Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Tudor

I used to do prank calls as these people and try to convince certain hoteliers that I was someone else. At the time, I used to do people like Tony Blair and William Hague. It was very good fun hearing people kind of thinking, 'Hmm, is that who I think it is?'

Sebastian Faulks

I think my generation has had an unbelievably easy time profiting from the world that was made for us by our parents and grandparents. We are essentially a rather frivolous generation. The Blair government was my generation's shot at power. It had some good things, but it had some flaws.

Peter Riddell

I think if Tony Blair falls in the next year or so, Iraq and his decision to play very close to George Bush will undoubtedly be a crucial factor.

Gerry Adams

We hope that Mr. Blair will settle Mr. Trimble down and will bring him face-to-face with his responsibilities,

Alison Reynolds

What we would like to see is Tony Blair making a public statement of concern over these issues.

Naji Sabri

His speech is another indication of frustration and big failure, of disappointment and desperation, and by that he is pushing himself to the, over the cliff -- just like Blair is being pushed down from over a cliff,

Anders Rasmussen

I have great respect for Tony Blair who, like few, has shown that he is a man who dares to stand by his decisions.

Matt Reeves

When you think of the 'Exorcist,' you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real.

George Osborne

Working in the Major government, we all saw, pretty close at hand - perhaps closer than a junior minister - the problems that the party was facing, ... Those who learned the lessons, and those who didn't. I did. I still for the life of me can't work out why Blair and Brown didn't. The euro would be like an ERM that we couldn't even leave.

Brittany Snow

I wish I was 100 percent confident in my own skin. It's always a process, but getting older, I've become more confident.

Natalie Imbruglia

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

Nayvadius Cash

'I Won' is not a love song. It's just me uplifting women in general. I'm giving women the power to treat themselves as a trophy - to show that and know it in yourself and be confident - because when they do that, whoever they're with is winning.

Tom Ventura

The 2-year-old market is now a force. I am real confident going in that we have a good group of horses to continue that trend.

Kevin Rohrich

We have two stellar big guys and we are very confident going to either one of them. They did a great job of positioning low, getting good shots and they also did a great job on defense. When they come ready to play, they are tough.

Ed Smith

We just didn't come out and played focused tonight. We won't win a state title if we play like this. But I'm confident that we will play better.

Paul Bremer

I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope.

Ross Vecchio

We'll really miss Ryan. He has been a part of the Wild Things' family since the first year. We'll miss his enthusiasm and his many talents, but we know this is a good move for him. I'm sure he'll do well as the head coach, and I'm confident this will lead to even better things for Ryan.

Rob Oertel

We have the talent. I feel very confident that it could happen.

Tim Pawlenty

Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what we need to be about.

Ian Anderson

When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.

Vikram Seth

After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.

Harold Johnson

The police had to use less-than-lethal force to take him down.

Mohammed Ali

The police force is full of corruption, and the law process has collapsed,

Ben Carson

The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.

Jeff Newman

The pay-per-view people were very organized and they forced him to think about things he never would have thought of. He knew he needed professionals to do that.

Brian Kernighan

Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts.

Gore Vidal

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

Idina Menzel

People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'

Jane Seymour

I don't waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don't understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.

Mark Dahlberg

That was incredible when I got my mail. There were tons of envelopes.

Don Silver

That was the start of an incredible year,

Ray Winstone

I just love westerns. One of my favourite actors is John Wayne, probably one of the most underrated actors there's ever been. He's quite an incredible actor.

Randy West

Yet as a team, we can pull together to do some incredible work.

James Gandolfini

It does feel like the end this time. You learn so much about success, money and celebrity. It's been an incredible life lesson.

Dan Gonzalez

I thought it was a pretty incredible seminar.

Kirk Jowers

I think this is an incredible resource for voters to look at, but they do need to look at it with some perspective.

William McDonough

We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

Ralph Klein

The $72 million that was spent on the two auditoriums, the Jubes in Calgary and Edmonton, was spent in the inside of the auditoriums to make them more performance-friendly. All of the seats point into the stage so people will have a wonderful opportunity to see the performances unimpeded,

Humberto Moreira

The 65 trapped people remain inside the mine.

Raymond Carver

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

Marlon Wayans

Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.

William Williams

Time is a storm in which we are all lost. Only inside the convolutions of the storm itself shall we find our directions.

Dondi McGowan

We wanted to make it a half-court game, because we couldn't run with them, not all night. (The inside game) was the advantage, and we tried to use it as much as we could tonight.

Darren Mathews

We wanted to go inside to Liz. We just couldn't get it in there. And we had a tough night shooting from the outside.

Gerry Byrne

Most of the other awards, quite honestly, they're more inside the industry, ... This is meant to reach out and touch the consumers.

Idina Menzel

I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.

Ian Mckellen

It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.

Isabel Sanford

I was very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' would catch on?

Constance Marie

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Clotilde Hesme

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

Evangeline Lilly

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Evangeline Lilly

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

Ben Carson

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Beeban Kidron

When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.

John Calipari

I think I learned it from Larry Brown.

Xavier Niel

Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.

Chauncey Billups

We're going to miss Larry Brown, but so many times it was just about Larry. It was always, 'Larry did this, Larry did that,' with the result that I don't think the players got enough credit.

