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.

Tom Ward

We have been working with customers for over 10 years implementing automated supply chain management techniques. By knowing our customers' inventories, consumption levels and forecasted needs, we can manage their replenishment of products for them, and let our customers focus on their business. It's convenient and the benefits to customers include significantly lower operational expenditures as well as increased service levels.

Philip Schultz

I know it sounds strange to say, but the very technologies that have made traveling easier for most people - GPS, automated ticket machines, online schedules and ticketing, boarding passes you can print out at home - have actually made things harder for me.

Rocky Smith

When the class is available it will immediately place a phone call. An automated message will tell them which class is available and they can run to a computer or call SunDial.

Jonathan Zittrain

You can already see the privacy debate moving to the realm of automated massive data mining. When governments begin to suspect people because of where they were at a certain time, it can get very worrying.

Joseph Flowers

It is crucial that restaurants match sales with shipments. If demand for an item exceeds supply, individual restaurants are faced with either unhappy customers or higher costs when they have to place special orders at the last minute. Conversely, an over-supply of a product is an unnecessary expense. Pairing an automated marketing intelligence system with a sophisticated supply chain program virtually guarantees that a restaurant will have the products the customer wants.

Johns Hopkins

It is common for us to receive an e-mail from a customer apologizing for not responding sooner because they thought our automated follow-up was being done manually. The key to a successful follow-up program is personalization and making it relevant for the customer.

John Yen

We have automated routine tasks and reduced the time required for troubleshooting, thereby increasing efficiency.

Sam Young

We totally revamped our internal administrative process. We automated as much as we could automate.

Mark Gerth

We'll be doing a number of different things to make sure the automated voting isn't counted in this next tally.

Thomas Friedman

There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.

Giles Foden

The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.

Rick Garcia

The political world now recognizes that there is a gay and lesbian vote. Our numbers are significant and we can make a difference in these races.

Brittany Snow

If I don't like what I'm wearing, you can see it on my face in any picture right away. It makes a big difference when you feel like you're wearing your style, and it's something that you picked out, or you feel really good in it.

Benjamin Rush

Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.

Bill Bryson

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

Scott Pischea

That was huge. We started hitting some free throws towards the end and that was the difference in the game.

Larry Wall

That was huge, in a 7-7 game to give us great field position. That was probably the difference in the football game right there.

John Baldwin

That was the difference tonight, levels. We've been getting the same levels all season, but not here.

Norma Aviles

The pictures and the memorabilia, that's the only thing we have left of him.

Wayne Jackson

That win was very sweet to us. A lot of people had left us for dead.

Josh Childress

That zone and press slowed our tempo down. It left us kind of standing around with the ball.

Sean Maher

Right before I left New York, I had my manager tell me, 'You need to get a girl on your arm, or people will start talking.'

Maximilian Schell

I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.

Chris Ross

We had our chances. We left 13 runners on base.

Eric Taylor

Timber left down, particularly snapped trees, rapidly degrades in quality and loses considerable value in the first 60 to 90 days,

Craig Thompson

We have a lot of people with a lot of work left to do.

John Lucas

We've got plenty of work left to do.

Victoria Strauss

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

Herman Edwards

That was something that might not have been as special to him as it was to all of us, he's not that kind of guy. He's about the team, that's what makes him so unique.

Brad Johnson

Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher.

Thomas Reid

might not be an appropriate place for him to stay.

Chuck Smith

Might be guilty' isn't enough. 'Possibly guilty' isn't enough. 'Probably guilty' isn't enough.

Eliot Spitzer

Who might or might not be my opponent on the other side of the aisle, I'll just wait and see how it plays out,

Eliot Spitzer

who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.

Kweisi Mfume

who might not like what we have to say.

Chris Morrison

Who knows? You don't know who you might draw.

Garry Hynes

The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.

Bill Bryson

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

Patricia Clarkson

And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Right now, holding you, I feel like we have a shot at beating all odds and making it together.

James Woods

I would give you seven to one odds that this is going to be a slash piece, but that's OK. I'm willing to take the heat.

Colin White

He's done that to all of us in here during practice at the odd time. We know he has wheels.

Alan Watts

It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.

Charlie Munger

I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.

Kurt Vonnegut

I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.

