Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elvis Picardo

I think investors are asking why the Fed acted so quickly and so decisively.

Rob Reiner

I acted when I was young, but at 19, I had my own theater company where I acted but also directed. I also did some theater in Los Angeles. So I was always wanting to direct, even before I became an established actor.

James Franco

I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, 'There's a lot I can do with acting - there are a lot of things I can express and do creatively, but there are also limitations.'

Michael Giles

I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal.

David Paulson

I am concerned that hurricane victims are not receiving the assistance they need and money is being wasted as these professionals remain idle, ... Congress acted quickly to make sure that FEMA had the funds necessary for the rescue and recovery effort. I hope proper precautions are being taken to ensure that relief funds are spent in the most efficient manner possible.

B. F. Skinner

He has acted on the majority of them so far.

Daniel Craig

He doesn't look the part. In interviews and his movies he has never sounded or acted the part, and he looks like a dentist. But other than that, he really seems like he'll make a good Bond.

Andrew Benson

He made many decisions that night, ... He was goal-oriented and acted intentionally and knowingly.

Brad Miller

He never acted inappropriately with any of you?

Jose Barroso

I welcome the speed with which the commission and member states have been able to respond to the urgent request for help.

Harvey Pitt

Our commission has been subject to extremely high attrition, ... with the principle reason being the fact that our employees earn substantially less than their counterparts in the other financial service regulatory agencies.

Jimmy Carter

In 1988, there was no doubt that the election was shot through with fraud. In 1994, there was tremendous improvement. In 1996, the major parties got together and helped to evolve a new electoral law that made an independent commission to conduct the whole election,

Paul Donovan

The issues that we addressed in our commitments were not material ones. At the request of the commission we made a number of commitments in order to resolve potential antitrust issues, as did Abbott.

Peter Power

The Commission is confident in the objectivity and thoroughness of its investigative procedures, which presuppose no outcome to this case. This investigation continues.

Johannes Laitenberger

The commission has noted the decree with concern.

Thomas Vinje

The commission has a very strong case, I think the strongest it's ever had.

David Fiske

The commission has always taken its responsibilities to enforce the laws seriously.

Ken Ford

The commission had no alternative than to let the textiles through the ports. As the commissioner said - who would pay for the mountains of trousers and pullovers if we sent them back to China? But this situation should have been anticipated and avoided.

Geno Zamora

I am grateful to have had Tom Udall as my mentor in the practice of law.

Saint Patrick

I am just so grateful. I am grateful to be here. I am grateful to be alive. I am grateful to the jury. I am so grateful for the jury. They worked supper hard there was a lot that they had to take in,

Travis Barker

My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just grateful to be here at all.

William Zinsser

Be grateful for every word you can cut.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Sara Bareilles

I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.

Valerie June

I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.

Sarah Waters

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

Wentworth Miller

I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks.

David Stern

It happens at least probably 5 percent of the time.

Van Nguyen

He is my heart, ... If something happens to my son, my heart will be stopped.

Darren McCarty

I'm just happy I hit the net. I'm happy I didn't mess that up. When it happens bang-bang like that, you have less time to mess up because you don't have time to think.

Kevin Brooks

That's what happens. You just get on with it. There are no endings.

Elizabeth Smart

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

Eric Bogosian

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

Jonathan Ogden

It's not even really that important. Let's see what happens on Sunday.

Luis Castillo

I want to play every day, play hard, and if something happens it happens.

Jessie Evans

It shows what happens if we play together.

Neal Hersh

Kim is respectful of what the judge did and she's pleased with today. We're hopeful this will be the end of it.

Felipe Alou

He is the only pitcher I went (behind the cage) to see. I hope he didn't mind that.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be in the middle and hopefully we'll let him work his way toward the back.

Dan Svirbly

His year didn't end the way we hoped it would. He got down here for the second time and won a match again, he just couldn't quite get to the podium.

Mike Ackerman

I thought the team started out strong for their first game. I hope it will keep going from here.

Larry Finucane

I think we will improve. I hope we will, but we haven't really done anything yet.

Adam Greene

It got our attention. Before that, in our minds we weren't sure if we'd make it. It made me want to make it a lot more. I can't speak for the others, but I hope it worked the same for them.

John Kinsey

I think this is something we live with on a day-to-day basis, unfortunately, and hope that when we get these violent swings they provide an opportunity for longer term investors.

Arlen Specter

It is my hope that the president will now send us a nominee for Justice O'Connor's spot in the mold of Judge Roberts,

John Edwards

It is actually the responsibility of the president of the U.S. to be able to do two things at the same time,

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Dale Bills

He was strong and vibrant and it was vintage President Hinckley.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Woodrow Wilson

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

Woodrow Wilson

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

William McKinley

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

William J. Clinton

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

Sarah Palin

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

Commissioner Robinson

I'm very uncomfortable. We need to get it resolved as quickly as possible.

Don Gould

You'd be surprised how quickly you get used to having them.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

David Ayer

Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.

Alberto Lopez

Whatever is in the release is what we're saying officially.

Zola Jesus

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

Odalis Perez

It's no good. I started throwing, and when I go down, when I release the ball, it pinches me.

Matt Groening

Do my worst, eh? Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons." --Mr. Burns

Simon Bolivar

It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.

Alan Moore

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

Ryan Madson

After a while, it's too much to handle. You've got to release some stuff. Or you just take it. That's what makes you stronger. I'm just going to go out there and be myself and give everything I've got.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Tom Martin

We didn't just want to release a me-too product.

Thomas a Kempis

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Michael English

The streetcar will always have detractors. Is it going to go away? No. Is it going to be expanded? Yes, sooner or later.

Sue Black

The sooner I can alleviate everyone's fears, the better.

George Andrews

We tried to get foam on it as soon as we could. Any spark and that whole tanker could have blown,

Roy Halladay

We tried to do everything we could to get back as soon as possible,

Chuck Palahniuk

No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

George R. R. Martin

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

Dave Peters

Of course, as soon as I say that, we'll get hit.