Carl Reiner

We were all up there, Dick and Mary and Rosie and Larry Mathews and I looked around and I said, inadvertently, 'Look at this, we could do a show,'

Neil Innes

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

Theo Epstein

My relationship with Larry is one that spanned about 14 years; we've had a very successful working relationship,

Brendan Barnicle

Larry will go out of there in a pine box.

Shai Agassi

Larry is a very smart man. You can quote me on that.

Phil Jackson

Larry has been in this situation many more times than I have, ... It is very unique for me.

Skip Snow

It could be literally thousands. It could be a number I don't want to know. It could be scary.

Rick Hoffman

We traveled literally over 10,000 miles by car, looking at places,

Bill Turnage

He literally got it with 10 seconds to spare.

Daniel Petrocelli

He literally could have conducted an examination (by) putting a prop up there.

Patti Savrick

We're quite worried. She's literally on minute-to-minute care.

Chuck Morton

We've started off with literally nothing, and now we have 60 students.

Vint Cerf

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

Vera Farmiga

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

Warren Spector

I would love to take 'Ultimata Underworld' and literally update the graphics.

Trey Blue

We've matured over the year and they've been doing it all the time for us.

Andy Neff

We're not at the same place as the county. Our system has not matured to the point theirs has.

Mark Fox

Nick has matured and been able to make other people better.

Jack Agostino

He was just so mature about it. I use that same system for all my players now.

Keith Guttin

He has a very mature approach. He's not loud, but he's competitive. Very competitive.

Sven Eriksson

He has suddenly become a mature player, which he may not have been before. He did what no one else could do (on the pitch), but he did it a little too often.

Bernard Williams

You are mature when you know what is foolhardy and what is courage.

Attallah Zeidan

We still need time to mature politically. It will take time.

Willie Robertson

Phil has the classic, mature beard. Jase's is kind of red - it's weird, like him! Jep grooms his the most: He's got all these special lotions and perfumes that he puts on.

Tina Brown

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

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.

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.

Mickey Rourke

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.

Charles Gargano

That was why we privatized the World Trade Center, by means of a 99-year net lease.

Marcus Samuelsson

For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

Mary Ellen Mark

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

Gary Apodaca

We just didn't come ready to play; I could see it when we were warming up. We were there physically but not mentally, and we had a long talk after the game.

Domhnall Gleeson

I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.

Dave Duncan

To be a vert guy, you have to train and put on your gear. It's physically demanding.

Jon Gruden

You'd have to take a big yellow excavator to get me out of here. I'm here for the long haul, unless someone comes and physically removes me.

Joost Hiltermann

But at the same time they play an important role because they physically stand between militias that are at each other's throats.

Devin Harris

I don't think it's going to be physically possible.

Clint Hurdle

He's healthy, which is saying a lot. Physically and mentally, he's in a better position than he has been in for a long time.

Rick Newman

He was physically unable to get to the closing.

E. Hicks

He was belted, he was injected, he had things inserted, he just had a rough time, ... What he said to us (was that) he was injected with -- he doesn't know what it was -- and he went on to say other things that were done to him, he was belted and abused, physically and verbally.

Joseph Garcia

We could have had 50 points in the first half.

Curtis Shaw

We have a lot of Marriott points that we'll never be able to use.

Peter Jackson

While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.

Eric Sanders

You have to do that as a quarterback. You've got to go make that tackle and save some points on the board.

Gretchen Rubin

Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.

Craig Conroy

Those are turning points in the game. We had two of them (5-on-3 power plays). Not to be able to capitalize, you know, that's been our problem up to this point.

Brad Shaw

We have to start believing. (Our standings points deficit) now seems manageable.

Jim Tressel

Yeah, it makes you uncomfortable because we're not 35 points better. It's still going to be about what we do.

Al Davis

We didn't score enough points with the firepower we have.

CC Sabathia

I don't feel any pressure. I'm not nervous about going out there and pitching.

Antonia Thomas

Ive felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from Misfits.

Yasuhiro Yamaguchi

That will put pressure on other producers for some kind of (merger) action.

Ray Neidl

That will put more pressure on American and Continental to do the same.

Jeff Bader

We have three big shows on Sunday, so there will be pressure to spread the wealth.

Greg Alexander

We wanted to make things happen. Hit-and-run, steals, we wanted to put pressure on them.

Ron Rivera

With the tools he has out there ? the wide receivers, the tight end and the running back ? you don't want the quarterback to get comfortable. You've got to try to get pressure one way or the other.

Pierre Niney

It's my only religion to work hard, and then I'm not under any pressure because I know I've done the work on the character.

Hilary Benn

We have a long way yet to go and we need to keep up the pressure if we are going to vanquish these terrible diseases.

Robert Matthews

I had many, many wonderful conversations with her about everything under the sun. She was one tremendous person.

Russ Boyer

He's a tremendous defender. He does a lot for us back there.

Lloyd Carr

He has a tremendous attitude. He's very optimistic. He's very positive.

Chris Jordan

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.

Michael Foley

There is a tremendous untapped marketplace here in Mexico.

Larry Coker

We need to find out about ourselves. We're going to get a tremendous test.

Joel Quenneville

He's had a tremendous year, I'll tell you,

Jane Gardam

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.

Jim Gresh

She's just a tremendous athlete. She can do it all. She's very versatile, and she can really play any position.