Famous Quotes & Sayings

Burn Gorman

I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Empire' and 'Hot Dog' had great reviews, and finally he's been accepted as the new Bond. So many millions go into that franchise that if you make a mistake, it's awful.

Richard Boucher

What we're trying to do now is get the parameters accepted in a way where the reservations are reconcilable and, therefore, we know that both sides are in a position to negotiate seriously.

Jim Wilkinson

Secretary Rice asked him to stay but he felt it was time for new challenges. She reluctantly accepted his resignation but told him to keep his uniform ready.

Walter Brisken

I always knew he was interested in engineering, and in what I was doing, but he surprised me by calling me to say he had accepted a job here.

Shannon Currier

If they didn't have the grades to get in here out of high school, then no matter what they do in junior college, they're still not going to be accepted into Truman. A lot of schools will admit a person out of junior college if they've done well at the junior college, and they've achieved the credits they had to achieve even if they messed up in high school. That's the difference.

Winston Churchill

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Helen Clark

I have left it there. I accepted the pilot's apology when it was offered to me.

Chen Shui-bian

I have accepted his resignation. He has stepped down after accomplishing his job.

Dick Cheney

I have accepted his decision with deep regret.

Susan Orlean

I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

Karen Meredith

It would drive me insane to overhear the conversation of the guy in the next seat.

Rob Young

That turned a two-way conversation into a one-way discussion.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

Dick Cheney

They can do whatever they want to do. I know what I want to do. What I want to do is have a conversation with the American people. I would like to have people who watch the debate come away with an understanding of what our proposals are.

Scott Borg

The Russians aren't waiting for standards. They have decided to move forward. We have declined to participate (in the drilling). We don't feel it's ready.

Tim Ries

This could have been a very expensive mantelpiece for my shelf, ... But I realized that if I couldn't sell this, I shouldn't even be in the business. Instead of investing the money I earn with the Stones in the stock market, I decided to have faith, leap in and invest in myself.

Pat Brown

We decided to go where the kids are.

Jason Gibson

We decided to go in another direction at quarterback. He's (Leak) a big, strong kid and he's got a big-time arm.

Mike DiNovo

We decided that if they said he could go, he was going to go. I think it was a lot just to get him on the mat. He did not want to go down quietly.

Tom Scholz

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.

Ellen Simon

We have decided to make sure that we are the safety net for our patients and our community,

Tom Edwards

This union has effectively decided to shut down the ports on the West Coast.

Brian Hill

We gave ourselves more than a chance, and I was disappointed that the game wasn't decided by the players, that it was decided by the officials.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Nick Miller

Dr. Who is my greatest passion in life.

Michael R. Bloomberg

Tonight we celebrate. Tomorrow, we go back to work. I can't wait. I have the greatest job in the world.

David Goldstein

We got many requests for a mystery. I thought if we were going to do one, why not do the greatest one of all time?

Angelina Jolie

Second to my children, spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift, ... It's been the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

James Darren

One thing I don't do is, I don't listen to Sinatra before I record or before I go out live. Because if I did, I'd have to say, "What am I doing?" I couldn't listen to the greatest singer in the world and try to go out there and sing. I'd be too depressed.

Sidney Crosby

Who better to mould him than the greatest player ever.

Lance Williams

He knew he was better than Mark McGwire. It offended him when people said Mark McGwire might be the greatest player who ever lived.

Jamie Trowbridge

In the last two years, it has made the greatest leap, and that makes us the fastest-growing subscriber income of any publication.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Adrian Beltre

Don't like them, ... I'm not comfortable with them. When you move, it moves around. I never wear one.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Janet Reno

Everyone working together has made a difference, but you can't say, 'Okay, now let's move on to something else,' ... We can never relax our vigilance about crime, about enforcement, about prevention ... there's going to be some new problem down the road.

Ron Carey

This victory sends a signal that American workers are on the move again.

Jay Wright

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

Andrea Dworkin

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

Aldous Huxley

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

Dorothy L. Sayers

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Orson Scott Card

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Robert Kiyosaki

The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.

Donal Henahan

Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal ability to play the most difficult music cleanly, gave a demonstration of her achievements at Carnegie Recital Hall. A product of the Juilliard School who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Ligeti in Europe, Miss Petrowska built most of her program around fiercely difficult contemporary works. She has fingers that work like chrome-plated pistons, and her high-seated position let her bring pulverizing power to bear.

Don Tapscott

Schools should be places to learn, not to teach.

Don Young

I never had the chance to decide; I was drafted to serve my nation. While I received a deferment to attend school, I ultimately served in the United States Army in the years following the Korean conflict.

Donal Logue

One thing that's interesting is that whenever something starts, like the school year when you were a kid, it feels like such a significantly huge time in your life and how much life has changed. What's surprising is how quickly it's going by.

Jaime Contreras

Some days, work is truly a four-letter word.

Shaukat Aziz

This truly encapsulates China's world view in this century,