Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elvis Picardo

I think investors are asking why the Fed acted so quickly and so decisively.

Rob Reiner

I acted when I was young, but at 19, I had my own theater company where I acted but also directed. I also did some theater in Los Angeles. So I was always wanting to direct, even before I became an established actor.

James Franco

I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, 'There's a lot I can do with acting - there are a lot of things I can express and do creatively, but there are also limitations.'

Michael Giles

I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal.

David Paulson

I am concerned that hurricane victims are not receiving the assistance they need and money is being wasted as these professionals remain idle, ... Congress acted quickly to make sure that FEMA had the funds necessary for the rescue and recovery effort. I hope proper precautions are being taken to ensure that relief funds are spent in the most efficient manner possible.

B. F. Skinner

He has acted on the majority of them so far.

Daniel Craig

He doesn't look the part. In interviews and his movies he has never sounded or acted the part, and he looks like a dentist. But other than that, he really seems like he'll make a good Bond.

Andrew Benson

He made many decisions that night, ... He was goal-oriented and acted intentionally and knowingly.

Brad Miller

He never acted inappropriately with any of you?

Osvaldo Puccio

He can only be arrested if a legal warrant exists, and such a warrant can only be issued by a court that is requested to do so. That request is being made now by the foreign ministry, based on the note from Peru.

Yvonne Martinez

He's got quite a history and has been arrested numerous times for drug trafficking.

Jacques Diouf

Later, security forces surrounded the building and stormed (it), ... They arrested the man. But unfortunately, we have now a situation with two of our staff dead.

Tom Carson

The investigation began when one of the victims was arrested for prostitution by Hartford Police. The women involved were all from out of state.

Tela Mange

The ferry is considered to be an extension of the roadway, therefore we can do traffic enforcement on the ferries. We have also arrested a number of people for DWI.

John Brewer

The father, the mother and son have all been arrested for this before. The son is currently on probation. The father is in the (Texas Department of Criminal Justice) and the mother served time in a state jail facility.

Katrina Szish

The cops were waiting and promptly arrested them. They were so shocked because they thought they were going home with all that money.

Dave Holloway

The first time I ever heard about him was with the arrest Saturday.

Alberto Fujimori

The charges are groundless, ... To arrest Fujimori would be to set off a political earthquake.

Tim Thomas

I was looking forward to showing some character by giving a good effort all the way to the end of the year. I thought there was a good chance that maybe we could end the season with a win and feel good about ourselves. But it wasn't to be.

Lyle Overbay

I was looking for a pitch to hit. I had a chance to drive it. When I saw it go in the gap I thought maybe there would be a chance to score. Next thing you know, we win the game.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing. Especially early tonight, they had some chances and he made some timely saves.

Donna Reed

Just the idea of giving a critically ill person a new chance at life. Every time I think about it I get goose bumps. My son lives on in them.

Brian France

Joe Gibbs has proven that you can take success from one sport and translate it to another. If they follow anything close to his model, and they're smart guys, they'll have a chance to be successful.

Brian Jensen

I think it's a great team. You get a chance to talk about poker with some great players and there's a feeling of team spirit.

Larry Davis

I think it's a great idea. While my wife's doing the grocery shopping instead of just wandering around the store, it would be a good chance to have my cholesterol checked again.

Curtis Painter

I think it's actually helped me relax a little bit. I'm not so worried about making every throw perfect. It gives me a little more of a chance to settle down and read things.

Robert Carter

I think it's a chance that people can get some closure to a situation that's been devastating to a lot of families.

Hanya Yanagihara

I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.

Barry Collier

Kansas didn't just cut our hair. They shaved our head. They scored 196 or 96 or one or the other on us. It'll take a tremendous effort to slow them down and change that.

Mike Lowell

Josh was crying to me for five years with the Marlins that he always wanted No. 19 so I told him I'd be willing to give it up. I think change is good sometimes. So I figured why not? I'm on a new team, new number and everything is new. I'm kind of starting from scratch. I feel good about that.

John Silvia

I suspect that there's a little optimism that the Fed will signal that they are just about done, that they'll change their language from saying 'further policy firming may be' to saying it 'might be' needed.

Craig Hansen

I think it really changed the way some scouts look at Northeast kids and how they play ball.

Jim Zandri

I think it is a combination of things. A lot has changed in New Year's over the past few years.

Jim Duquette

It all started in his mind right after his wife went into the hospital. He started thinking about whether he really had the desire to keep going. We let him take a couple extra days just to make sure that was his final decision. He's not going to change his mind at this point.

Mack Brown

It¹s a compliment, because it¹s a place we haven¹t been in a long time and it sets our standard even higher. We also understand that the percentage points and the rankings can change weekly. What we have to do is concentrate on winning. That's the only thing we have control over. It¹s only October, and what we want to do is to be one of the top two teams in December.

