Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

Yann Martel

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Todd Rundgren

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Idris Elba

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Ivar Giaever

Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Ian Mckellen

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

Ian Mckellen

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.

Gad Elmaleh

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Vincent Pastore

When I initially committed to joining 'Dancing with the Stars,' I didn't realize just how physically demanding it would be for me. Unable to put forth my best effort, I felt it appropriate to step aside and give someone else the opportunity.

Gordon B. Hinckley

You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.

Don Shula

The '85 Bears were a great football team and aside from that one game, they played exceptionally well all year, ... Denver at 13-0 was tremendously strong in all areas, too.

Samuel Alito

That was a statement that I made at a prior period of time when I was performing a different role and, as I said yesterday, when someone becomes a judge you really have to put aside the things you did as a lawyer at prior points in your legal career.

James O'Brien

That way we'll be able to set aside some money to purchase land when it becomes available.

Robby Ginepri

That was a little strange. But I think we're both professional, and we can put aside the doubles match and the friendship for today.

John Spratt

We can set aside a surplus to save Social Security or Medicare, or we can pass the burden of the baby boomers retirement off on to our children,

Marcus Samuelsson

Aside from the obvious chocolate cookies and ice cream, chocolate can be used in a variety of ways for desserts.

Mare Winningham

In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didn't see that I was going to set it aside for so many years and take a right turn into television. Of course, wanting to do theater is something you hear a lot from actors. I think I've been embarrassed to be in that big cliche.

David Marschall

Most everybody who can has been a volunteer somewhere in town for some period of time. Like everybody else, we collected donations immediately after.

Matthew Pearl

I still have my high school copy of the collected Poe - missing its covers and pretty worse for the wear.

Tim Kuykendall

While a good portion of the money collected goes to the custodial parents to help in raising their kids,

Matt Flynn

I feel like, if the guys can look at me in the huddle and see a calm and collected face, that they're going to relax a little bit. The way I look at it, leadership and being that guy is, don't be someone you're not. Don't be a hoorah guy jumping around and clapping your hands if you're not that guy.

Keith Urban

It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record.

Nick Mangold

He didn't put anything in the bank. He collected it. It's like living with a person during the Depression. It was all in a safe. Before that, he had it hidden throughout his room. I guess his grandfather does that, that's where he got it from.

Pat Taylor

We actually collected about 40.5 million with about 7 million dollars pledged

James Calvin

We don't have any doubt that, in one way or another, the taxes on sales to non-Indians are going to be collected by New York. The question is: How soon?

Stjepan Hauser

When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names.

Joe Martin

The pioneers are giving way to some of the big guys who can weather all the change.

C. S. Lewis

It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.

Cecelia Ahern

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

Carrie Snodgress

I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought.

Bethany Hamilton

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

Bethany Hamilton

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

Bernadette Peters

Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.

Ashley Tisdale

I never give up on things.

Arsene Wenger

You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.

Al Pacino

We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.

Anthony Trollope

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

Daniel Handler

There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal.

Brother Lawrence

Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!

Denis Leary

Marriage is like a dull meal with the dessert at the beginning.

Carey Mulligan

I can actually cook one meal now, as opposed to before, when I could cook nothing. My family are very excited.

Abraham Verghese

Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals

Dodie Smith

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Karen Scott

I'm here for him. My presence for him is all that matters.

Buck Showalter

The presence of someone like that, really in what should be the prime of his career, is exciting.

Courtney Sims

I was trying to be more of a presence on defense. I wanted to be more active.

Mary Carillo

His presence shows how much respect he has for her, and he's so deferential.

Gary Waters

He may be the strongest presence in the league. The thing he's doing consistently is rebounding.

Dee Brown

When he got back in, he made his presence known.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.

Nancy Young

We're still going to have a significant presence in Alabama.

Odette Annable

Richard Gere's got this very old-school Hollywood charm. He has a presence that when he's in a room you just feel him. I mean, I'm married, but he's sexy!

Larry Gibson

We have all the resources we need at this time.

Anne Schwartz

We have tremendous resources expended to look for these boys.

Rusty Schweickart

All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc.

Dorothea Shannon

We've got some time and we have to use that time and our resources wisely.

Allard Baird

We do have some resources available. If one makes sense, I would.

Norm Zada

We don't have the resources to sue everybody.

David Taylor

We're getting a lot of good, technological resources we can use.

Alain Ducasse

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

Brian Tracy

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

Brandon Flowers

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

David Hewson

I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.'

Chris Crutcher

If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.

John Torchetti

That was a team win, if I have ever seen one. Everyone from the goalie out tonight just competed. That was the word for tonight, compete.

Paul Thompson

That was ridiculous. In 16 years of coaching, I've never seen anything like that.

Piero Fassino

We have already seen after two days, that this is how it will finish.

Luis Rodriguez

We can't have standardized testing because there is no such thing as standardized child. I have never seen a standardized kid. Have you?

Bob Thompson

We'll probably find more deaths. I don't think we've seen the end of it.

John Scott

We have been travelling to the old battlefields for years and never seen anything like it before.

Sachin Tendulkar

I think I have already spoken a lot. Now it is time for me to play.

Roy Makaay

I have already spoken to him about Bayern.

Charles Osgood

Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

Nadine Gordimer

Too much will be speculated about him, too much spoken about him, too much written about him,

Shawn Roop

I've never spoken to her. We communicate with e-mail and faxes. That pretty much sums up what the Web can do for a company.

Mike Vogel

They're very quiet. You can tell that there's something that they're about to do. They have the track walks before the race. They go and do their thing, and not a word is spoken between any of them. They're just staring at the track.

Horace

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

Stephen Hess

Besides, he's already spoken extensively about the hurricanes.

Dick Jauron

I haven't even thought about it, and we haven't spoken about it.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Robert Matthews

I had many, many wonderful conversations with her about everything under the sun. She was one tremendous person.

Russ Boyer

He's a tremendous defender. He does a lot for us back there.

Lloyd Carr

He has a tremendous attitude. He's very optimistic. He's very positive.

Chris Jordan

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.

Michael Foley

There is a tremendous untapped marketplace here in Mexico.

Larry Coker

We need to find out about ourselves. We're going to get a tremendous test.

Joel Quenneville

He's had a tremendous year, I'll tell you,

Jane Gardam

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.

Jim Gresh

She's just a tremendous athlete. She can do it all. She's very versatile, and she can really play any position.