Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chiwetel Ejiofor

From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas on human respect, and all of our ideas on dignity. And I felt like that's just incredibly powerful.

Dennis Crowley

I can think of the number of people who were like, 'I will never get a cellphone because I don't want people calling me all the time. And I will never get on Facebook because I don't want to share that stuff with people. And Twitter, that's not for me.' And this is just the natural progression of things.

Naveen Jain

Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.

Seth Greenberg

The ACC is a calling card. Kids in this geographic footprint want to play in the ACC, and I think what it does is it gives us a chance to recruit some of these kids.

Bennett King

We can't just keep calling it 'we'll be better with experience', we've got to start turning this around, I think we're getting closer but still not getting to the goal.

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

We have warned and continue to warn against calls for the division of Iraq, which come up now and then, calling for sectarian rights or minority freedoms.

Richard Dean Anderson

We're loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light on the situation as to what kind of jeopardy may be surrounding our great rivers.

Michael Arrington

If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.

Marcus Samuelsson

Children want to mimic adults. They notice when you choose to prepare fresh vegetables over calling in another pizza pie for dinner. They will see that food made with love and care outweighs going through the drive-through window.

Zubin Mehta

American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.

Brewster Kahle

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.

Abby Bellows

The 17 students sitting in Madison Hall are not sitting for arrest. We're demanding a living wage; we're not demanding to get arrested.

Randy West

As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show.

Paula McLain

It had never occurred to me to write a historical novel, but then I found Hadley in the pages of Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast' and wanted to know more about her - who she was, how she and Ernest met and fell in love, what it was like for her to be married to such a demanding and stormy force of nature.

P. C. Cast

I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

Chris Bell

Just about everyone in our state is demanding that leaders do something about the quality of education in our public schools.

Jennifer Allyn

We have a very demanding profession. There?s a need to be accurate, and if people keep running ragged, there?s this sense of burnout. We know our people need to rest and recover.

John Grahame

which is more demanding than the (current) 27.5 miles per gallon for passenger cars.

Irving Ravetch

You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

Imani Hakim

I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.

Zayn Malik

It's nice to look out and see your family supporting you.

Walter Brennan

I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.

Wendy Cope

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

Billy Graham

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Billy Graham

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney - for his family and our country.

Zubin Mehta

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

Colin Angle

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.

Ellie Goulding

I've always been fascinated by the human body, but you can become quite morbid and paranoid if you think too much.

Ben Barnes

Almost every script that I've gotten has been for sort of the generic Hollywood type. I haven't chosen them. All the ones I have chosen are because I've been fascinated with the source material or because of the script.

David Horsey

I've been a fascinated observer of grand public funerals since I was a kid, starting with the life-altering black-and-white images of President John F. Kennedy's funeral.

William Gibson

I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them.

Noreena Hertz

I've become increasingly fascinated with social media to improve on traditional ways of preparing for and predicting the future.

Gore Vidal

I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.

Pico Iyer

Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.

Rick Smolan

I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.

Iain Duncan Smith

No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

Elizabeth Warren

I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.

Rory Stewart

Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving.

Pat Toomey

The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.

Mark McKinnon

Politics at bottom is not all that complicated. It's all about timing.

Mark McKinnon

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

Mark McKinnon

Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.

Mickey Rourke

Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved.

Michael Bennett

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

Calamity Jane

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

Thomas Streicher

These things take a tremendous toll on the officers,

Christopher Hitchens

The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped.

Karisma Kapoor

It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

Ernest Hemingway

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

Ernest Hemingway

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

Michael Douglas

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Civilized life exacts its toll.

Timothy McVeigh

But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.