Famous Quotes & Sayings

Venus Williams

No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.

Doug Beard

The people at the Bradley Center have been tremendous to work with. Our event management experience certainly comes into play.

Brendon Urie

I love being the center of attention. I'm shameless about it.

Big Sean

My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City.

Don Yaeger

Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, and his name always comes up when the conversation centers on the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But his greatness comes with an asterisk: He never won the Big Game.

Vince Gilligan

'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.

Judith Butler

The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.

Wole Soyinka

Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.

Glenn Dickman

We could have sold that property and made a lot of money, selling it to some distribution center that would just mean a lot of trucks going in and out.

Zach Johnson

The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.

Monique Bond

The police needs the community and the community needs the police.

Steven Englander

The police force isn't big enough to enforce that sort of thing. This is where community expectation and standard will have to hold sway.

Tony Smith

The PBSO is eager to ensure the level of service your community expects, at a more cost effective savings than you currently have,

Christine Pelosi

Having seen my mom in community volunteer work my whole life and in Congress for 25 years, it is true as she often says that she sees her service as an extension of her role as a mother and a grandmother.

Alice Walker

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.

Eugene Kaspersky

The 3 February 2006 could turn out to be a very difficult day with unprotected users losing data and the Internet community at large suffering from heavy traffic.

Krishna Sitaula

The announcement of the municipal poll was a ploy to fool the international community, which is pressurizing the King to restore democracy.

Jack Berry

The American Hospital Association has declared 2006 as a year of connecting to communities so they can do a better job of community service.

Joseph Biden

The American public must become engaged on this issue,

Scott Rudin

If you're going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, you've got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world you're living in.

Patricia Schroeder

The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.

Mads Mikkelsen

The problem is that you can't really read a script saying, 'Hmmm, I'll just see what this is.' You have to go right into it; you have to get engaged with it, and once you are engaged, you want to do it! It's really difficult to get uninvolved.

Dana Tofig

We hope that all students are keeping up with his or her work, getting targeted help ... and are engaged in their classes. If that's the case, then for most students the CRCT should not be something to be nervous about.

John Cahill

He remains fully engaged in the issues facing the state right now.

Michael Deaver

When we were engaged in the intensive parts of the investigation or trial preparation, I did not have time for anything else.

Richard Peddie

What we're missing out on is the single game sales and when you start the season 1-15, that doesn't get the heart racing. People aren't engaged yet.

John Barton

Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.

Gail Carson Levine

I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'

Scott Harris

That was their first varsity win. They were really excited about it. It was a good match.

Josh Green

That would be great. We didn't expect our season to be over (today) but we'll be excited about it.

Duane Zauner

That was the whole goal, to get ready for Colfax and get ready for league. This was the first time we've played in two weeks, so we were real excited to get field time in today.

Pam Dean

That was the first home run we've had in our park. So, all of the girls were excited and were proud of Emily.

Mark Evans

That was a great lift from Megan. She got two big rebounds and made two big offensive plays. She got us excited again.

Craig Stansberry

We have a new big-league manager and I want as many looks as I can get. I'll have an opportunity to play in front of the major-league staff. You have to be excited about an opportunity like that. I'll just go out and play and see what happens.

Mike Babcock

We have an eight-game playoff series. We're excited about it. They have a real good team. Let's get there and get going.

Patricia McBride

I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I don't want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, 'I have to support it because there's black folks in there.' I want them to go because it's a good movie.

Chuck Palahniuk

The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

Paul Johnston

We have a mandate to return the hurricane protection system to pre-Katrina levels by June 1. The folks out there are really working like crazy. We've got folks pounding steel 24 hours a day.

Mark Zuckerberg

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we're going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we're also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

Patty Loveless

When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

Robert Bennett

Most of the information we're getting is self-reported. If it turns out these self-reported statements are accurate, the folks won't feel much in the way of Y2K.

Ray Lovell

Most folks will stay with their relatives or friends when these things happen.

