Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre Corneille

A service beyond all recompense - Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense

John Milton

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye

Herman Kahn

As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.

Mullah Bakhtiyar

As for the self-determination for the Kurds, this issue did not enjoy the support of Sunnis or Shiites, and we almost gave up this demand,

Robert Gottlieb

As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.

Milton Babbitt

As for the future of electronic music, it seems quite obvious to me that its unique resources guarantee its use, because it has shifted the boundaries of music away from the limitations of the acoustical instrument, of the performer's coordinating capabilities, to the almost infinite limitations of the electronic instrument.

Mike Colter

As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting.

H. Hunt

As a stimulus proposal, it's a non-starter. The economic impact is very, very small -- almost imperceptible.

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Jon Davis

On Thursday morning if it's delayed, we get bombarded (with calls) -- which, to us, sometimes seems crazy. But this has been a very sensitive winter. We try to get it into everyone's hands at the same time.

Ron O'Brien

Officials in the United States have cracked down considerably on spammers by giving out harsh sentences to those convicted -- that's good news for organizations and consumers. Unfortunately, email users around the world are still being bombarded by unsolicited messages.

Rebecca Fuller

We did lots of free ones for friends and people in church and whoever. They just started performing so many times, and we were bombarded with requests.

Daniel Radcliffe

How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!

Sam Mendes

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

Dylan McDermott

New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you're living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time.

Roustam Tariko

I was proud of my Soviet country, of wearing Young Pioneer uniform, bombarded by my mother's Communist propaganda.

Brett Myroff

Tougher sentences being dished out are clearly making spammers feel the heat. However, spam is clearly not a thing of the past. E-mail users worldwide are still being bombarded by unsolicited messages, and, two years on, Gates' famous prediction now looks extraordinarily optimistic.

Lance Bass

It is very devastating, especially having to watch it on television, when you have family members that are being bombarded by the thing.

Gord Mink

I've curled all my life and loved the game and Russ Howard is an icon in the game of curling. As players, we all grew up following curlers in their careers and Russ was someone I watched closely.

Brett Favre

I accomplished so many things, so early in my career.

Brett Favre

It's been a wonderful career, I couldn't ask for anything more.

Brandon Lee

All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.

Brandon Jacobs

I just want to be happy. I want to be happy and be able to finish my career in the right way.

Arthur Ashe

This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.

Benjamin Bratt

I have no particular career agenda.

Brad Lidge

When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.

Jane Campion

I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty - you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money.

Ross Lynch

As far as putting stuff on social media, I think Instagram is really cool because I like the visual aspect. You're taking pictures, and you can put a filter on them, and it's super creative.

Ivory Latta

Off the court, we're cool. We're still cool on the court, but it's all about competing.

Steven Hall

Are Simon & Garfunkel cool, or are they just really uncool? I can't decide.

Ron Perlman

The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase.

Sam Altman

The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.

Matt Leinart

I've never even gone on that site. It's a cool idea, but I don't want to put myself out there.

Jackie Earle Haley

I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.

Rob Gronkowski

I've always been a fan of football, always watched the NFL and it's great to always sit back wherever I can this year. You sit back and enjoy the games, pop a little sports drink - not any pop or soda - lay back, watch the games. It's always cool to see how the games go down and just enjoy them.

Morgan Saylor

I've always enjoyed searching for clothes. I like thrift stores and vintage stuff, and not so much going to Urban Outfitters. What got me interested is having to choose dresses for the carpet, and doing a lot of shoots with really cool clothes. I've gotten to try on a lot of things that I've liked, and some things that I haven't.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Rory Kinnear

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.

Tod Lauer

Seeing these stars is like watching a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat. You know it happened but you don't know how it happened.

Ken Hill

Quite often when I write a song, I think back to a moment in my life. I use what has happened in my life as an inspiration to make music.

Matthew Goode

I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to turn it in.

W. H. Murray

I've spoken with (Martin) about this and I understand what happened here,

Chris Shelton

I've never tried to hit a home run. Every time I hit one, I just say to myself, 'There's no way that just happened again.' It's mind-blowing.

Billy Flahive

I've never seen silver limit down. It hasn't happened since the 1980s.

