Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Kattwinkel

This is despite a 53% decrease in the U.S. SIDS rate since the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended in 1992 that babies be placed to sleep on their backs, ... This reduced rate reflects nearly 3,000 fewer infant deaths per year, or over 15,000 fewer deaths since the original back-to-sleep recommendation.

Ki Hong Lee

I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, 'What's your end game? What's your goal with this?' And I said to him, 'You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.' And he said, 'OK'.

Malcolm McDowell

It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.

Thomas Jensen

Popular web site Softpedia.com picked up our news story and ran with it, ... This was one of the hottest - if not the most talked about - celebrity events of the past several days and as we learned long ago with the Academy Awards and US Presidential Elections - just to name a few - people will bet on these pop and political prop offerings.

Arthur Cohn

I could give countless further examples that show why the honorable institution of the Academy deserves our support and gratitude. I believe that to have the Academy censor films based on their content and message would only serve to weaken this institution, which has flourished on the principles of freedom of expression and on a profound belief in the integrity of its members to vote and decide what films are truly deserving of recognition.

Jamie Wyeth

I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself.

Maggie Dixon

I just take it as it is. I don't let it frustrate me. I just try to work around it. With our kids, our theme is, there's certain things in life you can't control, so let's just make the best out of them. And that's kind of where I'm at right now. The academy has been around a lot longer than I have. I respect it and respect what they're all about, and I try to roll with everything that's thrown at us.

Michael Chiklis

I hoped that academy voters weren't swayed by the dogma that was being thrown around. Fortunately, they weren't.

Bobby Brockman

The first half was extremely physical. Richmond Academy plays hard, and we played very hard. Certain matches are going to get physical. This one did. We have skillful players who can get physical if they need to, and Richmond Academy does, too.

Jon Huntsman

It was tough to keep the tears back, quite frankly. As you pin the award on, you salute them shake their hands.

Anil Kapoor

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

Patricia Clarkson

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

Bruce Parker

It is humbling and I am very proud to have earned this honor. It may sound trite, but there is no question that this is an award that is in large part due to the great staff and outstanding student-athletes that I am fortunate to work with here at Carroll College.

Gene Chizik

I just know what an awesome feeling it is for him. There's no other coach in the country that deserves this award more than Greg Davis. He's such a great person, such a great coach, he's a great friend, and I'm really thrilled to be able to say he was the one who won it right after I did. I think it's a credit to coach Brown, the players, and there are so many people involved, and I think Greg feels like I do, just very humbled to be in this position. It couldn't happen to a better guy.

Richie Sexson

It's not an award you want to win more than once.

Charles Stross

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

Kathleen Hogan

We are proud of the commitment partners like Puget Sound Energy have made to helping Americans save energy. The Partner of the Year award recognizes partners whose efforts to promote energy-efficient products are exceptional. They have been instrumental in putting more than 2 billion ENERGY STAR qualified products into American households over the last decade.

Bruce Cunningham

We're looking for anything that can help bring traffic back to the area. We'll probably give a gift certificate to the person with the very best idea, but we've got enough money that if there are a couple of great ideas, we can award that too.

Don Pooley

I've played well every week, but there's this one guy that's been beating me every week.

Chris Davis

I've really seen myself as a top scorer but more as role player. With my speed, I've gotten a lot of chances at the net, getting close in on the net, beating defensemen wide and getting breakaways. I like to call myself sort of a gritty player. I use my speed to get in there in the corners, but also I like to show a little bit of grit, get in there and throw the body around a little bit. I'm not the biggest guy out there, but I still like to throw a couple of hits.

Mike McShane

We did a lot better in the second on defense. In the beginning we did awful. We were throwing the puck away and they were beating us on the one-on-ones. The guys were playing really sloppy and then they settled down. I think the centers helped out by coming back. We moved the puck a little quicker.

Larry Coker

We haven't even talked about a national championship, ... Now we have to talk about beating Clemson.

Raja Bell

He gets 50 and we win the game. At the end of the day, I am OK with that. Even though it (stinks) to have 50 dropped on you, if we win, I've done my job. I really don't give a (darn) if he respects me. If I can keep him preoccupied on beating me 1-on-1, then the four other guys aren't getting shots and that plays into our hands.

Tony Dungy

Pittsburgh was 15-1 last year, so beating them is huge,

Tomas Taterka

The chance of the government beating the two injunctions next week are much better and so the likelihood of privatization before the year-end is improving.

Brian Rolston

You can really feel it's a team win, ... We have a team that can skate. I think it's going to take little time to realize that and gain that confidence after beating a team like that handily.

William Butler Yeats

The ghost of Roger Casement is beating on the door.

John Brady

Prices had already factored in a Category 5 hurricane, so when the storm lost intensity and headed further east the market sold off.

