Famous Quotes & Sayings

Buck Showalter

Kam was outstanding. He gave us a great chance to win, but he ran into Beckett. Two big body, quality starters, and obviously Beckett was at the top of his game.

Marlon Byrd

That's the Beckett from the World Series a couple of years ago.

Rebecca Brown

The Last Time I Saw You ... the obsessive, darkly humorous voice that has earned her comparisons to Samuel Beckett and Djuna Barnes.

Warren County

There was a time when you wouldn't find but a handful of African-Americans in Beckett Ridge,

John Gibbons

That was a character builder. We've got winners on this team. That wasn't easy. Beckett was rolling. We got some big clutch home runs. That was outstanding. That's one where you come all the way back -- when you end up winning those games, it does a lot for you.

Jonathan Fox

I've been a huge fan of his since I started directing. For me, directing Beckett has the same rush I had when I was directing Shakespeare. It is sublime material, and when it works it is so powerful. It's some of the most exciting theater I've ever been part of.

Edward Carey

Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.

Barry Humphries

I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.

John Gibbons

Beckett settled in, and can really overpower you when he throws strikes.

Kelly Jones

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

Richard Ayoade

I was directing before I started doing 'The IT Crowd.' It wasn't something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.

Pat Pownall

You can talk about the call, but the magic word is 'you'. Now they're directing that toward me. You can question my integrity, and that's a technical.

David Schwimmer

Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college with my theatre company.

Misha Collins

For me, to be perfectly honest, the part of my brain that was stimulated by directing was much more exciting than a typical day of acting.

Sean Penn

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

Walter Gossett

There I was, for several hours, directing traffic with a parrot on my shoulder. It was a blast!

Vikram Rohit Shetty

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

David Fincher

The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

Joey Carew

Jamaica is also strong with talent, and this makes for a very competitive and exciting contest.

Bryant Young

He's a very electrifying player, an exciting player to watch, definitely. I think he could be an exciting player in this league.

Arnold Palmer

I think it's going to be exciting for me and it's going to be somewhat sentimental,

Lisa Hammond

I think it's an exciting opportunity for him. But as always, the timing couldn't be worse for us.

Melissa Lundgren's

I think we're all tired. It's going to be exciting for us all to be home.

Gisele Bundchen

I think 25 is a great year; I think every year is a great year, ... I feel like life is so special and so great, every year I feel like I learn more, and I grow, and I think it's exciting to grow up. Twenty-five is so far, so good.

Steven Gerrard

I'm looking forward to it, two exciting games,

Kimberley Nixon

I'm very impatient, and if I get a new piece of technology, no matter what it is - I recently got the iPhone, which is very exciting - I can't be doing with reading manuals. I want it to work immediately and to do what I want it to do.

Terry Allen

I'm sure that will be an exciting day in Cedar Falls.

Barry Bonds

Just seeing everybody, all the fans out there was just incredible,

Craig Wilson

I think it's a great step, not only for the club, but for Jason. He's proven over the last two years what he can do. It lets the fans know that Jason will be here for a while. It's outstanding for him and for us.

Adam Dunn

I think it's a great idea. It gets the fans into (the game) and gives us something to look at.

Nikki Burish

I think it just shows how much women's hockey is growing and how good it is to all the fans out here.

Ronald Harwood

He wanted to make a picture for children. So I read a lot of stuff and he read a lot of stuff. . . . But I don't like all those fantasy books, I'm not good at 'Lord of the Rings' and the 'Harry Potters.' . . . It's not my world. I like things to do with reality and the world we live in -- or lived in.

S. Walker

Heck, at times I was off two weeks at a crack. I was able to get around London and visit those fantastic museums.

Iain Dowie

He's a big Palace fan and so is his mum and I think that if I hadn't got him she would have gone bananas.

Stacey Koerner

Her fans are her fans. Even if they do want to see any of these new shows, they're not going to leave her show.

David McGreal

Here's the thing about dunking, especially at the high school level. One, you don't see it that often. It gets the kid excited, the team excited, the fans excited. Then there is the intimidation factor.

Chris Coste

Kirby was the first name on everyone's list. That smile and that magnetic personality. He was a huge role model for so many people in that area. He was a huge influence in the way that I hit.

Bud Keene

Kelly really pushed the limits of women's riding by going huge and super technical.

Doc Scheppler

Just returning to the team was a huge lift for us.

Ben Howland

Josh Shipp was huge tonight. I mean, having not played 13 weeks, for him to do what he did tonight was just miraculous.

Brian Fanelli

I think it's a huge accomplishment for her.

Mike Szabo

He just stepped up and made a play. That was a huge play.

Sven Eriksson

He seems like a different player and very mature in his way of playing. He's a huge talent and has been doing very well for us

Zell Miller

His passing leaves a huge vacuum of leadership that no one individual can ever fill, ... There will never be another like him.

Mustafa Alani

His organization is going to be under pressure. He's anticipating a huge challenge, not from the Americans but inside Iraq.

LaSheena Brown

I was just a little nervous. I was rushing my shots, I wasn't taking my time.

Richelle Mead

Everything Iʹd been taught about eluding someone came rushing back to my head. What I wanted to do more than anything was look around and see if I had a follower, but that would have definitely attracted attention.

Sarah Dessen

If you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's enough - more than enough, even - just to be there.

Billy Godwin

I just told him to settle in because I thought he was rushing it a little bit. Once he got out of the second, he cruised pretty much.

David Canter

It's more of a SAM linebacker (position) that can rush the quarterback sometimes.

Kevan Barlow

It's going good. If it was up to us, we would have over 100 yards rushing right now.

Mark Helprin

There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it...

Mary Baker Eddy

Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much.

Margaret Bourke-White

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

Ken Starr

I also know that there's a time and a season, and I think that time, had there been one, has long since passed.

Michael Hayes

He's crazy. He's always been like that, since we were 13, he's been the same way.

Mike Donato

He's a thoroughbred. We have worked out together since our first year here.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Matt Kiefer

He had a long rehab. Ever since he could play (again), he has been a leader. A vocal leader.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Lion Feuchtwanger

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Thomas Aquinas

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

Helene Cixous

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

Benjamin Disraeli

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

Denis Diderot

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

Thomas Paine

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

John Wesley Powell

The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.

Francis of Assisi

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

Stephen Sachs

I think it's going to be visually stunning. It's going to be a very unique theater experience,

Rose McIver

It's great to do theater and have the live response and know what that can bring to a performance. I like to juggle as many mediums as I can.

Rob McClure

I live in Philadelphia, and my wife and I do a lot of theater out in the Philadelphia community.

James Frain

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

Lou Reed

Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.

Geena Davis

I love theater. Just, it never spoke to me.

Elaine Vogel

For a long time, we were the only theater in town. And it may be the only theater in Nyack again.

Brian Baumgartner

I come from straight theater.

Jane Krakowski

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Dan Ryan

It (mousetrap car) always works better at home.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

Andrea Giancoli

For some people, it works very well. For others, it can be very frustrating and too much work.

David Nash

If it works for you, then that's great. It's what makes you feel safe.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.