Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop.

Helen Scannell

We started from scratch. Immediately people began dropping things off - and they were nice things. Our goods are gently used. We are not a junkyard or garbage drop.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.

Marian Seldes

When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.

Nicholas Kristof

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.

Natasha Trethewey

Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.

Natasha Tsakos

I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.

Ma Jian

While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.

Roland Martin

When I was in meditation, God began to speak to me, and God said, 'Roland, I have enough preachers. I need people where you are in your positions. When you are on radio, when you are on television, you speak into more people in the five minutes than some preachers speak to in an entire year.'

Deron Williams

We're still in it. We haven't been eliminated yet. We've just got to keep fighting.

Curtis Joseph

They played hard for a team that's eliminated (from the playoffs). Once they got that second goal, it seemed to give them a lot of life. . . . The last seconds, I thought we did a good job. We need to play like that with a lead and learn how to keep a lead.

Timothy Noah

The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.

Phil Smith

When it gets to the review process, fines are often reduced or eliminated entirely.

Mary C. Jones

Through the presence of the pleasant stimulus (food) whenever the rabbit was shown, the fear was eliminated gradually in favor of a positive response.

Van Chancellor

The day that we were eliminated from the playoffs was the day I vowed that would never happen again. I spent every waking moment, in some form or fashion, thinking about a way to get us back.

Michael Fleisher

Much of what's being outsourced using technology today will be completely eliminated by technology tomorrow.

Gian Fulgoni

You actually see people spending more time online because you've eliminated the pain of waiting. And they spend more money because online shopping is easier.

Bill Donald

If horse slaughter is eliminated there will be no market for them so it ends up being a real quandary as to what to do with them.

Scott Borg

We started seeing huge vulnerabilities. And portions of those systems were extraordinarily secure. But they were Maginot Lines.

Luis Rivera

We still need to win three games. I feel like if we win those three games, there's going to be a huge celebration.

Bart Bryant

There is no question he played a huge role in getting me going as a pro,

Bill Ritter

We're seeing huge problems in veteran affairs, which we're not talking about.

Harvey Jewett

With the limited monies we've got, we know it's going to show the need for a huge appropriation by the state.

Claude LeRoy

To play 75 minutes with 10 men is a huge performance.

S. Walker

as we had anticipated, this is going to be huge from an insurance perspective.

Mike Hargrove

It's just a little different look. It's not a huge deal.

Terry Labonte

It's just a huge undertaking, to start a new team like this. They've got some experienced people there, but none of them have ever worked together before.

Beatrice Lillie

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

Deb Caletti

I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.

Tom Walker

You see it in their faces. He'll be back they say of someone who has vowed to reform.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.

Tamora Pierce

When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.

George Sand

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

Leonardo da Vinci

Vows begin when hope dies.

William A. Ward

Vow to be valiant;Resolve to be radiant;Determine to be dynamic;Strive to be sincere;Aspire to be attuned.

Rivers Cuomo

It's been two and a-half years now, actually. The vow is over, but I wanted to keep cruising.