Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emma Stone

I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I'd be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.

Richard Madden

I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.

Erik Lomis

Kids love the movie. Our audience is predominantly young -- 12 and younger -- so most of the eyeballs got in at children's price. But we expect that age group to grow over the coming weeks as word of mouth spreads. The film is budgeted considerably under $30 million, so it's going to be very profitable. Frankie Muniz's last film ('Big Fat Liar') opened to $11 million and did $47 million (so) this could do $60 million.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.

Dr. Young

I also have five children at home, all under the age of 10. So needless to say, we keep busy.

Jim Capaldi

I always felt from a very early age that whatever one's role in life is, we all have our own particular style, our own particular character.

Randy Hendricks

He wants to take stock of his health and his motivation. If someone said you have to decide today, the answer would be he would retire. He doesn't think at this point, based on the end of the season, that he's got seven months of baseball in him, to go through that grind at age 43-44.

Lorenzo Lynch

He was big for his age so they put him on the line, ... All he was doing was blocking and rushing the quarterback on defense.

Lee H. Hamilton

He certainly has kept his agenda in front of us,

Joanne Woodward

I also had a wonderful great-aunt who was an avid gardener, who told me all about the flowers, their names and where they came from.

Louis Sachar

I'm an avid bridge player. I usually go to the local bridge club three or four times a week. I've always been a game-player, and I think bridge is one of the greatest games ever invented. It's too bad that not many young people play it any more.

Jeff Hayes

The more avid readers are much more likely to buy both new and used. Those who buy only a few titles a year buy new.

Dustin Milligan

Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it!

Debby Reilly

This is novel. I've never heard of anything like it, just for pets. I just stumbled upon it by accident, but I'm glad I did. I think it's great. I'm a dog lover and an avid music lover.

Suzanne Weyn

Toy Empressario Wonder Afficianado Avid Shoewearer

Robert Holden

Your ego is an avid interpreter. It is so quick to interpret events as 'bad' or 'good,' 'wrong' or 'right.' It never fails to see 'the little picture.

Sophia Loren

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself...

Penny Jordan

I was still an avid reader of Mills & Boon romances - on publication day, I used to rush out of work to get to the local book store to grab my favourites before they all disappeared.

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.

John Van Hamersveld

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

Omar Bongo

In other words, the fundamental values (freedom, justice, equality of rights) began to be respected by France and the United States in the 1950s-1960s, after decolonization and assuring civil equality between Blacks and Whites.

Jessica Davenport

I hit some shots and then the outside game began clicking. They really had to respect our outside shooters, and it really opened it up inside for me.

Peter Coyote

In 1972, Texaco Oil Company, in partnership with PetroEcuador, the state-run oil company of Ecuador, began to drill for oil in the jungles of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Alex Garwood

I'm glad the people in New York are inspired by Pat, but he's ours somehow. It's not that they can't have part of him, but he's ours. As he started down this path of being this tremendous person, it began here.

Robin Trower

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

Muhammad Abdullah

It benefits me more because I'm more in the box. It puts me in the position where I can make more plays and bigger plays for the team.

Francisco Gonzalez

Having a Club Manager with such diverse experience at the executive level will be of great benefit to the club. We are excited and are looking forward to Oscar bringing the Club to the next level.

Scott Kaupin

It could be a key benefit if we get a rail station in there.

Jim Oberweis

I think you have to be a niche player. You've got to find smaller ideas that are going to benefit in the conditions as they are. You can change the conditions and always try to find ways to make money in the conditions as they exist.

Robert Lang

I think you go there and you do sort of get a little jump start just from being with your buddies and playing a little bit different hockey. I think a lot of guys, even the guys from Swedish team, even though Hank played really good before, now, he's even playing better than he was before, just kind of effortless. So I think all of us sort of benefit from that and it's just nice.

Peter Mandelson

There is no benefit at all for us taking these parochial fights and these past divisions onto the European stage.

Casey Cummings

The purpose of the fund is to revitalize properties and neighborhoods. It's a profit-driven fund, but it has a community benefit agenda, too.

John Swiatek

We try to have major-league amenities. This is something we've talked about for a long time. It will be a great benefit for our fans, and it's a great way to make an impact as we enter our fifth season.

