Famous Quotes & Sayings

Burn Gorman

I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Empire' and 'Hot Dog' had great reviews, and finally he's been accepted as the new Bond. So many millions go into that franchise that if you make a mistake, it's awful.

Shannon Currier

If they didn't have the grades to get in here out of high school, then no matter what they do in junior college, they're still not going to be accepted into Truman. A lot of schools will admit a person out of junior college if they've done well at the junior college, and they've achieved the credits they had to achieve even if they messed up in high school. That's the difference.

Gary Blate

Jen has acclimated so quickly to this school, and her teammates accepted her from the start.

Russell Crowe

Jim had to go on the dole, but he didn't wear the pain on his sleeve. He accepted it and kept trying to do the best he could for his family. The Great Depression is a character, and I think the villain in this piece is poverty. If there's a single moment in Braddock's life that I think makes him important in history, it's the fact that he went to the Social Security Commission and repaid the money he'd taken when he was on the dole. That shows you more about his character than anything in his boxing career.

Russell Crowe

Jim had to go on the dole, but he didn't wear the pain on his sleeve, ... He accepted it and kept trying to do the best he could for his family. The Great Depression is a character, and I think the villain in this piece is poverty. If there's a single moment in Braddock's life that I think makes him important in history, it's the fact that he went to the Social Security Commission and repaid the money he'd taken when he was on the dole. That shows you more about his character than anything in his boxing career.

Charles Pickering

Larry Kennedy would not have chosen to have ALS - none of us would. But he has accepted his diagnosis with grace and dignity and continued to live by faith.

Eileen McLane

Irish music has been great to me. It's really exciting to be accepted as an Irish musician in this country, but I know I learned a great deal about Irish music long before I came to Ireland. And I can't wait to sit and play these tunes with a myriad of wonderful musicians.

Ismail Haniyeh

Such a plan definitely won't be accepted by the Palestinian people or the Palestinian government.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Success was one of my weakest points. I was so ill-prepared for it. I never appreciated within myself the gift of success. I never accepted it. People gave me so much momentum and love, and people really got my music, but I didn't accept it. That's probably one of my biggest regrets.

Barry Ritholtz

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

Michael Ramsey

I think we're going to have a case that's largely about accounting allegations...where the government is going to refuse to call either David Duncan, who was the chief engagement partner for Arthur Andersen, or Rick Causey.

Joan Claybrook

The Congress and the president have to be brought to account for their rogue actions in moving to enact this very controversial legislation without complying with the Constitution. This time, they will have to answer for their actions.

Carl Rusnok

The consequences are based on her own actions. The charge has been made before about family separation. However there is a strong element of personal responsibility that has to be taken into account when someone violates the law and they are put away in jail.

Scott Krugman

The consumer has proved more resilient than many thought. We're still in the middle of a very busy week that can account for 10 to 15 percent of holiday sales, especially with all the unredeemed gift cards. It's not over yet.

Michael Showalter

I mean, do you really think Paul Krugman is checking his Twitter account every day to read what I write? Of course not. Every other day maybe, but not every day.

Stephen Roach

The case for a classic U.S. current account adjustment grows more compelling. This could lead to renewed weakening of the dollar and higher long- term real interest rates.

Jim Perry

The figures that are being distributed correct the mistaken estimates that were first provided to legislators (by other legislators) during the debate, which did not take into account the fact that grocery sales revenue will go up and cigarette tax revenue will go down, just as has been occurring for the past 10 years.

Robert Kabushenga

The figures do not take into account that there has been no significant violence in northern Uganda since 2003.

Michael Ramsey

I think we're going to have a case that's largely about accounting allegations...where the government is going to refuse to call either David Duncan, who was the chief engagement partner for Arthur Andersen, or Rick Causey.

The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

J. K. Rowling

Bill, don’t look at me — I’m ’ideous.

Benny Carter

He's no Bill Clinton!

Robert Lesley

were estimating because of the doubling of the price of natural gas, that winter heating bills are going to be about 73 percent higher this year, that they were last year.

Beth Robertson

There are a lot of things in motion that will contribute to more bills being presented electronically, which will encourage further consumer adoption.

Jim Ritterbusch

You still have a sizable year-on-year deficit in distillate stocks, so it's too early in the winter to write off this distillate market.

Jason Chaffetz

While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.

Debbie Stabenow

The Farm Bill is one of the only bills that provides substantial deficit reduction that passed the Senate this year. It only makes sense that this deficit reduction bill would be included in a larger deficit reduction agreement.

Robert H. Schuller

Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

Robin Taylor

I would encourage those to get their tickets as soon as we can get them on sale.

Jay S. Walker

Most organizations do not value imagination, do not encourage it, do not reward it. In many cases, they don't even think about it. But if you're not thinking about imagination, I guarantee you're not going to have meaningful innovation.

