Famous Quotes & Sayings

Burn Gorman

I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Empire' and 'Hot Dog' had great reviews, and finally he's been accepted as the new Bond. So many millions go into that franchise that if you make a mistake, it's awful.

Shannon Currier

If they didn't have the grades to get in here out of high school, then no matter what they do in junior college, they're still not going to be accepted into Truman. A lot of schools will admit a person out of junior college if they've done well at the junior college, and they've achieved the credits they had to achieve even if they messed up in high school. That's the difference.

Gary Blate

Jen has acclimated so quickly to this school, and her teammates accepted her from the start.

Russell Crowe

Jim had to go on the dole, but he didn't wear the pain on his sleeve. He accepted it and kept trying to do the best he could for his family. The Great Depression is a character, and I think the villain in this piece is poverty. If there's a single moment in Braddock's life that I think makes him important in history, it's the fact that he went to the Social Security Commission and repaid the money he'd taken when he was on the dole. That shows you more about his character than anything in his boxing career.

Russell Crowe

Jim had to go on the dole, but he didn't wear the pain on his sleeve, ... He accepted it and kept trying to do the best he could for his family. The Great Depression is a character, and I think the villain in this piece is poverty. If there's a single moment in Braddock's life that I think makes him important in history, it's the fact that he went to the Social Security Commission and repaid the money he'd taken when he was on the dole. That shows you more about his character than anything in his boxing career.

Charles Pickering

Larry Kennedy would not have chosen to have ALS - none of us would. But he has accepted his diagnosis with grace and dignity and continued to live by faith.

Eileen McLane

Irish music has been great to me. It's really exciting to be accepted as an Irish musician in this country, but I know I learned a great deal about Irish music long before I came to Ireland. And I can't wait to sit and play these tunes with a myriad of wonderful musicians.

Ismail Haniyeh

Such a plan definitely won't be accepted by the Palestinian people or the Palestinian government.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Success was one of my weakest points. I was so ill-prepared for it. I never appreciated within myself the gift of success. I never accepted it. People gave me so much momentum and love, and people really got my music, but I didn't accept it. That's probably one of my biggest regrets.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Mike Burgess

People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.

Nikolai Khabibulin

Of the three games I've played so far, I thought I felt the best tonight. Obviously, I'm not close to where I want to be.

Mike Ferda

Offensively, I thought we clicked. We were able to keep things going by not committing mistakes. It was our best game so far.

Doug Luke

Offensively and defensively, this is the best we've played all year.

Allyson Fasnacht

Of course, you don't want to be the team that breaks the run, but you can't worry about that. We couldn't let that pressure get the best of us.

Keith Stokes

Of course, Winnipeg is still in the mix. Everyone is around the same number (financially), so it's just about the best situation for me. Playing time is the thing.

Bill Adams

Of course, when they had their best years, they never quite got it done. They went (to the Super Bowl) four times, but never won. They're starved up there.

S. Walker

Offshore is where the big bets are made now. From the bettors' point of view, offshore books are the best thing that could have ever happened. It's a great alternative to illegal bookmakers.

Brent Cahill

We put in some different looks, it was something we just put in before the Johnstown game. It broke up their rhythm a little, and we did a good job boxing out.

Willie Randolph

There's an energy to this team. There's an energy about this team. I'm as excited about it as our fans are. What did Mills Lane (old boxing ref) used to say? Let's get it on.

Tamer Hassan

Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.

Patrick Cinotte

We didn't do a good job boxing out the first half.

Tonya Harding

One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.

Charlie Pierce

To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction on which the game's respectability rested.

Calvin Coolidge

We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

Arthur Schopenhauer

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Anton Yelchin

I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.

Brock Yates

Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.

Brittany Murphy

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

Steve Martinson

We've seen this team come back before. There's a lot of character there. They work hard, and they're going to be a tough opponent. I'm just looking at what we can do better on Sunday night.

Aristotle

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

Aristotle

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

Aristotle

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

Dan Randolph

We're very much hoping the commission doesn't reopen the noise rule, and would be surprised in many ways if they do.

Lynda Barry

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

Joe Jamail

The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.

Hermann Hesse

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

Helen Reddy

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

John Dryden

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

John Maynard Keynes

We will not have any more crashes in our time.

Dennis Lehane

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

Bob Geldof

But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

James Mcewan

People hate the fact that they kidnapped people, including a little child.

James Mercer

The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.

Carlos Moya

The fact that we know each other very well is better for the one who has a lower ranking. In this case, it's me.

John Curry

The fact that we held them to 20 shots - and it might not have even been 20 shots - is unbelievable. We stopped them in the neutral zone most of the time, and they didn't even spend a lot of time in our zone.

