Famous Quotes & Sayings

Questlove

I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children.

Eddie Olczyk

When he was that disgusted, to be as animated as he was, just shows to me there was no way it was a penalty.

Eric Holder

I'd like to continue being involved with issues that animated my time as attorney general - criminal-justice reform and civil rights especially. I don't just want to give speeches; I'd like to involve myself in this work in a systematic way.

Andy Roddick

I'd also like to say props to the Chilean fans for coming out and being that passionate about their team. That's amazing. When the chips were down, though, our fans definitely stepped up as well and got pretty animated and pretty heated, which was fun.

Steve Tisch

He made it very clear to me and the other owners that the future of labor relations, player relations, union relations, is going to have to be decided (by today). I've never heard Paul more opinionated and more animated and more committed and passionate.

Mike Krzyzewski

Our big guys were more animated than they have been the entire season.

Jim Samples

Rescuing Recess is a part of Cartoon Network's overall GET ANIMATED program that encourages kids to lead active, healthy lifestyles and learn how to become advocates for issues that are important to them. Recess is the one time at school when kids get a break to have unstructured play, and serves as an essential part of their development. We want to arm kids, parents and teachers with tools to ensure that recess remains a part of the school day, so this is just the beginning of a larger Cartoon Network effort to empower our youth.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Children will respond to this on a different level than they normally respond to animated movies. They won't be entertained in the same way, but it will make them curious.

Thomas Gray

Can storied urn or animated bust / Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? / Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, / Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?

Russell Crowe

Just this one night is going to raise $1 million so I am going to get my nuts busted with jetlag for a couple of days, but it is really worth it.

Rich Harden

He's kind of been carrying us so far. He's such a great hitter, you knew he'd bust out with a big start sooner or later.

Charlie Whitehurst

I threw it to the wrong guy. They busted on defense, and it's kind of like they do the wrong thing, and it screws you up. I've got to make a play to somebody, and there's two or three guys open.

Rick Vrhovac

Players make plays. Coaches don't do anything except line them up. I take my hat off to my kids. They really busted their rear end tonight.

Doug Schreiber

Our offense was clicking in the final two games. We were able to bust it open and that is really good for our defense, pitching and coaches.

Anna Jarvis

I really busted my tail in (the 1,600). I got a PR (personal record) by about five seconds. This meet really motivated me.

Francis Claro

The current rationale is that the only good conglomerate is a busted one.

Terry Bowden

All head coaches do that! ... It's part of it. Now I get to bust people! It's part of it!

Brendan Wiseman

You don't have the hustle and bustle of the city. In town, everything is rush here and rush there. We're a little more kicked back out here.

James Jeffords

I was lucky to be able to call Christopher Reeve a friend.His passion for life and for improving the lives of all Americans serves an inspiration to all of us. He may have played the character of Superman in the movies, but he lived the role of a superman through his life.

Pierce Brosnan

I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing,

Tony Oliva

Kirby meant to me a lot. For me, it's like my own son. He used to call me 'Papa', too.

Gregory Craig

I would urge the relatives in Miami, if they truly want to get back together with Juan Miguel and his family, that they give me a call and let's talk about timing. Let's discuss this in a civilized way, rather than having national press conferences where demands are made.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Manny Fernandez

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

Rick Dunlap

I would say the ice fishing is what we call gravy. The lion's share is made in the summer and fall.

Mark DiCamillo

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Brian Finnerty

I would still call it a trading-range market. It's nice for today and the short term, but I doubt it's sustainable.

Paul Bubb

It can tend to get cold inside Holt Arena. That can be remedied. I am working with the facilities people to better control the temperature. We are looking at a number of different things.

Markus Persson

The only thing I think that is wrong with modern gaming now is the free-to-play stuff on mobile phones. I think it's very cynical and cold and weird.

Glenn Kroll

He said he was sick of the cold and the snow and wanted to get down to Florida where it was warm.

Luke Donald

It got considerably colder and it was just hard to keep your hands warm, hard to keep your rhythm.

Dusty Baker

He has been knocking on 99 for a while and never had 100. He was knocking on it last year and got cold at the end.

Bruce Miller

Right now the colder temperatures and higher humidity have really reduced it so we are going to be able to contain it and start establishing control lines to get a handle on this thing.

Eric Ellis

If you start processing now and we have a cold spell in between and it starts freezing up, it's just a lot of work to keep everything liquid. Once you start processing, you like to be able to do it day after day and not have those long spells in between.

Glenn Johnson

In the winter, early in the season, it actually can have a warming effect and hold the temperatures up, where temperatures drop much colder in interior sections, and then the opposite takes place in the summer.

