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.

Kevin Wright

When you run the option, the idea is to get going downhill right now and Dexter does an unbelievable job at that. He's a player who has the potential to score on every play.

Edward Gibbon

But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest.

Rick Rodriguez

If we lose that game, it's Seminole going to the playoffs and not us. Dexter willed us to a victory in that game because he knew we had to win it. That's what I'll always remember.

Jeff Lindsay

I wanted Dexter to have a family that could love him and understand him.

Patrick McMahon

It would not be hard to come up with the projects to equal the $500,000. An estimate for the Dexter Plaza from a few years back was $150,000. In addition, the train station could easily reach $200,000, just in soft funds alone.

George Burley

I'm hoping Paul stays fit, otherwise we may have to use Dexter again.

Gavin Miller

Holy cow; that's a big deal. That's the first time ever for Dexter to be ranked No. 1 in the poll. That is just a really big honor, because even last year we were never No. 1.

Rick Rodriguez

get in front of someone and Dexter will do the rest.

Rick Rodriguez

I took Dexter out in the fourth quarter. Better to be safe than sorry.

C. S. Lewis

It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

Bertrand Russell

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

Ryan Stasik

That was so long ago, we don't think about it. We like the scene, but it's not diverse enough.

Patti Smith

New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walked down the city and heard four or five different languages simultaneously. I think that's beautiful.

Carlos Samano

Today there was a lot more diversity in the buying.

Bob Marcusse

We have a large, diverse and well-educated work force that is highly productive, and that helps.

John Largay

We have a great lineup of music. We tried to keep the theme of diverse music, universal appeal.

Ryan Hall

We have more diversity. You can't expect (English-learners) to do as well as others. Like if I went to Mexico, I would fail all their tests.

Rich Campbell

With the support of our loyal guests, we've been able to grow our offerings from a single resort in Mexico to nine diverse destinations throughout the world in 2006.

Darell Hammond

Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.

Pico Iyer

Wherever we are, any time of night or day, our bosses, junk-mailers, our parents can get to us. Sociologists have actually found that in recent years Americans are working fewer hours than 50 years ago, but we feel as if we're working more. We have more and more time-saving devices, but sometimes, it seems, less and less time.

Mark McKinnon

Social Security and Medicare are necessary safety nets, but they are nearing insolvency as fewer pay in, more take out, and more take out more.

Shannon McSweeney

Midweek is always quiet, and in the pouring rain there wasn't too many people out. On any rainy day there's going to be fewer people doing any outdoor activity.

Paul Fronstin

We are in the midst of a weak economy. That means fewer jobs and fewer people with coverage.

Josh Bernoff

It doesn't matter how friendly you are if the end result is people watching fewer commercials,

Lynn Reaser

We are seeing on one side fewer layoffs, and on the other side we are seeing a pickup in hiring.

Charles Steinberg

My understanding is Carroll worked fewer than 1,000 hours and got a watch. There is a security staff of several hundred who are not full-time.

Jason Falkner

I feel that recording a song already compromises the magical music one can create in the mind, so the fewer people watering down this process the better.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Max von Essen

When I'm working, I try to be serious and rest where I can. I just mark in rehearsals. I still train. I warm up. And I still take lessons from this unbelievable teacher in New York, Joan Lader. I try to be stretched and ready to go.

Amber Tamblyn

I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.

Christina Hendricks

My husband says, 'What Joan walk? You've always walked that way!'

Georganne Arrington

Shirley and Joan have done kids' shows for about 40 years now, and I think they've got it down.

Julie Klausner

I have nothing snarky to say about Joan Rivers' appearance. We should all be that happy with how we look on camera, frankly.

Irving Stone

My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

Pat Craig

The police like that it's in the afternoon. They think less people will be drunk.

Phillip Neuhart

The picture is getting less and less pretty.

Winona LaDuke

Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.

Joyce Cary

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Larry Colagiovanni

That was his normal route. He said he didn't like (Interstate) 95. Less traffic. Less lights.

Kati Haycock

That we have such problems is clear. The way to better results is less clear.

Porter Goss

We need to have this surveillance, and if there's a way we can do it differently in ways that are less offensive to some people, that might be a matter worth discussing.

Yo-Yo Ma

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

Keitaro Matsuda

The overcrowding problem is likely to get worse.

Anthony Chan

The overall total of nominal sales is likely to remain somewhat weak.

David Hewson

I'm much more likely to get lynched over 'The Killing' than 'Macbeth.'

Peter Singer

Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see that others are giving. The richest people, in particular, should be setting an example.

