Famous Quotes & Sayings

Burn Gorman

I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Empire' and 'Hot Dog' had great reviews, and finally he's been accepted as the new Bond. So many millions go into that franchise that if you make a mistake, it's awful.

Richard Boucher

What we're trying to do now is get the parameters accepted in a way where the reservations are reconcilable and, therefore, we know that both sides are in a position to negotiate seriously.

Jim Wilkinson

Secretary Rice asked him to stay but he felt it was time for new challenges. She reluctantly accepted his resignation but told him to keep his uniform ready.

Walter Brisken

I always knew he was interested in engineering, and in what I was doing, but he surprised me by calling me to say he had accepted a job here.

Shannon Currier

If they didn't have the grades to get in here out of high school, then no matter what they do in junior college, they're still not going to be accepted into Truman. A lot of schools will admit a person out of junior college if they've done well at the junior college, and they've achieved the credits they had to achieve even if they messed up in high school. That's the difference.

Winston Churchill

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Helen Clark

I have left it there. I accepted the pilot's apology when it was offered to me.

Chen Shui-bian

I have accepted his resignation. He has stepped down after accomplishing his job.

Dick Cheney

I have accepted his decision with deep regret.

Steve Largent

Spectrum is the life blood of wireless, and by putting it to its highest and best use we are creating enormous economic opportunity because we are allowing the American consumer to access the most innovative and modern wireless services.

Ron Moody

Public access to public land is the focal point

Mary McDowell

Enterprises face increasing challenges when it comes to selecting devices, enabling access to e-mail and securing corporate data, while carriers are facing more and more complexity to support these demands.

Bob Egan

Enterprises and consumers alike have an insatiable appetite for network access availability, speed and quality. This is an important move by a company who is very serious about raising the industry bar and meeting the important and dynamic requirements of its business and consumer constituencies.

Tom Eid

Enterprise information access technologies are entering a new phase of deployment and use.

Craig McDonald

Enron depends upon government policies to enhance their bottom line in lots of ways, ... The company relies upon this kind of access to government.

Barbara Petersen

E-mail is a preferred form of communication for government agencies around the state now. We have problems getting access to e-mail all over the state.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty.

Christos Cotsakos

E*Offering is another step in our journey toward democratization of the financial services markets. It means more access to the public financial markets for individuals and a far more cost-effective service model for emerging companies that now can have better control over their most important asset -- their company's shares.

Tessa Thompson

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

Robb Felton

As soon as we left the house, I grabbed the dogs and I got a bag of dog food and said 'we're not going anywhere without them'.

David Colburn

Did Case say anywhere that it was a close call?

Mark Martin

When you consider there were 991 teams from throughout the state, coming anywhere in the top five or ten is a great honor and we came in third. It says something about the quality of our kids.

Bobby Johnson

We were 30 miles from the Georgia line, so we were over there all the time, ... It was the same thing at Furman. We had more Georgia players than from anywhere else.

Buzz Hargrove

I'm not very optimistic at this point. The big thing is the demand on jobs that they have, on outsourcing our jobs .Ê.Ê. to anywhere in the world that can do it cheaper.

Brad Soderberg

I'm not surprised by the way these kids are. When I recruited them I knew that these were special kids. I just prayed that we could get them to commit. And how excited I am that we're going to have them for more years. The fact that they're poised when it matters ... over the course of the season those two guys have done incredible things. When you look at them as a pair, I challenge you to find a freshman combination anywhere that's doing the things they're doing.

Marvin Lewis

I'm happy with where we are. We're in a situation where we don't have a void anywhere in players. We continue to cycle through the players from old to young. We continue with the development of our guys and go through it that way.

Dan Bailey

I'm constantly looking for developments anywhere in San Antonio. I believe in this city, ... The genuine sincerity of this town is what's attracted us to do business here.

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Lon Buchheit

She's a natural born leader. She knows what needs to be done and how to do it.

Gary Murphy

She's a natural born leader for us. I thought that bucket helped us to get (the momentum) back our way.

Joe Girardi

Since high school I've wanted to do this. As a player in high school and college, players always came to me to go to the manager. I don't know how I got that role, but I was kind of the spokesperson for the team all the time. I enjoyed it. I enjoy the competition, and I love studying the game. I think that's why I was born to manage.

Judy Davis

I had quite a repressed childhood. I was born in '55 and by the mid '60s it was still very much a sort of '50s mentality there, being so remote. I just found it stifling. And at some point - I think I was about 12 - I came to the conclusion that it was going to be difficult to survive that little society somehow intact.

Deborah Eisenberg

I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided up into these discrete humans and that your physical self, your physical attributes, your moment of history and the place where you were born determine who you are as much as all that indefinable stuff that's inside of you.

Jason Burke

I feel extremely fortunate to be able to lead this squadron, ... My oldest daughter was born in Meridian and my family just loves it here.

Ruby Rose

I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy.

Mary Crosby

I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas.

Tony Benn

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

Pat Rogers

He is entitled to a protection of his legal rights and a protection of his reputation.

Brownie McGhee

Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me.

Bob Ward

Alisa is starting to feel more comfortable in the point guard role. She's doing a much better job of finding her scoring opportunities and finding teammates. The big thing was we settled down in the second half after rushing things too much in the first half.

Arundhati Roy

The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably... in the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again.

Maria Semple

My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.

Terri Mitchell

We didn't let their runs shake us. It was 40 minutes of finding a way to win, and we did.

Chris Cooney

She seems to have a knack for finding loopholes for herself.

Tommy Ramos

She had a hard time finding her rhythm.

Lynn Frederick

She got it going tonight. The other girls did a nice job of finding her, and she knocked the shots down.

Jonathan Miller

Since finding out what something is, is largely a matter of discovering what it is like, the most impressive contribution to the growth of intelligibility has been made by the application of suggestive metaphors

Tracy Palmer

She played well down the stretch. We just weren't finding her and she was finding the ball.

Connie Smith

This is not about me. It's just that social workers are needed. ... It really does a lot of good.

Maureen Dowd

Tweetin' ain't cheatin'.

Gore Vidal

I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

David Mamet

I don't really have a social life.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

David Sibley

They talk about Southern hospitality, but Southern hospitality has nothing on this place,

Frances Townsend

Two in South Asia, two in Southeast Asia.

Sylvia Earle

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

Juwan Simpson

I don't see what's so special about this kid.

Darin Erstad

Come on. What are you going to say about the guy? He's a special, special player.

Sara Zarr

Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.

Cliff Floyd

Nothing special - the same old Lieber. He doesn't make mistakes.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others ...

Oprah Winfrey

Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered recycled copper, makes cocktail hour extra special.

Margaret Atwood

No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Zayn Malik

My trademark saying is probably “VAS HAPPENIN?!”

Tony Kushner

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.

Daniel Handler

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Doug E. Fresh

Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ronald Reagan

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

Sherman Alexie

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

Mark Steyn

When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?

Peggy Noonan

What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition.

Marlon Wayans

I always feel that the best roles are written for white guys.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.