Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Josh Elliott

As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.

Carlo Rubbia

As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.

Jonathan Levine

As a director, there's no natural career progression. So after 'The Wackness,' which was very personal to me, I was very, very picky about what I was going to do next, to the point where I think that I was almost too picky.

Jim Lanzalotto

Anyone who has worked for a big brand-name company with a good reputation, and was successful there, has a real advantage, especially in moving to a different industry. Hiring someone is really a leap of faith, and interviewers know they can only tell so much about you from the interviewing process, so having that brand name in your background is important. It's almost like an endorsement.

John Shields

As a judge, you look at the basics of a recipe: Does it make sense, does the ratio of ingredients make sense? And is it a crab soup? Some of the entries we get are almost anything but.

Daron Malakian

As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.

James Zogby

The bottom line is that NSEERS is a failed and unfair program. An understaffed INS (Immigration and Naturalization Services) couldn't implement the program and almost 14,000 of those who complied were placed in deportation proceedings.

Josh Bernoff

The cable operator almost has a responsibility to give you a tool to better figure out what to watch, now that it's given you all those choices.

Ed Colligan

People underestimate the difference between a great product and just a product.

Joel Edgerton

People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well.

Rory Stewart

The thing that interests me most about Scotland is how we differ from our neighbours. How do our ambitions differ? What kind of society are we? What can we learn from the mistakes of the past, and how do we position ourselves in the world?

Stephen Rand

After all the brinkmanship this is good news. It's good news because it will make a real difference to some of the world's poorest people.

Benjamin Franklin

The modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in a position of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some dist

Babe Ruth

What the hell difference does it make?

Ashley Scott

Things were different when I was single though, and I'd go out all the time and dudes would do their thing. i don't really go out much now though.

Barry Schuler

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

Barbara Mikulski

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

Martin Buber

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

Robert Schenck

It was tough today because I had to power through my throws. I was only able to glide through on one.

Mike Mower

This is a power grab, pure and simple.

Ben Okri

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will...

Baha'u'llah

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Ashton Kutcher

From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.

Bertrand Russell

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Benjamin Disraeli

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Ralph Alvarez

This is our way to provide them the taste that they crave.

David Livingstone

Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond

George Washington

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

Steve Monks

He's quicker to the ball. He provided a big spark off the bench.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

William Cowper

Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.

Mike Drake

I want to start seeing some of the results and know the provider is up to speed.

Bob Beauprez

It's something we can do an do quickly to provide some relief,

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

Alice Cooper

Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.

Seth MacFarlane

I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.

Michael York

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular

Guido van Rossum

Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.

Helen Mirren

I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.

A. J. Jacobs

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

Phil Keoghan

I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?

James Boswell

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

John Atkinson

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

Josefa Iloilo

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

Brian Koslow

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

Samuel Smiles

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Paul Celan

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.

Robert Frank

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

Peter Bondra

To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all.