Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Hanks

All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.

Mike White

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Charles Figley

I guess in Jacksonville, residents are responding quite differently than South Florida residents because they have not been through a direct hit.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Tony Fabrizio

There is a growing, deep-seated discontentment and pessimism about the direction of the country.

Zhang Yimou

I'm very honored to become executive director of the ceremonies.

Chris Culos

We've always been friends before we were even in a band. It's a good-natured feeling, playing together on stage every night. To us, hanging out is playing a show. We can read each other and know each other's moods, and we know the direction we're headed. But we also know nothing is set in stone.

Eric Shinseki

I do engage veterans. I meet with the veterans' service organizations monthly. It's a direct, no-holds-barred discussion. I travel to their conventions, where I speak to the veterans membership. I do travel. I've been to all 50 states. When I do, I engage veterans locally. So I get direct feedback from those veterans.

Colm Meaney

Talking about the show reminds you of things that you went through. So it's fun. When the show was on, I couldn't have handled it. I didn't want that direct connection.

Don Stewart

We should have the hearings wrapped up in time to get a vote out of the full Senate in time for the (court's) October term.

Kelly McGillis

but it also made me full of self-doubt and self-loathing because I thought, 'Oh, gosh, I'm not worthy of this kind of attention. I have no talent.'

Joe Thornton

He's just an interesting story, and people need to know about it. I think good players make each other better. People might think he's just a shooter, but he's not. He's the full package.

Larry Harrison

I think sometimes we rely too much on Kenny alone. We play a much better game when we play a full game, relying on our shooting and contesting other teams shots.

Anthony Sanfilippo

I'm here with a lot of optimism that it is a full recovery.

Chris Stidham

Most restaurants serve a full menu with liquor now, so this opens up even more possibilities.

Bill Tribou

That was a little tough, because they're kids, they're 17, they're full of testosterone and they're not going to back down from anybody.

Helena Carter

That wasn't going to work for Lady T, who's this sympathetic and kindhearted, full of love, open, peace-loving, carrot-loving thing.

Derrick Estelle

That's the main thing. If you can get a full ride (college scholarship) because of your skills and academics, then go for it.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to corporate waste: They hire really talented women and then lose them because they can't find ways to keep them productive and content the minute they can't "lean in."

Anita Roddick

Being good is good business

Anita Roddick

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

Jeff Gundy

Turnovers are a skill thing and a responsibility issue.

Richard Bach

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.

Richard Bach

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

Robert Frost

The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.

Rita Mae Brown

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

Rick Larsen

Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.