Famous Quotes & Sayings

Imelda May

The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.

Imelda May

American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.

Idina Menzel

When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York.

Isobelle Carmody

The first audience that you have when writing a book is you.

Gallagher

I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them.

William Sleator

I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving, never a dull moment, to hold their interest.

Will Champlin

Being yourself is the most important element for me, because, if you're trying to be something you're not, the audience will pick up on that.

Virginia Postrel

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

Clotilde Hesme

Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love that.

Jim Carter

One thing I feel sure of is that the standards CBS has set in the past will be maintained.

Harvey Schiller

Giving the Olympics their greatest exposure is a continuing goal for us and we're pleased that CBS has made this possible. We're looking forward to airing our third Winter Olympics on TNT,

Stan Heath

Going to Rupp and playing in a nationally televised game on CBS is a great opportunity for us. I know our kids are real excited about it.

Rob Sheffield

Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.

Scott Bakula

Years ago, I did a CBS audition. I was nervous. They introduced me as 'Scott Bakoola.' Not a good sign. I also didn't get the show.

Chad Hurley

CBS has received a strong and positive response from the YouTube community about the quality of its programming.

Willie Geist

Landing on 'Morning Joe' wasn't a fluke. I was a poli sci major in college. I interned at the CBS political unit, covered conventions.

Carol Burnett

I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows.

Jerry Jones

Our team has always enjoyed a great fan following in Austin, and we know that CBS 42 will be able to satisfy the tremendous thirst for Cowboys information and programming in the state capital.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in January is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector, but at slower rates of increase.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in December is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector with a cautiously optimistic outlook as we enter 2006.

Louis Wong

The peak of the interest rate cycle may be much higher than expected. Continued inflation in the US indicated a need for a rate hike for few more times until next year.

Anthony Weiner

Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.

Harry Reid

The American people are demanding a comprehensive plan and the benchmarks by which to measure our success for the war in Iraq, ... The president's continued refusal to provide that plan does nothing to support our troops or their families.

Dave Barney

That was a team thing. A lot of kids continued to put up a few points here and there for us to win it.

Mardy Collins

We could have gone two ways after that we could have gone in the tank and continued to play sub par. But we took it upon ourselves to talk to each other and try to come out and play better.

Mike Harper

We could have crumbled there, but we continued to persevere. We don't like to do anything real easy, but we executed when we needed to.

Renny Harlin

I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination.

Kofi Annan

the overall epidemic continues to expand with much of the world at risk of falling short of the targets set forth in the declaration.

Bruce Jackson

The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.

Donald Trump

It's my life. It just continues to go forward from 'The Apprentice.'

Rick Rubin

I always feel like there's something magic in recording studios. There's a reason good music continues to be made in them. It's just some mojo element.

Dale Buvid

Timely hitting continues to be an issue. We had a great time, the weather was great and we got everybody into the game.

Bruce Arena

Tim continues to be a very talented goalkeeper that we think, given time and the right opportunity, is going to continue to improve and be a terrific goalkeeper at the international level. One day he will be the No. 1 goalkeeper for the U.S.

E. O. Wilson

We've learned that the crimes are greater than anticipated and reach as far as Southern California. The number of victims continues to grow.

Paul Tang

US import growth continues to slow as we see home sales there have peaked and interest rate hikes continue.

Paul Tagliabue

Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana.

William R. Keating

I look forward to continuing to represent the people I'm currently serving, as well as the new communities that will be a part of this district in the future.

Webb Simpson

But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.

Paul Swangard

The American population is continuing to diversify, and Hispanics have become a very important part of the sports economy,

Scott Tucker

We have an eye on it and we're continuing to follow our plan, which is hopefully to keep people away.

John Matthews

We have already received inquiries from other states, and the interest in a number of our existing and soon-to-be launched online courses is extremely high. Our goal is to pursue expansion into new markets, particularly where licensing, training and continuing education requirements overlap with the programs we have already developed for the Texas market.

Nicki Zongrone

We have the longstanding relationship with our partners and we are continuing to innovate.

Sammy Willis

We've made it to the next level. We're continuing to make history.

Mike Besl

We have more kids in the program than we can comfortably facilitate. We get an overlap sometimes because some kids like to play two sports and we have a lot of continuing members.

Steve Davies

We're very pleased with the decision and we're looking forward to continuing the process.

Tim Burton

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

Gail Carriger

As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.

Gillian Armstrong

Sure, you always put some of your own experience into a film.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

Ellen Key

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

Edward Norton

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

Elaine Stritch

These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.

Don Marquis

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

David Byrne

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

Will Davison

That was really disappointing. I was trying to stay out of trouble and gave him room to get by me, so to be taken out like that seems so pointless. It was very frustrating as we had moved forward and I think we could have scored some good points.

Dennis Hogue

That whole region is good. They've got two key midfielders, one really strong forward and one really strong defender.

David Peterson

We have a lot of young guys and new faces, ... I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do.

Paul Edwards

We need to have some forward thought with all of this development.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

I can honestly say - not proudly, but honestly - before I had a child, I would see things on TV or hear the news, feel sad for the people and move forward with my day. Now I see everything through a mother's eyes.

Dalai Lama

Time is always moving. The important thing is to learn from the past and then look forward to the future.

Steve Tew

We have a good relationship with the players and we look forward to talking with them again.

Terry Wallace

We wanted to have a look at him as a forward and see how he handled himself and I thought he went all right.

Paul Pierce

We've got something to look forward to next year.

Yayoi Kusama

The reason I collaborate with Louis Vuitton is that Louis Vuitton is number one in the world, and I am honored to work with them.

Richard Rohr

Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we, know how to honor and properly use the second Bible, when it was written.

