Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Verrill

The older guys have accepted the young kids and see what they can do. I think that had to happen.

Chris Benz

I used to sit in bed at night and flip through design-school catalogs. I found out that Parsons accepted a small number of high school juniors, so I applied my sophomore year and got in.

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.

Brian Barnhart

At this point in time, we don't have any manufacturers who have accepted the challenge of taking on Honda.

Richard Boucher

What we're trying to do now is get the parameters accepted in a way where the reservations are reconcilable and, therefore, we know that both sides are in a position to negotiate seriously.

Kathy King

We know that a large number of our Gourmet Consultants have been offering Two Sisters Gourmet products to their local organizations for fundraising programs. However, this has often involved some sort of commission sharing arrangement whereby our Consultants are making less profit than they would otherwise. While this has been an accepted practice in the direct selling industry, we wanted to provide our Consultants with a program that lets them keep their profits while offering a very attractive commission to the fundraising organization.

James Meade

Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.

Jim Wilkinson

Secretary Rice asked him to stay but he felt it was time for new challenges. She reluctantly accepted his resignation but told him to keep his uniform ready.

Robert Jarvis

So if all that Ms. Greene has done is looked out for her constituents, and said that she's going to cast her vote in a way that is best for them, then there wouldn't be bribery. If, however, if she asked or received from developers or someone else, money or some other tangible property or item that has value that she accepted in exchange for promise to vote or not vote in a serving way, then that would of course be bribery.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Terry McAuliffe

the whole country has been in play, all the different groups of the Democratic Party have been involved in this process, and we need to narrow this down.

Gary Bauer

This country can be better than it is today, and I intend to make it better,

Brett Eldredge

I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

Boris Spassky

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.

Argus Hamilton

Fox News reported Thursday that Bill Clinton can't get into any of New York's better golf and country clubs. Not one member has been willing to sponsor him. So it's official, he really is America's first black president.

Argus Hamilton

The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and love gone wrong. Next year they're giving Robert Blake the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Aravind Adiga

Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

Brian Blessed

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

Channing Tatum

Comedy doesn't come easy for me. I've only done 2 movies that are really comedy-style films and I have to work at them. And they're just as scary in a way. I hate labeling all these things; comedy, love stories, dark drama, whatever.

Desi Arnaz

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

Clive Standen

With period dramas, it's very easy to get excited because I love to do them. I'm a history nut and I love to immerse myself in the research.

Diane Kruger

I consider myself a 'local' actor in France. I started out in France, I went to drama school in France and the French film community was very welcoming to me when I was a young actress.

Eckhart Tolle

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

Thoko Didiza

There should not be any drama and there is no drama.

Andrew McMahon

You can't control what goes on around you, you can't. But for me, I think there's staples of these moments, that crazy moment where you think you're indestructible. That moment where you find out that you're not. And then that moment where all of a sudden you go, okay, I'm not indestructible but I'm gonna be okay. You have this life, and we all have these lives we live but it takes a bit of learning before you realize not every drama's going to kill you and not every hard day has to lead to another one.

Amy Pascal

Because all the movies that we tell ourselves we can't make - ballets, westerns, dramas, everything that are the hardest things to make - those are the movies that are not only winning awards which is fantastic, but also those movies that are commercial. We won't see a fascinating season like this for a while.

Rusty Petrea

Now my passion is different. Now my passion is guiding this fantastic thing known as the First Tee.

Dougray Scott

It was very hot, very rugged and quite inaccessible. But I had a fantastic time. The work is the thing that motivates me.

Richard Miller

It was an outstanding show. She's a great show person, and she did a superb job. There was really something for everybody. I looked around and could just see smiles on everyone's faces. It was a fantastic show and everyone had a really great evening.

Graeme Souness

I understand that on Monday, our final offer was rejected, so I think that one is finished, unfortunately. We have made a fantastic offer for the player and really, there is a limit on how much you can spend on one player.

Andy Ball

The women had a fantastic season and will do even better in 2006!

Ciaran Hinds

That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.

Gary Maurer

We're having some fantastic meals. They sure know how to cook.

