Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Gorham

I do like to just have football on, so I will TiVo, like, three or four games for the weekend, and I'll just turn it on when there's no live football on, just to have the background noise.

Joe Thompson

Carolyn does a great job and is really my sanity check. She comes from a very strong college background as a trainer. She is a good person and believes in doing everything the right way.

People are more inclined these days to make themselves rely on one salary instead of waiting for a Wall Street home run, and that is the background of the economic environment.

The overall reliability of the criminal background check, the way it's done today, is suspect. It's better than nothing, but the probability of not finding a criminal conviction is pretty high.

The overall background is positive for Brazil, foreign investors are going in, and investors have a very strong, positive view on the country. There's reason to feel very positive about the real.

Brewster Kahle

My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.

Brenda Russell

Being a background singer is one thing, but being on stage as the star is something else again. When you walk out there with all those people staring at you, it's like you're naked to the world. And I hate being criticized.

David Stern

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

David Carson

My background is sociology. Combined with my graphic approach, if I could do some film projects, I think I'd be very good at making documentaries eventually, but people don't think of me for that, of course. But dialogue is something I know I can be good at.

David Boreanaz

I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.

Neil Kinnock

If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience are critical to the welfare of the nation.

Movements such as the Pan-Germanic, Pan-Islamic, or Pan-Negro justify themselves on the basis of their common language, or their common religion, or their color. But since the undefined masses involved in these movements lack the essential and real unity of background or community of purpose, they become a grave danger to general peace.

Leah Busque

From my background in travel at HotWire and Expedia, the metrics that TaskRabbit is seeing are more than double at what I saw at both those companies.

Leah Busque

All of our TaskRabbits go through a vetting process, which includes an online application, a video interview, a series of background checks, and then an online quiz that they have to pass before they're activated on the site.

We directed them to go back and run another set of background checks after the issue at Attucks involving the custodian because his initial background check had not produced any record of a criminal conviction.

Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's mother was the head of the Vienna Conservatory's piano department. It all canceled out in my case. I'm completely hopeless in music.

Neil Marshall

I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic design. I went to film school at Newcastle Polytechnic.

Luke Evans

I've always said that theater was where I began, so everything I do now has a bit of my theater background in it. It was my training.

Max von Sydow

Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.

Sharon Jones

Until the '90s, major labels were looking for a certain look. This Sony guy told me I was 'too black, too fat, too short, and too old.' Told me to go and bleach my skin. Told me to step in the background and just stay back. I had the voice, but I didn't have the looks.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

In many ways I'm similar to Barack Obama, who also has a strange name but was raised by a white American mother. His background is far more complicated than his name would suggest. Furthermore, the fact that I was a child during the hostage crisis has caused me to equate being Iranian with being alienated.

Yuri Milner

My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.

Cynthia Moss

This species of bat has been observed capturing insects near the ground and vegetation, which suggests they have a wider repertoire of sonar-guided behavior than previously recognized. We thought the sonar strobe groups might be well suited to helping the bat distinguish a small object from the more complex background you would find in the wild.

You make friends you pass in the night, and everyone has a story to tell. It doesn't matter what your background is or where you come from.

Jerry Robinson

You look at Superman, the story of an orphan coming to America, keeping his identity secret and even the names, Kal-El and Jor-El, you can trace lines to the background of the creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, both Jewish. Overall, there was a remarkable confluence of events that led to the medium and the Jewish participation.

You don't really see Lou a lot. He stays in the background. He just likes to sit back in the background and support his son.

Miriam Toews

You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others.

Betty Wright

I try to study the background of the country I am in and what were my hits there, so I can at least give them some of what they want. It's like a wedding - give them something old, something new, something borrowed and definitely something blue!

I don't care what party you belong to or what your background is. If you believe we are headed in the wrong direction, and believe there needs to be a check and balance on the President and Congress, then join my campaign.

We'd like to know what the problem is. This is something we all should be worried about, by the way. These people are in the country now. If there is a concern on the background checks, why is it taking so long to clear it?

To have a guy like Terry with his background maybe to open some doors with his background, that's going to bring better players. And that's just going to bring more fans.

Matt Damon

When you sign up to do a film with Terry, you're basically signing up to be one of 11 elements in a shot, ... You could have a great take, but if the geese aren't right in the background or the smoke isn't coming up the chimney, Terry will do another take.

Tim Allen

My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.