Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlo Panunzi

Anyhow, it is not a very important business and mainly active in Europe.

Anthony Marra

A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.

Jonathan Galaviz

Asia is home to the fastest growing market in terms of consumers that are able to participate in casino gaming activity due to their increasing levels of disposable income.

Paul Aussaresses

As for torture, it was tolerated if not actively encouraged, ... He (the emissary) knew exactly what went on during the night.

Chris Claremont

As for the first-arc villains, there are five and they represent the most dangerous adversaries any X-team has ever faced. Like Uncanny X-Men, New Excalibur is the story of people thrown together by fate and wild circumstance who find their way to true and lasting friendship. They aren't out to save the world, merely to help folks cope with the mess it's in. They may act like grumps from time to time but when you come to their door, they'll almost always make you welcome.

Stephen Harper

As a government, our mission is clear. We will act on the collective priorities of Canadians so that our country remains strong, independent and free.

Joyce Bickers

As always, there are things to work on, but I am seeing the players incorporating things we work on in practice into the matches, whereas before they would work on it in practice, but never attempt in an actual game. These players are growing with each play and getting stronger and stronger and more confident.

Gia Coppola

As a first-time director, you act a lot like a teenager. I made decisions because I was hotheaded. My skin broke out. I was trying to understand who I am.

Thomas Carlyle

As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

Jack King

We have approved giving them this money, but if they can't get the improvement district together the project won't go forward.

Kofi Annan

Blix until now has been guided by approved Security Council resolutions. If the council were to pass a new resolution giving him fresh guidelines, he will have to factor that in before he continues with his work, which will be up to the council ... to determine what the next stage will be.

Jane Walsh

Council approved a whole slough of information around green roofs, one of which is that there be an incentive program, on a pilot basis that would provide incentives up to $10 a foot for green roofs.

Jason Crowell

The original measure did not go far enough to stop eminent domain abuses, but my version that was approved today in committee is the strongest pro-property-owner legislation to come before the legislature this year.

Chuck D.

The record is not only clear, it's public. ... (The trading plans) provide for pre-arranged sales of stock over a six-month period. These plans are typical for senior executives of public companies and the plans were approved by the company's board of directors.

Gloria Borger

This vote today in committee means that Judge Roberts will be voted on on the Senate floor next week, possibly on Thursday, and he is all but certain to be approved by a majority larger than 60 votes,

Gary Buehler

We are very aware that many, many people are waiting for more generics to be approved and that there is frustration about the backlog.

Craig McCracken

Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me.

Richard Wagner

Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.

Jason Ricci

Cody and Luther were kids in high school who used to come to the juke joint and sit in the corner, petrified of interacting. But I didn't look at Junior and R.L. as giant heroes of the blues. I looked at them as living continuations of Fred McDowell and John Lee Hooker and guys like that. It was a cultural experience for me.

Simon Rattle

The situation is catastrophic. I can see the hopeless situation of the city... this cultural dismantling is an incredible shame for Berlin.

David Harsanyi

A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.

Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

I have strong interests in supporting sport, primarily football, and also in developing cultural relationships within national communities and their diasporas, with special reference to Ethiopia.

Johnathan Frakes

I didn't know anything about the original Star Trek outside of the fact that it was a cultural phenomenon.

Ang Lee

I was nervous last time, likely because I shouldered a cultural mission for reinvigorating the Chinese-language film industry back then.

Mira Nair

Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.

Stephen Perkins

It's a side of museums that many people don't see and sometimes don't understand when they see it in your budget. It's something that happens out of the way and it's not flashy but we're ensuring the long-term health of the cultural legacy of the area.

Mark Harrison

It pulls kids from every peer group, of every cultural background.

Elliot Washington

The third quarter, we had energy and played. But you can't turn the water faucet on and off.

Tom Glavine

The thing that stuck out about him was his energy and enthusiasm when he played. He was a fun guy to watch.

Matt Doherty

The thing about New Orleans is that you step out of your hotel and you feel the energy and see the fans decked out in school colors, ... And then of course, after the game you knew you had a place to celebrate.

Juan Flores

I've loved soccer all my life. I've seen many leagues in Houston, and now I get to come home and see it here. The energy and the fans screaming was just great.

Christina Sims

I use to worry all the time about being ultra organized. I had to figure out where I was going to get the energy to do everything so things are a little different than when he left. After being in Iraq, I don't think he is going to worry about it if there is a stack of papers sitting here.

Kobe Bryant

I wanted to come out in the third quarter and provide some energy and the shots started falling.

Yoshinori Ono

a fresh start, new energy and opening a new era ... to improve peace and security.

Lex Bouwmeester

The oil price remains high and that might help energy companies. Otherwise, it's a mixed picture.

Johnnie Burton

The offshore energy industry has compiled an outstanding safety record that allows development of these resources without significant risk to the environment.

Brad Little

Your keeping the rich rich and the poor poor,

Miley Cyrus

I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!

Robert Holsworth

At the end of the day, people thought keeping things going on the same track was more important than electing a Republican. In that way, the natural tilt of the state (favoring Republicans) was overcome.

