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.

Yann Martel

If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The range of ingredients available to home cooks has expanded dramatically. People are incorporating herbs and spices like lemongrass, smoked Mexican chile, sumac, and za'atar mix.

Scott Burnell

The overall available crop of scientists and students is not what it used to be. We are aware we need a continuing stream of science and engineering expertise.

Peter Coleman

The outlook is very good and Ben should be available for selection in three weeks.

David R. Ellis

We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects.

Donald Norman

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

Mark McClellan

The alternative is having one drug plan that does not reflect what some want, and that costs more and offers less coverage than what is available now,

John Woods

That would be a boon. It has always been a problem to obtain quickly viruses from Southeast Asia. We sincerely hope viruses from Turkey would be available very quickly.

David Nabarro

The $1.9 billion shows that the world cares greatly about the issues we face and that governments want to be sure that there is enough cash available to do everything they have to do to get the current epidemic of bird flu under control and make sure that we can prepare for a human pandemic.

Yann Martel

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

Victoria Osteen

God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

Rick Pitino

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Bill Vaughan

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

Pete Harpolis

That was in 2002, and to date, we haven't had any failures since we proof tested this cable.

Zhang Yadong

We could learn more lessons from the losses than from the victory. We had enough failures in the past,

Rick Perry

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

Richard Russo

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.

Maude Adams

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

Gore Vidal

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

Fareed Zakaria

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

Eddie Compass

We have thousands of people who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time, ... Once they are all out, then we'll concentrate our forces on mandatory evacuation.

Robert Tuttle

U.S. forces do not use napalm or white phosphorus as weapons.

Peter Pace

Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past.

Bayan Jabr

You can be proud of our forces, ... Our forces ... respect human rights.

Ron Kaminski

It forces one to step back a bit.

Anthony Chan

With all that as a backdrop, there are some real positive forces to stimulate growth.

Bill Self

He's a good on-the-ball defender, loose-ball guy and forces help offensively. Now that he's not worried about making shots, he's shooting better. He's playing really well.

Fabio Capello

We had other options but Vieira was the one I wanted,

Alan Knipe

We have a lot of options with him.

Tom Woodruff

We have a lot of options in the infield.

Jill Mesaros

We have been working the past two years on several options which we will be weighing in making our decision.

Group Inc

We don't have many other options left. This is it,

Kim Moore

I feel like there's still some options open.

Frans Houten

There are various M&A options we will explore.

Rand Paul

I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.

David Shore

I think these options are awful. I think they've got to throw this away and go back and look at it again.

Werner Herzog

I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.

Frank Quattrone

I don't follow any particular periodical anymore. I use Twitter as my customized news feed.

Marlon Wayans

With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.

Masahiro Tanaka

I really didn't have one particular athlete I liked growing up.

Chris LeDoux

Mostly it would be those who rode in a particular even would hang out with those who rode in the same event.

Jarvis Cocker

Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours.

Scott McGehee

Juliette in particular - there is so much in her face,

Christine Benz

The predicament is not particular to (Janus) in any way.

Larry Coyer

We have to research a lot of things to see what particular scheme (they will run).

Marty McOmber

This wasn't a surprise. This is why we proposed the legislation.

Eric Hausler

What's proposed in New York is not competitive.

Abbas Zaidi

We have proposed Karachi as a Test and a one-day venue.

Stephen Byers

The proposed merger...might result in a substantial lessening of competition,

Christo

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

Howard Miller

I think what he's proposed is accommodating It's gorgeous.

Paul Omodt

They've got to go through the whole proposed settlement in there.

David Lennon

That is false. They have proposed nothing to us other than threats, concessions and substandard conditions.

Edward Hennessey

There was no relationship, there was a proposed relationship,

Pat Roberts

I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?

Luke Hudson

I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.

Dominic Cooper

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Aesop

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

Ichiro Ozawa

I will do my best, regardless of whether I would be running at the top or at the bottom.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Jeffrey Fieler

Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path.

Wang Xuming

Regarding our textbooks, the (policy) has been consistent. There haven't been any changes.

John Maynard Keynes

Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory

Bill Belichick

I had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game. So, I've learned a lot about that.

Ed Gillespie

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

Stefano Gabbana

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

Kevin Hall

We will be considering the views of the various stakeholders.

Steve Ellis

You had various fiefdoms established in the contracting process.

John Oates

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.

Keith McKeown

All the various discussions are going on with all the different parties.

Roger Williams

Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.