Jim Nicholson

Most folks in Skaneateles don't get to stay for free in multimillion-dollar vacation estates; don't get to travel free on planes paid for by the taxpayers,

Abraham Lincoln

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be

Steven Kaye

The 401(k) can get you where you want to go, it's just a shame that you have to fund it yourself.

Craig Bryson

The $64,000 question: nobody knows where the rest of the funding is going to come from.

Shawn Gumataotao

We're working with Mr. (Juan) Flores to find funding for payroll.

Warren Huff

We're working with funds where individuals are putting money into deals.

Prince Royce

At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.

Travis Reindl

When state funding goes up, tuition increases go down. States are putting more money back into higher education. We don't know how long that's going to last.

Joanne Vavrek

We have only restored 81.5 percent (of the 2002-03 funding allocation) this year.

M. Wolfe

It did work out a little better than we thought. But you have to remember that one key part of all this is that we're still using our fund balance.

Jim Gibbons

We can always do better and we will by making sure government respects the wishes of those who fund it ? the hardworking taxpayers,

Ze Frank

We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't know if we all have those gifts for restraining our emotions... or whatever it is he does.

Ward Grant

on the gifts that God has given us and our great nation.

Howard Gordon

One of the gifts the actors who do the show have is to make ridiculous situations feel real. We acknowledge when we're writing it or doing it that some things are unlikely, but it's the show and Jack Bauer doesn't work at a carwash.

Justin Chon

I'm all about making my girl feel like she's the only woman in the world. Whether it's telling her how special she is or showing her with gifts and romantic dates, I want to make her happy.

Jack Sheehan

We can get nice gifts for the kids.

Francis Donald

Humility is the river through which all other gifts of grace flow.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God's loan to us, and should never be considered in any sense our own

Mary Gordon

My mother really loved me. And one of the gifts that I have been given is that I have never thought for one second of my life that I was not greatly beloved.

Andrew Young

I think there's just going to be an outpouring of gifts. People are good and hungry for an opportunity to do good.

Joe Martin

The pioneers are giving way to some of the big guys who can weather all the change.

C. S. Lewis

It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.

Cecelia Ahern

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

Carrie Snodgress

I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought.

Bethany Hamilton

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

Bethany Hamilton

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

Bernadette Peters

Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.

Ashley Tisdale

I never give up on things.

Arsene Wenger

You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is.

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.

Zadie Smith

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Rassie Erasmus

We have to win to regain momentum. Winning is all we are interested in.

Reese Witherspoon

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

Mary Ellen Mark

I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

Jeff Fisher

We have to look at lot of things. We are interested in doing it, but whether we pull it off remains to be seen.

Saeb Erekat

The amendments mean pursuing Jewish settlements and not resuming the negotiations from the point where they left off.

Peter Riegert

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

Noam Chomsky

People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor.

Harry Triguboff

We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school.

Harry Triguboff

I realized that we have to do everything we can to preserve the Jewish race. I'm very proud of it, and I think it's wonderful.

Amy Heckerling

To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister.

Calvin Trillin

Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

Lesley Ann Warren

I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

Avigdor Lieberman

The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state...I very much favour democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

Arrigo Sacchi

The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.

Bill Vaughan

The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

J. Stoltzfus

Today was a make-nice day, and I think it went well.

Ted Jr.

Today was a big, big win for us.

Paul Roos

Today that didn't happen, we've got to work out why?

Thomas Froehlich

We've made an announcement today and there is no other decision.

Toni Jennings

Where we are today is about where we were two weeks after Andrew,

Azzedine Alaia

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

Bob Gilder

I think I made more putts today than I've made all year,

Antoni Tapies

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.

Bill Vaughan

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.

Bill Vaughan

In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.

Bertrand Russell

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

Baz Luhrmann

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

Barry Lopez

The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological laws. A more productive, certainly more engaging view, is that we have the intelligence to grasp what is happening, the composure not to be intimidated by its complexity, and the courage to take steps that may bear no fruit in our lifetimes.

B. F. Skinner

In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends. That view, together with its associated practices, must be re-examined when a scientific analysis reveals unsuspected controlling relations between behavior and environment.

David Brooks

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.

David McCullough

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.