Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

Will Poulter

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

Wendy Kopp

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Zubin Mehta

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

Yani Tseng

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Colin Baker

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Chris Carter

I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

Debasish Sen

The police have been asked to carry out investigations and carry out the required proceedings.

Virginia Postrel

In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense culture of Princeton University. Like most immigrants, I was looking for a better life in a place I only half understood.

Nancy Vinson

That was so important as far as water quality and habitat and public views. People come to South Carolina to enjoy these gorgeous marsh views.

Dee Davis

We have a lot of work to do. To play the way we did (last night), it's kinda depressing to know how much we wasted. If we'd played like this all year, we would have had a higher seed, and maybe we'd have played North Carolina in the finals. I take this year as a loss, as a failure. We gypped ourselves.

Jim Long

We've got people here from Florida; we got people from South Carolina -- so it's a combination.

Chip Rich

We're very proud to be here. It's so impressive, the response and the resources North Carolina has.

Tyrese Rice

It definitely was a road game. We're on the road right now, playing down here in North Carolina in ACC country.

John Hendricks

I thought it was a good event. I'm not displeased. I thought that we had a pretty decent crowd. Obviously it wasn't as large as South Carolina State. But hopefully the city of Columbia and the people of South Carolina will see that this is a very viable game, and they'll decide they will come out and support these young people. This is a very good game.

Hannah Storm

I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.

Ben Foster

We can say we'd like to play in Detroit, or do something like spend three days in North Carolina and be able to do that. Success means we don't work a day job and can live.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

Errole Rembert

We'll play the j.v. and they play the varsity. Rather than get destroyed, we get (our kids) to play the right way.

Mary Hansen

Most of them do walk rather than take the bus.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Michael Long

I think I would rather that he didn't run.

Zana Marjanovic

The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Tanith Belbin

We'd rather it be here than at the Olympics. So in that respect, it's good.

David Chaney

We'd rather her be here, even if she does win all the time.

Nick Jonas

I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.

Johnny Damon

That was good, just seeing Keith out there, doing his thing. He's only going to get better.

David Levine

You are going to start seeing a lot of squirming and shaking now.

Cheryl Kirkland

Usually, we're kind of seeing what the other team has...but we were overheated in the beginning. It's just a different temperature down here.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing us on TV. We're on TV so much, it's ridiculous.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing it on TV. I'm sure they are.

Bob Cotton

We are not seeing cancellations, but we are not seeing new bookings either,

John Landis

We were just seeing how wacky you can be.

Von Roebuck

We are seeing some cases. It could be life-threatening.

Donald Norman

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Chase Utley

I don't really like the spotlight.

Archibald MacLeish

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

April Bowlby

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.

David Garman

We're approaching 7,500 megawatts. So, we're in a sweet spot with wind and there's more we can do.

Brad Thor

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

Ben Gibbard

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.

Ali Larter

What I do for a living puts me in the spotlight.

Davis III

We got to watch a lot of their match. We suggested that we go around them, but that didn't go over real well.

Joseph Tate

I never once suggested that she should not testify. It was just the opposite. I told Mr. Abrams that the waiver was voluntary.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

Agnes Varda

When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.

Alan Bennett

If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

Bob McDonnell

I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.

Bill Jenkins

Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.

Argus Hamilton

The Concord Coalition in Virginia complained about pork projects and wasteful spending in the federal budget. Consider the Senate chaplain's salary. As occupations go, only mind readers in Los Angeles have fewer things to do all day.

Argus Hamilton

Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends a month of celebrating the 400-year progression of our nation's British culture from wood to steel to graphite shafts.

Barbara Kingsolver

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Brad Paisley

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

Billy Campbell

The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.