Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Stanfield

We used to do sock puppet shows for my auntie back in the day. Me and my friends would do accents of Englishmen, and we would sip tea and act like we were rich in front of the family, and they thought it was just hilarious, the level of perception that we had about things that we'd never experienced.

Lawrence Smith

By making the tests standardized, regional accents will be removed, pauses between sounds would be constant and overall consistency would vastly improve.

Lake Bell

When I do an accent I commit fully and take it very seriously.

Tom White

They have fabulous British accents and they are really fun with their British invasion music.

Thomas Campion

Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet; / Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet.

Nick Park

When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out.

Nick DeWitz

I've never been a post-up player. I think of posting up as something that accents my game. I didn't want to be put there at first. I'm not David Lucas and I'm not Kyle Jeffers. I do a little bit of everything. Basically, it was finding my role on the team because it changed from last year. I'm just trying to adapt to it. I'm not going to play post ever again in my life.

Margot Robbie

Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or excited, their original accents come out. It's something I noticed with my manager, because he's from New York, and the first time he got angry, he suddenly had this accent.

Kate Winslet

I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

Laurey Stryker

Just last year is the first time that housing costs lost us a few candidates. I think the thing that we'll have to do over time is to pay higher salaries; that's the only way to address it.

Dave Frohnmayer

Keep in mind that we are only halfway through the season, and there remains a lot of football yet to be played. So it's impossible to address the dozens of hypothetical situations with the BCS standings.

Capt. Ready

I suspect that the division commanders are aware of this. As your story breaks, I'm sure it'll bring some attention to it and they'll address it.

Jeff Conine

I take that very seriously. I think management, that's one of the reasons that they brought me back. They know I am going to play hard and lead by example. If there is something that needs to be addressed, I don't mind addressing it.

Mike Turpin

It can self replicate, so it can spread itself to other systems. Through e-mail attachments sent on your behalf in your address book. People open the attachments because they come from a trusted source.

Rep. Litvack

It answers the call from the public to address this issue. It gives law enforcement and prosecutors the tools to address these issues.

Nancy Becker

Having a functioning justice system is vital to the recovery of those states hard hit by Hurricane Katrina because it provides a needed sense of normality, and a venue to address grievances, ... Allowing attorneys displaced by the storm to temporarily practice law from Nevada is a simple step on our part that can assist their justice systems and preserve the rights and liberties of their citizens.

John Woods

has sent us a letter with numerous inaccurate and unfounded allegations that we intend to address with him directly.

Steve Buster

Half the businesses we surveyed are family-owned. About a quarter of these owners expect to retire or sell sometime in the next five years -- but only 13 percent expect the businesses to stay in the family -- with 35 percent having no idea what they will do or expecting to close down. Owners often spend an entire lifetime building their businesses -- but rarely give thought to what will happen when they are ready to retire. As a family-owned business ourselves, we strongly encourage businesses to start planning now -- to minimize taxes and address other financial and emotional considerations.

Trent Reznor

Just spent the day discussing touring up through next summer, then played our asses off to the least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to. As I'm walking to the bus to leave Sacramento as soon as I can, I learn Jerome is back in the hospital. I have no idea what this means.

Glenn Stanton

John and I are both very disturbed by audience members who don't conduct themselves well, regardless of which side they are on. But that is very rare. Most people seem thankful for the way and seriousness with which we engage the issue and our obvious respect for each other.

Mike Spence

I think it is ... because the agriculture community in this country is shrinking, and their audience is growing.

Zhang Ziyi

He creates characters that draw in an audience no matter what language they speak. His insight into the human heart crosses all boundaries. I know he is also making a huge influence in the lives of younger filmmakers and actors.

Rory Bruer

Having a Jim Carrey film over the holidays is a pretty sure bet. Audiences trust he'll have the goods, and they want to laugh and have a good time this time of year.

George Pierce Baker

In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

Steve Earle

As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.

Ingrid Jensen

There are so many pockets of places around the country where I play at tiny little towns, and the audiences in general there are so much more appreciative than big city audiences.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.

Donna Mills

I would spend at least one day a week-whatever day I had off-shopping for the next show. A lot of times, I'd have seven or eight outfits in one show. There might be a gown or cocktail dress, but... I felt the clothes had to be special.

J. Taylor

He was a DUI offender and wearing inmate work clothes,

John Varvatos

Guys out there have no sense of how their clothes should fit.

Jim Christian

I wear pretty much the same clothes everyday. Just like those guys, I do the exact same thing every game day.

Richelle Mead

Now get some clothes on before the women around here are driven into a frenzy." He gave me a mournful look. "I'm afraid that'll happen with or without clothes, my dear.

Woody Allen

If my soul exists without my body I am convinced all my clothes will be loose-fitting

Saoirse Ronan

For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good.

Walker Percy

What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.

Samuel Beckett

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

Gary Williams

In the last few years, we've had such intense interest in sunscreen and hats and protective clothing that we have a lot of patients who lack vitamin D.

Dannielle Romano

Initially, a sample sale was for 'insiders' only. It started as a designer thanking his friends and the editors who'd helped and supported him by selling designer clothing to them at extremely low prices. Now everyone is getting in on the act.

Josie Bissett

I'm doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys.

Ian Shepherdson

The gains were uneven, however, with small declines in clothing and electronics, a decent 0.7 percent rise for general merchandise and a huge leap for non-store retailers. Provided January holds up -- surveys suggest so far, so good -- the overall holiday season will have been pretty good.

