Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gil Gerard

Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.

Becky G

I want a guy who's going to be accepting of - one, my big 'ol, loud Mexican family - and also my career, because it's a lot. I don't want someone who's like... 'Oh, you don't have time for me'. Like, I want somebody who's sure of himself and gonna be like, 'Okay, you go do your thing, and when you come back, we're good.'

Cilla Black

I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.

Bethenny Frankel

When you are like a maniac, you just have to accept where you are and what's going on in your life.

Princeton Lyman

The Americans have to deliver something on the Ethiopian side to be credible, and that is Ethiopia accepting the border decision.

Saint Bernard

Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

Rebecca Ferguson

I've just grown as a person, accepting my flaws as well. Before I was very insecure and I used to just hide, and now I just accept that I'm an imperfect human.

Jamie Foxx

With the first album, the timing wasn't right and it wasn't a good situation. The situation is perfect now. The movie set everything up and people are more accepting now. The good thing is that it's not forced. If people dig the music, it will do well, and if they don't -- well, I won't do an album for another 10 years.

Baz Luhrmann

Accept certain inalienable truths.

Yann Martel

If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The range of ingredients available to home cooks has expanded dramatically. People are incorporating herbs and spices like lemongrass, smoked Mexican chile, sumac, and za'atar mix.

Scott Burnell

The overall available crop of scientists and students is not what it used to be. We are aware we need a continuing stream of science and engineering expertise.

Peter Coleman

The outlook is very good and Ben should be available for selection in three weeks.

David R. Ellis

We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects.

Donald Norman

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

Mark McClellan

The alternative is having one drug plan that does not reflect what some want, and that costs more and offers less coverage than what is available now,

John Woods

That would be a boon. It has always been a problem to obtain quickly viruses from Southeast Asia. We sincerely hope viruses from Turkey would be available very quickly.

David Nabarro

The $1.9 billion shows that the world cares greatly about the issues we face and that governments want to be sure that there is enough cash available to do everything they have to do to get the current epidemic of bird flu under control and make sure that we can prepare for a human pandemic.

Michelle Fontaine

We have always wanted there to be unfettered time for individuals to file these claims. The deadline serves no purpose.

Kelly Collins

Time is running out. The deadline is approaching. So far, Delta has not come forward with meaningful negotiations.

Mary Hamilton

I was totally in shock. I thought the deadline had passed.

Don Crawford

We realized that a lot of kids turn 5 after the deadline and parents would love to get them in structured instruction.

Chris Hill

We don't have a real deadline (for possible NATO bombing) but things are going to get very tense in the next few days.

Brian Hill

If anything was learned this year it's the importance of all 82 games. It would have been a great learning experience and a nice reward for what they accomplished from the trade deadline on, but we're going to have to wait 'til next year.

Michael Guido

To come out and try and portray a story that they are not responsible is completely ridiculous. When it comes down to the deadline somebody has to pay. They are trying to talk this thing down.

Vanessa Gulati

There is no deadline to submit the report, but it will probably take them longer than other smaller developments.

Carol Hansen

I can't devote or focus on one issue for very long because there's always something else. That's the most stressful thing. The other big fear is that I'm going to overlook some deadline or responsibility.

Yolanda Adams

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

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.

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.

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.

Chris Matthews

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

Nigella Lawson

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

Geno Auriemma

The alternative would be that you're dealing with this thing all year long. A week she's good, a week she's bad, and back and forth. I'm hopeful that by keeping her out those two weeks that we got to the root of the problem and fixed it. But, again, we'll never know. We'll just keep our fingers crossed.

Robert Gruber

That was a surprise. I've been dealing with utility law in this state since 1973, and I can't recall an order like it.

James Mitchell

That was something in the past we just took for granted, that everybody had a way off the island. I think (Katrina) has opened up our eyes definitely and given us a different perspective on dealing with the evacuation.

Xavier Becerra

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

Pete Saco

The penalty is extremely difficult. I've been doing this for 13 years and this has to be up there as one of the toughest two or three decisions I've ever had to make. I lost a lot of sleep over the weekend about this. It wasn't fun.

Cecelia Ahern

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

Ashton Kutcher

I try to make good decisions as decisions come up.

Bill Bradley

Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.

Derek Thomas

That was the game. Seven or eight straight times the fouls were called on their end and one time on ours and we're going to the basket. It was very frustrating because I felt like the kids didn't get to make the decision of who won the game. Eleven free throws; we predicate ourselves about getting to the line and we get to the line 11 times.

Derek Thomas

That was the game, right there. I felt like the kids didn't get to make the decision to win this game on their own.

Rod Marinelli

That would be nice. He just kind of made his decision to move in a different direction. That's kind of how I left it. I wish him the very best. The thing I can tell you is, he's got terrific talent.

Jurgen Klinsmann

That was the toughest decision of my career.

William Lashner

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

William Lashner

I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

Will Rothhaar

I hope that, when I leave this planet, I will have touched a few people in a positive way. That's really what I hope I am remembered for the most.

Emma Watson

I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

Jeffrey Archer

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

Wayne Schwertner

The past year we should have had a good hatch. We should have had a good hatch for the last few years.

