Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Auletta

Journalists would build in more checks and balances and welcome more independent ombudsmen,

John Donahue

It balances the overall impact, ... Quite frankly, you've got to satisfy the people who are paying the bill.

Wendy Hall

The key issue here is self-disclosure and self-reporting. It was Halliburton's own internal, rigorous system of checks and balances that identified the irregularity. ... When the irregularity was discovered, KBR removed the company in question from consideration for any future work as a subcontractor.

Alexander Hamilton

The founders established a government of checks and balances so nobody could take advantage. As for Hamilton, he set up our banking system.

Mark Farley

The best thing about Eric is he balances up our offense. He throws it to everyone. He runs the offense the way it should be run.

John Dunn

Congress has got to hold the administration accountable. The founders set up the checks and balances for that purpose.

Scott Price

It's a mandate. Those decisions are made at the local level involving a local school board. Many districts made decisions based on making sure certain balances are kept within the district.

Randy Hayes

It's always an issue at election time and an interesting one that balances rights versus aesthetics. The courts see campaign signs as being political speech and do not look favorably on restrictions.

John Gower

The launch of this new magazine offers PC World's customers an engaging new branding experience. It finely balances inspiration with practical knowledge and buying advice, designed to deepen the customer's relationship with the PC World brand. The scope and effectiveness of editorial combined with the sheer scale of circulation will combine to have a significant impact in this dynamic market.

Ivory Phillips

There are students who really look forward to being able to see the blending of reality and theory ... meaning, making whatever you read in the textbook plain by giving everyday illustrations that you can relate to.

Sheila Frazier

It is a challenge, because you are constantly blending families, ... You are taking children from other families and bringing them into your home and hoping everyone can adapt.

Mike Rhodin

What you'll see in Hannover is a blending of Workplace with Notes and Domino.

Timothy Ferriss

I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I'm on, I want to be on and maximally productive. If I'm off, I don't want to think about work. When people strive for work/life balance, they end up blending them. That's how you end up checking email all day Saturday.

Kaskade

Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.

Tom Reilly

It seems to me that that is not blending in as much as it should or could with the surrounding homes.

Karla Oliver

There was a time of transition and adjustment. Now there's a seamless blending of those students.

Larry Smarr

This program is a terrific example of the blending of science and entertainment. It fits wonderfully with Calit2's mission of helping the public understand what research organizations like ours are doing and how it might impact their lives.

B. R. Hayden

Blending kids, ex-spouses, money and investment styles -- each one of them requires its own strategy,

Martin Freeman

There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.

Gael Bernal

I think that films are very transparent in that sense and they really portray the journey that that society is going through.

Dawn Hudson

I think that's terrific that independent films are getting more and more mainstream press.

Jake Busey

I don't have a favorite role because there's been so many films that I've done that I've really enjoyed.

Asif Kapadia

I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.

Asif Kapadia

I like to make films where I learn along the way, like the audience.

Chris Robinson

These are films you won't see on Teletoon.

John Riddle

These films are hilarious yet sad in their own ways.

Scott Snyder

These films are a nice enhancement to what we usually do, which is to screen movies that would otherwise go unseen in the Lehigh Valley.

David Pierce

Kelsey Grammer is wickedly funny. He's like an 8-year-old child. He's always doing pranks, and we have a great time.

Rob McKittrick

He is that guy in the movie. He is that funny guy who can get in your grill, and be funny about it. He's a lot more interesting in person than you usually see on the screen.

Trevor Noah

Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny - that's the difficult thing.

Taylor Hawkins

Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

Shaquille O'Neal

Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural.

Maddie Ziegler

I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.

Seth Rogen

I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.

David Crane

I'd like to hope that years from now people can look at the reruns...and say 'That is still a really funny show' or 'It's still really sweet.' And if that happens ... I'll be thrilled.

Joseph Trafton

He was the one who initially got me interested in the subject. I actually have his job now, so it's funny how that worked out.

Dusty Baker

Guys gravitate towards him. You need those kind of guys. There's a lot he can still do.

Elizabeth Mackay

Technology tends to be regarded as less defensive, so if investors become more nervous, they would tend to gravitate away from some of the tech stocks.

Daniel Woodrell

I always gravitate towards anything from Ireland. With Irish lit, I love the use of language, but also in many instances, the Irish writers are writing about people and circumstances that I can relate to.

Gary Kubiak

One of the things that impresses me about him is the way his teammates gravitate to him, which I think is important for a player at that position. You could see a little of that today. He handles himself real well.

Rascal Flatts

We've been living with that song (Feels Like Today) for over two years. It's got a different feel and a different message, a way of presenting today as the day to get over that struggle in your life. It's a positive spiritual song, and being passionate about music and spirituality, we always tend to gravitate toward songs like that. It's one of those that hit us right between the eyes.

