Famous Quotes & Sayings

James D. Watson

To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.

Monty Python

We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.

Stella Young

I do not identify as a person with a disability. I'm a disabled person. And I'll be a monkey's disabled uncle if I'm going to apologise for that.

Tony Judt

Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our shortcomings and speak more assertively of achievements. That these were always incomplete should not trouble us.

Richard Flanagan

John Howard, willing to apologise to home owners for rising interest rates, would not say sorry to Aborigines. He refused to condone what he referred to as 'a black armband version' of history, preferring a jingoistic nationalism.

Nate Ruess

I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.

Geraldine McCaughrean

Never apologise for not being someone else. You're bound to find something you're good at, even if it's only writing stories.

Curtis Stone

When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.

John Newcombe

In the morning of course, I'd have to, John would have to go round and apologise to everyone for what Jack had done or said to them.

Mark Bishop

We want to tell stories and produce integrated brands in which the content created is delivered to audiences in new and exciting ways. Wireless is an emerging platform which we feel is a core component of our business moving forward.

Paul Dergarabedian

The Potter franchise is just irresistible to moviegoers. The combination of the Potter books and the love audiences have for the movies conspired a big opening weekend.

Alan Vega

We started out in England with a couple of shows, and then in Berlin and then France. It was really amazing. The audiences have been wonderful.

Nick Ferguson

Like most athletes, I like to go home and relax. I try not to bring the game home with me. I might play some video games that are, let's just say, for mature audiences only. And I might get some flak for this, but I like to watch 'Seinfeld.' Sometimes, laughter is the best medicine.

Lina Wertmuller

My first customer is myself. When I tell a story I like, I can sleep easy. I'm sorry when audiences don't like it, but I have no choice.

Terry Teachout

Tom Stoppard, the English-speaking world's brainiest playwright, thinks that British audiences have grown too dumb to understand his plays.

Tony Long

We're going to start planning it two weeks after this one is over. Tom Glennon (director of the Georgia Children's Museum) has already come to me with the idea of a children's division, both films made by children and directed at children as an audience. We may even show them at the museum.

Dave DeCecco

We're looking for a big opportunity and a big audience, and this is where you find it.

David Wallace

We believe we're going to have big audiences.

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Michael Steele

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

M. Night Shyamalan

For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

Jim Murray

The only bad thing about Spokane is that there's nothing to do after 10 in the morning

Lorraine Bracco

The only bad thing is that I've been smoking cigarettes. I smoke in the play, so I've limited myself to smoking only in the theater.

David Land

The potential for going through $70 a barrel is certainly there, it wouldn't take a lot of bad news. You've got the U.S. hurricane season in the not too distant future, as well as the driving season.

Ron Aldy

The postseason depends on who's playing better that night and you don't have to have but one bad night.

Jeff Gundy

The positive is they found something they can fix. It's been a string of bad fortune for him injury-wise, but we're happy the doctor has been able to locate something we can do something about.

Ashley Josephson

We are pretty disappointed we didn't come out right away and play our 'A' game. We had a pretty bad first half, not intense enough. ... The first half is what killed us.

Monica Lewinsky

I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things.

Vicki Long

The only reason it became a class is we needed insurance to book these buildings.

Tommy Tuberville

We are proud of Blake Field, ... He became our starter with an hour's notice. He did a great job handling the football.

Sara Labberton

We believe that she had the best of intentions, but that she just became overwhelmed with the number of cats and the cost of cat food and medicine for the cats.

Louie Anderson

One time, I came off stage and a guy named Roman Decare, God rest his soul, he was a comic. 'Louie, if you do that family stuff, and you're a clean comic on stage, you'll become famous.' And, for some reason, a switch clicked, and I started doing the family stuff, and it became a giant part of my life.

Luke Nosek

As I became a venture capitalist, it's almost like I went to the dark side for a while.

Li Bingbing

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

Mark Harmon

I used to hang out in my dad's workshop on weekends. Later, when I was starting out as an actor, I became a roofer and a framer to make money. But what I really enjoyed was the finished work. I like the longevity.

Michael Ende

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on.

Louis Malle

I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie.

Drew Goddard

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

Bakhtiar Amin

About 150 families were killed, and hundreds of families were deported from there, and they destroyed the village, they destroyed the orchards,

Richard Lobb

Any flock ... with avian influenza will be destroyed on the farm.

Avery Johnson

A very disappointing loss, a disappointing way to end our road trip. Their point guards destroyed us. It's that simple. They destroyed us.

Dale Brown

Destroyed it. Wiped it out. It's not there.

John Elliot

A plane is totally destroyed and more than 50 percent of the passengers have survived, ... a miracle.

Dan Grossman

The Senate took the fine work Rep. May did in the House of Representatives and destroyed it.

Jim Boyd

I've always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that I think I'm the superstar, because I know that ego has destroyed many a poker career.

Bradley Horowitz

We always felt that being unbiased was part of the search mission, ... lets you peer over to see what everybody has got.

Jarvis Herring

We've always been known as a soft program, a finesse program -- all about speed, whatever. We're just trying to go out and show everybody this isn't the Gators that you're used to looking at. We're trying to show them that we're really tough and that we're really going to go out and play.

Earl Calloway

We've all been saying it and that's what we want to do. Everybody in the locker room, the coaches, coach, everyone, we all have the same goal and that's to find a way to finish strong in the Big Ten and still get in the NCAA Tournament.