Mark McKinnon

If you're running for office, it's tough to be an incumbent. It's tough to run out of Washington. It's better to be an outsider. And Establishment support doesn't help; it more likely hurts.

Peter Jackson

Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off.

Danny Ferry

Most likely we'll have two second-round picks next year.

Kevin McCarthy

Most likely it was the snow on the power lines, or a tree on the power line.

Zoe Sugg

When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

Whitey Ford

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

Van Morrison

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

Yayoi Kusama

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

Yayoi Kusama

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

David Foster

I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.

Chris Capuano

That was a sloppy inning. Take it away, and maybe we win.

Alex Rodriguez

That will never end. Maybe when I retire it will stop. I use it as a motivation.

Randy Moss

I think I played in Lambeau maybe 14, 15 times. I've played there a lot of times. It's in the teens, double digit. I've had success on that field, won and lost.

Catherynne M. Valente

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Anton Chekhov

I'm in mourning for my life.

Anton Chekhov

When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

Edmund Spenser

Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate

Edmund Burke

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

Edward Everett

When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.

Clarice Lispector

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

Alice Miller

That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.

Andrew Jackson

Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Cecil Taylor

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano?

Cecil Taylor

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

Cecil Taylor

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

Anton Rubinstein

The pedal is the soul of the piano.

Bill Bruford

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

Barry Mann

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

Conrad Sewell

You have those songs that are very special to you that you don't want to get ruined by production. Something like 'Start Again' shouldn't be touched. It's a classic-sounding song on a piano and violins and harmonies, and I think those songs are perfect as they are.

Caio Fonseca

I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.

Ben Barnes

No one wants to be with a girl that your mother would pick for you.

Richard Avedon

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

B. F. Skinner

We'll pick those off as we are able,

Bruno Cullen

We've got probably 11 forwards who can play NRL, and we're only going to pick eight.

Riley Wallace

We have to play our game. We'll pick our spots to run, but we can't run-and-gun. That's their style.

Paul Horn

Basically, I like to pick up my flute, which is a pretty instrument, and play pretty on it.

Sarah Price

(My children) need to pick up the torch and keep on moving.

DeShaun Foster

You just pick one, ... and go at him.

Mads Mikkelsen

I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.

Donald Trump

I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'

Will Chase

I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

Colm Meaney

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

Spencer Stewart

That was a totally different team than the one we saw twice this season. They got a lot better and played a tough game.

Demond Garth

That was a stage down at Wallace State, and he played unreal.

Amy Pettibone

That which does not kill you only makes you stronger. We have played with the best. I look at the state rankings, and there aren't many that we haven't played. You've got to test your players.

Janis Pardy

We have all played together for so long. We have a lot of chemistry. We know how each other plays and can predict what they are going to do next.

Dee Brown

We could have played better. We didn't play our best, but we stuck it out and we won.

Bill Hader

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Rosario Dawson

That was something that we really worked on, not repeating ourselves. But I was like, 'This is not going to be a problem because I'm playing a woman.'

Chris Masoner

That was really important for us. We really wanted it ... It's so important for us to go into the playoffs playing like this.

Tiger Woods

We need to keep playing more in Ohio. It's that simple. We don't have enough tournaments here.

Kobe Bryant

We have to understand that we're not playing for right now; we're playing for the long haul. It's important to be patient. It will come.

Paul Eenhoorn

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

Landon Donovan

We were getting slaughtered, ... We weren't playing well at all yet we're up, two-zero. But that's soccer.

Kevin Williams

We were still playing for a title, because we were playing for second.

Colby Armstrong

Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time.

Bill Walker

Those are the kind of programs we would like to see subsidies shifted into.

Rod Williams

We were able to put together a packet of programs and get her into a house.

David Heil

We don't know if any of it's going to be funded at all, and if so, we don't know what programs it will be spent on,

Kevin Eastler

We stay in touch pretty regularly, via e-mail or the phone. He'll send me programs and I'll tell him how I'm feeling. He'll give me paces and whenever we have the opportunity, we'll get together.

Christopher Hill

Our view is that stopping their programs is simply something they have to do.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Derek Walker

They've gutted all the programs to save the bay.

Thomas Burke

That's $200,000 in drug programs that won't get funded,

Tom Brookes

It will be similar to the licensing programs in the U.S..

Ariel Pink

I always thought, 'I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that. But I don't do that.' But of course, it wasn't really up to me.

Evangeline Lilly

Money is the longest route to happiness.

Steve Howard

The big thing for the stable being on our route is the authenticity.

Chris Ryan

They don't want us on the same route (as the cyclists).

John Clarke

Even something, such as Route 9 south, can be turned, over time, into a greenway.

Toby Hall

It's a new route we need to take,