Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

Will Poulter

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

Wendy Kopp

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Zubin Mehta

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

Yani Tseng

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Colin Baker

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Chris Carter

I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

Debasish Sen

The police have been asked to carry out investigations and carry out the required proceedings.

Gary Hart

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.

Wesley Clark

I said the rosary, and I said the Our Father, as they call it in the Catholic Church. One of the things I learned in the conversion process was to say the rosary, and I had a set of rosary beads. So I said 'Hail Mary, full of grace.'

Viswanathan Anand

I honestly don't remember when and why I started calling my mom 'Momsi'. These are family things; it starts for some reason. It's not that I just call her Momsi; I call her other things as well!

Chris Carter

If you look at 'The X-Files' generally, we did 202 episodes. About 80% of them are not 'mythology' episodes, which tend to be the epic episodes. They deal with the big conspiracies, the search for Mulder's sister. They deal with what I would call the 'saga' of 'The X-Files.'

Don Rickles

I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

Rob Bishop

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.

David Cross

I'm of the mindset that most people who have kids are, which is, 'Hey, I want another me. I like me. I'm pretty cool, and I've got really great ideas, and the way I think is the right way to think. Let's put another one of me out there.' So I'll have kids one day.

Rickie Fowler

It's pretty cool to see yourself on a video game.

Matthew Perry

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.

Kathy Valentine

You don't do it for some end result, hoping you get signed or get this cool gig or get a big following. It's got to matter to you.

Michael Lamb

You'll cut 20 percent or more off your heating or cooling bills.

Yaron Danon

You just heat the crystal from room temperature to about 130 degrees. Then you can use it while it's heating or while it's cooling. We're doing it while it's cooling. We're letting it cool back to room temperature, and while it's doing that it's accelerating ions, so it's like a particle accelerator that's very simple.

Dexter Holland

Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful and reach a big audience. I'm not trying to be the coolest guy in the world; I'm trying to write songs that mean something to people. As you get successful, sometimes you lose one set of fans and gain another.

R. Robinson

It'd be cool to come back here. But we have to see what happens.

Webb Simpson

I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

Fred Couples

The 14th hole was really a killer, but there were several other putts -- I just couldn't get one to go. I think if Phil was putting for me, I would have won with 9- or 10-under.

Fred Couples

The 14th hole was just really a killer. I couldn't get one to go in the hole and get any momentum.

Fred Couples

The 14th hole was just really a killer.

Mary Klinger

We can't get down in a hole like that.

Michael Dicks

Manufacturing is in a hole but the housing market is pretty buoyant,

Stephen Hawking

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.

Buddy Bell

We got back in the game, but it seems we never have enough. We have too many holes in the lineup to keep things going.

Tiger Woods

No. 7 is one of the narrowest holes on the course, if not the narrowest.

Gail Carriger

I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.

Clint Eastwood

My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him.

Nat Wolff

I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

Sarah Frazier

I think I got more comfortable singing because I knew the song. It just kinda flowed.

Peter Banko

He's kinda wondering what all the hoopla is about.

Keri Hilson

I grew up in an all-black neighbourhood in Decatur, Georgia - a kinda lower-middle-class area.

Dominic Cooper

When you work with people who are so passionate about their product it's kinda inspiring.

Cayden Boyd

I've always kinda wanted to work with Morgan Freeman, Tom Cruise, and people like that. Probably Will Smith, too.

Ellis Register

We're kinda multi-dimensional. We like to run the football, but also like to throw. We're doing that more than in years past.

Ben Howland

I was uncomfortable standing there. I'm wanting water after water out of the machine.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Norma Aviles

Wake up. See what's happening. Today it's me, tomorrow it could be you standing here. It's a place you don't want to stand.

Joe Farmer

We're standing by, waiting for them to tell us what to do.

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Bruce Lee

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Ayn Rand

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Cindy Gallop

I like to stand out and make a statement.