Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Luke Zeller

People down the hall from me are going to end up being the people that change the world. You know, they're going to have a huge impact on things. I think that's great. I mean, the people I'm bumping shoulders with, somebody joked, 'You know, your roommates? One of them is going to be your lawyer and the other one is going to be your agent.' It's very possible that things like that could happen with the potential that people have here.

Richard Bove

People got all upset because they don't like to see people they know getting pushed out, and they don't know the new people coming in, ... But this company has been underperforming for some time. Significant change is needed.

Jacques Chirac

On Tuesday in Rome, we will have an opportunity to set in stone this change in the relationship,

Ari Millen

'Orphan Black' tends to, for their auditions, shroud it in secrecy and change names.

Bob Bennett

Of those, their point change was insignificant enough (not) to change our decision as to whether or not they would be admitted.

Philip Reed

Of the spectrum of things people can do, the first is to change their driving habits,

Erin Sorenson

Offenders tell children all these things, you're going to get in trouble, I'm going to be taken out of the home, you're not going to have your animals, you'll have to change schools, leave your friends, you're mom's going to jail.

Dwyane Wade

Of course you're surprised after the season we had, a heartbeat away from the finals. But you know, Pat Riley seemed to change. He seemed to change from the year before when we were excited about our young team, and it did us good ? so I'm sure this will do us good also.

Richard Hatch

Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology, as well. And we tapped into the premise of, you know, Who is mankind? Where did we evolve from?

Kim Fields

Acting is my first love. There are still so many characters inside of me that are waiting to come out.

Laila Robins

Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.

Kathryn Harrison

I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.

Thayer David

I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.

Brooke Nevin

Sci-fi fans really have a commitment to the characters even as much as the actors do. There's a synergy between making television and who gets to watch it.

Jonathan Winters

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.

Sharlto Copley

To some degree, Hollywood doesn't know what to do with me because the characters I do are so different. But hopefully, that will give me longevity.

Sandra Cisneros

At the time I was writing it, it started as my own memoirs but transformed into a piece of fiction. All the emotions are mine, the setting is mine, the house is mine. But the characters are a composite of my students' stories.

Lawrence Eagles

As far as the Middle East is concerned, there is still strong justification for a premium to remain in the market until it is clear the situation is much calmer on the ground,

Nancy Kress

Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'

Cass Sunstein

People who know him in Washington, D.C., of various ideological stripes, say this is not the type to be a fundamentalist. He is clearly extremely able, and his opinions are real lawyers' opinions.

Kevin Towers

After what I went through with Arizona, the last four or five days, they were crazy with all the speculation out there. I don't think it was fair to this organization. One thing I want to make clear is that I wasn't throwing my name out there. It got to the point where it didn't stop.

Mark Buehrle

Actually, I got out in the woods and kind of cleared my mind,

Michael Moran

A nomination does not mean it will have clear sailing to being listed. What gets listed on the national register, unfortunately, is subject to the will of the governor's office.

Wayne Porter

Are they making it clear what consumers are getting? No.

Robbie Loomis

are quite clear - get things stabilized, and then start the rebuilding process.

Erskine Bowles

Any staff who are found to be engaging in such conduct will be fired immediately. In addition, we have make clear to persons outside the White House that we will not tolerate such conduct.

Laura McDowell

People get very nostalgic. They're probably doing traditions that they've done in their family for years.

Megan Jones

The teams we're working with are used to working at a lot quicker pace than regular workers because they have a time crunch. We took that same outlook for this family and worked twice as hard.

Kenny Williams

The most important thing he taught me was being a student-athlete. He puts your family and your grades first. Then basketball.

Bonnie Polverari

Actually, we didn't set out to be a family company, but that's sort of the way it turned out.

Jill Soloway

Something I've really been wanting to do, ever since 'Six Feet Under' ended, was create my own version of this idealized writer's room as well as the ideal family.

Eric Milton

Someone was just telling me today that he hadn't seen his family for five weeks. That's tough. Two to three weeks is the longest I've ever been away from my family, and I wouldn't want to have to go any longer than that.

Maggie Jones

Some family members have been shown the videotape and still have not been helpful in the case.

Caitlyn Jenner

Sometimes I feel so separated, you know? The Kardashians over here, the Jenners over here, little me in the middle. We've got to keep the family going.

