Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Tony Buzan

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

Sugata Mitra

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Sugata Mitra

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Sugata Mitra

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Ann Veneman

There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.

Rick Barnes

He is the difference in this team. We know he is going to give us everything he?s got, and he does every night he goes out there.

Carlos Rivera

He's a great person. He has helped us so much this year. You can see a difference from when I first started three years ago.

Norm Gagne

It hurts to lose. What we did, the things I didn't want to see us do, stay out of the box, and that's what killed us. The two five-on-three goals, that was the difference in the game.

Jocelyn Thibault

There is a difference but I don't think it's going to be a big deal. I have been using the new equipment since the summer. I got used to it pretty well. It will be different, but we're all on the same playing field.

Charles Haynes

There is a difference between what is required and what is the right thing to do.

Noah Hawley

There is a difference between movie actors and TV acting, especially with movie stars, which is they know their face is 20 feet high on the screen. They know they don't have to do much.

MaChelle Joseph

We talked about the fact that rebounds would be the difference in the game. We were getting out-rebounded at halftime and to finish the rebound with over 50 rebounds just says so much about our heart, effort and determination.

Fred Jones

What you saw was the difference between a veteran team and a young one like ours. The veteran teams do the right things down the stretch to win games. They make the right decisions. We're young and we didn't do the things it takes to win.

Doc Rivers

I thought the difference in the game was that we had two turnovers in the second half, after going for a record it felt like in the first half. We scored 29 points off of turnovers ourselves and that is why we won the game.

Patty Krueger

Knowing when you are done, knowing when you are through with the entire painting, is the hardest thing to learn.

Jerry Sullivan

His versatility and value to the offense can't be overstated. If he were healthy for the entire season, even as inconsistent as we were in the pass game, Arnaz would probably have been a 60- to 70-catch guy.

Delia Ephron

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Patrick Moore

It hurts not having Lips in there. But the entire field goal team has got to get better.

Kari Appler

I think the entire state of Maryland and D.C. within the next two years will be smoke-free.

Harrison Ford

I was always very grateful I was never 'hot,'... In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the hottest, the No. 1, the most adored. I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

Mike Schmidli

We took up the entire space (of the old Grand Wayne Center). All the side rooms, every inch of it. So now we're all in one area. So much nicer and it's great.

Mike Wallace

What you're saying is that you were a living steroids experiment for your entire career,

Wayne Butler

I think that, with six fish, we?re going to make it through the entire summer without a problem. But whether we make it all the way through (this year)? I?d say we have a 40-60 chance.

Eric Schlosser

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Allen Johnson

We've been told they have to be 'completely self-sufficient,' ... so they have to take their own food, water and clothing. There is no local support.

Thomas Armstrong

When they see the Spirit of Connecticut coming, they'll know they're going to get good food coming.

Truman Capote

First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

Roald Amundsen

A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.

Samuel Hoffenstein

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

Sally Schneider

Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.

Roger Ebert

What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

Dave Clark

He's a big kid, but he has great reflexes. He can come out of goal. He has great hands and a solid goal kick.

Brian Henderson

I think it's a realistic goal for us, too.

Mike Thibault

I think the maturity of going through last hear helps us. We need to come out and get ready to go right away. We've been through it now two years in a row. This is our goal when we started out and now we're here to go about it.

Bill Donabedian

We're on track to hit our goal of 50,000 people.

Marian Gaborik

We've got to try to find more ugly goals out there.

Mike Ryn

We've got to score some goals on the power play. That's part of the reason we were winning; we were getting a goal here and a goal there.

Bobby Clark

I think at the moment he's just been establishing himself as the goalkeeper, now he has got to become a leader, ... I think its really important that a goalkeeper does become a leader in the backfield and I think it's something he's starting to realize and something he's really starting to work on.

John Ashcroft

It is our goal to return parts of the Iraqi people's past. In doing so, we hope to return pieces of the Iraqi people's future.

Christy Setzer

It is our goal to hold him accountable. He's (in) leadership, and he's also been in office a very long time with minimal opposition.

Greg Martin

Ground radar from time to time is subject to interference from outside sources. There's nothing wrong with the radar. There's nothing wrong with the relays. Planes aren't disappearing. There's still information on the screen.

