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.

Yanis Varoufakis

My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

Imelda May

Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.

Ian Mckellen

When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

Gilbert Hernandez

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

Donald Trump

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

Zac Efron

If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

William Kamkwamba

People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you.

Imelda May

I'm the youngest of five - three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.

Ian Mcewan

Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.

Zoe Sugg

Who knows what will happen in five years' time.

Will Shields

Just looking at society as a whole, there are a lot of different things that we are not doing as a group to make sure we are close. Everything is in transit. People are moving from place to place. You can have a neighbor you live next to for five years and never speak to, and nobody has a problem with that.

will.i.am

If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes.

Evel Knievel

I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.

Emma Watson

I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

David Bailey

All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.

Tim Armstrong

The overall radio space looks similar to the way the Internet did five or six years ago.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cecelia Ahern

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

Bertrand Russell

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

Jim Edmonds

The always-important last at-bat. That's big, especially here.

Charles Hayward

The $5 million will not last us until the summer.

Thomas Carter

That was it, that was the last straw,

Jeff Tedford

That was a tough start for him, no question about it,

Brent Bracelin

That will happen. The question now is the magnitude.

Joe Gaylord

We can still stabilize the situation and make it right, but there's no question that this is a rough patch.

Jan Caldwell

We have the same questions about that as well.

Julie Martineau

We will screen questions for relevancy for the position.

John Whitehead

We will rebuild. It is now not a question of whether, but a question of how,

Kevin Lowery

We're well-known for our safety record. When it comes to safety, there is no question when it comes to our company.

Ryan Ford

I worry about, consider, and question everything that I'm doing.

Geena Davis

will happen. It's just a question of when.

Indiana Evans

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

William McNamara

I knew I would be an actor since I was seven or eight.

Bikram Choudhury

Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.

Alice Walker

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

Alice Walker

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Reid Scott

I've been a diehard fan of 'The Simpsons' since I was a kid.

Robert Zoellick

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'

Pat Nixon

I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.

Bertrand Russell

Only six need be attempted.

Olivia Newton-John

I'm a very light sleeper. I get about six hours a night.

Jessica Williams

I'm six feet tall. No one realizes that because on 'The Daily Show' I'm usually sitting.

John Danowski

We are now the hunted. It wasn't like this six weeks ago.

Mike Shanahan

I think if you take a look at any of the six teams, any of those six teams could go all the way.

Allen Smith

We're not talking about something that will be in and out of here in six hours.

Paula Abdul

I wish we could have more than six (guys).

Jeff Wagner

He never sold anything for us. He was a distributor for us for six months.

Paul Johnson

I'd like to get one win, ... I'm not thinking about getting six wins.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby.

C. S. Lewis

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Carrie Fisher

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

Bill Bryson

Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

Ashton Kutcher

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

Art Bell

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.

Bill Vaughan

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

'Raining Diamonds' talks about knowing there's something better out there. You don't have to just settle.

Kyle Brown

Typically speaking, we're probably talking about around $100,000 for everything.