Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Ridout

The most shocking thing about this is the reforms we were looking for were so modest. They were nothing more than bringing cell phone companies in line with the standards that consumers expect in their other commercial interactions.

Janet Hubbell

The real focus here is bringing some sort of order.

Jeff Evans

My teaching is by way of starting out with something small, bringing it big and then bringing it back locally,

Tisha Hill

You just got to keep coaching them. You see the talent, you see what they are bringing to practice each day.

David Frank

I think we're OK. We're going to look at bringing some kids in.

Bob Colarossi

It's bringing a world-class sporting event right to the streets of their city that's free.

Troy Thompson

It was nice to get those late runs, but we certainly had a number of other opportunities in the first four innings. Bringing our runners home is something we will continue to work on.

Narendra Modi

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

Leo McDonnell

A lot of it is just bringing our perspective to town and building relationships.

John Glover

Deep Space Nine was also fun. I was kind of hoping that they would have my character back some time. Here was a guy who felt so inadequate and he turned evil in order to get what he felt he deserved. It was such a fascinating part to play. The cast and crew were incredibly supportive and welcoming to me.

Jerry Jones

Admittedly, he was surrounded by a (great) cast. Well, now he's got a lesser cast and he went out and did the same things. I've noticed a real shift in opinion on him as we've moved through the year. And that shift is probably worth quite a lot of money.

Jethro Tull

Sand castle virtues are all swept away, in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

Ali LeRoi

We were just trying to cast a great kid that kind of embodied the idea of the character. A young kid who kind of felt put upon, who wasn't too cocky and who was a little unsure of himself.

Brian Harris

She passed our way and we are proud to have loved her. She cast a light that made our path the easier to tread.

Franz Kafka

When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away.

Mira Nair

But if I have an obsession at all, it is with hands. I love hands and I love lips. I never cast lipless actors.

Bible Bible

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

Laura Osnes

I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!

Jose Maria

As far as we can, I hope and desire that they are soon out of prison.

Robert Clarke

Our desire is to be involved in a series as we view as the pinnacle and the premier open-wheel racing series, ... and see that as maybe a priority over the need to have competition.

Alphonso Jackson

Of the families I talked to, 90% of the families have no desire to go back, ... But that's not what I'm hearing from Texas. It's a whole different perspective.

C. S. Lewis

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Janet Guthrie

It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

Deepak Chopra

Everything I desire is within me.

Roy Pittman

Discipline. Anthony has that desire to be the best.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

E. M. Forster

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

David Healy

It would be a dream come true to score and incredible to score the winner.

Carl Pettersson

It was a little easier in the dreams, ... It's nice to finish it off the way I did.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

Nido Qubein

This is a turning point for High Point University, ... Mr. Wilson's gift will enable us to fulfill many dreams and heighten our standards to new levels of excellence.

Eve Plumb

I came to acting as a sort of fluke. I really enjoy it, but I think I'm different from the people who dreamed about it.

Alanis Morissette

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

Janette Turner Hospital

Her days come and go like birds, her dreams like days.

Terry Crews

I just want to say what a tremendous honor it is to be on a show like 'The Newsroom.' I've always dreamed of being on something this important and being on a show that really resonates with a lot of very, very intelligent people in the world, and I've gained such a loyal fan base.

Bella Thorne

My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.

Peter King

Now John Kerry voted for the war and now he says that he would still vote for the war, so what's the difference?

Robert Brown

Who fished the murex up? / What porridge had John Keats?

Steve Jordan

John wanted to make a statement that night, and he was able to do that.

Melissa Peterman

If I could have a time machine, where I could go back and tell 12-year-old Melissa that someday John Schneider was going to play her ex-husband, junior high would have been so much easier. I'd have had something to go for.

Bobby Cox

Roger should have won in the low 20s this year and John should have won 18, 19 or 20.

Johnny Weir

I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Adam Lambert

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

Anne Stevenson

I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm not actually a big musical fan.

America Ferrera

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.

Michelle Branch

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

Larry Gelbart

If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.

Liza Minnelli

And I'm starting work on a musical set in New York.

Mary Lou Williams

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Aung San Suu Kyi

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

Booker T. Washington

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Bernie Sanders

During the 1999 debate over Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China President Bill Clinton said, 'In opening the economy of China, the agreement will create unprecedented opportunities for American farmers, workers and companies to compete successfully in China's market. WRONG: Our trade deficit with China has increased from $83 billion in 2001 to a record breaking $342 billion in 2014.

Rachel Bicego

We want to give the opportunity (to take classes) to everybody.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Gerry Adams

strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.

Juliette Gordon Low

Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals.

Mike Glumac

We were going pretty well there for a bit. And all of a sudden, we've been sliding. We just have to find a way to get ourselves out of it.

Albert Young

We're not putting pressure on ourselves like this is a must, must win. (Because) then we're not playing relaxed and loose. We're playing tense.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Rick McCallum

Producers don't really publicize movies.

Robert M. Pirsig

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Al Gore

that they may be returned to us safely and soon.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have to return some videotapes

Don Nickles

I ALWAYS intended to return to the private sector,

Desmond Tutu

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

David Livingstone

Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

Allison Pearson

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Harlan Coben

Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.

Russ Borman

We'll see them again, and we'd like to return the favor.

Colin Mochrie

Hi, well soon return you to the dyslexic production of Bitty Bitty Chang Chang...

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Matsuo Basho

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Brian Benson

He turned into a machine. It wasn't just one. It wasn't just two. It wasn't just three ... he was on fire.

Simon Crisford

He won't actually be three until May so we can give him time to develop.

Josh Sibley

I would have to say (our goal) is to make the top three in our league.

Robert Hickey

If we do those three things, then we will take our chances.

Wade Smith

She said they were very close. He was only three years younger than her.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

Elisabeth Harnois

Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

Aubrey Peeples

I have been told I say 'shucks' quite frequently... Shucks, I'll have to work on that.

Legislator Korce

We do not want to work off of assumptions.

Ashley Wagner

Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.