Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Dergarabedian

as each group grows, each group ages with their stars. Without a doubt, an aging population will provide more opportunities for older actresses.

Larry Potts

As far as me getting signed at my age, the chances are less than zero. But if you've got any kind of art inside of you, you have a responsibility to share it with other people. The worst thing that can happen with any artist is not to believe in what you do.

Gavin Newsom

As a major international City, San Francisco must form strong partnerships with federal and state agencies to prepare for emergencies.

Lizanne Mulligan

At six and nine months of age it didn't seem to have an effect, but by 12 months of age, when most children are starting to walk and move around a lot more, that's when we saw the effect.

Alison Weir

At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.

Thomas Dekker

A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that's never read. To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Maury Yeston

Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical theatre. Normally, you would be a chorus girl or boy and write something. People would get their start as rehearsal pianists or dance assistants.

George Vecsey

Athletes are used to battling. The public would never learn their names if professional athletes had not shown courage at an early age. They learn they can overcome, but sometimes this becomes a false sense of security that leads them to the edge.

Shannon O'Brien

As I've traveled around my state over the last year and a half, men and women of all ages and all racial and ethnic groups have expressed to me profound anxiety about their economic futures.

Adlai E. Stevenson

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations--great or small--to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Thomas J. Sargent

Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh.

Thomas Essen

On Father's Day 2001, the mayor and I attended the funerals of three brave fire-fighters lost in the line of duty. I couldn't help thinking, as we were winding down our terms of office, that it was one of the saddest days I could remember, not knowing my life and the lives of those around me would change forever very soon.

Dave Brown

My daughter has attended public schools, and our spring break has never matched with hers.

Frances Beinecke

I attended the climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009, and back then, national governments waited until days before to submit climate plans, and the U.S. based its pledge on a proposed bill that would fail in the Senate.

Daniel Woodrell

I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook.

Larry Bowman

They stepped up without any hesitation. There was a meeting where all the chambers attended and signed on right away. Certainly the door is open for others to come in as well.

Birch Bayh

In fact, I really didn't get enthused about his Secretary of State race until I attended a couple of his rallies and found out there were a bunch of young folks that there were a bunch of young folks that he had been able to recruit on his own.

Andre Rieu

When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience.

Philippe Petit

Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession. You have to pay attention; if not, you will lose your life.

Mafumi Usui

Depressed, young people and the Internet - it's a very dangerous mix.

Becky Hammon

They are a lot more dangerous now. She's exactly what they needed.

Dan McCarthy

This is developing into a potentially dangerous situation.

Jeff Last

That's why it is so dangerous to fly near a thunderstorm.

Daniel H. Wilson

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

Dean Steward

The reality is, federal penitentiaries are violent and dangerous places and all of these guys - white guys - are a small minority and they're just trying to survive.

Phyllis Bottome

It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice

Frank O'Donnell

We should be doing much more to try to reduce this dangerous pollution.

Nancy Lee

Some department heads feel they're losing some (prospective) faculty members to the private sector, which can offer better benefits.

Steve Douglas

The Rural Fire Department (east of Pueblo), Rye and Pueblo West fire departments all have permit systems within their districts.

Tish Olszewski

It was very difficult to realize that he wasn't going to be there today. The department is devastated. . . . We're going to miss him dearly. We love him.

Don Allison

The onus is on us to demonstrate (there is enough water) to the Department of Water Resources.

Terry J. Lundgren

I had 13 job offers out of college. I went to Bullock's department store and had a fantastic interview, but was skeptical. I knew retail didn't pay much.

Jessica Martin

We don't want to sell shoes that you can find at department stores. We're trying to keep it very unique.

John Piper

The training is more extensive, the training has been upgraded, the training is very successful, and the training is monitored by the police department of New York City,

Pam Davis

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Rural Development have fronted the money to help get these people into homes,

Mark Klein

The United States Department of Agriculture made the mistake that resulted in the reporting errors that were the subject of the lawsuit.

Rick Riordan

Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?' 'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.' 'But it's a dragon!

Pat Oliphant

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

Marianne Moore

O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!

Walter Scott

Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

James Woolsey

a lot harder to keep track of than the dragon ever was.

Lisa Murray

collaborative education is a better way to learn.

Dianne Cox

Special education kids are always going to struggle with that accountability piece because special education kids are in the program because they have learning disabilities,

Richard Kouri

Public education is probably already the most transparent and accountable of any government system. When do we start talking about resources?

Sathya Baba

The root is education and the fruit is virtue.

Juan Felipe Herrera

I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.

Tippi Hedren

I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career... I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.

Janice Smith

The risk factors are the key reasons a person would use drugs. A kid could have all the information about drugs, but if they're not keyed in to the risk factors, they could still use. The regular school programs that incorporate drug education are not as intense as this one.

Joy Smolnisky

This isn't how education is supposed to be funded.

Marcal Young

A large part of scouting is about outdoor education.

Rachael Short

It was tough losing Maggie but I am proud of the way our girls competed.

