Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.'

Warren Bennis

The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

Wen Jiabao

Personally, I attach great importance to research in fundamental sciences because I believe that no applied or developmental research can do without basic research as the wellspring and driving force. But, in this world of ours, often because of material gains and immediate interests, it is easy to neglect basic research. This should be avoided.

Tom Headley

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission has a number of Braddock markers in Allegheny and Fayette counties, but none in Westmoreland. We applied for a PAHMC marker but were turned down. So we put up our own marker on Main Street in Mt. Pleasant, which we dedicated.

Des Browne

The ability to send applications by post allows fraudsters to apply in false or stolen identities without fear of arrest and to make multiple applications in the hope of getting one through. It allows the possibility of passports being applied for with the photographs of people who are outside the U.K. and seeking to enter illegally.

Mike Lowry

We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there.

John Laws

We have tracked those who have stayed and have applied for benefits, but I don't think there were that many of them. There just weren't that many who have stayed.

Raymond Kelly

For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.

Henry Eng

Typically, when new standards are established, they're applied for future buildings.

David Barr

When Target applied to open its industrial bank in 2004, we didn't get a single comment from the public. We've gotten 4, 000 letters and witnesses for the Wal-Mart application. The majority are negative. But popularity is not a criteria for an industrial bank.

Vikram Seth

As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.

David Horsey

Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know yet if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back.

Barbara Schneeman

Using the term multi grain or seven grain doesn't necessarily mean that a product contains whole grains.

Peter Thiel

Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.

Ben Bernanke

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.

Rudolf Scharping

If a planned force contains around 3,000 men, then our contribution would be two or three companies,

Andrea Dunn

Today at the supermarket, one dozen large eggs can cost as little as $1. One egg contains the protein equivalent of 1 ounce of meat -- that's a great value for the money.

Dale Timmermann

It contains most of the revenues and most of the expenses for government actions.

Lynn Lavner

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.

Evan G. Galbraith

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

Judie Brown

The police department was handed this on a silver platter and did nothing. That's how I feel.

Nicolas Roeg

Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.

Lisa Ray

We have talked to the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and they said supplies are not a problem in Georgia at this time,

Allen Benson

We have a letter from the director of the U.S. Geological Survey to the Energy Department supporting the site recommendation. It supports going ahead.

Mayor Rockingham

We have a fine police department but manpower is not up to full complement.

Nancy Chambers

We have been working with the Mississippi Department of Transportation on this and they are the ones who are actually doing it,

Phil Padgett

We're working on it, a lot of DNA testing in that department too, I'll be honest with you. It's not gonna be as strong as it has been in the past, but it can still be respectable and that's our goal: to make sure it never hurts us.

H. Hart

Usually the Public Works Department does one, the parks department and water resources does theirs. It's a value that (county supervisors) will see it all in one place.

Isambard K. Brunel

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

William McDonough

I think the job of an original designer is to inspire.

Donatella Versace

Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.

David Carson

The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.'

David H. Murdock

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

Donald Norman

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

Donald Norman

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

Darell Hammond

Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those building our schools, designing our neighborhoods, and drafting government budgets.

Yolanda Adams

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

Ian Mcewan

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

Wendy Kopp

Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.

Wendy Kopp

People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.

Wendy Kopp

Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.

Ezra Taft Benson

Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education, and a higher standard of living.

Bill Harris

The political parties don't fight over whether education is important. They know it is.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Wole Soyinka

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.

H. Hart

We just did what no one else at Eisenhower had been able to do. But we aren't through yet. We've got some more things to prove and it starts next week.

Ken Kesey

I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower.'' ''Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!'

Ken Kesey

''I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower.'' ''Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!''

Lois Lowry

When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as a teenager ever worrying about the state of the future world.

will.i.am

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.

Leon Krier

Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably house two Lincoln Memorials, two Washington Monuments, and two Jefferson Memorials - all six at once?

John Parsons

Right now, for example, we are working on Eisenhower and Adams.

Oscar Levant

Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

Penny Circle

President Gerald R. Ford remains a patient at Eisenhower Medical Center.

Clint Eastwood

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

Nita Ambani

Preventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights.

F. Sionil Jose

A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.

Pierre Omidyar

As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity.

Venus Williams

Wimbledon needs to do the right thing and finally pay the women the same as the men. Players won't be satisfied until all of us -- not just one out of 128 -- are treated equally with the men.

Jim Calhoun

People were watching to see history being made but history wasn't. Albany was magnificent for 30 minutes. But we were equally magnificent for the final 10 minutes.

Richard DeKaser

For the U.S. as a whole, I expect we're going to have an orderly correction. But that doesn't mean it's going to be equally orderly in all places.

Carnegie Hall

He was just magic. He was equally as wonderful offstage as on.

Lanny Davis

He focuses on the half-empty glass. But it is equally true to say the glass is half-full.

Bob Harlan

He was very honored. I told him to look up there (the facade of Lambeau Field) and picture his name with the other numbers. He knew how special this was.

Charlie Jones

Until they do the facade and the parking lot, they won't get a penny of the city's money.

Eddie Lewis

We'll just put a facade on. We'll put the people in the facilities, but we're not even making sure the trainers that train the officers are getting trained.

Great Britain

We realized, rather than go to the next level of garage rock, there was a whole other world out there,

Eric Carmen

We looked like a garage band. We didn't know if it was going to work out, so we rented a lot of the stuff.