Marlinda Martinez

Losing weight is usually at the top of everyone's resolution list, and keeping it off is the challenge.

Martin Brassil

He's great. We'll do very little work with him now, it's just a matter of keeping him ticking over.

George Orwell

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

Frank Warren

Trade your secrets and become who you are.

George Bernard Shaw

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Brad Ranson

I think we got the cobwebs out in the second quarter. At first, we were a little nervous. I thought the key was the second quarter, getting up by a big 10 points and just keeping the lead throughout the game.

Andy Reid

We limited his reps, but the reps he was in there, he did a nice job. He worked it today (Thursday) and we've got to see if the swelling stays out.

Paul LePage

We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can to be self-sufficient.

Mark Perry

We have a very substantial and loyal limited partner group.

Margaret Gillett

Now we have space to move around in. We were pretty limited before.

Gary Becker

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

Jeff Chambers

MSU is on a limited budget. We don't have enough money to tape every athlete.

Joseph Volpe

Maybe with 'Parsifal,' because it's only three performances and a limited rehearsal time, we'll be able to get someone really good.

David Neal

HD had a limited venue two years ago. Not anymore.

Zach Duke

I just had an aggravated spot and it's kind of limited my mobility more than I expected,

Pat Robertson

Ashok means without sorrow, and he lives up to his name.

English 14th Century Proverbs

A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall.

David Kennerly

(The sitcom) touches so many people. The world would not have suffered had I not done this. This show lives on.

Donald Rumsfeld

The task is to keep at it until Americans can go through their lives without fear, ... It is a marathon, not a sprint. It will be years, not weeks or months.

Ronda Storms

This is a real victory for people in the community. And for moms and dads, and for people who are just trying to live their lives and have a neighborhood that's safe and that they can be proud of.

William Blake

Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.

Rob Pike

We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.

Carol Nelson

There is no such thing as closure. My son lives in my heart. I see him in my other children.

Kathleen Blanco

We know that many lives have been lost.

Dito Montiel

Sometimes I find some movies patronizing, which I feel is the ultimate crime.

Michael Gowell

Tell me about a movie you saw and you tell me nothing about the movie but everything about yourself.

Allison Anders

I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.

Melanie Griffith

I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.

Josie Bissett

I've sort of mellowed out. It used to be: I want to be a star, do big movies. Now, being married, it's like the reasons I wanted to do that seem the wrong reasons. I want to have kids.

Alexandra Cassavetes

I've noticed that when people make vampire movies, they're always determining which of the rules they're going to stick to and which they'll abandon.

Golshifteh Farahani

The subjects that I am working are movies that say something. They are shouting or criticising something. I would hate to play a princess waiting for the prince to come and give her a kiss.

Eugene Levy

tons of movies are shot in Toronto, but Toronto is never Toronto.

John Woo

To be honest, I don't have much time to watch any movies.

Jay Grymes

Normal rainfall is not what we need. We need a wet spell.

Abdul Aziz

Now I can sell latex at normal prices.

Jeff Wangsness

You're going to see some real challenging-type stunts, more so than they normally would do.

Miley Cyrus

I don't have a normal life.

Carnie Wilson

We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal.

Brian Eno

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

Edward Snowden

The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.

Stockard Channing

I lead a very boring, normal life.

Thomas Kuhn

No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all. Nor do scientists normally aim to invent new theories, and they are often intolerant of those invented by others.

Patrick Rothfuss

It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.

Charles Freeman

Stop Undermining My Constitutional Right to Represent Myself.

Kesha Rogers

I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.

Eddie Guardado

I wanted to represent my country. It's an honor.

Robert Klein

They do not come to represent those institutions.

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

Greg Aiello

This is not a result of any specific threat.

Ben Hatfield

We are very discouraged by the results of this test.

John Thorne

The result was very predictable: Nothing. They went back to the Braves.

Will Herring

What that was a result of, I don't know. But whatever it was, we're going to get it fixed.

Rafael Benitez

We will wait to see the result of the scan.

Peter Drucker

Leadership is all about getting results.

Peter Drucker

Results is all that separates one company from another.

N. T. Wright

The gospel is not itself about you are this sort of a person and this can happen to you. That's the result of the gospel rather than the gospel itself.

John Wooden

Be more concerned with what you can do for others than what others can do for you. You’ll be surprised at the results.

Gary Collins

She told me she was thinking seriously about it.

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

Jim Gillespie

We're not going to be taken seriously if we speak or we may not have a voice at all,

Denise Monteiro

The social worker told her there was hope.

Connie Smith

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

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

John Schneider

You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

Chuck Hagel

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

Anita Roddick

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

Rob Portman

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

Rob Lowe

As far as my work for causes or social issues, that's something I'm doing as a private citizen.

Shannon Bennett

The more a punter spends the better value they are getting.

Matt Mullenweg

I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Keanu Reeves

On his new motorbike: I wanted to spend some time with it and get to know it.

Steve Prentice

More than ever, what we spend on is more important than how much we spend.

Brad Smith

If we need to spend more money, we will spend more money.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

Cheryln Bennett

If you make a little money, you spend it on other things (for artwork).