niki Tsongas

We should not be making near-term decisions with long-term consequences without robustly debating these questions and fully considering the substantial and unpredictable risks of these actions.

David McGrew

We have no option but to win. The consequences of losing are catastrophic.

Hubert Williams

Whenever you have a situation like this going on, management has to rise to the occasion. You have to have some consequences for this kind of behavior.

Tony Blair

All of us are trying to manage the consequences of change,

Gene Russianoff

This is a necessary consequence of maintaining the system.

Talat Masood

This imbalance now gets even worse as a consequence of America's total and all out support to India.

Jennifer Green

They should talk to their kids and realize that teen drinking really is a problem that can lead to serious consequences including death.

William Blake

They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Nick Griffin

We are pleased to see continued growth in the Hawaii financial services industry.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to say that we are off to a good start in 2006 with continued strong growth in software and product revenues for the first quarter.

Hoshiyar Zebari

We are at a crucial period now and we need their continued engagement.

Martin Van Buren

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

Douglas Elliott

We've been able to hold the line on electricity prices for a long time. Unfortunately, the costs we incur to serve customers have continued to rise over the years.

John Boyega

When I was in primary school, I was given a five-line script in 'Anansi the Spider Man,' and I decided to just improv and make it my own. For a second, I felt like Kevin Hart because everyone was laughing. I just continued to do it. Why not?

E. O. Wilson

We're going to see continued volatility in the near term -- the oil market is sending conflicting signals.

Jon Abernathy

We wrestled very well. We continued to show improvement. Zach Lopez has been using his practice time wisely and looked much-improved.

Audre Lorde

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

Mark Thompson

The outcome of the incident is pretty severe and it's tragic that (White's) getting screws in his face and plates, and you put a guy in hospital like that, I'm sure he's feeling about that. We want him to play really competitive hard footy on the weekend too.

Jonathan Klein

The people you're friends with on Facebook or the people you follow on Twitter are trusted sources of information.

William Gray

We are going to see the return of some of these types of storms. People have to face up to it. The insurance industry has a major problem.

Scott Hand

Where Inco has operations, it has legacies, and we are going to have to face up to them in a proper and responsible way,

Luke Nosek

I have realised more and more that great companies, founded for a long-term purpose, such as Google or Facebook or SpaceX, may do more good in the world than any other vehicle that we have.

Bertolt Brecht

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

Carolyn Porco

Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets,

Carolyn Wells

Circumstances alter faces.

Charles Dickens

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

H. Hart

We are pleased to finally restore a more competitive schedule into and out of Yuma.

Sergey Lavrov

We are awaiting final confirmation from the American side,

Thomas Hanke

We have no indication at the moment that anything went wrong during the production of the agent. Only an examination of the production process and the substance itself which was injected will provide final certainty.

Lamar Butler

Whenever we talk about the Final Four, you have to mention us making it to the Final Four. This is history.

Carlos Beltran

When he finally learns to exhale, and let the game come to him.

Pat Riley

We were a minute and a half away from the Finals -- big deal, ... It's about winning a championship.

Stuart Fraser

There is no pressure on Clara. Maybe she thinks the Nasdaq offer is not the final offer, and she's waiting for a higher bid.

Ron Gettelfinger

Whether or not we can stabilize a situation that's deteriorating, I'm not sure, ... We'll just have to wait and see until what the final analyses are.

Johnnie Cochran

What he's doing is violating attorney-client privilege in this whole situation and I'm not sure he fully understands or comprehends the import of what he's doing,

Saudi Arabia

women will be able to fully participate in society.

James Anderson

We're just watching the other things unfold in the east. We're fully operational.

Richard Rowe

We're fully integrated with the Special Operations Command. We have people who've done operations from a Special Ops perspective.

John Sawers

The more the leaders of Kosovo can reach out to the other communities and show that Kosovo is a mature democracy, the more fully an independence can be delivered.

Tim Wagner

American intends to co-operate fully with the DOJ's investigation.

Jon Huntsman

It struck us very hard and just about put us under, ... We still haven't fully recovered, but we'll make it.

