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.

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.

Debasish Sen

The police have been asked to carry out investigations and carry out the required proceedings.

Yael Naim

I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

Glenn Tipton

It'll be basically a live album, but it will also include songs, Judas Priest songs, the audience have never heard before, because we felt we wanted to give the kids something else, something they haven't already bought.

Ze Frank

The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelievably disgusting. And the star-nosed mole is also. It looks like it snorted a firecracker. They live way underground, and to get footage of them is basically impossible.

Zac Efron

I think the only real knowledge I had before I went to Iowa was what I learned from 'Food Inc'. But once I got there and developed these extensive relationships with the farmers, I realized that we're basically made of corn.

Will Yun Lee

My father was one of the first Tae Kwon Do Masters to come to the states in the '60s. He had one of the first all-African-American fighting teams, and I was basically raised in a karate studio since I was 3. It's part of my blood, competing, and all that stuff was responsible for a lot of me just growing up.

Warren Stephens

It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.

Vivek Wadhwa

You have to live in Silicon Valley and hear the horror stories. You go and hang out at the cafes, and you meet entrepreneur after entrepreneur who's struggling, basically - who's had a visa problem who wants to start a company, but they can't start companies.

Ben Affleck

I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we'll watch pieces of 20 or 30 movies. You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Scott Olson

The only real configuration work is basically just deciding what policies you want to enforce in your network and configuring our device to help you do that.

Carrie Fisher

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

Bill Vaughan

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

Bertrand Russell

My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never had a compliment that pleased me more.

Charles Grassley

We need to know whether that was an isolated incident or whether similar tragedies have happened or could happen because doctors aren't present during emergencies.

Rory Stewart

When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's about context.

Regina Brett

For years I heeded the warning: Do monthly breast self-exams. Like most women, I did them on a 'sort of' basis. Every few months I'd sort of do a quick feel, but never as thoroughly as the doctors urged. I didn't want to go looking for trouble. If you look for it, you might find it. Looking for cancer is unsettling. Thank God I looked.

Malala Yousafzai

In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.

Malala Yousafzai

A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.

Dorothy Moore

Most of the patients are poor, and on Medicare, and doctors don't make as much money treating those kinds of patients,

Joseph Wong

I think I have explained many times that there is no alternative to legislation if we want to implement this year's pay reduction with certainty. And I think it is only incumbent on the government to proceed with this piece of legislation,

Bhagavad Gita

Thus the knowledge that is more secret than the secret has been explained to you by Me. After fully reflecting on this, do as you wish.

J. Taylor

I explained to him how I really loved his instruments and had been playing them for a long, long time,

Janet Reno

I explained I was leaving the matter in Mr. Ashcroft's hands.

Greg Lewis

I explained how it worked. At that point in time, he said 'That's what I want to do.' I thought, 'We got six long years. He needs to go to high school, let his hair grow, be idealistic and that will fall by the wayside.' But it never did. He never wavered.

Gary McLarty

He wanted to know what my thoughts were, and I explained to him that I wouldn't do anything like this,

Linda McDermott

He explained the position to me and made me feel comfortable.

Tom Heckert

He explained everything. He's really a talented guy.

Tom Fitzgerald

We've all had explained as to what is going to be called. Players were on the rules committee, so we all have to adjust.

Willard Boyle

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

Viswanathan Anand

I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

John Daly

The people around me ... were hoping, of course, that the 'something' would be practicing golf. No such luck. What I found was gambling.

Nate Ruess

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Arsenio Hall

You never get rid of something that has a positive foundation.

Kristy Curry

That was the big question from the media so I guess I had to talk about it. I don't think it was me harping on it but when there is something not going well that seems to be the focus. It wasn't always pretty, but this team has found a way to win.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Sherry Cooper

June's swoon is indeed proving to be temporary.

Janet Yellen

I wouldn't say we're completely out of the woods just yet. Indeed there are some issues that have the potential to be troublesome going forward.

Michael Defensor

But as to how many they are, we don?t really know and they are indeed a security concern.

Shakeel Syed

His story is indeed a story that needs to come out, and needs to be shared with the world.

Anna Seward

Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.

Joyce Banda

I'm indeed a mandasi seller, and I'm proud of it, because the majority of women in Malawi are like us, mandasi sellers.

Andrew Jackson

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Bob Wheeler

There is indeed such a bottleneck, and if their software does what they claim, it should get wide support.

James Morris

For too many ordinary people, political progress must now be matched by substantial humanitarian assistance.

Barry Alvarez

I'd like for him to be matched up that way all day. I don't think we'll have that luxury.

Scott Bogumil

We're really excited. We wanted to keep playing at night and we matched our goal.

Bruce Aidells

It has a coarse texture and a rich, beefy taste only matched by hanger steak.

Mark Jula

We matched them hoop for hoop in the third quarter. We needed a stop and then they got some breaks.

Jon Monti

We thought Beecher would be patient. We matched that patience when it was necessary.

Pat Monroe

It was unfortunate the way things turned out. We wanted to see how the team matched up and how much we progressed. We were going to play a top quality opponent.

Jim Seals

Everything matched psychologically and physically. Then it was a matter of just putting me into the (donor) system. I got a week's notice and went to Spokane,

Mike Anderson

We mixed and matched our defense; some zone, some man. I thought we did defend. They only shot 37 percent, but the thing about them is they are so long and athletic, they would just go get it.

Kim Williams

You just go out and try to stay in your routine and do what you need to do, ... It would be great.

Edith Wharton

... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

Don Franklin

We spotted them their runs. We were not sharp, not making the routine plays.

Deborah Fallows

Web surfing has kind of taken its rightful place as a routine activity. It's not necessarily a time killer, but a time filler.

Jamie Moyer

Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

Daniel Goleman

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

Brittany Snow

I'm pretty minimal when it comes to my beauty routine and always have been.

Alastair Campbell

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

Phil Garner

We just went over signs again. Just a refresher course.

Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Saul Williams

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

Richard Lobb

But we're not waiting for signs to show up.

Rosette Lerias

There are no signs of life, no rooftops, no nothing.

Peter Scobie

There are tentative signs things are slowing. It's not a foregone conclusion.

Bob Newman

We had all the signs out for 'Save the Armory,' but that's all set away now. It's really very encouraging and it hasn't always been that way.

Kevin Earley

Now there are no street signs and no landmarks. It was really tough trying to navigate.

M. Wolfe

I still think we could be better, though. We showed signs in the first inning of being very good. We let up after that.