Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanni

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

Tim Roth

There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

Isobelle Carmody

I wrote my first full book when I was fourteen, and that was 'Obernewtyn.' It was also the first book I had published. It was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to, and it was short listed for Children's Book of the Year in the older readers category in Australia.

Gil Gerard

Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.

Zadie Smith

Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.

Will Shetterly

There've always been people in the borderland between childhood and adulthood. That state is not a matter of chronological age. It's a matter of understanding that you can accept a future that has been defined by the previous generation, or you can reject it and make something new.

Billy Graham

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation... But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

Ezra Taft Benson

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

Chen Shui-bian

The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the People's Republic of China or a Special Administrative Region of China.

Chuck Palahniuk

I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case.

Wynton Marsalis

Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye.

Morihei Ueshiba

The only cure for materialism is the cleansing of the six sense (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind). If the senses are clogged, one's perception is stifled. The more it is stifled, the more contaminated the sense become. This creates disorder in the world, and that is the greatest evil of all.

Jack Roeser

The people are looking for somebody that will clean up the mess. The last thing they're looking for is somebody from the mess. Jim fills that bill.

Julius Peppers

The Patriots are going to be very disciplined. We have to work even harder to clean up the stupid mistakes we made.

Christopher Fry

What after all Is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean

Nicole Ari Parker

We're all moving at such a high rate that we have to grab the frozen dinners and the McDonald's. We can't make it a way of life - we have to get back to real, simple, clean good foods. It will save our lives on so many levels; not just spina bifida, but obesity, diabetes, everything. Food is our medicine.

Bill Burr

I was certified to take x-rays, but you can't just show up and start cleaning people's teeth.

Tammy Moore

That was some real one-on-one time you got with your mother. Other than that, you're doing chores, she's cooking, cleaning and probably hanging up clothes.

Ian Watson

That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't... it wouldn't.

Gwen Moore

Healthcare costs are rising, and not just Medicare and Medicaid, but healthcare in general.

Val Kilmer

With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

Colin Morgan

It's weird to be recognised anywhere. The cost of living your dream, acting, is being recognised.

Ernest Walton

A linear accelerator has the advantage that no magnet is required and that its cost should not rise much more steeply than with the energy of the particles required.

Graham Colditz

The overweight have a significantly higher risk of diabetes, gallstones, hypertension, and heart disease, ... All have costs and an impact on the quality of life that get ignored if we focus only on mortality.

Reg Empey

The people are fed up with politicians and the cost of keeping this place (the assembly) open.

Andrew Alberts

The outstanding issue is who will pay for the cost overruns. You don't know what you will hit when you start to tunnel. There are a lot of unknowns.

Gary Hanson

The out-of-pocket cost is usually about $50 to $55 a day (per inmate) that we pay to another county to rent the space, ... But we also have to pay for our officers' time to transport them and the cost of transport, like fuel costs.

Hisashi Hieda

We will seek compensatory damages at any cost.

Donnell Barton

We did not write any punishment or punitive damages into the policy. Hopefully, we won't have to do that.

Jesse Jackson

We want the people resettled and the damages paid for lives lost and lives injured.

Michael Morris

would be surprised if we couldn't prove damages north of $1 billion.

Roe Hye

We determined that this is a grave misconduct that damages the foundation of science.

Michael Robertson

We are going into the damages phase and we feel very confident.

Richard Berthelsen

If the arbitrator rules our way, we're looking at damages that were occurred. Things we would be looking at is the final year of his contract.

Tom LaSorda

Second, we need to set some reasonable and fair limits on damages in product liability cases.

Paul Fletcher

We'll be seeking damages in the range of tens of millions of dollars.

Willard Boyle

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

Viswanathan Anand

I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

John Daly

The people around me ... were hoping, of course, that the 'something' would be practicing golf. No such luck. What I found was gambling.

Nate Ruess

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Arsenio Hall

You never get rid of something that has a positive foundation.

Kristy Curry

That was the big question from the media so I guess I had to talk about it. I don't think it was me harping on it but when there is something not going well that seems to be the focus. It wasn't always pretty, but this team has found a way to win.

Yoko Ono

The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

David Steinberg

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

Bill Cosby

I don't spend my hours worrying how to slip a social message into my act.

