Famous Quotes & Sayings

Imelda May

I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.

Iain Duncan Smith

When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

Irwin Thomas

I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.

Gallagher

I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.

Zaha Hadid

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

William Shockley

I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

William Henry Bragg

Whenever we warm our hands by the fire, we allow the energy radiated by the fire to quicken up the movements of the atoms of which the hands are composed. When we cool any substance, we check those movements.

Chuck Palahniuk

I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.

Evangeline Lilly

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

Rick Perlstein

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.

Carl Rogers

Experience is the highest authority.

Carl Rogers

Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

Charles Hunter

We know that the Chinese authorities' views on Taiwan and human rights differ from ours,

Sean Brady

I deeply regret that those with the authority and responsibility to deal appropriately with Brendan Smyth failed to do so, with tragic and painful consequences for those children he so cruelly abused.

Rahul Dravid

We have the option of taking up the issue with the relevant authorities, but keeping the relevance and importance of the series we have decided to let the issue pass and put it to rest.

Jose Padilla

Today the Supreme Court did not rule that the president has the authority to detain an American citizen on American soil. What they did was delay the inevitable -- that Padilla must be charged with a crime.

Josef Ackermann

Today's uncertainties call for vigilance by the authorities in both mature and emerging market economies in pursuing sound economic policies. Investors need to recognize the costly consequences of sudden reversals in global conditions that could impact the markets.

Tony Fernandes

The pilots cannot get over the fact that I have a cup of coffee with the guys who carry the bags. My secretary will (even) go out and help clean the planes if we are running into a delay.

John Kyriakopoulos

The outlook for the Fed policy is clearly data dependent. I cannot see much downward correction to the U.S. dollar over the near term being driven by the data.

Beeban Kidron

Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times.

David Hewson

The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.

Donald Norman

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

Don Young

You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs.

Alice Walker

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.

Alice Walker

I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

Barack Obama

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

'Game of Thrones' isn't all about magic - it's way more about political scheming and family tensions - but to be a part of this exclusive magic club is actually really cool.

Donald Trump

I win at golf. I'm a club champion many times at different clubs. I win at golf. I can sink the three-footer on the 18th hole when others can't.

Zach Johnson

Try to devote the percentage of time for each club that you're going to be using on the golf course. I like to have two or three different clubs that I practice with, not four or five.

Zac Efron

Right when 'High School Musical' was taking off, one of my little cousins called and was really excited to tell me there was a huge 'I Hate Zac Efron' club at her school. I'm sure they're doing great. More power to them.

Walter Smith

The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.

Walter Smith

Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I know there is a lot of resentment from other clubs about that, but it's a fact.

Vonda Shepard

I've been through the entire gamut of the music industry - I've been playing in clubs since I was 14, and I've been on Warner Bros, on Sony - I've had lots of successes and some serious times of struggle.

Clay Shirky

Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they're not very good at saying, 'We've got this book club and I'm a member and you're not.' But membership is one of the precursors to a lot of social action.

Don Rickles

I've been to Philadelphia a lot of times over the years, playing the old Celebrity Room and most of the other clubs around there that don't exist anymore.

Isabella Bird

It is extremely interesting to live in a private house and to see the externalities, at least, of domestic life in a Japanese middle-class home.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen.

Elizabeth Warren

For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival.

Pedro Chequer

The alternative ... is domestic production of the medication, preferably by the government. Today we pay up to nine times the fair price.

Samantha Power

The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.

Jen Kirkman

Use your passport for domestic trips, so that way you don't risk losing your license.

Jim McCafferty

Mid-cap stocks are more domestic and much less reliant on overseas markets and overseas concerns.

Jane Liu

While the domestics are still spending far more proportionally, the numbers are not as far off as they had been. Our January sales forecast predicted that domestic automakers earned approximately 54 percent market share of new vehicle sales, and that Japanese, European and Korean automakers would earn 35 percent, 6 percent and 5 percent, respectively.

Kiran More

Whoever performs well in the domestic championships will be eligible for selection. The performance of India 'A' players will also be taken into account.

Arsene Wenger

Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season.

Jerry Porter

We could just petition for a week off. But I don't think the league will let us do that.

Jim Gantt

Typically, this league is not that way. We know we've got to keep improving, and we know teams aren't likely to keep sweeping.

John Wesley

He's got everything - good vision, his speed, his shot, all those intangibles that you need to be a superstar in this league. He has it all.

Lauren Roscoe

We haven't won a league championship in 18 years, so it was important for us to win tonight.

Earl Campbell

You just wonder,'' said one league personnel man.

Ray Harris

I'm shocked we're 19th. I don't think that's right. We have the best-ranked league in the section. Once we get more wins under our belt, we'll move up.

Don Phillips

The problem is the overall league suffers if you don't have stars,

Terrell Buckley

It doesn't surprise me, because this is a league that has a short memory.

Chuck Michaelson

The pins killed us. When we're in those matches and go to being pinned ... that killed (us).

Bobbi Brown

Nobody is the color of translucent powder. Instead, choose a powder that matches your skin tone.

John M. Smith

That was real important, those two wins there. Maybe in the big picture at the end, those two matches might have made the difference.

Kurt Warner

With the talent I've been around, and I've been around a lot of talent, this team matches up very favorably with the talent that I've been around.

Rick Adelman

Who matches up well with them? Detroit, maybe.

Massimo Moratti

Mancini will stay with us ... Adriano will have to play well in the remaining matches (of the season) and should stay with us too.

Ben Russell

We had to play more. Playing in matches during the week wasn't enough.

Maria Sharapova

We have tough matches and I've been able to pull through, so I'm very happy.

Song Zhenhua

If a scent sent to us matches with any sample from our bank, then we have a clue.

C. S. Lewis

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

Berkeley Breathed

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Alex Rodriguez

We're taking this (stretch run) as seriously as the playoffs.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing serious in Mortality

John Edward

I'm seriously considering it, but I haven't made my decision.

Scott Smith

We had discussions, but nothing serious enough to warrant any offers.

Mitt Romney

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

Christine Lavin

I was a very, very serious child, ... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

Steve MacFarlane

If all sides are serious about getting this done before the deadline, I think it can be done.