Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yael Grobglas

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

Yanis Varoufakis

In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.

Tina Brown

Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.

Ice T

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

Idris Elba

If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'

Isobelle Carmody

I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.

Gavyn Davies

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

Donald Trump

You've seen my statements; I do very well. I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing, and it's ridiculous, OK?

Zadie Smith

It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'

Iyad Allawi

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.

George Allen

We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue.

Yo-Yo Ma

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

Billy Graham

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Don Rickles

I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.

Graham Swift

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

Ben Elliot

I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life.

Becky G

There are days I'm feeling lazy, and my mom will remind me, 'Beyonce also only has 24 hours during the day.' That always keeps me going.

David Kay

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

Steve Case

We've learned the market functions a little differently in Europe.

Hank Johnson

As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.

Venancio Figueroa

What do you mean, the system functions as designed?

Winfried Vahland

I promise to myself I will make cars that work and functions worldwide.

Mike Edwards

We do functions for all sorts of student organizations because of the slide and sunning patio.

Alfred Hitchcock

Paramount functions practically as a studio setup for him.

Robert Kelly

Longer term, the vision is to put all functions on the Internet.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.

William Shakespeare

He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.

Abbie Letz

Julie playing the way she did today. We could use more of that.

Jamie Ullman

Julie is very unselfish, but there are times when she needs to look for her own shot. She was looking to pass when she could've taken the shot herself.

Hailee Steinfeld

Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.

Marjane Satrapi

I always say to people, 'You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them.' Imagine Romeo and Juliet, six kids yelling, 'Mama, Mama, Papa, Papa!'

Brenton Thwaites

I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in Baz Luhrmanns Romeo and Juliet.

Charles Keating

I've done some directing, the most recent work was an off-Broadway production of Romeo and Juliet done for the Riverside Shakespeare Company.

Janis Scanlon

As soon as Julie stepped in, I knew that I would have to step up my diving. Julie works really well with the team and the coach-athlete relationship is very strong.

Danielle Brooks

Personally, I don't want to live with limitations. If there comes a time where I am dying to play Juliet or Macbeth, I want to make those avenues for myself.

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.

James Augustine

We have to win it to stay in the running. We've been making steps. Hopefully, we can go to Wisconsin and pull it off and play the same way we do here.

Charles Leonard

We have to look at all the numbers. I am not going to pull any punches.

Siretha Woods

We need to pull together focus. And, you know, come together, and let's turn in these guns.

Tim Jensen

I think this is a time for communities to just pull together.

Bob Hofman

Man, that was like pulling teeth out there tonight.

Chris Kelly

We ain't pulling out. Much to their dismay, I'm sure.

Susan Rosenberg

I was thinking, straight zipper. But when it was installed, and you could see the undulations and the pull ...

Melissa Fumero

I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I'd audition for comedies and think, 'I can't pull this off.'

Anthony Robbins

It doesn't pull away any wax that it says it's supposed to.

Cathy Moriarty

The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.

Cecelia Ahern

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

Carrie Brownstein

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

Benoit Mandelbrot

The beauty of what I happened by extraordinary chance to put together is that nobody would have believed that this is possible, and certainly I didn't expect that it was possible. I just moved from step to step to step.

Arsene Wenger

Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

Anton Corbijn

I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.

Dominic Modise

We have a lot of young girls, and they need to understand how to work together as a team.

William Shakespeare

They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together.

Gaston Gaudio

I think I've always had it in me. I just haven't been able to put it together for a whole match.