Stephen Gough

It has been pretty cold and the locals have been coming up to us offering us whisky and all sorts. They've been very, very friendly. We passed a school and there were even parents coming out with video cameras.

James Bryce

Goethe once said of someone, He is a dull man. If he were a book, I would not read him.

Archibald Hill

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.

Mary Montagu

We travelers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Samuel Johnson

To make dictionaries is dull work.

Libby Ludlow

I really have no idea why they are all crashing. There are just lots of rolls. There's never a dull moment, which makes it more challenging.

Henry Ward Beecher

O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

Henry Ward Beecher

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

Gilbert K. Chesterton

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

John Lancaster Spalding

If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.

Keke Palmer

I've never really had a first date! Well, I had kind of a first date. I went out with this kid. We went ice skating, but it was not fun. It was so terrible that I told him my curfew was a lot earlier than it really was.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

I was lucky to book a show pretty quickly after getting to L.A., but I struggled getting started in Vancouver. If I had gotten those earlier roles in Vancouver, I wouldn't have gone to L.A. to get the show that launched my career.

Tony Raines

Knowing how we ran early in the race and how I think we could have run, I was disappointed. But at the same time, I went there knowing I was going to race for a finish. I didn't race anybody.

Helen Brown

I would say that Cosmo was always a feminist magazine; it was before the movement really took shape. The early feminist movement felt I put a lot of emphasis on beauty, which was true.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

Manny Acta

I would start spring training a week earlier so the players would get five or six exhibition games in before starting.

Mike Ledsome

Katie was ready to go (Thursday). She got into a groove early and started hitting her spots and pitching stronger as the games progressed.

Rich Brands

Just looking at their results, I think it will be a pretty even match. We want to come out and not make any mistakes early on. We want to try and exploit some of the free kicks and throw-in stuff we've been working on.

Ben Gordon

Just like Tuesday (against Dallas) we struggled early and in the second half we were able to make a run. It was just a little to late.

William Hazlitt

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

Jorge Luis Borges

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Thomas a Kempis

Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

Peter O'Toole

What I like is bottomless flattery.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

Charles Lederer

Flattery'll get you anywhere.

Dan Brooks

Tell me a private school that won?t take somebody outside their parish. Jealousy is the greatest form of flattery and that?s about it. Maybe this is being paranoid, but we?re a small town, and what irritates me is if (Mayo and Walker) went to a bigger, private school, we?d be seeing headlines about how great this is.

Edmund Burke

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale

Tori Amos

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?

Queen Rania of Jordan

It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.

Allen Ginsberg

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

Ali MacGraw

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

Debbie Macomber

I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

Sallust

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

Stefan Zweig

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It just shows that in California, even a mansion can get a facelift,

Kenny Guinn

She could not run the mansion from Washington, D.C.,

Mark Bowden

The tsunami did provoke an extraordinary response and got us thinking of new measures.

Richelle Mead

Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical accompaniment, though it wasn't until the 1920s that sound became truly incorporated into films, eventually making silent ones obsolete in cinema.

Robert Evans

It has been said that a friend is somebody with whom it is possible to be silent.

Julie Burchill

The 'g' is silent - the only thing about her that is.

Elizabeth I

I observe and remain silent.

Helena Christensen

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

Edith Stein

Those who remain silent are responsible.

Catherine Deneuve

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

Brian Higgins

That's why the Partnership is silent on this,

Benjamin Disraeli

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Carl Jung

If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.

Richelle Mead

No," he said, voice thick and husky. His fingers dug into the chair's arms. "You'd better not get too close." I stopped, laughing softly. "You don't strike me as the assaulting type, Mortensen." "Yeah, well, there's a first time for everything.

Richelle Mead

Only what?” I asked. I could barely hear my own voice. He turned his gaze back to me, firm and unflinching. “Only… more human.” And that was it. All the anger and sorrow vanished. There was nothing in me. Nothing at all. I was empty. “Get out,” I said.

Richelle Mead

Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t hesitate.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixons own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.

Russell Brand

What should happen is a little voice in your head, like Jimmy Cricket in Pinocchio, will go 'But Russell, that bird, that's a creature like you, if you kill it it'll be all sad' and you go 'F***, alright. I won't kill it then.'

Trey Songz

Never forget the morals instilled in you and what really matters in Life. Never let other voices of other people drown out your inner voice

Rick Riordan

Annabeth's voice caught on the word friend. Percy was a lot more than that. Even boyfriend really didn't cover it. They'd been through so much together, at this point Percy was part of her--a sometimes annoying part, sure, but definitely a part she could not live without.

Will Cuppy

The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.