Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Capaldi

I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.

Stephen Kenny

It appears to me that Saddam Hussein will be afforded a trial that represents a fairer system of justice than what David Hicks will receive.

James Wolfensohn

His work in the developing world has afforded him a deep understanding of the many challenges of development. He knows what a remarkable institution this is, he appreciates its outstanding team of development professionals, and I know he will bring continuity to its programs and its mission of fighting poverty.

Bob Greczyn

Our company's financial stability has afforded us the opportunity to invest in initiatives for our members and our state that will bear long-term results in moderating health-care costs.

Clifford Traisman

The environmental community is being more diligent in bringing win-win issues to the Legislature that not only help protect our air, land and water but also help our business friendly-manner. That combination has afforded us the opportunity to be taken more seriously.

Frank DeSalvo

The hearing today was a sham. These officers were supposed to be afforded their rights to due process, but these disciplinary letters were written before they even started the hearing.

Mike Mitchell

Each student who violates the campus code of conduct is afforded due process. The outcome of the disciplinary process is not predetermined. It depends on the violation.

Norman Granz

The new, younger artists today are too insecure to be willing to face that kind of musical competition afforded by the jam session.

Don Aaron

They were afforded the opportunity to get out of the roadway and they didn't.

Jennifer Black

Here you've got a situation where there is an opportunity for so many stores, and it suits a wide array of customers.

Darin Kath

It is interesting that you have a vast array of documentation, including the format, from some kind of memo to a very detailed appraisal.

John Romero

If you walk into CompUSA or Babbage's and see the vast array of game titles on the shelf, chances are that 95% of those titles are not worth playing.

Steve Head

The conference will begin with an overview of national issues from Representative Kevin Brady and will be followed by an array of speakers focusing on local and regional issues. The keynote speaker for the luncheon will be Governor Rick Perry.

Charles Colgan

The conditions were just too bad for the other array of planes to fly in as we had planned.

Phil Gramm

The bill must benefit consumers by making the broadest array of financial services available at the lowest possible price, ... If it doesn't do that, then it's not worth having.

Bob Macaluso

The A Division looks very close on paper. West Islip probably has the best balance, Ward Melville has the best defense. We've got an array of talent on offense. Now we'll see if we can play at that very highest level.

Heather Raue

It's great because this allows them to study with various teachers, which is something they can't do here. They get to have a wide array of ballet classes-classes they wouldn't normally be able to take like classical jazz, Pilates, or character dancing.

Tim Johnson

Consumers should have the benefit of the greatest array of product choices the industry can provide and insurance companies should have a choice between state and federal regulation.

Rory Bruer

Having a Jim Carrey film over the holidays is a pretty sure bet. Audiences trust he'll have the goods, and they want to laugh and have a good time this time of year.

Ingrid Jensen

There are so many pockets of places around the country where I play at tiny little towns, and the audiences in general there are so much more appreciative than big city audiences.

Chris Aronson

It is a bit shocking no movie had done it. Still, the weekends have been pretty strong. I think we're getting a better idea of delivering what audiences want.

Leslie Dixon

I was concerned initially. But when I saw it with an audience, I relaxed. Bottom line is, out of 600 test cards, only one mentioned it.

Carlo LoParo

We are exploring ways to prevent that information - specifically Social Security numbers - from being available to mass audiences through the Internet.

Christopher Nolan

I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.

George Romero

I think today's audiences, the audiences that make the big money for a studio, are out for whatever the latest event picture is, or the must-see stuff. I think it's a different crowd.

Taran Adarsh

Last year nudity was new but this year there was nothing new to it so audiences rejected sleaze.

Patrick McClure

I am just so proud of John. I can't hardly stand it, but I also look forward to watching a kid whose other hobby in those days was fishing in the lake on the backside at Campbellsville Country Club mesmerizing TV audiences for years to come and to think Kehoe wanted him to go to Louisville." ()

Morris Hite

The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value.

Donna Frye

Whether or not (Torrey Pines) is a believable example, do believe me when I say today that (people) have expressed interest in buying Torrey Pines Golf Course and some of the other lands that I believe should remain in public hands. I'm just saying the potential exists.

Rodrigo Santoro

Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.

Roger Spottiswoode

The script is very good because the things that happen in it are very believable to me. It doesn't presuppose that the world has changed very much. You don't have to think that you're in a different world.

Katie McGrath

Maybe people don't see me as believable playing a person of today. I guess I'm just more realistic in a corset and funny hairstyles.

Tom Shales

ABC's intelligently hilarious sitcom 'Modern Family' depicts a gay-male marriage in which both partners are refreshingly dimensional, believable human beings. The writers dare to make them flawed and thus fully delineated, but they're not flawed in the silly, stereotypical ways that once dominated such portrayals.

David Martin

This was critical, because this had been a shortcoming of other previous studies with acupuncture -- the simulated acupuncture treatments were not believable to the patients.

Maeve Binchy

You don't wear all your jewellery at once. You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.