Andrew Zalasky

We've found it a true benefit to have Terri here, so the relationship is already built, and there is one less step in the process.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Mark Patton

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

Ray Manchuk

We're optimistic that the new Harry Potter will bring more foot traffic to stores and perhaps become a catalyst to drive sales of other books as well.

Hilaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

Chip Kidd

What you must remember about hardcover books is that they are like tattoos. Once you get one, it's never really going to go away.

O. J. Simpson

It is so important for parents to read in front of their child, so the child knows how much reading can teach them, ... I make sure I am reading books around my children to set good examples for reading throughout life.

Derek Parra

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Daniel Gibson

I think what happened opened his eyes. Something you love can be taken at any time. He's borne that out through the season. He came out motivated.

William Congreve

I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.

Monica Raymund

I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Ronald Curry

He has such a great personality a lighthearted personality that kind of draws people to him. Some people are born leaders, and he's a born leader.

Richelle Mead

morois are born..but strigois are made..!

Whoopi Goldberg

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

Mahmud Zahar

I think we can declare the cabinet during the three weeks.

Pete Domenici

We can have all the hearings we want but we're going to be running in each other's way pretty soon and so are all the Cabinet members,

Walter Bagehot

A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.

Joe Fontana

Canadians, cabinet ministers, Parliamentarians - they want their CBC to be operating.

Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz

The distribution of cabinet jobs between Law & Justice and Citizens' Platform must be equal and fair so the government can work effectively.

Vali Nasr

The key issue will be what kind of power the Sunnis get from these numbers when it comes to negotiations about the government. What kind of cabinet posts will they get? How will resources be distributed? What kind of representation will they have in patronage and government?

S. Hughes

The door to the cabinet is to be opened using a minimum of 15 Kleenexes.

Jackie Earle Haley

The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.

Shirley Walker

Everybody knows those were two tough losses. We couldn't say anything. We didn't do what we needed to do on the floor. They're fine. They all gave me thumbs' up. With me as the chief over my little cabinet members, when the chips are down, I always like to fight through it.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Ciara

Having a child with someone, you're always going to be respectful of that. But the song 'I Bet' was honestly inspired by my life experiences - I can't just say it's from one experience.

Tony Buzan

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

Sugata Mitra

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Sugata Mitra

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Sugata Mitra

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Ryan Sims

There is a general consensus in the community of the need for a multipurpose facility. A general consensus doesn't provide the details needed for funding, so we are collecting this data to solidify the consensus into a concrete form.

Ron Moody

I'd been collecting eccentric moves since I was a kid and didn't even know that the dance step I improvised in 'Be Back Soon' was called a 'pas de basque.'

Robert Hartman

In 2005, we ended up $400,000 in the red. We were not collecting for the costs the co-op had. It just wasn't a stellar year.

Billy Beane

I'm collecting them all. But obviously, Danny's smarter than I am because he decided to go to Stanford. He's a great player, but he's also a great kid. He's the kind of guy you'd like to have as your son, just a really impressive young man.

Marty Turco

I'm not really forgotten. I'm out there collecting the wins, so that's fine with me.

Larry Ellison

All the information about you as a patient would be in one spot, ... The idea here is to stop collecting paper.

Kerry Smith

Provo is having a problem maintaining its buildings, because they are not collecting enough money to maintain them.

Kate Kendall

It was very exciting. I was just delighted. We put a lot of work into collecting those samples, and we wanted to get as much information as we could from them.

Peter Hayes

These were songs that we?d been writing and collecting over the years. Some of them we actually thought about putting on previous albums. But we didn't want to make it seem like they were filler tracks or novelties in the middle of a rock record. We felt like they were too important for that.

James Cox

I think it's a good idea. The Bangor School System is the gold standard as far as education goes, at least in this part of the state.

Fred Wilson

He's a wonderful person if for no other reason than the education piece.

Ernest Hollings

There is no education in the second kick of a mule

Aaron Blake

I think this year we are really focusing on education, ... We need to embrace those who set out to harm our community, because really something is wrong with them.

Ruben Blades

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Tryon Edwards

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tryon Edwards

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Rick Boucher

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.

William Lyon Phelps

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

Robert Englund

I didn't make good money on 'Nightmare' until part three. I eventually got some nice merchandising checks.

