Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicole Ari Parker

I had a brilliant drama teacher while I was at Roland Park: Ann Mainolfi. But the school was mostly rich in academics. It wasn't like I was prepping myself for a life in acting. There, you prepped yourself to have a stable future. The school's piece de resistance is college prep - it didn't teach you how to audition for a TV show.

Paul Eenhoorn

I was in a band till I was about 17; then I went to television, and I spent seven years doing that. When I came to Seattle, I started to audition for things. The passion's always there, and that's what's been the hard thing: to fit that passion into a normal life. You can't do it. You can't have a normal life and pursue this dream.

Melinda Clarke

Usually pilot season is very busy, and there are lots of auditions and lots of near misses and rejections. This year, I had two auditions, landed this role and it felt like being home again.

John Burns

Voting should go quickly once people learn how to use the touch screen. It's better in a whole lot of ways than printed ballots. An election can be certified in two days. It should also minimize recounts. The old paper ballot machines would sometimes miscount the ballot and sometimes two ballots would go through instead of one. The touch screen will leave a paper audit trail and recover everything each voter does.

E. O. Wilson

With the distractions of the recent audit committee investigations largely behind us, we expect much improved management focus and quality of execution in this business during the second half of the year. Going forward, we can and expect to do better.

Madonna Ciccone

Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

Patina Miller

'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.

Mimi Kennedy

I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business - people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can't just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you've brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.

Jake Johnson

My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really liked it, and then saw me in a movie called 'Ceremony' because she knew Max Winkler and said, 'I want you to be in 'No Strings Attached,' but you gotta audition for it.' From that it was easier for her to get me in 'New Girl.'

Yanis Varoufakis

My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

Imelda May

Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.

Ian Mckellen

When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

Gilbert Hernandez

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

Donald Trump

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

Zac Efron

If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

William Kamkwamba

People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you.

Cynthia McKinney

The 9/11 Omission: Did the Commission Get it Wrong?

John Poindexter

The 9/11 Commission is identifying the exact problems that we were trying to get technology to solve. So I keep pushing the idea.

Candy Olson

We can't just keep hoping the county commission will do right by these kids.

Laura Martin

We have the Racial and Cultural Diversity Commission which translates and publishes our press releases into Latino magazines.

Michael Copps

Today the Federal Communications Commission empowers America's new media elite with unacceptable levels of influence over the ideas and information upon which our society and our democracy depend,

Jack Evans

We will respond quickly and comprehensively to any requests for information from the Commission on this complaint, but no such requests have been received so far.

Stephen Williams

We have been working for some time on this commission and the purchaser is a long standing customer of ours. Even though we regularly work on commissions to source rare wines this one has been particularly gratifying.

Thomas Vinje

Microsoft has been playing games with the Commission from the beginning, but now it realizes its time is up.

J. Taylor

Microsoft continues to be open to working with partners and competitors, alike, to jointly commission research that helps all our customers engage in an informed and respectful debate on the facts.

Wen Jiabao

I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress.

Wen Jiabao

It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

Zubin Mehta

I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

John Malone

The pilots understand. It's a critical time period.

David Thewlis

Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.

Noah Baumbach

I can feel pretty critical of people, and I understand that sort of feeling of when you're going through something that's painful, taking it out on the world and projecting onto other people, finding faults with other people because it's harder to find faults in yourself.

Sergei Lavrov

The Americans have taken the course of confrontation and do not assess their own steps critically at all.

Kristy Curry

That would have been critical to us. It was a gutsy play by her. Thank goodness she was set.

Katherine Harris

We will all remember these times as some of the most critical and defining in our nation's history,

Yolanda Adams

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

Ian Mcewan

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

Wendy Kopp

Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.

Wendy Kopp

People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.

Wendy Kopp

Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.

Ezra Taft Benson

Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education, and a higher standard of living.

Bill Harris

The political parties don't fight over whether education is important. They know it is.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Wole Soyinka

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.

Wayne Pacelle

Most ethical hunters see that as an objectionable way to act. This is not hunting, it is an open-air abattoir (slaughterhouse).

Joe Jamail

I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.

Don Seymour

John Boehner has ties to K Street, but they're ethical ones.

Peter Butler

I think it is the moral and ethical problems that we face, and that's where there needs to be full and frank public debate, and that's where I would like to raise the issues,

Andrew McLaughlin

We take our ethical and moral issues super-seriously. As an information company, freedom of speech and expression are fundamental to our purpose.

Albert Einstein

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

Ellis Rubin

The proof was overwhelming. This was the only professional and ethical thing to do.

Adrian Grenier

Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well.

Peggy Kerns

States are doing this for two reasons. They want to be ethical institutions, and they want the skeptical public to view them as ethical institutions.

Chris MacMillan

I don't think it's fiscally possible to do.

Shari Brannock

We've been very fiscally responsible in the past. Our taxpayers can look forward to that.

Tom Greene

We've been increasingly fiscally conservative, knowing this could happen.

John Sununu

Social Security modernization will result in a retirement system that is stronger and more fiscally sound than the pay-as-you-go system we have today.

Alan Autry

It's all about moving this state forward to get this state fiscally sound.

Marjorie Smith

We would like to keep the drive-in if it remains fiscally operative.

