Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Osnes

I was always a very good student, 3.98 GPA... But once I found out I only had to take math and science for two years, I didn't take them junior or senior year. And I convinced my high school to give me actual credits for doing professional shows in Minneapolis... as work-study.

Abbey Clancy

I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.

Robert Kerr

Kenya is a multi-party democracy and a modern world which has a benefit of hundred years of experience and debate from around the world on the subject of free speech and the accumulated wisdom that a free press is the essence of democratic governance, which makes government action during the standard raid so mystifying.

Mark Frauenfelder

Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until traditional education makes them afraid of making mistakes. The long-term value of making for kids is in learning to become an active participant in the world around them rather than a consumer of prepackaged products and solutions.

John Deane

I would suspect you will see activity (at the site) in the next two weeks.

Angel Carter

Just like i said before, I am not into the acting or instrumental like the others, and I have NO idea what I want to be when I grow up, I am just. . me!

Bill Walsh

Joe might have been more active and quicker on his feet,

Dale Tallon

Jocelyn is a class act and did a lot for our organization, ... We're happy to be able to get a deal done and we're happy that he's going to a good situation in Pittsburgh. He'll do quite well for them, we wish him all the best. It was strictly a business decision.

Chris Collins

Josh was terrific. We've tried to get him to act on instincts, because he has such a good IQ and he's so quick to make impact plays.

Shaun Treacy

It goes back 2 or 3 years when we began to see quite a large growth in our event business including meetings, conferences and banquets. Our whole business grew quite dramatically over the past couple of years and we felt we were running out of space.

JD Salinas

I thank Mr. Garcia for a good race and for bringing Hidalgo County this far. I've already began researching several issues that I consider critical to residents here, and I am ready to get to work.

Lindy Ruff

He's built for the game. He's got good tools at the back end and he's a very good defender. We've never given him a set role. He began to play well on the power play and he gained a lot of confidence from that. That confidence came from him knowing that he would be in the lineup night after night.

Joseph Alsop

I have begun to think that the seventies are the very worst years since the history of life began on earth...

Bob Edwards

I can do whatever I want to. I'm completely independent. NPR over the years began taking itself enormously seriously -- as it should. In the end I was so micromanaged that they were telling me how to pronounce syllables of words.

Diana Aviv

Our past research shows that adults are twice as likely to volunteer if they began participating when they were teens.

Ken Tower

Investors remain skeptical of the rally that began in April. Therefore, the rally could restart.

John Van Hamersveld

In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas.

Scott Turow

In the wake of the Sixties they began to celebrate diversity and pluralism.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Hal Miller

I was lucky to get away from that with only a few small injuries, ... The next day I looked at the car and just couldn't believe I had survived it.

Richard Byyny

Knowing these individuals as I do, I believe them,

Chad Vollmecke

Knoxville brought a tough team to town last night and we wrestled the best we could under the circumstances. There were some very high points for us and we made some big strides in a few weight classes. A few of our boys still need to learn better position and mat sense, but that comes with time. Time is running short for this year, but I believe we are seeing things at this stage of the season that were not here last year.

Robert Browning

Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up ...

Mike Jarvis

Kids believe practice makes perfect. It doesn't. It makes permanent.

Tom Shaheen

I wouldn't say it's scientifically an absolute, but I believe it personally from my experience in the lottery.

Gisele Bundchen

I wouldn't say I'm going to quit modeling and become an actress, especially because I can't do that because I have contracts, but I definitely enjoyed it. I wouldn't call myself an actress, but I at the same time, if there is an opportunity... I believe in taking chances and living your life.

Herb Sendek

He was like a hockey goal-tender. We had difficulty getting things over, around or through him.

Zane Grey

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

Ted Hellard

In the past, the CFL has had great difficulty of where to place these players in terms of how do you give them legitimate tryouts.

Ron Glass

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

Daniel Bonn

If you move into the quicksand, this loose packing will collapse. We then have densely packed sand at the bottom, and water floating on top of it. It's the difficulty of getting water into this very densely packed sand that makes it difficult for you to pull your foot out.