Brian Kernighan

I want students to understand specific technologies, but the real goal is that they should be able to reason about how systems work and be intelligently skeptical about technology so that, when they're running the world in a few years, they'll do a good job.

Bobbi Brown

Many women like to wear nude eye shadow during the day, but it doesn't really do much for you. Instead, try one that's a few shades lighter than your skin tone.

Bill Hader

I met Robin Williams a few times, and he was a beautiful guy.

Becky G

I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

David Hyde Pierce

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

Nile Rodgers

I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others.

Chris Richard

That was the plan for the whole game, but we just didn't do it. We tried, but they played good defense. Once we got it worked out, we kept going at it and going at it, so it finally worked.

Tracy Roller

That whole last minute was just surreal. We finally did everything that we needed to do. It just took us until the last two possessions to get to that point.

George Clark

That was a good win for us, ... We finally put together a full game. The players should be proud because they did it as a team

Dave Huber

We just didn't react (early). It took a little while, but finally we started reacting and started doing some good things.

Fred Griffin

We were having trouble with their press and getting into our offense, but we finally got into a groove. The other night it was 16 teams left, then eight. Now it's four. We just want to finish the mission.

Bobby Carpenter

We've done about 30 or so of these. Now, it's finally winding down.

Donnie Nelson

Michael has played a huge role in rebuilding this franchise and taking it to where it is today.

Phil Jackson

We couldn't do anything better that would make this franchise better.

Bob Harlan

Those men established and raised this franchise to new heights.

Derrick Brooks

For whatever reason, as a team, we haven't been able to get it done, ... It's one of the things we talked about in training camp, doing things that this franchise has never done before.

Steve Kelley

He saved this franchise really. I think this franchise would be in L.A now if it weren't for him.

David Mott

We still have some work to do, particularly getting our influenza franchise where we want it to be.

Gary Bettman

Long term for all franchises, especially for a well-run franchise like the Avalanche, having a predictable, stable system is better.

Shane Battier

Pau played a man's game tonight. That's what a franchise player does.

Sage Rosenfels

Hopefully this will turn things around and get this franchise back to its winning ways.

Joe Girardi

Those are little hurdles you have to get over. Sometimes you have to learn to pitch with a lead, even if it's a slight lead.

Scott Nicklas

He may have pulled his (right) quad. We'll have to wait and see. (But) he pulled out of the hurdles and triple jump because he hurt it in the long jump.

Jack Michael

We had a nice day. It was pretty much a team effort. We were disqualified in the shuttle hurdles relay but scored pretty much in every other event.

John Berlin

It is a real stretch from the indoor 55 hurdles to the 100 and 300 outdoor hurdles. Right now we are just trying to get her timing down and conditioning up.

Rubin Carter

I know we still have some hurdles to cross. You just don't know what they're going to be.

Devan Downey

I'm so proud of our team. We have been through so much together. We overcame a lot of hurdles all year. Even tonight we didn't give any excuses.

Benn Steil

It's one significant step, but there are still a lot of hurdles to overcome.

Bill Warlick

It looks like the last hurdles are something they can get over here.

Mark Bryant

The three hurdles that we had to get over this summer, we got over without incident.

Donald Trump

Ronald Reagan became, you know, not only a Republican but a pretty conservative Repub - not the most. But a pretty conservative Republican. And he's somebody that I actually knew and liked. And he liked me. And I worked with him and helped him.

Will Chase

In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.

Clint Eastwood

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

Neil Simon

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

Dan Hinds

That was the turning point right there. We knew right there we'd be able to punch it in.

Jeff Hawkins

That was the turning point right there. That's when we knew we had them.

George W. Bush

That woman who knew I had dyslexia: I never interviewed her.

Pam Schild

We have always been supportive of his decision. We knew he would never do anything half-heartedly.

Matt Baker

We could have won the game. We knew we were in position. We took a shot and lost on it.

Ellen Key

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

David Beckham

We could have done without this, leading up to the World Cup.

Mark Hurd

We've got some looseness in our structures and our processes, ... We have to get away from managing and reporting to leading and driving.

Chris Tinker

Valuations on mining stocks look very rich. Any pause in the spot price is leading to sharp price corrections and sentiment can reverse quite quickly.

Rafe Spall

It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.

Peter Shaffer

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

Karen Tandy

We are identifying, targeting, disrupting and dismantling some of the world's leading opium and heroin trafficking organizations,

Alexis Herman

We don't see that leading to any inflationary pressures on the economy.

Santiago Cabrera

How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.

Arsene Wenger

Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season.

Jerry Porter

We could just petition for a week off. But I don't think the league will let us do that.

Jim Gantt

Typically, this league is not that way. We know we've got to keep improving, and we know teams aren't likely to keep sweeping.

John Wesley

He's got everything - good vision, his speed, his shot, all those intangibles that you need to be a superstar in this league. He has it all.

Lauren Roscoe

We haven't won a league championship in 18 years, so it was important for us to win tonight.

Earl Campbell

You just wonder,'' said one league personnel man.

