Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Jay McLaren

I've seen an increasing willingness to hire Canadians for lead roles that shoot up here. When I started, they would always just fly in L.A. people to do the lead roles.

Terry Zeh

We have Canadians on our hockey team, obviously, but we also have a good number of Canadians in our general student population. It feels good for them, I think, to have that. And we're close to home for them so their families can see them play.

Nadeem Esmail

Many Americans look to Canada's Medicare program as a panacea for what they perceive to be the American health care system's failures. These wonderful visions of Canada's socialized health program tend to ignore the very real costs that system imposes on Canadians in need of medically necessary care: long wait times that can stretch into months or even years of painful and detrimental delay. The reality is that Canada's Medicare program is a model for no one, not even Canada.

Robert Johnston

We know that Canadians in some instances have not been fully satisfied with these chains.

Roger Gibbins

We have to take leadership of this file. If we're simply passive about it, just sit back and surround ourselves with the wealth and let other Canadians chew this over and decide what to do, we're going to lose control of the issue.

Aileen Carroll

We encourage, most sincerely, that Canadians donate generously in these last few hours,

Jim Flaherty

We're always flexible and pragmatic... It's always important to watch the unemployment rate and to make sure that we can keep most Canadians working. We were successful in that back in 2008-09.

Cindy Klassen

Gold is great. Having two Canadians on the podium is awesome.

Mark Bannister

If Canadians are going to smoke, they should be smoking only Canadian blends of tobacco.

Thomas Friedman

There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that you get the credentials you need to succeed.

Irwin M. Jacobs

While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

Gail Carson Levine

I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

Giraldus Cambrensis

The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.

Yuri Milner

We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.

Vanessa Hudgens

My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

Vanessa Hudgens

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

Billy Graham

Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.

Billy Graham

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

Elizabeth Warren

Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick.

Phyllis Moen

That works well when one person is a homemaker, ... That frees the other person to pursue their career, the prestige, the job security. And that worked for middle-class families in the middle of the 20th century. But today, there are very few families where there's a full-time homemaker.

James Donahue

We have two families that have intersected in time and the tragedy is horrendous and there's nothing we can do about it. It's just very, very sad.

David Vitek

We can send the families to see the stone in a place of reverence.

Peggy Noonan

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.

John Norris

We wanted to offer something new to the people who come to the park, who are mainly families from western New York.

Andre Brown

we've got so much stuff now, we're giving stuff to other people, other families that come from New Orleans.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened.

Ken Sunshine

Most celebrities work hard, they have families and want to spend time with their kids. It isn't that exciting.

David Friedman

It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.

Bethenny Frankel

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

Katy Miller

That was a surprise because if we see a special defense, it's usually a box-and-one on Ashleigh. It was frustrating and hard to get open. Now I know how Ashleigh feels sometimes. But now that I've been in her shoes, I see how important it is for us to set good screens to get her open.

Ed Belfour

That was a great win. I felt good tonight, I saw the puck well. It feels like things are getting back on track.

Kaitlin Carney

That was a great way to start the season. We were able to get off on the good foot and that's what we've been working toward. It really feels good, but we're just going to take it one game at a time.

Scott Eastwood

I like working with my hands. It feels good to build something yourself.

Mark Ronson

I think I have an inherent modest level of stress, but I'm only super-aware of it when it goes away, when I'm on holiday and I think, 'Oh this feels pretty good.'

Robin S. Sharma

I used to be incredibly afraid of public speaking. I started with five people, then I'd speak to 10 people. I made it up to 75 people, up to 100, and now I can speak to a very large group, and it feels similar to speaking to you one-on-one.

Rickey Henderson

I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first.

Abraham Lincoln

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Evangeline Lilly

In every one of the 'Squickerwonker' books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally leads to their undoing.

Deborah Eisenberg

I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.

Nikki Reed

What is important is to treat everyone like an individual and learning not to generalize autism. With autism, people make assumptions, but it's very broad, and everyone's so different. You have to treat each person as an individual.

Sean Maher

I love 'Richard III,' but in terms of a general play, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' has always been a big one for me. It's just so sexy.

Scott Rudin

I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.

Roger Stone

The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.

Mark Zuckerberg

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I'm generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we're providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we're doing so well on so many of these things. I think it's important to have gratitude for that.

Jennifer Pahlka

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Charles Wang

Mike and I have been talking about it for quite a long time. He did suggest it once and I turned him down. I didn't think it was the right time. Mike will be involved as one of the trusted people in the hockey business.

Cammi Granato

Man or woman, Cammi Granato is one of the most impressive hockey leaders I've ever come across.

Dickie Moore

I think I'm just starting hockey again, I'm so nervous. It's a nerve-wracking position, really, to be honored in such a manner.

Tracy Egeland

We're not reinventing the wheel of hockey here. It's just simple things, and we did that here tonight. We do that, we can come at you with three lines and keep going and going.

Matisyahu Miller

I loved ice hockey. I used to play ice hockey. So, you know I wanted to be a hockey player.

Stephen Jarislowsky

I find it scandalous. Even a hockey player doesn't get that kind of money sometimes. Compensation should be lined up with results. How can you get compensation if you didn't do the work?

Petr Nedved

For me, the Number 1 thing is to play hockey and the rest of the things will work out.

Ken Holland

Go find a house. You made the hockey team.

Glen Hanlon

He was playing well enough to get called up last week but we want him to play his American Hockey League games.

Gabriel Mann

But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'

Zaha Hadid

Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.

Zach Braff

That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

Zac Efron

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Until a person has a home, they are always going to be dependent upon the system.

William Stone

If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.

Zubin Mehta

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

Yani Tseng

I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending.

Tom Schrader

The payrolls number is probably going to be in line, and we'll see another session of listless trading. But if it is something dramatic, we could see a violent reaction, one way or the other.

Cecelia Ahern

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

Carl Sagan

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Carl Sagan

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Bill Bryson

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

Bernard Arnault

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

Ashton Kutcher

The number of lines in your forehead tells how many lives you've lived.

William Mezger

Most of them are students and don't work at other times of the year.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Brian O'Reilly

We don't want to penalize students for something that was not their fault.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Steve Ferguson

What we want to do is make sure that students who come to Bloomington are already prepared.

Kenny Perry

He's a tremendous kid, a tremendous student of the game,

Becky Lofstead

He was a 4-point student from what I understand. Just an outstanding student.

Kevin Knight

I'd like to see every student be a part of their school, whether they are in sports, band, drama, or any other ac-tivity,