Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wentworth Miller

Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the 'Human Stain.' I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise on board, and the director Robert Benton was an academy award winner for 'Kramer vs Kramer.'

Ernest Walton

I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences very sincerely for the great honour they have done me. It is an honour so great that even yet it is difficult for me to believe that it is true.

Brad Goreski

At the Academy Awards every year, there are best-dressed stars - and worst-dressed stars. But it's the worst-dressed that go down in history.

Brad Goreski

Overall, we've lost risk-takers on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. All too often, stars play it safe.

Christine Gregoire

We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.

Gil Cates

The Academy basically reflects the mood of the country. It really deals with what's happening politically and what's happening in personal relationships.

Patty Fox

The Academy Awards red carpet has really become the biggest fashion show on Earth. And it really has become a designer race. It wasn't always like that.

Rob Daviau

The Academy Awards is a TV show that gives awards to movies. Now there are magazines that talk about the TV show that gives awards to movies.

Alison Lewis

The Academy Awards have become much bigger than a night on TV. It has become something we can build a marketing program around.

Martin Thompson

The advisory was issued to warn people about a tricky evening rush hour. The warning was generally for Lorain County, with small parts of Cuyahoga and Medina counties affected, as well.

Maurice Stilwell

The advisory boards let the companies understand some of the cultural aspects of doing business in those countries, the regulatory environment and the protocols. Within months we can help build networks and credibility that would otherwise take years to develop.

Dave Allen

Using a private contractor and outside advisory team will help expedite the process.

Tom Warner

We issued an advisory to the FAA (the Federal Aviation Administration). But they had no comment on it.

Carol Woods

We have a very strong parent advisory association. Parents are very much part of the students' success.

Ken Johnson

We have not had an opportunity to review the study, but it is important to note that the physicians and other health-care professionals who sat on expert medical advisory panels have impeccable integrity.

Milan Mandaric

We are in the process of talking to Warnock's financial advisory people,

Bob Castellini

I was very grateful for his special advisory help the last two weeks. It's been great. He's a great baseball man and a great individual. He'll be a general manager again.

Diane Evans

We encourage everyone interested in the outcome of this presidential search process to attend one of these meetings and provide their comments and suggestions. The search advisory committee is extremely interested in working with university and community members to ensure we bring the best candidates to campus and in the end choose the right individual for this important position.

Ernest Walton

The high esteem in which the Nobel Prizes are held is undoubtedly due to the conscientious way in which the Committees have discharged a heavy responsibility.

Milos Forman

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.

Vanessa Poster

We are always looking for people to fill committees and work on other projects.

David Tennant

Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!

Jim Nussle

We're going to work with the committees and see what's doable.

Mike Long

The creation of the committees are moving forward and led by competent individuals. This will be seen through.

Fay Weldon

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

Mayim Bialik

Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction.

John Carney

I think ultimately audience members like to see someone controlling the quality of a film. A lot of films you see are made by committees and studios and producers.

Landon Donovan

I looked up and (Glen) was kind of fading away. So I just tried to put it in a good spot and he finished it. I don't know if he meant to, but he finished it.

William Shakespeare

He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.

William Shakespeare

Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?

Walter Savage Landor

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Sophia Young

My shot wasn't falling. I was just fading away too much.

Anna Seward

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

Donald Yacktman

Now that the worst lawsuits are fading it seems a golden opportunity to do that. Kraft is limping.

Bruce Fuller

The fading out isn't good news for the pro-universal preschool side.

Michael Hensley

Your lives are fading in the shadows of time, but your legacy lives on,

Friedrich Nietzsche

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

Albert Einstein

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Norbert Lammert

The past weeks have shown us how much not only we Germans need this Remembrance Day.

Ulrich Wilhelm

The... allegations are wrong in all their details. The (Federal Intelligence Service) BND, and with it the German government, were unaware of such a plan until now.

Yevgeny Primakov

The American representatives on these inspection operations should not be ousted, but probably they should recruit more international personnel -- from France, Germany and even Russian experts,

Robbie Keane

That was a great result for England, but it has gone and I don't think the Germans will be welling on it when we play them this summer.

Menachem Begin

The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.

Richard Strauss

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

Richard Strauss

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.

John Entwistle

We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals.

David Murray

Where we spray it works. We are gradually tightening the noose.

John Russell

We haven't been able to stretch him out, so we're trying to gradually increase him.

Mark Cliffe

I think most of the staffing implications have already been taken on board. It has been happening gradually over a period of time.

Lindsay Bowen

We're getting better, for sure. It's just going to keep gradually coming. We have a lot of talent, a lot of potential. It's just a matter of putting it all together to get to that higher level.

Lillian Gordy Carter

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Alice Sebold

I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.

Al Madrigal

I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.

Steve Dunn

We are gradually showing people the value of our technology, but it is a tough market.

David Eagleman

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

Steve Burns

That was important because it set a legal precedent.

Pete Rose

I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.

Bryan Whitman

You can do something perfectly legal, but that is inconsistent with the policy or procedures of the department. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Bryan Whitman

Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Sandy Close

We haven't been listening to legal immigrants. We've been taking their name in vain.

Ambrose Bierce

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Lucio Gutierrez

I will use all legal and constitutional means to retake power,

Laura Nichols

I think if the vice president thought he had other legal options open to him, we'd defer to his judgment.