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.

Emma Watson

I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

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.

Will C. Barnes

Once, no self-respecting puncher considered himself dressed for work until he had his feet inside of a pair of $15 boots made by one of the favorite boot-makers, whose merits they discussed about the camp fires night after night.

Bertrand Russell

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

Mike Sillinger

We can't hang our heads and we can't sulk. We just have to go back home, put our work boots on and get the job done.

Pierce Brosnan

The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table.

Mike DeWitt

Most of them just don't want to take math and geometry and the other courses to get a degree. They want to learn to build boots and saddles and go home.

Hasso Plattner

I would have liked to grow up in Liverpool and become a rocker. I would have put my boots on, jeans and a leather jacket, and long hair and played the guitar.

Kurt Browning

I would have quoted my dad who said, 'You're the luckiest kid in the world because you're doing for a living what you did as a kid. You make in a year what I made in my life and, if you let it go to your head I'll kick you with my cowboy boots on.

Mario Bandiera

For the really sporty things, we have boots that have military look.

Jeffrey Kalinsky

I would say that more and more women are wearing boots 12 months of the year.

Mike Rutherford

Wayne County chose Carnegie Learning because of its focus on teaching critical thinking and problem solving skills in real world scenarios. The State of West Virginia is committed to the 21st Century Skills Partnership to make certain our high school graduates have the skills they need to be successful in the global marketplace, and the implementation of Carnegie Learning's curricula strongly supports this initiative.

Luis von Ahn

When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week. I probably shouldn't be saying this on TV, but I stopped worrying about tenure.

Greg Erwin

Would you rather see Yo-Yo Ma in Carnegie Hall or in the Houston Astrodome? I think people around the world think of Hayward Field as one of the more storied track and field venues in the world.

Greg Erwin

Would you rather see Yo-Yo Ma in Carnegie Hall or in the Houston Astrodome? ... I think people around the world think of Hayward Field as one of the more storied track and field venues in the world.

Tamara Tunie

When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.

Sirio Maccioni

My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour for RCA. Then she made the mistake of marrying me. The next year, another tour, but the third year, she had Mario and said, 'Either I'm a mother or a singer.'

David M. Kelley

I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.

Josh Gad

I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far.

Rick Santorum

Carnegie Mellon's ... effort will, for the first time, establish a public-private partnership that will help safeguard our national security,

Venus Williams

No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.

Doug Beard

The people at the Bradley Center have been tremendous to work with. Our event management experience certainly comes into play.

Brendon Urie

I love being the center of attention. I'm shameless about it.

Big Sean

My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City.

Don Yaeger

Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, and his name always comes up when the conversation centers on the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But his greatness comes with an asterisk: He never won the Big Game.

Vince Gilligan

'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.

Judith Butler

The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.

Wole Soyinka

Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.

Glenn Dickman

We could have sold that property and made a lot of money, selling it to some distribution center that would just mean a lot of trucks going in and out.

Carrie Underwood

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.

Rickey Henderson

I'm a Hall of Famer and I'm still fighting for it because I love the game and I love to play.

Greg Bender

Usually, when he does these things, he'll give a talk, and then he and everyone else leaves and comes back the next day. Here, the students stayed together and were able to keep talking in the halls and the restaurants and lobby.

William Shakespeare

I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.

Pete Rose

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

Jim Boeheim

Most of the people in the Hall are on a different level from me,

William Shakespeare

Be as thou wast wont to be. See as thou wast wont to see.

William Shakespeare

In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

William Shakespeare

Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.

Susan Eisenhower

What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the Union.

Joe Birkett

I don't know. She's at another Lincoln Day probably, another Lincoln Day dinner.

Richard Norton Smith

Presidents in wartime, embattled presidents, unpopular presidents, they all look to Lincoln. He's their patron saint because no president was more embattled or more unpopular than Lincoln was during his presidency. We think he was born on Mount Rushmore. Not so.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.

Mirko Slomka

Lincoln played very well and showed what a quality player he is from the minute he got in.

Mario Cuomo

Lincoln isn't a man with ingrown toenails, he's an idea.

Phil Harris

They want us to run a Lincoln program on a Yugo budget,

Anthony Zuiker

I think Clive Owen could do CSI London in a heartbeat,

Stephen Dorff

I'd like to make a movie in the South of France. I'd like to make a movie in London again. And, I'm going to make a movie in Amsterdam.

David Mitchell

When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.

Carole King

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

Camille Pissarro

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

Alan Rickman

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

China Mieville

London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.

Charlotte Church

They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldnt be.

Dayron Robles

The objective is to do things well in London.

Indiana Evans

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

William McNamara

I knew I would be an actor since I was seven or eight.

Bikram Choudhury

Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.

Alice Walker

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

Alice Walker

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Reid Scott

I've been a diehard fan of 'The Simpsons' since I was a kid.

Robert Zoellick

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'

Pat Nixon

I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

Annie Leibovitz

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Rudy Gay

That will be a ways away. Whenever that happens, it happens. Right now it's just me and my team.

Jesse Berger

For me the play is about preservation and transformation as ways of storytelling.

Chris McCray

It can only go one of two ways now, up or down. I think this year we really want it." ()

Tom Daschle

I think it's important for us to try to find ways to work together,

Mike Sanford

I feel like we've improved, and we still have a long ways to go. By far, we have not arrived.

Colin Devine

There are ways to get around that, though.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.

David Byrne

I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

Bobbi Brown

If I'm not comfortable, I'm not happy. When I go to the White House, I wear my jeans.

Dave Band

You wear nothing but you wear it so well

Mark Zuckerberg

I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.

Bill Young

We're wearing out our troops, we're wearing out the equipment,

Mallory Jansen

Most days, I still feel like I need to be wearing mascara, eyeliner, have my eyebrows done, have on bronzer - the whole thing! I may as well do it all.

Freddy Garcia

You can actually wear this one. Some are too big, but this one is nice. I'll wear it.

Joan Hickson

I thought I was the wrong shape: that Miss Marple would be much fluffier than me, much more wearing shawls and things. But I was persuaded, and now, well - I can only do it my way.

Brad Goreski

Just because it's summertime doesn't mean you can't wear long pants and blazers - just make sure they're breathable.