Tanit Phoenix

I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.

Brian Kelly

I thought our first day went really well. We are at a point now where we are not going to take a step back just because we lost our quarterback from last year. We needed to hit the ground running and I was pleased with how these young quarterbacks prepared themselves.

Dwyane Wade

I really couldn't even see it and I hit the ground hard, always hit the ground hard.

Steve Pitstick

The ground is just perfect. It's not too wet, and it's not too dry.

Jaspher Ombati

The incident happened when students, who were protesting at night, were attacked. Officers are on the ground investigating the case.

Keating Holland

The tripwire for the administration may be as they see support for ground troops growing, that may be only ground troops with no casualties,

Michael Vick

Oh, I was scared, man, because my knee hit the ground so hard, ... I was just holding it, hoping that it wasn't as serious as I thought. I was just thankful that it wasn't serious.

Chris Quinn

It's a long season. It's important to stay grounded through the highs and the lows.

Colin Powell

has the interest of the Haitian people at heart.

P. J. O'Rourke

Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.

Laurent Lamothe

The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well.

Katherine Dunham

For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.

Ben Fountain

Eruptions of talent continue to happen in Haiti, in spite of everything.

Mark Kurlansky

A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

Sufjan Stevens

I think it just helps us to feel kind of unified,

Marcus Spears

I think it helps us a lot to know we can be better than we were, ... and we still played effectively.

Bobby Smith

It ain't easy. When you can't do what you want to do on the field, it's tough. But I still want to be able to help out the team.

Bouna Ndiaye

He wants to play for the Lakers, and I think he can help the Lakers. We can wait for the Lakers for about a week to make a decision. He has high interest from teams in Europe. But Ronny wants to play for the Lakers.

A. Hodge

He wants to do whatever it takes to help the team win a championship, whether it's two rebounds or whatever. That's admirable. We know it's going to be a process.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He wants to be helping his team. Let's just leave it at that.

Doug Mitchell

He did everything he could to help this team succeed.

Stephen Jones

He can really help solidify our offensive line. We needed some flexibility there as well.

Neal Hersh

Kim is respectful of what the judge did and she's pleased with today. We're hopeful this will be the end of it.

Felipe Alou

He is the only pitcher I went (behind the cage) to see. I hope he didn't mind that.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be in the middle and hopefully we'll let him work his way toward the back.

Dan Svirbly

His year didn't end the way we hoped it would. He got down here for the second time and won a match again, he just couldn't quite get to the podium.

Mike Ackerman

I thought the team started out strong for their first game. I hope it will keep going from here.

Larry Finucane

I think we will improve. I hope we will, but we haven't really done anything yet.

Adam Greene

It got our attention. Before that, in our minds we weren't sure if we'd make it. It made me want to make it a lot more. I can't speak for the others, but I hope it worked the same for them.

John Kinsey

I think this is something we live with on a day-to-day basis, unfortunately, and hope that when we get these violent swings they provide an opportunity for longer term investors.

Arlen Specter

It is my hope that the president will now send us a nominee for Justice O'Connor's spot in the mold of Judge Roberts,

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Robert Venturi

Main Street is almost alright.

Kip Winger

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Tanya Lysacek

Our main role is to be supportive caregivers and parents.

Richard Goodfellow

Our main priority is to get our staff working, and that is what we are seeking to do.

E. B. White

Our main goal, obviously, was to get sanctioned in Nevada,

Nicky Hilton

Our main demographic is 12 (years old) to 30 (years old), but I've had women in their 50s come to my signing wearing pieces from the collection.

John Mueller

His main pitch will be that you're safer with us than with the other guys.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Scott Chandler

You can't really worry about it. It's nothing that's going to keep me from sleeping at night.

Ted Purdy

Sleeping on a lead? I'll let you know tomorrow.

Venus Williams

I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.

Zach Duke

I'm not unhappy or anything. It's a business. It's kind of a rite-of-passage type of thing.

Man Ray

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

Louise Brown

I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here.

Karin Slaughter

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

Keira Knightley

Prince William definitely isn't my type, he's too horsey-looking.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

Chris McAlister

No sacks, no turnovers. That's not our type of football.

Chris Mack

That's not a 3-point shot, but it's a game-clinching type rebound.