Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Cruise

I take no pleasure in having to be here today, but it is the last recourse to counter the vicious lies that have been printed about me and my family,

Sean Flynn

I was aggressive, but he knew how to counter me. I didn't know what to do.

Wayne Dyer

When you're at peace, there's no counterfeit freedom.

Walter Isaacson

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

Jacques Rivette

Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.

Ann Davis

The counter people are just processing things. Where's the creativity? Where's the knowledge?

Alberto Fujimori

And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.

Cory Robinson

The key was we wanted to score first. We battled for the lead and then we were able to play our 1-1-3 pressure and we can counter off that.

Carl Tobias

All the survivors and families of people who perished on 9/11 will be called, and it's hard to imagine how to counter any of that.

Paul Scheuring

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw something like 'Prison Break,' colon, and a few other words. But it's not going to be 'Prison Broke.

Curtis Eccles

Jack is taking fewer shots because of the double-teams. He's doing a good job of finding the open man.

Anthony Zinni

I would say we're within a week or so. We're ready now but there are a few more pieces to put in.

Michael Lloyd

I would say up until the recent few weeks, it looked like CSX might be doing a better job, now the shoe may be on the other foot, ... I'd be more worried about CSX going forward than Norfolk Southern.

Greg Shivers

Katie did much better in that game. Her pitching has really picked up the last few games.

Ramesh Chennithala

Karat had first said that he would react after the full report of the CAG comes out. It is now a few weeks and there has been no reaction from him.

John Gibbons

I talked to him today about a few things and I hope he got the message. You see guys on the other side like (Derek) Jeter and (Gary) Sheffield get down the line.

Kate Warne

I think (investors) are sort of sitting on the sidelines, thinking there will be better values in a few weeks. (Investors are) searching for where can we put money that won't get hit in the short term.

Don Allen

I think in the fourth quarter we got worn down. I'm pleased with the effort. We hit a few open shots that opened up our offensive a little more.

Martin Freeman

There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.

Gael Bernal

I think that films are very transparent in that sense and they really portray the journey that that society is going through.

Dawn Hudson

I think that's terrific that independent films are getting more and more mainstream press.

Jake Busey

I don't have a favorite role because there's been so many films that I've done that I've really enjoyed.

Asif Kapadia

I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.

Liam Hemsworth

I had four films one year that were supposed to happen and didn't.

Patrick Ness

If you're 15 and you tell someone a secret, they can put it up on Facebook. If you make a mistake, someone films it on their mobile and puts it up on YouTube. When you're 15, you deserve privacy.

Debbie Allen

In the film world you don't often get much rehearsal time. Only on big-budget films do you have the opportunity to rehearse for a week or two.

Asif Kapadia

I like to make films where I learn along the way, like the audience.

Richard Ford

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Mark Twain

All human rules are more or less idiotic.

Aaron Boone

I took it as a frustrated, idiotic comment, especially considering the slop he was throwing up there. I mean, who is Josh Towers?

Miranda Hart

People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.'

Afrojack

When I started producing, I was just making music under all different names. 'Black Afro.' 'Super Grandmaster.' 'Mister Bull.' Like, the most stupid, idiotic names. 'Afrojack' was one of those idiotic names.

Tish Olszewski

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

Pat Metheny

The chorused thing, I would have to say I was the first to use extensively in jazz, and that seemed to have influenced a lot of other guys.

Liv Warfield

Being with Prince and the New Power Generation, I was very influenced by those sounds, and now I'm more than ready to show that side of me with confidence.

Joan Maloney

They didn't want to be influenced in any way; the work has to stand alone.

Lykke Li

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

Marcelo Porto

The movement was influenced by the rise of the dollar.

Josh Trank

Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.

Bryan Robson

I don't think it influenced the game, but the referee should have started the match without them.

John Sullivan

It is important our door-to-door service runs efficiently, ... I'm worried about the transportation issue.

Bill Rees

In some ways, he may be more of an unknown than Vince Young. He didn't have the supporting cast. But he runs well and has a lot of ability.

James Altucher

Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.

Rusty Wallace

I'm having better runs than I've had in a long time, ... I want to go out on top of my game, and I'm doing that right now.

Rory Bremner

If the oil runs out, we'll be reduced to fracking Alex Salmond.

Ryan Howard

It worked today. We got runs and we won the game.

Chris Capuano

It seems like we've been scoring a lot of runs in my starts. Even when I haven't pitched well, we've been able to find ways to win.

Alan Trammel

A lot of things aren't going our way. You score that many runs in the first inning and then give up six, it's depleting and it takes its toll on you.

Phillip Fulmer

They split the reps (in practice). We have two quarterbacks. Whoever runs out there first will be first.

Richard P. Feynman

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

Samuel Johnson

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

Manly Hall

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

Friedrich August von Hayek

I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the phenomena of life because of certain moral consequences which at first seem to follow from these theories, and still less with those who regard it as irrelevant or impious to ask certain questions at all. By refusing to face the facts , the conservative only weakens his own position.

John Brunner

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

Olga Kurylenko

I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

Mary Matalin

My theory on education is... get one.

Natan Sharansky

My theory is that security - also against terror - can only be accomplished through global democratization.