Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allison Scagliotti

Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school.

Dwight Johnson

I have never experienced any weather that rough in the size of the boat that I was in. I could not control the boat. I did the best I could for about 10 to 11 hours to keep it afloat until we were evacuated. Everyone was seasick. Everyone had a loss of energy. It took a lot of persuasion on my part to get people into their survival suits, but the bottom line is we survived.

Charles Grassley

There is a ship afloat without a captain,

Ali Larter

I'm in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career, I've been such a fighter and a little hustler and someone who just tried to stay afloat in this business.

Ken Bacon

The crews of the new ships can help do some of the work that's required to keep the ship afloat and to deal with the damage to the hull,

Mark Cliffe

I think he's still concerned to keep the stock market afloat and to hold down bond yields. He's going to be more inclined to talk the markets up rather than down.

John Caudwell

'Titania' is the best yacht currently afloat of its kind and size. There is very little, if anything, that anybody would go wanting for on 'Titania.'

Luis Sojo

We've been quiet offensively and today we came through when we needed it. It's not a secret that our fine pitching has kept us afloat in this tournament.

Jeff Meyers

We knew if we did fall through the ice, the boat would stay afloat and we could hang on to it.

Amanda Crew

When I look for the next project, it's always about, 'Is it going to push me out of my comfort zone? Am I doing something different? Am I working with people who are passionate about what they're doing?' At the end of the day, if I'm going to be bored on set, then I'm not gonna be happy.

Sherry Argov

When a man meets a woman who seems too perfect, too sweet, or too agreeable, he tends to become bored very quickly.

Alexandre Dumas

I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

Alexandre Dumas

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

Kat Morgan

Life is like the remote control, switch it , sway with it.Find what satisfies you and go with it. When you get bored with what you see, create your own life...Kat Morgan

Brendan Shanahan

Let's be honest -- the same way fans were getting bored with the game in the past, players were too. So in a game like this, with all the excitement and guys coming at you with speed, players like Chris Chelios react to that.

DeAngelo Hall

loves being challenged. He gets bored if he's not being challenged.

Augusten Burroughs

We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.

Cam Gigandet

I can get bored with any show, when it goes on too long.

David Hume

Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama.

David Bromstad

Colors close together on the color wheel are analogous and will make a calm room. Colors that are farther apart are complementary and add drama.

Ben Wheatley

The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.

Ben Stiller

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

Ben Stiller

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of not repeating myself.

Denis Leary

I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do a lot. I started in the theater, then I went to stand-up comedy, and then when I went into the movies to do comedy and drama and big movies and small movies.

Denis Leary

There's no way around it - drama is very difficult to shoot. It's very heavy and something that you carry with you for the course of the day.

David Brainerd

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Alain de Botton

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

Al Davis

Time never stops for the great ones

Blaise Pascal

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

Hugh Fountain

We actually got after it better. We played harder. It's a tribute to the kids. They've kept plugging away. It was important for them to see some results come out of the work.

Tyler Perry

My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?'

Gabrielle Zevin

In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.

Elizabeth Wilson

I didn't want to give up my career. That's what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn't stop - didn't want to stop - being all these different characters.

Eric Carr

We'd go through the whole story again, ... but when we got to that part, he kept saying, 'I don't remember.'

Scott Howell

At IBM, if we kept our same leadership for 36 years, we'd be bankrupt.

Ashwin Sanghi

Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept its mouth shut?

Phil Anderton

We have kept in touch since then and he is somebody we respect for obvious reasons.

Leta Fickes

She has kept in touch with me ever since.

David Duchovny

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Robert Reich

When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Jason Clarke

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Janice Hahn

I was born into public service.

Benjamin Disraeli

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've never had a very great public life.

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Barbara Hershey

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

David Vitter

Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit.

David Walliams

I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.

David Henry Hwang

Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school.

David Hyde Pierce

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.

David Horowitz

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

David Hilbert

I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.

David Icke

And if you look at society, the way it works, they are creating, from cradle to grave, left-brain prisoners. To advance in this society, you have to be good at passing exams in school, which are taking in left-brain information overwhelmingly. Then you go to the next level, and so on so that by the time you reach any level of significant influence in society or the institutions of society, you are fundamentally locked into your left brain. Or at least the majority of people are.

David Hume

It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest orator, who triumphs in the splendour of his eloquence, while he governs the passions and resolutions of a numerous assembly.

David Hume

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

Kiesza

I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea, I tend to just go for it and see what happens.

Desmond Soon

Let's see what sort of spreads it comes out at.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.

Sarah Snook

I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' came out, I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'

Lyle Bauer

What we didn't want was it to be sort of a one-hit wonder.

Chris Evert

My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.

Keith David

Of course, I was sort of a TV junkie too.

Pat Gillick

more of a staying-in-touch, passing-through sort of thing.

Becky Sarro

She's always been a very intrepid sort of girl.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Jim DeMint

I think they'll make this a competitive thing that will get the system better and better by the week,

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.