Dan Wheldon

To join the list of names that have won championships and the Indy 500 in the same season would be pretty special, ... Those are all people I respect immensely. To be listed in the same category as them is a nice feeling.

Ansari Bukhari

The export-oriented category includes furniture, plastics, footwear and the spinning and yarn industries.

Shelley Hearne

If the avian flu were to hit here, it would be like having a Category 5 viral hurricane hit every single state simultaneously.

Susan Ela

People in this category really know what they need.

Sean Polyn

We can see some evidence of what category the subject is trying to recall before they even say anything, so we think we're visualizing the search process itself.

Randy Carlyle

He fits into the same category as the rest of our hockey club. We weren't good enough, and he was part of it. He wasn't as sharp as he needs to be, and the team wasn't as sharp as it needs to be.

Hines Ward

I just hate to see that I'm getting put into that same category because I think our situations are totally different,

Stephane Baldi

The research team was surprised to find out more than 50 percent of four-year students were not in the proficient category and 75 percent of the two-year students were not. The proficient category does involve some of the more complex literacy tasks, but some that we would expect them to do.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

John Gibbons

Coming in we knew we had a good one,

David Perkins

Now, gas prices, ... they go to $10 to the gallon, we're still coming to the races.

Dave Allison

Ten to 12 kids are coming in early to drop off their gear in the event that they need some seasoning. Then they will fly to Dallas. We can always send their stuff if they get a job in Dallas.

Bill Rocco

Tech is a big part of emerging markets coming back.

Judy Reyes

Television has been very good to me. I grew up on it, and it had quite an impact on me. I'm entertaining opportunities that are coming my way.

Marc Prokosch

Sometimes, coming to a place where everyone knows you can get you into trouble.

Probably the saddest thing you'll ever see is a mosquito sucking on a mummy. Forget it, little friend.

James Gray

The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly actresses. And if you're over 40 and you're an actress, forget it.

Jason Michaels

We had to forget about last night. Last night was last night.

Andy Goldsworthy

We often forget that we are nature...

Alice Englert

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

Sylvia Plath

They would grow old. They would forget me.

Dar Williams

I won't forget when Peter Pancame to my house, took my handI said I was a boy, I'm glad he didn't check.

Terry Steed

I think people will never forget Katrina who experienced it. It will always be remembered.

Isabelle Dinoire

We must not forget that today, thanks to them, I have become visible again.

John Rice

Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve,

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Benito Mussolini

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

Charles Kettering

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Brigitte Bardot

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

Brigham Young

Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy.

Blake Mycoskie

Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.

Blaise Pascal

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

Edward Irving

I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Riley Wallace

(Substituting is) our job. They need to play hard and we need to watch them.

S. Walker

Once you hook them up and they start pulling that sled, they just want to go and go and go. The hard part is to reel them in.

Brian Fanelli

Once you get down by 12 or 13 and you get it all the way back to two it's hard to sustain and keep going.

Clarence Curry

Once you get a taste of making it in the NFL you don't want to go back. I just want to play hard and become part of the organization.

Robert Davies

Sometimes, it's hard to tell people what to do.

Andre Roy

Sometimes it's hard to get going because it's early, but I think once you're in the warm-up, you're ready to go. And I kind of like them in a way because you get done early.

Evgeni Plushenko

Sometimes it is so hard to walk on the street that I would like more to be in my car. It is unbelievable - crazy, crazy, crazy. People screaming, wanting autographs, wanting to take pictures with me. I like it, but sometimes it is too much.

Maelle Gavet

Russians are not a very friendly people. It's hard to get them to speak nicely to the customers. It's just not in their culture.

Charles Singley

Ruth was my girlfriend's name at the time.

Arthur Adamov

What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated.

Aphra Behn

Dear me no Dears, Sir ...

Eliphas Levi

What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

Clive Barker

A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!

Anne Sexton

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

Eric Antebi

So long as he wears the name tags.

Patricia Velasquez

There are only so many roles for people like me, and I don't have a big name yet.

Jim Sutton

I don't think we need to name names,

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Rumi

Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.

Steven Cojocaru

I'm not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique.

Sue Grafton

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.

Sue Grafton

Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.

Sue Monk Kidd

We become what we pay attention to.

Michael Arrington

Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.

Max Lerner

Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.

Matthew Lillard

I got into a bad jag of movies that helped pay the rent and I thought would help further me along.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Ruben Blades

It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.

Jeff Lynne

I don't actually like touring.

George Carlin

Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?

Mary Pierce

It's amazing, I'm 30 and this is my 17th year on the tour and there are still firsts for me,

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

Elisabeth Harnois

Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

Aubrey Peeples

I have been told I say 'shucks' quite frequently... Shucks, I'll have to work on that.

Legislator Korce

We do not want to work off of assumptions.

Ashley Wagner

Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.