Bryn Terfel

It was the worst thing that's ever happened to me in my very short time on this planet.

Peter Davis

I suited the music to particular images on the film.

Halle Berry

It's scary to be that vulnerable on film, ... This movie was all about shedding inhibitions for most of the cast, really, you know, saying things and presenting images that were risky because you never know how people are going to take them.

Bruce Jackson

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

Nate Lowman

I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.

Daria Werbowy

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

In movies, images cost - if you want a big image, it takes more money.

Candice Hansen

We will get stereo images within a month.

Ellery Hanley

They all know their jobs. They have to go out there and play freely.

Adam Levine

The writers needed to, as part of their jobs, take on taboo subject matter.

Shane Rau

This is a practical, pragmatic Steve Jobs decision.

Gary Hines

You're talking over the next 10 to 15 years and beyond. Those 40,000 jobs aren't going to be overnight.

Damon Archibald

You've got to see where the jobs land and where jobs open.

Brett Ratner

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Thomas Lee

I visited with every student here at one point or another and none of them have said they feel unsafe here.

Rick Forney

There's none of that just-down-to-the-foundation devastation that we saw out of Mississippi after Katrina.

Kim Hunter

None of this has been done before; all of this is new ground,

Reuven Paz

None of these terrorists shows any remorse. They are proud of what they do.

Richard Ross

None of us want to be here Saturday night.

Mike Enzi

None of us wants this premium ultimately to be enacted into law.

David Stockman

None of us really understand what's going on with all these numbers

Roy Williams

None of us really thought that we'd be at this level.

Brett Bushong

None of us read it. We didn't want to tamper with it. We just wanted to respect them.

Tom Ridge

a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing.

Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

Renae Dreier

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Randy Falco

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Karla Reese

As people stop driving, we haven't been able to replace them as readily as we used to.

Michael Vick

As long as I can go out and make plays, people can say what they want to say,

Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

Ferdie Pacheco

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Astro Teller

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

Jorge Torres

This is something that should not be on places of education.

John Duncan

Those two places in South Portland are significant bottlenecks.

Dr. Seuss

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

Adrian Smith

I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.

Margaret Turnbull

If TPF is not canceled, these are the places where we will search.

Richard Matheson

I think there are other places where we need to spend money.

David Shove

I think he's saying to ING ... that we have other places that we can go -- not that they have seriously responded to other inquiries.

Thad Cochran

You just couldn't be in two places at once,

Allan Bristow

As of right now, that's our only option, ... We'll look for others. But right now that seems to be the best.

Jeff Sluman

Other days, making one or two birdies seems like it's going to be impossible.

Ray Evernham

The more aerodynamics become involved, the more Dodges seem to suffer,

Diane Siri

I've accomplished most of the things I set out to do. It just seems like the right time to make a transition.

Rick Dickson

Somebody said it was a week ago Sunday this all began, ... It seems like many years ago.

Kenny Chesney

now he seems to think he can tell Renee what to do, what to wear, where to go and who to see.

David Bauer

Sometimes you don't seem real sure about your answers. I just want to make sure that what you've told us you are sure about.

John Wade

I've seem them do a variety of things defensively. They feel comfortable with their scheme, and it shows.

Matt Foy

It was unbelievable. Everything just seemed to click. It seems like everything I did went right.

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.

Angelina Jolie

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

Alvin Dark

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

Anthony de Mello

Wisdom can be learned . But it cannot be taught .

Anna Louise Strong

Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes.

D. A. Carson

Good praying is more easily caught than taught.

David Foster

Don't do what you're taught to do, do what you love to do.

Candice Olson

I sort of went into the TV thing kicking and screaming.

Riley Wallace

The worst part about it is that payback game. And when you don't get a TV game, it doesn't feel worth it.

Todd Marks

The (Web sites) you see on TV could end up costing you something.

Dennis Farina

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Debra Messing

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

Dominic West

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

Richard LaGravenese

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

Courteney Cox

I like TV. It all depends what it is.

Alia Shawkat

You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show.

Hugh Johnson

We're all watching the same stuff. Like sheep.

Andy Robinson

It has been killing me watching from the stands, I want to get back into the action,

Brian Urlacher

If I was someone, I'd do the same to us after watching that film.