Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Branagh

I think I do have a way of predicting - not always accurately - what is a nerve-wracking day for actors, what may be a difficult scene or a difficult moment, how small - and it may be down to one line - a thing maybe that is upsetting or undermining a performance.

Marty Schottenheimer

The problem with that is every time I've ever done that in my career it's been a low-scoring game and when I've thought it (would be) a low-scoring game it was a shootout. Going in, on the surface you might think that, but I don't think there's any way to accurately predict it. All we're anxious to do is find a way to score one more than they have. That's all we care about.

Martin Murray

The reality is we're all looking at the price per gallon of gasoline and heating oil, and even cord wood, and we're seeing prices that are volatile, and I don't think anybody can accurately predict what we'll be paying for these commodities in two weeks, let alone two months.

Dwight Schultz

Being closer to the genesis of this whole period, it captured the importance of the concept of making contact and accurately depicted the paranoia of the time. It's an excellent film.

Sean Berdy

The deaf culture is portrayed very accurately on 'Switched at Birth' because the writers did the opposite of the norm. They did their homework before portraying anything on television.

Sean Berdy

The deaf community is nearly never portrayed accurately on television/film because most writers never took the time to immerse themselves in the deaf culture before portraying it on television. They also never got to know their deaf actors.

Our goal really is to create what we're calling the veteran roll call. We want to have all the names of those who served in Vietnam as accurately as possible.

Brian Schmidt

Our goal would be that all existing agricultural land, accurately and honestly defined, is mitigated by the preservation of other lands at a one-to-one ratio.

PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method (according to Mimbleshaw's classification) of obtaining money by false pretences. It consists in ""reading character"" in the wrinkles made by closing the hand. The pretence is not altogether false; character can really be read very accurately in this way, for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word ""dupe."" The imposture consists in not reading it aloud.

Christopher Moore

Our finding suggests that high resolution sensory maps that can quickly and accurately handle many different kinds of sensory features are an essential hallmark of high sensory acuity, in whatever mode of perception is most important to the animal. It makes sense that mammals develop intricate sensory maps in the sensory system that is crucial for them--like vision is for us or the whisker system is for rodents.

Patrick Murray

Survey research can contribute to our knowledge base in so many different ways. We want to be a resource for state and local government. That's our job. If they need information accurately and quickly, they can turn to us.

It is an extremely effective way to combat potential fakes because the DNA link has an astronomical 1-in-33 trillion chance of being accurately reproduced.

Jason is an important character in the book. He'll be treated fairly and accurately in the book.

Jamie disliked all forms of pomp and pomposity so his spirit would return to haunt me should I make exaggerated claims about his virtues, ... But I can say this: Jamie represented something of great importance in today's media world ... a simple desire to inform the public as accurately and impartially and comprehensibly as possible within the constraints of daily, news agency reporting.

Robert Rubin

I think -- virtual universal agreement -- is that the CPI does not accurately reflect inflation,

I will answer each question as accurately and fully as I can,

Jimmy Carter

I think they have been seriously disillusioned, but whether it would have been more accurately predicted if I had been in the White House or someone else, I wouldn't claim that at all.

Roche is confident the advertising accurately and appropriately reflects the clinical findings.

Optical networking is exploding, and the market will experience tremendous growth during the next decade. As we noted with Digital Subscriber Lines, few important technologies experience smooth and steady adoption cycles. Customers cannot accurately calculate the exact rate of adoption, and the inevitable result is inventory imbalances.

I am thrilled for the opportunity to continue to serve this community. I hope to build on our tradition of accurately delivering important news to our readers first.

Ridley Scott

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.

Steve Scott

We maintain that we can do a better job of accurately portraying what's going on in a courtroom if we can use the best tools available to us.

That's too late for us to be able to make promotion decisions in grades 3, 5 and 7, to accurately identify students who have to be invited to the Summer Success Academy.

One is always concerned about how their story will be handled. And while I expect this documentary to be rather hard-hitting at times, I feel that Gener8Xion Entertainment will accurately portray the story as it unfolded.

Olive Schreiner

Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate. They are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, ''Into how little space a human being can be crushed?'' I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move there -- wide room. A woman who has been for many years at one of those places carries the mark of the beast on her till she dies.

Richard Blumenthal

More than patching the gaps and loopholes of the Department of Justice settlement, this proposed set of remedies goes beyond that to really accurately reflect the spirit and letter of the Court of Appeals opinion and the law of this case,

Frank Beamer

Sean's been the most consistent both in getting into plays and making decisions and making throws. Sean has thrown the ball more accurately than he did last fall. He's made very good decisions. He is against a couple of quarterbacks who are more athletic than he is. So it's not so much as what he's done wrong, but the other kids have done some things right. That's why this is a tough decision.

Sensitivity and accuracy, at the end of the day, are the same thing. Because of what we've heard from the police, firefighters, civilians, the Port Authority, everyone who was there that day, loved ones - they said, 'Tell the story accurately so people understand what happened.' You can't do the Hollywood version.

Tao Lin

The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

It is entirely possible to present science accurately and have a hit show.

Expanding our portfolio to include the STI technology provides our customers with a new way to reduce their energy consumption and costs. The added benefit of being able to control light output to more accurately light the playing area as well as reducing unnecessary spill light and sky glow, is very compelling for our clients.

Stocks remain richly valued as a multiple of earnings. If earnings do not accurately represent the fortunes of Corporate America, then stock prices may be even more expensive than the statistics suggest.

It's important that all members vote on Friday. The bargaining team cannot represent us accurately if we don't indicate our wishes.