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.

Willard Boyle

It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty and me. We received congratulations by email, phone and post, many from old friends we had not seen for some time.

Natalie du Toit

I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.

Carrie Fisher

I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.

Rick Nelson

The 2006 Best in Test Awards honor companies that introduce a new product that brings a significant technological advancement to the market in the test industry. Our editors selected Credence's Sapphire D-10 for this award because it combines a high-speed switched data network, FPGA-based flexibility, and high-density CMOS integration to enhance throughput and efficiency for testing a variety of consumer electronic devices.

James Smith

That was Valor Day, when the New York Police Department hands out medals. She's wearing the medal they awarded Moira, the department's highest honor, the Medal of Honor.

Sam Allardyce

That was also a clear penalty but I knew when he didn't award us the first one it was going to be one of those nights.

Hashim Siddiqui

We have written our central leadership to make a final decision because we have a tie on the conflict, but we have made it clear that the seat belongs to the JUP-N and awarding it to the JUI-F would be in violation of the understanding that a seat initially awarded to a party would continue to be given to its candidates.

Scott Rudin

Those critics awards come and go every year, but the finished movie is your work.

Reese Witherspoon

But listen, I'm 29-years-old, I'm really lucky to be there and whatever happens I've been really blessed already. I have plenty of awards for this movie and if this was it for me I'd be really content.

Tyra Banks

As I look into the future, I see radical changes in both how people 'attain beauty,' and how the world perceives beauty. In general, I believe traditional beauty will be less valuable - and more uniqueness will be heralded.

Irwin Thomas

I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.

William Allen Butler

And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure.

Virginia Postrel

We know beauty when we see it, and our reactions are remarkably consistent. Beauty is not just a social construct, and not every girl is beautiful just the way she is.

Amisha Patel

I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.

Christo

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

Wole Soyinka

I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.

Nancy Friday

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

F. Sionil Jose

For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.

Brian Bruce

With the end of employee discounts, I think there's going to be a halt of traffic to GM's showrooms. It's never a good time for a disruption like this, but GM could have had it at a worse time.

Mark McKinnon

Special interests and opponents have figured out how easy it is to disrupt town halls and get their own message out. The days of the truly free-form town halls may be over.

Andrew Ross

You can have two family members disrupt everything that's going on, but you can have 15 who are well behaved, and it's no problem at all.

Becky Johnson

You can come here with a group that is very disruptive and they'll end up being entirely focused.

Mark Proctor

The president has said before that, whatever happens, he doesn't want to disrupt operations. He tries to come in quietly.

Rosell Ellis

We'll make adjustments to try and take away those open shots. We have to disrupt their offense. They ran pretty smooth Thursday. If we make them a little more hesitant, maybe that'll slow them down.

Xavier Niel

I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.

Shane Foster

I was real surprised how much we were able to disrupt them with our defense. That's (the Senators) a real good team over there.

Stephanie Gamble

I felt our kids played with a lot more energy than they had in a while. The press worked better than it has all year and disrupted their offense.

Yuri Milner

Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

Dennis Crowley

Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.

Mark Zuckerberg

When we were a smaller company, Facebook login was widely adopted, and the growth rate for it has been quite quick. But in order to get to the next level and become more ubiquitous, it needs to be trusted even more.

Mark Zuckerberg

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that's worthwhile, that they're going to be proud to show to friends and family.

Mark Zuckerberg

The main Facebook usage is so big. About 20 percent of the time people spend on their phone is on Facebook.

Rachel Caine

I don't know that it's particularly good for my writing process, but I have gotten some very valuable writing ideas and advice through Twitter and Facebook and other social network sites.

Astro Teller

VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison.

Jason Calacanis

I find very few folks are watching their Facebook feed, some are watching their Twitter feed, and all of them are watching their email box. So, while social networks are nice, email is still the killer application.

James Avery

I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.

Tom Young

We have some very good streaks. But we don't have the self-confidence to get ourselves past when things start to go bad. When they start to go bad, they seem to go worse. Right now, that's a big hurdle for us, to stop flows from occurring.

John Mackey

One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don't seem to be impacting it any longer.

