Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elvis Picardo

I think investors are asking why the Fed acted so quickly and so decisively.

Rob Reiner

I acted when I was young, but at 19, I had my own theater company where I acted but also directed. I also did some theater in Los Angeles. So I was always wanting to direct, even before I became an established actor.

James Franco

I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, 'There's a lot I can do with acting - there are a lot of things I can express and do creatively, but there are also limitations.'

Michael Giles

I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal.

David Paulson

I am concerned that hurricane victims are not receiving the assistance they need and money is being wasted as these professionals remain idle, ... Congress acted quickly to make sure that FEMA had the funds necessary for the rescue and recovery effort. I hope proper precautions are being taken to ensure that relief funds are spent in the most efficient manner possible.

B. F. Skinner

He has acted on the majority of them so far.

Daniel Craig

He doesn't look the part. In interviews and his movies he has never sounded or acted the part, and he looks like a dentist. But other than that, he really seems like he'll make a good Bond.

Andrew Benson

He made many decisions that night, ... He was goal-oriented and acted intentionally and knowingly.

Brad Miller

He never acted inappropriately with any of you?

Dave Bush

I was kind of thinking I just have to settle down, keep throwing strikes, just because of a run in the first inning I can't come out of the game plan. I feel like I've executed fairly well against them.

Tyronn Mitchell

I was just caught up in the moment, that was a shot of a lifetime. Who would think a number 14 seed against a number three seed? The emotion was just so high. I was running around like crazy.

Jai Courtney

I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.

Flip Saunders

Kind of how we've been for 37 games. Different guys lead us over different parts of the game, play unselfish. Thirty assists, eight turnovers, that's kind of where we've been when we win games. I think how we played tonight against New York is pretty much how this team has played through the first half of this season.

Brian Vereb

Kenyon is opening a new facility and we will be the second opponent to swim in their new pool. The Ladies are a powerhouse in Division III swimming and this should be a good test for us, swimming against a quality opponent on the road.

Jerry Ryan

Kill the Pope; that's obviously anti-Catholic, but that's against the message of the other writings where they say 'no more war,'

Matt Hasselbeck

Knowing Chike -- he's a guy with a great pass rush and he's got a motor -- I don't think any quarterback gets excited about going up against him. I think our guys, hopefully, will be up to the task.

David Parsons

Kids coming out of high school are coached better today. Nothing against the coaches I had in high school; I thought they were great coaches. But everything is so specialized now. I watch Gary Rankin (Riverdale head football coach). He was a teammate of mine at Tennessee. (Riverdale) has a different game plan for everybody they played.

Gerald Doucet

I would not put my money against it.

Freman Hendrix

It has been a labor of love for me. I have not tired. I am energized when I am around the citizens of Detroit.

Rick Scott

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.

Ashley Painter

I'm praying they're going to give him his citizenship.

Willie Williams

I have no idea yet; I know I'll be evaluating the entire agency. One of the first things I'll be doing is making contact with the citizens of this fine town.

Dan Bartlett

The federal government stands ready to work with state and local officials to secure New Orleans and the state of Louisiana. The president will not let any form of bureaucracy get in the way of protecting the citizens of Louisiana.

John Monks

The Commission has sided with the general employer offensive on working time. Now the Commission has failed in its duty, the ETUC expects the Parliament to confirm its earlier stance and protect Europe's citizens from longer and longer working hours.

Steve Oestreicher

The citizens of Wisconsin have truly lost a conservation legend.

James Perkins

The citizens of Selma have a strong desire to help people who are in need, ... We have a lot of people in our town that are not being serviced. What I'm trying to do is fill (the void).

Ariel Sharon

The citizens of Israel deserve leadership which acts, first and foremost, for the good of the public, and not for the narrow political interest,

Herschel Sandler

Kevin is a great kid. I never doubt his commitment to his team and how hard he works, but to have an injury take you out of this is tough on the athlete. I feel for Kevin.

Greg Shaheen

Just who the committee deems is the better quality team.

Wade Boggs

I talked to Wade and he said he regrets that he had other commitments and could not be here,

Tim Kearney

I think it's a lack of commitment. We have a real gap. We have the Comets, a 18-and-younger team. Then you go all the way to 13-and-younger. There's a five-year gap where there's no travel soccer.

H. Hunt

I think it is most appropriate that the two teams have committed to new 25-year leases, and that the public will at the same time have the parallel, but separate opportunity to vote to complete the original project design with the rolling roof.

