Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanni

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

Tim Roth

There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

Isobelle Carmody

I wrote my first full book when I was fourteen, and that was 'Obernewtyn.' It was also the first book I had published. It was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to, and it was short listed for Children's Book of the Year in the older readers category in Australia.

Gil Gerard

Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.

Zadie Smith

Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.

Will Shetterly

There've always been people in the borderland between childhood and adulthood. That state is not a matter of chronological age. It's a matter of understanding that you can accept a future that has been defined by the previous generation, or you can reject it and make something new.

Billy Graham

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation... But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

Ezra Taft Benson

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

Chen Shui-bian

The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the People's Republic of China or a Special Administrative Region of China.

Yanni

When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

Natalie du Toit

It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

Duane Blackburn

We have a good nucleus of kids coming back and another solid group coming up behind them. We'll be a challenge, no doubt. Kids like Wolf and (sophomore) Guy Price and some of the others, they will augment Chandler at the lighter weights. My assistant, Bo Ramsey, has done a wonderful job bringing all of them along.

Keith Newman

We've gotten some people back on our side. We haven't gotten them all back. But the more we win, the more we think we can get them behind us again.

Sean Hill

We have to make sure we come out with a little more fire in the first period and take the play to them because when you don't, you're playing from behind all night, ... That's when you get penalties and when you get put away. And that's what happened.

Kirk Ferentz

Usually when you see a stat like that, at least for a team like us, that's an indicator you're coming from behind and you've got a lot of work to do. But you've got to give our opponent a lot of credit. They played a great game.

Hope Davis

Usually the wife and mother who's left behind is the wronged one, the one holding the family together, ... In this case, she's just as self-absorbed as he is and isn't too much better with the kids.

John Lawhon

Usually someone will develop into the leading scorer later in the season, and we'll have a bunch of players behind him. I'd rather have it like this.

S. Hughes

With the entire staff of the fishing group working behind the scenes to secure donations, we're hoping to raise many thousands of dollars that will go directly to impacted families and individuals in the fishing industry.

Cynthia McKinney

The 9/11 Omission: Did the Commission Get it Wrong?

John Poindexter

The 9/11 Commission is identifying the exact problems that we were trying to get technology to solve. So I keep pushing the idea.

Candy Olson

We can't just keep hoping the county commission will do right by these kids.

Laura Martin

We have the Racial and Cultural Diversity Commission which translates and publishes our press releases into Latino magazines.

Michael Copps

Today the Federal Communications Commission empowers America's new media elite with unacceptable levels of influence over the ideas and information upon which our society and our democracy depend,

Jack Evans

We will respond quickly and comprehensively to any requests for information from the Commission on this complaint, but no such requests have been received so far.

Stephen Williams

We have been working for some time on this commission and the purchaser is a long standing customer of ours. Even though we regularly work on commissions to source rare wines this one has been particularly gratifying.

Thomas Vinje

Microsoft has been playing games with the Commission from the beginning, but now it realizes its time is up.

J. Taylor

Microsoft continues to be open to working with partners and competitors, alike, to jointly commission research that helps all our customers engage in an informed and respectful debate on the facts.

James Lindsay

The overlap was startling, really. There was a great deal of consensus on where to intervene,

Raymond Kelly

Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience.

Patrick Michaels

Michael's position is in the minority. The consensus is the scientific debate is all but over.

Mitch Daniels

I think this is a matter for local decision-making and local consensus and that seems to be what is happening,

Gary Samore

Whether it is by consensus or by vote, either way it ends up in New York.

Herb Kohl

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.

Phil Hansen

Basically, the consensus is Stayton and Cascade will be at the top. ... But I think we've improved enough to be in the playoffs. It's just how focused we can be in the next (eight) games.

Jonathan Joseph

Given the weaker outlook, we expect the 2001 consensus estimate of $1.76 to come down substantially.

John Silvia

I would say the consensus is that the Fed goes to a neutral position on inflation.

Silvio Berlusconi

The accession of one of these countries to the UN Security Council runs the risk of embarrassing three or four other countries,

Frank Sciolla

That would be good for the kids. Council Rock played great. They played like you have to play to win.

Charles Meador

We have the discretion to pick who we want to pick. I don't see any reasons why this council should tie its hands and limit its discretion as to who should serve us.

Matthew Daily

We were so successful with those original goals that the council decided to update those for the next four years.

David Storrie

We've made a better effort to educate the council on the overall project. The council had some objections about removing the permanent habitation clause, so we've softened the language, and there's still going to be no permanent habitation on the acreage where the hotel will be. We've made it a friendlier document.

Richard Miller

We're very pleased with the support council has given to the fire department in starting the process indicated in the master fire plan and we look forward to the progression the department will take,

John Bolton

I thought it was a good example of how the council can work together effectively,

Terry Adams

We formed a global warranty council last year.

Peter Pace

I was in every meeting with the joint chiefs. I was in every meeting with the combatant commanders. I went to the White House multiple times to meet with the National Security Council and with the president of the United States. I have never seen that colonel,

Tim Pawlenty

Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what we need to be about.

Ian Anderson

When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.

Vikram Seth

After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.

Harold Johnson

The police had to use less-than-lethal force to take him down.

