Famous Quotes & Sayings

Idris Elba

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Ian Mckellen

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.

Val Kilmer

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation.

Clark Gregg

When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting jobs. As I got more jobs, I was able to make my own films. That ethos of making my own work has provided me with a lot of opportunities.

Brady Corbet

After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I work with, then I can have the best sort of master class possible.

Bradley James

The post-'Merlin' era is an exciting time to look forward to. Variety is the spice of life. That's the fantastic thing about acting - all the different challenges it can provide you with. To limit yourself just to one would be foolish; therefore, I'm looking forward to different things that come my way.

Big Sean

My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master's from NYU. She wanted to be an actress, so when she graduated, she had a dream, and she started following it. She moved to New York and took acting classes with people like Denzel Washington.

Geoff Hoon

I lived at admiralty house from 2002 until 2006 on advice from special branch on security grounds as defence secretary. The alternative of providing comprehensive security at my personal property would have entailed significant extra costs to the taxpayer.

Bill Hader

'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.

Donald Johanson

All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.

Ron Eglash

Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches.

Lawton Chiles

We have the power to make the other branches of government really angry,

George Stewart

You are a separate branch of government. You don't rely on the city manager like other city councils, where the city manager really represents the council.

Spence Jackson

We will review this request to determine which branch of government is best-suited to ensure people in the St. Louis region are protected from sex offenders.

Alan Marcus

We're really looking to branch out into new markets with this technology.

Randy Bachman

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

John Fox

I think I was too drained by then to get too high. All of us were pretty drained. There was a lot of emotion. I've never seen a game quite like that. There were as big a peaks and as big a valleys as you could have. It was as good a football game as I've ever been involved in.

Vincent Creel

We drained Food Giant for the public safety people. The mayor commandeered the store.

Jenna Morasca

As caretakers, we feel drained when caring for another, and in order to take care of someone else, we need to take care of ourselves at the same time.

Todd Pinkston

I think it was a distraction because a lot of people let it be one. But I think guys were drained to a point where every day you look on TV and see something going on as far as 81 and Donovan or 81 and the organization. People got tired of looking at it.

Rupert Evans

I was watching a Storyville documentary called 'Blackfish' about killer whales in captivity. I was emotionally drained by the end. It revealed a real behind-the-scenes truth on what we do with animals.

Harry Shearer

When (Pryor) took the 'N' word and repeated it in so many contexts and made you laugh at it so much, by the end he had drained that word of its power to sting and hurt,

Delos Smith

The consumer, I think, is healing. There's still a lot of market share out there. I don't think we've drained anything away.

Ron Wilson

They were tight and squeezing the sticks. That team is totally drained because they're surrounded by a negative atmosphere.

Ella Henderson

If I feel like I've completely drained every ounce of energy out of me for this song, and I can't go any further with it, then I stop, even if the song is unfinished. Most of the time, when it's finished, it's because I've used every ounce of me to write it.

Werner Klemperer

But when they offered this little situation for me to do this voice in this special segment, I found it so incredibly humorous that I said yes, and I enjoyed it. It was fun.

Steven Hill

That would probably be the one I like the most because (the fans) think it's something bad. But I kind of enjoyed it.

Larry Zimmer

That was the (coach) Leon Fuller era, ... I missed CU, but I enjoyed my time at CSU, also. There were some good people there, and I enjoyed working with them.

Marilynne Robinson

I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out.

Pierre Pettigrew

We have to maintain the pressure. I can tell you one thing -- Iran has not enjoyed the last two resolutions we tabled,

Paul Thomas Anderson

I actually enjoyed the struggles that we had trying to shape 'Blood', to get the pacing right, the rhythm of it.

Mimi Kennedy

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

Paul Perkins

We have only been in the Rolla market about three years, but we have enjoyed considerable success and the feedback we have gotten tells us it would be good to offer our wide range of services on the south side of town as well,

Robert Koch

Wine has enjoyed the most positive image it has had in years from consumers, the media and government.

Marty Turco

The penalties we took, some undisciplined, there's really no excuse,

Joy Hollingsworth

We could have played a lot better. We have real good players on this team, so there is no excuse.

Landon Donovan

We've had excuses for part of the year, but we don't have excuses now. This is a game we need to win, period.

Samantha Heller

Using that as an excuse is not true.

Hebbel

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses

Don MacAdam

Whoever it was, there's no excuse for that behavior. I'm sure it's frustration. But there's still no excuse.

Jermaine Dye

We haven't seen live pitching in a while, not (seen) any game situations. But no excuses.

George Canyon

You have to excuse me - I have something in my eye,

Patricia McKillip

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

Jack Kenny

I feel that I accomplished what I set out to do: A solid family drama, with lots of humor, that honestly explored the lives of the Webster family. Good, flawed people who loved each other no matter what.

Robert Brown

Gigadibs the literary man, / Who played with spoons, explored his plate's design, / And ranged the olive stones about its edge.

Mario Testino

I studied law, economy, international relations, communications, in order to find what I would do. It's the hardest thing, being 17 and trying to find what to do in life. You've explored so little. I'm lucky: My parents let me explore.

