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.

Martin Lapointe

The overtime calls hurt the game. It's a big game, a big rivalry. the refs should let us play. I guess this is the new NHL. To lose a game on a cheap penalty is not the way to play hockey.

Ben Elliot

With offices in 64 cities around the world, it is sometimes a challenge to ensure that I've got my finger on the pulse with every one, everywhere. Staying in touch means early rising for calls with China and Japan, and late calls with the U.S.

Ray Lewis

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

Luka Sulic

When our video of 'Smooth Criminal' came out, suddenly we started getting all kinds of offers. We were getting calls from TV shows like 'Ellen DeGeneres' and from record labels.

Karin Slaughter

My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.

Robert Anderson

When Georgia Tech went on probation, the calls flooded in. Even the recruiters at Tech said they were getting calls from other schools to see how many scholarships they were going to have to offer.

Nita Ambani

Mukesh calls me his true life partner... I just enjoy being Mukesh's wife.

Nikki Sixx

When Ozzy calls and asks you to go on tour, you say, 'When do I start?'

Ernest Walton

The high esteem in which the Nobel Prizes are held is undoubtedly due to the conscientious way in which the Committees have discharged a heavy responsibility.

Tom A. Watson

You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister.

Sepp Blatter

What we have witnessed in past matches, and specifically matches where the home team of Korea were involved, I have to say I have difficulties understanding our referee committee concerning the designation of the referees and the linesmen.

Frank Luntz

The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth.

Mayim Bialik

Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction.

George Buckley

We are conscious that the data will need to weaken significantly from current levels before the committee would feel comfortable with easing policy.

Jacques Rogge

We are confident. We are vigilant. We support the (organizing) committee and we are happy, ... We have no concerns whatsoever.

Charles Mason

was on the stadium planning committee and was really looking forward to the first football game.

Fay Weldon

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

Terry Riley

Throughout the evening I would be recording these long saxophone delays and about four hours into the concert, if I wanted to take a break I would just play back the saxophone.

John Conley

We know it's a dynamic situation, but it's totally premature to talk about delays or postponement. Runners need to be prepared and dress for the weather.

Chris Riley

With weather delays in Chicago, it's a good option to go to St. Louis. This increases opportunity for travel to all destinations from Decatur.

Boris Yeltsin

We lack rubles, and that's where the delays come from,

David Stempler

All in all, it's a formula for lots of delays and long lines.

Peter Scobie

Minority governments can find it more difficult to pass policy. There is the possibility of delays in implementing anything.

Ian Robertson

For the over-50s, exercise is a sort of wonder-drug that makes you more mentally agile, less forgetful and delays the loss of sharpness that would otherwise happen,

Patricia Cox

To be honest, I think it saves time rather than delays things. ... Right now our meetings go to midnight. They'll go even longer without the DRC.

Jim Proce

We got started just before the hurricanes. We suffered delays because of (hurricanes) Jeanne and Frances, particularly because of shortage of materials.

Des Browne

With the enhancements to the security of the passport document itself that biometric technology will bring, it is time to make equivalent enhancements to the process of establishing identity before issuing passports.

Dee Stanley

We operate off the law and the premise that all documents we have here are public documents, whether on public computers, on public file, generated by public employees.

Bruce Jackson

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

Kathleen Edwards

Co-writing is a very unnatural feeling. It's like wanting to document a feeling that you have and then trying to get someone else to describe it for you.

Barbara Dixon

We had anticipated when we were working on that document that what was going to happen was there was going to be a final policy on whistle-blowers. There is not one yet.

Peter Sis

My father documented on film for the last time what Tibet looked like before the world got there.

Johnny Williams

Travelers who use INSPASS can usually have their identity validated and receive their entry document in as little as 15 seconds.

Richard Butler

We'll need to do the whole spectrum of our work. Documents are part of that, ... We also need to do our inspections, and they're off and running again. It will be a little while yet before we have the whole spectrum of our work done.

Brian Concannon

Thus, the document holds no legal value, since it was explicitly signed under duress.

Gao Hongfeng

There are over 5,000 flights every day and more than 11,000 takeoffs and landings in airports, therefore the pressure on safety is very high.

Bill Gerstenmaier

We still are going to be able to accommodate the number of flights we need to get the station in a good configuration for the partners.

Emma Roberts

We actually really hate each other. The first time I met Sara, I was so tired, I got off this nine- or 10-hour flight from L.A. and I walked into the production office and this girl is screaming and comes running at me and grabs me and I'm like, 'Oh my God, what's going on?

Wen Jiabao

Today the manned space flight has blasted off successfully,

Aleta Jackson

Today's flight is the culmination of the EZ-Rocket test series.

Geoff Hoon

Most people are flying to Heathrow because it's a hub, so they can fly on to other places, often long-distance flights. If they can't go on those long-distance flights from Heathrow, they will go to Paris, they will go to Amsterdam, they will go to Frankfurt, because those are viable alternatives.

David Kim

When you're in Life Flight and you've got just as sick a patient, you're it.

Paul Byrd

We've made two red-eye flights and guys haven't really complained,

Punky Moore

What's in this for us is it gives us a new way to monitor some of our fires. You don't always want to put people in those areas, and it reduces the number of flights we have to make to get a good picture of what's happening.

