Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Stewart

The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties.

Lydia Leonard

Anne Boleyn was a warrior forced to use the only tools available to a woman in her position at that time. She was bold and ambitious, and had she had a son, history would have been very different.

Lydia Leonard

Anne Boleyn isn't a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn't a people pleaser. She's ambitious and manipulative, but she's honest. I'm biased, but I don't think a woman who has said 'no' to the King of England for six years would jump into bed with four of his best friends. She was a slick political mind.

Lydia Leonard

People ask me if I think Anne Boleyn was a feminist... but she wasn't striking out on behalf of women, and she wasn't particularly keen on them.

Lydia Leonard

Anne Boleyn is certainly the most exciting character I have played on stage.

Elaine Sciolino

The city of Paris is determined to promote the happiness-on-a-bike fantasy. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to turn the city into the most bike-friendly capital in the world.

Jane Austen

It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.

Kurt Eichenwald

Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters.

Dorothy Demboski

He is a neighbor of the family she is staying with, and when he went online, he saw my notice. He called me to say he had just seen Anne that day and that she was fine.

Wayne Coyne

We remixed them in 5.1, which doesn't sound like much, but let me tell you it's really a crazy, complicated thing to take these things that you did almost 15 years ago and revisit 'em in this format that only became available a couple years ago. A lot of bands can't do that because they don't have their own recordings. But we've always recorded ourselves, so it's a matter of me just going to the back room and grabbing the tapes and sort of putting them back on the reel. It's a weird treat.

Randy Mobley

We're getting the best available umpires that we can.

John Warner

We're going to recommend to the secretary of defense not to use such funds as he has available ... to implement the initial stages of this program.

Danny Maciocia

We're going to pick the best available player in the draft. If there's two players of equal value and talent, the next criteria is let's address our need as a football team.

Ken Lewis

We're going to go after whatever grant funding is available. We think this is a nice balance in allocating the available resources.

Mickey Loomis

We're going to get the best coach available to us. The right man for the job. Obviously, we'll pay accordingly.

Derek DelPorto

We're going to fight this battle and try to get this decision reversed. It wouldn't be in our blood to tuck our tails and not fight back. As far as me not being around here, if I get offered a job that is available now then it would be in my best interest to take what is a sure thing. I would hate to stick around here, fight the good fight and not get reinstated. Then where would I be, unemployed!

Gary Bardini

What we're living on is a system that has been built over 100 years. It certainly is not up to the current practices that we would do in levee design, so we're doing our best with resources available to make the necessary improvements.

David Dowd

When we got the call yesterday to be available and to be in the position to perform the ceremony, it was a great thrill and a lot of fun,

Tom Murphy

We believe we could make a substantial offer to the people in New Orleans to come to Pittsburgh, ... This is a bold statement on the part of all of us from Pittsburgh, to say, 'Come, and we are going to open our arms and doors to you.'

Michael Nelson

We're going to have to wait a few more years before we can decide where it belongs. The fact that we don't know shows you how hard it is sometimes to tell how they're going to look with the passage of time. When a president makes a bold decision, it carries great opportunity but also great risk.

Duf Sundheim

We're going to come out of this convention united behind the governor. We have a governor who is big and bold and has a vision for the future.

William Shakespeare

Unthread the bold eye of rebellion,And welcome home again discarded faith.

Gary Knell

We are making a bold run at engaging the tens of millions of young children in India around important educational messages to begin them on a lifelong love of learning.

Lydia Leonard

Anne Boleyn was a warrior forced to use the only tools available to a woman in her position at that time. She was bold and ambitious, and had she had a son, history would have been very different.

Laura Mvula

I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.

Ken Mehlman

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.

George Takei

We are going to make a stronger, better, truer democracy....We will boldly go where America has never gone before.

Steve Richardson

We've basically been forced into the paper ballot situation, it's not something we want to do.

Brendan Shanahan

When we were playing with the lead, it forced them to open up a little bit. The onus is on us to break the trap.

Colin Farrell

When we were kind of forced (by real life sniper murders in the Washington area that were too close to the film's plot) to pull the picture in October (from its Nov. 15 date), he wasn't nearly as big a star as he is today after 'Daredevil' and 'The Recruit.' He's become this hot guy.