O. J. Simpson

That would be an honor for me. I'm a Texas girl, so you can't go wrong there.

John Matthews

We wanted to honor Jim Rosenblatt by naming this regatta after him.

Tom Johnson

Midland has always been about hand-shakes -- honoring verbal contracts.

Khalid Naziruddin

I thought it was an honor. At first I was nervous, but after a while I got in a groove.

Linda Dano

I thought maybe on some level I can do this and honor him.

Mark Patton

I thought I'd be an extra. Then it comes to this. I'm honored to be a part of it.

Angie Harmon

I'm so thrilled and honored to stand here with America's first lady, Laura Bush.

Denise Richards

It's just keeping what I want private, private, and the same with Charlie.

Carl Sagan

There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant to be known.

Eric Hemmendinger

We can stand up and tell people they ought to be keeping up-to-date with patches, but in the real world, that's not particularly useful advice. There are just so many of them.

Marco Rubio

When I am the president of the United States of America, we don't know who you are, and we don't know why you're trying to come to the United States, you are not going to get in, because the radical threat that we now face from ISIS is extraordinary and unprecedented and when I'm president, we are keeping ISIS out of America.

Don Cox

We were having a lot of trouble keeping up with a large quantity of returns with this system.

Jay Wright

We were getting stops and keeping it out of Quincy's hands. And those shots turned into fast-break opportunities for us.

Janie McCarthy

We have been trying to play more (offensive-minded), by keeping the forwards on top to give them more scoring chances.

Marcus Jones

You let him know that you're still keeping him on your mind.

Grover Norquist

My wife and I have what's known as mixed marriage. I am a Methodist, she is a Muslim. So we're keeping it in the M's.

C. S. Lewis

...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It may be very natural to have this loyalty to our own species, but let us hear no more from the naturalists about the "sentimentality" of anti-vivisectionists. If loyalty to our own species - preference for man simply because we are men - is not sentiment, then what is?

Carl Sagan

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

Carl Sagan

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.

Bertrand Russell

No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide.

William Shakespeare

Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

William Shakespeare

In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.

B. F. Skinner

To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

Cecelia Ahern

Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words.In that silence,she had peace and clarity.Except during the night,when her own jumbled thoughts would keep her awake.

Carrie Underwood

This is the best night of my life. And it's going to get better.

Carl Sagan

Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

Bethenny Frankel

My business doesn't keep me warm at night.

Bette Davis

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve

Berenice Marlohe

And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

Ashley Tisdale

I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself - and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them.

Arsenio Hall

The way I approach stardom and the show, I'm like a politician. I'm an elected late-night official to do your work.

Arsene Wenger

I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.

Mark Klein

I wouldn't want to say how much production has been slowed, but it has been slowed. Definitely.

Ed Miller

We're getting production from different people. They're working well as a team.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Rick Perry

Hopefully, they'll be back in production very soon,

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Grayson White

The production and recording is a big step up.

Rich Lechner

It's not only being used for development purposes, but also being used in production environments very heavily.

John le Carre

There was an ITV television production of the second novel I wrote, called 'Murder of Quality.' It was a little murder story set in a public school - I'd once taught at Eton, and I used that stuff.

Phil Martens

We must be able to ramp up production and migrate the technology to more models, but we can't do that if the know-how resides abroad.

Larry Peck

It doesn't get much better than that. It's phenomenal. Those ratings rival those of the majors.

Nancy Pelosi

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.

Ted Sarandos

What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

Tom O'Neil

It's possible. There are ratings spikes for shows that win the top awards, ... The Emmys.

Regis Philbin

They could have had Regis back this year if they wanted. Ratings were pretty high.

Paul Holmes

They put on Ernie Dingo and their ratings went UP!

Drew Lachey

In terms of TV and for the ratings that the show gets, it's ridiculous.

Marc Ganis

Ratings are down because ratings are down for every network.

Max Heindel

Every child is innocent because it has not been tempted, but only when we have been tempted and have remained pure, or when we have fallen, repented and reformed, are we virtuous.

Cheri Yecke

What we see from our state university system is no growth. It has remained static over time.

Pola Negri

I then remained in Berlin until Dec. 1938, spending my time between pictures at my villa on the Riviera.

James Meade

I remained a member of the section till 1947, becoming Director in 1946.

Josiah Royce

The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.

Indiana Evans

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

William McNamara

I knew I would be an actor since I was seven or eight.

Bikram Choudhury

Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.

Alice Walker

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

Alice Walker

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Reid Scott

I've been a diehard fan of 'The Simpsons' since I was a kid.

Robert Zoellick

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'

Pat Nixon

I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.

Ben Barnes

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Carrie Snow

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Carrie Underwood

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Carl Sagan

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

Bette Davis

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

Bette Davis

Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.

Ashton Kutcher

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

Arsene Wenger

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Arsene Wenger

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

Newton Minow

When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.

Aaron Harberts

Gretchen actually used to work at a television station.

Annabella Sciorra

I don't have a television, so I don't know what they do,

Dave Chappelle

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.

David Shuster

Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

Dave Barry

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

Bryant Gumbel

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.

Aaron Sorkin

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

Aaron Sorkin

There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

Audrey Hepburn

Thursday? Oh no, it can't be! It's too gruesome.

Richard Midgley

If we didn't win this game, Thursday would have been pretty insignificant.

Brad Adgate

Thursday is going to be a very, very competitive night,

Friedrich Nietzsche

I wasn't sure what day it was because life is meaningless. Turns out it's Thursday. The thing about life still applies.

George Herbert

Thursday come, and the week's gone.

Bill Bryson

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

Robert Redford

Julie, it's wonderful to see you. This is Lena.

William Shakespeare

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

Karen Armstrong

It can be confusing. But it's a wonderful organization.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Cheryl Strayed

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.