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.

Xavier Becerra

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

Timothy Noah

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.

Tim Cook

Our whole role in life is to give you something you didn't know you wanted. And then once you get it, you can't imagine your life without it. And you can count on Apple doing that.

Ice Cube

Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles.

Ismail Kadare

For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.

Giovanni Agnelli

And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.

Gerrit Smith

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

Giles Foden

I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.

Gilbert White

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

Jason Baker

The police were worried by the size of the crowd we were attracting.

Bill James

If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants.

Nayvadius Cash

The most fun moments are being on the stage and seeing how the crowd reacts to your music. The energy of the crowd that makes you just want to go in and keep doing it and be a part of this forever.

Bill Buford

The crowd is not us. It never is.

Courtney Fortson

That was fun. That's stuff we do in practice all the time, plus that crowd reaction really got us going more.

Pete Carroll

That was a very good first opportunity, but we were piping in crowd noise that day. We don't have to this time.

Lyle Overbay

That was typical Bagwell, ... You're never safe, even if he hasn't seen live pitching for two years or two months. He's going to give you a battle. The crowd got into it, and I think that pumped him up.

Brandon Bowman

That was a good crowd. We're used to crowds like that in the Big East. But it was a good crowd, and they definitely made their feelings known.

Tim Tierney

We have an idea what to expect when we get down there. We know what the floor is like. We know what the crowds are like. We didn't get to play, so we didn't get the full experience of it. But now we're ready for that.

Yolanda Adams

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

Tina Turner

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

Tim Tebow

Before a game, you know, I can take off my helmet, run over there and spend a few moments with someone who is dealing with so much more than I've ever had to deal with and to love on them and care about them and in front of thousands and thousands of people, you know, let them know that they're more important than all of this.

Gilbert Hernandez

I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me.

Gil Gerard

It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff.

Donald Trump

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.

William Kent Krueger

Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood.

Vivek Wadhwa

The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do all I could for them when the times were good.

Yehuda Berg

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

Paul Maechtle

We were just gonna really run it out, and (Hart) stepped back and flipped a long one.

Raymond Devine

Basically, she just flipped out. She was under a lot of pressure, I guess, and whatever happened, she just snapped.

Mack Brown

He flipped the switch and took over our team. It's fun to have a mature guy who's not (just) surviving at quarterback. He's getting better every play.

Mike Smith

He flipped his palate real bad, you can hear it. He made a loud, roaring noise.

Bryan Lerg

I don't even know if Jared saw me. He just flipped it, and I took over.

Brian Skerry

I flipped through a book on harp seals in the late 1970s and saw images of them swimming in emerald green pools of water surrounded by huge sheets of ice. Right then I was hooked, and I knew this was a story I wanted to do.

Trent Rollins

I was disappointed with that. We're on top of the guy and then all of a sudden we flipped to our back and we're pinned within seconds. I don't know how that happened.

Judy Greer

'Citizen Ruth' I saw when I was in college, and I really flipped out over it. I just knew I wanted to work with the person who made that movie.

E. B. White

Its left wing seemed to hit the ground and the plane flipped over.

Yakov Smirnoff

We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.

Chuck Palahniuk

My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers.

Taylor Twellman

We need to keep our heads up, because we played very well.

Gene Allen

We can't hold our heads down. I think that's good. We'll be fine.

Rocco Calo

We will return to our jobs with our heads held high.

Lynn Coady

Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.

Bethany Koch

We have one more step. We've been waiting for this game. We just have to realize this is it. Our season is going to be over by (next) Saturday, win or lose. We have to get our heads straight.

Bill Guerin

You keep your heads up and you never know what will happen.

Marcus Williams

I think it would be the same way if we were No. 4 or No. 20. I think Connecticut is Connecticut. They're going to want to take our heads off.

Gabriel Mann

But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'

Zaha Hadid

Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.

Zach Braff

That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

Zac Efron

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Until a person has a home, they are always going to be dependent upon the system.

William Stone

If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.

Zubin Mehta

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

Scott Eastwood

You can only do what you can do in this world. If you start thinking of all the white noise out there, I think you'll go crazy.

Tony Sammons

We can make a lot more noise together than we can separately.

Adam Coe

We were trying to make some noise. I told them that noise would get him rattled.

Ed Belfour

The more noise, the higher I get.

William Shakespeare

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.

Jane Austen

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

Bill Hybels

Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?

Bill Hybels

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.

Ben Affleck

There's a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.

Sergio Garcia

You just have to turn the scoreboard around. That?s the only thing.

Stephen Ames

I think I was watching it with Vijay. I was watching the scoreboard from the first hole, so I knew.

Humberto Cota

We can't worry about the standings or watching the scoreboard or any of that kind of stuff. We just need to work on getting better.

Derek Jeter

Well, you don't have to look at the scoreboard anymore.

Nick Hartigan

It's encouraging because we don't have to do any scoreboard watching at all. It's all in our hands.

Cory Lidle

Right now we're scoreboard watching, but right now it's all about us. This team isn't going to give up.

Mark Winter

We got nervous. We started to watch the scoreboard and stopped doing what we had been doing all game.

Catherine Deneuve

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

Edith Stein

Those who remain silent are responsible.

Bob Hope

With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.

Benjamin Disraeli

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Elizabeth I

I observe and remain silent.

Abraham Lincoln

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Ally Carter

Ooh, the silent treatment.

Abraham Kuyper

We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.

Alexis de Tocqueville

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

Arsene Wenger

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

Arsene Wenger

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.

Arsene Wenger

One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.

Bill Bradley

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Bill Bradley

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

Roy Oswalt

The 20 wins is nice, but it's a whole lot better that this team is in the playoffs,

Craig Biggio

The '98 team was probably the most disappointing.

Aaron Small

The 7-0 thing is nice, but more importantly, it's a team win,

Jim Pace

That was the most disappointing thing about this game. We have a veteran team and we should know what to do in those situations.