Famous Quotes & Sayings

Imelda May

I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.

Iain Duncan Smith

When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

Irwin Thomas

I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.

Gallagher

I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.

Zaha Hadid

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

William Shockley

I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

William Henry Bragg

Whenever we warm our hands by the fire, we allow the energy radiated by the fire to quicken up the movements of the atoms of which the hands are composed. When we cool any substance, we check those movements.

Chuck Palahniuk

I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.

Evangeline Lilly

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

Yael Grobglas

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

Yanis Varoufakis

In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.

Tina Brown

Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.

Ice T

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

Idris Elba

If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'

Isobelle Carmody

I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.

Gavyn Davies

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

Donald Trump

You've seen my statements; I do very well. I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing, and it's ridiculous, OK?

Zadie Smith

It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'

Giles Foden

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.

Zaha Hadid

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.

Vince Cable

We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.

John Stokes

The Pinelands Commission is thankful that the court recognized and acknowledged the clear threat to the unique resources of the Pinelands area attributable to the proposed facility.

Eric Hansen

The pictures are really interesting, ... As you look at them, you recognize areas, yet you don't recognize them. There are mature trees in one area or the building of new structure in another area.

Clinton Morrison

The overall growth of data storage is going up at about a 100 percent every year, and in conjunction with that, systems are getting more complex. So there is a big demand for solutions to help manage this growth. Storage area networks (are) still in their infancy. It's a fairly small market and I think the experts expect to see very rapid growth in the order of 50-to-100 percent in the market for a number of years.

Eric Klein

The PC market is in a very mature stage in its evolution, ... That is why vendors are expanding their strategies beyond the box, expanding into services and storage. You also see Intel moving into the rapidly growing area of communications chips.

Dev Hynes

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

Todd Stephenson

I think this has to be the first time in the history of spring training a cello has been hit.

Lori Singer

It is an attention-getter. I mean, it's hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.

Beverly Cleary

I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future husband and I danced to it so many Saturday nights when we were in college.

Andres Segovia

Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?

Leonard Rose

Walter Grossman was a very handsome and interesting man, and in those years a vital and strong influence in my life. He gave me much love and affection, and shortly after my first months of cello lessons, he was very encouraging. I remember him telling my father that some day my name would be up in lights.

Olivia Culpo

I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.

Luka Sulic

We wanted to make a powerful cello sound in order to show to the world the possibilities of the cello and to use it in a different way than the classical way they are used to. We wanted to play something exciting, something crazy, something to draw younger generations to this great instrument.

Luka Sulic

People don't think of cello as a rock instrument, really, and we want people to know all the possibilities that the cello can offer.

Dev Hynes

Everything I do, I build a kind of confidence net - 'I'm able to execute this; it's fine.'

Johnny Roscoe

That was the story for us for the night, we didn't execute when we needed. We failed to come through when we really needed. We were our worst enemy.

Mike Hall

That was the same game plan going into N.C. State. We just didn't execute it then.

Jerry Eaves

We just didn't have the mental outlook to execute at the end.

Jozef Stumpel

We just didn't have it. This was a key game and we didn't execute the way we needed to.

Paul Thompson

We just didn't have good execution. TCU did a good job of putting a stop to us, and we couldn't execute as well as we needed to.

John Stanczykiewicz

We just didn't finish. We have to find ways to execute better in the final minutes of the game. We just didn't do enough to win. They made the plays down the stretch and we didn't.

Jason Smith

We just didn't execute the way we wanted to on the penalty kill,

Jason Richardson

We just didn't execute our game plan. We had a game plan to slow Pau down and we did a good job on him, but they had other guys come up big.

Darell Hammond

Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.

Pico Iyer

Wherever we are, any time of night or day, our bosses, junk-mailers, our parents can get to us. Sociologists have actually found that in recent years Americans are working fewer hours than 50 years ago, but we feel as if we're working more. We have more and more time-saving devices, but sometimes, it seems, less and less time.

Mark McKinnon

Social Security and Medicare are necessary safety nets, but they are nearing insolvency as fewer pay in, more take out, and more take out more.

Shannon McSweeney

Midweek is always quiet, and in the pouring rain there wasn't too many people out. On any rainy day there's going to be fewer people doing any outdoor activity.

Paul Fronstin

We are in the midst of a weak economy. That means fewer jobs and fewer people with coverage.

Josh Bernoff

It doesn't matter how friendly you are if the end result is people watching fewer commercials,

Lynn Reaser

We are seeing on one side fewer layoffs, and on the other side we are seeing a pickup in hiring.

