Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Carson Levine

I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

Vanessa Hudgens

My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

Colm Meaney

I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.

Denis Villeneuve

The truth is, when I started to make films, I was terrified. I had a huge difference in what I was writing in the screenplay and what was on the screen after. Sometimes there was a big gap. Now, the more I have experienced, the more I do movies, the more I feel that the dream is closer to the screen. It's coming with experience.

Zorol Barthley

The 'A' team tour is crucial and it is an opportunity for the players to move one step closer to the full international side.

Dennis Golden

That was a lot closer game than the final score would indicate, and with a new coach (Jim Goff) who was successful at Archbishop Williams and several returning players, they should be tough again.

Chris Sizemore

We have a men's shelter with 38 beds, which is much closer to full than we normally would be at this time.

Madeline Albright

We know the day is drawing closer when the community of freedom will once more encompass the pearl of the Antilles, and the hemisphere of the American democracies will be complete,

Willie Randolph

We have to win the game. He's our closer and I thought he'd come in and close it out.

James Jordan

We have the knowledge and materials to protect our water, power and sewage treatment facilities, ... It's not going to be cheap, but it would produce enormous numbers of jobs. But it will only happen if the American public conveys that we want to be taxed for this priority.

Joaquin Phoenix

You learn so much about him through his lyrics. He conveys so much with just a few lines. That was the gateway into discovering John. I feel like I found the speaking voice through the singing voice and really learned a lot about him through his music.

Marky Ramone

Joey was a true New Yorker. This honor today conveys what a monolith of talent he was.

Doug Deming

We have no gimmicks. We play pure traditional music from the heart, with an image that conveys a deep respect for the genre.

Margaret Fuller

Writing her a message that her other friends can see conveys how meaningful her friendship was, so her memory is able to stay alive.

Dr. Gottlieb

Sometimes less is more - less information, but highlighting it in a better way, sometimes better conveys important risk information.

Stephane Dujarric

The Secretary-General conveys his deepest sympathy to the families of the victims.

Jose Andres Puerta

As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities.

Peter Horbury

Even standing still, Fusion conveys a strong sense of direction.

C. S. Lewis

It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

Bertrand Russell

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

Ryan Stasik

That was so long ago, we don't think about it. We like the scene, but it's not diverse enough.

Patti Smith

New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walked down the city and heard four or five different languages simultaneously. I think that's beautiful.

Carlos Samano

Today there was a lot more diversity in the buying.

Bob Marcusse

We have a large, diverse and well-educated work force that is highly productive, and that helps.

John Largay

We have a great lineup of music. We tried to keep the theme of diverse music, universal appeal.

Ryan Hall

We have more diversity. You can't expect (English-learners) to do as well as others. Like if I went to Mexico, I would fail all their tests.

Rich Campbell

With the support of our loyal guests, we've been able to grow our offerings from a single resort in Mexico to nine diverse destinations throughout the world in 2006.

Zach Galligan

I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.

Scott Segal

For those lobbyists who immerse themselves in the substantive details, this won't be a negative thing.

Kelsey Chow

It's fun to get away from myself for a while when I take on these roles that have very different personalities from my own. I get to say things I normally wouldn't say or act in ways I normally wouldn't act. After all, such roles are more challenging because you really have to immerse yourself in the character.

Okky Madasari

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

Doona Bae

I don't know... I think I'm quite extreme... When I act, I have to immerse myself into the character... otherwise I can't act... In my private life it's the same... I think.

Dan Aykroyd

Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

Lois Lowry

Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.

Peter Cullen

I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.

Naomi Mitchison

It was as though there was a film going on inside my head, and I was watching it as it went by. I was completely immersed in this. I didn't know what was coming, but it just came.

Esme Bianco

I don't think the very fact that I'm a woman makes me suddenly more vulnerable or more inherently used and abused.

Jonathan Huie

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.We give our own meaning to time as to life.

Srikumar Rao

When you say 'I want to be an inspiring leader,' the operative phrase is 'I want.' This is inherently me-centered and self serving whether or not you recognise it. What you are really saying is 'I want to get people to do what I would like them to.' Perhaps they don't want to do that. So you have to somehow get them there.

Michael Brown

Having a moon is just inherently cool, and is something that most self-respecting planets have.

Joe Larsen

He has an inherent right to review that document.

Madhur Bhandarkar

My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.

Eliot Spitzer

Risk is inherent in the market, ... We all understand that and we thrive on that; what we don't tolerate is fraud.

