Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amanda Bynes

I remember people saying that they brought cousins or people to the set and they had no idea that was me. So, that was really cool. I was proud that we fooled people.

Michael Keaton

I remember my mom threatening me, half-serious: 'You know what? I should take you to Pittsburgh and put you in dance lessons just to keep you occupied.' Well, that brought everything to a screeching halt. 'Jeeze, dance lessons.' In retrospect, it would have been awesome, but then, 'Ugh, dancing - dancing's for sissies.'

Chauncey Billups

I love that young kid's game, man. He's been playing really well, and he's brought some hope to that franchise. He will be one day where I am at -- one day fast.

Marnie Stern

I know of dude-bands who've brought big, crazy dogs on tour. Everybody loves their animal.

Jon Fritzen

I know a lot of teams go through it, but it's been real hard for the girls. We've brought some girls up from the junior varsity who have done a good job, but it's a big step up.

J. Taylor

I know I have talent, and I trust my talent, ... I don't know where it comes from. Certainly not my background; I wasn't brought up to be an artist. But I love to make things, and I love the proscenium, and I love the idea of making something for people to get something out of and enjoy.

Megan Duffy

I'm proud of the way we kind of fought back and chipped away and brought up our intensity.

Craig Newitt

I'm rapt Robbie brought him here to this race today.

Eddie Izzard

Imperial Soldier: Oh... I... Oh.Imperial Commander: What is it lieutenant Sebastian?Imperial Soldier: Its the rebels, sir... they're here.Imperial Commander: My god man! Do they want tea?Imperial Soldier: No, I think they want something more then that, sir. I don't know what it is, but they brought a flag.

Dave Braine

I don't know how you can read into that because we've never had a felony charge before. How it could be uneven, I don't know.

James Greenwood

Ms. Watkins is not a whistleblower in the conventional sense. She was and is a loyal company employee who sought valiantly and, sadly, in vain to get the people in charge to face the facts and make the hard choices needed to save the company.

James Greenwood

Ms. Watkins is not a whistleblower in the conventional sense, ... She was and is a loyal company employee who sought valiantly and, sadly, in vain to get the people in charge to face the facts and make the hard choices needed to save the company.

David Dennis

MBS has been leading the charge internally in using these licenses.

J. Reuben Clark

May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

Bill Fennelly

Megan has really led the charge the past couple of games.

Xue Donghua

I think they're under a lot of pressure from the media and from America. They're trying to put a heavy and quick charge on her.

Bill Boynton

I think there's a feeling that with the discontinuation of the commercial charge next month there will be greater interest from the commercial community.

Michel Platini

Jean could become a very good national coach. I don't know about Laurent Blanc's qualifications as a coach. I'm not sure that he has the qualifications to take charge of the national side.

Henry Ward Beecher

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

Henry Ward Beecher

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

Helen Suzman

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.

John Maynard Keynes

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

John Malkovich

Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization.

John Lothrop Motley

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

Mike Thompson

We'll stay at 68 TB for a year or two, ... But as shots get more complex ... it's hard to tell.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Amartya Sen

You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop them?

Andrew Weil

Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

Andrei Sakharov

Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.

Chuck Hagel

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

Chuck D.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

Andrew Card

There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.

Joe Torre

I don't think that's outside the realm of possibility,

David Horn

Some people like to go fishing, ... We like to work cattle.

Linda Pierce

Some people know how to teach, and some know how to do.

Elizabeth Jones

Some people just like the simplicity of a single ring.

Wynne Wakley

Some people just can't take the pressure or the stress. Those are the people who we try to weed out.

Martin Freeman

Some people have that roar in their head, but I'm not sure I ever did. That live-fast-die-young thing. No one wants it really.

Bill Bullard

Some people have spent a lot of time on this proposal already,

Richard Prince

Some people are better at handling the limelight than others.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.

Ian Jackson

Some people would've shut themselves away, and she was never like that, ... She was very willing to go out and talk about it.

Aristotle

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

Seth MacFarlane

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

Stephen Jay Gould

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

John Milton

By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.

Norbert Wiener

I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than something which we can prove, and to act on it is a supreme assertion of faith ... Science is a way of life which can only fluorish when men are free to have faith.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim.... That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper towels become soaked, excess stomach acid is absorbed, and headaches go away-all during the commercial.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but if the Sun were yellow, like a yellow lightbulb, then white stuff such as snow would reflect this light and appear yellow-a snow condition confirmed to happen only near fire hydrants.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because to comb an Afro is to pick it straight away from the scalp. If bowling balls had Afros, then yes, they could be combed without violation of mathematical theorems.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Stan Lee

When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing.

Stephen Vizinczey

As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.

Roy Orbison

Saving nickels, saving dimes, working 'til the sun don't shine, looking forward to happier times.

Rosanne Cash

Work ... is redemption.

Tom Peters

He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!

Tom Peters

Hire disrespectful people.

Steve Wozniak

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.