Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Fitch

As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I'd like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future - and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled.

Jerry Wainwright

You're going to be in front of full arenas from now on. I think you have to make that another whole season.

Boz Scaggs

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

Tom Jurich

We've said it from day one, that if this arena was going to cut into anything at the university then we weren't in favor of it. We reluctantly went downtown to be a team player and to be on the river to go in accordance with the task force and to be a full partner.

Tommy Amaker

We have respect for their team and their program. They've been able to do something we haven't done to get here, and that's go outside their home arena and win.

Wayne King

Don't get me wrong: It would be nice to have this type of arena here, but not at Lawson Creek Park.

Terry Stotts

Washington has won a lot of games with Arenas at the end. For T.J. to get that steal was just a huge play.

Phil Klay

War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.

Brandon Jenkins

We go to Rutgers (Saturday). Coach told us their arena is a mini-Kentucky, that Rutgers and Pittsburgh are the two toughest places to play in the Big East. We'll have to go in there and play the same defense we played tonight.

Russ Feingold

The Bush administration did a brilliant job, which has continued until today, not in getting us into the war and handling it correctly, but they did a brilliant job of intimidating us into somehow thinking that if we didn't vote for this, we weren't supporting the troops and we were soft on terror,

Tim Guter

That was a brilliant shot. He pulled up and blasted it. I want more of that from our guys. We've got to test the keeper from outside.

Steve Harris

Reaction to the tour so far has been brilliant and we're looking forward to putting a great show together for the fans and getting back out on the road to play the new materiel live.

Ewan McGregor

Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.

Jack Reed

After a brilliant offensive campaign to destroy the Iraqi military forces, we have settled into a very dismal and dangerous occupation.

Amanda Hale

No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore.

Julie Gonzalo

It would be a dream to do a film with Pedro Almodovar and that whole crew of Spaniards. There's this Argentinian actor who's one of my favorite actors in the whole wide world. His name is Ricardo Darin, and he's a brilliant actor. He does a lot of Argentinian films, and I know he does a lot of European films, as a Spanish actor.

Albert Einstein

Brilliant spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Douglas Booth

Dickens writes such brilliant characters and stories, and his themes and social commentary are still so relevant. I think that's why he's still so loved today.

Anne Thompson

This is a question of the critics being useful to the studios. When it's youth movies, studios really don't want their weaknesses highlighted and would rather the critics ignore them. That's going to continue.

Johnny Knoxville

We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more.

Lord Chesterfield

Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing

Jill Lepore

Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about politics, but we gaze upon innovation with rapturous adulation.

Jhene Aiko

I'm probably my biggest critic. There's nothing anyone can ask of me that I haven't already asked of myself.

Jackie Collins

My biggest critics have never read me.

Kofi Annan

If I give the impression we are a world government, we'll get even more critics and our critics will be emboldened,

Harvey Pitt

I don't want to do anything that gives our critics an opportunity to raise issues, but the SEC needs my leadership, ... Public investors need my leadership. And we are going to do our utmost to make sure we serve them.

Quinton Foreman

I think the critics are a lot right. And I think they are a little wrong.

Tove Jansson

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

Gianfranco Fini

but have not always dared speak with such brutality.

Robert Browning

I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep

Jeff Nobers

Once we get the permits, it's about 120 days to get the store built, stocked and open.

Brendan Shanahan

The old days of having a two- or three-goal lead and just being able to lock on are over. You're just going to have to keep on playing.

Sherri Coale

After 30 days of practice and three wins now, it was not something I expected. I was very surprised there was a lack of poise from particularly my point guards.

Plaxico Burress

Some days you get the pretty lady. Some days you get the beast.

Michelle Monaghan

Some days I really love being a mom, and some days I don't! It's crazy - I'm tired of packing lunches!

Lora Ho

The sequential decline is mainly due to three fewer working days in February.

Ronnie Belliard

I started feeling a pinch in my right side a few days ago but figured I would just play through it,

Eric Zorn

I've been retired for about four days now.

Ali Omar

I've been trying to vote since 10 a.m.. They say I'm not registered to vote, but four days ago, I went to the police station to register and they said I could vote with my ID card. Today when I tried to vote, they said I couldn't.

Bono

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

Kim Fields

There has been a tremendous growth in the entertainment industry throughout Atlanta. There are many opportunities in film, television and theatre.

Britney Spears

My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.

Joel C. Rosenberg

Even some of the most jaded D.C. types are still impressed when the leader of the free world enters the room.

Mike Goodman

A statute like this is much more likely to come out of Europe, where the entertainment industry is not as powerful of a force.

Rita Mae Brown

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Jim Morrison

TV on handsets is rubbish. People won't pay to get TV on their mobile phones. Imagine watching it on a train. You'd lose signal as soon as you entered a tunnel.

Bible Bible

With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.

Thierry Breton

You have to understand that we have entered a period of expensive oil that will last a long time.

Bertrand Russell

For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.

Susan B. Anthony

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

Sathya Baba

There is nothing to equal the peace and joy that you get.

Miranda Kerr

I always see myself as, like, equal to everyone.

Mason Cooley

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

Marsha Blackburn

Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation.

Larry Lester

She was a campaigner for equal pay for the value of her talented athletes.

Algernon Swinburne

I am that which began:/ Out of me the years roll;/ Out of me God and man;/ I am equal and whole;/ God changes, and man, and the form of them bodily; I am the soul.

Denny Green

But that's what's great about this league. Teams like us have hope every year. Football is different from baseball. We share television revenues. That helps equal things out. Plus, it's never been proven that the more money you spend will help you win a Super Bowl. In baseball, you have the Yankees spending $200 million and other teams spending $30 million. That won't happen in football, no matter what happens with the CBA. That's why we're different. That's why teams like us have a chance.

Noel Coward

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

Marilyn Moon

We are not in a situation where we are required by desperation to make structural changes.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Kathryn Harrison

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Julia Glass

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'