Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maureen Johnson

'Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a children's book.

Shah Rukh Khan

In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.

Clarence Briggs

There are some who've asked us if this isn't simply part of the cost of doing business. That high a cost is neither acceptable nor tenable.

Pam Carpenter

We expect to have a lot of first-time, in-person voters taking advantage of a more acceptable process.

Brooke Smith

I think that as a team we've come a tremendously long way since November and December. But I don't think that makes this loss more acceptable or makes it hurt any less.

Mike Stoops

It is not OK to fumble. That is not acceptable in this program. It is never going to be OK when you screw up. You have to have a certain amount of accountability and responsibility in the way you take the field and the way you play. I think that is something Chris has learned. I think he will be a more accountable player.

John Panciocco

I think that this title is really a testament to the boys' character and what they bring to the game -- the intangibles, the desire to win. It's almost a code of honor that they have to give 100 percent every singe game, and nothing else is acceptable to them. They're a remarkable bunch of guys.

Andy Melin

I think that just like with many other things in our society, certain things are much more acceptable now than they were five, 10 years ago or longer. I know a lot of pregnant teens who have had no problems staying in the regular school environment, trying to maintain their regular schedule as long as they could.

John Conyers

It is not acceptable to force mothers to testify against their daughters, to make lawyers testify against their clients, to require Secret Service agents to testify against the people they protect, or to make bookstores tell what books people read,

Kay Redfield Jamison

I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.

Johnny Depp

I was known as 'Ray, Head of Security' in the bookstores and stuff where he was signing books. I just spent an enormous amount of time with him and watched him like a hawk. Studied him. I tried to steal his soul.

Michael Gibson

I would think that it would only be fair that the Chamber was able to reduce their request by 25 percent with their money they got from Charlie Adams Day and other things, that Main Street be reduced by the same amount from $10,000 to $7,500,

Bruce Davidson

Jail must be imposed to reflect the ongoing breach of trust, the considerable effect on the victims and the considerable amount of money,

John Planamenta

Kelly is a very intelligent player. She held that ball the perfect amount of time.

Greg Holland

Katrina was one of those we've seen increasing in intensity but we can't say Katrina by itself was part of this factor. There is a substantial amount of natural variability.

Bill Camp

Just the amount of time it takes to fly to France, or to Spain, is what it would take to come down here. So it takes that sort of mind-set, that free will to come and do this.

Gene Watson

John and I are good friends and we've performed from the same stage before. I don't know how his part of the concert is set up, but I'll take mine from 'Love in the Hot Afternoon,' the song that got me started, and bring the people right up to date. I'll be skipping through the career and covering as much as we can in the allotted amount of time we have.

Ken Dorr

I suspect with the amount of time Joe's people are putting into this, they're not going to be making the amount of money they expected. But hopefully it'll work out well.

Keira Knightley

It's fantastic to have the opportunity to work abroad, and do all that, but there is a certain point where you're just like, 'Oh, I'd love to work at home.'

Chamberlain Oguchi

I was looking for my shot early and they were leaving me open. It's a certain way they play defense, and I wanted to get us going.

Suzy Merchant

Kent can be extremely explosive. I was certainly frustrated. They just gave it to us.

David Hawkins

I wouldn't say it's unusual. In terms of moving from one institution to another, if Richard felt like it was time for change, it certainly seems like a logical move to make.

Jeff Kelly

I would say that the omission is certainly damaging to us.

Tony Russa

Just look at him, he's in great shape. I don't know if he's more excited than he's ever been, but certainly he's not any less. I think he's high quality.

Jon Gruden

(Jones) has done primarily punt returns, but if pressed into service we'll trust that he'll do the job if he's the guy we choose to go with. He (Pittman) has worked on that throughout his career. Once again, when certain things happen you have to have contingency plans in place. We'll work on our contigency plan throughout this week and we'll find somebody who gives us a chance to hopefully return one for a touchdown.

John Bunting

Joe certainly has experience that Cam doesn't have, so he has a head start in that regard.

