Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I was adopted by two amazing people: a Salvadoran mother and a white father who were incredibly supportive of me and my work. I am eternally grateful for them.

William Atherton

I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life.

David S. Goyer

What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in.

Vladimir Prelog

For many years, when still a Yugoslav citizen, I was already a Swiss patriot, and in 1959, I obtained Swiss citizenship. However, I consider myself a world citizen, and I am very grateful to my adopted country that it allows me to be one.

Mary Struckhoff

The 3-point shot has been one of the greatest things we've done for the game. The first year it was a state adopted rule. The next year because of overwhelming success, people were pleased with the rule and it became the norm.

Tom Ojienda

The approach adopted by the government to muzzle the press must be resisted by all Kenyans.

Peter Singer

Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legislation that creates a 'public lending right', where the government recognises that enabling hundreds of people to read a single copy of a book provides a public good, but that doing so is likely to reduce sales of the book.

Patricia McBride

My daughter arrived when I was five months pregnant with my son. We adopted Melanie from Korea; she was 2 years old, almost 3. I always wanted to have a family. I had a good example because Melissa Hayden was a ballerina in our company, and she had two children and danced afterward, and Allegra Kent also did.

Marcus Samuelsson

I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted kids.' The minute my sister Linda and I landed in Sweden, we were their kids.

Todd Rundgren

Music is the way I understand how to communicate now, the way that I've learned how to communicate... but it will eventually have to go beyond that. You see, I've realised that music is not what keeps people involved - it's the attitude behind the music.

Ian Mckellen

I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.

Albert Einstein

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Zubin Mehta

An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

Chuck Zito

I broke two knuckles in my right hand when I gave Jean-Claude Van Damme an attitude adjustment. I got nothing except a medical bill.

Eartha Kitt

A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.

Esther Rolle

'Hollywood maids' are so idiotic. They grin at everything. I told Norman Lear I didn't want to play a maid because of that 'hee-hee/grin-grin' attitude, and he said, 'Who said I wanted that?' He told me he wanted two strong women that are the black and white of the same coin. I said, 'Oh, well - in that case, I'll be right there!'

David Byrne

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

Amisha Patel

Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It's a state of mind.

David Pratt

What I do know is our state and country is currently backwards and upside-down, and we all are to blame in one fashion or another.

David Littmann

We have the least (economic) resilience (of all the states), we never built up a surplus. We don't have the momentum, and we will go backwards; the economy of Michigan will get worse relative to the other states, we will go backward 1 to 2 percent.

Mitchell Baker

We don't spend our days thinking about Microsoft or trying to get revenge on Microsoft. That's a really negative and backward way, and that's not how I want to live.

Erik Zaidel

We haven't stepped forward enough. You have to go more forward than backward and we haven't done that. I take a lot of responsibility for that. There's no moral victory. I don't believe in that in any shape or form.

Crawford Falconer

You don't close divergences by taking time off to have a cup of tea. If you do so, you will find that everybody has moved backward in the meantime.

Deron Miller

You just get to the point where outdoing yourself and progressing as a musician just gets more and more important. I think that there'll never be a time where we go forward but move backwards musically. I think we'll always push to outdo what we've done.

Brenda Roethlisberger

We get letters all the time about him wearing his hat backward and how it makes him look like a drug guy and how he really needs to quit being an idiot and wear it the right way. It's incredible.

Zingisa Mkabile

The premier is just shifting chairs. At the Health Department we are only going to go backwards as a province.

Nicole Gibbons

My mother, she would bend over backwards for anyone. She is loved at her job, by her kids. My mother doesn't deserve this whatsoever.

Samora Machel

The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

Gore Vidal

On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

Calvin Trillin

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.

Stephen Corry

Would people still use the same demeaning language talking about European gypsies or immigrants? It is fundamentally an old, 19th-century throwback to the idea that that these people are somehow like our ancestors, or backward. It conveys that they are somehow not as intelligent as we are; that they haven't progressed as far as we have. It is fundamentally a colonial mentality.

Alice Morse Earle

It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.

Anthony Burgess

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

Hal McManus

We couldn't hit that little 7- or 8-foot shot for anything. We've played down here twice and have had probably our two worst shooting percentages here at the Colonial Center.

Mahmoud Abbas

I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

Harold MacMillan

A colonial governor who ran out of countries.

Yanis Varoufakis

Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.

Yaya Toure

I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to achieve something big.

Yelena Baturina

The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.

Laura Bush

Nigeria is a very important country on the continent of Africa, and because of your forthrightness and your style and your commitment, you are a very important leader on this continent,

Daniel Gros

Ninety-five percent of the economists on the continent were with Blair. There is an economic justification to spend more on research and development at the European level.

Tracy Morgan

I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

Florentino Perez

We want people from every continent to come and see it so we can show them what we represent.

Earl Sweet

Unusually warm weather significantly reduced the winter draw on (natural gas) inventories, leaving the continent very well supplied.

Leonid Hurwicz

I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems.

