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.

Elizabeth Baker

as the result of a clerical error on our part. We have apologised to Boeing, their partner Bell and their advertising agency for this mistake. We accept full responsibility for the error.

Grant Woods

As I see it, the most effective way to do this is frankly to accept these historical tales for what they are now known to be - folklore - and treat them in such a fashion that the realistic-minded, sophisticated people of our generation accept them... I sincerely hope that this painting will help reawaken interest in the cherry tree tale and other bits of American folklore that are too good to lose.

William Adams

At some stage the fundamentals will become influential again, but while the funds are willing and able to buy commodities, you have to accept that their patronage is the most influential aspect in the market and will remain so until something knocks them from their current thinking.

John Paxson

At some point, I think everybody has to accept the fact we're in this business to get to the playoffs, ... It's important we put expectations on these guys because there hasn't been any real urgency to start the season the last five years.

Ted Liu

At that time, no competitive bidding was required. Should there now or in the future be a different determination of the legality of the structure, I will accept full responsibility.

Matisyahu

At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

Richard Kissel

At the end of the day, you can't force somebody to accept evolution. We wouldn't want to do that. But hopefully they'll understand science is a very rigorous process, it's a very demanding process, where we test these theories day in and day out, and evolution is one that has held up for 100 years.

John McKee

Communication about money issues is among the biggest issues in the workplace. Women were more likely to accept what's offered. Men will push back.

Bobby Byerly

I keep telling Adam he's not our No. 9 guy, he's our second lead-off man. I'm trying to give him confidence.

Chad Brown

That's when the harshness of the business in this sport comes into play,

David Osgood

That usually takes nine months to a year from the time of the suspension, and by that time the business is gone.

Charles Brewer

That's why our students are so versatile. Those are the same skills that you'll need as a business executive, architect, librarian or social worker. There are not many jobs that require skills that psychology majors don't have.

Carl Poston

That's just the way this business goes. You never know when something will get done.

Lee Skelley

That's just part of the cost of doing business. If they're helicopter-worthy, it's free.

Ted Ludwig

That's going to be hard for them. It's not even business as usual now, and we haven't walked off the property yet.

David Strow

That's how we generate business for our resort properties. I don't think you'll see us pulling away from those markets because they remain an important part of our strategy.

Jim Alexander

That should please me because I have been in business for 31 years and that law doesn't pertain to me -- but it doesn't please me because it restrains trade.

Greg Graham

That's hard for JC guys to do, graduate in two-plus years. They've taken care of business in the classroom and have really matured and are getting things set for their future.

Chris Jones

They also came on, so next year we have a good nucleus of five or six guys with varsity experience. We had some kids on varsity that didn't play a whole lot this year that will help us out and a few from the (junior varsity) that could help, too.

Kerry Collins

The whole season has been disappointing, but I am proud of the way guys hung in there and fought. I know that guys came to play tonight and it was unfortunate that things didn't work out in our favor.

Melissa Joan Hart

The whole reason Sabrina came about was because we wanted something good for families to watch on TV.

Jeff Barnes

The whole point of the project is, you think of the migration of people, the cultural story, or you think of the migration of animals. Our goal is to intertwine those stories. These people came here because the fish came here.

Larry Bowman

The whole impetus came from a handful of members who really said we need to do a relief effort.

Frank Beamer

The win was good. I didn't think we were as efficient offensively, especially in that second quarter, as we needed to be. Some dropped balls, some lack of execution. I thought we came back in the third quarter and got some things done.

Ryan Hunter

The winning run came home on an error, which was a bummer. Rob did an outstanding job, but our hitters need to start scoring more runs. We need to develop more of a clutch hitting mentality.

Ted Purdy

The wind came up after about seven holes and I was lucky to be four or five under at that point,

Ted Purdy

The wind came up about the seventh hole. Fortunately, I was four-under before that. I had the eighth hole, a long par three, and it was straight downwind. That actually helped on that hole.

Rosa Luxemburg

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

Roland Barthes

Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.

Susan George

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

Susan Collins

When we're impatient with beginners around us, we would do well to sign up for a class in scuba diving, ballroom dancing or anything else totally brand-new for us.

Susan Cain

We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.

Suresh Raina

I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.

Sting

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

Steve Jobs

The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

Tom Kenny

People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.

Harry Reasoner

We're all controlled neurotics.

Dayton Moore

I never saw Derek Jeter when was young, but that's who he reminds me of. He's just real sure and real controlled with everything that he does.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Melvin Oliver

Well, I play defense. So, I mean I want to hurt the quarterback. So, any free shot that I get, I'll gladly take it.

Mike Bibby

We played hard tonight. Our top guns weren't in the game so we had to play hard. I got to the free throw line a lot. It was a good win for us.

Tyrone Murphy

We have to shoot better free throws than that. That's not good enough.

Jamie Dixon

He really set the tone early. He recognized what we wanted to do early. He waited for his shots and he made his free throws.

Mark Pearson

If I had done my job better of preparing these guys, we would have done better. But (Freedom's) soccer, well, wasn't really soccer. They had to rely on free kicks and throw-ins. And for us to lose to a team that plays that type of soccer is very disappointing.

Ricardo Patton

I don't see any harm in it. . . . We have guys who miss free throws who are really good shooters.

Chris Gorog

I don't think free music is a hard sell.

Will Rogers

We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory

Bobby Cox

Every once in a while he tries to overthrow out there. He throws 100 (mph) instead of pitching.

Bobby Scott

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

Mavis Staples

I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King.

Nathan Fillion

Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

Nancy Mitford

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

Ken Salazar

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

Mary Renault

It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.

Mikhail Bakunin

Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists and politicians - all of them, down to the meanest grocer, repeat in chorus the words of Voltaire, that if there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him.

R. C. Sproul

The only way the kingdom of God is going to be manifest in this world before Christ comes is if we manifest it by the way we live as citizens of heaven and subjects of the King.

Patrick Rothfuss

Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Michael Gove

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

Sarah Caldwell

Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.

Sarah Burton

Do what you love and believe in, and work hard.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.

Sara Blakely

When I was growing up, my dad would encourage my brother and I to fail. We would be sitting at the dinner table and he would ask, 'So what did you guys fail at this week?' If we didn't have something to contribute, he would be disappointed. When I did fail at something, he'd high-five me. What I didn't realize at the time was that he was completely reframing my definition of failure at a young age. To me, failure means not trying; failure isn't the outcome. If I have to look at myself in the mirror and say, 'I didn't try that because I was scared,' that is failure.

Samuel Smiles

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.