Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clara Shih

I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.

Buck Showalter

Joaquin was outstanding. His background is that he struggles from the fourth through the sixth. It's been a challenge, but today he was outstanding,

Grant McCasland

He comes from a really tough background as far as growing up in Brooklyn and he's helped really helped our team by being someone who can go and get a tough basket or a rebound. We're going to need him to be successful at the regional tournament.

Nick Saban

He is respected throughout the league and has a strong background in player personnel,

Mikhail Baryshnikov

No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.

Arnold Fielkow

I think it's important to let the presentation be made. Because I think you have to give some background to it.

Steve Morrison

There is no duty in the state of South Carolina for any employer to do a criminal background check.

Ruth Rendell

I think about what kind of a background he had, what sort of childhood he had, how he grew up, what he does for a living, the way he wants to live,

Ollie Gelston

I think it's what the politicians call a win-win situation. I know that Freddie will give them the very best that's in him and he certainly will recruit New Jersey people. And he has the background to recruit New Jersey people. In my own opinion, he'll be very successful.

Graham Elliot

Kids see cooking as a creative outlet now, like soccer and ballet. It gives me hope that things like fast food, childhood obesity and the horrible state of school lunches can be addressed by kids and their parents.

Charles Dickens

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself

Alice Miller

,,,It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

Richard Riley

underscores the importance of increasing efforts to support and expand early childhood learning.

Gerald Clarke

He identified with Perry Smith, ... Perry Smith had a terrible childhood. Perry's was much worse than Truman's. Perry was really, really miserable. Truman's was just really miserable. But the loneliness--both of them shared this loneliness.

William Gaddis

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

Tracy Chevalier

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.

Tori Amos

My childhood was extreme.

Richard Dawkins

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.

Matthew Morrison

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

Bill Sharpe

Guys like Greg and Rusty grew up as watermen, because their dad's one, too. And being a hot surfer was secondary to being a true waterman.

Bob DiBiasio

Hal was a real journalist. He grew up in a time when newspapers were kings and always kept the sense that the printed word was magic.

Quinton Aaron

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

Laura Vandervoort

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

Stefan Edberg

I think that over the years people grew to understand what I stood for. They knew what type of player I was. I think they respected me for that.

Bob Wietharn

It is my heart, where I grew up, and where I'll always be.

Bill Sullivan

Last year, our revenue grew by 30% in India and we hope it continues.

Judah Friedlander

I'd like to work with John Waters. I grew up in Maryland, so I'm a huge Waters fan.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

Jennifer Hinson

It is a little frustrating. It's sort of put us into a year-by-year situation.

Michael Leunig

In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.

Jason Robinson

If you have got a problem, then go to the person and sort it out.

Jason Anderson

I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records.

Sam Heughan

I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.

Stockard Channing

I never really thought of that. I just thought she was funny. Really, I just thought this was funny, sort of sweet, touching and human.

Grimes

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

Michelle Monaghan

I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers.

Jason Bay

He wants to win now. He made that pretty clear.

Ron Gardenhire

He wants to play. But I'm just going to give him a day break.

Ray Allen

He wants to be better. He wants to be the best. But don't worry about that. Those things will come.

Paul Shefrin

He wants this to be the coming-out party.

Glen Taylor

He is very, very competitive and wants to win.

Sam Claflin

I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.

Steven Spielberg

Whatever he wants to do. That's how I feel about it.

Joe Dumars

I think we will get something done long-term. We are going to keep him here. Tay wants that, I want that and Duffy wants that. We'll get something done.

Adam Sohn

He's been here 20 years and he wants to recharge.