Rachel Sheinkin

They didn't know what to make of it in Melbourne. They loved it, and they made it their own. But they did not fully have a sense of competitive academics.

Anne McBride

It's an ongoing investigation and one in which we are fully cooperating.

Sathya Baba

Wealth that you hoard is not yours; wealth that you have given is really yours.

Lee Janzen

The perception now is that (Woods) is still the guy to beat. But I don't think guys think it's a given that he's going to win.

Sharon Stewart

We've already given them an extension. It's really simple: The rules of the park have to be followed.

Nicolas Roeg

I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.

Luc Robitaille

What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know how much I love this game, and how much I've given to it.

Bill McKibben

We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.

Terri Teuber

There is no question that different consideration would have been given to the situation if people were going hungry.

Jim Bowden

We respect the arbitrators' decision. We feel that it's a good salary for the team and a good salary for the player given his talents.

Jack Thompson

What we're saying is that Devin Moore was, in effect, trained to do what he did. He was given a murder simulator,

James Rubin

We're not going to lose any sleep if Saddam Hussein suddenly isn't their leader, from whatever reason. No tears will be shed.

Gerhard Schroeder

and that's why we are together exerting pressure so that Saddam Hussein lets international observers into the country.

Vicente Fox

The stated policy of my administration towards Saddam Hussein was very clear. Like the previous administration, we were for regime change,

Sergei Lavrov

Saddam Hussein was the one person after whom the United States went, and they ruined the country.

Peter Bergen

Saddam Hussein was put on notice that he can't do those type of things.

Jane Arraf

Saddam Hussein (the Iraqi president) has guranteed the safety of the passengers aboard and will treat them as if they were Iraqi citizens.

William J. Clinton

Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.

Robin Hayes

Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11,

Madeline Albright

This is not Saddam Hussein versus the United States, ... This is Saddam Hussein versus the United Nations.

Alan Arkin

A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

Al Pacino

If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.

Chris Coons

I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America were largely untrue

Chris Albrecht

One of the reasons to go to South Africa is because we can create great standing sets, both interior and exterior, and have the opportunity to create an actual water set outside, which will allow us to build a boat and probably part of another ship to be able to really bring that world to life.

Chris Albrecht

Throughout my career, I've realized that there are a lot of great opportunities out there to be associated with programming. It may have started elsewhere, as Crimson Petal did in the UK. So, our main strategy for Encore is to go through those types of partnership acquisitions.

Chris Alexander

I went into the foreign service because I was interested in politics. But, in 1991, when I joined, I didn't see much of an opportunity to be involved in federal politics as a Conservative. We were at the tail end of the Brian Mulroney era. I wanted to do something non-partisan as a way of preparing for a role in our politics later.

Chris Abani

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

Chin-Ning Chu

Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Betty White

Avoid tweeting any photos of your private parts.

Mark Twain

A man's private thought can never be a lie; what he thinks, is to him the truth, always

Megan Park

I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

John Proctor

Private schools should be able to recruit. I know they need to.

Brigitte Bardot

My private life became public.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Mark Greene

better protecting the rights and livelihoods of our farmers, ranchers and private landowners.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Bill Goldberg

Aside from doing publicity for this film [The Longest Yard], I have Auto Maniac coming on the History Channel and since I got married recently, we are going to get to that Honeymoon we had to put off.

Bill Gates

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Bob Schieffer

Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.

Gary Loveman

It's not simply an inconvenience, ... It's a public safety problem.

Don Powell

It's not public works. It's not water, sewage or utilities. It's the soul of our life.

Joseph Cirincione

They saw Saddam as a threat that had to be removed.

H. Hart

Saddam is in box. We can tighten that box, and we don't need to go to war,

Joe Biden

One thing is clear: These weapons must be must be dislodged from Saddam, or Saddam must be dislodged from power,

Ayad Allawi

Today we are better off, you are better off, the world is better off without Saddam Hussein,

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

Arthur Rimbaud

No one's serious at seventeen.

Dee Dee Ramone

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

William Shakespeare

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

Bill Nye

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

Chad Smith

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

Chetan Bhagat

Don't be serious, be sincere.

Cher

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.