Tim Shaw

When we were forced to come back on the field really quick, you would see it -- we were pretty tired.

Nia Vardalos

Tom will play a man who is forced into a career change when he least expects it.

Clare Short

We remain concerned that refugees in Macedonia are being forced onto planes and buses. This is unacceptable. We understand Macedonian concerns and will provide support to Macedonia, provided it complies with international rights and norms in its treatment of refugees.

Tom Lamb

Weymouth forced us to throw the ball and Nick did a great job. He also had two drops that would've been touchdowns. In two games he's thrown 30 passes and only one wasn't a good one.

John Hamilton

We bring sort of a venture mindset, but structured in a way to help entrepreneurs that don't want to give up control and don't want to be forced to sell their businesses.

Debbie Stabenow

We believe we need to tackle this problem with the same sense of urgency felt by our seniors who are forced to choose between medicine and food.

Darnell Jenkins

When I was in elementary school at Tillman, Black History Month was important because I went to a majority black school. Since I moved into middle school (Haile) and high school, Black History Month has not been recognized as much.

Roy Conli

When I was a kid, I loved history because history to me was a big story.

Brad Grey

Tom's history with Paramount has made for one of Hollywood's most successful relationships; the opportunity to continue our collaboration with him on 'Mission: Impossible 3' is everything anyone in show business could hope for.

Cameron Crowe

Tom's dad also passed away when he was a young man and he had that history of feeling he never really knew him properly - so he just seemed like the best guy to work with on this one,

Lamar Butler

We're making history right now. Nobody can take that away from us.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

George Schweitzer

We're spending more money on this than any other promotion in UPN history. They've delivered to us a great pilot, and we want to get this out in as many places as we can.

Dan Rooney

We're going to the Super Bowl to win it, not to just be there. This is one of the great moments in the whole history of the league and I've been around a long time.

Dewey Potter

We're going to respond to the council in writing, retrace the history of the project in that response and then the council will decide whether it wants to proceed or not.

Paul Allen

We've basically sold our position in USAI. We're very much focused on bearing down on cable and interactive television.

Paul Allen

We've basically sold our position in USAI, ... We're very much focused on bearing down on cable and interactive television.

Joyce Compton

We've asked McKenna to play a lot of positions this year, and she has really done well offensively, too.

Jim Rutherford

We've always taken the position at this rookie camp that we'll give opportunities to guys who deserve them. Estrada continued to play well. He deserved to go.

Marco Trbovich

We've always said there aren't too many steelworkers, there are too many steel companies. That's been our position for several years.

Richard Boucher

We've always opposed unilateral attempts to try to decide these issues. And that position hasn't changed.

Sophia Young

We've always been the underdog, and it's the kind of the position we expect to be in.

Marty Schottenheimer

When I was playing, it was 10 or 12 plays that determined the outcome of a game. Now, because of the balance of talent in the league, it's come down to three or four plays a game. All you're looking for is to be in a position where you have a chance to win at the end. We haven't been able to do that, in a number of cases but we just keep chipping at it, trying to find a way to turn that corner.

Charles Bullock

When I was out looking at different degrees, I felt it was the best degree to prepare me for any type of position in business with the exception of maybe marketing. The language of business is accounting.

Ken Warwick

We've asked this question ourselves time and time again.

David Corbin

We've asked the city to continue its consideration of the project until April. We want time to look at our options with regard to Holiday House specifically and our overall employee housing needs in general. At this point, we want to go back and revisit our full employee housing goals.

Joan Berry

We've asked for a meeting with the sheriff numerous times, and he never has any time or even the courtesy to return my phone calls. This is very upsetting to me.

Nitin Nohria

We've always treated the historical context of a particular time as a kind of sidebar to any discussion about business leadership. But we've found that context is far more salient than we ever imagined.

Brian Hill

We've always said there's something better down the road waiting for you. It wasn't the right time or the right place.

Drew Goddard

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

Scott Rolen

We've always had a tough time playing them.

Andy Watson

We've always had a plan. As the years go along, you revise it every year, every six months or as needed. Every time there's a structure change, you have to update the plan, and with environmental changes.