Charles Hazlewood

It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour.

Lindsay Williams

We prepared really well for this game. We have been looking forward to it all season. Last time they got a lot of points off offense rebounds and we worked on stopping that.

Troy Gentile

I am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table.

Tatiana Navka

We did well for today and we're looking forward to the Olympics.

Maria Lefler

We had a nice win Saturday. We're looking forward to getting back into league.

Reggie Miller

When were on Lifetime working together, Cheryl gave me a lot of insight. It was then that I starting thinking that this was something I could do sometime down the line ... This is an opportunity I'm really looking forward to.

Paul Lancaster

When you're starting one senior and the rest underclassmen, it's something to look forward to. This year was a pleasant surprise.

David Noel

We still feel like this is a big-time game. We've been looking forward to this all season.

Donny Osmond

Tom Hanks is a good friend and I'm looking forward to seeing him playing the hero scientist Robert Langdon.

Michael Hepp

The people are frustrated because there's still no power and no telephone, and it's hot down here as we speak.

Rene Preval

The people are frustrated and they have the right to demonstrate, but they should respect the rights of others.

Paul Watson

People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen.

Chris Williams

We played a lot of gimmick defenses on her the first half, and frustrated her a little. But she's a great player, and she stepped up at the end.

Joe Gibbs

We're kind of frustrated right now. We're willing to try anything to solve this.

Dave Uhrich

We were getting a little frustrated just in that we were looking for some good weather. And for the third meet in a row we didn't get it. This time of year it's kind of hit and miss, and we have been unlucky.

Randy Carlyle

We were frustrated by our lack of offensive punch. We had our chances, but didn't finish.

Doyle Geddes

We were frustrated at the half, but the second half made up for it.

Johnny Damon

Yeah, we're frustrated we're 1-4, yeah we're frustrated we just lost, but there's plenty of season left.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.

Harvey Rosenthal

The only reason they're putting them there is that mental health law allows them to.

Barry O'Farrell

If you've stacked on the weight over time, and if you don't have any health issues, you don't realise. So you'll see yourself in the mirror and, yes, you know what the scales say, but you don't actually see what other people see.

Barack Obama

And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

Richard Lamm

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

Samuel Butler

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

Samuel Butler

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Malcolm Gladwell

You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.

Thalia

There's nothing more important than the health of our babies.

Vint Cerf

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

Vera Farmiga

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

Patti Savrick

We're quite worried. She's literally on minute-to-minute care.

Chuck Morton

We've started off with literally nothing, and now we have 60 students.

Jim Ramstad

When I had alcoholic blackouts, I literally could not remember what I did the preceding night,

Doug Liman

'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' - every scene is from those characters' point of view. They're in literally every scene, very unusual in a big studio film.

Lorde

The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.

Scott Robinson

There are some people who get literally sick after 15 minutes.

Wayne Shelor

Right there, right on the curb, literally right there.

Steven Sacks

You could do projection work onto these other buildings. You'd need permission, of course. Unless you own them.

Terri Blackstock

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

Sendhil Mullainathan

You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type 'Why are Indians' and then look for the autocomplete.

Kevin Allen

He passed it onto his sister who is my wife and now it's in my house.

Felix Klein

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

Eugene Wigner

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

Matt Bomer

My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

Ciaran Hinds

Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.

Alisdair Gray

We are going to get products onto the shelves as soon as possible.

Dana Keeton

We're interviewing passengers and are not saying anything more until we're sure what happened.

Derek Fisher

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

Larry Black

When we arrived, the two passengers were walking around,

Author unknown

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

Anthony Foxx

Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.

Anthony Foxx

It is unacceptable for passengers to be stranded in planes on the tarmac for hours on end.

Shivraj Patil

A plan to protect passengers and railway property, often targeted by Maoist rebels, is underway.

Billy Jones

It was too dark. The passengers couldn't see the stone-throwers' faces.

Peter Kessler

Smugglers torture, rape and shoot their passengers if they complain. It's very dangerous.

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.

Kim Zimmerman

We are not going to have a lot of time to do things outside, but a lot of teams are in pretty much the same situation this time of the year.

Liz Vassey

Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

Imtiaz Ali

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

Louis Michel

Unfortunately we have such a situation in Europe, ... Demonstrations do help.

Dan Fogleman

We are pausing and evaluating the situation thoroughly at this point.

Charlotte Rampling

We are on the verge of this situation all our lives,

Pat Gillick

Usually, when you come into a situation like this,

Derek Jeter

Those are situations we need to come through in. Those are big. This time of year, especially, you've got to take advantage.

Carl Jung

There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.

Angelo Reyes

We are concerned. We are taking the appropriate measures, but we are not panicking.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

David Ramsey

The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis.

Scott Mills

We can't go out and be everywhere, ... With the public's help, we are taking these 'grows' down one by one.

Mohammed Kamal

We are taking nothing for granted. We're taking this vote seriously.

Annemarie Conroy

We're taking these 300 whether we get reimbursed or not.

Robert Fowler

We can all look and see what is taking place.

Chris Carter

We are not taking walking wounded on the plane.

Jack Evans

There are not even any discussions about it taking place around here.