Mohammed Ali

The police force is full of corruption, and the law process has collapsed,

Ben Carson

The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.

Jeff Newman

The pay-per-view people were very organized and they forced him to think about things he never would have thought of. He knew he needed professionals to do that.

Brian Kernighan

Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts.

Gore Vidal

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

Robin S. Sharma

Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.

Thomas Harrison

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.

Steve Case

We've learned the market functions a little differently in Europe.

Neil Shubin

Most of the major joints of the fin are functional in this fish.

Michael Leunig

I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy and not hide it, you see.

Phil Singer

Those numbers are a total function of his name, not him. He has a short record that has been described as thin.

Hank Johnson

As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.

Georgia Fischer

I don't think we would limit her. If the swelling goes down and the function is there, she would be good to go for however much she would last and however much they would need her. ... There wouldn't be any limitations.

Will Chase

Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.

Billy Graham

The human heart is the same the world over.

Ellie Goulding

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

David Hanson

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

Donald Johanson

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.

Newt Gingrich

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

Ricky Martin

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Nina Easton

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

John Bryan

We have traditionally had inspectors who really know a lot about the business. They seem to be getting the job done. And while we've seen some improvement in permits, we're still a long way from where we should be.

Steven Wood

Wholesalers had been struggling with bulging inventories through the winter and spring, ... However, plunging sales had largely thwarted their efforts. July's improvement is a welcome respite in this struggle.

John Lonski

I think this testimony is much more confident. His worry that the improvement will not be sustained is less pronounced.

Dick Bennett

We have not shown the improvement I expected.

Serhan Cevik

Whichever variable you look at, it's a big improvement.

Maureen Caddigan

Basically, his job is on the line unless we see some sort of improvement here.

Jack Rio

From '03 to '04 there was improvement, from '04 to this year there was more improvement.

David Ganey

He showed improvement all season long and that paid off with a trip to the state tournament.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

Irwin M. Jacobs

We try to preach innovation. We provide resources; we invite speakers in from universities to talk about new ideas.

Becky G

I wrote 'Wish U Were Here' for Cody Simpson, and he invited me to perform with him on tour and be in his music video. He was shy at first. I think it's the surfer boy in him that makes him so mellow.

Rosemarie Truglio

We wanted to invite the parent into the viewing situation.

Ryan Stiles

I was into sports in high school, but I got kicked out of Richmond High at 17, so I never graduated. However, I still get invites to the class reunions... I don't know that I want to see how everyone looks now.

Saeb Erekat

We invite Mr. Sharon to resume final-status talks so we can reach the end game.

Fred Funk

I'm still in shock that I was invited to be in this thing,

Akinori Otsuka

Manager Oh is the one who invited me to be on the team. So it means a lot to me personally to win for him tonight.

Dan Fitzgerald

We get spectators a lot. Most of the time when people come out they sit in the shelters out there. A lot of times people pull up on the road, and we invite them to come up and sit in the shelters. They are more than welcome to come out and watch.

Fauzi Bowo

We have not been invited to the talks (prior to the establishment of the consortium), so we don't know where the subway will be built.

Gillian Armstrong

I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.

Buck Leonard

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

Bryan Cogman

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Frank Pierson

There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Steve Forbes

The American administration is making a major mistake, trying to pressure the Chinese. I wish we'd back off.

Sue Enquist

The ASA Major Championship is the pinnacle of women's major softball during the summer. I'm really proud of all the players that contributed to that team.

Arlen Specter

We have a major, major problem on our hands, ... It is a matter of very, very substantial urgency.

Marty McOmber

This wasn't a surprise. This is why we proposed the legislation.

Eric Hausler

What's proposed in New York is not competitive.

Abbas Zaidi

We have proposed Karachi as a Test and a one-day venue.

Stephen Byers

The proposed merger...might result in a substantial lessening of competition,

Christo

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

Howard Miller

I think what he's proposed is accommodating It's gorgeous.

Paul Omodt

They've got to go through the whole proposed settlement in there.

David Lennon

That is false. They have proposed nothing to us other than threats, concessions and substandard conditions.

Edward Hennessey

There was no relationship, there was a proposed relationship,

Ally Condie

I love. The most reckless thing of all.

James Dickey

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Patrick Rothfuss

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

Richard Hammond

Im not reckless. I was never reckless.

Jolene Blalock

Everything I do, I do with reckless abandon.

Lewis Carroll

The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.

Rumi

No more holding back. Be reckless. Tell your Love to everybody.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. All the states, especially the states that have been ignored, all the constituencies and communities that have been ignored, have a part in this process.

Heather Wilson

New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Shyam Saran

This was not something that the United States wanted,

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Bill Vaughan

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

Giulio Tremonti

We have been united in government, and we will be even more so in opposition.

Noam Chomsky

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Bob Mulholland

Voters want to know, 'What are you going to do for me in office?' That's what it's about.

Mark McKinnon

Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.

Cooter Failla

I wish it had been a unanimous vote but we had some outstanding candidates.

Jim Hall

I won't vote for it for any reason.

Hal Brown

I still have concerns, but I'll vote for it,

Dick Gephardt

one of the most important votes we will take in this Congress.

Joseph Biden

Judge, if I look only at what you've said and written ... I would have to vote 'no,'

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

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

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.