Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janice Biggers

His foresight and his total dedication of himself to preservation and the arts in general in Columbus has added tremendously to the cultural opportunities available today.

Yoshihiro Gake

The slide in stocks is a positive for bonds. Further stocks declines will damp individuals' sentiment and could affect growth.

Al Sharpton

What happens in New Orleans will affect voting rights all over the United States.

Pat Rogers

We missed a lot of shots and it was a classic case of letting our missed shots affect the rest of our game.

Tony Davis

We have a very robust business plan that enables us to grow the business. Clearly higher oil prices are something we would prefer aren't there, but it does affect all other airlines. It's consistently the low-fare airlines like Tiger Airways that manages all of our costs exceptionally well that are able to cope with these higher oil prices and continue to offer lower fares. And that's what we aim to do.

Khalil Greene

Those are the situations you look forward to. I keep myself going by saying that I might be able to do something to help affect the outcome of a game at the end.

Michael Kwun

We anticipate that any preliminary injunction will have no effect on the vast majority of image searches, and will affect only searches related to Perfect 10.

John Caldwell

We anticipate that 2006 will be a year of growth in both revenue and earnings. However, given the unpredictability of customer order patterns that can affect quarterly results, we intend to provide annual directional guidance only that will be updated on a quarterly basis.

Judd Gregg

We know mass transit is an issue. We could probably do another $100 million into mass transit and not affect this bill substantively.

Jay Entlich

Those injuries, I think, will affect us, but we have several injured players that I hope can be back in time for (today's game).

I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory.

Wendy Williams

I know firsthand that educators are the most overworked and underpaid people around. It influenced me in that it was always about family first, and education was right next to that. There was never any question about whether I was going to college.

Sally Ride

I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

Sally Ride

So I decided on science when I was in college.

Salman Rushdie

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

Ryan Sypek

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.

Wesley Snipes

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.

Vinny Guadagnino

I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.

William Congreve

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Susan Orlean

I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

Richard Leakey

Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

T. D. Jakes

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

Harper Lee

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

Iyanla Vanzant

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Hugh Jackman

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.

Yiddish Proverb

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble

Rebecca West

Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, 'In your lifetime, have you known peace?' wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in his turn to his father, I would never hear the word 'Yes,' if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years. I would always hear, 'No, there was fear, there were our enemies without, our rulers within, there was prison, there was torture, there was violent death.

Russell Baker

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.

Umberto Eco

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

Dale Easley

Three hundred teams started the season, and we're in the final four. Our goal is to get to 8 o'clock (tonight).

Chris Redfield

We gave up seven offensive rebounds in the final period and we have to improve on that.

Robert Jackson

We are not unaware that we are not final because we are infallible; we know that we are infallible only because we are final.

Joanne Boyle

We fought at the end, but we didn't come out and play 40 minutes. We were trying to do it all in the final 3:45 and that wasn't going to work.

Chris Griffin

We have a lot of guys that can run and I think we just wore them down in the second half. That could have something to do with the final score. But I think that is another thing that makes us a very good team.

Monique Currie

We've lost the last two years in that game to get to the Final Four. To finally get over that, I think we'll be more relaxed once we start playing again.

Pete Domenici

We've done our work. It's getting prepared, the final wrap up.

Bobby Carpenter

We've done about 30 or so of these. Now, it's finally winding down.

Phil Mickelson

The final group, on Sunday at the Masters, is the greatest feeling in the world for a professional golfer.

Morris Chestnut

I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it, because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

Charlize Theron

My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever.

Amy Adams

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.

Alyson Hannigan

I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.

Alvin Lee

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

Alvin Lee

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

Anthony Hamilton

'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it's a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.

Anthony de Mello

To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.

Anne Wojcicki

I need to solve the problem. It's no different from how am I going to get my son out the door when he needs to go to school. It's a bigger version of that same type of problem.

Anna Kendrick

The most common thing that I get is, ‘Am I the only one who doesn’t think that Anna Kendrick is pretty? And youre like, ‘No, you’re not the only one. Arguably, all of the boys in my high school agree with you.’

Amy Chua

Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.