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.

Warren Farrell

I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Walead Beshty

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

Walter Crane

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

Warren Stephens

We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.

William Kirby

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

Vikram Seth

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

Zubin Mehta

I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

Ellen Key

Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.

Yotam Ottolenghi

What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.

Walter Savage Landor

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

Carrie Fisher

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

Bethenny Frankel

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

Caroline Haberfeld

The airfares are less expensive, and it's very easy to get there. It's very convenient. It's English-speaking and the value is good.

Saddam Hussein

The American government made several errors ... one of which is how easy it would be to get rid of Saddam and how hard it would be to unite the country,

Austin Kearns

That was the worst wind I've ever seen here. It wasn't easy out there by any means.

Steve Goff

That will be the toughest match of the day (for us). We're planning to serve them tough and keep them from getting an easy pass.

Andriy Shevchenko

The 1-1 from the first leg is a good result, but we must think we are starting from zero. We must not think that Bayern can be an easy opponent.

Gregg Popovich

The pieces have to fit around him. The fortunate thing for us is that it seems that, given enough talent, all pieces fit around Timmy. He figures it out.

Rene Locher

The overall figures are lower-than-expected, not only because of the catastrophe claims, but also because of the reserve additions.

Patrick Kavanagh

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

Robert Terone

My bookkeeper is working on those figures now.

Helen McCrory

Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now.

Julian Phillips

We are seeing forecasts of gold price rises moving towards four figures from hallowed institutions. This gold market is broadening significantly.

John Dunford

Next year will be even lower. I think the figures are in free fall. We are losing a generation of linguists.

Mark Zandi

On the national level, I think you'll see weakness in jobs figures for September, October and maybe even November.

Kevin Wilson

For the right people I think those figures are a steal . . . they're by no means generous,

Inga Cadranel

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Alberto Martinez

The overriding theme of these numbers is that these guys are pretty much tied, and will likely stay that way for a long time.

Brian Bell

The guys in the Twins understand that the better Weezer does, the more people will probably care about us.

Wade Henderson

We have a lot of young guys who haven't jelled yet. It's tough when you lose (last year's seniors), but you have to learn to play without them.

Mark Marquess

We have a lot of young guys and we'll see where we stand.

Lindsey Hunter

We need to have our showers, there's some guys in here who should be showering more often than they are.

Councilman Banks

We have worked together. We've held up our end.

Connie Clark

We have team rules and every member of our program is held accountable for them.

Chauncey Billups

We've done nothing. We've held serve with home-court advantage.

LaMont Jordan

We've done enough talking. What we have to do now is step up, be held accountable, realize we're professional athletes, that we have a job to do, and we have to go out there and do it,

Philip Schultz

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

Peter Gallagher

When I came up, guys like Nicholson and DeNiro were held in highest regard.

Ron Zonen

Michael Jackson should be held responsible for what he did,

Denise Marshall

You can give away memberships to gyms, but unless the person is held accountable, they are not likely to keep up with it.

Clint Hurdle

I thought he took a very positive first step. He didn't get outside of himself. In the first inning he was mid-20s in pitches, but he battled. He didn't give up a big inning after that. Any time there was traffic, he held runners well. He made pitches when he had to. He mixed his pitches. He held the left-handers very effectively. A big outing for him and a big win for us.

Bill Bryson

I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.

Arsene Wenger

Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.

Arsene Wenger

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

Arsene Wenger

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

Arsene Wenger

Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!

Arsene Wenger

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

Arsene Wenger

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

Arsene Wenger

English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.

Bill Bruford

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.