Luis Figo

He did everything he could and did it with the utmost professionalism and commitment.

Sophie Hannah

I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for that to be your motive!' Whereas things like blackmail, jealousy - they're rational reasons for committing murder.

Bible Bible

Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? / I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.

Peter Hughes

Her warmth and understanding, her vibrant energy and her commitment to education for all will be sadly missed.

Hugh Johnson

It confirms that as we started the fourth quarter the economy continues to slow, ... At the same time that the economy is slowing, there is ongoing tightness in the labor markets and ongoing upward pressure on wages.

Robert Sinche

I think the housing data continues to allay some of the worst fears on how the economy might slow, and has some impact on how the Fed may act next year.

Neal Soss

It is magnificent that inflation continues to be low, but retail sales are smoking.

Steve Carell

He does his job just well enough to keep it. The ridiculous exploits and faux pas are just this side of lawsuit territory so he continues to ride the wave of inefficiency and lack of expertise. I don't think that's necessarily unusual that one might be very good at one job and then is promoted, and you have no proficiency whatsoever.

Melissa Eisenstat

Oracle continues to be a margin expansion story and we expect that trend to continue this quarter. We expect the increased operating leverage to come in the form of lower sales and marketing expenses.

Alberto Ramos

Investment spending continues to be very vigorous. There was 26 percent growth in investment in the first half of the year.

John Bond

In the near term, the outlook is encouraging. The world economy continues to grow steadily.

Andrew Harrington

Iran continues to weigh but there is a sense that it's a longer-term situation. I don't see any rash decisions about sanctions, embargoes or cuts in supply.

John Robertson

In a country where about half the population is reportedly threatened with starvation, the increase in inflation would be felt particularly hard as the dollar continues to slide.

Jeremy Irons

It's a musical I've never seen, but I've loved the music for some time, ... This is a great, wonderful contrast from making movies.

David Hastings

I try to pick shows that are a contrast for the season. This was just something different.

Karl Hobbs

This game will be a contrast of styles. They want to be deliberate, run their offense and force us into a half-court game. We want to run.

Shyla Nelson

This contrast between this beautifully written, elegantly constructed music and this outrageous storyline is part of what drew me in.

Matthias Schoenaerts

Your appearance shouldn't define who you are, and that's what I like, the contrast between people looking like the opposite of what they truly are deep inside.

Laura Bush

The contrast between what we've seen on the TV screens here, what's taken place in London and what's taking place here is incredibly vivid to me,

Erika Christensen

I guess if you didn't know me -- or even if you did know me -- the contrast is pretty real. It is something I am really proud of, ... Traffic

Sigmund Freud

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

Tom Kontos

When you look at the contrast between compacts and full-size (SUVs), it has to be driven in part by gas prices, ... Why else would there be such polarity?

Barack Obama

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

Vicki Arroyo

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.

Roy Wilson

I think we have some lessons to learn from the past week, realizing the federal government is not going to come to our rescue in the first 72 hours,

Graham Fraser

It is madness that the federal government is still spending millions on teaching middle-aged bureaucrats how to pass language tests rather than sending young, enthusiastic recruits to the public service to work in another language and culture.

Adam Kidan

I have cooperated fully with the federal investigation for the past three years because I have nothing to hide.

Eric Lamoureux

Other states rely much more heavily on their state government and the federal government to come in and manage the support. In California, emergencies are managed on the local level.

Jessica Thill

Right now our two U.S. Senators and our U.S. Congressman are all over the place in terms of what they're thinking and how they're voting on this issue. So, I would really like to see our Federal Government representation get on the same page.

James Frederick

Our overall goal is to see the federal government step up to the plate.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Investors want to see the U.S. stock market's reaction to whatever the Federal Reserve says, which might set the tone for global high-techs for a while.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Jim Pugh

This was not unexpected. Madison is a government town.

Richard Posner

MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here does not authorize any judgment about the content of any speeches. ... A park is a limited space, and to allow unregulated access to all comers could easily reduce rather than enlarge the park's utility as a forum for speech. Just imagine two rallies held at the same time in the same park area using public-address systems that drowned out each other's speakers.

Richard Perle

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Richard Holbrooke

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

Ruben Hinojosa

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

R. Robinson

I would say that it (the visit) is not guaranteed yet,

Chris Scelfo

What matters is we're playing. We'll play in the parking lot at Popeye's. I guarantee you I'll play in the parking lot at Wal-Mart if that's where they tell us to play. That's all we have is football. We've lost everything else.

