Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leos Carax

When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arrived in Paris from the suburbs. At the time, I didn't talk much. I was very shy, so the bluff served me. I was telling people that I had no money, and that I knew how to make films, but I had no proof.

Herbert A. Simon

Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs.

Floyd Abrams

While Judy Miller sat in jail for 85 days and Mr. Libby knew that she was doing it to protect him, no call came in from him, no letter arrived from him,

Gerry McGhee

When we arrived on the scene, the home was totally involved.

Caron Butler

When we arrived in Cleveland (Monday) we were in the back of the bus and we said we know Gilbert is going to come out and have a big game, so it's on us. We didn't play well in the first game.

Robert Wagner

When we arrived at the scene, there were four people still in the 2003 Ford Expedition,

James Gray

At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.

Joe Brand

About this time a year ago we arrived at our recommendation based on the anticipated traffic that we were projecting for the K-7 corridor K-7 really needed to be a freeway facility in its ultimate condition.

Scott Goodale

It's just great to see him reach this level. He is a tireless worker who has continued to do whatever it takes to become a better wrestler. We knew from the moment he arrived at our program that he was a special kind of kid.

Charles Caleb Colton

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Charles Dickens

There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

Charles Dickens

I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

Charles Dickens

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Charles Dickens

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

Charles Dickens

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

Charles Dickens

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

Alan Watts

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

Alan Greenspan

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

Al Pacino

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

John Bolton

We want to thank the secretary-general for his personal and very prompt decision to waive privileges and immunities, ... This is now a serious law enforcement matter and we will have no further comment.

Javier Solana

We want to take a decision that is part of a solution, not part of a problem, and therefore it has to be well explained and understood by everybody.

Mark Shapiro

We want to set the roster as early as we can. This year, the decisions are so few.

Chris Cleave

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Chris Colfer

Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.

Eddie Murphy

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

Alan Pardew

It's almost like he has Dr. Who's Tardis because he always turns up on time. (on Teddy Sheringham)

Alan Rickman

England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

Alan Jay Lerner

England still will be here without you.

Chris Barber

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

Baroness Orczy

...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.

Derek Jacobi

It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.

Denis Thatcher

When it comes to saving England, Maggy is Ball's Deep

Chris Sullivan

Until a few years ago, it was never as popular over there as it was here. But by this point, it has been commercialized and is a pretty big celebration in Ireland and England.

Charles Dickens

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.

Charles Simmons

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Al Neuharth

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Eddie Izzard

Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.

Denis Waitley

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Rob Mackowiak

We've all failed in different ways and, now, it's up to us. Obviously, the organization is looking to move into a better direction, so this should be a sign. We need to improve. All Mac could do was prepare us. He couldn't play for us. I wouldn't wish what happened to him on anybody, but you can't fire all of us.

Jeffrey Robinson

Where they failed was in what to do with this huge bulk.

Louis C. K.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Mark Cuban

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail.

Alan Parsons

In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.

William Shakespeare

An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.

Alain Juppe

This is the trial of a man, but it is also that of a system and a regime. France must look its past in the face,

Michael Krepon

This is a very serious competition. If present trends continue, India and Pakistan could very well have greater nuclear capabilities than France and Great Britain, looking down the road.

Trevor Wagner

They're now stuck in France somewhere. They were last tracked to Lyon.

Martin Sorrell

The second quarter was stronger in France and Germany, ... The UK is not as stabilized or as strong.

Juliette Binoche

I wanted to have an international career, which I have, and be free to work with whoever I wanted to work with. My instinct was to go back to France afterwards. I went to do a small film, then I went back and forth.

Markus Steinbeis

Telecoms and tech stocks (also) still get hit by France Telecom's sales warning.

Jon Gruden

I've never really been comfortable (enough) with hamstrings to even comment. Every one of them is them, especially when you are talking about your kicker. So, we'll keep Todd France on the roster, and we feel very, very comfortable with him going into Carolina.

Rob Cosby

They don't quit. They don't want to quit playing and neither do I.

Pat Gelsinger

It really is something that neither one of us could have done on their own.

Jacques Chirac

A new resolution is neither useful nor necessary,

Chris Smith

Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed.

Ernie Kovacs

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Dan McClain

We could sell it or shut it down and neither of those have been determined.

Kevin Cathcart

Tragedy does not discriminate, and neither should relief agencies.

Charles Ferguson Smith

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

J. Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Scott Carpenter

We've all bowled at Cadillac, but today wasn't like the normal Cadillac. It was a very playable shot but just a little different.

Joe Johnson

We started off very poorly. But we know what we can do. We just settled down and played our normal game.

Hans Fischer

Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Jim Hall

We want it be as normal a setting as possible and not have them stigmatized as being retarded.

Charles de Gaulle

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

Charles Manson

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.

Bernard Malamud

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

Keith Warren

We are primarily here to present an alternative message. We support the troops and the mission.

Alexa Von Tobel

When you're at work, it's about being present and getting as much done as humanly possible.

Charlie Rose

The younger generation watches what's interesting, not whether it's presented by someone who is as old as I am or someone who is as old as a 21-year-old. It's the material. If I did a series of conversations on things most interesting to Millennials, they would respond to it, and I do.

Jim Crews

They switch some, they play a little zone, they play man. They look different all the time. That presents problems.

Shannon Davis

They put together a scholarship and presented it to me,

John Taylor

A smart entrepreneur will go back and present it again.

Rose McIver

Really, I'm never much of a goal-setter. Whenever I've tried to make big, solid plans, they don't happen. I'm more into whatever the circumstances are that present themselves, making wise decisions around that.

Michael Sheehan

are very much present in New York City.

Robert Webb

The strength of 'Peep Show' has always been that that it's quite traditional, but it's obviously presented in a very new way.

Tasneem Ahmed

We are awaiting New Delhi's response on it.

Kurt Vonnegut

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.

William Levada

It's not surprising that there's been no response

Rob Gorman

I've never seen a response like this. I'm really amazed.

Robert Menendez

You would have thought we had a picture-perfect response to Katrina,

Jesse Cole

We did not get any response with that either.

Tim Doyle

Every time we did anything, they had a response to it. It just wasn't our day.

Bill Daly

The responses we are getting in-market have been very strong, virtually without exception.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Mark Warner

A lot of states wanted to help, but there was no place to turn.

Kevin Luibrand

They go through the United States so they get half-price.

Eddie Rodriguez

It's not right. The United States is nothing without immigrants. The United States is nothing without Mexicans.

Jack Quinn

It's the United States Senate. I'm sure some will try to use it as a platform,

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Robert H. Connelly

They're watching Katrina. They're watching Rita. They're watching what it's doing to the United States.

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Jerry Costello

The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.