Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

Will Poulter

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

Wendy Kopp

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Zubin Mehta

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

Yani Tseng

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Colin Baker

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Chris Carter

I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

Debasish Sen

The police have been asked to carry out investigations and carry out the required proceedings.

Yoshihiko Noda

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

Ivar Giaever

If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.

Ian Watson

Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.

William Kamkwamba

I want to build a machine that can drill wells for water. With this problem of water in many places in Africa, we need to find a solution for how you can dig wells so you can be pumping water from deeper places.

Vivek Wadhwa

The fastest way to get kicked out of a venture capitalist's office is to say that you want to build a business that grows steadily, focuses on employees, and creates wealth over the long term. Entrepreneurs with such ambitions are considered pariahs.

Elizabeth Warren

And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

Elizabeth Warren

How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.

Don Rickles

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

Dexter Holland

Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful and reach a big audience. I'm not trying to be the coolest guy in the world; I'm trying to write songs that mean something to people. As you get successful, sometimes you lose one set of fans and gain another.

Dav Pilkey

I thought it was the coolest thing on TV,

Pat Julmiste

The quarterback has to be the calmest and coolest guy on the field.

Steven Hall

One of the coolest things about touring around, actually, is getting to meet people, and getting to pick up on things that other people like. So many times, people come up to me after a reading and say, 'You must have read this,' or 'You must have seen this,' or 'Do you listen to this?' Usually I haven't.

Brenda Hampton

I had in mind a minister friend in New York, who's just the coolest reverend ever.

Steve Nyman

He's got the coolest head. He's not a choker at all.

Kristian Bush

I've tried to start my kids on 'Doctor Who,' but they're just not there yet. Someone had given me these TARDIS stick-em notes, so I gave them to Tucker, and he finally put them all over his locker. I'm like, 'You're the coolest fifth grader, ever!'

Kelli Berglund

I think it'd be the coolest thing if I could get a role in a dance movie. That's something I'm always going to love.

Johnny Rivers

I didn't get to talk to him, I just kept looking at him. Elvis had all this greasy hair and pimples on his face; he played a mean guitar and sang like no one else. I thought he was the coolest guy I'd ever seen. I wanted to be just like him.

Vonda Shepard

There was a singer-songwriter who slept on our couch for a year when I was about 7 or 8. She used to sing these songs for us, and I loved it. It was magical to watch her.

Marilynne Robinson

I used to write on a big old couch, but I gave that away. I was wise enough to give it to my son, so if it turns out that the couch was essential to my work, at least the decision to be rid of it is not irreversible.

Mike Leach

Tim Couch: He's like Couch from the point that you see him watching film in there quite a bit,

Helen Smith

We have a lot of couch potatoes out there. Hopefully, we can get away from that.

Zayn Malik

I'm a couch potato. I love to stay in and just watch a DVD with the missus. Or we all go over to Louis's house and watch 'X Factor.'

Brandon Heath

I was sitting on my couch watching and thinking, if only I had taken my education that much more seriously I'd be out there also.

Mike Ireland

To come seventh at the Olympics after a year of sitting on the couch isn't horrible. But I wanted to win.

Tom Larson

He was sitting on the couch in his pajamas. He had on his reading glasses, and he was facing the TV.

Diane Yomtov

He like, (choking sound), and I look at the end of the couch and it's covered with this foamy green vomit.

Isambard K. Brunel

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

William McDonough

I think the job of an original designer is to inspire.

Donatella Versace

Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.

David Carson

The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.'

David H. Murdock

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

Donald Norman

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

Donald Norman

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

Darell Hammond

Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those building our schools, designing our neighborhoods, and drafting government budgets.

Tyler Perry

There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized.

Ismail Kadare

If you are a serious writer or just a normal one, in one way or another, you are writing in the service of freedom. All writers know, understand, or dream that their work will be in the service of freedom.

Ben Carson

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

Bruce Coville

Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.

Christine Gregoire

We must work to help all families and all communities realize their dream of a better future.

Victoria Osteen

God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.

Nat Wolff

I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.

C. S. Lewis

Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

Isaac Mayer Wise

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.

John C. Calhoun

Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.

Amos Oz

But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort.

Cynthia Ozick

I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.

Amos Oz

I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them.

Aaron Himes

As someone who is fanatical about band, this is the perfect position to be in. I have a great love for music. I get completely lost in the musical experience.

Will Rogers

A fanatic is always the fellow on the opposite side.

Fisher Ames

That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.

Oscar Wilde

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

Alan Lomax

The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.

Jamie Hyneman

There are a lot of times when we can just time something and say "busted" or "confirmed" or whatever, instead of building a robot or some gadget to make it happen more elaborately. In those cases, we're simply enjoying ourselves.

Olivia Wilde

I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.

J. Michael Straczynski

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

Francis Ford Coppola

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

Scott Adams

I used to be into gadgets but it just seemed gadgets got boring.

Gia Coppola

I love to play with the gadgets that come with film.

Richard Dawkins

My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a single designer and not many designers?

Susan Orlean

I've loved some gadgets that were not worthy, and I've loved gadgets that I would have loved more if I had waited for their developers to figure out how to really make them work, but I loved them anyway.

John Battelle

Just like the VCR opened the film and TV industries to unimaginable new revenue streams, search, RSS and the Internet will do the same for marketers and media companies.

Greg Boyle

Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.

Lou Ehrenkrantz

You look for undervalued stocks by looking at industries that have been overlooked.

Sara Sheridan

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian's Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.

Harris Miller

Our first priority is the Internet Hippocratic oath: 'First, do no harm,' ... Unlike most lobbyists or industries in this town, we don't come to town with a long to-do list, but with a long don't-do list.

J. Paul Getty

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

Jerry Costello

Since 2000, we have lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, of which 500,000 jobs were in high-tech industries such as telecommunications and electronics.

Tracy Lefteroff

Solid levels of investing in traditional industries are being complemented by renewed interest in promising, fast-growing niches.

Terry Hill

There are now 75 industries in franchising and it's growing,

Donald Trump

Ronald Reagan became, you know, not only a Republican but a pretty conservative Repub - not the most. But a pretty conservative Republican. And he's somebody that I actually knew and liked. And he liked me. And I worked with him and helped him.

Will Chase

In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.

Clint Eastwood

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

Neil Simon

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

Dan Hinds

That was the turning point right there. We knew right there we'd be able to punch it in.

Jeff Hawkins

That was the turning point right there. That's when we knew we had them.

George W. Bush

That woman who knew I had dyslexia: I never interviewed her.

Pam Schild

We have always been supportive of his decision. We knew he would never do anything half-heartedly.

Matt Baker

We could have won the game. We knew we were in position. We took a shot and lost on it.

Ann Wilson

We're one of two stores that will be selling pizza by the pound.

Alessio Vinci

Pizza with pineapple, that's a cake...Pizza with cucumber, it's an insult.

Miranda July

Did you ever really love her? Not really no. But me? Yes. Even though I have no pizzazz?

R. Robinson

It's about like pizza dough, like licorice-flavored pizza dough.

Nick Jonas

I love pizza; you cant really go wrong with pizza.

Bryan Adams

I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.

Chris Hardwick

Well, you know he was just being nice. That was the only steak I had that year.

Anna Kendrick

I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.

Jay Cutler

It is the steak I get when I go there.

C. S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C. S. Lewis

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Bertrand Russell

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

Anthony Fauci

We have to see if it is true and if we can do anything about it,

Diane von Furstenberg

The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.

David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Bill Richardson

What I worry about is a new fiefdom within an already big fiefdom,

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.