Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Poulter

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

Wendy Kopp

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Zubin Mehta

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

Yani Tseng

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Colin Baker

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Chris Carter

I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

Debasish Sen

The police have been asked to carry out investigations and carry out the required proceedings.

Stu Loeser

The picture focuses on Brooklyn and Queens, and reinforces our message that Mayor Bloomberg has made all of New York safer, ... We hadn't asked or considered where the photo was taken from, and we don't plan on using it again.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.

Warren Bennis

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

William Cavendish

The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.

Vivienne Westwood

The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and paid a heavy price in doing so, is both awe-inspiring and humbling.

Vincent Cassel

I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.

Abraham Lincoln

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Abraham Lincoln

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

Abraham Lincoln

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

Virginia Postrel

Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the impersonality of the 'extended order' of trade and technological networks. It suggests that we can wipe the slate clean and start from scratch.

Elliott Erwitt

The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in one contact sheet, and sometimes it's none for days. But as long as you go on taking pictures, you're likely to get a good one at some point.

Tom A. Watson

I have to say obviously it is not illegal for people to go to dinner and to socialise and take hospitality off members of the media organisations, but it was the scale and the timing and the frequency of contact that I thought was shocking.

Ronnie Mamoepa

We have made contact with our embassy there and no South Africans are affected, as far as we are aware.

Gary Bass

We have lost contact with the orbiter; rescue units are moving position.

Lindy Ruff

When we put him in contact situation and we ran him through some drills in Tampa Bay, he didn't do so well. The strength isn't there yet. We're not going to put him in until he's in a situation where he doesn't feel like he's handicapped.

Najib Mikati

I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.

Stanley R. Jaffe

My only real contact with what my father did was that he could get 16-millimeter prints, so every weekend we would show two or three movies at home. But our house wasn't frequented by stars. My father's personal life was his personal life, and it was separate from his professional life.

Nick Wechsler

Personally, I don't go and seek contact with fans, but if they happen to find me somewhere I'll say hello and speak to them for a while.

Nicholas Garganas

The overall picture is that the recovery is broadening and deepening. My feeling is that euro-area growth will pick up at a faster pace than generally expected.

Paul Watson

Bluefin tuna is sort of like the cheetah of the ocean. It's the fastest fish. It's a warm-blooded fish. But it's got a $100,000 price tag on its head.

Scott Smith

We probably did it twice as fast as we would have done it otherwise.

Tina Maze

Skiing is always so huge, you need so many talents to be fast and be good at this sport.

Charles M. Schwab

When I first went to work... I had over me an impetuous, hustling man. It was necessary for me to be up to the top notch to give satisfaction. I worked faster than I otherwise would have done, and to him I attribute the impetus that I acquired.

will.i.am

Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.

Laurence Housman

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.

Glenn McGrath

We had an old Melbourne-type pitch in Perth, so I guess it would be only fitting if we had a traditionally fast Perth-type pitch in Melbourne.

Andruw Jones

When guys make mistakes you have to take advantage. He made a mistake with the fastball the first time.

Theo James

We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed by rippling six packs and forcing an image down someone's throat trying to prove masculinity. Whereas I think true masculinity comes from having a strong sense of self.

Jerry Davis

We played well in transition tonight. And did a good job forcing turnovers, too.

Rachel Cusk

Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.

Dwane Casey

Would I love to have them? Yes, but I understand injuries, and there's no use in forcing it or taking any chances.

Nick Bollettieri

She wants to play. No one's forcing her.

Andy Landers

We did a good job with our press, not so much forcing turnovers but controlling the tempo.

Marie Lu

What can I say: I'm a writer - I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters!

Mark Mugiishi

Can it get any closer? And they miss forcing us into a second overtime by .1 of a second.

Sherwood Schwartz

Gilligan's Island ... I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great philosophical implications.