Dax Maier

I was just a little scared because, one, what if I miss it; two, what if I slip, I might fall into the river. And so I just kept on looking up and got directions, and then next thing you know I was on the gondola and they brought us down.

Chadd Moore

James brought him to me. I saw he wasn't paying no attention, so I just took a chance and stole the ball.

Keith Johnson

John brought it out front and I crashed the net. I was yelling for the puck and he got it over to me.

E. Hicks

John has brought a new level of professionalism to the Texas Rangers over the last four years. During his tenure the organization has improved on the field at the major league level while enhancing the minor league system.

Matt Williams

John has been brought in to learn about international preparation and at this stage it is just part of his development. But we would be looking for him to be knocking on the door of international selection in the near future.

Troy Glaus

J.P. has brought in pitchers and hitters to help out and that's just what we're going to try and do. We're going to try to put this team back to the level it's been before and the level it deserves to be.

Charles Sims

I think it's a big victory for Rosie. Who doesn't?, ... Rosie didn't want this fight. She wouldn't have brought this lawsuit if they didn't sue her (first). She just wanted to show that the claims were unjustified.

Robert Lewis

He led one public life ... but there was a second side, a hidden side to Henry J. Lyons, a side that caused him to be brought here to this seat,

Art Hogan

(Greenspan's) a proponent of what productivity gains have brought to this new economy, ... Of all the things he says, the least hawkish is when he talks about productivity and the new economy. In terms of Wall Street's reaction, I wouldn't say we could garner anything but a positive feeling.

Kiran Ahluwalia

My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.

Robert Crumb

I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.

Robert Winston

Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do.

Sandra Bernhard

I am always hoping to do another CD. This atmosphere has been difficult.

Zach Braff

Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

Mark Russinovich

I know this is the last copy-protected CD I will buy,

Mick Taylor

It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released

Henry Rollins

Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.

Laura Baca

It's been a lot of fun. It's been amazing. We just got through a U.S. tour with Social Distortion where we were selling 80 CDs per night, which is a lot. It was crazy.

Ken Hill

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

Jesus Dureza

Knowing that the uncertain peace and order situation is a major impediment in attaining economic growth for the island, we are anticipating that the current peace efforts will strengthen the enabling environment for investment and growth.

James Cox

He didn't go very far. The currents there tend to pull you under and keep you there.

Kenneth Miller

Half of the current rise ... was going on anyway. But that means half of what's going on is not background. It's human induced.

Sam Brownback

Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.

Seth Shostak

It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contradicted by the data. Of course, scientists would say the supreme being hypothesis is faith, and outside the realm of science - that it's not amenable to experiment. But we currently have the same problem with the notion of parallel universes.

Mick Davis

I think the current market price is a reasonable level.

Ralph Norris

We're probably in a situation where interest rates will stay somewhere around the current levels.

Dick Cheney

To date, that hasn't happened, and therefore has been no meeting currently scheduled.

Gen Musharraf

He does not know about making the bomb, he does not know about the trigger mechanism, he does not know about the delivery system,

Chuck White

Our patents are around the delivery of services,

Wietse Venema

Internally, Postfix does use multi-threading, for example, for its scheduler program that hands the mail queue requests to the mail delivery agents.

Doug Rockel

If you order a paperback book, slower delivery time via the mail or UPS is fine. But if you've ordered a fur coat, then FedEx is more of an option.

Florence Mumba

In the United States an American is top priority, service delivery is top priority and this is the true democracy we want.

Mark Cuban

As unique opportunities come up to highlight our content, we will use this great delivery platform.

Bill Ferguson

They had a look in the delivery truck and there was no sign of him.

Peter Chapman

It was supposed to be a simple delivery trip home after the racing,

Kip Petersen

We spent millions installing a modern water delivery system, sewage treatment facility and paved roads.

Dave Bautista

Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

Dwight Yorke

Keep the faith. We know we are heading in the right direction.

J. M. Roberts

John is one of the top parks and recreation directors I've seen. He has a great feel for the needs of the community, and that's reflected in the facilities.

David Thwaites

I suspect it's going to be a fairly weaker open. Stocks are still looking for direction in Europe -- there are no big macro drivers today.

Charles Blood

I think investors should be back in the market. The direction is up from here.

Sean Penn

I think it's much more important to direct movies but if it's going to take five years between each one then I'll have to make up for that.

Vicky Gill

I always feel lost when he's not there. I need someone to direct me and push me and then hold me back when I'm doing too much. It's nice to be back and have a mentor there to help me out.

Tom Burt

He can't tell them what to do, he can't direct them, he can't manage them.

George Herbert Mead

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

William Cullen Bryant

Go forth under the open sky, and listTo Nature's teachings.

Charlton Heston

Go forth and proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof.

Josh Parker

I think it's good they're having some dialogue. I wish there was a little more back and forth than the university letting us know what they're doing.

Larry White

I think it's too much. It's an inconvenience. It takes most of your money now to get back and forth to work. There's no mass transit out there to go back and forth to work you have to drive.

Keith Stanfield

Just listening and going back and forth and exchanging ideas with people. It's a beautiful thing. This is what's really important.

