Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Costner

I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.

John Ridley

As far as superhero stories, what's appealing is of course that aspect of wish fulfillment. I mean, you start out reading them as a kid, and a couple things jump out at you - there are heroes out there, and you wish you could run into a phone booth and change your life, or be like Peter Parker and put on a mask and become a hero.

Andrea Ruedi

We're looking at fresh foods, something that appeals to everyone. People will feel comfortable coming in two or three times a week.

Doug Jackson

We're confident (the state board) will uphold the elementary appeal and it will be a good way to win the trust of the district.

Samantha Shannon

I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys.

Robert Palmer

I loved the music, but the excesses of rock n' roll never really appealed to me at all. I couldn't see the point of getting up in front of a lot of people when you weren't in control of your wits.

Gary Young

We're not conceding anything. In fact, I think the court of appeals would render in our favor.

Mark Connelly

Lumber prices should decline slowly, but a settlement of the trade dispute would be a much larger positive for profitability. The U.S. sounds fairly serious about finding a resolution, now that its appeals are nearly exhausted.

Jim Backus

Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.

David Duke

More than 95 percent of both legal and illegal immigration into the United States is non-white. Because of the way immigration law is structured, the highest-skilled nations on earth - those of Europe - are allowed only a tiny percentage of immigrants, while the third world nations such as Mexico are dumping their chaff onto American shores at the highest rate in history.

Antonis Samaras

Greece's position in Europe will not be put in doubt.

Derek Bok

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

Denis MacShane

Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.

Alain Badiou

Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).

Charles James Fox

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

Charles Darwin

The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people.

Jenny Lewis

When I was a teenager, I went to Europe on a backpacking trip by myself, and I met a woman who was following Sebadoh. It was the early 1990s, and that was my introduction to indie rock.

Chris Cuomo

You're also looking at a global warming solution here in Europe: smaller vehicles, more energy efficient, many which use diesel fuel which is more efficient. And the price of gas here is $6 a gallon to discourage guzzling. A lot of big ideas and innovations coming out of Europe.

Arnold J. Toynbee

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

Antony Beevor

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

Octavio Paz

The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Lenny Alcivar

Lynn Swann respects the historic legacy of labor in Pennsylvania.

Ewa Kopacz

To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.

Kara Walker

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

Benito Mussolini

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Carroll Quigley

I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field.

Alan Furst

I invented the historical spy novel.

David Rockwell

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.

David Rockefeller

This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.

David Heyman

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

David Heyman

I look forward to having the time and the opportunity to take on new challenges, but I'm also aware that I've loved every minute of the 'Potter 'experience: to make films for an enthusiastic audience and work with great material.

David Icke

Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.

David Brainerd

My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God

Arnold Schwarzenegger

As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

Bengie Molina

I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.

Benazir Bhutto

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

Bill Watterson

Tomorrow we'll not only seize the day, we'll throttle it.

Matt Clement

I don't think we're worried about who's the underdog or the favorite, we just get to the postseason and now you have the opportunity, ... Hopefully, we can seize it.

Joely Richardson

Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

Horace

Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.

Shane Meyer

They just seized it and took control. Then we were just flat.

Lloyd Alexander

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.