Chris Anderson

The focus is the music, but we're trying to make it as much of a show was we can, with the lights and the clothing and the music. It's a party.

Michael Lombardi

They created a lifestyle for people with the clothing, (and) the clothing got fashionable. Everybody wanted to be in that lifestyle.

Jarron Collins

They come find us. On a road trip here (in Charlotte), a clothing company called my room and said 'Do you need anything?' They come to your room with fabric.

O. Singh

The Lord s Name is my clothing, wearing it, I shall never be naked again, and my desire to wear other clothing is gone.

David Roberts

As scientific research demonstrates, llama wool's very coarseness and its range of fibers from fine to thick mean that it can be woven into clothing that's superior to down, fleece, sheep wool, and alpaca wool in criteria ranging from warmth to water resistance to usable life.

Italian Proverb

Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number

Scott Bilker

Keep all your records. By law, the credit-card company must investigate your dispute.

Gray Davis

Just the other day, we had to pay $1,900 for a megawatt hour, which a year ago would have cost us $30, ... And the reason this company named Reliant out of Texas gave us for charging us that much money was, they said, the state's credit isn't any good.

Stephen Roelofse

I think in time they will probably make an offer (for Western Areas). I can't see them taking a passive stake in the company like that.

Eugene Christiansen

Harrah's is putting together some very, very strategic real estate. You look at that, you look at Caesars Palace and the implication is that Harrah's is: a) Making a no-brainer investment; b) Is making provision for a major expansion in its Strip presence. I look at the map; I couldn't read it any other way. That's something the company needs Å  a greater presence on the Strip.

Susumu Tonegawa

My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.

David Wray

There are studies that show participants in a 401(k) plans are less likely to leave the company and are better workers.

Ray Neidl

It is good for Continental and good for the flight attendants. Continental got the cost structure it needs. That is what the company needs to make it.

Daryl Plummer

Last fall, I gave the company 18 months. They were about to become the next DEC.

Mara Wade

A lot of the earliest emblems were designs for printers' marks.

Micahn Carter

I've been doing designs for years. I do all kinds of stuff.

Jenifer Lewis

My favorite memory in the barbershop was watching the hair fall. Little particles would fall and I would make designs out of it.

Charles Baker

People here are really wedded culturally and emotionally to very rich plan designs relative to what you see in different parts of the country. They are just more expensive.

Henrietta Holsman

The 2005 nickel designs follow Thomas Jefferson's vision to explore the great West, ... small pieces of contemporary art.

Kevin Krewell

Most designs take years. But it was very important for them to get back in the game and have a road map.

Wendell Willkie

It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.

Tom Murray

We offer a lot of extra space in our home designs that can be used for a variety of purposes.

Roger Clemens

just to try and look at the details of everything that happened.

John Hume

He knows details about the machine ... this is model X and why. That shows a really involved collector.

Katherine Collins

He refused to elaborate; he wouldn't give any details as to what that meant.

Robert Esche

He's a great man. I like him a lot. Obviously, stuff will come out. I don't really know the details of it. But I do know he is a good man.

Ann Beattie

Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live.

John Schneider

Going forward from here, we'll take what we've done and probably go back into a small group arrangement and be more detailed on what the steps would be in these various areas.

Tony Blair

His WMD program is active, detailed and growing. The policy of containment is not working,

Eva Nogales

We are gaining information on the differences and similarities between viral mechanisms and eukaryotic mechanisms. Getting to the molecular details of these gets to the possibility of learning one mechanism versus the other so you can try and stop (the virus from attacking) the human cell.

Shawn Ashmore

I think, ultimately, those little details come through, even if it's just in my head.

Susanna Moore

It is possible to say that all of my books concern themselves with the notion of what it means to be female - whether it is in New York City in 2000 or Calcutta in 1836. In that way, my books really are the same.

Michael Chiklis

I was actually a little nervous when the female horse got shot,

Leslie Mann

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Sara Blakely

Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else

Sandra Bullock

I never realized that as a woman I would be looked at as less than until I was pretty deep in this business and realized, 'Oh my God. I'm being treated this way because I'm female.

Ron Evans

In that one month, three of the females have ovulated and made advances,

Marcia Gay Harden

In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.

Michelle Smurl

The females are more high-strung. They grew up in a 90-acre veldt and are not as used to human contact.

Andrea Dean

They looked over the roster and matched up the females on the roster with the information given in the tip.

Rolando Rios

They diluted the voice of Latinos by using this old data.

Ramon Ramirez

The Republican Party has touched a nerve in the fabric, in the psychology, of the Latino people. They're going to pay a price: This is it.

Al Madrigal

A lot of Latinos are like me: third generation, English speaking.

Al Madrigal

I'm so sick of people treating Latinos like some homogenous group that all feel the same way about everything.

Alex Nogales

Of course. This is part and parcel of being a Latino and having the responsibility to safeguard our community. The more visible ones have to take a stand. They can't always be safe.

Jerry Gonzalez

These laws put all Latinos at risk because of racial profiling.

Jerry Gonzalez

This is something that's going to resonate with Latino voters in November. We're going to remember it.

Genesis Rodriguez

I think I'm representing a new generation of Latinos - bilingual, bicultural people.

Christina Norman

The timing is right for young Latinos to have their own channel.

Ricky Williams

We talk about life, we talk about our philosophies. He always sends me books. It's a different kind of relationship.

Andrew McDonald

I mean, when somebody like my grandmother sends me e-mail, I know that it's arrived,

John Updike

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

Marc Shaiman

I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to musicals, but (it) sends them up at the same time.