Jeaniene Frost

Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before.

Roxanne Rogers

She auditioned in ramp modeling, and also read a commercial.

Rich Brooks

There have been rampant rumors that I will resign,

Rabih Alameddine

Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

Eddie Bellamy

The only time that ramp actually works right is at about half-tide and above.

James Bowden

Usually, you ride and then you party. Now, you just party.

David Hayes

We haven't sorted out just who will ride which one.

Johan Bruyneel

We haven't signed anybody. We're full. We have 27 riders and we're going to keep it that way.

Gary Lewis

Most of the riders up there are locals,

Gerald Laird

If it's the shoes, we'll ride it as long as we can.

Kunda Dixit

He really wants to ride it out. It may take some time (for him to go).

Nicole Scherzinger

We're on a wave, ... And we're going to ride it as long as we can.

Patrick Surtain

We told him to get out, but he wanted to ride it out. He was a little stubborn,

Wayne Lawson

He wanted to ride Vexing because he thought she could win.

Emily Wood

I was thankful I had an MRE to eat; I had a smelly, stinky room from all the water, but at least I had a roof over my head.

Todd Phillips

'The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof all over the world.

Albert Einstein

If you feed your mind as often as you feed your stomach, then you'll never have to worry about feeding your stomach or a roof over your head or clothes on your back.

Bob Carpenter

One third of building, the roof peeled back and everything caved in. It was destroyed.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I don't care where I live, so long as there's a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high-speed Internet access.

James Simpson

They are on the roof and need a chopper.

Jim Harrison

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.

Sam McKenney

To have it under one roof is really a new concept.

Natalie Clifford Barney

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

George Allen

I have no intention of running for office again.

C. S. Lewis

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

C. S. Lewis

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

C. S. Lewis

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

C. S. Lewis

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

C. S. Lewis

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

Catullus

What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

Catullus

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

Brian McClung

We're not trying to split anything up. They're not together right now." ()

David Allen

The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.

Denise Levertov

Images split the truth in fractions.

Charles Bukowski

it was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. there were also fragmented moments of great peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her and she tied to get away from me but it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was really there.

Boy George

The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

Deepika Padukone

Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.

Edwin Land

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

Adrienne Rich

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings

Kent Williams

Pam and I were worried that if it got in the wrong hands, the valley would be subdivided and split up,

Neon Hitch

I didn't go to school, because I never stayed anywhere long enough, so I was completely closed off from the outside world. I had no idea about anything.

Ian Scott

I was surprised it stayed right there so I could go get it.

Steven Gerrard

I wouldn't have stayed if I didn't think we could win the league,

Charles Stiles

I have intentionally stayed out of that discussion.

Milan Hejduk

If it was a regular-season game, I would have stayed in there for sure,

Perry Florio

When I played, we all stayed in the same complex.

Kellie Pickler

When we went to Iraq, we stayed in one of Saddam's palaces. It was kind of creepy. If those walls could talk, there's no telling what stories they'd tell.

Robert Hogan

He was ducking down, and he kind of stayed moving,

Aaron Brown

He has stayed with me, ... I haven't been able to stop thinking about this child.

Will Sergeant

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

Dave Huber

That was ugly. I was waiting for the ugly duckling to turn into the swan, but it never happened.

Barry Trotz

That was the turning point. That was a big save.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Norv Turner

We had opportunities. There were little things that turned into big things.

Douglas Muzzio

Voters understand that turning a bureaucracy like that around is like turning around a battleship,

Dustin Lynch

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

Tom Price

I think Jaguar can turn it around, but right now it's tough. If I had only a Jaguar store, it would be very, very tough.

Steve Cox

I think Knute Rockne is turning over in his grave.

Barry O'Farrell

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Pontius Pilate

Whether will the twain will ye that I release unto you?

Dick Hill

You can always find Curtis, whether it's the Jeep or the Big Bird.

Kevin Lowe

Whether I can get it done is another question.

Bill Smith

Whether he didn't see him or doesn't want to say, I don't know.

Martha Stewart

Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

Cary Finberg

Whether you win by one-point or 20, it doesn't matter. You still get the title.

Jim Lehrer

Whether you're 9 or 90, you can play this game.

Hugh Shelton

I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat.