Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelp forests may have facilitated human coastal migrations around the Pacific Rim near the end of the last glacial period. In essence, they may have acted as a sort of kelp highway.

I think investors are asking why the Fed acted so quickly and so decisively.

Cameron Crowe

It blew my mind, ... There were two girls who acted out the poster of the movie. They had a little red sofa by the side of the road. One was dressed up in a black suit like Orlando with a black wig and an urn. And the other was Kirsten with the champagne glass and her legs crossed; it was so sweet. I was truly in shock.

Rob Reiner

I acted when I was young, but at 19, I had my own theater company where I acted but also directed. I also did some theater in Los Angeles. So I was always wanting to direct, even before I became an established actor.

James Franco

I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, 'There's a lot I can do with acting - there are a lot of things I can express and do creatively, but there are also limitations.'

Michael Giles

I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal.

David Paulson

I am concerned that hurricane victims are not receiving the assistance they need and money is being wasted as these professionals remain idle, ... Congress acted quickly to make sure that FEMA had the funds necessary for the rescue and recovery effort. I hope proper precautions are being taken to ensure that relief funds are spent in the most efficient manner possible.

B. F. Skinner

He has acted on the majority of them so far.

J. C. Watts

He (Gould) didn't like being looked at that made an ongoing concert career impossible. He didn't enjoy the public spectacle, and he acted on his feelings. Even though I may get nervous, I like performing in public. I like playing concerts.

Daniel Craig

He doesn't look the part. In interviews and his movies he has never sounded or acted the part, and he looks like a dentist. But other than that, he really seems like he'll make a good Bond.

Garrett Gomez

He felt good, he acted like he always does and he actually left the gate wonderful. But when it came time to run he just wasn't there. He must have woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

Chuck D.

He easily could have come to the officials responsible. If they hadn't acted then, he would resign, have a press conference, and that would be entirely honorable.

He made many decisions that night, ... He was goal-oriented and acted intentionally and knowingly.

Brad Miller

He never acted inappropriately with any of you?

Thomas Campbell

This was not the very finest quality of weaving with gold thread, of the kind that was being produced for the leading courts of the day by the Brussels workshops. Rather, it reflects the sort of medium-quality tapestries that the Florence workshops were producing at this time for use in the Medici palaces. Still, the pride they must have felt, knowing this would be destined to go to Como. Tapestry was such an important part of the theatrical presentation of the day. It was the whole stage set against which the formal side of life was acted out.

Reid Scott

Pilot season can be maddening. You're basically putting yourself and your talent out there to be scrutinized several times a day for months by network executives who have probably never acted in anything since their junior high school production of 'The Wiz.'

Investors, surprisingly, acted rationally this quarter and had low expectations.

Ezekiel Emanuel

In the 1950s and 1960s, many parents were generally standoffish with their male children and acted as if they were raising a generation of would-be soldiers. I remember some of my friends' parents who would shake their children's hands at bedtime.

Instead of the Air Force acting as an independent reviewer of this nearly $30 billion deal, they've acted as a silent business partner of Boeing.

In my opinion, it was just total self-destruction. We acted like we had never played a game of football before. How many times is Herrin going to run the mid-line? They're going to run it 20 to 25 times a game and we let the first one go for 70 yards and a touchdown.

In my opinion, DLJ acted in a completely irresponsible fashion in selling a retired couple's bonds and putting them in an aggressive stock portfolio.

Dwayne Hickman

I read several scenes and then I was called back and everyone just acted like I had the part. I went home and still wasn't sure if I had it or not. Finally Ted called and informed me that I had, indeed, been cast as Dobie Gillis.

Ian Mckellen

Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.

Henry Hyde

In doing this, William Jefferson Clinton has undermined the integrity of his office, has brought disrepute on the presidency, has betrayed his trust as president, and has acted in a manner subversive of the rule of law and justice, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States,

I'm happy the governor acted in a timely fashion in naming the members. Now we can get to work.

David Pierce

I had always acted for fun, and I wanted to do that. I really didn't have the talent. I loved to play, but that's a whole different level.

I really thought my first two (takers) were sure goals and that is why I put them in there, but my last two guys are really good players, but (scoring goals) is not their job. We acted as a team and played as a team, and that is how we got a result.

Antonio Davis

I know I should not have acted the way I did, but I would have felt terrible if I didn't react.

In this context the imposition of sanctions on our firms, which in our view have not acted in violation of our laws or regulation, is not justified.

Bob Lewis

I'm so proud of my team. The players acted like a team. It's the way you want to dream about going out as a captain.

Eason Jordan

I never meant to imply U.S. forces acted with ill intent when U.S. forces accidentally killed journalists, and I apologize to anyone who thought I said or believed otherwise,

Uma Bharti

India has become a soft target for Islamic fundamentalists. Moreover, the Uttar Pradesh government has a soft stance towards fundamentalists. It could have acted after the intelligence report but it did not.

Robin Cook

In Kosovo Europe witnessed the greatest persecution of a whole people since the days of Hitler or Stalin. We acted because the age of mass deportation and ethnic cleansing belongs to Europe's past.