Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morris Gleitzman

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.

Joan Maloney

I was stunned by how expressive these different hands were; the faces became the distraction.

Anna Madorsky

I was skating for all the wrong reasons. It became a job. The coach-student relationship wasn't clicking the way it used to. It wasn't fun anymore. I was completely burned out. I was just done.

Oscar Hoya

I would have loved to have met Elvis Presley, ... He was the King. It's very interesting to me; the way he grew up, the demons he battled, how he handled the pressure and how, after a while, it became a burden he couldn't carry.

Joshua Malina

I grew up and I was weaned on the Marx Brothers. They were sort of my all-time favorite. My parents showed me their movies when I was very young. And as I got older, I became a Charlie Chaplin fan, and I love Buster Keaton.

Nicki Baker

She was working here before me. We became friends through the food court.

Tracy Austin

So many times in the past on the women's side of the draw you'd really have to wait until the second week before it became a little more interesting. But with Serena, I think her first matches will be extremely enjoyable to watch because of the curiosity factor: How fit is she, how well is she going to play?

Bertrand Russel

Since evolution became fashionable, the glorification of Man has taken a new form.

Philip Hoffman

She brought up four kids alone, and for that she deserves congratulations. She took me to my first play ... and her passions became my passions.

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.

Timothy Ghriskey

There have been few negative pre-announcements and a number of positive ones, ... Third-quarter earnings should be strong and that should continue to support the stock market. But there will always be pullbacks and volatility. There's always the potential for people to sell the news and you may see that in the short term.

Mark Jensen

We are struggling offensively right now, but this group is determined to turn it around. Regardless of the struggles, they continue to work hard to get better. I am proud of the fact that they won't give up. It shows what they are made of.

Thomas Carr

We are strong, we are well prepared...to continue to meet the needs of Montgomery County.

Elie Wiesel

We are still here. And no matter what, we shall continue to be here to tell people so they can learn from our history.

Lewis Booth

We are going to do what we said we would do and continue to work on the cost side.

John MacPhee

We are going to continue moving forward with implementing the remediation plan,

Julian Luna

We are going to continue at the level that we started. If anything, the testing will probably increase once we determine if the pre-race or post-race method is better.

Angela Kohler

We have felt for a long time that the stock is worth $30 or better and continue to think that.

Jason Gibson

We decided to go in another direction at quarterback. He's (Leak) a big, strong kid and he's got a big-time arm.

Olga Pomar

We don't think the residents of Cramer Hill should be forced out of their homes and that their homes should be taken by eminent domain. They had already selected the developer and decided on the proposal they would use before they had objectively evaluated the neighborhood and heard from the public.

Matthew Burns

Since I've been sick all week, I got really bored, so I decided to make my mom a holder.

Nancy Allen

Since it happened in our area, and it?s the Oxford Lions, we thought we?d step up. We decided last Thursday at our meeting. We wanted to get it out and do it quick.

Maris Ziedins

I didn't know whether it was going in or not, so I decided to poke out my stick and redirect it. It was a quick decision.

Sharon Tate

My whole life has been decided by fate. I think something more powerful than we are decides our fates for us. I know one thing - I've never planned anything that ever happened to me.

Audra Paquette

I wasn't sure what I wanted to do for college, but when I decided to go to the University of New Hampshire I didn't have enough money to pay for it.

Tracy Sutton

We finally decided to play. Those first three innings, we were as flat as a pancake. It was a hot day. I was hot just sitting in the dugout. I think it took us a while to shake the heat off.

Valentino Rossi

I thought it was possible but then I decided it was too risky and after that I knew that the lap was gone and I had lost my advantage.

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Richard King

We should all have the opportunity to express what we want to express.

Abraham Lincoln

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

Haywood Nelson

I had the opportunity to do what I enjoy.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.

Alec Guinness

Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.

Demi Lovato

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Clarice Lispector

Love is so much more deadly than I had thought, love is so much inherent as the very lack, and we are guaranteed by a need to be renewed continuously. Love is now, is forever. There is just the blow of grace - call it passion.

Aristotle

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Publilius Syrus

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

Angie Martinez

The projects I'm working on are all diverse, but each represents a different passion for me. I'm constantly looking to stretch myself.

Michelle Obama

Be passionate about something and lean to that strength.

Matthew Davis

If a show is good, it helps people learn about themselves, in some way and in some function. Whatever the genre is, if it's executed well, audiences grow and learn from it, and that's where their passion and enthusiasm comes from.

Mark Shields

All about midterm elections is turnouts. And turnout is measured by enthusiasm, intensity, how interested are people. And President Obama - candidate Obama had it on his side in 2008. The Democrats had it on their side in 2006. The enthusiasm, the intensity, the passion was all on their side.

Marina Tsvetaeva

What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize, looking into the night that no one turning over our letters has yet understood how completely and how deeply faithless we are, which is to say: how true we are to ourselves.

Timothy Leary

Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others...

Claire Danes

I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.

Chris Martin

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.

Marshall McLuhan

When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.

Patrick Lussier

If people enjoy the film, it can be really intriguing to see what created that film, how each one of those unique components came together, who the people are who did it and what it meant to them to do it.

Nawal El Saadawi

What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.

Mark Wahlberg

That whole world, the world of bodybuilding to me is fascinating. It's such a unique and interesting culture, and everything about it appeals to me.

Mark Buchanan

Once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing. God's solution is surprising. He offers rest. But it's a unique form of rest. It's to rest in him in the midst of our threats and our burdens. It's discovering, as David did in seasons of distress, that God is our rock and refuge right in the thick of our situation.

Mark Batterson

What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.

Marian McPartland

Duke Ellington is my choice for many reasons. Nobody has written so many great pieces of music, which are everlasting, and he has made them available to the world through his orchestrations of his work in a unique way. Lastly, he was himself a fine pianist. He covers the entire musical spectrum with his genius.