Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.

Gail Kelly

You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

Chelsea Clinton

My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So I grew up around a lot of tea. And I also really love tea. But I'm not one of those people who has ever felt the need to choose between coffee and tea. I think that is a completely false dichotomy.

The people are the ones who are entitled to choose who occupies elected office, not the party.

Natasha Trethewey

It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

Rick Perlstein

It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses to remember the right-wingers of the last generation as sort of cuddly.

Nick Carter

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.

John Brady

We can't just use the weekly points to choose the team because if a team has one or two dominant players others in that side won't get any votes.

We have two fine men to choose from.

Seal

I don't think we can sit on the fence anymore. We have to make up our minds. And if one wants to choose the path of darkness, then so be it, but be conscious of what it is you're doing.

Rick Warren

The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.

Patti Stanger

The only way you'll have a pen of potential Romeos from your past to choose from is to actually have a past.

Linda Hirshman

Well, people choose to ride a motorcycle without a helmet, but that does not stop people from saying it's a mistake. Listen to the risks you're taking before you take the risk.

Charlie Norwood

We wanted to make sure people can choose their own doctor, ... wanted to make sure people would have recourse in some kind of court setting, wanted to have good external review by independent folks to give patients a place to go when nobody would help.

We have to pick and choose where we want to compete. The idea you have to be in all the segments, that's an old way of thinking.

Charles Phillips

We have more on-demand customers. A big percentage over time will want us to choose those applications. We will have enough power products at this layer for it to makes sense.

Voters had to choose between the unknown and the notorious.

Powers Boothe

I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers.

I would love to come back if they want me back. But if they choose to go in another direction, I understand that, too. After all, it is business.

Richard Williams

Microsoft is the dominant player if it chooses to be which would mean there would be significant market share losses for Symantec.

Microsoft is one of the world's leading companies and is notoriously selective over which organizations it chooses to partner, ... resurrect the stadium as the world's leading sports and entertainment venue.

James Harris

Miami is always going to have some real good players to choose from. That's why there are so many scouts here today.

John Calipari

Why would I leave? We have a Top 10 program. Why would I choose to leave? I know how high the expectations are (at Memphis), and if I didn't think this program could meet those expectations, then I wouldn't stay. But I think we can meet the high expectations people have.

We judged it was very good and worth offering up to the public who could choose to watch it or not,

You don't choose your experiences, they choose you.

Kevin Spacey

You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships.

You can choose one or two or three or none.

Whites are pretty much out, because it takes the color out of everyone's skin. Ninety percent (of our customers) choose ivory or diamond white.

John Hammond

I think this gives us another great opportunity, if we choose to use it. As far as us having a definite set plan to send guys down right now, we don't have one.

I'm so impressed with the applicants -- that we have such a high-quality pool to choose from.

I'm hoping to play some of the songs that we didn't get to play on the headline tour we just did. I think we really want to play all the songs on the new record. It's hard to choose between them, but I think we'll pick a couple that we haven't played live so far.

I'm hearing that some men will choose to leave, because if they don't, it would be like living a lie,

Robert Kiyosaki

When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she'd pay a little toward the purchase.