Idina Menzel

Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.

Bonnie Reed

We need to identify those places where we could put large numbers of people.

Pat Nixon

I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.

Uri Dan

I wore the tie to identify with the pain of the uprooted,

Ed Cogswell

We can use them and if a need presents, I'm sure we do. But we do not want to identify what our sources are.

Scott Eden

Basically, our mission is to identify the problem, do outreach, and collaborate with people on solutions, then do testing to see if it made a difference.

George Naccara

Because of this physical manifestation of stress and nervousness, we did identify them.

Ben Horowitz

If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.

William Johnson

If they are not in school and they are supposed to be in school you can identify the ones that are supposed to be in school and the ones not supposed to be in school.

Will C. Barnes

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

Japanese Proverb

The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone

Shannon Lewis

The pavilion itself could be the costliest part of renovation of this site.

David Friedman

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

Peter Lombard

Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.

Gene Luen Yang

My brain subconsciously limits itself to panel compositions that my hand can actually draw.

Ken Kutaragi

Microsoft has put itself out of the game, ... Retailers in the US are already disappointed.

Joel Klein

Microsoft itself is responsible for where things stand today,

June Daugherty

Who knows? You never know. What you do know is you keep your staff and your team ready for the next opponent. It's going to sort itself out right after the Pac-10 tournament.

Steve Sawyer

The Americans, Saudis and Japanese have got what they want.

Masahiro Tanaka

I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way and do it in the Japanese way that I've been doing. Basically, I'll try to get some advice, learn the way it's done here and go about it.

Eddy Cue

We've known that about (400,000 to 500,000 songs) per month is what all the other online music stores in Japan have been doing. The majority of that being Mora,

Ryo Hino

Just because Japan did well, is not important. The question is, how long does that last? People go back to reality.

John Danforth

I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

Nick Atkinson

We are back out in Japan touring in November so providing everything is going well, we want to come back here.

Shu Qi

I have a lot of Japanese fans, but in Korea they seem to go crazy for me. I don't know what it is, but they seem to like my style.

Takafumi Horie

If it was a company, Japan would be bankrupt. It's just too big to let fail.

Craig James

What we are starting to see are the motors running. Momentum is very important in any recovery and that is what we are starting to see in Japan at the moment.

Etel Adnan

I love Nicolas de Stael particularly, and my work can remind people of him. But looked at attentively, our works are not similar at all.

Cilla Black

It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.

Goldie Hawn

Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.

Paul Cullen

In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.

Patricia McBride

I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

Wayne Hale

We've looked end-to-end at the shuttle to make improvements and make it safer than it has ever been.

Brian Billick

We've looked at these quarterbacks more than we've looked at any position since I've been here,

Don Thomas

We've looked at some (locations) that have potential.

Brad White

We've looked at it long enough. We've got to do something about it.

Viswanathan Anand

I personally prefer long-distance walking, but we are talking about pre-tournament preparation. During a tournament I make do with walking, mainly to concentrate before a game.

Bobby Short

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

Pierce Brosnan

Some people think my singing is superb. But they're mainly on strong medication and not allowed out much.

Jonathan Coe

Well, mainly it's because I'm not a writer who's comfortable with writing about periods that I can't remember firsthand.

Fiona Shaw

I mainly have a nice time in my life.

Sergio Garcia

I think it's been a solid season, but I wouldn't say it's been extraordinary mainly because I haven't putted well,

Robert G. Allen

We're mainly providing a place to sleep, shower and use restrooms.

Sanyo President

We have high-end range refrigerators which are mainly meant for the urban areas.

Jamie Bamber

When I'm living in L.A., I'm mainly a jeans, vintage T-shirt and Nike high-tops guy.

Imelda May

When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Cecelia Ahern

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

Carlton Reed

That was a small situation that was made into a big deal. The problem was solved the next morning.

Nick Umholtz

That was sweet. I've never been in a playoff before. Now I'm going to have to back it up for next year.

Jon Copper

That we have a teammate who may not be with us next year. I'm still not sure what's going on or how it's going to end up.

Steve Novak

We need to keep getting better. There is no next year.

Sam Sheppard

Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

Allison Scagliotti

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.

John Calvin

dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Chris Matthews

I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.

Clint Eastwood

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

Franco Modigliani

With the danger of war, there is a danger that the economy will go down.

Bertrand Russell

There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.

Eric Frankel

We have more programming in our warehouse than we can monetize on traditional TV,

Bill Burns

Usually when you're interim CEO, you just kind of warm the chair.

William Shakespeare

Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us.

Baz Luhrmann

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

Patricia Schroeder

Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.

Bertrand Russell

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Jose Maria Aznar

We in the West should stand by our core principles.

Ann Strother

To have all of us go somewhere, to be all on the West Coast, too, it?s going to be really neat.

Mariella Frostrup

Fridays are always movie night at our flat in Kensington, West London.

Djimon Hounsou

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

Charles Marion Russell

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Ai Weiwei

The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.