Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Edmonds

So most of the acting that's done are usually Canadians and because it's shot in Toronto, there's this law that you have to use Canadians for extras.

Carter Jenkins

Sometimes it's just a piece of tape. The other day it was a box of cereal. When we're shooting, he's not there; it's all visual effects. Acting is reacting, and when you don't have anything to act to, it's tough.

Michael Gardner

The whole fourth quarter they were acting as if they were behind. I tried to use my timeouts judiciously to calm them down.

J. L. Austin

Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

Jeff Church

In 1992, the Coterie formed a partnership with the graduate acting program at UMKC to have the third year graduating class make their Coterie debut each January-February. Because the program emphasizes the acting of classical material, the Coterie is able to produce plays that utilize the students' skills.

Jon Nadler

In a world where news stories continue to make ominous ripples, gold is acting like the thermometer of collective global anxiety.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.

Emmanuelle Riva

Acting makes you live plenty of lives.

Dakota Fanning

I want to do acting forever. It's so much fun that I don't think of it as work. It's something I really love to do.

Cindy Johnson

They all came in cheerful, ... Our kids are loving school.

Robert Meyer

The ridiculousness of this whole thing is that when these songs came out, Michael Jackson was nine years old and for him to have a recollection of what was going on 30 years ago, it's absurd.

Jack Johnson

This is game we came here to play.

Mike Russell

This is an initiative that came directly from the carriers, not our safety division. We need to slow down.

Tim Short

This is huge for us. We came over (to Jacksonville) where people don't see us, don't know us, and we had a couple kids with the flu bug, but we still found a way to win.

Aaron Gray

This is a typical Big East game. Even this game came right down to the last shot. The guys did a good job fighting back. It's going to be like this day-in and day-out. There's no gimme wins in this conference.

Shelia Smith

This is the first time we didn't go one and out. We came out flat in the first half. I don't know if we were nervous. We can't play like that in the next round and expect to win.

Bill Guerin

This is not a public-relations stunt. We've put a lot of work into this proposal and this isn't something we came up with overnight. We felt that we had to do something. We're getting down to crunch time and since the league isn't doing anything, we felt like we'd better do something before the whole season goes down the tubes. We've waited long enough for them to try to step up.

Amanda Brown

This is really the most we can do from where we are. All of us that came here today felt like we should do something. We just wanted to help.

Agatha Christie

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

Sanya Richards

When I saw her jumping so well I was cheering her on, too. Back in the village, I told her if she kept with it, she could win a medal. I'm so proud of her, that really motivated me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

David Christian

...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

Alice Hoffman

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

Andy Partridge

Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn

Cillian Murphy

Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.

Alfie Allen

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

Alfie Kohn

In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have to look hard to find students who are starving themselves, cutting themselves, or medicating themselves, as well students who are taking out their frustrations on those who sit lower on the social food chain.

Alfie Kohn

When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

Alfie Kohn

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.

Alfie Kohn

Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.