Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Schablitsky

He was 16, a French immigrant, nobody knew who he was ? he was an orphan. He was nobody, and then all of the sudden because he's a survivor and cannibalism was said to have taken place, he's suddenly elevated to stardom and infamy. He probably made the whole thing sound as sexy and gory and sensational as possible.

Tony Lewis

He just elevated the whole team. He was never a 'me' guy, and he always had a smile on his face.

Brian Schweitzer

has been elevated to a much higher level than it has been in the past.

Trina Patterson

He recruited me out of high school, I remember him calling. He's the same guy, he never changed. He's done so much for women's basketball. He's elevated it.

Michael Chertoff

Last year, New York got $200 million. This year, we're going to give them $124 million under this particular program. But last year was an artificially elevated number to make up from the very low grant the year before.

Ron Gidwitz

He spent a lot of time on things that made the press. He elevated ISBE so it has more influence on the governor but he didn't appoint people with independent minds to serve on it. It lost independence.

Tim Whitehead

He has elevated his game at a time when we needed it the most.

Randy Johnson

I pitch and my teammates expect us to win and for me to put us in a position to win, and I didn't do that. My slider found too much of the middle of the plate. I didn't have a sharp one going down and away. Unfortunately, my pitches were elevated today, and I paid the price.

Michael Heisley

I'm just happy that we'll make the playoffs. We're fortunate to have a team that has elevated itself to the playoffs. We've only had two years when the team hasn't made the playoffs. During this time, Chicago's only been in the playoffs once. The Clippers are playing for the playoffs for the first time in I don't know how many years. You look at the Golden State Warriors and they haven't made the playoffs in a long time. We've come a long way in a short time.

Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Stephen Colbert

My father always wanted to be 'Col-bear.' He lived in the same town as his father, and his father didn't like the idea of the name with the French pronunciation. So my father said to us, 'Do what you want. You're not going to offend anybody.' And he was dead long before I made my decision.

Quincy Jones

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

O. J. Simpson

It is inconceivable that French workers at Peugeot would be laid off on this magnitude.

Thomas Keller

Restaurants like the French Laundry can be very intimidating for a lot of people.

Mary Wittenberg

Our races are to our sport what Wimbledon and the Australian, U.S. and French Opens are to tennis.

Leslie Caron

I noticed that when I went to see the rushes or the first showing that there was something quite human in this desperation, and I hadn't planned it.

Voltaire

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

Cara Black

I read French much better than I speak.

Mariangee Bogado

I was looking at the scoreboard a lot. I knew I had the no-hitter, but I think it's all mental. I was just thinking about getting everyone out.

Tamba Hali

I think in the back of his mind, he knew we were coming. He still had to do his job, but he knew we were coming.

Matt Thornton

He wanted to make sure he knew I can compete, for me to pitch like he knows I can, like I know I can.

Pete Fenson

He just shook it off and played the way we knew he could play.

Ryan Palmer

He just said, 'Great tournament,' ... I knew he was upset.

Army Sgt.

He just refused to go until he knew he had a welcoming place,

Jeremy Rowell

He knew what he was getting into. He's such a physical player on offensive side. I don't think he'll have any problems transitioning to defense. He understands how to get after the football.

Jeff Backus

He knew what he was doing. It's a letdown, but we move forward.

Kenny Keyes

He knew what he wanted and he made it pay off.

Bobby Bowden

Joe's showing the world he can get it done, when nobody thought he could. That reminded me of the Penn State teams we used to see.

Carmelo Anthony

I take this as motivation. It's nothing to be upset about. I can't take away and nobody else can take away what I've done this season.

Jim McKay

It boggles my mind, ... Nobody thought it would get that high.

George Jennings

It is a little unsettling to be the first wave. It's going to be a rough deal. Nobody wants to go on a strike on Christmas.

John Hoffman

There is nobody else. We can't operate without a president.