Michael Davies

The enactment of all kinds of laws is an advancement, but the difficulty is how to make sure it all works,

Peter Dawson

The difficulty we had was establishing equivalence between the men's and women's game.

Brian Doyle

The difficulty of the job is you have a split second to make a decision.

Douglas Muzzio

The difficulty now is going out and raising money,

Sarah Jewett

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, 'There is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.'

Larry Sabato

It splits his base, and it will be endless trouble for him if it goes forward, and I'm sure he won't let it happen.

Marcus Aurelius

Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of those applauding hands. The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.

Holly Lisle

Don't talk about writing. Write. Don't show unfinished work to anyone. Don't show finished work to non-writers. Get your opinions, not from friends and family, but by sending your work out to editors. An endless stream of rejection slips means you need to learn more. So learn more.

Max Mutchnick

It was time for us to come up with a new series, and Peter Roth, whom we work for at Paramount, really liked the story of our (personal) dynamic. Everything pretty much that goes on with us speaks to our history, and we thought this would really be a great place to write from, because we would just have an endless supply of stories to tell.

Lawrence Grossman

You wait for a gem in an endless sea of blah.

James Hayes

Endless meetings, sloppy communications and red tape steal the entrepreneur's time.

Seth Shostak

'Eternal inflation,' as it's called - the endless generation of new universes - may be a hyper-cosmic imperative. It seems that it must happen.

John Roberts

be vigilant to protect the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court, and I will work to ensure that it upholds the rule of law and safeguards those liberties that make this land one of endless possibilities for all Americans.

Dan Rottenberg

There are still places where people think the function of the media is to provide information.

Myles Munroe

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

Dr. Ratnathicam

His intestinal function has not returned to normal and we're taking the appropriate steps to make sure that it does.

Louis Aragon

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.

John Sicher

These products are sold on function more than taste.

Quentin Crisp

My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.

Rob Smith

It's a function of the number of students that come in, and we need to plan for the housing of those students.

Lauren Gelman

It's a functional test: Is what you are doing journalism?

Ralph Nader

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Lon Carter

It always comes down to times, heights and distances.

Salman Rushdie

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

Wiz Khalifa

When you livin' this high you can't be afraid of heights.

Anthony Anderson

Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.

Sylvester Stallone

I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

James Caan

No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.

Euripides

Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.

Fernando Pessoa

For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.

Vince Carter

Because of his height and some of the things he can do. I don't know if many people have seen some things he can do. But if he can make his dunks, he can make his way to the final.

Nicolas Sarkozy

If you want to have me say that it would have been better to have not launched into this affair, I rather agree. But once we were there, it was necessary to find a way out of it, quickly and as painless as possible.

Max Baucus

If I were the president, I would be very concerned, ... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Duncan Hunter

This legislation implements appropriate and necessary solutions to many of our nation's immigration problems,

Samuel Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves,

Alireza Jafarzadeh

This is a welcome and necessary step that the IAEA has taken. It is long overdue.

Shane Osborn

We did it right, ... No apologies necessary on our part.

Sharon Stone

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Ariel Sharon

do what is necessary to protect the people of Israel.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.

Jill Johnston

All women are lesbians except those who don't know it ...

George Michael

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

Fiona Apple

For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.

Catharine MacKinnon

If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.

Jessie J

Sexuality shouldn't define you. It should be part of who you are.

Jessie J

Sexuality shouldn't define anyone. It doesn't define me. Love should be at the core of what you do.

Jake Gyllenhaal

My character's the one that kind of initiates these sexual encounters, which to me was, like, totally foreign.

Jeremy Clarkson

Ooh good I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.

Goldie Hawn

I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.

Scott Chandler

You can't really worry about it. It's nothing that's going to keep me from sleeping at night.

Ted Purdy

Sleeping on a lead? I'll let you know tomorrow.