Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Sweeney

We actually breached the wall due to the deteriorating conditions caused by the intense wind at this particular point. It created a blowtorch effect through the apartment doorway.

Michelangelo Antonioni

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

Shona Thorburn

We've accomplished so much already. That one more win sets you apart from so many other teams, so many other programs and great players. We can't look too far ahead. We really need to take care of business (Monday) night.

Toni Ziegler

We're interested in what motivates dads to be good parents because there are so many men who just aren't good fathers. This work could help to tease apart what makes a good dad.

Richard Ashcroft

We're in a malaise. What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music?

Nong Duc Manh

We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.

Montel Williams

I take apart restaurant menus everywhere I go. I kind of tick off a lot of chefs in restaurants because I'll say, 'You can keep all of the sauce, keep all of that garbage - just give me that piece of fish. Forget the salad dressing, I don't need all of that extra stuff. Just give it to me straight up, and I'll eat it.'

Norm MacDonald

With the computer and stuff, the difference between a rich guy and a poor guy, to me, is nothing. Because I don't like big houses, I don't drive a car, so you know, I just live in a small apartment and I have my computer, which is really cool.

Neville Marriner

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.

Kevin Burke

We are pleased to welcome Fred to our board and look forward to benefiting from his knowledge and experience. Fred's global view as well as his background in finance will prove invaluable to the company.

Lesli Linka Glatter

My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.

Noel Wells

I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies, direct movies, make movies, but it took me a really long time to be honest with myself about it because my background is that my family was very poor.

Bill Clayton

We want somebody who is experienced in national and international fundraising. We have to continue the growth of the museum or else it is going to dissolve, ... As we work to build a new funding base, having an executive director with a different background will help us to make that possible.

Wayne Rosso

We were always in the background trying to get licenses and in those days we would get one of two responses -- either, 'We're not going to reward pirates,' or 'Shut down and we'll talk about it.

Rachel Tucker

When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

Tom Smith

What we're looking for behind the scenes are background checks for known felons and other things that are publicly available, to make sure these don't get in the hands of a criminal.

Mark Pasdon

When we did our first international shipment, we had no idea what we were doing. I don't have a background in logistics. I had no idea how it works. I knew FedEx could get it international. As a small business, trying to get through different governmental bodies that regulate that, I didn't have a chance.

Bill Scott

We've understood throughout the project that we cannot portray them as coming from a lifting-yourselves-by-the-bootstraps background with no resources. We do not want to portray them as coming from humble backgrounds.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

We want to strengthen democracy. When conflicts cannot be solved in parliament they should be solved by citizens.

Zwelinzima Vavi

We want to send a strong signal to the regime in Swaziland that it cannot be an island surrounded by democracy in the region.

Louis Bacon

Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work.

Michel Onfray

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

Morgan Wootten

Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

Stephen R. Covey

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, that person cannot say, I choose otherwise.

Stephen R. Covey

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise

Alan Tonelson

We are looking to Congress, ... It is clearer than ever that America's domestic manufacturers cannot count on any help from the White House to remedy this totally unacceptable situation.

Felix Herrero

We are at their side as they suffer. One cannot forget what happened and one must remember to ensure it does not happen again.

Chris Goutman

We are probably the only show in daytime that has kept characters on. We've had a number of veterans who have been on the show for over 40 years, and how they relate these veterans to their grandchildren is something I think is very real.

Max Sydow

There are characters which you spend a lot of time with, and you get to know, and you feel that -- suddenly it's a friend somewhere. And they are nice to return to.

Jim Rash

Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.

Connie Willis

When you've written your characters into a corner, you just hand the manuscript over to your partner and make her fix it.

Li Bingbing

I often hear actors say during their interviews: 'I want to play a crazy person, a murderer, or someone who's on edge.' But that question scares me. I mean, of course there are characters I'd like to play, but I can't really say specifically who they are. It's much too hard to play a convincing normal person as it is.

Lee Bermejo

Who doesn't want to draw Batman or Superman? Everyone would like to be able to draw them. I've been really lucky when it comes to the characters that I get to illustrate.

Mark Billingham

When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about.

Hayden Schlossberg

A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to.

Sherwood Schwartz

When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail.

Deb Caletti

Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

Larry Alexander

The perception is all we are is smokestacks and empty buildings. It's an opportunity to let the world see what's happening here.

Charles Churchill

With various readings stored his empty skull, / Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.

