Famous Quotes & Sayings

Idris Elba

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Ian Mckellen

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.

Val Kilmer

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation.

Clark Gregg

When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting jobs. As I got more jobs, I was able to make my own films. That ethos of making my own work has provided me with a lot of opportunities.

Brady Corbet

After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I work with, then I can have the best sort of master class possible.

Bradley James

The post-'Merlin' era is an exciting time to look forward to. Variety is the spice of life. That's the fantastic thing about acting - all the different challenges it can provide you with. To limit yourself just to one would be foolish; therefore, I'm looking forward to different things that come my way.

Big Sean

My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master's from NYU. She wanted to be an actress, so when she graduated, she had a dream, and she started following it. She moved to New York and took acting classes with people like Denzel Washington.

Roberto Moreno

We have thousands of kids, Hispanic kids, who are at the doorstop of arguably the most extraordinary mountain recreation terrain in the United States and never participate.

Shaw Wu

Today, they're arguably the strongest company around in terms of their technology ... their customer base and their brand name.

Doug Mirabelli

It definitely had that playoff atmosphere. It was two guys, going head-to-head, that are arguably our No. 1?s right now.

Alan Trammel

It is easy to second-guess me, but it was my call. I'd like someone to give me a guarantee that David Ortiz wouldn't have done that to Nate Robertson. We're talking about someone who is arguably one of the best players in baseball.

Keating Holland

Many Americans did not watch the speech. Those who did were 2-to-1 Republican, so most were arguably already in the president's camp.

Jeffrey Logsdon

Management makes a very impressive presentation of taking this company and building what is arguably the last pure-play franchise in the filmed entertainment business. Certainly the chairman of the firm has a history of turning companies around, and there's no reason to think he won't do that here too.

Nicholas Martin

Like the city of Venice, everything has been said about August Wilson, but what demands repetition is that he's arguably the finest playwright of the second half of the last century. And that with Lorraine Hansberry, he is responsible for making the real black experience part of the American consciousness.

David Janollari

It feels to me like arguably our best move of the year.

Provost Hobson

We received more state appropriations than the previous biennium. But with growth and inflation, we arguably didn't gain funding. That left us with a seriously deteriorated student/faculty ratio.

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.

James Rubin

We have urged the government of Peru, ... to try Lori Berenson in a civilian court with full due process so that her guilt or innocence can be proven.

Gen. Hermogenes

We have uncovered a plot by coup leaders, their civilian supporters and communist insurgents to take military and government officials hostage and force the President to step down and then install a transition government.

Oscar Arias

During my administration, our desire has been to strengthen the civilian spirit of our people. Thus, we have eliminated military ranks and salutes from our civil guard.

Jemima Khan

WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the U.S. military had deliberately hidden information about systematic torture and civilian casualties, which were much higher than reported.

Husain Haqqani

willing to share power with the civilians in any meaningful way?

Michael Ratner

The President decided that he was no longer running the country as a civilian President. He issued a military order giving himself the power to run the country as a general.

Bryan Whitman

We don't target any civilians with any of our weapons. And to suggest that U.S. forces were targeting civilians with these weapons would simply be wrong.

Shyam Saran

We have been talking about a release of civilian and other prisoners, including fishermen, who are currently in the custody of Pakistan,

John Negroponte

Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years.

Gwen Moore

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.

John Ashcroft

The pending hate crime legislation in Congress is under review in the Justice Department at this time, ... We're inclined to prosecute hate crimes like this one.

Dana Perino

The appropriate members of Congress have been and continue to be informed with respect to the Terrorist Surveillance Program.

Ron Bonjean

The American people want Congress to find sincere ways to pay for Hurricane Katrina, and we are pressuring ourselves to get this done.

Nancy Pelosi

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

John Boehner

The American people know that our government's too big, and it spends too much. And they expect Congress to do something about it.

Mark Lassiter

We could not arbitrarily do this on our own. This is an issue that Congress will have to decide.