Ronne Froman

She's honest. She's open. She'll tell you like it is. She has this inherent quality of knowing what's right. She takes it all very seriously.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I am inherently a little brother - that's just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It's the natural order of things.

Ron Hebert

You always want to win. But we went into the jamboree with the intentions of looking at some different rotations.

Susan Hill

We're pretty stubborn. Their intention is to run us out; our intention is to stay.

Tom Gavin

He has every intention to seek re-election. But I'm going to let the senator make his own announcement.

B.J. Upton

I don't have any intentions of moving to third, outfield, wherever it may be. I plan on being in that six hole.

Gigi Brown

I didn't have any intention of leaving, but I took a chance.

David Mitchell

Assured her I’ve never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now,

Viviane Reding

We have no intention to regulate the internet,

Meir Sheetrit

We have no intention of starving the Palestinian people.

Nick Saban

We have no intention of moving or trading Jason Taylor .

Dule Hill

Michael Jackson, the 49ers and the Lakers - that's what I know about the '80s.

Tom Wagner

I think practically all of these easements into the lake are not easements. They're not marked as easements; you wouldn't know they're easements; they're not usable.

Steve Davis

I don?t think it?s right, no matter what lake they do it on.

James Crowe

Here, at the top of Lake Joseph, it's called Billionaires Row.

Eileen Shapiro

What I like about the Lake Worth program is they are studying life before the Holocaust.

Vern Lorsung

I don't know of any lake that has been on the impaired waters list that has been taken off.

Aaron Sorkin

And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

John Harper

We want to try to get a better understanding of the lakes and their relation to the groundwater.

Charlaine Harris

I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner -- live rabbits they could chase together, maybe.

Henry David Thoreau

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

Amy Adams

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

Mitchell Baker

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

Tony Lentini

Most of our oil production is shut in, and about 80 percent of our natural gas.

Brad Zeigel

Whitney is pretty natural back there, but she'd rather be on the field.

Bebe Neuwirth

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Mike Greene

Well, if you have a goalie like Colin, it's a natural choice. We don't plan on high-scoring games. It's just not what we plan to do.

F. Stone

The annuals, the yearbooks, brochures and programs of old plays and musicals...that all tells the story about what they did.

Ed Swanson

That was huge. The kid's got guts. She can be 0-for-6 from 3, and she's going to shoot that seventh shot the way she shot that first shot. She plays with confidence.

Greg Graham

That was a tough one. We made all the plays down the stretch. We got big stops, we just ran out of time.

Maryann Mitts

We just didn't connect. We didn't make the plays and they did.

Kelly Sears

We just didn't come up with the plays at the right times.

Brian Hill

We had our chances. That's what it comes down to in tight games. Who is going to make the shots, make the plays at the end of the game.

Rhett Bomar

We have the plays that will work and we know what to do.

Derrick Coleman

We were sluggish, and they just made more of the toughness plays than we did.

Wayne Gretzky

We've talked about this for it seems like months. When the team plays disciplined, plays smart and plays the way that they need to play to be successful, we have some success.

Martin O'Malley

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Adrianne Palicki

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Darrell Bryan

If it requires a passport, we think they'll look for other options.

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

Carlos Santana

Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord

Cheri Huber

All you must do is accecpt all that is unaccecptable to you.

Bill Johnson

Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.

Prem Rawal

Surrender to what is ultimate. Surrender to what you really are!

E. Stanley Jones

I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.

Christopher Paolini

What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life

David Platt

Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.

Neal A. Maxwell

Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.

Margot Asquith

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

Dean Price

When the Australians say they are not swimming well, that's when you must worry.

David Sedaris

I see you that have a little swimming mouse

Cheryl Hines

I just learned how to scuba dive. Id been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating.

Charles Saatchi

Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?

Eddie Marsan

I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?

Eddie Izzard

I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way.

David Duchovny

Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.

Bruno Tonioli

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

Benjamin E. Mays

Failure isn't in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.

C. S. Lewis

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Carrie Fisher

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

Bill Bryson

Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

Ashton Kutcher

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

Art Bell

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.

Bill Vaughan

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Kyle Brown

Typically speaking, we're probably talking about around $100,000 for everything.

David Albright

You are actually talking to Obeidi? ... Where is he? What did he say?

Jim Tsenes

I think they're focused. I've been talking to them every day and telling them not be satisfied.

Yao Ming

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

Etel Adnan

We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.

William Shakespeare

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

B. F. Skinner

I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.

Esai Morales

My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.

William Shakespeare

Highly fed and lowly taught.

Dan Hawkins

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

Leonard Cohen

I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever.

Christopher Gorham

I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.