Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Nichols

I was standing right behind Marilyn, completely invisible, when she sang 'Happy birthday, Mr. President.' And indeed, the corny thing happened: Her dress split for my benefit, and there was Marilyn, and yes, indeed, she didn't wear any underwear.

Preity Zinta

There will always be competition, especially in showbiz. There's always someone younger and hungrier standing behind you; there's always someone with more contacts; there's always someone whose grandfather or father is a filmmaker. I think your job is just to be there 100% - you work hard, and there are no shortcuts to success.

Catherine Hicks

Acting is about giving yourself away, like the U2 song 'With or Without You.' You just don't stay behind a character and make people laugh or cry. At some point you have to take off that mask, and when you do, you're a human being, not just an actor. After all, I'm Catherine the person first. You share that.

Chad Hurley

From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.

Glenn Greenwald

Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote, Salon's editors unfailingly stood behind my work.

Paul Weller

I'm sure there's a subconscious 'go for it' thing with turning 50. You want to do as much as possible and there are thoughts of how little time we have on the planet. For a lot of musicians in their 50s, the best days are behind them. I'd like to try and show that there is a future.

We played a lot from behind in games. We haven't been all that great at taking the lead, and holding onto it. So, today was a great game for us.

We played a great game for the first game of the season. Douglas pitched great, but he had eight others behind him making plays.

We pressed on the president the importance of getting justice for Robert, and he said he's 100 percent behind our campaign.

Trent Reznor

A lot of what I've done as Nine Inch Nails has been governed by fear. I was trying to keep the songs in a framework that was tough, and I learnt a lot from Jesus and Mary Chain about how to bury nice pop songs in unlistenable noise - the idea being if you can get behind that wall, you find there's a pearl inside.

Trent Reznor

I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.

Tom Smothers

If you're ahead of your time, who's going to listen? If you're behind the times, it's boring.

When the Ravens get you behind at home, it's tough to come back. Their defense is so good. When they can pin their ears back and just rush the passer and cause havoc, it's tough.

I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?

Debbie Ford

You can satisfy your soul's mission by committing to leaving something behind on this planet that will make a difference to those who come after you.

We are confident that the investigations will expose all shadowy cabals and financiers behind the destabilization.

Those four games we had to put behind us, and this win we have to put behind us too. We've just got to put the past behind. We had a good season, we deserve to be here.

Tom needs to deal with this situation and get it behind him.

Ben Gordon

We are going out there sometimes and getting fouls because we are a step behind on some plays.

Vincente Fox

We are leaving behind the old culture of cronyism to put together a plural government that shares a common vision of the future,

We're coming into the convention united behind the ticket with the governor, Tom McClintock and Bruce McPherson. The role of the party is to support our governor and our ticket.

We're excited about this new move, but it will be somewhat nostalgic leaving behind a building where the FBI has been located since 1910.

Willow Bay

The 'science' behind hormone replacement therapy has put women on a medically engineered, press-fueled, big pharma funded roller coaster ride.

Wilford Brimley

I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim.

Damon Albarn

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

Ben Carson

I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.

Becky G

I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.

We would hold hands. That was allowed. But (the chaperon) was always behind us.

We work on reading and writing strategies and we teach behind a glass where other teachers watch us. We all have to take a turn teaching behind the glass. The child doesn't know the teachers are watching.

Ray Emery

We won tonight but I made more mistakes than I did in some of the past games. When you lose as a goaltender you're definitely under a magnifying glass. Just to get a win maybe put that whole (slump) behind me.

We want to know what he has been doing over the past few years which he spent behind bars. We are not interested in punishing him but in gleaning valuable information he might have in his possession.

We are nine points behind them and must hope they slip up.

We are more than excited about (tonight) because we want to put Monday's game behind us and move on in conference play.