Famous Quotes & Sayings

To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.

Bryce Dallas Howard

I've admired Anthony Hopkins for so long, and when I finally got to meet him in person, I became totally immobile and speechless! I stood there looking at him and couldn't say a word.

Bill Plympton

I love Pixar films; I think they're the greatest filmmakers in the world. I love Disney films. 'Tangled,' was great. I loved 'How to Train Your Dragon,' the Dreamworks film. But it's not for me. I don't want to make a film for families; I want to make adult films.

Bill Plympton

I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action.

In the spring of 1984, I was crushed not to make my Little League All-Star team. I will not go into too much detail, but imagine all your best friends were invited to a one-month party, and you weren't. You could watch it from afar but never get past the fence line. It was an early and abrupt welcome to adolescent loneliness.

My dad doesn't like to admit it, but he's the ultimate stage dad. He likes to see himself as my manager even though he's not. I tell him to calm down at least twice a week. The day of the Tony nominations, I honestly thought he was having a heart attack.

Bruce Cameron

When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.

Bharati Mukherjee

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.

Irving Wallace

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Iris Chang

There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.

Imre Kertesz

A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

Dan Buettner

I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

Jose Rizal

My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and gave me advice when I was studying rhetoric.

Jose Rizal

Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances.

Irwin Winkler

The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.

Ivan Lendl

Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.

Ivan Krastev

What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less and less people are going to the polls in most advanced democracies.

Isabella Rossellini

I live in New York, and the only live animals you see are cockroaches, rats and pigeons, which I admire immensely. When I see an animal that thrives in the garbage, I feel relief; in our urban environment, other animals are dying out.

Without those errors, who knows what would have happened. But those errors are a part of the game and we took advantage of them in the beginning.

Without this aid, the city of Paterson would go bankrupt, leaving tens of thousands of hardworking residents without adequate police and fire services and other basic necessities.

Without these protections, it is likely that many of the advances of the past few decades would be wiped out by new barriers to voting.

With cable stock prices under pressure, business slightly less robust than previously thought, and market concerns about debt loads, now might not be the ideal time for additional mergers,

With basketball, it depends on how far you advance in the tournaments. The farther you get, the more money that the school gets back.

With a younger team there will be tough times and adversity. The key will be how we respond and how we get through those situations.

With a spirit of consensus, we have overcome the most difficult issues, and we hope we'll adopt the final protocols on property rights and illegal exploitation of natural resources before the end of this preparatory meeting.

Larry Johnson

With a portfolio this size, you just do the fringe things, no biotech or emerging markets, ... This is a finite pool of money that they won't add to so go plain vanilla with your investments and hopefully you'll return 8 percent a year.

John Cullen

With a plan, we could address issues in a comprehensive way, instead of case by case.

With any emotion you wish to avoid negative emotions such as hatred, shame, blame, regret, resentment, anger, hostility or fear, you must prevent not cure. Control your imagination so that these emotions don't take hold in the first place. Don't focus on the adversity that may lie ahead. Just do what you need to do moment to moment.

With an industry focused over the past decade on effective buyer representation, and the possibility of the market advantage now shifting to the buyers, agents are going to have to improve their knowledge and skills in effectively working and representing sellers.

With a new baby, you have a bad day now and again because you're particularly tired, but most of the time, you're fine. You spend a lot of your time trying to figure out how you can get more sleep, but really, you're better off just giving up and admitting that you're not going to, so forget about it.