Famous Quotes & Sayings

Imelda May

I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.

Irwin Thomas

I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.

Zaha Hadid

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

William Shockley

I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

Chuck Palahniuk

I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.

Evangeline Lilly

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

Evo Morales

As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter the main squares of Bolivia's cities, and there were almost no indigenous politicians in government until the late 1990s.

Ellen Key

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.

David Byrne

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

Bob Johnson

I'm shocked. Very, very surprised. I clarify that by saying we don't know what's gone on.

Jack Ablin

Gold is creating a psychological dark cloud over the market. With gold on the upside and inflation fears, the numbers we get tomorrow will clarify some of these concerns.

Jennifer Freeman

We then go back to our office and continue to review the information and then draft a final report that is sent to the district for review. They can respond and clarify anything.

Marc Habermann

He wants to clarify his comments on the 60 Minutes show that aired Sunday. With all the media attention, he felt it necessary to clarify his point of view and make the public and media understand his point of view.

George Voinovich

would once and for all clarify the constitutionality of state tax incentives.

Robert Aventajado

We want to clarify their position. We will look for common ground.

Robin Cook

We are here to help clarify one of the darkest episodes in human history,

Richard Boucher

We would hope that they would clarify the remarks if they have a chance.

Troy Portser

The decision was made not to pursue school uniforms but to further clarify our current policy. They felt that, from research, uniforms were not appropriate for our school district.

Goodman Ace

TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.

P. J. Harvey

. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

John Luther

What we're having a problem with is, where was the three-foot figure derived from?

Tino Sehgal

A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other. They've been all about displaying objects and the kind of wealth that can be derived from objects and promoting that point.

Dixie Carter

I will not do humor that is derived from private parts or going to the bathroom. I won't do anything that involves making fun of people.

Mark Rush

If the government illegally seizes evidence, not only that evidence can be suppressed but any evidence that was derived therefrom or obtained as a result of that evidence. So we will be moving toward a dismissal of that indictment in its entirety.

Lisa Pierce

If technologically and economically feasible, it is unlikely that providers will only offer high-speed Internet access. Most telecom revenues are derived from voice and data-centric providers who ignored voice have had a hard time of making ends meet.

John Gurdon

Within six months of starting my Ph.D. work in 1956, I had already obtained feeding tadpoles derived from transplanted nuclei of embryonic cells.

Confucius

The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes

Imelda May

When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Cecelia Ahern

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

Carlton Reed

That was a small situation that was made into a big deal. The problem was solved the next morning.

Nick Umholtz

That was sweet. I've never been in a playoff before. Now I'm going to have to back it up for next year.

Jon Copper

That we have a teammate who may not be with us next year. I'm still not sure what's going on or how it's going to end up.

Steve Novak

We need to keep getting better. There is no next year.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

George Allen

Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing, and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.

Dee Brown

That was what we set out to do, stop Grier.

LaVar Arrington

We can't give up the big play. That's what we do, and we have to stop that. That's got to be part of our maturation process.

LaVar Arrington

We can't give up the big play, ... That's what we do, and we have to stop that. That's got to be part of our maturation process.

Bob Schneider

We just couldn't stop them. And we didn't stop them. That's my only observation.

Craig Craft

We just couldn't get any stops in the end.

Craig Craft

We couldn't get a stop at the end.

William Patterson

I stopped going to the conferences because most of (us) are all gone.

Jim Crace

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Mike Lewis

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

Matthew Bourne

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.

Bruce Allen

We've made some decisions. But it wouldn't appropriate to say anything until we have to.

Rena Inoue

You just keep working on it until you get it.

Dick Durbin

We need to know as much as we can and as much as he will tell us about his values and beliefs,

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.

Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Heather Brooke

The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.

Christopher Hitchens

Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.

Gloria Steinem

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Chief Seattle

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Cheryl Strayed

You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.

Baltasar Gracian

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.

Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

Edward Abbey

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

Edward Abbey

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

John Muir

The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.

John Bright

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.