Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isobelle Carmody

I wrote my first full book when I was fourteen, and that was 'Obernewtyn.' It was also the first book I had published. It was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to, and it was short listed for Children's Book of the Year in the older readers category in Australia.

Billy Graham

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation... But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

Ezra Taft Benson

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

Brian Kavanagh

The past winners of our World Racing Championships awards have truly reflected the winning spirit to support the growth of great international competition. As our member organizations look forward, we must provide a sharper focus on world rankings and recognition that can be widely tracked and accepted by the entire racing world.

Brittany Snow

At age 12, I was on 'Guiding Light,' and I wanted to be accepted by these adults I was working with. I started with the Eat Right for Your Type diet. A friend who was a little older was doing it. I have a perfectionist personality, so I wanted to do the best job I could. I was not eating anything it said not to.

Chuck Berry

Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands... I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.

Rebel Wilson

I went to a Christian high school, so I went under my middle name. I don't think they would have accepted me in the school - 'This is Rebel'... so I have two middle names, Melanie Elizabeth, and I went under those. But Rebel's way cooler.

Julie Morris

We have an advisory board of 12 faculty members from across the disciplines. Each proposal was reviewed by three people and given a score. Based on the score, some were automatically accepted and some were put up for review and further discussion. It was comparable to a standard agency's review process.

Jason Terry

We have tremendous talent coming in off that bench. Guys have accepted their roles and they're just coming out and playing hard and aggressive.

Russ Martin

That was a very hard choice. That's something I always wanted to do for Canada.

Wayne Gretzky

We know that this country wants gold and nothing else is good enough. That's the expectation for Canada when it comes to hockey and we know that. We aren't kidding ourselves. We know we have to win the gold. We don't have anything else on our minds.

Charles Wilson

We know that the people of Canada are independent, freedom-loving folks who are willing to work for the things they would like to have.

Patrick Chan

I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.

Ruth Ozeki

Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers.

Pico Iyer

Certainly, I think Canada is many years ahead of the curve and still the great global pioneer.

Mark French

To know it was that close to you, it was a little awe-inspiring, especially for a kid from Canada. It's kind of the Holy Grail.

Cathy Allinger

We have a lot of knowledge in Canada about how to make great ice.

E. B. White

We've had folks from at least 25 of the 50 states to be here, as well as persons from Ireland, and South Korea, as well as Canada and Mexico as well.

Corey Haim

Um, you know, they have every right to feel the way they do and things are great with me, as you see, I'm very, good shape now and on the ball. Things are happening.

Corey Haim

But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986).

Corey Haim

I make myself pizza if it comes down to that drastic measurement.

Brandon Jay McLaren

I've seen an increasing willingness to hire Canadians for lead roles that shoot up here. When I started, they would always just fly in L.A. people to do the lead roles.

Barry Pepper

It was sort of his 'Brando' moment - his very 'method' moment. He just absorbed it and continued on.

Barry Pepper

If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.

David Steinberg

Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.

David Pratt

Compared to the United States and certainly a lot of other countries around the world... per year, Australians do see more films.

Devon Sawa

I would definitely stay in the business, be behind the camera maybe.

Ian Watson

Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

Chris Jericho

In Mexico, wrestling is part of the cultural fabric. The guys wear masks and they are real-life superheroes.

Darell Hammond

A cultural shift is needed to incorporate exercise into our children's daily lives.

Natasha Trethewey

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

Jane Fonda

The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.

Glenn Poshard

We have always felt that the fellowships in question were but a small part of an overall graduate program that provides opportunities for thousands of our students, from every imaginable cultural background, to pursue graduate degrees while working at Southern Illinois University.

Mary Harris

We've learned about the different cultural dances and dress. And the food is great, too.

Mona Simpson

We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'

Mira Nair

Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.

Steve Frasher

Valdez fired at Miranda's home, thinking it was the person he was trying to retaliate against. The intended target was elsewhere on the same street.

David Stout

I didn't make any money, ... I paid my kid to go pump gas for them elsewhere just to keep them as customers.

Marcia MacClary

Frankly, it is unclear how this regional process would work and what would make it superior to the process we have today, which seems to work very well elsewhere in the country.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.

Neel Mukherjee

The Naxalite revolution - an ultra-left Maoist movement - in Bengal, and elsewhere in India, in the late 1960s provides one strand of 'The Lives of Others.'

Greg Adkins

We'll be hurting if we don't get it done this year because people will go elsewhere to make more money and have better benefits.

