Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Damon

This whole hot and cold thing is completely ridiculous and totally beyond an actor's control. It's a really insecure, bizarre profession and it's compounded with the whole celebrity and fame thing.

This salary management system goes well beyond a fixed expenditure cap. It is a fundamental element to the health of our league . . . and changes the prospects of the CFL going forward.

There have been specific threats. Beyond that, I just can't go.

James Ross

The reason why MCI needs BT is because it has to get beyond long distance into local telephony in the US -- that's where the growth is going to be. And the reason why BT needs MCI is because it needs to expand outside the UK.

There hasn't been a lot of positive word-of-mouth on the mainstream films this summer. Great marketing, huge production spending can probably get you a mega opening, but beyond that, it's up to the moviegoers to spread the word.

John Fahey

We're trying to find ways for our kids to give back to the community, give back to the school, ... We're also really working on giving them the work they can take with them way beyond high school.

We keep pushing the envelope on ticket prices and I think it's finally gone beyond the pale a little bit. Consumers are voting with their wallets and they're keeping them in their pockets.

We thought it was must-win. (Keene) has to win two games to go beyond us now. This win could move us four spots in the standings. Getting closer to that .500 notch is big. We?re doing what we need to do.

We thought Bruce had a lot of talent and had a good high school experience. But, he has gone beyond what we expected from him. He has gone way beyond what we thought we were getting.

We think we had some strange weather phenomena beyond the hurricane.

John Barnes

We think the world of Sam and I would give him the shirt off my back any day. We were very shocked at his decision because we thought we still had a chance to match the offer. Nothing ever went beyond that point. But that's OK.

We think there is real reason to be cautious here only because the magnitude of this merger is just far beyond anything we've seen in many, many years.

We think the potential for a strike is low, especially for a really damaging one that goes beyond a day or two and stops production.

We're pushing the limits of what a game is, and they think I'm beyond this limit. There will always be purists, but we've never got that push-back from businesses or consumers. Game dynamics are too powerful to leave bottled up in games.

Walker Percy

Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos-novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes-you are beyond doubt the strangest?

Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick.

We've definitely struggled all season, especially shooting from beyond the arc. We're going to come in early (today) and get some extra work done.

Joanna Lumley

To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.

Joseph Garcia

To me, the rebounding record is more important, because it stood for 21 years, and because the old record was so far beyond the next closest (total). Rebounding is a combination of will, desire, effort and hard work.

Michael Robinson

Too often students are told they have to wait until college or beyond to gain practical experience and explore career options. YITC provides students with a unique opportunity to get an early start and gain firsthand experience working with experts and realizing their potential in the IT field.

When I saw the opportunity to be there for him, it goes beyond football. We'll remember this the rest of our lives.

To say 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

Malala Yousafzai

I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.

Oskar Schindler

Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

Emily Greene Balch

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.

Arthur C. Clarke

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Sebastian Vettel

It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty.

Sathya Baba

Though, I am here bodily, still I know what you do; beyond the seven seas. Go wherever you will, over the wide world, I am with you. My abode is in your heart and I am within you. Always worship Me, Who is seated in your heart, as well as in the hearts of all beings.

Robert Morgan

We would like to put people's minds at ease as to whether the petroleum business is responding to circumstances that are beyond its control, or if there is an element of greed in the recent price increases,

We found two large high-temperature fields and as we explored them, we would come upon a large mound of chimneys with superheated water jetting out of them. Then in the distance, we'd see another mound and then beyond that, another one, and so on.

We cannot contemplate a scenario where we would stay at Dolphins Stadium beyond 2010.

We want to establish the Mars settlement envisioned by the Mars Foundation because we view it as the essential element that will help open up the rest of the solar system. But there is a wealth of opportunity beyond that that we are looking at.

Daniel Doctoroff

We want to create a place that is distinctly New York and yet unlike anything New Yorkers have ever seen before. The response we are looking for should move beyond the ordinary to the extraordinary.