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.

Emma Watson

I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

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.

Des Browne

I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.

Barack Obama

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Sebastian Faulks

I believe your stomach tells you what it wants, and I don't think mine asks for anything that unhealthy. I'm a trained health machine.

Peter Zumthor

I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

Peter Singer

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

Steve Shannon

Use the Internet to read press releases and other information about the company so that you can take at least three pieces of positive information about them into the interview. You can integrate that information into some of your answers, and it will prepare you to respond well if the interviewer asks what you know about the company.

Bruce Simon

When the court asks to know just how rich pilots can get, her impartiality can be questioned.

Earl Calloway

We need to push the tempo, get it inside, play hard on defense, and do what coach asks us to do. We have to play good defense first. Defense wins championships and offense wins games.

Michel Gauthier

We intend to support the government if what it asks us to do respects our basic principles and the interests of Quebec. If the government respects those conditions, we will try to let it function for a good while.

Tina Brown

The 2008 financial crisis is usually attributed to vampire squid greed. There was certainly a lot of that. But it was also just as likely to have been caused by the chaos of process created by those big, sexy bank mergers when, in the name of 'economies of scale,' critical members of the trust and responsibility chain were cavalierly eliminated.

Timothy Noah

I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression.

Warren Stephens

What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.

Warren Stephens

We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.

Warren Stephens

We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

William Kirby

The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.

Zubin Mehta

Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.

Elizabeth Warren

I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people.

Elizabeth Warren

Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.

Bette Davis

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

Gabe Borquez

The amps are turned up until the sound breaks. There's nothing fake involved.

Roger Angell

I was in my thirties. I wasn't a kid. I think that instinctively I thought I'd have to trust myself and to report about what I was seeing, what I was thinking as a fan, and not to try to fake it by being knowing about these players and their deliveries and all that stuff which I later learned about.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

Only very, very good actors can fake them.

Jack Abraham

I think it's always pretty obvious to most of the public when something was done with heart and mind. You can't fake it.

Dave Chappelle

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.

David Schwimmer

When you see Liana [Liberato], who at the time was 14, there is an inexperience and innocence that you can't act and you can't fake.

Cesar Romero

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

Alan Arkin

If I'm going to make a fake movie, it's going to be a fake hit.

Tarnya Cooper

It fooled scholars for quite a long time.

Frank Askin

It fooled him, how many other people are getting fooled?

Ben Wilcox

If it's being done just to hide their real vote, I don't think that's the way to go. I find it kind of hard to imagine that there would be that many people that would be fooled by it.

Mattias Ohlund

I think we got fooled the first three games by the results and we really didn't play as well as we should have.

Stan Gundy

I was writing the league. I wish they'd get tougher on it. From what they're saying, they're working on not getting fooled on the flop.

Patrick Surtain

I was just thinking about it yesterday, wondering if I'm going to get fooled or not, ... It's going to help me somewhat because I know what those guys can do and I know some of their releases, but they're in a totally different offense. In one respect, it will (help me), but in another, they run totally different routes now.

Drew Altman

Don't be fooled by the moderation we've seen this year,

Matt Hasselbeck

They totally fooled me. They got me. They had never shown it before, so I wasn't ready.

Ross Thompson

They got fooled by that warm weather this past week.

Irving Ravetch

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Zakk Wylde

I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.

Wendy Kopp

It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.

Bonnie Tyler

The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.

David Carson

Just because something's legible doesn't means it communicates. More importantly, it doesn't mean it communicates the right thing. So, what is the message sent before somebody actually gets into the material? And I think that's sometimes an overlooked area.

Nile Rodgers

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.

Nas

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

Tony Russa

That was vintage Carpenter. He had first and second, the middle of the lineup, and he gets out of it. That's what he does.

Bill Hanlon

That way they're thinking about the word and how it's used in an analogy. It gets them thinking the same way the test makers are thinking.

Tyler Perry

The thing about using other people's money is they're going to set the rules.

Irving Harper

I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.

William E. Conway, Jr.

I want to give away the money. I don't want to die with it. I want the money to be used well.

Emma Watson

Let's be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again.

Elizabeth Warren

Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off.

David Bailey

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.

Janet Callison

The outpouring of support we've received in Grandview has just been overwhelming. So many people offered to give their money and their time to help.

Brian Harvey

We could give 'Take That' a run for their money.

Lisa Dey

When something like that happens, you've got to make the right moves and do the right things, and we did.

Phil Garner

We'll make the moves we always make. We'll pinch-hit, we'll double-switch, we'll defensively make moves.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Terry Greene

I think it just moves us up to the next level.

Corey Kline

He can't show any moves until the semifinals.

Barry Alvarez

He can move. He's very athletic. I don't even know what he weighs. I don't care. ... If he moves well enough, he can weigh 400. He is a giant, though. He makes Kemp look like a little guy.

Mike Rudd

He has something we can't coach; he has size and he actually moves pretty well for his size.

Craig Patrick

He made some nice moves on that play. That was great.

Steve Evans

If this moves forward, you'll see a reigniting of the water wars like you wouldn't believe.

Imelda May

When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Cecelia Ahern

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

Carlton Reed

That was a small situation that was made into a big deal. The problem was solved the next morning.

Nick Umholtz

That was sweet. I've never been in a playoff before. Now I'm going to have to back it up for next year.

Jon Copper

That we have a teammate who may not be with us next year. I'm still not sure what's going on or how it's going to end up.

Steve Novak

We need to keep getting better. There is no next year.

Bill Burton

You look at the states [Barack] Obama won and wonder, well, where would Hillary Clinton have a problem and where does Donald Trump have problems? And the truth is, Donald Trump is not showing strength in any of the big states that he would need in order to actually get to 270. And Hillary Clinton is showing herself to be remarkably stable in all the states that she needs.

Tom Smith

The anticipation would have been that problems would have been down.

H. Hart

We just didn't finish. That's been our problem all year.

Lydia Parnes

We're really not here saying that the spam problem is solved. What we're saying is that we're making progress.

Mark Harmsen

We have had so many problems in our district.

Tom Leach

We have had problems ? some serious, some not so serious. They were the logistical and technical problems we expected.

Hilary Clinton

Why would you put all your C-130s in a place with weather problems?

David Filo

You'll run into problems where governments don't share those values. Long term, these values will win out.

Beck

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

Patrick Chappatte

You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.

Donna Berger

I was very amazed. The sign says the crew, they all ate, slept on the deck.

Brian Reilly

He's been through it. He just says to stay patient.

Adam Timmerman

I think it says a lot about him being unselfish and seeing the talent in Steven himself.

Mark Grudzielanek

We try to get him to go out and he says 'No, I've got a show Tivoed at home. I don't know about this guy.

Patricia Watkins

When he says he doesn't know, it's the honest-to-God truth.

Denise Roberts

He says he wants to be a firefighter,

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. You knew, right from the get-go, he was the manager, and what he says goes.

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. What he says goes.

Nick Zito

He worked well and is on target for Tampa.

Kevin Appier

I can't see your target because of the sun, so you'll have to tell me where it (the ball) goes.

Alan Rudolph

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

Jon Sakoda

Worms that are traditionally targeting MSN will also target the Yahoo users,

Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot see.

Ashleigh Brilliant

To always hit the target, throw a dart, then call whatever you hit the target.

Joe Cunningham

We probably could play him at first (base); he just wouldn't be a very big target to hit.

Andy Gray

If you don't hit the target, you're never gonna score

David Buik

It is a takeover target as well, to be candid. Someone is going to have a nibble.