Kim Brown

That's their decision. I would encourage them to hold on to their profits. I feel very lucky as their benefactor.

Steve Peterson

We encourage our people to be involved one way or another. People really start to have fun with it.

Andrea Jung

We invite our representatives to every mall kiosk opening. We try to encourage the fact that this is sort of flagship Avon.

Matt Ridley

Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.

Terry Ryan

If he's not stretched out, that's going to be an issue. But we can't request a guy not go. I encourage him to go. Let's take the high road here. This might be a good thing for the young man. He's going to be around very competitive baseball, and hopefully he'll get very meaningful innings.

John M. McHugh

In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we're offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities - and perhaps even stay in a community they might be considering leaving.

Kobe Bryant

All in all, we feel like we're playing extremely well.

Jim Evans

the hospital is extremely important to the 120 people that I help serve.

Steve Asmussen

The horse worked great. We're extremely pleased with where he's at.

Brian Jones

The flight itself was interesting, fairly long, but went extremely well.

Brian Graham

This season has been very gratifying and extremely satisfying as well. The player development system validates itself when players come to the big leagues and not only just get there, but perform well.

Tim Albright

Was really looking forward to a transplant as a turning point in his life. I'll tell you it was extremely optimistic at the beginning.

Kristi Toliver

Everyone is extremely excited. People can't sit still. I'm about to burst. Everyone is very happy right now.

Kristi Toliver

Everyone is extremely excited. I'm about to burst.

Lupita Nyong'o

The set of '12 Years a Slave' was an extremely joyous one! We all recognized that we were making a powerful, necessary and beautiful film, and we weren't about doing it without that sense of responsibility, and we recognized that we needed each other to tell this story. We also knew we needed to hold each other up as we told the story.

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Claus von Stauffenberg

If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

Tina Bart

Women in general are interested in this kind of thing. It's just an opportunity for them to get together, learn about their health and have fun.

Jerry Francis

To save historic structures they have to be repurposed. We're looking for the renewal of the General Wayne Inn.

Jerry Francis

To save historic structures, they have to be repurposed. We're looking for the renewal of the General Wayne Inn.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Abraham Lincoln

I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

Abraham Lincoln

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

Ani Difranco

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

Andrew Napolitano

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

Andrew Napolitano

The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.

Jack Nicholson

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

Jonathan Brown

When the Colts lost to the Steelers, my interest in the playoffs ended.

Linda Barrabee

Marketers thought they lost out on the Internet, and they don't want to lose out on mobile phones, too. There is a lot of interest on the part of studios to do something different in mobile.

Eric Kuby

I think people feel comfortable that we're near the end of the interest rate (raising) cycle.

Michelle Clayman

We're also still getting support from the low interest rates. While Treasury yields are not as low today as they've been, they are still historically at a substantial low, and that lends support to equities.

Stephen Leeb

It doesn't take a lot to get people worried. It just comes down to oil and interest rates.

Jim Hopkins

It does not look like there is a whole lot of interest in selling.

Chuck Sherwood

I think he left because he didn't have much interest in what they were doing.

Lisa Rose

You can even sign up for a particular interest and the site will e-mail if something in that interest comes up.

Chris Ahearn

We have storm recovery teams ... leaving in the next day or so. The issue is places for them to stay and road closures,

Jim Jeffords

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.

Andy Williams

For the most part, a lot of these issues are things that we knew and we've been working to address.

John Dalton

I don't think these issues will pull people to the polls, ... I think that those who normally vote in the primary will be the only ones voting on them, unfortunately.

O. Henry

Our point here is that what we don't want is for people to walk away and say, well, those are yesterday's issues and they have been or will be addressed.

Jim Crace

In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.

Michael Fiore

The issue of whether the remedy was forward-looking was an old one for the Justice Department,

Robert Garcia

The issue is were these people ever really married.

Chuck Carlson

The issue is: Things can't get any better for the group.

Tyler Perry

For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

Rick Davis

We didn't have low expectations in Iowa, we had no expectations in Iowa.

John Jackson

The real significance is at the low end,

Mike Fitzpatrick

The question remains: how low can the price fall?

Donna Air

Some people think I can only do fancy; I don't know why. I'm a pretty easy person, really. Low maintenance. I get on with things, and I'm comfortable anywhere.

Ananda Krishnan

I have heard some people say I have a low profile. Why should somebody be high profile, anyway? I am just doing my job.

Roger Tamraz

The price is low and it's going to remain low, ... At least that's the perception of the oil industry.

Andy Hayman

There has been progress but starting from a regrettably low baseline,

Mike Easley

We're not out of gas, but we are running low in the Southeast,