Jim Roberts

That's what we're trying to do. We're trying to do it in a fiscally responsible manner. But I don't think there is a perfect solution out there.

Phil Angelides

There's no question we're in worse shape fiscally than when this governor took over,

Tom DeLay

He's not even trying to be fiscally responsible,

David Neal

His writing is impeccable and his story sense is acute.

Alex Berenson

As a public servant, William H. Webster has an impeccable resume.

Richard Branson

We are used to transporting millions of people ... transporting them safely. And we want to keep that impeccable record so. We know what our priorities are.

Yajur Veda

Your morality is impeccable and that is why I am inspired by you.

William Hazlitt

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

F. Stone

The annuals, the yearbooks, brochures and programs of old plays and musicals...that all tells the story about what they did.

Ed Swanson

That was huge. The kid's got guts. She can be 0-for-6 from 3, and she's going to shoot that seventh shot the way she shot that first shot. She plays with confidence.

Greg Graham

That was a tough one. We made all the plays down the stretch. We got big stops, we just ran out of time.

Maryann Mitts

We just didn't connect. We didn't make the plays and they did.

Kelly Sears

We just didn't come up with the plays at the right times.

Brian Hill

We had our chances. That's what it comes down to in tight games. Who is going to make the shots, make the plays at the end of the game.

Rhett Bomar

We have the plays that will work and we know what to do.

Derrick Coleman

We were sluggish, and they just made more of the toughness plays than we did.

Wayne Gretzky

We've talked about this for it seems like months. When the team plays disciplined, plays smart and plays the way that they need to play to be successful, we have some success.

Roger Short

Typically, we provide at least one, two or three (candidates) that are very strong.

Rachel Johnson

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

Dawn Medley

We provide them with different options. It's not just a cookie-cutter decision.

Jon Davis

We provide everything students need: knowledge, equipment; we've got it all.

Thomas Kelly

We provided about a quarter of the community's blood.

Abdullah Gul

We are ready to provide every sort of help,

Fred Becker

I think it's always important to think about what the other side is going to do before you do something or how the other side is going to react, and he will be able to provide that to our thought process.

Joseph Kabila

Whatever happens, if there are summits we will be there, provided it takes place after the funeral,

Antoine Lavoisier

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

Gordon Campbell

We can't look at the results we've had and say those are the results we want.

Gustav Humbert

We're very satisfied with the test results and are on target.

Brett Tomko

I thought I pitched pretty well, but I've had the same results all year,

Hariadi Wibisono

We got the results back from Atlanta, and they were positive.

Glen Taylor

I think Sam is a closer, which is what we could have used right now. Sam could do that. The results are Sam is probably having a better year than Marko is having.

Joe Escobedo

It doesn't take 18 months; it doesn't take 18 days. The results were immediate.

Tony Marshall

I feel rapt that we will now see the tangible results of the money.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Cathy Rigby

I will jump into most any role.

Arsene Wenger

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

John Meehan

I think it would water down the commissioners role and take away some of their authority.

Bill Belichick

He's a role player. His role's to play every snap. He does so many things well in so many situations. He's so dependable. You want him in there for everything.

Rodrigo Santoro

I take a role because it makes sense to me, rationally.

Shane Victorino

Whatever my role is, I'm going to do my best. It's all I ever wanted.

Tommy Gibbons

We are functioning in a support role for the county.

Kelly Hu

There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.

O. Singh

He has not said what his role was. If he is responsible then he should be booked, and the sooner the better.

George Allen

I have no intention of running for office again.

C. S. Lewis

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

C. S. Lewis

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

C. S. Lewis

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

C. S. Lewis

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

C. S. Lewis

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

Catullus

What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

Catullus

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

Bikram Choudhury

Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?

V. S. Naipaul

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

C. S. Lewis

What do they teach them at these schools?

Cathy Rigby

In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.

Carrie Preston

Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.

Carrie Brownstein

Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the structures that help make me whole." Family, or school, or the city I live in. When those structures are dysfunctional or decaying, you end up kind of Frankensteining pieces from everywhere in order to make yourself sated and comfortable and alive.

Carrie Underwood

I did most of my volunteer work when I was in college because I knew of more ways to get involved. In high school, we'd do things like, there was a homeless shelter near our hometown and our church group decorated one of the rooms. In college, I was in a sorority, and we did a lot of things, like pick up trash on the highway.

Carrie Underwood

I'm about the only person in my family that's made it to 24 without being married. That's the way it works where I'm from. Most people, if you find someone to marry in high school, you do that, and if you don't find that, then you find someone in college.

Bill Burr

I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.

Diana Ross

Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Amber Heard

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Wole Soyinka

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

John Carey

That was a time when they weren't really sure if things were going to come together, ... And they sure did!

Starhawk Starhawk

That would be great, but I am not so sure it will be that easy.

Tom Jackson

We can surely try to be there for them.

Mark Zuckerberg

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

John Runion

We have the talent; now we just have to make sure everyone's working in the same direction.

Steve Jobs

We're working on that too, but I'm not so sure it will be successful.

Scooter Smith

We just want to make sure we're all together and to have a little fun.

Todd Abernethy

Winning at the end would be big. I don't think it wipes everything out ... that's a lot of games. But it sure would help. It would give us a winning season, and that's better than I've ever done here.