Brian Cashman

We've always considered Roger a Yankee. If he decides to play, he'll give us the courtesy of an audience. We'll have to take a look at it when the time comes.

Mark Shapiro

We're so careful in our risk assessments that we may have a better chance of keeping our players on the field. And risk-assessment tools have absolutely gotten better.

Cal DuBrock

What happens when hunters are doing all they can and it's still not enough? Are there other tools we can give them? Or do we have to consider other options? Those are things we're looking at.

Ryan Rosenberg

We found that a lot of people were using advanced scripting, multiple files and other advanced tools but don't think of themselves as professional developers. So we repositioned the product and added more stuff for customization--more tool tips and custom menus.

Jim Collins

Web hosting was the first product in Affinity's portfolio, and it's still a very important part of our business; that's why we continue to strive to create solutions based on the most advanced hosting technology at an affordable price. However, we recognize the need to offer much more than just hosting to satisfy the needs of today's developer, which is why Gate.com also provides a full suite of advanced tools and web services.

Greg Scott

We believe we understand the biotechnology industry better than most. With our combined scientific, financial and investment expertise, and our inside knowledge of this complex industry, we think we have the best tools to separate the winners from the losers.

Andy Ellis

We believe we have the tools in place to stay on top these metrics going forward. We are starting the next phase of our service and quality initiative, which is focused on delivering faster project completion rates while maintaining our high quality standards.

Paul Vasconi

We are given 30 days to pack up three years of parts, tools and items. But we will at least have some control over our own space, rather than living from day to day, not knowing what efforts are being done behind the scenes to mess us up.

Dan Kusnetzky

What's new is that someone built a whole operating system, not tools or subsystems.

Jeff Raines

We're going to have more tools in the bag than just reselling Qwest.

Mike Koepp

We're going to have to be road warriors from here on out.

Chogyam Trungpa

The warrior is not afraid of space

Chogyam Trungpa

The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems. This wisdom does not belong to any one culture or religion, nor does it come only from the West or the East. Rather it is a tradition of human warrior-ship that has existed in many cultures at many times throughout history.

Chogyam Trungpa

The strongest of us are those that are spiritually strong, and a spiritual warrior is one of vulnerability.

Chogyam Trungpa

What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.

Chogyam Trungpa

You begin to understand that warriorship is a path or a thread that runs through your entire life. It is not just a technique that you apply when you are unhappy or depressed. Warriorship is a continual journey. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. That is the warrior's discipline

Chogyam Trungpa

For the warrior, every moment is a challenge to be genuine, and each challenge is delightful. When you let go properly, you can relax and enjoy the challenge.

Chogyam Trungpa

The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.

Chogyam Trungpa

Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.

Heber J. Grant

When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gave me as much motherly advice or seemed to love me more than did Sister Snow. I loved her with all my heart, and loved her hymn, 'O My Father.'

Margaret Johnston

To my delight, instead of the usual unkempt, gum-chewing, tobacco-scented, tired and bored woman in a bad part of town, I was greeted by a lovely, clean, organized and educated lady with a deep and true love of children.

Kay Robertson

One of the great tragedies I see is people not putting every effort into the foundation of their marriage. My grandmother told me that it's one man and one woman for life and that your marriage is worth fighting for.

Cary Goldstein

What we're seeing is the trashing of her nationwide. She was a good woman and ... my information is that Mr. Blake shouldn't be the first one to cast stones.

Carolyn Maloney

What have we come to in this country? ... We are merely saying, 'let the laws in this country stand.' Let a woman be treated with dignity. When she has a prescription from her doctor, that privacy should be respected.

Rudi Giuliani

We believe we found the letter that explains the reason why the woman there was infected, and the original powder that was examined turned out to be negative,

Debbie Szpanka

What made this fire suspicious is when firefighters pulled the woman from the blaze, she already had a head injury.

Randy Thomasson

What's marriage all about? It's about brides and grooms. It's about men and women who know marriage is obviously about men and women. You need a man and a woman to have a baby. You need a man and a woman to have a marriage.

Charlize Theron

You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.