Rick Pitino

I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hours, I'm not a happy man.

Bill Burr

You're not chasing syndication any more. It used to be a big thing. "Let's make 100 episodes and we'll get paid for life". You know? And what does the sheer amount of content that's being made do to syndication after a while? It just seems like there's more content than there is hours for everyone to watch it. But it's some of the best content that's ever been created.

Jason Green

Well, really it was a huge waste of time, when we got here we just sat around for two hours doing nothing.

William Shakespeare

We strut and fret our hour upon the stage and then are no more.

Maurice Maeterlinck

I count only the hours that are serene.

Paul Tagliabue

You can go back and look at whether we'd have a team in L.A. had we done something different in 1994-95. But I think if you look at the big picture, it's one of strong accomplishment. There are only so many hours in the day.

Joseph Grundfest

The pig may have moved through the python.

Rick Carlisle

We've moved on. It's unfortunate. But we're just trying to win without him.

Bruce Bell

We have not seen anything yet that indicates they've moved off their union-busting agenda.

Tom Daschle

We haven't made progress. We've moved back from progress, ... a half-measure only.

Trey Parker

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

Fred Kindle

We have successfully moved into a phase of profitable organic growth.

Jim Tildsley

We really played well in the first half. We shot well, passed well and moved well without the ball.

Dan Davidson

Politically, they just could not get it moved out of that icebox.

Rainn Wilson

One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

Carl Pope

We can reduce the effect of future disruptions by reducing our dependence on oil, not putting up more rigs and drilling our special places. The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Carl Pope

We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.

Carl Pope

The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Lynn Reaser

Today was a relief rally; it was an oil price relief story,

Michael Foster

I think more people need to be doing it. There's a lot of oil that's going to waste pretty much.

Jeffrey Rubin

We'll get there on the back of rising oil prices.

Mike Erfert

You do know you've got a vehicle down there, so you know there's oil and gasoline.

Scott Davis

I wish there were just a big pool of oil all around the world, and we could just tap into it. It doesn't work that way.

Ben Holmes

If any sector is working right now, it's oil and gas.

Carrie Coon

I certainly enjoyed having my sister, because when she came I felt a certain responsibility to help her fit in, and help her learn English. I wanted her to play with all my toys. I was actually, I think, really scary to her, because I had so much energy.

Carrie Underwood

Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.

Carl Rogers

When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good. . . . When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

Carl Sagan

A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.

Carl Sagan

There are many other (besides testosterone) behaviour-eliciting hormones fundamental for humen well-being, including estrogen and progesterone in females. The fact that complex behavioural patterns can be triggered by a tiny concentration of moleculas coursing through the bloodstream, and that different animals of the same species generate different amounts of these hormones, is something worth thinking about when it's time to judge such matters as free will, individual responsibility, and law and order.

Arpad Busson

With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.

Anton Seidl

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

Anthony Swofford

I think the combatant is always burdened with returning and making his way through his past. And that we as citizens have a responsibility to those guys upon return. We have to make some kind of an attempt to understand what their life is like.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?

Donald Trump

Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth.

Clint Eastwood

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Nancy Grace

Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?

Noreena Hertz

If somebody tweets 'I like Coca-Cola,' does that mean that they're actually going to buy Coca-Cola? One can? Two cans? Three cans? If they retweet someone else's Tweet, does that mean they're going to buy it?

Pat Robertson

I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.

Andy Jackson

We have a lot of talent on this team. We're not going to use somebody being out as an excuse.

Evan Osnos

Usually when you interview somebody for a number of hours, they'll say something that is self-aggrandizing or is a manipulation of the facts.

Paul Mooney

I have such an ego 'cause I'm a double Leo. I can't let go of me, you know, so it's very difficult for me to be somebody else and not me. I'm so into me.

Cristie Kerr

You just know when somebody is good. You can just tell.

Brian Giles

That's OK. Just as long as they don't spill any of the beer.

Brendan Sexton III

That film 'Memento' creeped me out. I was looking over my back through the whole thing. I get more creeped out than scared and spill popcorn all over the place.

Daren Beaudo

Right now we don't know how big of a spill we have.

James Salter

We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives...