Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keeley Hawes

'Ashes To Ashes' is a victim of its own success. We started lots of trends. I like to think we had something to do with bringing back the high waist. It's so much more flattering.

Lena Olin

By the time the discussion starts about a movie, it's like bringing up an old boyfriend. It's like, 'I don't even remember exactly what he was like, and now we have to talk about it?'

Italo Calvino

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

Sumner Redstone

Li is clearly a pioneer in bringing innovative partnerships to the Chinese people.

Robin Munro

Major disasters involving heavy loss of life have just shot up. It's in direct correlation to profits and production. They're ignoring safety in the interest of bringing the coal up to the surface.

Steve Largent

Maintaining a successful, consumer-friendly recycling program continues to be a top priority of the wireless industry. So please recognize Earth Day 2006 by taking your used wireless products out of the sock drawer and bringing them to the wireless carrier store near you to be recycled.

Anne Mulcahy

Maggie is an exceptional leader with a proven track record of bringing innovative, technology-based solutions to market. Her experience and strong leadership skills will serve Xerox and its shareholders well and complement the outstanding talent serving on our board.

Ali Noorani

Let's leave our flags at home. Let's make sure we're bringing the American flags.

Edward Davis

Lessons for Tomorrow: Bringing America's Schools Back from the Brink.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.

Lord Byron

She / Was married, charming, chaste, and twenty-three.

Samuel Johnson

There are charms made only for distance admiration.

Robyn Kass

We're scouring the (area), looking for the most eligible, charming single people.

Mark Mears

We're hoping the third time will be the charm. Winning a state title has been our goal all season.

David Watson

We decided that either the third time was the charm, or at the very least, the last time either of us was going through it.

Terry Crews

A lot of people, especially comedians, just feel like, 'Oh, I can be charming and whatever, and have fun, and everybody is just going to like me.' But you've got to work. There's got to be a real work ethic that gets you better.

Will Scheffer

We didn't want it to be too tract-home-like, we wanted this very charming and very sparsely populated neighborhood.

Duke Snider

He was a very charming man, ... It was a pleasure to have him in our school district.

Felipe Alou

We always have big rallies when they walk (Bonds), even before Mo was here. The only thing is, the guy wants to hit a few home runs.

Kid Nichols

We played for the love of the game; there were few holdouts. We wanted to pitch every day; to win more games than the other guy - not for the money, but for the glory of winning.

Grant Hill

We had been to the Final Four a few times. But we weren't thought of at the time like we are now.

Bobby Jones

When I have started him, he hasn't played as well. I guess he just needs to watch for a few minutes before he goes in. That seems to work. We are still finding out what works, but this team is giving me great effort.

Patricia Wysocki

When I look back, it was like putting a Band-Aid over it. It cheered him up for a few minutes.

Maria Semple

When I came back from my first TED, very few people knew what it was. But around the time I was sitting down to write 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' in 2010, TED was exploding.

Laurynas Mikalauskas

We needed a few stops; that's what we were thinking. I wasn't really actually worried that we were going to lose because I knew that my teammates were going to pull it out. I knew we could play better.

Jack Garrison

We needed a few more pins, they pinned us more than we pinned them and that hurt us. But I'm proud of the kids. Every week they look a little better.

Adriano Galliani

We needed a few additions to an already impressive roster.

David Viscott

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

David Viscott

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

David Hyde Pierce

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

David Hobson

Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

David Icke

Today, the stranglehold of the controlling negative forces upon Earth is extremely advanced and is choking the very life from our planet. The effects of this are evident everywhere in the form of fear, separation, war, disease and multifarious kinds of disharmony on all levels.

David Hume

If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.

David Hume

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

David Hume

While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

David Hume

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Charlotte Rae

We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives.

Roman Oben

I don't think you ever get used to seeing and marvel at the things that he does well,

Louis Leterrier

I talked to Marvel about 'Thor' at one point, but I didn't want to do Thor. It wasn't something I read growing up, really; it wasn't one of the books I loved.

J. August Richards

I went right to the 'Guide to the Marvel Universe,' which has every Marvel character from A-Z, and fortunately, I had every issue. I found 'Deathlok,' read about him there.

Matteo Renzi

Italy will never be a normal country. Because Italy is Italy. If we were a normal country, we wouldn't have Rome. We wouldn't have Florence. We wouldn't have the marvel that is Venice.

John Orton

That was a marvelous occupation and very successful,

Joan Baez

I thought it was monumentally well run and I had a marvelous time playing it.

Brian K. Vaughan

I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But really, already, by the time I'd started writing superhero comics, my dream was really to be writing my own characters.

Gordon B. Hinckley

With small means the Lord accomplishes His marvelous work.

Bernard Boudreaux

LSU did everything it possibly could to accommodate the state of Louisiana, the Saints and the NFL.

Kristin Davis

Personally, I don't think we could do such a show if we didn't get along. The subtext of all this is that we're women in a show so we can't possibly get along. It's not like they write about The Sopranos like that.

Pat Camden

We did everything we possibly could to protect her.

Howard Clark

My first thought was that she could have possibly been dead.

Hiroshi Kamide

No one is seriously thinking a spring release is realistic any more. If I were Sony, I wouldn't be that worried about releasing as soon as I possibly could.

Eugene Nelson

My God. Better than I could possibly explain.

Greg Norman

Would there possibly be another woman? Absolutely. Time will tell who that will be.

Marina and the Diamonds

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

Arno Penzias

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

Dian Fossey

One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

Jared Diamond

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

Carroll Quigley

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

Bruce Braley

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

Barbara Mikulski

Politics is social work with power.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

Taylor Hawkins

I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.

Brandon Boyd

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently.

Jenny Lewis

Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.

Peter Coyote

The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.

Max McKeown

Strategy is not really a solo sport - even If you're the CEO.

Sebastian Bach

I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.

LeBron James

Know that I'm better solo. I invented solo.

Glen Hansard

And I've always loved playing solo.

Michael A. Stackpole

Out of the firefight, into the carbon freeze." -Anakin Solo

Brandon Roy

Let's throw that one out the window and play Oregon.

Corin Tucker

When in doubt, I always go vintage! Get a ruffled dress and throw a t-shirt over it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

George Johnson

There are vehicles tossed hither and yon just like throwing pick-up sticks,

Ken Thompson

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

Yogi Berra

One warning, and if the infractions continue, we throw the flag.

Tara Garrett

She (Ronk) is doing the job. She's throwing hard.

Mike Candrea

She's pretty much week-to-week. She's still able to throw and do workouts right now.

Andre Johnson

We know we're not out there trying to throw games. If we were really trying to lose, how did we win this one?

Bill Belichick

I had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game. So, I've learned a lot about that.

Ed Gillespie

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

Kevin Hall

We will be considering the views of the various stakeholders.

Steve Ellis

You had various fiefdoms established in the contracting process.

John Oates

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.

Keith McKeown

All the various discussions are going on with all the different parties.

Roger Williams

Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.

Stefano Gabbana

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

Julie Kenner

My characters populate a big, vibrant world. Sometimes they rub shoulders. Sometimes they don't.

Eduardo Paes

Rio's a beautiful city, a vibrant place, special place.

Vincent Sarubbi

One of the things that weighed heavily on our mind,

Jim Rash

There are a lot of shows that have been saved because the fans weighed in.

John Schneider

I weighed 245 pounds when I was 16 years old. I had a 44-inch waist. And that was two years before 'Dukes of Hazzard' started.

Montel Williams

I used to be a very, very heavy weight lifter. I weighed about 210, 215. And I used to put a lot of weight on my back. I squatted over 500 pounds.