Rena McCullough

We're pretty much the redheaded stepchild around here. Nobody respects us." ()

John Ross

We took this old toy store nobody wanted to rent and made it very, very beautiful. Now everything's getting pulled out from underneath us.

H. Hart

We're on the square, and a lot of the times, there is nobody there. People say it was just like reading to the Lord.

Ron Fussell

When he's on, there's nobody who can touch him.

Richard Howard

Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader, yet even without the poet's dire program, I am altogether taken by this hilarious and sexy alternative universe. Just imagine! it is all done with words instead of mirrors, so much more reliable and so much more heartbreaking. Thus Prospero enthralls his crew.

Russell Brand

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.

Ronda Rousey

Strong and healthy is the new sexy.

Tyler Perry

I put a thong on a few months ago trying to be sexy. I've been looking for it but ain't seen it since.

Truman Capote

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

Trey Songz

A lot of people perceive women as sexy based on their outer appeal. But there's no way to mistake if a woman is confident.

Will Forte

I'm kind of under the radar. Not a lot of people notice me. Which is surprising, because I'm so sexy. They're probably intimidated by my sexiness and crushability.

Will Ferrell

There's nothing sexy about Orange County.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Which brings us to the least sexy word in the English language, kids," Dad said, kicking back in his chair. "Inbreeding. Avoid it.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like coach.

Chris Sienko

I think we see her as a 3. We're pretty sound at the 1-2 positions.

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Elvis Costello

I didn't want it to sound like a pastiche of Andersen,

Robert Blake

I'd like to say that I said that because it sounds lovely. But I have no recollection that I said that.

Cindy Davidsmeyer

I did talk to him (after the angioplasty) and he sounds wonderful.

Jay Siegel

I don't know where that sound comes from,

Robert Crais

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

Richard Ayoade

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

Lauren Bacall

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.

Salman Khan

I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.

Tom Courtenay

I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.

LeBron James

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

George Braun

All of a sudden we went from the penthouse to the outhouse.

Richard Morris

Then suddenly the Roman liturgy disappeared as we knew it.

Khandi Alexander

There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.

Rachel Brosnahan

It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'

Kenneth Clarke

They suddenly thought they had someone with the X-factor.

Bill Xia

It's not that suddenly we did something new.

Lynsey Addario

Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.

Dan Gorrell

I don't think Americans are telling us all of a sudden they want small. They are telling us they want more affordable.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

Richard Morris

Then suddenly the Roman liturgy disappeared as we knew it.

Khandi Alexander

There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.

Rachel Brosnahan

It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'

Kenneth Clarke

They suddenly thought they had someone with the X-factor.

Bill Xia

It's not that suddenly we did something new.

Lynsey Addario

Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.

J. F. Powers

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

Gary Jones

Suddenly you've got this big-screen, movie-screen, home-theater experience, wherever you are.

Shane Price

It is important to us to say to victims and survivors of gunshots and violence that we are trying to do something.

Tori Amos

Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.

Sara Gruen

Being the survivor stinks.

Robert Jay Lifton

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.

Yann Martel

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

Gennifer Flowers

I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived,

Patti Smith

First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.

Natalie Wood

A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

Graham Elliot

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

Tony Stewart

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

George Best

It has been a long week but things have taken a turn for the best. I am very optimistic.

Richelle Mead

Well," he said, clearly enjoying my confusion. "It was actually for two souls, since you and Seth were both saved. But even if it wasn't, it still would've been worth it. Do you know the price of one soul, Georgina? It's beyond rubies and diamonds, beyond any mortal reckoning. If it had taken me centuries, if it had taken a dozen more angels to help me, it all would have been worth it.

Richelle Mead

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

Richard Avedon

Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding my own body or my own hands exactly like the person I'm photographing. I never knew I did that, and obviously what I'm doing is trying to feel, actually physically feel, the way he or she feels at the moment I'm photographing them in order to deepen the sense of connection.

Rebecca West

Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.

Ron Chernow

A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)

Tryon Edwards

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.