Famous Quotes & Sayings

Burn Gorman

I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Empire' and 'Hot Dog' had great reviews, and finally he's been accepted as the new Bond. So many millions go into that franchise that if you make a mistake, it's awful.

Joseph Estrada

Let's leave it to the Senate, I will accept whatever is the verdict of the Senate,

Travis Hedrick

Lord I believe your promises. I receive your provision. I walk in you blessings. I live by your grace. I accept your mercy. I long for your embrace.

Sarah Ferguson

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off!

James Sensenbrenner

Senators, don't be fooled by the president's excuses and spin control, ... The facts and the evidence clearly show that he knew what he was doing was to deceive everyone, including the grand jury. He and his defenders are still in denial. They will not accept the consequence of his repeated and criminal attempts to defeat the judicial process.

Vivian Covard

She was never going to say she couldn't do something. She would never accept defeat.

Jan Egeland

More is currently at stake in terms of lives saved or lost in Africa than on any other continent. As humanitarian workers, we cannot accept that so many lives are lost every year on this continent to preventable diseases, neglect and senseless brutality.

Pierre Pettigrew

never accept such hatred, intolerance and anti-Semitism. Never.

Robin Cook

For years Libya has promised that it would accept a court without jury meeting in a third country. That way forward is now open to them,

Tom Vierhile

It's the granddaddy of health claims. To even get in the game with certain food categories like dairy products you have to have a low-fat offering.

Khalil Dulaimi

We have not been duly informed about any certain date for a trial.

Dr. Bartzokis

Now we can measure it very specifically with certain MRI techniques.

Juan Lazcano

Freddie's a great trainer and a great person, and I'm just glad to be back with him and on good terms. I was without him for one fight, and that was the Castillo fight. I could feel it. But sometimes we have to go through certain things. It's OK. I take the experience, and I like to think that I'm better for it.

Madeline Kahn

From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.

Christian Camargo

For reasons I don't fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal.

Matt Lauer

From time to time, the show has moved in a certain direction -- softer or harder. But obviously we hope that world events dictate the direction we go in.

Anthony Waichulis

From time to time there are certain political statements, but they are not revolutionary, just matter-of-fact observations.

Tony Castro

From the very beginning, she was under the impression that if she did certain things, the charges would go away.

James Taylor

I don't reinvent myself in any major way. It seems to be a slow evolution. I go back and visit certain themes that I feel strongly about and resonate with me emotionally.

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Karolyn Grimes

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

Steve Bennett

I think it's going to continue to be difficult. They won't be working together.

Eddy Curry

I think it's going to continue spreading throughout the league because what players are finding is once they try them they really work. It's not just a fashion thing.

Greg Kennett

I think it's going to be tough playing in Des Moines over the weekend because Drake has a home court advantage. We are going to continue our same strategy, which is winning the doubles point and winning down low. If we keep our course, I think we will be in good shape.

Craig Thomas

I think it's fair to say if I'm going to continue working, I can do more for Wyoming with my seniority in the Senate than as governor.

Steve Nicol

I think it's been a steady focus. So far this year we've done it, and we need to continue to do it. It's good to hear the guys think that way; that's where they want to go.

Rick Johnson

I think it's been a group effort. We've got a ways to go, but we're making strides every day. And it's been through a group effort. I think those relationships are solid, and hopefully they'll continue that way.

David Whiles

I think it's an important vehicle for them to continue to help us meet their needs in terms of system design and usability of the system.

Angie Martinez

The fact that they're taking this service away is disheartening.

Anton Corbijn

I'm not totally blind to the fact that I like people to see my work, but if it's not something I would enjoy seeing in a magazine, then I think I shouldn't be making it. I think that I don't represent only myself, I represent more people; I mean, if I like it, then I think more people will like it because I think I'm quite a normal guy.

Brad Gushue

I'm not too worried about the last two (Olympic failures), because we're not the same team, other than the fact it was Canada. It's four different individuals on the ice. So I'm not worried about the past.

Gary Bettman

I like the term 'competitive balance,' but the fact is, when you look at this year's playoffs, no matter who wins, it is probably not an upset because any one of the 16 teams that qualified have a chance. The regular season was exciting. There were 24 teams in the hunt until just about the end. Then, when you look at these series, the playoffs are off to a strong start.

Ann Beattie

I like the notion that people are appreciative of the fact that my work is sometimes allusive and that there is an interrelationship of the arts.

Eddie Trunk

I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

Jim Tressel

I'm awfully proud of the fact that they have progressed, and that we have gotten better and we have gotten five wins.

Owen Fitzpatrick

If the number had been too strong, people would translate into the fact that the Fed would have to raise rates over a longer period of time.

Andy Bryant

I really think that we underestimated the fact that we would have a strong seasonal fourth quarter,

Graham Nelson

The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned.

Linda Evans

Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television.

Charles Stross

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Ambrose Bierce

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

Tommy Stalnaker

I hope we don't have any more that size any time soon.

Charles Djou

I hope we can work something out by the end of the month.

Bud Selig

I hope we can. This has been a long journey. ... I don't see that we have a choice.

Warren Lawrence

I hope we can take this momentum into Tuesday night and get us a win.

Aaron Boone

I hope we can still sneak in there. Hopefully, we can get it done and come in here and watch TV.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Alfred Molina

My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.

Alex Ebert

Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Ideally, I send it in a flow of truth.

Aldo Leopold

The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us the creek is now able to carry off more flood water, but in the process we have lost our old willows where the owl hooted on a winter night and under which the cows switched flies in the noon shade. We lost the little marshy spot where our fringed gentians bloomed.

Ali Liebegott

I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.

Ali Smith

I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.

Alexander Herzen

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

Josh Miller

We want to be out there as much as players and managers want us to be out there. We do this job because we love it. It's not to get rich or to get famous. But we also have to survive.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Victor Hugo

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

George Washington

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Joe Biden

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

John F. Kennedy

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

James Madison

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

Jimi Hendrix

There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.

Morris Gleitzman

Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.

George Orwell

I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.