Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Seuss

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt.

Charles Spurgeon

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

C. S. Lewis

'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'

The governor has already begun interviewing candidates. It's a short list.

The governor continues to make steady progress in his recovery, and today doctors have begun the process of reestablishing a normal diet.

The government is already working to make sure that this is a permanent cease-fire, that is the beginning of a definitive, absolute, total end to all types of violence.

The good news for workers is that job cuts during the summer months typically decline from the beginning of the year. If that occurs this year, we could see job-cut figures fall to their lowest level in several years.

Anthony Holden

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.

Adam Goldberg

My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.

Agnes Bruckner

Being a director, just to begin with, is just, I think, one of the hardest jobs just because you have to work in every way. You have to work with actors, you have to be involved with the producers and the writing and the action. Every department comes to you; you have to deal with everything.

Anne Wojcicki

As the knowledge around personalized medicine continues to grow, consumers should expect their healthcare providers to begin to incorporate genetic information into their treatments and preventative care.

Annette Bening

I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, 'Well somebody has to be in them,' so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.

Craig Smith

We've been practicing and playing for more than five months. We told our guys at the beginning of the year that it was a marathon, not a sprint. Now, it's time to finish it. Our guys have been waiting all year for this.

We've been dealing with this (parking issue) since the beginning, and every single councilor knew there was going to be a reduction in parking. There was an error in not filing for the reduction.

We've been dealing with all these risks in agriculture since the beginning of time." ()

We've been begging these guys to run all year long and we have not been able to get them to run. At times tonight we pushed it a little bit and we would love to do it more.

We need to speed up the tempo of the offense. That's important because it will wear on the defense. In the last eight minutes last week, you could see it was beginning to wear on the Paris defense.

We need to rethink how we design and conduct clinical trials in the United States. Our current system has served us well for the past 50 years, but the demands of 21st century medicine are beginning to put a strain on the current system, and we believe we have something to relieve that strain.

The government officials wanted to stress, and wanted to make clear that this is not a solved problem -- that this is the beginning of a journey.

The defense is seeing the ice well, the players may have let down a little but they have to learn to put effort in from beginning to the end. We need to score more than one goal and make sure we're getting quality shots. It takes a little more pride in practice. I feel a lot of the times they shot without looking or purpose.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.

Ashwin Sanghi

Once upon a time, I was a workaholic clocking more than 80 hours per week. That changed after I began to write. I now work only around 35 hours per week. I do not work on weekends because these are the days that I use for research as well as for my writing.

Pete Carroll

We didn't expect it to be this easy, but the game went our way from the beginning. I was a little surprised.

We had a couple of main goals at the beginning of the year, and this was one of them. I'm really happy we accomplished it. Everyone did what they had to do.

Jane Anderson

We had a couple glitches in the beginning with the machines. But there were no major problems. I think the only major issue was intimidation with the machines. Some people tried to make it harder than it was.

We got hit so hard at the beginning of the week,

We believe retail printing is a key growth opportunity in the digital photo market. This initial introduction is just the beginning first steps in how we plan to broaden our portfolio.

Michael Fitzpatrick

We are starting to see a change in consumer behavior. Consumers are cutting back because of high prices, rising interest rates and signs that the housing bubble is ending. Prices have probably begun the long steady process of grinding lower.

Weather is now beginning trade more like a commodity. There is real money to be made in weather space.

Bill Gross

To the extent that they're at the beginning of their cycle, much as we were 12 months ago, that suggests a negative outlook for their bonds.

Bernie Leadon

I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.

Brian Ferneyhough

Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.