Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Davis

After consulting with all of the school districts in my Assembly district and talking with parents that have school aged children, I have decided to introduce legislation that will continue to increase the cap on open enrollment, ... This bill will help smaller rural schools where students currently enjoy small class sizes.

Elizabeth Selvin

This is the first study with national data on the prevalence of ED in the United States. ED varies by age, with 5 percent of men aged 20 to 40 having ED, to 70 percent of men 70 and older.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary on the work, and as someone who held the sculpture in high esteem and who largely considered ballet to be the high-minded pursuit of privileged young girls, I was struck by what I would learn.

Nicholas Hoult

Richard wanted me to play him aged 11 and 15, but as soon as he saw how tall I'd grown - I'm six foot two - he had a rethink and cast another boy as his younger self.

Eddie Izzard

Pol Pot killed one point seven million Cambodians, died under house arrest, well done there. Stalin killed many millions, died in his bed, aged seventy-two, well done indeed. And the reason we let them get away with it is they killed their own people. And we're sort of fine with that. Hitler killed people next door. Oh, stupid man. After a couple of years we won't stand for that, will we?

Steve Diamond

We're delighted that Ben has signed a new deal. He has shown in the tough competition that is the Guinness Premiership what he can do and at aged 23, he has a good future in front of him if he works hard and continues to improve.

Craig Brown

When I was a boy, I used to stay with a school friend in Bexhill, in Sussex, which was then well-known for being the town with more oldies than any other. Aged ten, I felt slightly embarrassed by this, though I'm not sure why.

Jack Abbott

I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine and a half months.

Chris Melville

However the... head of state has visibly aged in the past two years and his health may have deteriorated somewhat. He has made a number of private visits to allied Morocco in recent months, where good and discreet private healthcare is widely available.

Rick Danko

Bob wrote the song during The Basement Tapes time period; we put it on Music From Big Pink. Richard did a great job singing it in falsetto.

Jim Pappas

We got out of the basement of the Raccoon River Conference and we then wrestled our very best at districts.

Dave Kolesar

There's a group of maybe up to a dozen of my friends. We all go into my basement on a Friday night and put on a free-form show.

Judith Jamison

I smelled the same smells as a kid growing up in my little house in Philadelphia. My father used the basement as his craft shop. And when I smelled the wood and saw the shine of the stainless steel set, it brought a tear to my eye.

Robert Coleman

From my basement I heard an explosion and I ran and I called for my family to come downstairs. And I saw fire bursting out of the basement, so I got them as quickly as I can and I came outside and the fire started upstairs.

Andy Engel

If the basement is just damp or smells a little musty, generally, a properly sized dehumidifier works just fine.

Paul Westerberg

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.

William Mills

I took a set of the foundation and basement plans home and worked on the dining room table and came up with a figure of $400,000, ... Bids were received by Maas Brothers, and the lowest was more than three times my estimate.

Stephen Gaghan

I could have concentrated on George Clooney's character, ... I could have had him in every scene and told the entire story from his point of view. That certainly would have made my life a lot easier over the last several years. But the canvas was too large. These days, if you make a movie about East and West and turn it into a simple piece of disposable entertainment, that seems to me criminal.

Robert Rauschenberg

A canvas is never empty.

Tom Yawkey

Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball.

Henry David Thoreau

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

Mike Byrne

The sad thing is that his legacy is with us still today in dozens of investment schemes that sound too good to be true - and are.

Paul Wick

You'll see a lot of stocks take it on the chin. It's happening to dozens of Internet companies.

Howie Long

He's playing like he's been in the league for a dozen seasons.

Richard Cox

They are hosted on Yahoo! I just took three hot words, but there are dozens of others including misspellings. They are mostly phishing websites,w hich shows that the situation is out of control.

Edward Dmytryk

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.

Richard Ben-Veniste

So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed.

Florence Green

I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, but I was scared of flying.

Gary Hamel

It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.

James Taylor

There are a dozen or so songs people are expecting to hear, ... You don't do them all, but you put six or seven of those songs in the set. And you try to vary the arrangement of things that are familiar.

Philip Glass

And then I went back to New York and found other people doing it. A handful of people.

Mahmud Abbas

President Mahmud Abbas on Friday November 11, 2005 laid the foundation stone of the mausoleum of the late president Yasser Arafat,

Randy Ridley

This is the foundation of the whole season. These are the guys that we really want to look at who we feel will be an important part of our season.

Bob Macey

This is the culmination of everything we said we would be doing. The foundation and the supporters of the foundation made this happen.

Ira Kurzban

The wet-foot, dry-foot policy has no foundation in law.

Kate Winslet

I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.

Vandana Shiva

I did my masters in elementary particles. But the foundations of elementary particles is quantum theory and there were too many conceptual problems around quantum theory that I couldn't live with. So I decided I was going to work on the foundations of quantum theory. That's what I did my Ph.D on.

Boris Kodjoe

I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast.

Russell Feingold

Even the Heritage Foundation is interested in that kind of approach,

Claire Tomalin

I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.

Dennis Smith

The smoke could be seen from miles away.

Dr. Shannon

These are two very, very important milestones as we progress.

Greg Edwards

Every 100 miles you go, you've got a new arena, ... Everybody's got one.

Thomas Haden Church

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

Mark Calcavecchia

Obviously, money is not an issue. They don't need the money, which is nice to be in that position. But it's just golf, you know? It's not a marathon. It's not the Ironman out here, swim 26 miles or something. It's just golf. Take next month off.

Mike Houston

I run at least two miles per week.

Kyle Busch

Literally, I swear we could run 600 miles on this tire, I don't think we're going to need pit stops, the tires are going to be that durable.

Michael Smith

You always have people going past me going 60 to 70 miles per hour.

Bruce Froemming

I can see the sun okay, and that's 93 million miles away.

Steve Alexander

We've had nine people, but that's the max.

Charlie Warner

We had seven of nine players get a hit. I'll take that every time.

Kevin Heise

There's not much we can do about what has been done. But I'm going to be optimistic and say we'll be able to play nine or 10 games, at The Cage.

Victor LaValle

I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.

Ray Bradbury

You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.

Dave Clark

Nine times out of 10, he catches that ball,

Marissa Moss

My memories of being nine or ten years old are especially vivid, since this is the time when you have a real sense of who you are - before the self-conscious preteen years start.

Retief Goosen

He pretty much struggled all the way. Especially on the back nine this morning, and that's really where I got ahead.

Tim Gordon

I think what you see is nine very proud parents today because this is our baby.

Wavy Gravy

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Claire McCaskill

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

Adam Smith

We want the public to be more engaged.

Michio Kaku

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Michelle Williams

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.