Mika Brzezinski

I did something a lot of people will have to do in this economy if they want to eventually land their dream job. I turned down an offer to take a high-paying position in another field because it wouldn't fulfill me.

Bo Ryan

I like the way our guys are executing. Then sometimes if somebody is quicker, bigger, stronger, eventually they'll wear you down and they'll impose their will, especially on the road.

Ray Soudah

Eventually they will capitulate. But why not take the proactive step of consolidating.

Frank Williams

Eventually the truth will come out as she sees the overburdened shelves.

Matt Foreman

Eventually stardom is going to go away from me.

Yen Nguyen

Eventually Santa Monica has to grow out towards this way, it has to expand out eventually. And I'm not too far from the main activity, so I took a chance.

Marc Webb

That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.

Charlie Frye

It took a while for us to get adjusted, but we just kept playing. Guys kept playing hard and things just started to work. That is why you never give up, things will eventually go your way.

W. P. Kinsella

The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

Bill White

Pat Priest has the reputation of being one of the finest judges in the state, and he's a Democrat, and he has a reputation for being a scholar. He has a reputation of being scrupulously fair.

James Rollins

A stunner…reminds me of Tom Clancy at his finest.

Joseph Polisi

The gift represents one of the finest collections of musical manuscripts to be amassed in modern times.

Steve Young

We had some of the finest musicians in Nashville contributing to this album.

Dan Rather

It's been one of television news' finest moments.

Sam Perlozzo

When you talked about the Orioles, you talked about Elrod. Elrod Hendricks was one of the finest men I have ever met.

Bob McKillop

Brendan Winters had perhaps his finest game in a Davidson uniform. He has had many, many illustrious games in his career. But to have that finest one on championship Sunday is quite a special feat.

Ian Cameron

It is a less formal car, more streamlined, more about the individual.

Bill Coleman

The idea is to have those goals, and then throughout the year, talk about them regularly with your boss. It can be something as formal as a monthly or quarterly meeting, or simply giving them good news in the hallway.

Bill Nye

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.

Neal Milner

Any big corporation, no matter how enlightened, needs some place that people can turn to outside of the formal processes where they can get their problems solved.

Joseph Biden

DOJ (Department of Justice) has told us repeatedly that there's a formal response working its way through red tape channels, but still nothing,

Paul Richards

The thought was that it was better to withdraw the proposal rather than risk a formal veto at this stage,

Emma Udwin

There is no intention ... to undertake any formal restrictive measures that could hurt the population as a whole.

Candy Olson

We had to get more formal . . . and more transparent. It's not only that we do it well but also that people see it as well.

John Lawson

There's nothing to say that someone else won't come in and open discussions now a formal offer's on the table, but I would have thought it's less likely,

Matthew Morrison

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

Laura Vandervoort

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

Bob Wietharn

It is my heart, where I grew up, and where I'll always be.

Pat Clark

Our numbers grew approximately 20 kids this year.

Josie Bissett

I prefer to be a mother in the Pacific Northwest! I grew up outside of Seattle and personally find it to be the most beautiful place in the world.

Joyce Kesse

I guess the Internet grew so fast, so quickly, there probably needs to be regulations on these very same things.

Jemima West

I'm completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.

Rob Lowe

I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my culture.

Juliette Goglia

I love singing! I grew up in musical theater.

Robert M. Pirsig

The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.

Zig Ziglar

Logic won't change an emotion but action will.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

All propositions are of equal value.

Peter Thonis

This is a logical and predictable move by AT&T ( T ).

Christopher Hitchens

Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

Lion Feuchtwanger

An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

Joss Whedon

Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless.

Otto von Bismarck

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

Kevin Szcodronski

The logistics are fine. The system is working, and people are registering.

Dan Bartlett

He doesn't have a personal relationship with him.

Rob Zombie

The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.

Tullian Tchividjian

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

Vivienne Westwood

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

Ryan Stiles

I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.

Wilhelm Steinitz

I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton.

Robert Green Ingersoll

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

Michael Chertoff

interprets the law, straight without injecting your personal preferences.

Jacques Maritain

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

Anne Tyler

When I read, I'm purely a reader

Dan Brown

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Ernest Hemingway

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

Eudora Welty

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

Henry Miller

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Sarah MacLean

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

Vince Carter

I'm going to make Tim Thomas come here. So it doesn't matter. Only kidding.