Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ira Loss

I suspect that this is a relatively isolated event. I don't think there's a crime wave under way in biology research. These actions usually come about because someone is under tremendous pressure to perform.

Kofi Annan

I think it is all right for one ambassador to come and push, but an ambassador always has to remember that there are 190 others who will have to be convinced, or a vast majority of them, for action to take place,

Richard Holbrooke

He was a communist opportunist and became an opportunistic nationalist. His actions led to the deaths of over 300,000 people, four wars, the instability in Europe, creation of criminal gangs ... he was never going to see daylight again and that was appropriate and now he's gone.

Richard House

We are going to move forward and try to get as many definitive answers and as much input as we possibly can. I think all of us are in agreement that we want to make this something where we have action plans and a decision at that time to go forward as opposed to having a study that recommends certain things. We are trying to be more all-encompassing and get the best bang for the buck.

Adam Goldberg

The only thing that could stop it now is action in Congress.

Bob Metz

Going into a situation like this, we are concerned about the safety of all of our kids. We need to make sure we take the proper action to make sure our kids are safe.

Mohandas Gandhi

God never appears to you in person but always in action.

Jet Li

He said, 'Here is the deal: Play the bad guy first, then I give you a good guy next,' ... I asked him what the movie was called, (and) he said 'Romeo Must Die.' (It) sounds like a romantic story, not an action movie.

Bob Costas

He's got to do something (because) his tenure is going to be largely defined by this punishment. Bold action here is not the same as rash action. If he's got the evidence and he's in the right, he should take bold action. Even if he's defeated in court, he will win in the court of public opinion -- if he takes bold action. ... You can be deliberate and you can still be bold. Once he has it, he should do what he feels is in the best interest of baseball and let the chips fall where they may.

Nadrine Stocker

I think it may have just been stress. My grandmother died on Feb. 9 the year before and I was thinking about that and it may have triggered the labor.

William Morris

He did not die in the night, / He did not die in the day, / But in the morning twilight / His spirit passed away.

Terry Beauford

I thought Carlos did a heck of a job. We are going to live and die with him. He just needs some more reps. He will get better with each game.

Chuck Feeney

It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.

Jandy Nelson

I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego when I was 12, and I went to high school here.

Leslie Williams

I didn't move away from Jack because of money. I moved away from Jacques-Imo's because I wanted to get away from frying, ... I'm going to die. But I'm not going to die over that fryer.

Ciputra

I am healthy because of my strict diet. I can eat anything, but I don't eat everything.

Mike Costello

He is not welcome in my bar, and he is never welcome until I die or sell the place.

Jeff Phillips

He fought for that until the day he died and would still be fighting that.

Virgil

Endure and save yourselves for happier times.

Beth Givens

They are usually off the hook financially, ... But what they are going to have to endure is far worse than having to pay the impostor's bills.

Neal A. Maxwell

Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

Joseph Heller

Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)

George MacDonald

Endurance must conquer, where force could not reach.

John F. Kennedy

I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven't got a thing.

Lord Byron

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

Thomas Grandi

(It's not like) swimming, or any sport where the endurance factor is such a big deal. In a sport like skiing, you just get it one day. All of a sudden, you're skiing great, and there may not be a real explanation for that.

Bruce Lee

Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.

Anthony Zinni

I would say we're within a week or so. We're ready now but there are a few more pieces to put in.

Michael Lloyd

I would say up until the recent few weeks, it looked like CSX might be doing a better job, now the shoe may be on the other foot, ... I'd be more worried about CSX going forward than Norfolk Southern.

John Gibbons

I talked to him today about a few things and I hope he got the message. You see guys on the other side like (Derek) Jeter and (Gary) Sheffield get down the line.

Joseph Beninati

There are such very few large-scale opportunities in Greenwich.

Daniel Woodrell

I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder.

Dani Shapiro

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

Roger Thompson

He's a good kid. He's been working as a laborer there for a few months now.

Liz Rosenberg

Her last tour was kind of a greatest hits tour, and I don't think she would want to repeat all the songs. But there are a few off the list that she left out.

Brian Smith

Going into the state tournament, we're ranked fifth or so. Every guy's going to need to win a match, and more than a few need to be pretty high on that podium so that we can reach our team goals.

Dawn Hudson

I think that's terrific that independent films are getting more and more mainstream press.

Asif Kapadia

I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.

Chris Robinson

These are films you won't see on Teletoon.

Cole Mueller

Everyone knows USC films help launch actors' careers. USC film students know what they're doing.

Alicia Keys

Everyone on the set had been working on films for 20-plus years. I was enraptured.

David Smith

The biped robots that have been proclaimed for the past 50 years in sci-fi films are now on their way.

Sung Kang

On a studio film, you don't have to worry about running out of film or messing up your costumes; you have five other sets of it. Studio films make you the most comfortable so you can just act.

Ruby Rose

I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.

Trey Parker

It used to reflect a budget. Now 'independent film' means anything under $10 million. That's what people are saying now. But, that's not really true. I think independent films means you did everything independently.

Mike Darnell

I swear, it must (have been) 13 hours a day, ... And I still do. It's on all the time. I was sort of hypnotized by it as a kid, I think. I just loved it.

Tom Izzo

He's got to be going 100 miles an hour all the time.

Roger Bedford

I think it's an outrage that these hours would be billed on a state holiday,

Brian Mehler

The purpose is to pay them for their work. They worked 20 hours per week -- it's like a part-time job.

Felix Bloch

It is indeed my profession to speak to students and I do this every week for several hours in the lecture rooms of Stanford University.

Christopher Poole

There aren't many sites like 4chan where you can pop in every hour and see all new stuff.

John Tracy

Well, you should be, ... You've been saying 'Yes' for three hours straight.

Maxwell Anderson

He spent hours and hours sifting through different sites.

Mark Tyndale

I don't know what hours he likes to go, but whatever hours he comes up with, I'm willing to work for him.

Mike Sherman

He said he was fine. I said, 'I can tell something is wrong here. What's wrong?' He wouldn't tell me, ... It took me about 10 minutes to get it out of him. Finally, he told me.

Lance Armstrong

I actually spoke to him for about 30 minutes and he didn't say any of that stuff to me personally,

D. James

I don't feel fatigued at all. I can go out and play 48 minutes if they want me to.

Richelle Mead

I'm always at least ten minutes early.

Kim Gervasoni

The first 8 to 10 minutes we played sloppy. We were just not on the same page offensively.

Dave Brown

It seemed like hours, but within minutes it was completely engulfed.

Dominik Hasek

They were the better team in the second 30 minutes and that's why they won.

Jerry York

It was just where we wanted to be: 1-1 after two and now we have 20 minutes for a national championship.

Travis Tucker

It's going to be 32 minutes of tough basketball.

George Crabbe

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

Matthew Macfadyen

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Henri Matisse

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

Cy Twombly

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Edouard Manet

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

Edouard Manet

There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

Bob Murray

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Nathan Frohling

We've been waiting 10 years for this moment.

Steve Adams

I don't know what's in it (investigative file). I'm waiting to see.

Ibrahim Gambari

He has said what he wanted and is waiting for a response.

Tyler Hoechlin

Some things are worth the wait.

Tucker Carlson

I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.

Warren Buffett

All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

Samuel Beckett

Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!

Samuel Beckett

All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.

Samuel Beckett

Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.

Andy Robinson

It has been killing me watching from the stands, I want to get back into the action,

Brian Urlacher

If I was someone, I'd do the same to us after watching that film.

Hugh Johnson

We're all watching the same stuff. Like sheep.