Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop.

Brian Keith

We started slowly, but then began to put things together. We were 3-9 to begin the year, but we have gone 9-4 the rest of the way.

John Timoney

We stopped the rescue operation around 11 o'clock (Thursday) night, ... As the tide came in, the structure began to move, and other parts began to collapse again. We made the decision to pull our divers out.

Helen Scannell

We started from scratch. Immediately people began dropping things off - and they were nice things. Our goods are gently used. We are not a junkyard or garbage drop.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.

Marian Seldes

When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.

Nicholas Kristof

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.

M.I.A.

Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.

Natasha Trethewey

Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.

Alan Rickman

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

Leslie Robinson

We want to thank everyone who came out to support United Way agencies. The $11,500 will go a long way to help those in need.

Rep. Caruso

We want to see how the process came to be. He really matches up a lot of the missing pieces.

Chow Yun-Fat

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive

David Hockney

How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.

David Hockney

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

Audrina Patridge

I definitely feel much more comfortable in front of the cameras after 'The Hills.' Before, it was much more nerve-racking.

Richard Oster

We actually go to king school to learn to use the scepter. You first acknowledge the people upstairs who came to view.

Juror No

We actually challenged one another in the deliberation room. We challenged the issues, and we came to the decision that pointed to reasonable doubt.

Shatha Atiya

When he first gets off the plane, I'm going to hug him. Then I'm going to collapse for a few hours, and then we're going to sit down for a long discussion about the consequences.

Granth Sahib

There is no other as Great as the Guru. I have come and collapsed in the Guru's Sanctuary. In His Kindness, He has united me with God.

James Wolfensohn

Unless a solution is found, we may be facing the financial collapse of the PA within two weeks.

Doug Balog

A computer room that used to have racks and racks of computers can collapse all that into a much smaller space and save money when running their systems.

Alfred Artis

They made it tough on us. When we collapsed on Gamble on the inside, No. 24 (Johnson) would hit those long 3s and when we went out to guard him, they would score underneath.

Boris Yeltsin

Foreign investors should feel confident there will be no collapse of financial markets in Russia,

Kenton Paulino

It opened up my game a lot. Defenses collapse on the other guys and I've been getting open looks.

Diane Swonk

This is a very unusual recession in that the consumer did not collapse and incomes are in the black,

Toby Dodge

They're negotiating about an institution that doesn't exist and shows no signs of coming to life, ... The state collapsed in June, 2003, and definitely needs to be rebuilt.

Alan Watts

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

Alan Greenspan

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

Al Pacino

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

John Bolton

We want to thank the secretary-general for his personal and very prompt decision to waive privileges and immunities, ... This is now a serious law enforcement matter and we will have no further comment.

Javier Solana

We want to take a decision that is part of a solution, not part of a problem, and therefore it has to be well explained and understood by everybody.

Mark Shapiro

We want to set the roster as early as we can. This year, the decisions are so few.

Chris Cleave

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Chris Colfer

Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.

Eddie Murphy

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money.

Alan Greenspan

While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

Earl Warren

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

David Twohy

Theres so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

David Brin

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

Carlos Fuentes

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Charlie Gonzalez

Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.

Charlie Chaplin

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

John Timoney

When we get a chance, the divers will go in,

Charles Dickens

For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.

Charles Caleb Colton

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Charles Dickens

People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are

Charles Dickens

The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.

Charles Dickens

"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

Charles Dickens

Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.

Charles Dickens

[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.

Charles Spurgeon

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.

Charles Spurgeon

When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us, how shall we praise Him who, before the eternal throne, undid the mischief which Satan was doing upon earth. How shall we thank Him because He never held His peace, but day and night pointed to the wounds upon His hands, and carried our names upon His breastplate!

Carina Perelli

This has been a much more solid operation than the one we saw in January, ... It has been a peaceable election. Voters were much better prepared.

Jim Oliver

They are shutting down that quarry. They have ceased operations there.

Kazimierz Krzowski

The rescue phase of the operation is over.

John Byrne

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

Charles Collins

Operation and maintenance of the water and wastewater systems have essentially been abandoned.