Allard Baird

The reality is most of our players should be in Double-A or elsewhere in the minors,

William P. Leahy

You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well.

Nicola Sturgeon

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

David Dinges

My sense is that planned, permitted, endorsed napping by management is still rare.

Craig Kilborn

John Kerry was officially endorsed by Dick Gephardt, and Kerry said, 'What did I ever do to you?'

Yemane Gebremeskel

If they think their invasion should be rewarded, it is outrageous. If they are throwing away this peace plan endorsed by the international community, then that means more war.

Eric Lewis

I'm endorsed by Yamaha. I represent Yamaha, and I really like the way that piano handles and capacitates the force that I put into it without losing the shape of the sound and the contour, and it really holds up well.

Sam Kinison

I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.

Ray Zaborney

Obviously, it looks good now, but we're going to keep working until Lynn Swann is the endorsed candidate.

Al Franken

not good enough to be endorsed by Fox News.

Kuniko Inoguchi

The party itself never officially endorsed or recommended him.

Marty McOmber

We think the consultants' report endorsed our vision of what to do with downtown.

Randy Cunneyworth

We have nowhere to go but up at this point.

Russell Robinson

We have to refocus. There's nowhere to go but up.

David Gest

Here we are on a vacation and out of nowhere she starts going to the mini-bar. And I come in and she's violent. And I was stunned.

Jack Falahee

If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.

Alan Paton

The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.

Lennon Parham

There's nowhere in New York to go and have your emotions to yourself. People just look the other way because every day people see someone crying on the subway!

Alan Woods

With nowhere to smoke in the pub or the office, smokers are nipping outside for a cigarette.

Norman Foster

I travel continuously, and I see many cities, but there is nowhere like London.

Neil Marshall

My belief is that if you start a film all the way up at level 10, you've got nowhere to go.

Ken Ham

We just can't get comfortable with the stability of the situation for this particular opportunity. So we're going to officially wave you off for 24 hours.

Jeff Nettles

I thought I had seen everything. Now I've officially seen everything.

Jenny Frost

We haven't officially split up - we are still together as a band,

Eric Christensen

We're officially abnormally dry, but we're not in a drought.

Jeff Foxworthy

I never thought I would do a game show, but now I guess I'm now officially in that genre.

Ken Ham

We are going to officially wave you off for 24 hours.

Ken Ham

We are going to officially waive you off for 24 hours.

Michael Bennett

My injury, ... is officially a thing of the past.

Tom Swan

For him to officially get in, we're going to need to recruit volunteers from every town.

William Shakespeare

But since he died, and poets better prove,Theirs for their styleI'll read, his for his love.

John Fowles

We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words

Cathy Rigby

I will jump into most any role.

Arsene Wenger

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

John Meehan

I think it would water down the commissioners role and take away some of their authority.

Bill Belichick

He's a role player. His role's to play every snap. He does so many things well in so many situations. He's so dependable. You want him in there for everything.

Rodrigo Santoro

I take a role because it makes sense to me, rationally.

Shane Victorino

Whatever my role is, I'm going to do my best. It's all I ever wanted.

Tommy Gibbons

We are functioning in a support role for the county.

Kelly Hu

There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.

O. Singh

He has not said what his role was. If he is responsible then he should be booked, and the sooner the better.

James Farrior

I think our scheme is very difficult. It seems like we do a lot of different things and, if you don't play us that often and you have never seen anything that we've done, it's going to be tough.

David Graeber

In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.

Larry Neumann

Understand this about that scrimmage. We didn't scheme any for Jasper.

Dave Attell

I have no grand scheme.

Frank Herbert

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

Etgar Keret

Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.

Matt Hasselbeck

There really isn't a weakness I see right now. Their scheme is so sound.

Jack Warner

They are critical, they are important, but in the (overall) scheme of things they are not mind-boggling.

Jeffrey Eugenides

She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

Jessica Wolf

He wanted to find his goals. We supported his choice.

CeeLo Green

I am a rare occasion. I think if everyone had known it was going be me who succeeded, they would have supported me a lot more. They would have known what to do with me a lot earlier. They just didn't know.

Sam Richards

There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

Karen Hughes

is something that's widely supported in the region.

Bertrand Russell

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Jose Maria Aznar

We in the West should stand by our core principles.

Ann Strother

To have all of us go somewhere, to be all on the West Coast, too, it?s going to be really neat.

Mariella Frostrup

Fridays are always movie night at our flat in Kensington, West London.

Djimon Hounsou

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

Charles Marion Russell

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Ai Weiwei

The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.