Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gregory Benford

Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency.

George Smoot

When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart and very motivated and worked very hard, but they were still humans, whereas before they were kind of mythical creatures to me.

Ben Mendelsohn

Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia.

Francesca Annis

My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

If I would characterize my life, I would say that I was a very lucky actor who came into very lucky times, and got to Hollywood, and was put under contract by Warners in the very last days of the studio contract era, and was privileged to go through that time which is gone now.

FKA twigs

When I first released music, and no one knew what I looked like, I would read comments like: 'I've never heard anything like this before; it's not in a genre.' And then my picture came out six months later: now she's an R&B singer.

Frances Fisher

I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

Hulk Hogan

The leg drop was a move that nobody really used, and nobody ever hit the ropes and jumped up really high, so I tried it out in Japan and the people loved it. That's how I came up with it.

Huston Smith

When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones.

Greg Berlanti

That's part of what always fascinated me about the Flash. Yes, he had superpowers, but he wasn't superhuman. He was vulnerable. He could be hurt or killed. He's not getting in a jet. He actually is the jet. So he had this gift, but with it came this risk. And I think that's what makes the character relatable.

Graham McTavish

I came home for a week after I finished filming 'Rambo' because, after being in the jungle for three months, all I wanted to do was walk in the Highlands.

Grace Hightower

My vision is to hire qualified employees that may have not yet had the opportunity to create a better life for themselves, or did have one but might have came down on hard times and need a hand.

Gabe Kaplan

When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.

We left too many people on early in the game and it came back to haunt us. We had seven hits, we just have to get them in.

John Madden

When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers.

Scott Campbell

We used that as motivation. We came into this tourney wanting a chance to play S.C.

Ahmed Zewail

The mosque was the neighbourhood house of worship, but it was also the place where my high school friends and I came to study.

Richard Lester

When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday.

O. Henry

This was a great way for us to send our seniors out. It was a close meet and a total team effort. When it came down to it the team really supported each other whether it was in the pool or not. Everyone contributed today. This meet will definitely help prepare us for the upcoming conference championship.

Chad Greenway

We've just got to come together. We have to play Iowa football. We didn't do that, but give the credit to Iowa State. They came out ready to go. They're obviously a very talented team and they had a lot of weapons and shut us down.

Todd Lodwick

This whole year has been planned from early summer. I had a child and we had to plan around it and look at it as a time to find out what's really important. Through the whole season we came up with a plan to peak this weekend.

E. B. White

This whole thing came on when I was 37. Up to there I lived a normal life.

There haven't been many days in the last 2 1/2 years that I came in to work and wasn't thinking about them at some point or another.

Emily Dickinson

There came a wind like a bugle; / It quivered through the grass.

James Salter

There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.

Simon Gagne

The rebound came right onto my stick. All I had to do was put it over Marty.

The rebound came in due course after the negative factors surrounding Japan's financial system had been factored into share prices.

Eddie Jordan

We said it was going to be war going out. Literally, we spilled blood. It was a physical road trip. I'm glad it came down to that. We've grown up a little. Hopefully we can carry it out the last two weeks.

We knew there would be cuts but we didn't know what they would be. Everything came out in the open (Tuesday) night.

We keep coming close. We came close at Indiana, we came close at Illinois. We have to get past this little ? I don't know what it is ? and win some games.

We thought it was important that we were not limited to just what came in the mail,

We were not happy to be here in the first place. We were not the Lady Patriots we knew we could be the other day and slacked off. The girls came out strong tonight and gave 110 percent and more.

Abdullah Abdullah

We were not consulted about that, and this announcement came as a surprise to us,