Martin Rucinsky

Now it seems as though the team's stabilized and we have a nice family here.

Colin McRae

Rally GB is obviously very special to me, and I am looking forward to giving the fans something to cheer,

P. James

We're gonna have some fun here. We always have a good time on this team. I've been getting out to see a few things and the fans have been great to me.

Brendan Fehr

I'm not a big fan of rehearsing.

Brad Delson

I was a big Transformers fan.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.

Cameron Diaz

I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?

Alan Cumming

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

Bret Michaels

I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

Tim Tessalone

We use them for the fans and as a revenue generator,

Tony Russa

See, that's the kind of question that will end the session faster than a pause. You got something else you want to ask? That thing was over the day after, wasn't it? There was nothing that happened.

Duane Akina

I've watched Ginn a lot, and I'm not sure I've seen a faster player in pads. We're going to be looking for him a lot, because if he finds a crease, he's gone.

Ruth Messinger

I've never seen a faster movement in my life.

Wang Jianlin

China's movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.

Deb Mandeville

She has an outside chance, but she has to go faster than she's ever gone before.

Shigenori Okazaki

That was a very big mistake. He should have kept everyone guessing. Now he seems to be losing influence much faster than we would have thought.

Russell Sciandra

That would work a lot faster than the lawsuit.

Andre Agassi

It felt good, it was pain free. I've just got to run faster now, that's all.

Tommy Maddox

I think he's more comfortable with what he's doing, ... He's playing better and better and faster and faster.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Budd Booth

That was a big accomplishment for them. They all seem to be playing well together, and we have a lot of youth and depth, so that's encouraging for the next few seasons.

Dave Tragethon

People should make reservations, because if they wait until they get to the mountain we might be full. There are people who come up, make a few runs, come in and party a little bit, then go back out. Then there's those who come just for dinner, the party and the fireworks.

Tracii Guns

Actually, it's funny that you mention that, we just started making plans within the last few days. We're going to hopefully do at least three videos for this album. We have tons of live footage and tons of the making of this record on film so we're hoping that by the end of next summer here that it will be out and it will run for about two hours.

Josh Stewart

Dramas for me are where it's at, but a great drama, a great character-driven drama, there's very few of them that get made; there's very few of them that actually make it to theaters. There's just very few of them.

Jason Gerken

During the final round, we sprayed the ball, left ourselves long putts and made a few big numbers that sent our scores soaring,?. . ?And as has been our problem all year long, we finished poorly over the last few holes.

Greg Davidson

Defensively, we're playing pretty sound. There've been lower-scoring games, but we've been able to pull out some shutouts for a few games.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own

Nick Zito

It was tough yesterday. I just had to leave really early. It all just got to me with High Fly. I've got a headache right now just talking about it. But that's the way it goes.

Ayn Rand

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

Dan Lankheit

As I said, the head on this thing was unreal.

Eric Snyder

This weekend is really important. It's one of the weekends we've been working from the very first practice for, and this is where all the training and work we've done all season will pay off. We're one of the top teams heading down there, so we'll just hope we do enough to move on.

Robbie Bennett

We think it is his knee. But we're still not sure. That's where we're headed now.

Stephen Chick

We think Home Depot is headed for a stall.

Mark Waggoner

There's going to be these lingering problems. There's still too much uncertainty in the New Orleans area. I think we are headed back to $70.

Elizabeth Campbell

We just had to keep our heads up and not quit.

Dick Morris

The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.

Cheryl Tiegs

We tried - we tried for a year, and we tried different methods and different - and I had in vitro and it didn't work. It didn't stick. It didn't - didn't produce a baby at all.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Eddie Van Halen

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

Dallas Martin

We were on the same page all day.

Herb Thomas

What's very important is that we are all on the same page and that it's documented.

Alec Baldwin

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

Donald Rumsfeld

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

Amos Lee

I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.

Clara Shih

Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.

Rob Marshall

The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.

Sonya Hartnett

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Tom Duxbury

There's at least one more we could reach for another flyby.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Brett Ratner

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

Brad Meltzer

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Jane Campion

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

C. S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Alan Dean Foster

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Bela Lugosi

I'll take any story if it's good.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Mike Tomlin

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

John Piper

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

Nathalie Sarraute

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.