Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessye Norman

My parents said to us, practically on a daily basis, that we were as good as anyone else on this earth, and that we would simply have to work harder in order to show that.

Judith Jamison

My idea for the Jamison Project was rather like a pickup company. The idea was to give the dancers a taste of the menu. Today, dancers need to try as many companies as possible without having a drop-dead loyalty to me or anyone else. They like to have the leeway to go their own way.

Richard Harris

Looking at these numbers, what do they tell anyone who's got any common sense? Everything you're seeing is just too little, too late.

Judge Roberts has a combination of substantive expertise and stylistic smoothness ... He's likely to fly through this without anyone laying a fingernail on him.

It is early in the year to be playing a game. We won't take any risks with anyone who we think might be doubtful.

David Fine

It is delicious, and anyone in his right mind would gobble it right down.

It is essential that anyone who witnessed the incident or has any information about what has happened contacts us immediately.

Steven Jackson

I'm still working on my pass routes, ... I never had to do it to this extent. In college it was a dump-off here or there. It's more intriguing here. I'm more comfortable in my blitz pickup. I feel I can block just about anyone and I'm not intimidated by any defender. I just look at it as a challenge, one on one.

I'm still waiting for a judge or anyone to show me anywhere in the Constitution where there's a separation of church and state. We didn't lose; we were robbed.

Keira Knightley

I'm so embarrassed about anyone going in that room.

I'm still looking for a partner for him because he's the best doubles player we've got, really. If Ryan and Colin decide they want to play singles, then I can put Taylor and Mitch at No. 1 doubles and I don't think anyone can beat them.

I'm hungry. Anyone should be hungry for it. It's the best position you can get.

Jeremy McGrath

I'm hoping to beat Boris because I don't know if I can beat anyone who knows what they're doing, ... Boris and I are both a little bit out of our element. I figure we'll be in the middle somewhere pounding on each other.

Jim DeMint

I'm here being part of the team and associating myself with anyone who will have me,

Chris Wilcox

I might not have been happy, but at the same time I wasn't going to let anyone know that I wasn't happy. I was just going to play hard and continue doing what I was doing.

Richard Curtis

We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!

We needed effort, desperation. Those were the two biggest keys we talked about in the past 24 hours. If anyone didn't come out and give it their all, they must have been deaf.

We need anyone who saw them at anytime on Sunday to call us and give us the information.

We'll be able to roll 15 to 17 floats this year. We want everyone to know that the parade is open to anyone who wants to be part of it.

We live in the 21st century, the wisest generation yet to come, where you have the freedom to say anything you want, sue anyone and for anything, and wear a trash bag in style.

Elliott Abrams

The Arab view that someone should bomb Iran and stop it from developing nuclear weapons is familiar to anyone who meets privately with Arab leaders, especially in the Gulf.

The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.

The announcers were portraying the game as called hideously. If they were accurate, that's not what anyone wants.

John Yarmuth

The American people are desperately seeking a Moses to lead them out of the wilderness, back to the land of milk and honey. They thought maybe Barack Obama was the one, and when he proved to be mortal after all, they were willing to listen to anyone new.

That was as good a first half as I've seen anyone play since I've been at Hofstra.

That was the minimum donation for anyone who came,

That would be kind of nice (to get to .500). I don't think anyone would remember the game got us to .500 ... it's still the Bucket Game and it's going to stand out as the Bucket Game.

That was the division in the hacking world: There were people who were exploring it and the people who were trying to make money from it. And, generally, you stayed away from anyone who was trying to make money from it.

That was something very special to me. The parents and coaches really appreciated that. From the standpoint of a person, you're not going to find anyone better.

That was probably the game. This is one of the worst feelings I've ever had as a basketball player. It's just tough. I don't really know what to say. You work so hard all summer, all season, and it comes to an end that quickly. But we don't have anyone to blame but ourselves.

That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.

That went a long way to helping our confidence. Anyone we face now probably won't be better than him. When you face someone like that, you probably won't face someone who throws harder.

That was all in place with this kid, ... There was nothing anyone could have done that wasn't done. In a matter of minutes, he had the proper medical attention and was at the hospital.