Rocky Long

We struggled with Texas Tech's offense, and everybody has, because they spread you sideline to sideline. It's tough to defend.

London Fletcher

We stress everybody staying in their gap responsibility, ... and also getting off blocks. We have to do a better job of disengaging from blocks.

John Adams

We still print out all our job tickets, even though it?s all online. Everybody needs print, from restaurants to the mechanic down the street.

Bob Hilmer

We're in position to be competitive for the next few years. But we know it won't be easy. We know we will be a target for everybody else.

Randy Perkins

We started off slow, but this is no one-man team. Everybody can do a little of everything.

Manny Diaz

We started off as a very individualistic program where everybody was doing their own thing, but we've come a long way and we're starting to play as a team. I'm very proud of them.

Barnett Newman

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

Matt Hasselbeck

We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense.

Stan Clark

We always felt we did the proper thing.

Shirley Manson

We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing.

Lisa Gansky

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

Ledawn Gibson

We started off kind of sluggish. I felt like we could've come out better to play, but after we made some adjustments we were able to get things going.

Petr Sykora

We have to finish the season on a good note. It doesn't matter what the outcome of the game is, but we have to feel good about ourselves. I don't think we felt like that tonight. We have a lot of guys who are injured so we need to get healthy and ready.

Michelle Williams

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I felt Nigeria didn't have to succumb to the image of being a corrupt country; we didn't have to let the economy stagnate.

Ruud Lubbers

We are preparing for a massive relief operation,

Deutsche Bank

There would be a massive period of uncertainty.

Rick Phillips

This is not like a Fishers or Carmel redistricting. This is not a massive redo.

Ed Sheeran

I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.

Erin Richards

I've always been a massive fan of Batman. He didn't have any powers, so it meant that anyone could be Batman.

Judah Friedlander

I'm a massive Steven Seagal fan. I know his movies are horrible, but I've watched all of them over and over again. I'd want to do a movie with him and Van Damme.

Jose Pena

I was struck by all of the victims and the massive destruction.

Robert Jones

Gavin is a massive personality in rugby circles. He has to be whiter than white to prevent the sort of outcry we are seeing now.

Paul Sergeant

May will be a massive month for Cardiff and Wales.

Chico Hamilton

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

Chico Hamilton

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

Chico Hamilton

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

Chico Hamilton

I don't dig staying in one groove.

Chick Corea

It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what Kind of Blue did.

Chick Corea

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.

Edith Wharton

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Eddie Murphy

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

Eddie Izzard

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Chris Colfer

I could never rap, personally. I can't even wrap presents.

Dee Dee Ramone

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.

Dee Dee Ramone

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

Dee Dee Ramone

I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

Dee Dee Ramone

Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.

Dee Dee Ramone

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

Bill O'Reilly

When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.

Cass McCombs

I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

Carlos Mencia

When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called rappers

Herbie Hancock

When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where the most interesting stuff is.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Christine Hudacko

They have all the time in the world to reach that point.

Tom Duxbury

There's at least one more we could reach for another flyby.

Rush Limbaugh

Do you think if there was any real evidence, we would have reached a settlement?

Rick Wagoner

These negotiations were done in a positive, cooperative, problem-solving spirit, ... While it may have taken some time to reach this cooperative solution, I think it was time well-spent.

Nizar Hamdoon

The only way to try to reach out ... is if the American administration sits down and talks with the Iraqis.

Jane Soepardi

This second round will take a week ... but on this second day we have already received reports (of) reaching around 70 percent. We are optimistic.

Brad Smith

We don't understand how they can reach these conclusions, because they haven't read or reviewed these documents.

Audre Lorde

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

Ato Essandoh

I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.

Antonis Samaras

We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat.

Denis Leary

When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.

Denis Leary

Julieanne Smolinksi has a history in rock journalism and she's a huge rock 'n' roll fan, and she was a huge fan of Ava (Elaine Hendrix) and Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies) and of the actresses. I was really lucky to get her, in between seasons on Grace and Frankie.

Dee Snider

You can't stop rock-n-roll!

Dee Dee Ramone

I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.

Chad Kroeger

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

Cassie Steele

A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands. I listen to a lot of underground stuff like jungle music.

Rachel Brosnahan

It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'

Kenneth Clarke

They suddenly thought they had someone with the X-factor.

Bill Xia

It's not that suddenly we did something new.

Lynsey Addario

Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.

J. F. Powers

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

Gary Jones

Suddenly you've got this big-screen, movie-screen, home-theater experience, wherever you are.

Rob Babcock

We can't get him unless he suddenly turns into a minimum-salary guy,

Khandi Alexander

There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.

Sam Worthington

I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

Candice Wiggins

It's all about going out and being as competitive as you can and wanting to win.

Pat Riley

I've been wanting him for a long time. Now that I've got him, I can't take him off the court.

Al Gooden

You never get used to it. It is a traditional thing wanting to get down here.

Brad Meltzer

The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?

Bobby Womack

Leave them wanting more and you know theyll call you back.

Jarome Iginla

We're about wanting to be in your face. We want to be aggressive. That's how we play this game.

Viggo Mortensen

I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

Michael Taylor

I'm always wanting to score. I want to win the game.

Ron Gardenhire

I can't see Rad not wanting to go out there.