Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eliot Spitzer

The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and slogans can be set aside and be replaced by thoughtfulness and introspection.

Emun Elliott

I'd been wanting to work with James McAvoy since I was in drama school. I suppose there are parallels in that we're Scottish, we went to the same drama school and share the same agent, but aside from that, he's someone I've looked up to.

It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.

Nate Robertson

There are things you can't explain this year -- things that are hard to swallow. My personal stats -- numbers -- they're easy to put aside if you're winning. But as a team to this point we've fallen short of our expectations, and that's what makes it tougher.

On occasion, I like to reread my grandfather's letters. While leafing through them, I'm saddened by what is being lost in modern communication. Soul-baring sentimentality isn't typically poured into text messages, tweets and emails. All too often, personal connections are brushed aside for the sake of convenience in a fast-paced world.

We hear a lot of musicians, but Willie was the favorite of everybody who worked here. His voice was incredible, but his passion set him aside from everybody else.

Chipper Jones

There are a lot of egos in the clubhouse. For us to be successful, we have to put those egos aside and become good teammates and play the game the way we grew up playing it, pull for each other and genuinely be happy for each other.

Lawrence M. Krauss

I have always felt that, aside from research that violates universal human mores, when it comes to technological applications, that which can be done will be done.

Paul Pierce

We probably don't want to build a Grizzlies Stadium, because it'd be hard to put up and hard to get rid of, but aside from that, what would you like to see,

Sebastiao Salgado

When I was starting out, when I put aside my career as an economist. I looked at every book, went to every show, did my first stories, developed my first films. A fabulous time.

When there is a weak auction, it sometimes means investors will step aside and wait for deals in the secondary market,

Aside from its parks and nature areas, Singapore is intensively developed, and due to the shortage of land, is building up, down and on manmade islands and landfills.

Shaun Maloney

Tommy Burns pulled me aside a few days before and told me there was a chance. I didn't want to think too much of it in case it didn't happen but thankfully it did. You always hope if you are doing well for one of the bigger clubs you will come into contention but this season there have been a lot of players doing well outside of the Old Firm.

Fareed Zakaria

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

Allan Gurganus

It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper article. The story said there were 19 women still on the pension payroll who were Confederate war widows. They were women who very early in their lives had married very old men.

Alan Greenspan

The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody's tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.

Tullian Tchividjian

My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess.

Becki Newton

I keep my perfume in the fridge. If someone sees me in the morning pushing aside the eggs to grab my perfume, it might look a little odd, but it's so refreshing to spray cold fragrance on your skin.

We were able to weather the hurricanes (in 2004) as a result of the fact that we had money set aside for emergencies. It's a very clean audit. In terms of any significant problems -- there were none.

John Gibbons

We gave them out best shot. We had the lead late. Aside from maybe Yankee fans and our own fans, nobody else in the world wanted to see us win that game for the weekend's sake.

We don't know what to expect. We hope people put their differences aside and have respect for each other.

We don't know if we'll take the money. We might just set it aside for now because we want the house back.

To be a professional, sometimes you've got to put aside how you are playing or the number of minutes you're playing, you have to check it at the door and just come to win. That's what everybody has on their minds, winning games. It's harder when you have to fight attitudes on your own team, and then have to fight the other team. If one person is unhappy, then everybody is unhappy.

The Holy Spirit can be with you always and guide you back to Him, but in order to enjoy the benefits of this holy gift, you must truly receive it, and then you must use it in your life. How sad it would be to be given such a precious gift and then set it aside and never use it.

Natalia Tena

I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm sorry to disturb you, but my daughter thinks you're in 'Harry Potter.' I'll say 'That's cool' and take the kid aside and say, 'I'm a witch. If you don't listen to your mum, I'm going to haunt you!' It's brilliant. I can scare kids into doing their homework.

Richard Sherman

I saw a hockey game where they threw the puck aside and just started fighting. I saw that, and I'm like, 'So I'm the thug?'

Ramez Naam

We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what science tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the most effective and most important green technologies we have. If - after looking at the data - you aren't in favour of using them responsibly, you aren't an environmentalist.

Skrillex

I do most of my vocals - aside from a couple of little one-shot vocal samples. I record everything into the Saffire with an SM58 then scratch it with loads of plug-ins. I don't do much vocoding to be honest. All my vocals are usually done with Melodyne and a ton of other plug-ins to make it sound weird.

The definitions related to open space are weak in that they do not distinguish between lands set aside for resource-conservation purposes versus lands set aside for recreational purposes; nor do the definitions recognize necessary distinctions between urban, suburban and rural lands.

John Podhoretz

Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out.

Tom Ridge

Yeah, we weren't certain, ... Still, in the context of everything else (intelligence chatter and a terror attack in Saudi Arabia), we could not set it aside and dismiss it as not credible.

Our philosophy at Creston is quite simple. We believe in setting aside equal shares for people and for nature in a community that offers the benefits of well thought-out land use.

Our girls ran okay today - this was not one of our better races. Aside from that, Heather Mitchell ran really well for us and is improving each and every race. The girls need to compete with some fire, and as a whole that wasn't the case at Nashville.