Darrel Hoffman

It was wonderful. We've been looking for a break-through round and all of the girls played pretty well. I'm tickled with the performance today.

Gary Carr

It was a long day. But the girls learned a lot and they're trying to find their way.

Hugh Godsey

It was a little ugly there at the end, but the girls pulled through with the win.

Charlie Reppel

(It was) another thrilling victory for us. My girls are resilient. They refuse to lose.

Ty Votaw

These young girls have grown up in a celebrity-driven culture,

Steve Knight

I've been impressed with the way she handles players. She does a good job of relating to them. She's disciplined in a way that girls respond to, but she doesn't back down. She's a stern taskmaster, but she has a way that can relate to players.

Scott Cromwell

I use her name a lot with the girls I have playing for me now. Some of them get tired of hearing me talk about her, probably. But she's a unique young lady that I was lucky enough to coach.

Jessica Laws

They all stepped it up. It was a team goal to win every event, but the other swimmers did very well, too. The girls swam hard to get second and third place finishes, and those points are just as important.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Maddie Ziegler

I usually get home from dance at 10 every night, and I'll watch TV for about 30 minutes, and then I'll go to bed.

Pierce Brosnan

I visit London several times a year. It is my home away from home.

Nick Harkaway

I wanted a pseudonym partly because I'm quite shy and private. I know that sounds ludicrous, but if I should be lucky enough to make a hit, I wanted to be able to shrug off the mantel of Nick Harkaway when I got home.

Sara Sheridan

I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all the things I could try, and one of them was writing a novel.

Carrie Burggraf

I wanted to come back for the last home meet (second weekend in February) and I qualified for the state meet.

Maira Kalman

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

Jane Clayson

The most important job you'll ever have is in the walls of your own home.

Julia Robinson

It was very appropriate. I couldn't imagine how we could be shut out of our rights to a referendum because of a mistake in the minutes. It just seems unfair and inappropriate.

Alexei Kovalev

This is really big. I can't imagine what's going on in Russia right now.

Brendan Fehr

I've never been overseas. I can only imagine what that's like.

Kent Conrad

You can imagine the pressure that's on him, the things that are being suggested to him.

John Wilson

You can imagine the noise we have to put up with every night.

Joe Valachi

You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy.

Carl Smith

You can imagine how devastating to all of us it was when we realized who it was.

Pat Egan

There is nothing under consideration at this moment and nothing that I could imagine that we could provide.

Juli Inkster

There's nothing better than winning at home. I can't imagine anything worse than losing at home, and we don't plan on doing that.

Augustus

May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the architect of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die, that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand deep and secure.

Celia Rivenbark

I'm what is known as perimenopausal. "Peri", some of you may know, is a Latin prefix meaning 'SHUT YOUR FLIPPIN' PIE HOLE'.

Al Gini

The term power comes from the Latin posse- to do, to be able, to change, to influence or effect. To have power is to possess the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must make use of power. The central issue of power in leadership is not Will it be used? But rather Will it be used wisely and well?

Charles Clarke

I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).

Desi Arnaz

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

Connie Willis

I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's and Churchill's portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, 'And this is the Bridge of Sighs, where Lord Peter proposed (in Latin) to Harriet,' and everyone suddenly came to life and began snapping pictures. Such is the power of books.

Charles Spurgeon

Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Arthur Schopenhauer

How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !

Edward Sapir

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

Ben Mendelsohn

As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound.

Barbara Kingsolver

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

Barbara Kingsolver

Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.

Jon Rogers

There are well-documented structural impediments to moving quickly in this industry.

Barbara Mikulski

I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he's just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.

Augusten Burroughs

Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life.

Arthur Miller

The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the set, which required too much effort to move around. Having gotten the benefit of seeing it done once, I wanted to work on the script, to make it sharper and more pointed.

Ayn Rand

Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

Ayn Rand

Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!

Max Beerbohm

I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Margaret Thatcher

I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.

Robert Richardson

Any organization of reasonable size is going to be attacked.

Frank Lautenberg

This is a reasonable standard we know will save lives.

I. Stone

You want a reasonable standard so you can receive and send help.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Charles Darwin

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Diana Wynne Jones

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

Brendon Burchard

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

Aristotle

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

Nabil Sha'ath

We do not know what is the reason for this coma and when will he come out of it.

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Brandon Sanderson

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.

Boris Vallejo

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Barbara Kingsolver

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Benjamin Bratt

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

Brian Sandoval

I worked my way through law school.

Brendan Fehr

I never liked group work in school.

Juvenal

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

Coco Chanel

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.

E. B. White

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

He taught me to trust in tomorrow.

Veronica Roth

I am better off doing as abnegation taught me: turning away from myself, projecting always outward, and hoping that in whatever is next, I will be better than I am now.

Sophocles

What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.

T Bone Burnett

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

Tom Robbins

You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!" they cried. And they quoted him some. "Your movement, does it have a flag?" asked the Chink. "You bet!" and they described their emblem. "And does your movement have leaders?" "Great leaders." "Then shove it up your butts," said the Chink. "I have taught you nothing.

Tom Robbins

Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.