Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Rayner

Another very significant program that was enabled by the school building changes was the fifth grade band program. All students at Norrie and at All Saints Academy take band, they have to try an instrument.

James Roche

Prior to the arrival of the new class of cadets this June, we will implement changes to ensure the safety of all cadets while reinforcing academy ties to the active Air Force military culture,

Michael Barker

Oscar nominations are really important for a picture of quality, for a film that is not thought of as mainstream. We try to stay true to who we are, I'd like to think it basically says that slow and steady can win the race -- these Academy Award nominations validate that theory.

James Stewart

After the awards, I didn't win, my father called me up and told me that the man from Johnstown had put all kinds of signs in the theatre saying, 'This year's Academy Award winner... ' because my father had said I was going to win. And I didn't. But this guy asked if it would be alright if he took the Oscar and put it in the lobby and put a sign saying, 'This is what it would look like if he had won'.

Alphonso Jackson

The National Fair Housing Training Academy will be a major component in fully enforcing the letter and the spirit of the Fair Housing Act and further ensuring that fair housing is central to the American way of life,

Michael Behe

The National Academy of Sciences treats intelligent design in a way what I consider utterly misleading. Talk about scholarly malfeasance!

Sherwood Boehlert

The National Academy of Sciences has made clear that mileage can be increased significantly with current technologies and without reducing safety.

George Daley

The National Academy of Sciences guidelines for stem cell research prohibits payment to egg donors, and scientists in the U.S. have embraced those principles. There is a right way and a wrong way, and we must be sure to perform this vitally important medical research the right way.

Paul Boyce

The National Academy is structured in a way that allows it to tap universities, private enterprise and other research organizations for experts.

Michelle Jenneke

I think even if I was to go out there and win the Olympics, everyone's still going to remember the pre-race routine that I do and the video that went viral, so, y'know, that's alright for me.

Garrett Godwin

He's not real trendy but he'll do alright out there.

Roger Mears

I think they just about have the building water-tight. I think they'll have it water-tight by the end of the day. I think that we'll probably be alright as long as we don't get hit, you know, with a similar situation.

Ike Davis

I pitched alright because I didn't really have the off -speed pitch, but my fastball was better than most days.

The Beatles

I'll buy you a diamond ring, my friend If it makes you feel alright

David Almond

Yes. But sad's alright. Sad's just apart of everything

Duncan Fletcher

We can't make a decision over replacements just yet, we have to give it a couple of days. Simon Jones could wake up and be fine in two days, while if the injection works Vaughan could be alright by next week. We'll just have to fiddle things about for the moment.

Gianfranco Fini

As of today, the organizers of the conference had asked for entry visas for six Iraqi political exponents notorious for positions which are radical, extremist and not unequivocally hostile to terrorism,

Mike Sabock

After signing Ryan Diem (now a starting lineman with the Indianapolis Colts), I asked him about the mail he had received, and his mom said he got one letter or more a day from Kentucky and they never came to his school and never called him. It just shows he was on their list, but they never followed up on it. It's crazy.

Steve Morton

Once the shootings occurred in Jonesboro and people asked if there is hope for the future, is there hope tragedies like this can be avoided, we stood up to be counted and said yes, there is hope.

Chris Kelly

Delta employees continue to rise to the challenge every time something is asked of them, ... Delta employees know how important their job is and how every passenger matters.

John Stone

A number of members (of Congress) have gone back to their constituents and asked about it, and that's where it's shouted, 'No,'

Steve Watson

An individual came from the back door and had an armful of property and we asked if he lived there and he said, 'no.' We asked him what he was doing there and he said he stopped to use the bathroom.

E. B. White

An older model El Camino pulled up and the individual asked the child if they wanted a ride and the child refused,

Qiu Xiaohua

A reporter asked me, 'Which indicators are you most happy with?' I said without hesitation: the 9.7 million jobs.

Kevin Burbach

The seniors really played hard tonight. They did everything I asked and they just didn't get it done tonight.

E. O. Wilson

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Jon Huntsman

It was tough to keep the tears back, quite frankly. As you pin the award on, you salute them shake their hands.

Anil Kapoor

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

Patricia Clarkson

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

Jon Corzine

Let's award public contracts by competition and quality, not contributions.

