Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Webb

The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968 who served as liaisons between the Marine Corps and the Brigade of Midshipmen later suffered nine Purple Hearts in Vietnam, and one man killed in action.

David Williams

We appreciate the tremendous support and generosity from La Petite Academy's children, parents and associates, which has enabled us to grant the heartfelt wishes of nearly 400 children nationwide so far. With Gary leading the way, I believe without a doubt that La Petite Academy will reach its truly impressive goal.

T. J. Miller

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

Nathan Sawaya

The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.

Chet Gladchuk

Whether we visit South Bend, or the game is played on the East Coast, it is of great interest to our collective national audience of Irish fans, Naval Academy alumni and the Navy family at large, ... Two institutions with similar values rekindling a lengthy and well-respected relationship make this game special.

Patrick Knapp

When we went up to see her play, Kelly needed to work on her skills. She needed to get stronger, needed more experience, and Blair Academy certainly helped her do that.

Neil Giuliano

We're extremely disappointed it didn't win best picture. We certainly aren't going to paint the entire academy with a broad stroke, but maybe there was some conflict in some members' minds. Still, the movie got tremendous recognition, and we're very pleased with that.

Val McDermid

It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.

Emanuel Levy

A lot of the people who watch the Academy Awards don't go to movies. So what's on stage is the only performance of yours they're going to see.

Charles Stross

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

Michael Strahan

By the time I left college, I had won every award you could win - I was Mr. Man! Then I got drafted by the Giants, and you step in that locker room, and you feel inferior in every way. You just have to stick around long enough to give yourself the opportunity to build your confidence.

Kathleen Hogan

We are proud of the commitment partners like Puget Sound Energy have made to helping Americans save energy. The Partner of the Year award recognizes partners whose efforts to promote energy-efficient products are exceptional. They have been instrumental in putting more than 2 billion ENERGY STAR qualified products into American households over the last decade.

Trevor Immelman

There are certain criteria set by the Official World Golf Rankings Board to award world ranking points in a tournament,

Jamie Dixon

We want our people to improve. We want them to get better. This is the most important award for us.

Charlize Theron

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.

Charles Ives

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

Natalie Massenet

The British Fashion Awards gives us the chance to commend not only the winners but celebrate all of the individuals that contribute to the incredible achievements that make London the best fashion destination in the world.

Levi Miller

When I was about six or seven, I did this character reenactment performance where I read a monologue from 'Peter Pan.' I got into a complete Peter Pan outfit and did a little paragraph from the script - and I ended up winning an award for it.

Nick Saban

We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put a player in the best situation possible so he can have success.

Jeff Horner

We want to show people we're the best team in the conference. We want to win the Big Ten Tournament and show that maybe we did deserve a little bit of the Big Ten title.

Greg Bolton

We want to serve families the best we can within the economy of scale.

Mike Scioscia

We absorbed non-production from some guys the best we could,

Pat Onstad

We always have a good group, both on and off the field. It was that way with Frank (Yallop) and it continues with Dom. It's not about having the best players, but having the best group of players. We just always seem to gel.

Larry Kupczyk

We always get great crowds here. We played some of our best hockey that weekend.

Ron Allen

We always enjoy the games between us. We always have great contests. Larry and I have been best friends for 20 seasons out here.

Lord Melbourne

Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

Denis Waitley

The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.

Barry Trotz

We're in pretty elite company. I told the team that if we can do something special, go for it.

Michelle Malkin

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

Manny Fernandez

Thirty wins usually only comes with a real No. 1 guy. You have to play a lot of games to get to 30, obviously. That puts me in a real elite group.

Ted Dellen

The year that we went to the elite eight, we ended up 10-6 in the league. So, it's been done before. It's just a matter of how we're going to play.

Lofa Tatupu

You can't let this opportunity pass. You've got give it everything you've got for the next month. Man, that's an elite group to go to the Super Bowl.

David Garrow

It is personal connections and relationships. And if you look back to a Franklin Roosevelt, a John Kennedy, they were products of that elite world,

Paul Coffey

It's a great tribute to be joining such an elite group of players.

Shawn Williams

They're a top, elite team. They accomplished something great, too.

Michael Bush

It's a big game for the school. It'll get a lot of recruits in. It kind of lets people know that we're trying to be one of the elite teams in the country, just like Virginia Tech is. I think this program can go all the way to the top. We're getting a lot of good players in and great coaches. I don't think we're too far off.

Lisa Cholodenko

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

M. Night Shyamalan

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.

Leslie Cockburn

I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.

Nicolas Roeg

Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!

Nicolas Roeg

I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.

Navi Rawat

I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.

Nicholas Jarecki

I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.

Dieter Kosslick

We don't have any formal motto this year. We have many films that show a tough world the way it really is.

Irwin Redlener

We started from zero five weeks ago to all this hot, hot spotlight on pandemic flu, but we're not going to be ready.

David Grant

We started five minutes after (Kline) lost. It's something you reel in right then. You start helping him refocus. You don't talk too much about the match he just lost but about what we're going to do in the future. You have to be there to help him.

Felipe Alou

We spent five months losing series. That's what has us five games back - not the loss tonight.

Lukas Rosol

I never had goals to be in the top 10 or top five in the world. I just try to find the borders, find what level I can reach. I have a good team around me, so hopefully it's going to get even better.