Ray Harris

I'm shocked we're 19th. I don't think that's right. We have the best-ranked league in the section. Once we get more wins under our belt, we'll move up.

Don Phillips

The problem is the overall league suffers if you don't have stars,

Terrell Buckley

It doesn't surprise me, because this is a league that has a short memory.

C. S. Lewis

Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.

C. S. Lewis

Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

Cecelia Ahern

He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.

Cecelia Ahern

More often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward.

Cecelia Ahern

Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.

Carrie Mae Weems

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

Carrie Brownstein

There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.

Carrie Fisher

He doesn't move his face when he talks. His eyes are like shark eyes. Dead.

Carrie Underwood

it's so easy to get lost inside a problem that seems so big at the time it's like a river a that's so wide it swallows you whole while your sittin round thinkin 'bout what you can't change and worrying about all the wrong things times flying by moving so fast you better use it all cause you can't get it back sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand and what you've been out there searching for forever is in your hands ooooo when you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.

Fabio Capello

We had other options but Vieira was the one I wanted,

Alan Knipe

We have a lot of options with him.

Tom Woodruff

We have a lot of options in the infield.

Jill Mesaros

We have been working the past two years on several options which we will be weighing in making our decision.

Group Inc

We don't have many other options left. This is it,

Kim Moore

I feel like there's still some options open.

Frans Houten

There are various M&A options we will explore.

Rand Paul

I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.

David Shore

I think these options are awful. I think they've got to throw this away and go back and look at it again.

Bill Bryson

I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.

Arsene Wenger

Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.

Arsene Wenger

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

Arsene Wenger

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

Arsene Wenger

Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!

Arsene Wenger

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

Arsene Wenger

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

Arsene Wenger

English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.

Bill Bruford

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

Ice T

When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'

Sebastian Thrun

That was a turning point in the race.

Dwane Casey

That was a turning point in our season. I think it took a little starch out of us.

Nick Burgess

That was a turning point in his career. He had the ultimatum to quit or work harder. You can see which one he picked.

Bruce Bochy

That was the turning point of the game.

Jeff Lebo

We could never really get it to that point where we made it interesting.

Joseph Garcia

We could have had 50 points in the first half.

Curtis Shaw

We have a lot of Marriott points that we'll never be able to use.

Pat Metheny

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.

Ian Mckellen

I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.

Paul Poley

We recruit as many as we can possibly handle.

Donald Kennedy

We don't see them as a threat, but possibly as a competitor,

Marina and the Diamonds

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

Danny Ferry

He could possibly be back and participate in the post-season.

Brandon Orr

He got me started as young as you possibly can.

Deborah Moggach

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

Lynn Dooley

I don't know what I could ever possibly say to them, because thank you is not enough.

Arno Penzias

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

Joe Davis

He kind of proves that you can still serve long after you take off your uniform.

George Higgins

This proves there's no such thing as the No Smile Line, don't you think.

John Chambers

This proves our strategy is working in terms of the convergence of voice, video and data.

Kirby Copeland

This proves a lot. We can come out and play with the No. 3 team in the nation.

Steve Mitchell

We're a service industry, what a town does is it proves services. We need to be able to look and see how we are raising revenues to provide these services.

Bayan Jabr

I will punish them if (an investigation) proves they are responsible for any violations.

Michael Bailey

What it proves is it's not completely genetic. They have the same genes.

Azzam Tamimi

If the tape is genuine, then this proves what we have been saying all along,

Rio Ferdinand

That just proves the quality we have here with some of the young players.

Emile M. Cioran

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

Olga Kurylenko

On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.

Brandon Ferguson

To be that disciplined about it speaks volumes.

Chanakya

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Chaka Khan

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

Bev Perdue

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

August Strindberg

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!

Irish Sayings

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

Camille Paglia

We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

Tony DeMuro

That was the way we want to see it end. It couldn't be any better than that with three teams going after it.

John Stockton

We could have one of the better teams we've ever had here. I think we're on our way back up.

Andy Athanas

Usually when you see teams do what we've done in two years, it's the same group. These are different kids.

Andre Patterson

We've done it more than most teams I've worked with.

Pete Rose

Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.

Tom Condon

Those are the two teams we have scheduled so far.

Jamelle Cornley

We can play with anybody, teams know that.

Bob Shoop

We do need to find another playmaker on offense, whether it's the tight end or who it is. Or teams are just going to quadruple-cover Bowser.

Jerry Moore

We don't see Big 12 teams very often,

Donald Trump

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

Stan Eby

My sense is there will not be a rehearing and trade will continue. But we have to be watching all the time.

Rose Smith

I wouldn't trade any of this for the world.

Macaulay Culkin

I wouldn't trade any of my experiences for anything in the world, ... 20/20.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

Jason Simpson

With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.

Ellen G. White

High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.

Bethenny Frankel

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.

Bob Bauman

That was a lot of weight off their shoulders.

Dusty Baker

He can't put any weight on it right now,

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

Chanel Iman

I drink a lot of protein shakes and do a lot of weight lifting.

Cathy Guisewite

This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.

Cathy Guisewite

Wake me up when I'm a size 5.

Cass McCombs

Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.