Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

Will Poulter

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

Wendy Kopp

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Zubin Mehta

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

Yani Tseng

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Colin Baker

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Chris Carter

I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

Debasish Sen

The police have been asked to carry out investigations and carry out the required proceedings.

Albena Denkova

It is a very big surprise, but like Maxim says it is just the compulsory dance. We will have to wait until the end of the competition.

Bill Stewart

We think that any references to compulsory redundancies are completely inappropriate.

Charles Albert Gobat

Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.

Rachel Tucker

I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.

Brendan Barber

Instead of the further help for the better-off that new incentives would provide, the government should phase in compulsory savings for employers and employees.

P. J. O'Rourke

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

Arsene Wenger

Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season.

Jerry Porter

We could just petition for a week off. But I don't think the league will let us do that.

Jim Gantt

Typically, this league is not that way. We know we've got to keep improving, and we know teams aren't likely to keep sweeping.

John Wesley

He's got everything - good vision, his speed, his shot, all those intangibles that you need to be a superstar in this league. He has it all.

Lauren Roscoe

We haven't won a league championship in 18 years, so it was important for us to win tonight.

Earl Campbell

You just wonder,'' said one league personnel man.

Ray Harris

I'm shocked we're 19th. I don't think that's right. We have the best-ranked league in the section. Once we get more wins under our belt, we'll move up.

Don Phillips

The problem is the overall league suffers if you don't have stars,

Terrell Buckley

It doesn't surprise me, because this is a league that has a short memory.

Carrie Brownstein

Just invest in apps. Just download apps and then pay yourself the dividend.

Bethenny Frankel

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

Bette Davis

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

Mark Steber

The AMT is not just a tax that rich people pay anymore.

Sabrina Harris

The 125 years don't have anything to do with my daughter. He killed my daughter, so I want him to pay for it.

Ben Hinson

We can't have people at the partnership wondering if they can pay the bills.

Braylon Edwards

We wanted to pay tribute to him for revolutionizing the position. He was the front-runner.

Peter Schuyler

What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war.

Matthew Stewart

Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.

Robert Barany

As soon as I had proved this and, of course, also the normal pointing action and reactions in all other extremities and joints, I stopped the experiment.

Claudio Piron

Overall, the long-term trend is going to worsen. All indicators are pointing to a possible recession.

Domanick Davis

It's real frustrating, I'm not going to lie. We keep practicing so hard, then keep losing. We just have to find a way, we can't start pointing fingers.

Tim Ritchey

That is the race I've been pointing for.

Larry Harris

Then she starts pointing towards me and shooting and I was shooting back to her.

Garry South

All the factors, all the indicators, look to me like they are pointing toward record spending.

Peter Young

All the indicators are pointing in the right direction.

Sylvester Stallone

Now if you know what you're worth. Then go out and get what you're worth.

Rumi

I can't stop pointing to the beauty.

The Eagles

Until we prove otherwise, they're simply the premiere 3-A team around here that I know of,

Sylvester Croom

We are talking about one of the premier teams in the country,

Jonathan Demme

We pretended it was a world premiere concert.

Ben Bradlee

She was the premier American publisher, ... She got tested more than most of them, and she stood up with such bravery.

Merle Bishop

If we get together, this could be the premier place to live in the county.

Jayne Houdyshell

It's extremely exciting to be part of a world premiere here at Arena.

Jean Charest

It will be the first time that a premier from Quebec will go there,

Alan Smith

You can take a sidewards step in the Premier League, go to a team in the Championship or come to a team in League One.

Donald Davis

This is the premier short track race in Florida.

Kirk Triplett

That won the tournament for me, for sure.

Randy Burditt

Without all of the help, the tournament would be nothing. It was another success.

Gary Bettman

If accommodations have to be made, they'll have to be made in how the tournament is scheduled.

Corey Brewer

We're in the tournament to win it all.

Mike Conners

Were in the tournament now, and in the tournament anything can happen.

Tom Herrion

We've still got a lot of work to do. The bye is nice, but we've got to go play come tournament time.

Bobby Jones

I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.

Kim Clijsters

Yeah, it was (the quickest tournament I've won),

Helen Wills Moody

Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.