Lewis Hallam

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.

Erick Dampier

We're not going to make excuses. You put five players on the court, regardless of who's hurt. Obviously, we have enough talent to win.

David Lawson

We have scheduled this every year for about five years. It is a routine thing now.

John Potter

We have music tonight but there are four or five people here. I don't know how much longer we can do this.

Mark Shapiro

We want him to pitch every five days.

Ken Miller

The one thing you will find between all of the employees, particularly the linemen, is that they are willing to go out and help when there is a need like this,

Richard Roberts

The other thing is, when you see somebody smoking and you're trying to quit, you get that urge again. It doesn't help people quit,

Kevin Hall

The positive thing about it is I can use my story to inspire other people, to help them see that they can do what they want to help them pursue their dreams. If I can help one person that would make me happy.

Anne Ward

We are providing a lot of information and online resources to help people who have memory concerns.

Sarah Clapper

We started rushing things on the offensive end and that only helped them get into their transition game.

Andres Perez

We want people to know Latinos help not only Latinos, but the rest of the people.

Cheryl James

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

Charles Handy

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

Beth Moore

Authentic faith cannot help but act.

David Hockney

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood

Lash Fary

The perceived value of your product or service increases by associating it with top celebrities and a glitzy Hollywood event.

Billy Wilder

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

Elizabeth McGovern

North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.

Edmund Wilson

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

Martin Milner

It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings.

Scott Caan

A lot of kids come here from other towns, they want to be actors, and they get sucked into the whole Hollywood thing and having fun, then they're 27 before they settle down.

Michael Jackson

All of Hollywood has plastic surgery. I don't know why they point me out. The press exaggerated it. It's just my nose, you know. They want it to be everything. Just the nose isn't enough.

Tim Lynch

They're talking about turning the Hollywood studios into an organ of the government.

Lisa Vidal

Latinos that are in the industry writing and producing, they can't be afraid to go out there and say, 'I want my lead to be Latino. And I want to talk about this, I wanna write about that.' And Latinos as a whole, as a people in America, need to go out and support.

David Tarantino

We've become much better at doing the work online. The whole industry is moving to more online maintenance. In a regulated environment, it wasn't as important to have short outages. We do the same work, but we're online now.

Dennis Miller

The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.

John Felmy

It's a stain on the industry that's unfair. It's just disappointing.

Geoff Sundstrom

This in many ways is the worst-case scenario that the oil industry has been fearing.

David Sowerby

It's more and more the sobering acknowledgement that the industry is significantly challenged.

Chuck Schumer

It's no secret that the manufacturing industry has been getting killed.

Greg Gorbatenko

It's not that the industry is weak. It's Nokia being weak.

Michael Feeney

It's not the stable industry it was 20 years ago.

Neil Peart

If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

Mark Twain

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.

Trey Parker

Doing a musical is like having a kid. It's out there alive somewhere. It's not like a movie or a TV show where what we intended is what everyone will see. The kid can act out. The kid's going to do what it wants to do.

Susanna Phillips

As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in this piece.

Peter Clarke

purchase, storage and intended use of that material.

David Ludwig

I shot mom as she was sitting in the chair, ... It was an intentional murder, I intended to shoot them, and I did.

Laila Ali

I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

Sydney Smith

Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing

Tommy Franks

Did this go as we intended it to?

Charles Spurgeon

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Alan Rickman

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Alan Alda

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.

Denis Waitley

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Ben Mitchell

Why should you listen to any of us?

Bill Watterson

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

Fred Baker

When we had 3,000-person meetings, a lot of the people were not there to work on things. The meetings that we have are smaller. The mailing lists are more contained, and the work is actually proceeding better.

David Parrish

When we got down to a short list between the bidders, the price was similar but not identical,

Buddy Guy

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

Noah Wyle

Boy, oh, boy, people get jaded fast. I got nominated for an Emmy.

Jenna Elfman

It's a cliche, but just being nominated is cool.

Mark Moller

She's in the pocket of the president who nominated her,

Tom Smith

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and we're going to give them a whole lot of pictures.

Stephen Foster

This picture represents all the contributors to the arts, taken in 1988.

Mike Byers

That picture was taken at 8:27 a.m., May 18, 1980.

Peter Bart

The temptation to do remakes is simply that, if the picture worked once in the past, why not try it again?

Samuel Goldwyn

("You say you've never made a picture before?") Yes, but that's our strongest weak point

Hulk Hogan

You need to know the whole picture of this business.

Pam Shoemaker

When you put the whole picture together, recycling is the right thing to do.

Willie Smith

Everything you can think of, he was there taking people's pictures and he was just an outstanding person.

Joan Miro

You can look at a picture for a week an never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.

Bobby Cox

They're very similar. They're on top of their games.

Kale Liechty

It's not like my top priority. It's not an obsession.

William Hall

It's one of those places, when you want to go out and touch the American people, it comes to the top of the list,

Mike McConathy

It's a little different for us today, going from the top of the world to the trash barrel." ()

Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.

Lance Corcoran

Anything and everything they are doing at the top is not translating to the staff, to the facilities.

Frank Robinson

It was an explosion. He had to top me, you know?

Daniel Payne

That's my top goal, to go to college.