Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Clark

Anytime anyone can do something academically, then kids see it everywhere. Now with ISTEP it's not just English, language arts and math, it's also science in fifth grade. That will trickle down eventually.

Joe Wilcox

Any time anyone asks for your credit card number online when you already have an account, consider that to be a fraudulent spam mail.

Roger Payne

As far as I know, the use of the word 'slave' has never been even proposed by anyone as offensive.

Benny Gray

As hot as it is, I can't imagine anyone wanting to burn. Hopefully, we'll get some rain before the first of October.

Jerry Klein

As far as participation, this is the best showing anyone can remember since sometime in the '90s. It was fantastic.

Ben Jacobson

As far as we're concerned, we're 100 percent positive. Unfortunately, we don't have anyone on this team on the selection committee.

Shaun Stenshol

As far as bio-diesel rental cars, I don't know of anyone else doing it in the world.

James Gallagher

As far as anyone knows, and officials have checked, there was no wreck and Junior was not dead.

Paul Miller

As far as anyone knew, she was just a good Samaritan who had tried to help this guy.

Richard Shim

As computer users become more mobile, you widen the liability and the risk. Notebook computer makers have to offer these features because corporate clients are asking for them.

Yvonne Hester

As a part of the requirement by the city, we are asking the developer to construct an open channel following our master drainage plan.

Scott Price

As a community, we're asking for reasonable support marching toward the future.

John Paxson

The bottom line, ... is if Eddy had not had any incident and a doctor hadn't suggested it, we wouldn't be asking for it.

Ralph Krueger

A very special day for Swiss ice hockey and a very special day for this group of individuals that believed this was possible and never stopped believing. Beginning with The Wall in net, Martin Gerber , unbelievable penalty killing, and a lot of courage from players who just a few years ago were asking for autographs from the players they faced today.

Larry Woolsey

A week ago Saturday we saw five moose on the trail. These ladies from California were asking if we ordered them up special for them.

Jeremy Aguero

Average asking rates jumped 8 percent the past 12 months. And increases during the coming year are anticipated to be in the 8 to 12 percent range due to stable demand and rising development costs.

Drew Busby

At school, myself and some pals, all football-daft, divided up the old English First Division and wrote off to half a dozen clubs each asking for a trial.

Barbara Cartland

A woman asking ''Am I good? Am I satisfied?'' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

Michael Korda

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

Kate Fox

The British male is either reticent, tongue-tied and awkward, or boorish and crass, and he usually consumes too much alcohol. English male flirting tends to be very circuitous, and involves a lot of insults rather than compliments.

Alan Johnson

The British government was disappointed that the meeting did not make more progress but relieved it did not end in failure like Cancun and Seattle.

John Scarlett

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

Jessie Matthews

The songwriters were introduced to me as ordinary human beings; they would play their songs, and sometimes I would start to sing a song with them.

Rhona Mitra

I wanted to go out and experience the fields.

Lord Acton

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Shahid Malik

the most profound challenge yet faced by the British Muslim community.

Martin Rees

Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become.

Danielle Harris

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

John Coates

We are directing most of the funding where it is most appropriate. The new funds will be expended within the programs that are operating - aerials, moguls, skating - the sports where there are more potential medals for our money.

Richard Ayoade

I was directing before I started doing 'The IT Crowd.' It wasn't something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.

David Schwimmer

Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college with my theatre company.

Peter Jackson

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

Andrew McCarthy

So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view.

Arthur Miller

A playwright . . . is . . . the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's gre

H. Hunt

This is, for us, kind of an opening salvo. We want them to know we are as mad as hell and we aren't going to take it anymore.

Diana Vreeland

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.

Charles Bukowski

The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.

Peter Hargreaves

I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.

David Morse

There's something wrong there, because if he was supposed to put 1,000 miles on it, I don't know when the hell he had the time to do it,

Donald Trump

I will knock the hell out of ISIS.

Alfred Kahn

Pan Am can go to hell.

Aldous Huxley

Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.

Joe Torre

Randy's more into challenging himself than something else has to stimulate him.

Ruben Patterson

(Anthony) can't do it all by himself each and every night.

Ben Caspit

One day, the prime minister might find himself in one contretemps too many, too late. It could be, incidentally, that that is where he is today.

Raymond Chandler

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean.

Augustine Birrell

An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Ron Gardenhire

He's staying within himself right now. He's been working very hard. Hopefully it's going to pay off for him.

Tom Renney

He started to push himself as he got more comfortable with the brace.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

Lloyd Carr

Max put himself right in the middle of our running back situation.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Mike Rumph

This is not a stopgap, ... It might be like this for a while.

Daunte Culpepper

That's how it is. You might go through a stretch like that sometimes. Hopefully, I'll go through a stretch when I throw 12 or 15 touchdowns in a row without a pick.

Dakota Blue Richards

As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.

Daniel Sharman

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

Rick Riordan

As a teacher, I've never seen anything like 'Harry Potter.' That's why I smart when people talk about the 'next' 'Harry Potter.' There is no 'next' 'Harry Potter.'

Rocco Calo

As a stockholder myself, I want to see the stock do well but I also want to see them treat people well.

Shawn Amos

As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.

John Eales

As a captain, it's important to have the right people around you,

Peter Ueberroth

As a lot of people said, 'The U.S. is back,' in a way. We were well received.

Ray Santiago

As a kid, I wanted to be the person running from the monster. I also wanted to be the person saving people from the monster. I wanted to be a superhero.

W. H. Murray

The big thing is getting more infrastructure in place so that people can just pull up and get the fuel.

Jeremy Trill

Things are going very well. I am surprised how well it's going.

Frank Sacks

This is really groundbreaking. We were very surprised by this data.

Dan Garton

Do they like what we're doing? No. Are they surprised by it? No.

Steve Smith

We weren't surprised by any of them. We were just surprised by so many of them. In my recollection, that's the most anomalies that's ever come up.

Dana Cody

We are disappointed but not surprised with the judge's ruling.

Janet Reno

I was surprised that there were so many

Jim Noonan

I was surprised that one didn't go in too.

Tom Poti

I was surprised I had that much time.

George Whalin

I would be very surprised if Kmart doesn't completely go away in the two to three years, or become something completely different,

Daniel Handler

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Aristotle

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Dave Mustaine

Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady.

John Sullivan

We think it's wonderful that he will get to live the American dream.

Cynthia Nixon

What is wonderful to see is how incredibly affectionate and physically affectionate Nancy Reagan was, you know? She was so on her guard, she was threatened by just about everybody.

Cory Hardrict

Lovelace was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it cant get no better than that, right?

Clive Barker

There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.

Donald Trump

I pay tax, and I pay federal tax, too. But I have a write-off, a lot of it's depreciation, which is a wonderful charge. I love depreciation.