Charles Blake

This is the first day of operation in Kenner. We're going to be refining our process.

James Carbone

This is not a two-bit drug dealer. It took a sophisticated operation to take him down.

Paul Costa

There is a possibility that we will have to stop operations by the end of the year.

Howard Thompson

The proceeds are used for the operation of the Bedouin Shrine Temple and to support our transportation department,

Jane Riley

They have a showcase every year and you get to see snippets of the shows. We saw parts of all of the shows we booked, and they're great.

Alfonso Soriano

It's two different parts of the game. I was doing the same thing when I was playing second base. When I play defense, I play defense. When I hit, I don't think about defense.

Russell Hoban

There were times when it seemed to him that the different parts of him were not all under the same management.

Tuppence Middleton

I don't think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It's actually a disadvantage because that's not where all the interesting parts lie.

Hoshyar Zebari

successes we are making in some parts of the country.

Don Shula

Now he's got the parts to make it all work.

Hanya Yanagihara

So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.

Ella Bell

That's what they did in other parts of the city. It's the same formula,

John Lee Hooker

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

Kenny Graham

We started pulling some of the starters even though it was only 2-0 but you have to look at the big picture.

Vince Carter

When you think something can't be done, that's when he pulls off another stunt.

Bill Maher

New polls show that Obama is now pulling away from Mitt Romney. And, of course, what could be more natural than to see Mitt Romney and pull away?

Greg Williams

When we get real rain I'll have to get a tractor and pull them out of the mud.

Wayne Morgan

We're going to have to pull up our bootstraps.

Nick Rodriguez

We're doing better than I was hoping. I didn't think we'd be able to pull off a win until sometime around March.

Mike Matheny

It's just a shame we have such trouble scoring runs for these guys, especially after a first start like that, and he has to walk away with a loss. It's a shame we couldn't pull out a win for him.

Nate Gallick

It's even better that the team pulled this out and did great.

Paul Cunningham

They pulled their stuff together and made this happen.

Jeanna Stewart

They rescued my three little kitties. I didn't need a rescue for me, just for them.

Fritz Braun

The rescue work is shaping up as very difficult. It is very problematic getting into the hall.

Don Hudson

It's a technical rescue that a lot of other departments do not want to do,

AJ Holloway

We are still in the search and rescue mode.

Patrick Smith

I don't see it riding to the rescue of Deby.

Pavel Felgenhauer

rescue service isn't working, just as it wasn't working back then.

Peter Sirois

It's simple. We are the search and rescue because we know the trails, most of us are trained in first aid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.

Tom Ditt

We have 1,500 residents waiting to be rescued from rooftops.

Jessica Raine

The most common place I get stopped by fans is the ladies'.

Joe Torre

They stopped thinking and went out there and reacted.

Rick DiPietro

They're a little bright. But they stopped the puck.

Bruce Bochy

It was a much-needed win. It stopped a streak. It was huge.

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Jim Nesser

I've stopped trying to guess. Every time you think you know, they do something crazy.

Enrico Colantoni

You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

Sophie Lowe

Everything happens for a reason. Say if I don't get a role, it may be that it would have stopped me getting another role.

Robert De Niro

When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to the Actors Studio when I was 18.

Carl Jung

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

David Schwartz

A lot of these structures are going to come down.

John Hewson

It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

Dave Foley

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

Phiroz Vandrevala

The structure for the subsidiary would be in place by June.

Harry Schmidt

You're going to put America's command-and-control structure on trial? ... It's not going to happen.

Demetri Martin

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

Kathleen Blanco

If we're going to have recovery, we're going to have to have structured government. Time is of the essence,

Paul Provenza

We didn't choose the joke because it's filthy! We chose it because of the structure!

Bill O'Reilly

Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can't explain why the tide goes in.

Bill O'Reilly

Tide comes in, tide goes out, you can't explain it!

Anant Agarwal

Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats,

Tony Parsons

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

Silius Italicus

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

Shirley Manson

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.

Mariah Carey

Only once in a lifetime love rushes in, changing you with the tide.

George Santayana

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.