Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Carolyn Johnson

The students are selected based on recommendations that come from their instructors and who have demonstrated a record of high achievement.

Tyra Banks

I've made mistakes before of doing different projects just based on my dreams, my hopes, my thing, and not really thinking about my customers.

Jaime Camil

I usually decide if I'm going to do a movie based on if I like the script or not. I thought 'Pulling Strings' had every single element that a classic romantic comedy needs to be a success. It's very well written. The cast was amazing. It was a decision I made based on the power of the script.

Sarah Jones

I've actually always started with what feels most natural. Which is, the people who surround me in my daily life. So, the first show I ever wrote, which is called 'Surface Transit,' was based in part on people I knew from my family. Co-workers, ex-boyfriends. All of that kind of thing.

Bill White

I want a performance-oriented government that produces results, ... That's contrary to a government based on sound bites and images.

Megan Hilty

The musical based on my life would most likely be called 'Something Fabulous.' 'Something Fabulous' - that's a great title!

Jane Levy

Auditioning is such an unnatural thing. You're in a tiny little room with, like, seven people cramped together, acting to a casting director; just, none of it makes any sense.

John Glover

Deep Space Nine was also fun. I was kind of hoping that they would have my character back some time. Here was a guy who felt so inadequate and he turned evil in order to get what he felt he deserved. It was such a fascinating part to play. The cast and crew were incredibly supportive and welcoming to me.

Jerry Jones

Admittedly, he was surrounded by a (great) cast. Well, now he's got a lesser cast and he went out and did the same things. I've noticed a real shift in opinion on him as we've moved through the year. And that shift is probably worth quite a lot of money.

Jethro Tull

Sand castle virtues are all swept away, in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

Edie Falco

I spent a long time doing independent films, and I?d like to think I?m not getting cast because of the show, but because I?m right for the role.

Shahid Kapoor

My so-called 'reservations' and personal comfort zones can't define my work. That's not being professional. I feel that even if an actor is cast for the lead role or for any other part in the film, it is his job to do the film and not create an issue.

Shonda Rhimes

I've learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.

Randy Petersen

This year over 44,000 people cast their ballots, ... and it's the largest out there.

Ron James

We have a lot of trust in Jason. The primary thing with Jason is, once we get the surrounding cast to be more consistent, he will be more consistent.

S. Walker

This is great news for The Johnnie Walker Classic and is a true reflection of its standing as one of the most competitive, international and high profile tournaments in the world.

Elizabeth Searle

This is the classic envy story. And it was just so strange, and got stranger by the day.

Annika Sorenstam

The Mizuno Classic has been good to me, ... This is the first time I've had no bogeys in a 54-hole round and the first time with no 3-putts so I was very consistent and solid.

John Baumann

We did it the classic way. We went to a gear shop, got some ropes and then were wise enough to back away when we realized we needed more training. Luckily, we picked something forgiving, nothing that was too outrageous or too difficult.

Paul Kocin

You got some wind up there. And how many January days do you get temperatures of 60 early in the morning? That's a sign of how unusual the storm was. It was not your classic nor'easter.

Clive James

An education without a Bible education is no education.

Raymond Sokolov

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Duke of Wellington

Publish and be damned.

Zach Johnson

You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

Jenji Kohan

A TV touchstone for me is 'The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.' That series was whimsical and smart and had the mix of comedy and drama that I now trade in - but with a dash of magical realism. I wanted to be Molly Dodd, but more than that, I wanted to be Jay Tarses, who created the show.

Melissa McCarthy

At some point in the past, it was decided that women in comedy are never supposed to be shown in an unflattering light. But in comedy, you need all of your tools to be funny.

Mark Waters

Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.

Ray William Johnson

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

Mitch Hedberg

Sometimes I wave to people I don't know. It's very dangerous to wave to someone you don't know, because what if they don't have a hand? They'll think you're cocky. 'Look what I got... This thing is useful. I'm gonna go pick somethin' up.'

Reese Witherspoon

Romantic comedy has really evolved since that time when there used to be a lot of social conventions and all sorts of reasons why people couldn't be together,

Christy Romano

It would be a half-hour comedy that would really showcase my personality so my fans could get to know me. And I'd love to keep working with ABC.

Will Rogers

The way to judge a good comedy is by how long it will last and have people talk about it. Now Congress had turned out some that have lived for years and people are still laughing about them.

Brett Ratner

I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.

Gerhard Schroeder

Ratification must continue. We must decide what to do at the end of that process,

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

Epiphanny Prince

After I scored 29 points in the first quarter, I didn't think much of it. After I had 58 points at the half, and especially after having in the 80s after the third quarter, I just decided to go for it.