James Leavitt

I suspect the district attorney's office is investigating to see whether or not there is enough evidence for any of the charges. They are certainly looking at other incidents to see if there is any involvement.

Robby Albarado

I was just a passenger tonight. The couple times I have ridden him, he does all the work. I just guide him. I'm so appreciative of Chris and Jeff flying me into Houston to ride him. I had a fortunate trip and was able to save ground.

Vincent Van Gogh

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God.

Diane Swonk

I think the market is tired of Christmas. We've already seen the Christmas reports. As far as the market is concerned, that's old news.

Jon Wagner

I thought Chris looked very impressive. He really goes after people, doesn't he?

Charles Tillman

I thought Chris had it. The rule is a tie goes to the offense.

Julio Ziegelmann

We're on the eve of the millennium, right between Christmas and New Year's when things should be dead, but liquidity just keeps holding out.

Marcus Trescothick

It is pretty nice to end the tour with a win. We will think of the Indian tour after Christmas.

Joe Wojtkiewicz

I thought we played awfully well together, especially coming off Christmas break.

Stockard Channing

I think we'll be gone by Christmas, ... The West Wing.

Chuck Darby

He was a good kid. I'd see him on the practice field. He would ride on the team planes. This is a tough situation and my heart goes out to the family.

Dick Vermeil

He wants to play. I trust him because I know how unselfish he is. If he didn't think he could step in and run our game plan, he would tell me. As you saw on the practice field today, he's very sharp. He knows what he's doing.

Jose Gonzalez

He keeps getting better all the time, and today he was sharp. It was a good field and this was a good win.

Willie Randolph

He knows his body, he knows what he has to do to get ready. He might not have been on the field a lot (in Florida), but I trust him. And when he tells me he s ready to go, I give him the ball.

Hines Ward

He laid it on the line. He's lying there hurt on the ground, and he said to me, 'At least we're in field goal range.

Tim Cleland

This was one of the toughest, if not the toughest, fields we've had.

Michael Vick

Guys are four and five yards down the field and I'm throwing bullets. You can't do that.

Rick Clausen

It hit me once I was talking to my mom (on the phone), because I walked out onto the field after the game to talk to my parents where it was kind of quiet,

Bruce Arena

I think the first half we were a little sloppy in different parts of the field, but I think in the second half we were much more solid. Obviously, we could have scored more goals.

Frank Luntz

It can be done more wisely and effectively, or hey, not at all! We're okay with that too!

Herb Williams

He seemed OK to me, but he was sitting down for the most part.

Harry Redknapp

He should be okay for Saturday but he's going to have play through the pain barrier.

Tim Powers

We swam OK tonight. You could tell that we were still a little tired.

Bob McIntyre

Hopefully, they'll be OK by Thursday. There's different stuff going around. Megan was dizzy; she said she was sick.

Dusty Baker

He was ok. They all say they're ok (after getting hit).

Richard Paul Evans

The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

Ronnie Dunn

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

Woody Guthrie

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

Laurie Levenson

It is my understanding that they have walled her off from day one and that she has had no decision-making responsibility in the case.

Richard P. Feynman

It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand.

Richard P. Feynman

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richelle Mead

You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed.

Russell Crowe

If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

Ron Chernow

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

Umberto Eco

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

Travis Barker

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.

William Jennings Bryan

A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.

Kelley Armstrong

I screwed up. Again. You're shocked, I'm sure.

Robbie Reiser

You were screwing around with (Stewart), you have to come in.

Jake Roberts

You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.

Jason Mitchell

This is my only violation ever, but I screwed up.

Neil Cavuto

We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things.

Jimmy Wales

Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.

Terry Labonte

It's embarrassing for me being from Texas. I just want everyone to know that everything in Texas isn't as screwed up as it is at this place.

George Rodriguez

They treated me as if I screwed up,

Bud Adams

They screwed us up one year, and we want to turn it back at them whenever we can.