Joe Thornton

From Day 1, I just played real well with Cheech. You don't plan for something like this. These two awards are definitely team-oriented, and we're just happy for each other.

Steven Cojocaru

I have a big mouth and I'm very opinionated, like most of my friends are, especially my girlfriends the day after an awards show,

Jeffrey Tambor

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

Gena Showalter

Please, I'd love to meet the guy you couldn't handle, and give him and award.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Barbara Kingsolver

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Jane Fonda

How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

Mardy Collins

See that guy, that's the guy who's key for us. When he plays well, we play well.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Dan Richardson

Right now we are still struggling to find a lineup. We are trying to get some guys who can play well under the pressure of a tournament.

Bill Bavasi

Right now, this doesn't threaten anybody. This doesn't threaten Lawton at all; he's an important guy on our club.

Mike Adras

Right now, the guys are so hurt. I don't want to shortchange the NIT because we're going to be a part of it. It's not the tournament we wanted to be in. But you know what? It's still an accomplishment for us to get our team into the postseason.

E. B. White

Pound for pound, he's the scariest guy we have. He's nasty.

Jerry Wainwright

Sammy to me is a guy who has to be healthy to play well. I'd rather come down on the side of safety.

Mark Dacey

Quebec can throw some serious heat. Those guys throw it a million miles an hour, so if you're ever two down to them you are working hard to get your points back.

Ted Schmitz

Quarterbacks don't have to have a gun. Everything you do is a touch pass. We looked for that as well as a leader. We wanted an experienced guy and we got two of them.

Tony Fratto

No one wants to see these kinds of international tensions over these issues.

Mike Wilton

The team did well at times, and didn't play well at times. It was one of those kinds of matches.

Bertrand Russell

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Rob Babcock

We had to do something with our roster. We could have waited but we looked at all kinds of different possibilities, two-for-one (trades), things like that. We just couldn't come up with anything that worked.

Haley Barbour

Those are the kinds of things that will be discussed,

Pat Thomas

Those are the kinds of things people would have never thought would happen.

Al Gillen

Those kinds of things are incremental improvements that really were pretty important.

Duke Ellington

There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

Source Unknown

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

Ricky Nolasco

I got off the bus, I noticed nobody had their luggage. 'Where are our bags?' I got to the lobby and I still couldn't find it.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Marcus Antonius

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Jill Soloway

Your first job, I tell people I mentor, is managing your affect. Be nice and say nice things. Make it so that the people walk away from interacting with you and say, 'That was fun.' That will make them want to come back and do it again.

Channing Pollock

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Jim Hopson

We did find ourselves in a position of having to go back and manage our customers' expectations.

Arthur C. Clarke

Science is the only religion of mankind.

Stephanie Zimbalist

My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.

Tobey Maguire

It definitely deserved an Oscar, but not a Golden Globe.

Ang Lee

In a year when the Oscars have such an independent spirit, I really treasure this encouragement.

Philippe Falardeau

I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it.

Oscar Campos

(We will do) whatever we have to do. One thing is what Oscar (Arias) thinks today and another thing is what he's going to have to think tomorrow.

Todd Jones

The signs are there that they can do it. It's going to take a long time for them to get to that Target level.

Saul Williams

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

Olivier Gasnier

There are really no encouraging signs in this survey.

Jon Alterman

There hasn't been a 'peace process' for some time, and I don't see any signs there's going to be one resuming.

Boris Spassky

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

Andrzej Wajda

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

Andrei Tarkovsky

The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.

Syd Barrett

In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show

Victor Garber

You can only do so much theatre.

Victor Hugo

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

Shaun Sipos

I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.

John Patrick Shanley

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

Max Irons

As an actor, variety is the spice of life. I love theatre... it's what I enjoy the most. But a bit of TV, a bit of film, a bit of stage - what more could you ask for?

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Ron Hill

See? We've watched; we took that little insurance. You didn't like it, but we took it back away.

David Pyper

It was a little disappointing that it took that long.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Julie Taylor

We got shots, but we took them too quick. We didn't take our time.

Romain Massaro

Everything was very different then. But when Owen took over the team, I really had a much better year.

Neil Callaway

Basically, we took him just because he's a big kid.

Bob Kendrick

He took it a whole lot better than I did; I'm still mad.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,