Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Mayhew

I was in the costume department having the costume made the next day, and we were shooting two weeks later when the main unit returned from Tunisia.

Jackie Collins

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Sergio Garcia

I think I proved myself today, and I think the British Open is done, so I don't want to hear any more questions about it.

Jack Straw

I also want to put on record the very high regard which the British government as a whole, and I personally, have for Kofi Annan, in leading and steering the United Nations through a period of great change in international relations,

Albert Finney

He just lets you go, really. When we were kind of supposed to rehearse, I don't remember rehearsing at all. We just sort of gossiped and chatted.

Amir Khan

Haroon is already a Four Nation and British champion and he thinks he's going to be better than me. We spar a lot and sometimes, even though he weighs only 6½ stone, he can hurt me. I give him one back then - just to let him know who's boss.

Noam Chomsky

There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S. simply saturated much of the land with, especially in the Plain of Jars. There actually is a British engineering team trying to remove some of these things, which are much worse than land mines.

Murray Rothbard

Early economic theory was rooted in the Italian, French, and Spanish traditions, which were subjectivist oriented. Then it shifted onto the terrible path by Smith and Ricardo and the British classical tradition, which is 'objectivist' - values are in inherent in production.

Kate Bush

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Ji-Hae Park

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

Trevor Rabin

I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point.

Stieg Larsson

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Herbie Hancock

I was a jazz purist at the time, I had tunnel vision about jazz and classical music,

Aleksey Igudesman

I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.

Kunal Nayyar

I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.

Kristan Higgins

I took piano lessons as a kid, and my daughter's played piano since before she started kindergarten, so classical piano is something I really love.

Diane Jacobowitz

He is expert in classical music. He knew the composers and knew their lives. He read their biographies. He knew the subtly of their music. And he knew about modern music and all the modern composers.

Rachel Platten

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

Tony Raines

Knowing how we ran early in the race and how I think we could have run, I was disappointed. But at the same time, I went there knowing I was going to race for a finish. I didn't race anybody.

Helen Brown

I would say that Cosmo was always a feminist magazine; it was before the movement really took shape. The early feminist movement felt I put a lot of emphasis on beauty, which was true.

Mike Ledsome

Katie was ready to go (Thursday). She got into a groove early and started hitting her spots and pitching stronger as the games progressed.

Rich Brands

Just looking at their results, I think it will be a pretty even match. We want to come out and not make any mistakes early on. We want to try and exploit some of the free kicks and throw-in stuff we've been working on.

Ben Gordon

Just like Tuesday (against Dallas) we struggled early and in the second half we were able to make a run. It was just a little to late.

Frank Warren

Joe is never going to be ready for that (November date) so we'll try to rearrange it for next year. It is frustrating for Joe but these things happen in boxing. It is a great shame. We'll do the fight early next year, maybe February.

Charles Woodson

I think it is what it is -- we come out and we play well early in the game and then just let it slip away late in the game. It is second team, third team. What we're looking at is when our starters are in there, we're doing a good job.

Kevin Merkle

I think it is too early to form a long-lasting opinion. It is good to get some feedback first.

Paul Roos

I think in the past three years we've had a number of young guys who have got in early in the pre-season and played all throughout the season. Probably the main focus for tomorrow is to see how they go.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's economic policies would raise taxes on minority small-business owners, whose numbers are steadily increasing as a result of the President's pro-growth policies. Under President Bush's leadership, a majority of minority families are homeowners for the first time in history.

Adam Sharp

Key economic sectors took a big hit from the storm. Standing up the region's economy will help stand up the American economy.

Bernard Baumohl

Katrina has shaken the very foundations of the U.S. economic expansion when it ruined much of America's energy infrastructure, ... While a recession is unlikely, the probability of stagflation has greatly increased with inflation moving higher even as the economy slows.

Paul Sutton

I think it is one of the most fundamentally important issues with respect to social problems, economic problems and environmental problems. Everything gets harder as the population grows.

Zhang Guobao

It also delivers substantial economic and environmental results, alleviating poverty.

Michael Driscoll

Greenspan saying he's optimistic about an economic recovery is as positive as it gets. He may as well jump up and down on Times Square ringing a bell.

Ben Bernanke

has set the standard for excellence in economic policy-making.

Najib Razak

There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.

Ken Robinson

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.

Joe Larsen

He has an inherent right to review that document.

Eliot Spitzer

Risk is inherent in the market, ... We all understand that and we thrive on that; what we don't tolerate is fraud.

Steve Cauthen

The inherent risks of being a jockey are there whether you're 16 or whether you're 60.

John Oliver

There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.

Martin Freeman

Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.

Madhur Bhandarkar

My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.

Monty Python

Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed!

David Lodge

These species are not inherently bad. They're just in the wrong place.

James Gray

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

Stacy Adams

He is the ironman. He's been a player for us since he stepped onto our campus.

Mamie Gummer

L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

Steven Sacks

You could do projection work onto these other buildings. You'd need permission, of course. Unless you own them.

Dave Hill

Damien will be watching on TV but it's not the same. That's why I've been out to watch Slavia. But if there is a problem he sees that we don't see, I'm sure he'll get onto us.

Marcus Aurelius

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Harland Williams

The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.

Graham Cluley

The worry is that the problems with the patch may have prevented it from being successfully rolled out onto some vulnerable computers.

Jack Messman

the window of opportunity for migrating will be when Vista comes onto the market.

John Catsimatidis

I am a real New Yorker... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox.

Mahatma Gandhi

Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa.

Charles Blake

It strengthens me to be rooted in the word of God.

Amanda Peet

I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other.

Tony Johnson

We shifted because we didn't want them sold off individually. Then we could end up with absentee landlords.

Robert McGrath

Somehow society shifted and took these things seriously.

Brad D. Smith

The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way.

Gideon Sam

I just want to say thanks very much Graeme Smith for that wonderful win.

Jonathan Toews

I never cook. My favorite place to eat is Smith & Wollensky in Chicago.

Bill Donovan

Tubby Smith always went out of his way to be friendly. He had me in his office. He would talk to me while we waited. He always made me feel at home.

R. Ingram

Mr. Smith was the first person in the door, so to speak,

Mark Goddard

The question I always get is, Why didn't you throw Dr. Smith off the Jupiter? I get that all the time.

Chris Faidley

I know how to say 'faster' and 'defend' in Bosnian, Spanish and Creole.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.

Dan Wakefield

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

Baltasar Gracian

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Jerry Davis

I think it's terrible that we can only do it at the high-school level.

Andy Weir

I don't even date; I'm terrible with women.

Woody Allen

The food in this place is really terrible. Yes, and such small portions. That's essentially how I feel about life.

Sarah Paulson

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.

Jeremy Corbyn

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

Libba Bray

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

Johnny Vegas

Oh, I'm terrible at travel.

Jimmy Kimmel

You can say Pizza Hut is terrible pizza, but they also sell more pizzas than anybody else.

Marcia Hellman

Everyone just has to have a Terrible Towel. It's part of the Steelers.

Richard P. Feynman

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

William Whewell

The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.

Samuel Johnson

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

Virginia Woolf

Theories then are dangerous things.

Walter Lang

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

Wendell Berry

We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.

Henry Rollins

In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers, extraterrestrials, or anything else that could be found in the science fiction section, because they are not dealing with fiction.

Manly Hall

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.