Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clara Shih

I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.

Buck Showalter

Joaquin was outstanding. His background is that he struggles from the fourth through the sixth. It's been a challenge, but today he was outstanding,

Grant McCasland

He comes from a really tough background as far as growing up in Brooklyn and he's helped really helped our team by being someone who can go and get a tough basket or a rebound. We're going to need him to be successful at the regional tournament.

Nick Saban

He is respected throughout the league and has a strong background in player personnel,

Mikhail Baryshnikov

No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.

Arnold Fielkow

I think it's important to let the presentation be made. Because I think you have to give some background to it.

Nick Cave

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

Kimberley Nixon

A lot of my background is in theatre, so when you're on location, and the wind is really blowing, it's raining, and you've got mud all over you, it really keeps you on your toes.

Lisa Rinna

I don't have the dance background like Stacy, who studied ballet, or Drew, who was in a boy band.

Isaac Newton

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Sandra Smith

He was a leader, he wasn't a follower. The boys are really having a hard time. Every last one of the kids is having a hard time because they really looked up to Jeffrey.

Frankie Dettori

He could win it and go on why not? He's done nothing wrong. He just lacks experience. He's got to tackle the big boys sooner or later, so Saturday should be a good test for him.

Simon Fuller

S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done with the Spice Girls. It was also a shift in tone. S Club was this equality of boys and girls, very positive, very uplifting, didn't have the edge of the Spice Girls. I didn't want to repeat it.

Larry King

I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers used to play. They go to all the Dodger games, and they play Little League ball. I have infused them with New York spirit.

Joe Ehrmann

What would happen in Sacramento if we raised a whole generation of boys to love and be loved, to connect? There is the potential to spark life into these kids. The potential to change all of Sacramento by teaching kids to become part of a team and a community.

Kevin Evans

He's a good boy and he's getting better and better. I tried to rough him up but I couldn't connect because he's so tall.

Medea McGlynn

Her room is ready. Since we weren't sure if it was going to be a boy or girl, we tried to keep things unisex.

Maura O'Connor

Hockey has always been a big deal here with the boys program. But people are starting to realize what we're doing. That's good, because we really do have a good team.

Sofia Carson

I always wanted to make a pop record. I'm a dancer myself, so I want to make something that people listen to and just want to dance to.

Drew Seeley

I think it's always great to not be the smartest person in the room because I don't want to ever feel like I can't improve upon what I'm doing. I just want to surround myself with people that are better actors than me and better singers and dancers and see what happens.

Lisa Ward

We've done the soccer, football and dance thing with kids going in all directions, and you find that you just can't be everywhere at the same time.

Patricia Velasquez

I think that comes from being a dancer and from being in the theater since I was four years old. It teaches you discipline.

Jill Williams

It is hard to even put into words how I feel right now. Cassandra really found her place in the dance studio. She would tell me how she would wake up from her sleep sometimes because of dreams of dance choreography.

Harry Reid

I think we're looking like we may be able to dance this afternoon.

Alison Moyet

I went through a string of A&R men who all thought I should be doing something different. One thought I should be a dance diva; another thought I should do Rock n' Roll; and one thought I shouldn't even be singing at all!

Shantel VanSanten

I went to an all-girls' school with 43 people in my class, so dances were small. I always went with girlfriends or a blind date.

Charles Davis

To understand the culture, study the dance. To understand the dance, study the people.

Marcelo Balboa

I never really studied the game. I just watched tape of who I had to cover. That was my studying.

Edward Brooke

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

Steven Blair

We've studied this from many perspectives in women and in men, and we get the same answer: It's not the obesity, it's the fitness.

Idina Menzel

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

Poe Ballantine

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

Flea

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.