Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gil Cates

The 75th anniversary show is a meaningful one for the Academy, and it is wonderful to work with a host who's done it before. A host who's witty, clever, sharp, intelligent, quick on his feet and always on top of the unfolding action. Wait, I've forgotten something. Oh, yeah, and outrageously funny.

Don Sherwood

The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.

Steve Timms

We can't imagine a better anniversary present than this. Especially since the tournament is making its debut this week on the new Tournament Course at Redstone Golf Club, which was designed specifically to host the Shell Houston Open.

William Shakespeare

Honor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you!

William Shakespeare

Grace and remembrance be to you both.

Linda Foglia

Michael died just after his one-year anniversary (in prison). He was in poor health and was actually transferred outside the hospital (to another facility) the day that he died.

Michael Stern

Michael and I, to this day, stumble into things, ... We wrote a book on Elvis Presley together in the 1980s that became New York Times and London Times best-sellers. It was released on the 10th anniversary of Elvis' death. Everyone said 'How savvy the Sterns are.' Do you think we knew the significance of the date of release for the book when we were writing it? Not even.

Mark Cook

Williamson A.M. will celebrate its 10th anniversary this fall, and the community weeklies serving Brentwood-Nolensville, Franklin and the rural county and Spring Hill-Thompson's Station will be two years old. All are evolving and we hope to continue to get better at serving our audience groups and the greater community interest through them.

Bob Easton

We have, over the years, found that the family members prefer to have a private remembrance on the anniversary date.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Gene Siskel

For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.

Billy Graham

I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and - for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

Clive Thompson

When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.

Neymar

I'm a happy guy. I like to joke around. I'm irreverent. I love my family; I love my son. I was very happy with and proud of the birth of my son. I grew up a lot after he was born. I'm just an easy and happy guy.

Regina Brett

My daughter finished high school the same month I got my master's degree. I'm glad I didn't know when I gave birth to her at 21 what it would cost in terms of time, money and sacrifice to bring her to that graduation day.

Ranbir Kapoor

I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.

Noah Feldman

Since the birth of modern Orthodox Judaism in 19th-century Germany, a central goal of the movement has been to normalize the observance of traditional Jewish law - to make it possible to follow all 613 biblical commandments assiduously while still participating in the reality of the modern world.

Nikki Reed

I've never really made a big deal out of my birthday.

Yahya Jammeh

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

Ian Mcewan

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.

Gwen Moore

It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because if they don't, the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own, and they're going to begrudge that child everything, from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance.

Gail Carson Levine

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

Giles Foden

I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.

Zadie Smith

People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.

Vince Vaughn

I love Snoop. I worked with him on 'Old School,' and he's very accessible. He's very kind. He's always nice to everyone, to the crew. He's always got something positive to say. He's very childlike and loves to come and play. So, I had fun working with him.

Vanessa Paradis

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

Chuck Palahniuk

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.

Ashton Kutcher

You know, I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic.

Doris Williams

She has been a voice in the community for equality. I think her legacy coincides with her husband's. Since his passing, she has worked toward implementing the dream - she wanted to keep his dream alive.

Jose Gasset

A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.

Mark Brooks

I'm looking forward to the season. We're looking to have a winning year for sure and hopefully that coincides with a playoff spot in the Shorelines.

Gloria Trevi

Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.

Gladys Knight

I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

William Kirby

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

William Henry Bragg

The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no particular forms in his diagrams. That does not mean that the shapes are unimportant, but rather that the older methods could not define them.

Vikram Seth

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

Billy Graham

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

Billy Graham

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Evel Knievel

I've always been concerned about kids - not just my own three, but all kids - what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down the path to self-destruction.

David A. Bednar

We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be flowery or lengthy. We simply should sincerely and frequently express love.

Richard Schiff

who is somewhat conscience-driven and dynamic in his opinions. There is pressure to relieve him of his voice.

Benjamin Disraeli

To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Johannes Heesters

Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things... My conscience is clear.

John Milton

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,/ That would be wooed, and not unsought be won.

Ernie Accorsi

He shaped nearly every rule and philosophy we have in our league today. Most of all, he was the moral conscience of the National Football League. He now joins the pantheon of incredible men who made this league what it has become.

Mike Holt

I think it shows that you are a man of conscience and principle.

Bob Inglis

Hundreds of American soldiers have given their lives in Afghanistan to promote liberty, including freedom of conscience and religion.

Ernie Accorsi

He was the conscience of the National Football League.

Harry Pachon

He voted his conscience, even when people made fun of him,

Li Zhaoxing

China-US relations have, on the whole, maintained stability and growth. Dialogues and exchanges at the various levels have improved mutual understanding and mutual trust,

Katrina Kaif

I have an impeccable memory, and I can learn dialogues in any language in 20 minutes, including Telugu and Malayalam.

