Famous Quotes & Sayings

Linda Hamilton

Coach McBride's wife . . . you don't see too many women, from another race, to be hugging a big, old black guy like me,

Gene Cathcart

Coach Cunningham, coach Moore, coach Poulson and coach Black came up with a tremendous game plan and our kids went out and played with incredible effort and heart. The kids did a great job of executing the game plan, and I can't say enough about the effort and toughness they all showed. This is the kind of defense that championship teams are built on.

Alphonso Jackson

The so-called black leaders of this nation have convinced a large portion of the black community that blacks aren't capable of self-advancement.

Lesli Priebe

The team got together and decided to dedicate the state tournament to John. We will be wearing black armbands on our uniforms in his honor. This is such a tragedy. He touched all our lives with his writing. He will definitely be missed.

Charles Gittins

The superintendent does not want Lieutenant Black to have a fair trial.

Harold Evensky

The special-needs cases are more tragic in some ways, but they can be simpler conceptually, ... Because it's more black and white. But the ones that are gray are where you have disparate incomes.

David Lubell

The South was just black and white (people) 10 or 15 years ago. Latinos are just getting past the issue of survival and starting to get organized.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.

Paul Dergarabedian

The themes Tyler Perry presents resonate very strongly with the black community. It reminds me of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' It has elements of comedy and drama and community that just definitely works.

Jenji Kohan

A TV touchstone for me is 'The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.' That series was whimsical and smart and had the mix of comedy and drama that I now trade in - but with a dash of magical realism. I wanted to be Molly Dodd, but more than that, I wanted to be Jay Tarses, who created the show.

Melissa McCarthy

At some point in the past, it was decided that women in comedy are never supposed to be shown in an unflattering light. But in comedy, you need all of your tools to be funny.

Mark Waters

Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.

Ray William Johnson

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

Mitch Hedberg

Sometimes I wave to people I don't know. It's very dangerous to wave to someone you don't know, because what if they don't have a hand? They'll think you're cocky. 'Look what I got... This thing is useful. I'm gonna go pick somethin' up.'

Reese Witherspoon

Romantic comedy has really evolved since that time when there used to be a lot of social conventions and all sorts of reasons why people couldn't be together,

Christy Romano

It would be a half-hour comedy that would really showcase my personality so my fans could get to know me. And I'd love to keep working with ABC.

Roberto Benigni

This is an homage to the master, because I love this movie, and, of course, making a movie -- a comedy about concentration camp, I watched this movie a lot of time,

Douglas Muzzio

This is really a comedy of errors and missteps for the candidate, the party, the consultants, everybody. Everybody wants an opponent like these guys.

Chet Culver

As a lifelong Iowan who has been a farmer, a registered nurse, a small businesswoman, a state senator and secretary of agriculture, Patty has spent her life devoted to her community and her state.

Jen Schlegel

Our theme is, ?Every walker counts in a community that cares,? because a walk like this shows the number of people who do care. I think the numbers speak loudly and are overwhelming that this is a great place to live.

Albert Morris

The National Medical Association is positioned to really provide the type of resources this community could use,

Henry Giroux

Democracy as a promise means that society can never be just enough and that the self-reflection and struggles that enable all members of the community to participate in the decisions and institutions that shape their lives must be continually debated, safeguarded, and preserved at all costs.

Georg Petersen

Definitely the whole international community is very much present,

Wilson Nolan

Despite the potential benefits, there are community concerns that we need time to address. This is too large and complicated a project to rush off the drawing board.

Jody Gates

Despite the challenges, Hall was enthusiastic about discussing improvements to the train depot, canopy and platform, ... He also e-mailed pictures of other community projects.

Gregory Schulte

Despite North Korea's threats and provocations, the international community maintained its resolve and solidarity.

Vojislav Kostunica

Despite the victory of democratic forces in Yugoslavia and its opening up to the world, the international community is not fulfilling its obligation to Yugoslavia.

John Wells

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

Mark Durante

Of the duo, I?m definitely more nervous and uptight. He?s normally relaxed. In fact, he sometimes tells me to go away so he can stay focused.

Charlie Adams

Offense, defense, special teams, he doesn't care. If he sees something he doesn't like, he's going to definitely let you know about it. You've got to have guys like that on your team.

David Barrett

Oh, he's definitely gotten better, he's making more and more plays,

Nell Carter

No question about it: I just didn't want the disease - but I definitely needed to hear about it.

Chris Griffin

After the first round, everybody's won a game, so we'll definitely play a high-quality team -- no matter who it is.

Josh Logan

After 'Rock Star,' I was definitely doing more high profile gigs. I was playing in Iceland. I was playing in Canada.

David Jones

Once the security cordon is lifted, people will be ready to go back. This is definitely not the end of our protest.

Ian Kinsler

Actually, it's pretty enjoyable. Playing in a new place every year you get to experience something new, and in this game you definitely don't want to go back to where you were the year before.

Brian Blessed

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

Channing Tatum

Comedy doesn't come easy for me. I've only done 2 movies that are really comedy-style films and I have to work at them. And they're just as scary in a way. I hate labeling all these things; comedy, love stories, dark drama, whatever.

Jane Addams

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

Desi Arnaz

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

Delta Goodrem

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

Clive Standen

With period dramas, it's very easy to get excited because I love to do them. I'm a history nut and I love to immerse myself in the research.

Brady Corbet

Basically, if I ever went and worked on a crime drama or something, it was usually just for the work.

Bruce Greenwood

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

Diane Kruger

I consider myself a 'local' actor in France. I started out in France, I went to drama school in France and the French film community was very welcoming to me when I was a young actress.

Herbie Hancock

Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz and have incorporated by sampling some elements that come from jazz.

Erik Solheim

The big risk are spoilers who want to produce violence to undermine this positive effort. At the moment the parties should do their utmost to stop violence, but they should not let violent elements and spoilers derail the process.

Bob Wise

There will be set modifications and different graphic elements from what we do.

Dennis Quaid

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

William Cullen Bryant

To me it seems that one of the most important requisites for a great poet is a luminous style. The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man.

Dorothy L. Sayers

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

Debbie Harry

In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.

Danny Strong

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

Daniel Dennett

Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the fact that the very tradition to which they are so loyal—the "eternal" tradition introduced to them in their youth—is in fact the evolved product of many adjustments firmly but delicately made by earlier lovers of the same tradition.

Elisa Zied

Other healthful options include fish, a great source of Omega 3 fatty acids, and beans, nuts, and seeds.

Victoria Chan

The more fat tissue there is in the buttock, the less likely the needle will reach the muscles underneath that fat.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Brandon Boyd

Put down your hollow tips and kiss your lovers lips and learn that fate is what you make of it

Confucius

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, ''I shall today be uppermost.''

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Ben Okri

The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Barbara Kingsolver

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

Socrates

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

Donald Kagan

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.

Anaxagoras

Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate.

Simone Weil

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

Rick Riordan

I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Holla Mayne!

Rick Riordan

The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.

Rumi

Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love

Stephen Fry

The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that you can say well yes, all right, if there is going to be god or gods then you have to admit that they're very at the very least capricious. They're certainly not consistent. They're certainly not all loving.

Thomas Szasz

The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms.

China Anne McClain

On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.

John Gandy

I feel very strongly that we are in the driver's seat.

Jim Doyle

I feel very strongly that that's not where we should be going with this,

Bill Thomas

I have supported him in this campaign. Throughout our careers, we have strongly disagreed on cases. I don't think we've ever disagreed this much.