Michael Allweiss

I think the industry would view this as a significant defeat. This allows us to explore, I think, what they've been able to prevent from being explored in the past. It's very meaningful.

Tanith Lee

My interest in reincarnation... I explored in a number of works.

Michael W. Smith

The atoll was poorly explored with only about 35 fish species known previously. Including the new species we found in total about 200 species of fish.

Jack Quinn

It's the United States Senate. I'm sure some will try to use it as a platform, I do think there are a good many questions of that kind that need to be explored thoroughly with this man.

Seth Kleinman

The world is pretty well explored right now.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.

Yolanda Adams

Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.

Todd Rundgren

If all you have is faith, then you never actually know anything.

Ellen G. White

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

Ellen G. White

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

debbie nicholson

the path of the wolf will guide you through the night

Chuck Close

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

Natasha Trethewey

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

Nick Jonas

My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.

C. S. Lewis

The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that a fetus in a woman's body.

Judy Hayles

I think she's got him hidden out someplace. She knows where he is, that you can rest assured. He left that place with no shoes, no jacket. He didn't even take his money with him. He told his roommate somebody was picking him up.

Judy Hayles

I think she's got him hidden out someplace.

Tom Shales

You do have to wonder how Jack Bauer, maverick hero of '24,' can stay hidden for so long when no matter where he goes, he always seems within range of a TV camera. Or six.

Steve Greene

We're not scary and we don't have a hidden agenda,

Rep. Gannon

For too long, it's been a hidden issue in Florida. It's a testament to our state that we're going to try to stop this.

Simonides Simonides

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Don Hewitt

He had a knack for getting things out of people that others never got out of them niches and hidden moments that they never shared with anyone. But they did with Mike.

Mo Ibrahim

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.

Tina Brown

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

Irving Ravetch

Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

Gary Bauer

The polls mean virtually nothing, ... We're not tottering on the edge. Each week we're picking up momentum.

John Anastos

The patients are happier, and we can serve more patients. More patients mean more revenues.

David Selby

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Ken Cooper

The police officer starts to look more and more like a monster.

Gerald Smith

The association had directors, officers and, by 1870, had been opened to stockholders.

Howard Osofsky

You are going to have officers with shorter fuses,

Patricia Schroeder

The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

Tommy Davis

We have over 27 students accounts, approximately 30, that said no officer was struck,

Michael Lambert

You can even see the officers kneeling on her to pull the restraints tighter. No there was no reason to put her in restraints.

John Hanson

We can probably get by without the two officers if everything stays the same.

Robert Patton

I wouldn't use the word embarrassed. The officers performed admirably, so I'm proud of them.

Jay Wright

Getting on the bus, police officers know everybody. People walking down the street know all the players' names. It is fun, but it is a challenge.

Bill Hader

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Rosario Dawson

That was something that we really worked on, not repeating ourselves. But I was like, 'This is not going to be a problem because I'm playing a woman.'

Chris Masoner

That was really important for us. We really wanted it ... It's so important for us to go into the playoffs playing like this.

Tiger Woods

We need to keep playing more in Ohio. It's that simple. We don't have enough tournaments here.

Kobe Bryant

We have to understand that we're not playing for right now; we're playing for the long haul. It's important to be patient. It will come.

Paul Eenhoorn

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

Landon Donovan

We were getting slaughtered, ... We weren't playing well at all yet we're up, two-zero. But that's soccer.

Kevin Williams

We were still playing for a title, because we were playing for second.

Colby Armstrong

Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time.

William Hamilton

Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.

Jim Towey

I would be shook up if I were part of a shake-up.

Evan Savoie

He walked to me and he shook my hand.

Paul Chryst

All I did, I shook his hand, just said, 'Hello' and that was about it.

Twyla Tharp

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

Bill Vaughan

We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

Bill Bruford

Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.

Carolyn Gray

We've got one right now that we need for someone from the south side of the county,

Charles Long

We're working on getting the sidewalk buttoned up.

Missy Elliott

I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.

Deborah Moggach

You can cycle through London on the side streets, which are less polluted - and much more interesting anyway.

Dick DeVos

Who better. I know what it's like to sit on that side of the table.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Maggots squirming in your eyeholes...and your other orifices, might be carrying things a bit too far." "This is why I keep you around, Rixon. Always seeing things from the bright side.

Sathya Baba

Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all.

Jacob Whitesides

I appreciate a lot of singer-songwriters that the normal person doesn't, but I feel like everyone thoroughly enjoys an Ed Sheeran show.

John Ortberg

I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent.

will.i.am

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

Boy George

I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Malala Yousafzai

I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

Caronica DeBose

You know, I haven't even though about it. I have not even thought about it.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Phil Castellini

We're using every nook and cranny we've got.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Bill Cunningham

I don't think we want to venture into that, if this is what they're saying.

Charles Babbage

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

Bill Gurley

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

Benjamin Franklin

He that would fish, must venture his bait.

Albert Camus

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Douglas Leone

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

Ehud Barak

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

Jim Butcher

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

Jean Cocteau

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

Nancy Roman

I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.

Tim Hudson

I always wondered how it would be to put on a Braves uniform and play in Atlanta.