Todd Larsen

A number of the (religious) funds take part in social resolutions, in ongoing dialogues on things like worker rights or the environment.

Bill Evans

We have a mandate ... to protect ... the treaties, to ensure that they're there and that we don't give up any of our rights from the treaties,

Bill Richardson

We have worked with refiners to help them with transportation, with numerous other logistical initiatives so that they can get more product into the market, ... I will be meeting next week with refiners, with petroleum executives, with many others -- heating oil suppliers, to ensure that we get this product reserve into the market.

Marquis de Lafayette

The more I see, hear, and think in Europe, the more I wish for every measure that can ensure to the United States dignity, power, and public confidence.

Craig Fields

We have the necessity of government intervention to ensure the free exchange of ideas.

Steven Galson

will lead to greater improvements in regulatory and drug development science and in how we evaluate and ensure the safety and efficacy of the products we regulate.

Scott Baker

We need something better than peaker plants to ensure energy. I think we can do better.

Don Brown

We are not prepared to make that prediction quite yet. We are still working with our network teams, investment planners and technology vendors to ensure speedy deployment of a high-quality television service.

David Bradley

We fought hard to ensure that this provision was retained in order to protect the rights of carriers, and I'm extremely pleased that at the end of the day we were successful in having this section transferred to the HTA.

Ehud Olmert

I will very much try to ensure the formation process is calm.

Gail Carson Levine

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Elizabeth Warren

Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.

Janna Sampson

The only reason this plan looks reasonable is that it is scaled back from something that was fairly audacious.

David Ulevitch

If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google on a pedestal for competition, but they aren't telling users not to use OpenDNS.

Noah Baumbach

Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world.

Hassan Nasrallah

The Americans are surely mistaken if they think they can make peace without finding a real and fair solution to the Palestinian issue.

Mike Irwin

That would not be fair to Red Hook. But we have a good team.

Chris Lee

That was tough for me to get situated because I was back and forth (between positions) the whole season. Now, I'm fairly secure at defense.

John Koskinen

That will actually look fairly interesting on a T-shirt.

Rand Paul

General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.

Ray Lewis

There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed.

Noah Feldman

The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don't respect rights.

Joe Biden

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

Bill Tribou

That was a little tough, because they're kids, they're 17, they're full of testosterone and they're not going to back down from anybody.

Kevin Sharer

We need to have full tests to protect patient safety.

Daniel Craig

We can't go fully monty in Bond, Because we can't get the rating.

Sean Covey

Don't struggle about the struggle. In other words, life's full of ups and downs. So if you're struggling, don't worry, everyone else has or will at some point.

Paul Hawken

We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant.

Craig Bryson

The $64,000 question: nobody knows where the rest of the funding is going to come from.

Shawn Gumataotao

We're working with Mr. (Juan) Flores to find funding for payroll.

Travis Reindl

When state funding goes up, tuition increases go down. States are putting more money back into higher education. We don't know how long that's going to last.

Joanne Vavrek

We have only restored 81.5 percent (of the 2002-03 funding allocation) this year.

Judy Batusich

We haven't been able to secure any funding yet.

Dave Coleman

I hate to see the funding cut, but it will probably be.

Ian McDonald

Funding can never replace the value lost from trade and the euro190 million does not really offset that, offset what we would lose.

Henry Nutbrown

I think in the end, it's inevitable we'll be talking with all of our funding partners.

Mike Parks

I have been told that we should know about the ITEP funding within the next three weeks.

Stuart Eizenstat

has the potential to rank ... as a landmark event.

Shia LaBeouf

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

Mike Leavitt

It is a triumph for collaborative science, ... This is a landmark achievement.

Minya Oh

It was a landmark for the hip-hop generation.

Kerry Killinger

This is a landmark day for Washington Mutual and for our industry,

Os Guinness

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

Aristotle

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

James Lasdun

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

Hal Boyle

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Michael Faraday

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

Sinclair Lewis

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

Rick Riordan

It's useless to lecture a human.

Marco Rubio

How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.

John McCain

I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

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.

Yoshihiko Noda

China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

William Shatner

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Frank Marshall

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Carrie Underwood

[When] opportunities present themselves, I take them. It's just how I roll!

Carl Sagan

Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.

Ashton Kutcher

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

Ashton Kutcher

Opportunities look a lot like work.

Arnold Rothstein

Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none…so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all,

Antoine Fuqua

I like the opportunity to make films.

Emile M. Cioran

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

Cecelia Ahern

One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.

Bill Bryson

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

Joey Giordano

We're waiting for investigators to speak with her to find out what else has happened.

Olga Kurylenko

On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.

William Shakespeare

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest ...

Mario Pescante

I will speak with (Rogge) about doping, ... We are optimistic.

Antoine Hood

I think I can speak for everyone on this team when I say he had our trust from Day 1.

Neil Simon

Yo quito se dablo enchalada porquesa in quinto minuto! But I don't speak spanish.