Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Thompson

I will be approving the appointment, however, because I think it will be irresponsible if we don't have proper leadership in the high school.

Mayor O'Reilly

The lawsuit challenges the taxpayer money being used. But, they started out saying the town was wrong in approving the conditional use permit. They have now shifted their argument to focus on the expenditure of taxpayer funds.

Bryan Whitman

The deputy secretary of defense is not in the business of approving interrogation plans.

Carl Hilliard

This can only help in terms of approving the quality of AT&T Wireless service. The latest Consumer Reports ranked them at the bottom in a number of categories.

John Palmer

The board won't shy away from approving further tough decisions to ensure this continues.

David Meyer

Island Heights is committing to nothing. We're footing the bill and it won't cost them a dime. All Island Heights would be approving is a study so that the facts and necessary information could be made available to everyone.

Cesare Vaciago

Alarmism was creating turbulence and confusion. Approving the budget has distanced us from these risks.

Pam Richardson

We usually discuss the goals in August and don't end up approving them until November.

Ben Shapiro

There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that's basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors.

Robin Hobb

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

John Searles

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Gillian Anderson

I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before ... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go.

Gale Anne Hurd

I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

Sir Woodward

We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character.

Laura Vandervoort

I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.

Sue Miller

I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no necessary form. You can know what you want it to be, or do, and still not know how to write it. There are endless possibilities, infinite choices. What voice should it be in? What events to start with? What characters will be part of it?

Joel Edgerton

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

Walter Mosley

What I say to myself is, 'I really love these characters and I want to make them as real in the world as I can,'

Ji-Hae Park

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

David Sowerby

I think it is still a classic 'show-me' stock.

George Thorogood

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

Stieg Larsson

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Joshua Cohen

There are so many classic Big Brother warning books: the Internet is a horrible, controlling thing, as if it has a consciousness or political agenda.

Dan Harmon

Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.

Javier Camara

Here in America, every single actor, since they were little boys, they sing and dance and perform like angels. We don't do that. We are actors who work in a theater in very classic performances or plays.

Herbie Hancock

I was a jazz purist at the time, I had tunnel vision about jazz and classical music,

Richard Rosenthal

We take pin stripes and classic madras and make it fun, young and hip. We get labeled preppy by being classic.

Dave Bautista

Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

Dwight Yorke

Keep the faith. We know we are heading in the right direction.

J. M. Roberts

John is one of the top parks and recreation directors I've seen. He has a great feel for the needs of the community, and that's reflected in the facilities.

David Thwaites

I suspect it's going to be a fairly weaker open. Stocks are still looking for direction in Europe -- there are no big macro drivers today.

Charles Blood

I think investors should be back in the market. The direction is up from here.

Sean Penn

I think it's much more important to direct movies but if it's going to take five years between each one then I'll have to make up for that.

Vicky Gill

I always feel lost when he's not there. I need someone to direct me and push me and then hold me back when I'm doing too much. It's nice to be back and have a mentor there to help me out.

Tom Burt

He can't tell them what to do, he can't direct them, he can't manage them.

George Herbert Mead

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

Shakira

Guys don't like women telling them what to do. It reminds them of their mothers, or something like that.

Funkmaster Flex

He reminds me a lot of myself when I was young,

Rick Riordan

The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head.

S. Walker

I keep being reminded about how tough the remainder of our schedule is. But we just need to worry about us, not about who we're going to play.

Ray Liotta

The first script I got was Narc and I really responded to it; it reminded me of a '70s type movie, I really liked the characters, I didn't anticipate the ending.

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And most surely it is a reminder for you and your people, and you shall soon be questioned.

John A. Logan

The idea is just to remind taxpayers that they have that obligation.

Yao Ming

It was like if I didn't keep reminding myself, I'd make mistakes.

Mary Gordon

It's like walking into a cathedral.. It reminds me that what I do in the world is a valuable and important thing.

Suki Waterhouse

I take my camera to shoots and ask all the photographers and assistants to show me what to do with it.

Keri Nichols

It also wasn't one of our better shooting games.

Greg Brunner

He was better shooting tonight than he has been.

Jim Sayre

He's a shooter with that gunslinger mentality. That was a big shot to put us up four, but he's done that all year for us.

Kyle Shiloh

When he's shooting like that, let him go.

Chauncey Billups

When he shoots it like that, we're pretty impossible.

Neil Dougherty

We survived the first, but we couldn't survive the second. If you're talking about shooting the ball, (Terry) was the difference. He made some big, timely shots.

Lindsay Williams

I was just shooting to get it off of my foot.

Monique Bond

Having conducted a preliminary investigation, the shooting was justified.

Joe Clark

I think it is too simple to suggest that it's simply Mr. Harper's fault.

Darius Kasparaitis

We have to be more gritty, more hitting. We probably have to play much simpler hockey.

Richard P. Feynman

Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.

Richard John Neuhaus

Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

Richard Hofstadter

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....

Richard Dawkins

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Richard Dawkins

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.

Russell Brand

What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to her the solution that was freely given to me. Don’t pick up a drink or drug, one day at a time. It sounds so simple; it actually is simple but it isn’t easy; it requires incredible support and fastidious structuring.

Ronald Ross

The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.

Ron Gardenhire

Have you watched us bunt? Does it look like we have it down now?

Alan Trammel

He's a keeper. We'll be watching him for years.

Chris Remley

When he was selected, I wasn't surprised. I'm going to watch it.

Matt Berninger

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.

Chord Overstreet

I watched 'Full House.' I loved 'Full House.'

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Rob Corddry

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

Richard Dawkins

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

Will Estes

I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond