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.

Thomas Dekker

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.

Tim Gunn

But my manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.

Thich Nhat Hanh

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Thomas Keller

Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.

Ian Mckellen

Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.

Irving Stone

I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.

Irwin Rose

My interest in protein breakdown as a research problem began in l955 at about the time I joined the Biochemistry Department of Yale University. It was known that proteins break down intracellularly in the mature animal.

Irwin Rose

I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

I don't stay out that late. I never really stay out that late. I used to, and after a while you begin to realize that a little sleep works wonders, you know?

Zaha Hadid

I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else.

Evel Knievel

I'm not only the best-known daredevil on the face of the earth, I'm the oldest.

Randy Nelson

Tim does a great job. He dares you to hit the ball.

Philip Massinger

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.

Inayat Bunglawala

Most of Europe would not dare mock the Holocaust, and rightly so.

Chuck Amato

I tell it like it is. Nobody can make that decision except the man himself. He's the one that's got to make it, and don't look back. Don't you dare look back.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Mike Keenan

I would dare to say this team is much better than it was the last time they played,

Bible Bible

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

Gina Bellman

I love acting, and I have no desire to direct.

Zoe Kravitz

I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

We have a spirit of working together, and we have a passion for cars. And we also have a great desire to see the Ford name in the forefront of world transportation.

William Wirt

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

Donatella Versace

I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion.

Dennis Ross

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

C. S. Lewis

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Bernard Berenson

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

Ashton Kutcher

We all have that desire for something special, something committed. We all want to be The One.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

Wendelin Van Draanen

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

Jose Diaz

The police are not very nice in Mexico. And you learn that growing up.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

Brooke Smith

I remember seeing 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' with Colleen Dewhurst, and that made a really big impression on me, and I remember wanting to be like her and I still want to be like Colleen Dewhurst! My mom took me to a lot of theatre growing up, and I also remember seeing Pippin and being like, 'Wow!

C. S. Lewis

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

C. S. Lewis

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Isabella Blow

I want to be kissed by the people I love.

Conor Maynard

My first kiss was when I was 13. I was so nervous that I was shaking. Unfortunately, the girl I kissed never spoke to me again.

Catullus

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.

William Shakespeare

O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!

William Shakespeare

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

William Shakespeare

Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.

William Shakespeare

the fire seven times tried this; seven times tried that judgement is that did never choose amiss some there be that shadows kiss; such have but a shadows bliss, there be fool alive, i wis silverd o'er, and so was this Take what wife you will to bed I will ever be your head. So be gone; you are sped.

William Shakespeare

I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor.

John Guare

Mel said, 'Just make it your own.' And she said, 'I'll kiss each several paper for amends. Aye, mira, here is writ 'kind Julia.' Mel and I just looked at each other - 'There's the show.'

Isabella Blow

I want to be kissed by the people I love.

Conor Maynard

My first kiss was when I was 13. I was so nervous that I was shaking. Unfortunately, the girl I kissed never spoke to me again.

Delroy Lindo

I think I've only kissed a woman on screen only once or twice before in my whole career.

Michael Collins

He said, 'I kissed her goodnight last night when she was on the computer, and this morning when I woke up she was in the kitchen. She was dead.

William Cowper

He kissed likewise the maid in the kitchen, and seemed upon the whole a most loving, kissing, kind-hearted gentleman.

Rupert Brooke

Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

Douglas Booth

I don't feel like I've ever kissed any of the people I have done for acting. That moment didn't exist for you; it existed for that person.

Blake Lively

I've kissed just three people in my life, other than stuff that I've done for TV or movies. I know - I'm weird!

Lane Kirkland

I've been standing, tippy- toe, waiting to be kissed (by the Republican Party), and no one has come forward.

Paul McManus

We have been working on that a lot lately in practice.

Jamie Siminski

Nick has been struggling lately and he needed that to get out of a slump.

Doug MacLean

He?s played really well. I told him (Tuesday) that he has played as well lately as he has played in a long time.

Larry Peruzzi

What we're having lately is a lot of volatility in the market. There's a fixation with the Fed.

Matt Clement

What they've been doing lately is incredible, ... nothing I've ever witnessed before.

Dana Schultz

Our team saying this year is, 'We love us,' and that is what we say after every win. We've been on a roll lately and have played better as a unit.

Mark Loretta

I think the way we've manufactured runs lately is encouraging,

Paul Tetreault

Jenn shut her down and that was key. She'd been averaging over 15 lately and she got eight.

Mike Bauer

Lately we have had a lot of un-forced turnovers and we can't have those versus Westminster.

Tammy Faye Bakker

The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.

Aesop

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Anne Rice

None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.

William Hazlitt

Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.

Victoria Strauss

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

Herman Edwards

That was something that might not have been as special to him as it was to all of us, he's not that kind of guy. He's about the team, that's what makes him so unique.

Brad Johnson

Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher.

Thomas Reid

might not be an appropriate place for him to stay.

Chuck Smith

Might be guilty' isn't enough. 'Possibly guilty' isn't enough. 'Probably guilty' isn't enough.

Eliot Spitzer

Who might or might not be my opponent on the other side of the aisle, I'll just wait and see how it plays out,

Eliot Spitzer

who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.

Kweisi Mfume

who might not like what we have to say.

Chris Morrison

Who knows? You don't know who you might draw.

Sammy Day

That was a tough loss. But they battled back and I was proud of them.

Liz Darger

We could end the season right now and I'd be happy. I'm proud of this whole team.

Tommy Swanson

We had our chances. It was still a solid year for us, one we can look back on and be proud of.

Tom Renney

We were sloppy, but we didn't give up. I'm proud of that.

Shaun Alexander

We have a lot of things to be proud of. We took Seattle to a place it's never been before.

Chad Alan

We're very proud of where we come from.

Rick Hendrick

We're really proud of the team and the effort.

William Shakespeare

Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania

Dick Cheney

You'll be proud of Harriet's record, Rush, ... Trust me.

Yani Tseng

I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

Abraham Lincoln

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Ellen G. White

The more we talk of Jesus, the more of His matchless charms we shall behold.

Rig Veda

Those who are misers shall never part with their money.

Ronald Reagan

Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.

John Donne

Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?

Kate Winslet

I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.

Teresa Williams

What do you think, Bob, shall we keep her?

Garfield Ewings

We have it all to do but are not out of contention. We shall keep going right to the end.

Frank Robinson

If we can do that more often, we're going to win our share of games.

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

Kristi Boese

We did it on our own. We didn't want to share anything.

Jane Austen

I must have my share in the conversation…

William Shakespeare

Here is my journey's end, here is my butt; And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.

Tim Howard

When you play against top players, sometimes you can play - you can play your utmost and you still get beat.

Slobodan Milosevic

It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.