Charles Steinberg

My understanding is Carroll worked fewer than 1,000 hours and got a watch. There is a security staff of several hundred who are not full-time.

Jason Falkner

I feel that recording a song already compromises the magical music one can create in the mind, so the fewer people watering down this process the better.

Anthony White

The police officer said, 'Drop the gun!' He said it four times. The guy just turned around and pointed the gun right at the cops.

Bruce Coville

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

Big Sean

Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

Bill Hader

I would say it wasn't until my fourth season on 'SNL' where people or my agent was saying, 'You're an actor.' I never thought of it that way.

Christine Keeler

I don't know if he was the fourth man or the fifth, but he was certainly in the top 10.

Denise Morrison

I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.

Natalia Vodianova

I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

Carl Sagan

I'm only a four-dimensional creature. Haven't got a clue how to visualise infinity. Even Einstein hadn't. I know because I asked him

Bill Bryson

Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.

Thucydides

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Ismail Kadare

Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.

Emile M. Cioran

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Common

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

Bruno Senna

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.

Beeban Kidron

The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.

Benjamin Franklin

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

F. Sionil Jose

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

Benjamin Rush

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Terrie Williams

We're working to meet immediate and possibly long-term needs for 1,000 or more evacuees, and still provide the necessary services to the people here in Clarksville we're already serving and will need to serve.

Paul Shaffer

Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.

Phil Dow

I think if you're looking for immediate gratification, there's probably no place that's real safe to buy,

Gregory Campbell

Nevertheless our sympathies at this time will very much be with her immediate family.

Kevin Kelly

On March 7, to get this packet of information is a little startling. Most of my immediate reaction is not printable.

George Tenet

one of the most immediate threats the United States is likely to face.

Joseph Curran

From the discussions I've had, the immediate target is 'where are these tires and how many are involved, how many does Firestone think are involved, and what are we going to do about it,

Phil Goff

What would have to be demonstrated, and hasn't been demonstrated, is that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and there is a direct, likely and immediate threat that such weapons would be employed,

Doug Young

Going to a pawn shop is a short-term solution to meet the immediate cash-flow crunch.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Cilla Black

'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.

Alex Brink

We just didn't play 60 minutes of football, or 65 minutes, of football, or whatever it was.

Ron Zonen

You just witnessed the worst seven minutes of this boy's life.

Sandy Wright

You just can't take a quarter off. You can't take off two or three minutes in our league. We have to find ways to answer.

John Jay

Where we are right now, I'm going to try and get as many minutes as I can out of each starter.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.

Thomas Dawson

We'd probably have to wake up 15 to 20 minutes earlier.

Greg Gard

Whether you're home, road or neutral, you can't go 8, 9 minutes and not score.

Maurice Jackson

We can't be out there for nearly 20 minutes when there is only 24 minutes in a half.

Giles Foden

My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.

Des Browne

I am sorry to be leaving the post of secretary of state for Scotland.

Dick Wildt

We need to have that out of our post player.

Tim Roemer

We have had our first post 9/11 test and we have miserably failed,

Cristy McKinney

I'm starting a senior in the post and they just whipped her.

Peter Kruse

Two years ago we started the big integration process within Deutsche Post World Net,

Joshua Cohen

You know you're a fool when what you're doing makes even the post office seem efficient.

Bradley Cooper

Our posture NOW defines our portion later!

Isaac Brock

As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Kenenisa Bekele

The 3,000 meters record has stood for a long time.

Bob McAnally

That was the most ever, a record number.

Scott Ritter

I'll put my record of service up against anyone, bar none.

Patricia Millett

I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.

Madonna Ciccone

Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.

Johnny Marr

You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy.

Joshua Bell

I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry.

Venus Williams

You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.

Brittany Snow

I stay out of the sun; I'm pretty fair. I don't tan - I burn, so I stay out.

Chris Colfer

I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

Neon Hitch

I didn't go to school, because I never stayed anywhere long enough, so I was completely closed off from the outside world. I had no idea about anything.

Arsene Wenger

I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

Jose Gonzalez

That was the most important thing to see this weekend, to see where we are at. If we stay together as a team this year, we're going to do very well. I can't see us not making the playoffs.

Joe Gibbs

We'll probably stay the same way we are with kicking.

Bobby Jones

We were staying at the University of New Orleans, and it was awful, worse than you can imagine.

Ashley Olsen

Usually when we're working we just stay in the hotel, but it was really nice.

William Shakespeare

Here is my journey's end, here is my butt; And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.

Tim Howard

When you play against top players, sometimes you can play - you can play your utmost and you still get beat.

Slobodan Milosevic

It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.