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.

Emma Watson

I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

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.

Wood Harris

If you overdo something, you end up typecast. You always have to expand.

John Hughs

Just as things get overdone on the upside, they can get overdone on the downside.

Abraham Nunez

Eventually, it's going to happen, so you don't want to go out there and pressure yourself to overdo things to make it happen. We just have to sit tight, go out there and play, so whatever happens, happens.

Wayne Jones

You have to keep him out of the weight room sometimes. Sometimes you can overdo it.

Tom Lynn

There was nothing to it all along. We just didn't want to overdo it.

Nile Rodgers

If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Joe Mauer

I'm worried about our pitchers. Hopefully, they don't overdo it. But when you put on your country's jersey, a lot of things kind of go out the window. You want to do your best.

Bryant Young

He stepped up to the plate and did what he had to do without overdoing it and using it as a platform for whatever reasons -- PR purposes or whatever. I really respect that.

Gary Sheffield

I took more swings than usual. I've had this before. This is what you get when you overdo it too early. It's just real tight. It will be fine.

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.

Brea Grant

'The Invisibles' by Grant Morrison is my favorite series of all time.

Albert Pujols

winning and getting back to the World Series and getting a ring.

Victor Diaz

I was so stressed. Every at-bat's been like the World Series for me.

Ryan Miller

I don't want that to be the way this series is remembered.

Phil Garner

Getting this World Series start is probably going to go a long way in getting him over the Tennessee loss.

Alan Ball

What the series is all about is: We die. So while we're here, let's live fully.

Lorraine Toussaint

I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.

Laurel Lea

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

L. J. Smith

I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.

Robert Maddox

That would be kind of an insensitive thing to do in a situation like that.

Pat Gillick

Usually, when you come into a situation like this,

John McNally

It hasn't been unsafe, but there are situations where it could be.

David Patterson

I think the teams struggled when we were in those situations too.

Derek Jeter

Those are situations we need to come through in. Those are big. This time of year, especially, you've got to take advantage.

Craig Thompson

I think our situation is we would probably be better suited to have somebody go 11-0 again. But two to three years from now, we'd be better suited to have two or three 9-2, Top 25 people. But right now we just have to keep pushing.

Jeff Francoeur

I think she's in a tough situation with what she's trying to do. I don't think she was worse than the others, I don't think she was better.

Derek Jeter

It doesn't matter, ... Every situation is a new situation.

Kamerion Wimbley

We have to put him into a more single-minded situation where he is just throwing the ball.