Jim Saxton

We have uncertainty resulting from international events -- the Iraq situation, as well as international terror -- while domestically, in Congress, we have done our part to create uncertainty with regard to spending policy, as well as tax policy, ... We passed some tax cuts that are going to expire, and that creates uncertainty when people plan for their future.

Larry Meyers

To let the senators know how we feel about the legislation in Congress ... It's a peaceful assembly.

Xavier Becerra

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

Pete Saco

The penalty is extremely difficult. I've been doing this for 13 years and this has to be up there as one of the toughest two or three decisions I've ever had to make. I lost a lot of sleep over the weekend about this. It wasn't fun.

Cecelia Ahern

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

Ashton Kutcher

I try to make good decisions as decisions come up.

Bill Bradley

Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.

Derek Thomas

That was the game. Seven or eight straight times the fouls were called on their end and one time on ours and we're going to the basket. It was very frustrating because I felt like the kids didn't get to make the decision of who won the game. Eleven free throws; we predicate ourselves about getting to the line and we get to the line 11 times.

Derek Thomas

That was the game, right there. I felt like the kids didn't get to make the decision to win this game on their own.

Rod Marinelli

That would be nice. He just kind of made his decision to move in a different direction. That's kind of how I left it. I wish him the very best. The thing I can tell you is, he's got terrific talent.

Jurgen Klinsmann

That was the toughest decision of my career.

Beeban Kidron

We think that there is this terrible idea that the kids are digital natives... and they know what they're doing, but all the evidence says that they're hanging around going, 'Where are you, I'm here, can I post my picture?' They're not actually writing wikis; they're not actually listening to great poets live.

Chris Crutcher

As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.

Scott Coffey

That was the strongest evidence in the case.

Russell Smith

I went to Queen's - a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was there, supposed to be somehow evidence of a higher social class.

Bob Stott

We had only circumstantial evidence tying him to the bombs. And our circumstantial evidence wasn't that good.

Tom Davies

We have to move ahead, ... There is evidence that dries up after a while.

Jay Greene

Virtually all evidence produces controversy. If it matters, it produces controversy.

Bill Schultz

Why would she have done such a thing if she knew what she was doing. She never did anything else wrong. There's no evidence she had anything to gain.

Seth Shostak

We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether life is a onetime fluke or a near-inevitable phenomenon.

Bill Fauver

Virtually all of the Olympic facilities have been totally destroyed. That mimics what's happened for the country, too.

Doug Hall

We get input from so many different sources. Within our organization we've got the facilities managers, server and network people, security, general contractors, architects.

Mark Dobson

We have not historically had a coordinated plan for the use of facilities we own.

James Rubin

Those are major sub-systems, missiles or key production facilities for missiles. So they're big and significant items.

Susan Cutter

you do find characteristically that there are a large number of industrial facilities located next to poor communities.

Keiichi Sano

I don't think we will see a big sell-off from here, because some (oil) facilities in the U.S. will not recover in the short term.

Chris Kelly

How would these people get from their nursing home to the dialysis facilities without an ambulance provided?

Mitch Browning

He was obviously a tremendous player. Normandy doesn't have the resources that a lot of public high schools have; the facilities were very poor. But he still excelled.

Al Bagnoli

He'll do more in terms of the development end, the fundraising end, the facilities end of it. He'll get more people involved.

Gail Carson Levine

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Elizabeth Warren

Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.

Janna Sampson

The only reason this plan looks reasonable is that it is scaled back from something that was fairly audacious.

David Ulevitch

If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google on a pedestal for competition, but they aren't telling users not to use OpenDNS.

Noah Baumbach

Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world.

Hassan Nasrallah

The Americans are surely mistaken if they think they can make peace without finding a real and fair solution to the Palestinian issue.

Mike Irwin

That would not be fair to Red Hook. But we have a good team.

Chris Lee

That was tough for me to get situated because I was back and forth (between positions) the whole season. Now, I'm fairly secure at defense.