Eve

As far as style goes, I gravitate toward anything that is effortlessly chic. I don't wanna look like I'm trying too hard.

Allison Tolman

I do find that when I see women who flesh out the television or film world and make it look more like the world I actually live in, I gravitate towards those characters.

Aaron Paul

I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.

Larry Coker

The players have been really receptive to the new coaches, and there's some special things they're being taught. Once they know they're going to get better, they start to gravitate to it.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

Jeremy Newberry

I think the life expectancy for offensive linemen isn't great. For me, having young children, it's a somber thought. But it's part of the job.

Charlie Chaplin

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning!

Marcia Gay Harden

I was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn't do plays in high school. I was too nervous.

Ann Richards

I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.

Jerry Hollendorfer

He was a good-looking little colt who had a nice pedigree and he worked fast. We got lucky on the price because he was in the sale with no reserve. I liked him a whole lot more than $30,000, that's for sure.

Michael Brown

He liked to get into a lot of stuff. When I think about him, I think of his smile and his hair.

Neil Diamond

His reputation preceded him, ... But man to man, I just liked him a lot.

Terry Stotts

I really liked the way we competed in the second half. With Michael and Mo out, I was really proud of the way our team competed.

Joe Consolino

I liked what I saw. We're playing with a lot of poise and we got a lot of support from our bench.

Jeff Garlin

I like raconteurs; I like conversation. I liked the 'Tonight Show' when it was 90 minutes, I like when people aren't plugging things per se, and they're just in the moment being interesting.

B.o.B

I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Gibbs

I think we realized what was at stake,

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Jill Markowitz

I was a little intimidated at first. But once we started playing, I realized I could play with them, so I just tried to do my best.

W. Hull

I just realized I can't be Brett Hull at 30 or 25, ... I was Brett Hull at 41.

Dar Williams

I realized I was writing a lot of songs about interconnectedness,

Justine Bateman

I realized I was an anorexic, a bulimic, and a compulsive overeater.

Mark Spitz

I realized I had to step up to the responsibilities of my dream.

Paul Taylor

I realized if I didn't stop taking it, it was going to kill me,

Julia Sweeney

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

Richelle Mead

Rose you can't go." This time the sadness in Lissa's voice was mirrored though the bond, flooding into me. "It's not that Dimitri didn't ask to see you. He asked specifically not to see you.

William Maxwell

His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.

Virginia Woolf

I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.

William Wordsworth

The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.

Robert Ryan

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

Robert Plant

Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.

Sarah Waters

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

Sarah Dessen

He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected. No pity, no sadness: nothing had changed. I realized all the times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought one I wore, the feelings only I felt.

Rick Riordan

The dead aren't scary. They are just sad.

Ugo Betti

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

Rick Riordan

Jason's fingers itched to draw his sword. He'd met plenty of scary demigods, but he was starting to realize that Nico di Angelo--as pale and gaunt as he looked--might be more than he could handle.

Mohamed Atta

Make sure that nobody is following you.

Natsuki Takaya

Anyone who knows how scary it is to be alone, can't help loving others." ~Rin Sohma

Thomas a Kempis

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

Leigh Whannell

Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?"

Kevin Hart

I'm very scary. I'm a menace.

Kendrick Lamar

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

Jennifer Hinson

It is a little frustrating. It's sort of put us into a year-by-year situation.

Jason Robinson

If you have got a problem, then go to the person and sort it out.

Jason Anderson

I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records.

Sam Heughan

I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.

Stockard Channing

I never really thought of that. I just thought she was funny. Really, I just thought this was funny, sort of sweet, touching and human.

Grimes

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

Michelle Monaghan

I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers.

Tim McEachern

The idea started as sort of a joke,

John Abraham

I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me.

Renny Harlin

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

Rose Macaulay

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Rick Riordan

Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.

Sara Blakely

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

William Faulkner

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

Richard Rodriguez

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

Upton Sinclair

Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

Jon Lovitz

There are some actors who say, 'What do you want me to do? I'll do whatever you want,' and that's all they do, ... I kind of go to the other extreme. I say, 'I have an idea. Can I try something?'

Kiki Vandeweghe

He's a very, very important part of whatever we do. We want Melo with us for a long time.

Katharine Liell

It didn't matter. Whatever he said, he was going to be arrested, wasn't that true?

Long Qiming

I was doing my job. I'm a Chinese, and I had to do whatever was needed.

Orlando Dominguez

Whatever we can do to better our responses, we'll do.

Richard Lies

Whatever they want to do has yet to be worked out.

Chico Lynch

Whatever they did there, it has worked out well.

Robert Broadfoot

Whatever they achieve, the word that's going to be used will be cooperation, coordination.

Andre Cohen

Whatever she went through, I went through. We never separate.