Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Rockwell

I would take the wrong approach for a teacher, I guess... But there was always someone in a class who would raise an objection to my way. They'd want to get into an argument with me. And I was no good at arguing. So I figured if that was what teaching was like, I better leave it to someone who knows how to maneuver an argument. I'd stick to what I knew-painting. So I didn't stay long at the Los Angeles County Artists School.

Dennis Taylor

There are so many great teams in the Los Angeles area, ... After I retired (from UCLA) and got into coaching club diving, it was like starting from scratch. It's harder to get back on top now, the sport is so good.

Antonio Villaraigosa

has worked to relieve traffic congestion, reduce the impact of development on city streets and ensure the safety of the millions of drivers who commute on Los Angeles streets.

Brad Smith

In the next few years, we're looking to cluster stations and vehicles in the Los Angeles and New York areas.

Jason Lewis

I'm wary of the whole Los Angeles scene. I'm a California kid, but there's a difference between California and Los Angeles. L.A. is urban. California is restorative.

Robert Stromberg

I moved out to Los Angeles with the idea of becoming a director, which thousands, if not tens and hundreds of thousands, of people do, every year. It's a very competitive field, of course. I immediately got swept away into the visual side of things, starting with visual effects, and then designing.

Kayla Ewell

I'm one of the only actresses in Los Angeles who has never waited tables - yet - and I'm so terrible at holding trays. When we shot the 'Vampire Diaries' pilot, I totally spilled water all down Nina Dobrev, and she had to get her hair and make-up redone.

Jim Haslett

I flew out to Los Angeles to tape a one-hour show, and it took 5 1/2 hours. I called my wife and said, 'Screw this stuff.' I just wanted the opportunity to coach again. I'm around guys who are friends and good football coaches. I think it's going to be a good experience.

Tim Leiweke

I'm very grateful to Dave and appreciative of his 29 years of service to the Los Angeles Kings. He has been loyal to the Kings sweater from day one and continues to be. We have offered him an opportunity to remain with the organization in a capacity to be determined. That decision is his and will be dependent on his discussions in the future with our new leadership.

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.

Laura Vandervoort

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

Bob Wietharn

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

Pat Clark

Our numbers grew approximately 20 kids this year.

Josie Bissett

I prefer to be a mother in the Pacific Northwest! I grew up outside of Seattle and personally find it to be the most beautiful place in the world.

Joyce Kesse

I guess the Internet grew so fast, so quickly, there probably needs to be regulations on these very same things.

Jemima West

I'm completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.

Rob Lowe

I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my culture.

Juliette Goglia

I love singing! I grew up in musical theater.

Davis Love

Jack's got a loss and a tie. We'd like to get him a win.

Debbie Carter

He said he got disoriented and lost his sense of direction.

J. Horton

He's been there and done that. He won some big games, he lost some tough games. He made some big plays, he missed some plays.

Paula Carico

What do you do in a situation like this? I'm at a loss for words.

Gary Powers

When he walked Christensen, I thought he had lost it. I let him stay for two more batters and got us in a jam.

Derrick Landrus

To come back after the tough loss in the first game, we needed that.

Julian Sensley

I think we just got by on talent. If we were playing a WAC team right now, we might have lost this game.

Chad Kroeger

I was very upset, and for two months, if I saw his picture somewhere I would get angry, ... I hadn't lost somebody to a shooting before - it wasn't as though he'd been killed in some sort of accident. He was taken in such a horrible, malicious way that just made it more painful.

Antonio McDyess

I was a little more motivated for the win. It was my first finals. To lose like we did, I'm going to remember it for the rest of my life.

Warren Beaulah

We may just have to let him wear No. 44. I told him before the season that I have a lot of expectations for him. He hasn't quite met them.

Keith Richards

I haven't met him yet, I can't wait. I'm a Stones fan.

M. Powell

The object of the patrol method is not so much having the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

Paul Ricoeur

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

Lemmy Kilmister

We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

Pete Sampras

The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.

Hideo Kojima

It's not wether you were right or wrong, but how much faith you were willing to have - that decides the future.

Sophia Bush

It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

Andrew Heyward

Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.

Marc Berman

Each network has at least one new show that's doing well. That's a real positive. There's not a single network where everything bombed.

Bruce Kasrel

The network shouldn't have to make much difference. It's going to happen.

Joe Wilcox

It is the most visually oriented social networking application I have seen thus far.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Mitch Metcalf

It's the loneliest night of the week for network television and television in general.

Jill Abramson

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

E. B. White

The most vulnerable part of the network are the undersea pipelines.

Chris Morris

Now if you have a wireless network that won't connect, well, you need someone on-site.

Will Wright

Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.

Willard Scott

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

Bo Jackson

I always wanted to be a pilot.

Chuck Yeager

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

Felix Baumgartner

I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

Franz Liszt

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

Igor Sikorsky

The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.