John Koskinen

That will actually look fairly interesting on a T-shirt.

Gary Hart

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Gallagher

I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Vicente Fox

The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy,

Bruce Jackson

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

John C. Calhoun

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

George Pataki

We can't just throw a switch and say Indian Point is going to be safe, we have to look long-term because it will ultimately be decommissioned and we have to work aggressively now to bring in new sources of power.

Subcomandante Marcos

We have to make sure of our place in society as indigenous Indians that we have won. In Mexico, there are movements, there are revolutions and change, but for the indigenous nothing changes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Garry Marshall

I think on the first day we get there everyone will have a peak at the Indian training session to see who's there.

Clark Kellogg

I think Indiana has those things in place but not necessarily so much more than a lot of other places.

Richard Armitage

We have to seize the moment, ... probe the minds of the Pakistanis and Indians to see if there is not a way to lower the temperature.

J. Hoover

You'd like to see Indiana State a little later on in the schedule, but what are you going to do? We just have to get ourselves ready for that match. No excuses.

John Trudell

I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere.

Brad Huse

I talked with him last week. But I had no idea the Indiana thing was going down.

Byron Katie

A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.

Charlotte Bronte

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Alan Jay Lerner

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

Dean Acheson

Brains are no substitute for judgement.

Bryant H. McGill

Let your resistance, judgements, angers and fears inform you.

Brian Jacques

A little (one) can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement gets clouded. —Abbot Saxtus

Baltasar Gracian

Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.

Ayn Rand

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.

Carl Sagan

We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry; reduce domestic coercion; involve the workers more in managerial decisions; and promote genuine respect and understanding derived from an acknowledgement of our common humanity and our common jeopardy.

Ashton Kutcher

Although I considered putting my eight years of Boy Scout experience and love for our nation to the test by joining the military, I did not want to put myself in a position where I might be commanded to take the life of another, and quickly ended my flirtation with military service.

Bill Vaughan

Uganda's Constitutional Court will decide whether the military court can proceed with this trial. A nation cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law if its military tribunals ignore the orders of civilian courts.

Bill Bradley

We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty.

Bertrand Russell

The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.

Anthony Romero

The American military indefinitely detains individuals -- and tortures some of them -- and the Senate votes to strip them of their rights,

Oliver North

I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.

William Shakespeare

And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed

Bob Kane

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

Antonio Porchia

The fear of separation is all that unites.

Ed Mathey

After this weekend you will start to see some separation in the standings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

Jennifer Capriati

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

Buddy Bell

There's not a whole lot of separation between them, to be honest.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

Condoleezza Rice

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.

Maximilien Robespierre

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

C. S. Lewis

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

C. S. Lewis

The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity.’ The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story…by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it.

Catie Curtis

A road-wise folkie with a bluesy soul reminiscent of early Michelle Shocked, Melissa Crabtree is an original storyteller and performer not to be missed.

Cecelia Ahern

Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

Cecelia Ahern

She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away, she thought that a woman of that age would be so wise and knowledgeable, so settled in her life with a husband and children and a career. She had none of those things. She still felt as clueless as she had felt when she was twenty, only with a few more gray hairs and crow's feet around her eyes.

Benjamin Rush

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these little creatures were above a thousand times smaller than the smallest ones I have ever yet seen, upon the rind of cheese, in wheaten flour, mould, and the like.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise, and orderly arranged, after the manner of the copper or tin worms, which distillers use to cool their liquors as they distil over. The whole circumference of each of these streaks was about the thickness of a hair of one's head. ... all consisted of very small green globules joined together: and there were very many small green globules as well. [The earliest recorded observation of the common green alga Spyrogyra.]

Antoni Tapies

The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor does he intend to convert people by using mass communication techniques... Better than handing out all kinds of wise advice, he could show life itself; he could awake forces lying dormant in everybody. He could launch an invitation to create direct and personal experiences.