Dick Enberg

said Simms. ''It's a matter of time. The game is much faster in the TV booth. It's so hard to get it done in a three-man booth. There's less time to talk. With only two guys, Troy will be able to set it up, and decide what he wants to show and tell. I'm sure he's going to enjoy it. I'm also sure he liked Cris and working with him. But this is about freedom.

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.

Chevy Chase

The wireless industry needs to think about what to do about wireless vice before government decides for us,

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.

Kam Kuwata

That's why they have elections, and if she decides to file (paperwork to run), so be it.

Condoleezza Rice

that the idea that, within weeks, we're going to decide one way or another, is forward-leaning.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Michelle Gorman

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

Graham Morris

A decision of this magnitude is never spontaneous. My job is to make sure the journal operates smoothly.

Uli Hoeness

A decision like that before the most important league game this year is not an ideal moment.

Jacques Chirac

After its unilateral decision on Cyprus, Turkey must offer clarifications and ensure the 25-nation Union of its willingness to fully respect all of its obligations,

Herbie Hancock

Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz and have incorporated by sampling some elements that come from jazz.

James Glassman

These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated.

Bob Wise

There will be set modifications and different graphic elements from what we do.

Mark Thomson

I see that as a huge issue for all of us with high-functioning kids in elementary school.

Dennis Quaid

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

Robert Boswell

We lived on a farm outside a town of about 900 people. My father was the principal of the elementary school. It was a typical Southern town - there are a lot of churches, and it's dry.

Betsy Brandt

My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that I'm on it - he says that 'Breaking Bad' is his favorite show even though he's never seen it. It's really great that he says that, because it makes me look like mother of the year.

Rusty Fumi

Every school from the elementary to the two middle schools to the high school, we had representatives of every school.

William Cullen Bryant

To me it seems that one of the most important requisites for a great poet is a luminous style. The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Larry Cox

This is not something that needs to go before the board,

Fred Felleman

The whale has always flirted with this kind of danger. It was like that old children's cartoon, 'Are you my mother?' Orcas are very social animals, and this was the only way to get his social needs met.

Carnie Wilson

We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Dan Barker

Only sinners need saviors.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Debra Winger

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

Ben Okri

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will...

Baha'u'llah

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Ashton Kutcher

From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.

Bertrand Russell

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Benjamin Disraeli

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

Brendan Fraser

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Brenda Ueland

Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.

Jane Fonda

I found that you're more powerful when talking from your soul.

Ken Starr

Rights are in the power of the people.

Bob Dylan

I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.

Diane Lane

I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.

e. e. cummings

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Dolly Parton

I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all that you ever dreamed of, and I wish you joy and happiness. But above all of this, I wish you love.

Dean Martin

Your lips and mine, two sips of wine, memories are made of this.

Tom Hanks

I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.

Morton Hunt

Love ... is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.

Mason Cooley

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

Bill Gates

If they want we will give them a sleeping bag, but there is something romantic about sleeping under the desk. They want to do it.

Johnathan Frakes

To get that script as my first movie was just amazing.

Daniel Craig

Good scripts are hard to find.

Clive Anderson

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

Douglas Booth

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

Amber Heard

For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only.

D. A. Carson

The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.

D. A. Carson

Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting something, making a truth claim, uttering a proposition that is claiming to be true, it is the truth.

Sydney Pollack

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

Steve McFadden

EastEnders' keeps me so busy - that is where I'm at and I can't see that changing too soon. There's nothing that has quite got the punch of an 'EastEnders' script.

Marsha Sharp

Every single trip down the floor, we're going to take a look at LaToya first and see if we can find her.

Sally Adams

Every single day I think of it, and I always will.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Drew Barrymore

I love being single. It's great. I get to be who I am and do what I want and be with the people I love. I feel like I have everything and I'm very fortunate, and it's very rich fulfilling time in my life.

Chuck Palahniuk

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

Amanda Schull

Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.

Robert H. Schuller

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Rajneesh

I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don`t think for a single moment, "To be or not to be." Just not to be is the rule. What have you gained by trying to be? Just for a change try not to be, and you will be amazed. The moment you are not, there is contentment, there is silence, there is beauty, there is bliss. Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is egolessness.

Seth MacFarlane

There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.

Bob Freehan

This is not a new thing. It has been successful in other schools.

Brett Hull

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

Brian Tracy

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Brian Tracy

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

Brian Tracy

The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be.

Brian Tracy

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.