Dick Jauron

Absolutely. In our league, when you go to a game, you see five receivers on the field, a lot of four, three receivers. You see empty (backfield) in every situation. So if you don't have at least three really good (corners), it'll be long Sundays.

Paul Nisbet

They were flying a lot of empty planes. They don't want that to happen again.

Rob Schremp

They've been getting the bounces. Part of playoff hockey, part of the series, there'll be times when you go through droughts. Myself, there's been times when I have an empty net and I've been hitting the goalie in the (butt) or missing the net. Those bounces are going to come to us sooner or later.

Jason Buckley

They're better than us, I mean, they are flat-out better than us. They just kept executing and throwing waves of kids at us. We gave everything we had, unfortunately, our tank was empty by the end of the game.

Carley Roney

There's a lot of that empty nest moment.

Michelle Evans

At first, we need to house survivors in non-residential housing, we need rental properties, or empty apartments.

Jerry Johnson

We are privately owned and we do not routinely give out information about our customers. I imagine if we do either, we sell (grain).

Christopher McQuarrie

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

Charlie Daniels

I just can't imagine not having something to do.

T. J. Miller

To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God sent you here to prepare for a future greater than anything can imagine.

Matt Bitonti

We had 13,000 unique visitors here today on a Monday. Can you imagine if you had 13,000 people in a room, and you were talking to them? That's what you're doing. It's about reaching people, having a voice, having an opinion.

Jason Calacanis

Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'

Keke Palmer

I'm a mash-up of everyone. My influences would be Michael Jackson, Brandy, Aaliyah - those types of people. So if you can imagine them - and with me taking them, and then putting my own twist and the influence on it - that's musically what I would sound like.

Jim McCann

Yes, I really did imagine this. What I imagined 30 years ago - we're not there yet.

Michelangelo Antonioni

But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after.

Dario Argento

So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.

Dino De Laurentiis

Mr Tony Hopkins says he's willing to do it if he likes the script.

Dan DeRose

We're going to try and be physical with the guards.

Bill Self

We're still playing better physically than we are mentally.

Jackie Bledsoe

We'll see what we'll do. We would rather run it first, of course, but we may have to throw it. They're pretty physical up front.

Mark Stoops

We are getting better and more physical and more explosive. That's what we have talked about doing since we got here.

Allie Woods

They are a rough team. They are physical and fast. But I think we can keep up with them.

Olli Ahvenniemi

I tried to play physical with him and keep him off the ball.

Joe Coleman

This is the most physical staff I've had in seven years.

Denny Brauer

This is a very physical sport and it's a sport where you've really got to be in shape.

Kelly Greenberg

They're a very physical team, especially on the inside, and I don't think of our forwards as very physical, so that will be a challenge. They're also a very hard-working team and they play very well at home. We're going to have to play hard, we're going to have to play smart and we're going to have to make some shots.

Jesse Spencer

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.

Jim Taylor

After Andrew, insurers realized the premiums they were charging weren't enough,

Chris Browne

Some stuff fell. Before it hit, I realized it was a person who jumped.

Marcella Anderson

I shouldn't have trusted her. It was wrong, I've realized it now. But she was there, she was friendly, she was warm, someone I thought I could trust.

Justin Tuck

I used to like cufflinks, but I got too lazy for them. I realized I don't need them for a polished tailoring look, so more times than not, I skip them.

Joel Madden

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

Bob Starkell

We just keep getting better. We realized we can do this, and we put it all together as a team.

Ryane Pearson

This was my 'A-ha!' place, where I realized that there's someone else like me.

Paul Theroux

The place that interests me most, actually, is the United States. I've realized that I haven't traveled much in the States. There's a lot to see.

Chris Duerksen

This is simply something you don't have right now.

Ken McNeely

We simply don't think Californians should have to wait that long.

Albert Einstein

If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.

Robert Henri

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Jack Whittaker

I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Bryan Adams

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

Ed Koch

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

Benjamin Tucker

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Ted Schadler

It's not really about social networking. It's not wide open.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Jim Blake

As part of the deal, there's a social mobilization effort.

Davis III

We got to watch a lot of their match. We suggested that we go around them, but that didn't go over real well.

Arthur Bloch

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

Abheek Barua

There is nothing to suggest that would be the trend.

Don Brunell

What we suggest is that they look at ones already in place to see if they are necessary.

Tony Campolo

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

Mark Twain

Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

Jennifer Granholm

I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

Joseph Powers

Irrigation is being done on the (town hall) mall, so I would suggest French's Common,