Laurence J. Peter

Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.

Mark Roe

I got it (the putter) out of my garage and it was just like an old friend,

Demetrius Fannick

If they don't hit the garage door, they're going to be somewhere. They don't disappear.

Phyllis Gronfur

Any vehicle taken out of the underground parking garage could not get back in.

Carol Patterson

The parking garage is just a big bugaboo of mine.

Jimmy Rollins

Not worried about next year right now. Worried about getting my garage cleaned.

Robert Stromberg

I used to do stop motion in my own garage and Claymation and all that stuff. That led to doing backgrounds and matte paintings. I started doing matte paintings professionally back before the computer, sort of painting on glass.

Bethenny Frankel

I've always been told I have a giant placenta.

David Wright

We have all the right pieces to make the puzzle. I'm not saying it's World Series or bust. The first step is for us to become a playoff-caliber team. We have to take small steps before we can make a giant leap.

Mitchell Baker

We have a version of Firefox for mobile devices, codenamed Fennec. That's a type of fox - South American, I think, with giant ears.

Ze Frank

I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.

David Wright

I won't say it's World Series or bust. We haven't been to the playoffs since 2000. We have to take those small steps before we take that giant leap.

Karen Williams

We're not trying to make giant leaps. We're looking for incremental movement.

Richard J. Codey

Today is a great day for the state of New Jersey. We are keeping the Giants and Jets where they belong.

Marc Morial

Today is a giant step forward, ... The president heard us and responded.

Dave King

What you really need, ... is a giant Husker logo.

Ismail Kadare

It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the 'errors' of authors.

Vincent Bugliosi

No matter what I do, I'll be forever known as the Manson prosecutor.

Zubin Mehta

I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.

Nayvadius Cash

My day one fans - my fans from my mix tape days - know my life now. They know where I've been. You don't want to have a disconnection with those fans. You have to give them all of you because they feel like they've known you.

Cecelia Ahern

Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?

Roman Jakobson

Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.

Dorothy Day

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

Juergen Trittin

We've long known the waste would have to be taken back.

Rodney Moore

We've known about this idea for some time, but it has yet to be developed.

Bergen Evans

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

William Shakespeare

Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

David Nevins

In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right.

Billy Ray Cyrus

All gave some, Some gave all.

Benjamin Harrison

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

Bob Riley

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

Bob Marley

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

William Shakespeare

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

Jamie Lee Curtis

We sit at our consoles and play "Gears of War", but we don't see images from war. We don't turn on the news and see the evidence of war, the result of war. Maybe twice a year, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, we'll go out, we'll hang our flags, we'll try to inculcate in our children some sense of national honor for the fallen. But really, we don't see it. We just don't see the pictures. There's no drive-by on the freeway of death up close. So we don't really see bravery.

William Ginsburg

Monica has many friends at the White House.

Linda Tripp

It was never about Monica Lewinsky. It was never about me.

Peter O'Toole

In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.

Ann Rice

You'll sing a song of victory, eternally, though there is none to be had.

Robert Preston

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

Jane Goodall

We reckon that in about 20 years there'll be none left.

English Proverbs

One of these day is none of these days.

Mike Kuntz

For whatever reason none of us had the sense to make it come together until yesterday.

Skip Brock

He hasn't said one word about it. Honestly, none of us even realized it at the time.

Caitlyn Jenner

I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do that. With 10 children, I don't want to hold that over their heads.

Jillian Rose Reed

I don't drink any soda. None at all. Just water with lemon. If I need something different: iced tea. I don't have anything like protein shakes.

Trent Duffy

You can get it back - it's like squatters' rights. You don't have to give up parking permanently.

Chris Schneiter

We don't have any parking meters that reset.

P. J. Harvey

My understanding is it is more aesthetically pleasing as a parking lot.

Gifford Miller

New Yorkers are getting killed with parking ticket after parking ticket.

Gary Johnson

I think it's a reasonable plan. But some people just don't want parking lots.

Tim Smith

I?d like to get this person ID?d. I want to find out what they were doing in a parking garage.

Tom Hamilton

We have no on-site parking for visitors, family, etc. This is a seniors building. Many of our visitors are seniors and have trouble walking 100 yards.

Evelyn Smith

Our street has become a parking lot. That's what it is.

Richard Wing

Parking in particular is a problem for us at the south campus.

Christian Bale

I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.

Al Smith

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Daniel Handler

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.

Enrique Garcia

We're like their Santa Claus. It's kind of special and we make them feel normal.

Samuel Butler

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Ludwig von Mises

The Santa Claus principle liquidates itself.

H. L. Mencken

God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

Jim Butcher

I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.

Jean Baudrillard

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

Ben Kingsley

The astonishing silences in a Tarkovsky film... can sweep you into screen and... you don't want to end.

Dana Addis

We have to work on moving, setting screens and shot selection.

Patricia Clarkson

I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!

Jeff Tank

We aren't tough enough to screen out. I'd like to see us screen out harder. We didn't do that well, either.

Kerry Collins

We got close, the screen that was tipped was a walk-in from my vantage point,

Jonathan Tropper

I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.

Nancy Buirski

If they get to a screening and it's sold out, don't get too discouraged.

Joe Sakic

I didn't do much. I was just trying to get a screen in there. He shot it, and it just went off my stick.

Diablo Cody

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.