Steve White

The fact that we have as much wind as we do it means our pollution levels in Great Falls is very, very low.

Billy Tauzin

The fact that we had to subpoena his phone records tells you he's not cooperating.

John McGrath

The fact that we grew so fast is testament to the fact that there's such a great need in New York to provide a quality education.

Paul Hamm

The fact that we don't know what's going to be the new gymnastics rules right now kind of lets us feel that it's OK to take a break. We realized there are other things in life that we needed to get accomplished.

Carl Neill

The fact that we are in such good shape with storage is what the market is focused on now.

Carolyn Peterson

I've been trying to tell him to do the dives that he does. He hasn't had his great meet yet. He has his head in the game. It's hard to read Kenny, but from what I see, he's where I want him to be.

Retief Goosen

I've been putting well all week, ... It was a great match. I just putted better than he did.

Burney Lamar

I've been in their shoes, and it's hard. It's great to see somebody at least have that opportunity.

Melissa McCarthy

I've been every size in the world. Parts of my twenties, I was in great shape, but I didn't appreciate it. 'If I was a 6 or an 8,' I thought, 'Why aren't I a 2 or a 4?'

Martin Compston

I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.

Cadillac Williams

It would mean a lot for me, and for the offensive linemen. Those guys played a big role in what I did this year. They've done a great job.

Andy Hall

It would be great to take preventative measures until waiting for something to happen.

Noel Meade

It would be great to start thinking he was that kind of horse. I was very impressed with him.

Jose Castillo

It would be great to play in it.

Ron Beard

Jimmy was in the groove. He looked unstoppable.

Austin Meier

I just anticipated it. I knew what they were going to do, they just kept rotating and picking. I just stepped out and got to it.

O. Singh

I made some nice putts today that kept me in there.

Eric Chavez

I'm a big just-play-baseball guy. I'd rather we just kept it all between the lines.

Joan Roberts

I loved the variety. I kept WVXU-FM on all day.

Chris Santiago

Their pitcher was on. He kept us in check.

Mike Doherty

(The Highlanders) shot much better from the outside than we expected. Other than that, defensively I think we kept track of them pretty well.

Ty Wigginton

You could say he (Cabrera) was effectively wild. He kept them in the game.

Brandon Evans

You could feel things changing. We just kept playing our game.

Ben Folds

The main thing is that we performed the songs, then went to the speakers - if we liked it, we kept it; if we didn't, then we did it again. That seems like the most obvious way to record, but it really isn't the way we make records in this day and age. This is just very old-fashioned.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Daniel Everett

I've learned so much from the Pirahas over the years. But this is perhaps my favorite lesson. Sure, life is hard and there is plenty of danger. And it might make us lose some sleep from time to time. But enjoy it. Life goes on.

Thomas H. Cook

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Burt Reynolds

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

Brad Gomez

You have to show you have money before you can get money.

Dustin Hoffman

Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune.

Donald Trump

Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they will have a much harder go of it.

Alfred Marshall

The love for money is only one among many.

Don Ameche

She meant it as a compliment.

Don Marquis

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

Andy Warhol

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

Thomas Sowell

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Andrea Gibson

Say this is what the pain made of you: an open, open, open road, an avalanche of feel it all.

Andrea Gibson

Don't google your name. Ever. Don't “search” for yourself on anything that glows in the dark. Don't let your beauty be something anyone can turn off. Don't edit your ugly out of your bio. Let your light come from the fire. Let your pain be the spark, but not the timber. Remember, you didn't come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.

Andrea Gibson

Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

Aesop

Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain

Aeschylus

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

Aeschylus

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

Aeschylus

In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.

Aeschylus

Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.

Aeschylus

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

Morris Chestnut

I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it, because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

Robert H. Schuller

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

David Bowie

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Michael O'Leary

The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.

Meg Wolitzer

But now the world, he thought, had taken them. He knew that this could suddenly happen. One day you just woke up, and there was somewhere that you needed to be.

Patricia Heaton

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

Plato

What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

Paula Abdul

'American Idol' has taken over my whole life.

Peg Bracken

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

Douglas Coupland

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

Donald Trump

I express myself very strongly it`s groveling, I`m trying to show groveling, but all of a sudden I found that I was mocking somebody.

Donald Trump

Copying is the greatest form of flattery, I guess. I am actually a little surprised that Vincent Lo didn't try and make a deal to be on The Apprentice,.

Adam Savage

Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.

Adam Sandler

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.

Adam Sandler

I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.

Ani Difranco

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

Andy Goldsworthy

Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.

Amy Lowell

When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.