Roger Ferris

There is no guarantee we will get anything.

Gary Cooper

We're only looking to have fun. It will be fun. I can guarantee that.

Mark Johnson

I will be nervous, I guarantee it, but hopefully I'll get over it real quick.

Frank Robinson

He'll listen to anything I tell him, but I don't know how he'll react. I can't guarantee he won't react to something on the field.

Robert Nozick

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

Walker Percy

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

Winston Churchill

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

Alan Curbishley

He is a local ref and perhaps it is something we have to look at.

Kevin McCarthy

It's regrettable that we're going to spend local property taxes on schools the state would otherwise fund. As I understand it, we don't get back that money.

E. B. White

Its important to do things locally as well, ... impeach.

Scott Henson

They have a structural accountability problem; they're federally funded, state managed and locally staffed, therefore accountable to no one.

Herb Landau

The state, county, and local governments here really don't support us that well.

Jerry Spinelli

I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper.

Brian Sullivan

At the local level, to be able to say that you're doing better than you were, or you're not, is pretty important.

Larry Rogers

Ninety-five percent (of the workers) will be from the local area.

Nathan Moss

I got to thinking of the school system, especially our local school here.

Michael Hofmann

Rocks and gravel will come down sometimes. But this is the first time there's ever been a mud event.

Confucius

He who sling mud, lose ground.

Plautus

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

Mike Lawrence

Marsh is more pleasant to look at than kind of a mud bank.

Gertrude Stein

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

Robert Schwartz

We're not surprised that he would try to muddy the waters.

Astro Teller

Find some fun way to get a little more oil on your hands or mud on your boots. Sometimes, that's what it takes to take down some of the really big problems.

Diaa Rashwan

Here in Egypt, his name doesn't represent anything for us.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Rick James

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

Virchand Gandhi

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

Woody Allen

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

Woody Allen

There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.

William Whewell

We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

William Shenstone

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

William Shatner

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

Ken Ham

We are going to officially wave you off for 24 hours.

Ken Ham

We are going to officially waive you off for 24 hours.

Tom Anderson

Our official position is that we are opposed to the inn.

Rochelle Cancienne

The students will be contacted by the schools in regard to registering. At registration they will be told their official start date.

Sergei Kuprianov

We have received the official response: The Ukrainian side has rejected our offer.

Dylan Penn

I have a private Instagram and an official one, so I'm not opposed to social media.

Sadaharu Oh

Before speaking about whether to turn it down or not, I don't think I've got an official offer.

Randy Cunneyworth

He's been sitting long enough. We need a contribution from him.

M. Wolfe

He was just sitting here three weeks ago.

Chris Barnes

He got tired of sitting on the bench.

Richard Barnfield

As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.

Tyler Perry

I'm always on to something else. It's like, I'm sitting here now jotting down notes for something that's in my head. There's always something going on in my head, and I have to just keep executing.

Robert Hunter

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

Tyler McNeece

Being in the game, being able to make a difference, is so much better than sitting on the bench.

Tim Stewart

If I were sitting in that seat, I would want to have a vote as to what was going on here.

Jonathan Swift

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

Cindy Christensen

I think we'll get a lot of people. I could be totally wrong, but I think we'll get a lot of people.

Spencer Grammer

I loved 'The O.C.' and I totally watch 'Gossip Girl,' too!

Carolyn Sime

It's totally inappropriate for wolves to be that close.

James Shuler

It's totally devastating, the way things went down.

Tom Petersen

They (the stores) don't have to be totally upscale, but we need some better things.

Shinji Mori

It's two totally different things. There was nothing wrong until I got injured.

Alan Mosley

This is totally unacceptable. This is going to have to be fixed, and right now.

Amy Jordan

I wanted to do something totally out of the ordinary,

Parris Chang

We won't be totally disappointed because there will be other goodies in the package,

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Tamra Strano

Once I turned in the packet, I didn't have another thought about it.

Meg Mallon

It turns out I've had this for a very long time,

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

William Bass

No, ... That's just how it turned out.

Nicole Polizzi

What I'd like is to turn out like Jessica Simpson, with her whole brand

Karl Lagerfeld

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

Carl Jung

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Daniel Johnston

To understand and be understood is to be free.

Jessica Sanchez

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

Fay Weldon

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

Fernando Pessoa

To be understood is to prostitute oneself

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.