Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

Yann Martel

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Todd Rundgren

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Idris Elba

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Ivar Giaever

Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Ian Mckellen

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

Ian Mckellen

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.

Gad Elmaleh

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

Marshall Bloom

We have to understand what the virus' tricks are ...to treat or defend against it.

Joe Paterno

We have to understand that if you are going to be really good, you can't make some little mistakes. When (quarterback) Michael Robinson got sacked and fumbled the ball (last Saturday against South Florida) without knowing there was a backside guy coming, we had a terrible job done by someone.

David Boothe

We just didn't show up for last week's game against Joshua Springs. I told our kids that they (Excelsior) would come out and hit you hard because they have some good players, and you'll have to execute our game plan better than you did last week. The other teams are looking for that opportunity to beat us and have that second-place playoff spot, and we really need to step it up.

Mike Fratello

We just didn't rebound the ball for the whole series, but that's not even fair to say because we were terrible all year. It is what it is. We just don't rebound. Up against that team, the size they have and the way they go after the ball, the truth comes out.

Jim Shannon

We just didn't hit any shots tonight, we shot very poorly against their zone and we had no inside presence.

Gary Kendall

We just didn't go after it in extra innings but they did. To their credit, they've got a pretty good bullpen and they did a good job against our bats in extra innings.

Winona LaDuke

Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but I feel good about it. I chained myself to the gate of a phone book factory, a GTE factory in Los Angeles. They were using thousand-year-old trees to make phone books. I think that's a total waste of a tree.

Mark Wahlberg

Growing up, I think I was arrested 20-odd times by the Boston police. The good news is that I've been able to use those experiences in a lot of my roles, and that has been a blessing.

Igor Trunov

My client was arrested following the decision of the French judiciary.

Alan Vinegrad

Members of law enforcement who peddle confidential law enforcement information for their own profit will be caught, arrested and vigorously prosecuted, as will those who buy that information for their own criminal advantage.

Lutfozzaman Babar

We are not ruling out the possibility of further attacks by the Islamic militants despite their top leaders were arrested early this month.

Detlev Mehlis

Those arrested are believed to have helped in plotting the assassination.

Capt. Stewart

We received information that he was in the Roosevelt Homes where he frequents. Our officers went there and arrested him without incident.

Jose Nieves

We executed the search warrant and arrested him. He helped us to develop undercover identities.

Stephen Jones

You didn't feelsorry because they arrested the wrong man?

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

David Kay

And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue.

Enrique Garcia

That was a sad case. These cases are really made by people coming forward with information.

Rick Santorum

My feeling is that the judge has a responsibility to the Constitution first, precedent second. Precedent is one factor. It is not the only factor. If it was the only factor, then, you know, we wouldn't have had Roe vs. Wade. We wouldn't have had Griswold. We wouldn't have had Lawrence. We wouldn't have had all these cases which the Left love.

Matthew Quick

I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.

Allan Urlis

Typically, when there's damage to the weatherhead and the meter box, the city inspector would need to look at it before we could reconnect. But in this circumstance, where there are so many cases like that, the city inspection is not required before we restore service.

Stacey Gabriel

Today the prices have dropped in many cases to a fraction of a penny per genotype, and we can do millions a day. This is the difference between not being able to do the studies, and getting them done rapidly and well.

James Roth

Time is of the essence in these cases in gathering and sharing information, and anything that slows that down is distinctly unhelpful.

Will Champlin

I've seen a lot of my friends go through different reality shows, and they just get caught up in a lot of stagnant positions, unfortunately.

Becky G

Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.

H. Hart

That was the most fun game I've had all year. I was caught in a spot where I wasn't needed at all, pretty much. I was just kinda sitting there.

Russell Robinson

That was the first time we'd faced a zone. They caught us at a good time. But we've faced different types of zone since then, and we have the concept down now. We'll be ready for it.

Seneca Wallace

That was the first pass I caught since (Sacramento) City College.

Greg Gibson

We have caught them and we should be pretty competitive the rest of the year. It's taken four years, but we are really happy with where the program is at.

Levon Kendall

We've done a good job of improving consistently all the way from the freshmen to the seniors. The coaches do not let us get caught up in winning.

Ralph Merkle

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.

Peter Jackson

I first read 'The Lord of the Rings' as an adolescent. It's a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book populated with a prolific number of characters caught up in a narrative structure that, frankly, does not lend itself to conventional storytelling.

Yahya Jammeh

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

Ian Mcewan

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.

Vanessa Paradis

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

Chuck Palahniuk

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.

Billy Graham

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

Billy Graham

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

Zubin Mehta

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

Ellen G. White

I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men.

Esther Rolle

I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own.

Luo Gan

We need to launch a crackdown on organized crimes and evil forces, and enhance anti-corruption measures to prevent them from undermining China's stability.

Noam Chomsky

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

Fidel Castro

I think only God can punish crimes of such magnitude.

Salma Hayek

You have supported the work of prosecutors dedicated to holding the perpetrators of these crimes accountable,

Howard Safir

What we find is that many of the people involved in minor crimes are the same people that are involved in major crimes,

James Comey

Hate crimes are different from other crimes. They strike at the heart of one's identity - they strike at our sense of self, our sense of belonging. The end result is loss - loss of trust, loss of dignity, and in the worst case, loss of life.

Eion Bailey

I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.

Craig Etcheson

We have investigated that back and forth and up and down, and there's just no evidence that he was involved in any prosecutable crimes during the period of jurisdiction for the tribunal. He looks clean.