Laura Miller

It also would help, of course, if we had the movie shot here, so we could change some of the old ?Dallas? TV show stereotypes that have lasted all these years.

Mary Bach

I think it's a direct reflection on the kind of community that we are.

Tom Daschle

I think it is essential we put as much pressure through the international community on North Korea to do the right thing and do it quickly,

Rep. Heaton

I think in Mount Pleasant we have a really great cross section of the community attending.

Susan Tucker

He was a visionary in the fact that he knew this community needed a place to gather. He saw this as the southwest hub, and it has really become that. His vision really has come to life.

Jeff Pollard

I think it's a risk in how the community will react.

Joe Gill

I think the Friends of the Light House Shelter are outstanding. They provide community support with an excitement that is unparalleled.

Greg Beck

I think the desired effect has happened here. I think community division was the intent from the beginning, because keep in mind there was nothing set in stone.

Mike Rizzo

There is a strong community here. We are the community.

Angela Graham

There is a different feeling of community support in this area.

Will Ferrell

I would tend to shy away from that, only because hosting those type of things is an extremely difficult task. I'd rather watch at home.

Kevin Sutherland

Just the streak in itself is amazing, ... I don't think people realize how difficult it is to make that many in a row. That shows how hard he plays every time he tees it up.

Neil MacDonald

Her work ethic is an example to everybody. She puts in everyday at practice and is very difficult to ignore because of her work ethic.

Speedy Claxton

He's a great player and he made some difficult shots for them.

Jeff Ruland

He's got the heart of a lion. We have a difficult task in front of us.

Robin Wright

Hollywood is difficult to navigate if you have integrity, so I opted not to work if there wasn't enough to do in a role, which doesn't have to do with the role's size.

Benjamin Franklin

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people, is that they don't want to discourage it completely.

Jill Stelfox

We try to keep tabs on our intellectual property, but sometimes it's difficult to make sure that infringement isn't happening. When it does, it's your work that's at stake, and you have to do what you can to protect it.

Mike Sherman

We took shots downfield but you can't force balls. It's very difficult missing a player like Javon, and we should still have been able to take shots down-field.

Donna Cassidy

I didn't really want to go but I didn't want to embarrass him in front of his friends. We had a really great time.

Adam Harben

I didn't want to embarrass myself. There's more people standing out there watching. Other than that, it was pretty much the same.

Helen Suzman

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

John Daly

It's not worth it. This is my last U.S. Open -- ever. I've had it with the USGA and the way they run their tournaments. The USGA loves to embarrass guys who play in their tournaments.

Kirk Talley

The one thing we don't want to do is embarrass anybody.

John Gibbons

You never want to embarrass the kid. But he needed to get his work in.

Carl T. Rowan

There are no embarrassing answers-just embarrassing questions.

Dennis Prager

The easily embarrassed doesn't learn

Elizabeth Bowen

nobody ever dies of an indignity.

Richard Le Gallienne

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

Vladimir Lenin

Crime is a product of social excess.

Samuel Johnson

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

Philip Coyle

If Portsmouth were to be closed, the U.S. would be left with only 8 percent excess capacity,

Suzi Quatro

I have record approximately 10 studio albums. I had 16 top ten singles and sold in excess of 45 million records all over the world.

Henry Adams

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.

William Blake

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.

Juan Enriquez

We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa, but had them across India, across Southeast Asia, and across China. Because of Borlaug's work at Simit and because of this we have huge excess, until very recently, in agricultural produce and the prices went through the floor.

Oscar Goodman

I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Jim Pugh

This was not unexpected. Madison is a government town.

Richard Posner

MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here does not authorize any judgment about the content of any speeches. ... A park is a limited space, and to allow unregulated access to all comers could easily reduce rather than enlarge the park's utility as a forum for speech. Just imagine two rallies held at the same time in the same park area using public-address systems that drowned out each other's speakers.

Richard Perle

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Richard Holbrooke

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

Ruben Hinojosa

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Samuel P. Huntington

Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies

William F. Buckley, Jr.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

Richard M. Nixon

Where the hell is Chad?

Richard M. Nixon

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Robert Caro

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

Robert Caro

Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons was I wanted to explain how things really work, how political power really works.

Alberto Lopez

Whatever is in the release is what we're saying officially.

Zola Jesus

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

Odalis Perez

It's no good. I started throwing, and when I go down, when I release the ball, it pinches me.

Matt Groening

Do my worst, eh? Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons." --Mr. Burns

Simon Bolivar

It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.

Alan Moore

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

Ryan Madson

After a while, it's too much to handle. You've got to release some stuff. Or you just take it. That's what makes you stronger. I'm just going to go out there and be myself and give everything I've got.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Tom Martin

We didn't just want to release a me-too product.