Zac Efron

I feel disconnected, like I don't know where I am, if I'm on my phone too much. I'm also just the type to call. I'm not good on text.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Salbitxada is a sharp and lightly sweet Catalan sauce that's traditionally served with calcots - spring or salad onions, grilled whole, make a good substitute.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Verjuice may not be the easiest thing in the world to find, but you should be able to track some down in good delis and online.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

Walter F. Ulmer

We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.

Valerie June

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

Val Kilmer

The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

Henry David Thoreau

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Abraham Lincoln

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Kevin Froud

We proceeded to quit scoring. We were getting shots in the lane, but we weren't hitting them. We weren't playing with our head, but we made the plays in the end that we needed to.

Brian Smith

We opened up that third quarter pretty much on fire. When we're hitting 3s, we're pretty tough to stop.

Doug Dexheimer

We have made big strides hitting volleys and getting into the net.

Mike Redwine

We're kind of hitting our stride. We've won three in a row and we've also won three straight at home now.

Kate Warne

To me there's nothing magical about hitting 10,000.

Mike Conrad

Timely hitting has been our nemesis in this tournament.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

You do not lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership.

Tom White

Today we got timely hitting through out our whole lineup.

Donald Dupree

We are playing much better, and it seems like we've rejuvenated ourselves now after hitting the doldrums. We took some time off, and I think that has helped.

Constance Marie

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Clotilde Hesme

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

Evangeline Lilly

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Evangeline Lilly

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

Ben Carson

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Beeban Kidron

When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.

Fareed Zakaria

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

Brooke Shields

We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.

Carly Fiorina

You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.

Brian Eno

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

Paul Simpson

We are not in a position where we have to let players go and we have let Livingston know that.

Curt Weldon

I think Gadhafi is on the mark. And up until this point in time, I think they truly want to turn this around and become a positive player with the West after years and years of terrorism and stagnation.

Al Kaline

Players shy away from talking to announcers today.

Joanne Bracker

We're at the end of the season now, so we're going to regroup with the players we have.

Wes Welker

I go out there with whatever the coaches call, and whatever they do, I just go out there, and I'm the player. Coaches coach, and players play.

Bill Parcells

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

Colin Lee

There are not a lot of players who want to come here,

Pete Rose

No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years.

Meles Zenawi

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

Kong Quan

We are not in a position to receive this visit.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

We are not in a position to propose a specific plan.

Edward Bilkey

We are not in a position now to stop this.

Lucy Liu

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.

Philip Hammond

Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.

Richy Leon

We need to tighten up defensively. We still have positions where we need to find somebody to step up.

Joe Ehrmann

You have one of the most responsible positions in society.

Alan Embree

When you're in a position to put somebody away, you have to just do it. It's not mechanical.

Fletcher Smith

We still have a ways to go but I'm optimistic. We'll have to wait and see, but I think we all know where the range is.

David Jones

We have always done a very wide range of plays.

Mario Testino

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Ayn Rand

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

John Burnside

The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.

Tom Hodgkinson

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

Ellen Borakove

Many are in the size range of 1 1/16th of an inch.

Brian Johnson

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

Scott Graham

Overall, I think the (Federal Reserve) is on the sidelines and we're probably back to a range trade.

Samuel Butler

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Bernard Davis

We pretty much know they're going to run the ball,

Ramon Serna

When a star falls, there is a run in the night's stocking.

Vivica A. Fox

I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at heart.

Cate Blanchett

I'm either sitting very still or running very fast.

Leonard Lauder

When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.

Alan Cohen

Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming.

Joan Rivers

A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: 'Run your own race, put on your blinders.'

Mike Jones

When they are on their best, any running back can go in there and do their thing.

English Proverbs

It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

Charles Caleb Colton

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Alan Watts

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

Alan Greenspan

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Billy Joel

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

Dean Acheson

With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.

David Icke

In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.

Bear Grylls

I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.

Phil Parker

Tackling is not easy, you've got to have some toughness.

Joe Heacock

It still comes down to blocking, tackling and making plays.