Kathryn Harrison

In terms of going back and forth between fiction and nonfiction - in which I'll include memoir, biography, and true crime - is that one relieves the other.

Marty Manfredo

If you want to play these are the kinds of things you do. Fortunately I've got a good group of kids who want to learn and are willing to put forth the effort. Hopefully it will pay off for them and the program in the long run.

Sara Gilbert

I flew back and forth and did episodes of Roseanne while I was at Yale.

Louisiana Tech

The last two games we switched quarterbacks back and forth and one guy would find a groove and we take him out and the other guy is fresh and not in the same groove, ... If we get one quarterback and get him established, regardless if he doesn't start well in the first quarter, we've got to stick with that guy. One of them has to find their groove.

Dr. Seuss

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky!

Zig Ziglar

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

William Wilberforce

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

William Wilberforce

Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.

Carl Jung

You never know what you have till you've lost it.

Carl Jung

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

Robert Cormier

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Rob Sheffield

Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.

Rob Reiner

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

Warren Buffett

Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.

Lew Ford

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. also attributed to Mary Kay Ash

Robert Gottlieb

Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.

Ronan Farrow

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

Robert MacNeil

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Samuel Johnson

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

Walter Raleigh

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

Albert Chee

We are continually working to get the refinery back up in as quick and as safe a manner as we can.

Andrea Yates

They were not progressing the right way in school, and they had a problem with their manners, their social manners,

Charles Dickens

Oh! I know their tricks and their manners.

Ken Hill

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Ken Hill

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Swae Lee

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

Andrew Lack

has got two revenue streams: one from our music and one from the sale of his iPods.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Winnie Holzman

I think we put on a real old-fashioned musical in some ways,

Winnie Holzman

I think we put on a real old-fashioned musical in some ways,

Richard C. Armitage

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

Tre Cool

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

Rick James

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

William Shenstone

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

William Shatner

I love the musicality of words.

Samuel Rogers

And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.

Richard Rodney Bennett

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

Wayne Rooney

I listen to 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys; also the musical Oliver - I can sing every tune.

Buck Showalter

I would say there were some unknowns about him. I've been pleased with the progress he's made.

Barbara Jones

He said he's going to be pissed if you all come. Please don't come.

John Ferguson

He's here and we're pleased to have him.

Richard Carpenter

We're pretty pleased with the services that were rendered.

Paul Armstrong

It is one of the things that I am most pleased about,

Gayle King

It is just really exciting. I have always been pleased (with the care), but now it will be even easier.

Tyrone Willingham

I have been very, very pleased with the play that we have received from Isaiah,

King Fahd

I am but one of you; whatever troubles you, troubles me; whatever pleases you, pleases me.

Tracey Emin

It pleases me that people can be interactive

Trevor Rabin

When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.

Najib Razak

My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

Shannon Brown

It's groove-oriented. . . . I'm a pretty soulful singer.

Chris Robinson

I'd like to think that, at the end of the day, you can look at the things that I made as a young person and the things I'll continue to make as I get older and they'll be consistently interesting and soulful things, and if you like them they'll be a part of your dimension, as well.

Suzanne Williamson

Just make sure you throw out the bottles,

Gar Heard

He'll be back, I am sure he'll be back.

Johnathan Joseph

He's been there. He's making sure we don't go into this thing blind.

Tom Fisher

He's a veteran quarterback. I'm sure he'll be on top of his game.

Chance VanGundy

I thought for sure we were a top-10 team in our district.

Ralph Richardson

I think we can use (the study) to make sure we're in balance,

Richie Sexson

I was wondering why, when he left, he kind of got the boos. I wasn't really sure of why exactly,

Gary Sanders

He was really on target. He made sure that he didn't let up even though we got the big lead.

Reuben Droughns

I don't know about that. I'm sure it'll get me some carries.

Carl Jung

If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.

Richelle Mead

No," he said, voice thick and husky. His fingers dug into the chair's arms. "You'd better not get too close." I stopped, laughing softly. "You don't strike me as the assaulting type, Mortensen." "Yeah, well, there's a first time for everything.

Richelle Mead

Only what?” I asked. I could barely hear my own voice. He turned his gaze back to me, firm and unflinching. “Only… more human.” And that was it. All the anger and sorrow vanished. There was nothing in me. Nothing at all. I was empty. “Get out,” I said.

Richelle Mead

Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t hesitate.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixons own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.

Russell Brand

What should happen is a little voice in your head, like Jimmy Cricket in Pinocchio, will go 'But Russell, that bird, that's a creature like you, if you kill it it'll be all sad' and you go 'F***, alright. I won't kill it then.'

Trey Songz

Never forget the morals instilled in you and what really matters in Life. Never let other voices of other people drown out your inner voice

Rick Riordan

Annabeth's voice caught on the word friend. Percy was a lot more than that. Even boyfriend really didn't cover it. They'd been through so much together, at this point Percy was part of her--a sometimes annoying part, sure, but definitely a part she could not live without.

Will Cuppy

The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.