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.

C. S. Lewis

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

Carrie Brownstein

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

Carl Sagan

Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and which not. But without funding basic research, without supporting the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, our options become dangerously limited.

Bethenny Frankel

Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.

Raquel Welch

I take a multivitamin, I take extra C, I take chondroitin and glucosamine for my joints, I take calcium for my bones. And by the way, weight-bearing exercises can help ward off osteoporosis and yoga helps ward off arthritis.

William Shakespeare

For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.

Mike Williams

I might go down. But I am still on my high fat, low exercise diet.

Beilby Porteus

The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.

Mark Sue

We get the sense that things are now being accounted for appropriately in the right quarter. Hopefully, Nortel will exercise increased financial rigor going forward.

Ian Mckellen

Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.

William Christopher

It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on.

Billy Graham

I haven't written my own epitaph, and I'm not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

Colin O'Donoghue

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

Jack Straw

The overall result is less than we hoped but more than we expected.

Annie Leibovitz

What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.

Brandon Jay McLaren

I get recognized for 'The Killing' all the time. People yell out, 'I hope you didn't kill her!' They yell that out in the street.

NeNe Leakes

I hope to stay on 'Glee,' I hope to still be a 'Housewife' and I hope to do 'The New Normal.' I just want to do it all! Why not? I'm only going to be young for a little while longer.

Nik Wallenda

I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.

Emma Roberts

I like to go to parties if I know who's going to be there, and if it's people I want to be with. I don't just go to go. And I always drive myself, because I hate being stuck places - there's nothing worse that going out and then being stuck!

Joshua Hoyt

The political parties have to understand that this is something that is not going to disappear.

Mike Journee

We're working with all the parties to see how we can do recharge when we've got all this snow in the mountains.

Lee Dean

We're working to try to get the parties together and get the situation resolved.

Rosa Hawkins

We do weddings and we do private parties and we do all of that stuff.

Latin Proverb

Those who do a thing are consenting parties

Ahmed Hussein

Because we are not the only parties in this meeting, we can't predict the outcome.

David Gibb

I don't think it's productive for the parties to snipe back and forth.

Emile Sheng

I think it shows the differences between the parties are pretty big.

Thomas Pickering

We've urged the Pakistanis to take the statesman-like course, the wise course, and the restraint course.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Mae West

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

John Stuart Mill

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint