Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Bernanke

At some point in the future, the committee may decide to take no action at one or more meetings in the interest of allowing more time to receive information relevant to the outlook.

Will Holman

Progress has been made in some areas, but there is still a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. Our goal is to reach an agreement, but that will depend on management's actions at the negotiating table.

Tom Daschle

Actions are not just physical. Actions are sometimes verbal.

Jennifer Jackson

The students are forced to be accountable for their actions and their grades every week and that forces them to show improvement.

Al Donner

The Service is determined to take the actions necessary to save and restore the smelt, and that is where we are focusing our energies.

Sara Teasdale

I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes

Michelle Rodriguez

I've been doing lots of hard-core chick, kick-ass things. The action is appealing because I haven't found the mental challenge in the dramatic roles that I've been shown. I don't want to be the girl who just falls in love.

Paul Aronsohn

I've been planning to declare my candidacy for a few weeks, and her action did not affect my decision. I hope and expect we can come together as a party and community.

Clyde Powless

I've been in direct contact with the (Ontario Provincial Police) and we're pretty well assured. . .that there will be no action taken by them.

Mike Falbo

Bankers have lost a lot of time and they're putting out the deals they want and need to work. Next week is a really amazing week.

James Corden

People say: 'Oh, but would you be happy for your show to go on BBC3 if it was just online?' If I was sat here telling you I had just signed a huge deal with Netflix you'd be going: 'Wow, that's amazing.' You can't see it as 'Oh, it's no longer a channel because it's not on TV.'

Mathias Kiwanuka

No regrets. Absolutely, no regrets. I had an amazing time here, and it was everything that I wanted. I had a lot of positive things happen on and off the field this year, so I feel like, if I had to do it over again, I'd definitely come back.

Donatella Versace

(Demi) is a woman who has kids, who has a career and still looks amazing first thing in the morning. No wonder she has such a gorgeous man by her side. She looks just as sexy in a pair of jeans and a sweater as she does in an evening dress that is my idea of a woman.

Rutina Wesley

The theatre at my school was awesome. It was a 1,400-seat auditorium, so, being in that auditorium at 17, and having, like, 1,400 people cheer for you was, like, one of the most amazing feelings that I've ever felt, energy-wise. It just felt right.

Bo Ryan

Sometimes that's a lot to ask, so I'm not going to pressure them into being at a certain stage. As a coach and a teacher I learned a long time ago you've got to bring them along, and then when they're ready they'll show what they can do. You push, you prod, you pat and you do the other things that everybody does in teaching, and it's amazing how our guys over the years have kind of stepped forward and picked up and filled that void.

Laura McGaffigan

Sarah is an amazing doubles player. I'm glad she's my partner.

Tim Howard

Protecting animals is very important to me, and I think speaking out against fur is an amazing cause.

Kevin Pietersen

These are amazing scenes and it's fantastic what is happening to English cricket, ... I'm taking it all in and this is great for the game of cricket.

Pat Gallagher

The whole thing is low key, low cost, very inexpensive, and at the dinner last year I had the best baked tuna I've had in my life. Some local folks got together to cook for us and did a great job. Just delicious.

Laura Wasser

I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the responsibility, the knowledge, the worry. It's not like it was when our parents or their parents were having lives where the mom just baked bread, and the husband worried about it, and the wife didn't know there was any problem.

Scott Fujita

The first time I had a baked potato, I was eight years old at a friend's house. Most white kids growing up have a baked potato every day. I didn't even know what to do with it, how to open it. I was the only white kid in high school eating octopus.

Julia Cameron

Life is a creative endeavor. It is active, not passive. We are the yeast that leavens our lives into rich, fully baked loaves. When we experience our lives as flat and lackluster, it is our consciousness that is at fault. We hold the inner key that turns our lives from thankless to fruitful. That key is "Blessing.

Robi Turek

Most of the time, we have bake sales and garage sales to raise funds. Most of the time, our fund-raisers net us $3,000 to $5,000, so to get $225,000 is huge.

Ray Murphy

Well I mean it's a great recipe. I mean it's the ground beef, it's marinated with a little red wine. We've got the vegetables in there, got our champ, which is our garlic mashed potatoes baked on top.

Patrick Rose

He used to drive a boat around the lake and pull us behind on inner tubes. He also read campers' mail, from mom and dad and from grandparents. And if someone's mom baked cookies, he would make the camper get up on a chair and jump up and down for them, without telling him why. All of this happened at lunch, in front of everybody.

Mark McKinney

Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love.

Ann Baker

At the end of the week the villagers wanted to thank us, so they had a party, the bakery made cakes and the villagers dressed in native costumes and performed traditional dances.

Dirk Benedict

As children get older, they are supposed to gradually stand more and more on their own and eventually completely leave the nest. My boys are definitely starting to do that. Soon I might actually go on a date.

Bonita Favre

The boys and (David) did an excellent job,

James Corden

I've not met a soul who wants to see The Wanted over One Direction. The thirst for those boys is insane.

Roger Kahn

I see the boys of summer in their ruin.

Dave Harris

The Vienna Choir Boys is something I've always wanted to see. To see them in person is just really special.

Judy Burns

This is a special Scouting program that the boys can earn a patch for. We thought this was a good time to try and fill the shelves of the local pantries.

Neil Lennon

You wouldn't want to change the way he is. His shouting gets a reaction. It's up to you whether it's positive or not. The boys respect him for what he's done and what he is. He's a great player. If he wants to give you a rollicking, you respect that.

Pat Brennan

You see a lot of things with three people and I think that helps the teams that are more fundamentally sound for the most part. But I don't really think it makes a lot of difference in high school girls or boys (games).

Brandon Sanderson

The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation.

Dan Wheldon

The superspeedways, with the cars we have at Andretti Green Racing, you can get to the front pretty quick,

Jimmy Johnson

The thing I don't like, ... is the five Roush cars can go on a tear and nobody says anything, then we go out and win a race and so we've got to be cheating. It does get frustrating, but I choose to take it as a compliment.

Robbie Reiser

Saving those many tests (last year) looked good on paper, but to try to take the group you have and run tests and run races and keep cars prepared during the Chase was too much to ask,

Tom Larsen

There will be tens of thousands of cars with flood damage. You'll have fleets where people didn't go in to save the company cars.

Carl Herrman

It was a particularly nice project for me. I went to high school and college in the '50s, so these are the cars I was in love with. They are the cars I remember.

Robert H. Connelly

It was a huge double-wide and it just went into the water and it just disintegrated. It was picking up cars and throwing them around like toothpicks.

Scott Jasek

There are plenty of other cars we can use and we will definitely do that. We just hope we find this one.

Greg Biffle

We share information really well together all the teams do and we give each other racing room, ... It's fun to race with Matt and these other guys. Man, it's just unbelievable that our cars run this good.

Greg Biffle

We share information really well together ? all the teams do ? and we give each other racing room, ... It's fun to race with Matt and these other guys. Man, it's just unbelievable that our cars run this good.

Al Edwards

Defensively, we picked it up and got some easy steals.

Tony Domenech

So you no longer have an absentee landlord - easy solution.

Glen Johnson

Roy is an easy step up for Joe, a marketing tool, but if he wants to fight someone with prestige and credibility then it would be me or Tarver.

Jerry Bailey

This is as easy as you can win,

James Reilly

This is not going to be an easy year,

Brian Sandoval

Changing course is never easy.

Lance Gross

It's an honor to be a part of Magic Shave as their new ambassador. One of the problems that some African-American men have with shaving is razor bumps. Magic Shave is perfect because once you eliminate the razor, you eliminate the bumps, and it's so easy to use.

Karisma Kapoor

Today what is more important for me is performance. At the risk of sounding immodest, I have done it all - 61 movies over 12 years. But now I am looking for quality. It's easy to be a star. Now I want to be an actress.

Bret McKenzie

I'm easy to get along with, and intolerant.

Gavin Patterson

After years of hype, delays, skepticism and then disappointment, it is a welcome relief to say that WCDMA has finally come of age. Preliminary figures show that end-2005 there were 44.42 million WCDMA subscribers worldwide, an increase of 163.62% over the 16.85 million subs registered as of Dec. 31, 2004.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I like to keep my girlish figure

Bill Zollars

Given that third quarter was revised upward significantly, I am skeptical that growth was so low and I will wait until we have the final figures to judge.

Isaiah Mustafa

If a woman is into me, it usually takes me awhile to figure that out. She has to hit me over the head with it.

Tonya Harding

I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.

Brendan Wilders

The figures were broadly in line with our expectations.

John Wilson

You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.

Eric Lascelles

It's hard to imagine that individual month-to-month figures are going to have much bearing.

Nick Offerman

Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.

Maryann Keller

These were people who grew up inside those companies,

Corneille Ewango

I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.

Scott Weiland

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.

Tim Thomas

That's what you want as a player, to play the way you grew up on the playground and YMCA. Look around here. Guys here are loose.

Mike Grell

That's not even a question. You go with what you grew up with.

Odette Annable

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

Erik Hassle

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, which has probably informed the way that I sing on my tracks.

Lori Petty

The first things I did was I was a writer, painter, and photographer, and we grew up very poor, so even though I could get into any college I wanted, there was no way to pay for it.

Laura Wade

I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.

William Cowper

Stop, while ye may; suspend your mad career!

Tom Phillips

These are all make-weight arguments, because somebody is mad about something,

Bram Stoker

I sometimes think we must all be mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

Brandon Sanderson

I am what the universe made me to be, my dear.

Candy Crowley

I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.

C. S. Lewis

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

Diana Vreeland

Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.

Diana Wynne Jones

Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.

Brandon Boyd

Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.

Jim Riccitelli

You never want to give the other team momentum for a long time, so fortunately we took it away.

Brett Ratner

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

Barbara Mandrell

I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.

Ayelet Waldman

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

Brian Sandoval

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

Brenda Song

I'm a huge breast cancer awareness advocate because my mom went through breast cancer recently. It really brought our family closer.

Carine Roitfeld

I'm always anxious when it comes to my kids. This always makes me feel very vulnerable. Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama, you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.

Miley Cyrus

I never had, like, a nanny that took care of me. My mom always fed me breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Miley Cyrus

Every day after work, my mom and I go shopping. My dad is about to kill me. I say, We need it, daddy!

Thomas Ligotti

Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.

Gertrude Stein

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

Louise Brown

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

John Bankhead

It's very peculiar that he isn't ... We're investigating to find out why.

Djuna Barnes

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

Howard Bloom

Our planet has a peculiar wobble - its precession. And that precession produces upheavals in our weather, weather alterations we cycle through every 22,000, 41,000 and 100,000 years.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

Ed Goeas

People tell us it is a problem, and they want it to be fixed.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Ricky Skaggs

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Romeo Miller

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.

Reggie Bush

For the teams that are going to be playing us, you just better be ready.

Carmelo Anthony

If we win playing ugly ball, we'll take it.

Steven Wright

Do you have any toy train schedules?

Mo Ibrahim

I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have a biplane, I don't have anything. Those things are toys, and I don't need them to be happy.

Joe Simpson

It's not surprising. But it's going to be weird not working all of those games.