Del Quentin Wilber

Evidence from mobile devices has provided critical help in solving crimes ranging from homicides to drug trafficking.

Carrie Fisher

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

Bill Vaughan

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

Bertrand Russell

My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never had a compliment that pleased me more.

Charles Grassley

We need to know whether that was an isolated incident or whether similar tragedies have happened or could happen because doctors aren't present during emergencies.

Regina Brett

For years I heeded the warning: Do monthly breast self-exams. Like most women, I did them on a 'sort of' basis. Every few months I'd sort of do a quick feel, but never as thoroughly as the doctors urged. I didn't want to go looking for trouble. If you look for it, you might find it. Looking for cancer is unsettling. Thank God I looked.

Dorothy Moore

Most of the patients are poor, and on Medicare, and doctors don't make as much money treating those kinds of patients,

Robert Kiyosaki

If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn't financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?

Jerry Dorsey

I think (Hudson) is going to be more oriented in listening to doctors and be more open-minded about ideas doctors have. I think he'll be a good fit with physicians here.

Kevin Towers

We have to talk to our doctors to see if he's ready, ... He's a guy who could be a big part of our plans. He fits the profile we're looking for at that position.

Mitchell Baker

The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.'

Kofi Annan

only normal that governments now want to be involved in Internet governance.

Rod Lache

I think it's a smart move because it's less deceptive. People who are going on the Internet can get the right news up front.

Bill Clinton

We're now up over 50 percent of the schools (are wired for Internet access), from 3 percent, and over 80 percent of the classrooms, from 14 percent, since 1994.

Eddie Izzard

I've wiped the file? .... I've wiped all the files? .... I've wiped the INTERNET? I don't even have a modem!

David Duchovny

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

Madeleine Albright

I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.

Charles Rule

We're going to get to ship Windows 98 with all its Internet functionality intact? and that's the key,

Star Trek

word got out on the internet that Trip was not dead, but what can you do?

Idina Menzel

I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.

Ian Mckellen

It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.

Isabel Sanford

I was very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' would catch on?

Constance Marie

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Clotilde Hesme

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

Evangeline Lilly

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Evangeline Lilly

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

Ben Carson

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Beeban Kidron

When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.

Imelda May

I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

Gwen Moore

We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.

Gail Carson Levine

Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

William H. Macy

I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.

William Joyce

I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.

Wendelin Van Draanen

You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

Vanessa Hudgens

My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!

Wyclef Jean

As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick.

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.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Stewart Davis

The police can't do anything unless they (catch them in the act).

John Blair

The police are trying to make or rewrite the law.

Rene Lavigne

That was a thankful sight, when we saw the police helicopter.

Ann Robertson

That was where we could be safe. Police could see us and we could see them.

John Hamm

That was the way it was presented to me and to my (police) chief,

Paul Michael Glaser

Secondly, I thought it was ridiculous to have two undercover policemen driving around in a striped tomato.

Nancy Bray

We got tired of watching him, and we called police.

Kathy Valentine

I think if they don't have enough police, they need to get some from other places. They need some radical cops.

Bob Harris

We rely on police to keep their prisoners secure.

David Bell

The Astros aren't going to win the rest of the way. We have a chance.

Peter O'Toole

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

Lee Humphrey

We've got some time to rest up. I think we'll be fine.

Larry Bowa

(Johnny) Damon and (Derek) Jeter won't need much coaching. They know how to run the bases. The rest of them will need a stop sign now and then.

Dwayne Hickman

Little did I know then that I would be tied to that role the rest of my life!

Robert Lang

It does get you going for the rest of the season.

Kerry Healey

I think I need to rest up for the big day.

Kathleen Blanco

We have to restore the state and its people. This is important work you're about.

Eric Brown

We're not trying to say these things aren't available. We didn't want to restrict the player.

Bruce Bochy

That was very similar to how he threw for the Dodgers.

John Davis

We wanted to keep our monthly payments similar to what they are now, and we can do that by splitting it three ways.

Richard Jefferies

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.

Oliver Luck

My sense is that we're going to have a similar crowd.

Shigeru Omi

I think it is similar to tsunamis and earthquakes...we do not know when,

Jordan Foreman

He has a big body, he's strong, so it's somewhat similar to what he (Davis) does. He's been a big help.

Madhur Bhandarkar

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

Robert Rodriguez

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

Thomas Doll

We've been in similar situations often this season.

Cecelia Ahern

Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we’re looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow

Mike Owens

I wrote 'white, back of wing.' It was unusual enough that I wrote it down.

David Hockney

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

Charles Bukowski

There's nothing unusual about love.

Bobby Farrelly

In the world of comedy, having a partner is not the most unusual thing.

Mark Grossman

It is kind of an unusual thing to see happen.

Dan Hill

My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.

E. M. Forster

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

Deepak Chopra

Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together.

Cecelia Ahern

Alone or not, you gotta walk forward.

Charles Baudelaire

You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.

Bessie Coleman

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!

Benny Hinn

I walk in the realm of the supernatural.

Frank Robinson

With us right now, you can give us 20 walks and it'll still be a 2-1 or 3-2 game.

Jane Austen

I walk: I prefer walking.

Ben Feldman

When you walk out, the money walks in

Sergei Lavrov

If it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right?

Banksy

When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don't make any fuss.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

David Rakoff

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

Agnes Repplier

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

In [my] youth I was smacked around.

William Shakespeare

For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.

Charles Fourier

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

Jamie Redknapp

In his youth Michael Owen was literally a greyhound.

Bruce Catton

Early youth is a baffling time

Baz Luhrmann

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.