Ted Sarandos

'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is not a direct-to-video, low-budget sequel: it's a big film. And it'd be fantastic to have the opportunity to see it on the IMAX screens at the same time, and IMAX has made arrangements with us for that to happen.

Bill Daly

Brendan was fantastic throughout the process, ... He always put the game first.

Nancy Greene

After all those years of not wanting to be a farmer, I'm doing it full time. But I wouldn't be any other place than here.

Mark Murray

Technically, this is simply what's called the 'answer' to the complaint. So it is not Microsoft's full response and all the company's legal arguments.

Jennifer Granholm

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

Susan Thomson

These are all fully-licensed and fully registered brokers,

Rowan D. Williams

I shall want to know more about how you will come to have a full share in the good things of this country.

Peter Coleman

This is still a significant injury, but one that with rehabilitation Troy will be able to fully recover from.

Carl Cornwell

We're guilty judge, and we take full responsibility for these (four) offenses.

Candace Cameron Bure

I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.

Todd Rundgren

I'm not a one-hit wonder as some suggest. I've had a couple of hits, but still, all of my hits were in the '70s. There was pretty much nothing in the '80s, '90s, or in the first full decade into the next millennium.

Les Paul

We're switching the sounds, not so much the tone of the instrument. And when things seem impossible, it's back to grade school, soldering, re-developing - always building.

Paul Morse

There's some guys looking at him, so he needs to get his grades in order. There are people that want him. He's just got to get the test score to get in.

Eric Johnson

I was terrible my first year. In 10th grade I was still bad, but the team needed someone that small. I knew that I just needed to stay off my back for the team.

Frank Brothers

He's still pretty green, but any time you win a Grade I at Saratoga, it's pretty good.

Evan Anderson

I didn't know much about it. Actually, I didn't know anything. My grade school coach, Alden Dahl, he really got me interested in the sport. He really thought that I could be something special.

Mark Johnson

If I had to open up a new third grade tomorrow, I couldn't do it, ... I don't have the room.

Frank Raffone

That means more kids have passed it before getting to 12th grade and don't have it hanging over their head right now.

Sean Hayes

We are really pleased with our results and 69% of students received A to C grade passes.

Mark Jula

Thomas is right there with them. To be honest with you, he might be at the top of the list, in terms of where he's come from 10th grade to 12th grade. What he's done in those two years is really a tribute to him working hard.

Sean Howard

This drug should not be administered by mouth or any other way to a 6-year-old.

David Bowie

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

Rumi

I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

Thomas Harris

When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.

Thomas Hardy

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")

Shabazz Muhammad

Closed mouths don't get fed, and I'm gonna eat every time I get on the court.

Steven Tyler

I got in trouble my whole life for having a big mouth.

Richard Sherman

Don't you open your mouth about the best!

Miguel de Cervantes

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Henry Lewis

The music, the dress, the color, the stage settings ? there's nothing in the world like it. The whole of Massachusetts should rush here, honestly.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Aretha Franklin

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Brian Setzer

Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

Charles Kingsley

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

James Young

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

James Young

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

James Young

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

Kate Micucci

I'm really shy - I don't do karaoke.

Dorothy Allison

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

Nick Carter

I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.

Patti LaBelle

I was very shy. I'm still shy.

Farrah Fawcett

Im shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I wont sit on a toilet seat on a plane. Im certainly not going to go on somebodys lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?

Candice Swanepoel

I don't know if it is obvious, but I am extremely shy.

George Hamilton

Basically, I'm a shy human being. Very introverted.

Heidi Klum

I come from a place where we're not that shy about our bodies.

Alan Moore

I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

Daniela Ruah

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

Lance Henriksen

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

Michael Myers

I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals why water has a 95 percent and CO2 a 3.6 percent contribution to the 'greenhouse effect.' Carbon dioxide emissions worldwide each year total 3.2 billion tons. That equals about 0.0168 percent of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration of about 19 trillion tons. This results in a 0.00064 percent increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. This is an insignificantly small number.

Michael Keaton

Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up.

Brad Radke

I think these two teams have a lot in common. We can look out and say, 'Look what the A's can do with a small payroll' and we're in the same boat.

Lilly Singh

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

Aaron Sanchez

I think I can find a house, ... but a small house.