Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

Will Poulter

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

Wendy Kopp

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Zubin Mehta

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

Yani Tseng

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Colin Baker

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Chris Carter

I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

Emma Watson

I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Abraham Torres

The overall way it is being handled for public relations and for the whole hospital is wrong.

Eddie Olczyk

We've had many mature 18-year old players that have come into this league and handled a lot. Not many have come in with the hype and the buildup as he has and he's handled it very well.

Larry Coker

I think Kirby did well. He handled himself well. He knew what to do with the football. He had some opportunities and plays that weren't made for him.

Pete Carroll

I thought Mark Sanchez handled himself real well. He had a very solid day.

Donald Copeland

It is disappointing, but the way he's handled it shows what type of man he is. He's never made any of this about himself. For him, it's all about the team.

Willie Randolph

Maybe I should have handled that differently. I don't know. I'm hoping a lot of the things I did now will help us in the future.

Joe Torre

The pressure was totally on Chacon and he handled it really well.

Troy Perkins

I think I bounced back well for the next game, and we showed it with a 2-0 victory. We played pretty solid in the back, and the things they did have were just breakdowns, and we handled it well.

Bob Thomason

With all the information we have, it's something that can be handled pretty simply, and he won't be out a very long time.

Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Megan Smith

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Eve Ensler

Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.

Mike Williams

That was a surprise to us and we are obviously going to rebuild.

Maurice Greene

Every race is not perfect; there are obviously a lot of things I can improve on at the end of the race.

Mark Siegel

We've made progress, but obviously the work is not done.

Paul Simonon

I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.

David Bear

We haven't seen it, but obviously we will review it.

Matt Holliday

We can't get all tight because we haven't scored that many runs or whatever. It's just three games. Obviously today was not what we want the rest of the season to be like so you just try to turn the page on this one pretty quick.

Jim Garvin

It has obviously precipitated a lot of interesting thinking in our science community.

Hines Ward

I thought he was going to be here, but obviously he's not. It's sad. I don't think it had to come to this. ... I've got to prepare like we're going into the season right now without Plax; we don't know what is going to happen.

Mark Gibson

We couldn't be any more pleased with the timing of our announcement.

Mike Cavic

We could have done a lot of things better, but overall, I'm pleased with how we did.

Bob Bales

We're very, very pleased with the support from the community.

Charles Sanders

We're very pleased with what we have produced so far.

Gary Smith

We're very pleased with what's happening, and we're proud of our people.

Steve Hogan

We're very pleased with the progress we're making, but we've still got a ways to go.

Kim Butler

We're very pleased with the participation and response. I think 2006 will see First Wednesday even more widespread throughout the city.

Jeff Moorad

We're very pleased with our relationship in Tucson,

Nicole Leverich

We're really pleased with the response so far.

Bob Lutz

That was a tough one for them to lose.

Paul Mainieri

That was a tough decision, but I think I would have done the same thing.

Dan Snyder

That was a tough day. We had ups and downs, but we worked it out.

Phillip Fulmer

We have a lot of work to do when we go back home.  It's a tough loss, but it's not the end of the season.

Tommy Lee

We need to regroup. It's been a tough road.

Jim Beattie

I think it would be very tough for him to come back in an Oriole uniform.

LeBron James

I thought I was in the right position. It was a tough call.

Tyler Arnason

We've talked, and we've come to the understanding that he wants more from me. It's been a tough year on all of us.

Flip Saunders

We made him take a lot of tough shots.