George Eliot

How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the invisible throne, and flows by the path of obedience

Cynthia Ozick

I find that writing comes from the three fingers. The thumb, the index and middle fingers. It flows out of the pen. Real writing comes out of your hand, for me, anyway,

Radhanath Swami

One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They even love those who wish them harm. If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die; rather, it manifests in the form.

Jorge Gonzalez

Volume has recovered but it's still not that high, we still don't see a lot of foreign flows or institutional funds pouring into the market.

Charles Manson

My relationship to music is completely subliminal, it just flows through me.

Robert Parker

There are technical ebbs and flows in the market and this is a technical bounce.

George Harrison

Life flows on within you and without you.

Paula McLain

I get suggestions all the time. People feel quite free at events or even on the street to tell me what they think I should be writing. What I've learned, though, is that this thing, this connection, has to be in place for me to be able to kind of launch into a world imaginatively.

Craig David

We wanted to have a quiet launch to work out the kinks beforehand,

Jim Lewis

Most of the mass is simple stuff, just wires and beams, nuts and bolts. There's just no reason to launch this stuff from the space shuttle. (The expense) would kill a program dead.

Wayne Hale

We have not set an official launch date,

Liu Jingmin

We are preparing to launch the booking system of the tickets for the Games.

Kevin Kay

We want to launch one big reality show a quarter.

Bill Gerstenmaier

I think it's wrong to take the (May) launch period and speculate whether we will make it or not. That puts schedule pressure on the teams.

James Barnett

We are thrilled to launch construction of our new building.

Gail Davidson

One of the two main things we had going for us was that we had no money, so we couldn't just launch into making the mould because, if we had, we would have wasted a lot of time and money,

Margo MacDonald

Some people may get in to the building without the proper passes and things, but I think that's the price you pay for being an open place for people to come.

Mike Fratello

We had open shots and we didn't make the shots that we made in the first half. They got in transition and we had some turnovers.

Matt Mahar

We were getting open opportunities. It was just a problem of stopping their little runs.

Nicole Klay

We have tons of terrain back there that will really open up the mountain.

Pokey Chatman

Usually when I give my opening statement, I can find something that's wrong. But, there wasn't a whole lot tonight.

Paul Horn

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

Greg Bonczkowski

Whoever was open made a three in the first quarter.

Christian Ehrhoff

You just got to get open and he s going to get you the puck.

John Cornyn

where we have wide open spaces and plenty of opportunity for high-density training.

Matt Cutts

We'll probably also need some assurances that such pages won't reappear on the sites before the domains can be re-included.

Einar Stefferud

MHTML makes sure that everything you need for that page is in the bundle.

Maya Angelou

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.

Chauncey Billups

Like I've been telling him, when they page you, you'd better be ready to pick up and answer. Right now, he's going to get that page.

Fred Thompson

To have 27 pages ripped out that were under a congressional subpoena, and then not taking vigorous steps to find out what happened, is outrageous,

Brad Hutt

We're on the same page with pitch selection. It's been fantastic.

C. Wright Mills

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

Alan Ball

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

Charlie Munger

As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life ...

Bryan Whitman

That was rumored a year ago and never proved to be confirmed.

Patricia Marx

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

Derek Dennis

We hadn't been down like that in a long time. It was up to us to go out and prove why we've been on top of the state rankings all season.

John Gibbons

We wanted to make sure he was all right. He proved that he was today.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

Todd Pratt

I think Ryan's proven everything he can prove.

Paul Doerrfeld

We proved we could play with them. We just have to relax and play our game.

Folarin Campbell

We proved we can play with anybody. We proved we don't back down from anybody.

Hines Ward

We proved all the prognosticators wrong. This is a big win for us.

Dhani Harrison

Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.

Chief Seattle

To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

Chief Seattle

All creation is one. What we do to one, we do to the entire web of life.

Ban Ki-moon

We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death.

Donald Miller

If you buy the website, maybe you'll do something with it. But so far I haven't; we'll see.

Vandana Shiva

Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.

Noam Chomsky

But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.

Keith Teare

Mobile will probably disrupt much of what we know of web 2.0.

Serena Williams

With my website, I'm really interactive. I've written a lot of things about me.