Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Hay

I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.

Adam Carr

The path of least resistance for the Australian dollar is down. Base-metal prices are likely to continue to come off a bit as inventories rebuild.

Bryan Brown

Because I like theatre and I love a challenge. With 'ZEBRA!' I've found a new Australian play where I can create a character first - that's what I live to do.

Colleen McCullough

I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that." ()

Peter Singer

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

Ben Mendelsohn

I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I think when Dean Semler did 'Dances with Wolves,' for instance, that's a very different-looking Western than what you've seen much of before. It's very rich, color-wise. But we've got our own very proud thing going on.

Adam Garcia

They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

Bruce Beresford

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.

Caroline Goodall

I'm in kind of a strange position - I have a strong Australian career and a strong British career. Then there's the American career. For every movie I do here, I do two somewhere else. I bounce back and forth between the three places.

William Kent Krueger

Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood.

Vivek Wadhwa

The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do all I could for them when the times were good.

Yehuda Berg

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

Chino Moreno

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

Emily Marshall

The people are so lonely and so scared. It was just a big deal to sit and talk to them.

Ben Edlund

I used to a play a role-playing game called Dungeons and Dragons, and that was about levels of experience; as you gained experience, you were able to deal with much greater and far more kind of global creatures.

Debi Mazar

I haven't always had the money rolling in. I'm a character actor; it's not like I'm Gwyneth Paltrow - so I do have hard times still in my life. And that's even more why it's like you know what, I'm not that different from people going through it. I struggle; I look for a better deal at the grocery store.

David Axelrod

We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that's what we want to do.

Chris Matthews

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

Larry Wilson

We are happy because we think this is a group that the federation can work with, unlike some of the other administrations in the past with whom we experienced friction.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled/ In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

Zach Lund

Our federation has been through hell these last few weeks. We need to get past all this and start to think only about the Olympics for a little while.

Matt Galante

We proved to the people of Italy and to the Italian federation that we can play at this level. We can play with the big boys.

Pat Binns

find more ways that the provinces can work together within the federation as opposed to being competitors by region.

Kim Collins

I would like to thank the Commonwealth Games Federation for the very fair manner in which this matter has been dealt with.

Raza Rabbani

Pakistan has never been so unstable, and the federation has never been under greater political strain.

Andre Jacobs

Since we won the state, nobody was even thinking about Federation. States was our main goal, and when we lost (the Federation final) we were disappointed.

Andre Jacobs

It's a blessing. All we can do now is win the Federation like they did in 1996; 1996 and 2006, that's what we're looking for.

Evangeline Lilly

My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.

Nostradamus

In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly.

Rich Marcello

We probably have another 18 months or so until we get it done.

Audrie Pattenn

Three months may seem like a long time, but really, it's not enough time.

Bill Ryden

We are really working on the perfecting part of the sport. Sometimes it takes months to fine-tune.

Melina Kanakaredes

When you're the lead actor in a drama, you have 2 1/2 months at the end of a season to do other projects, and everything has to get done in that time.

Zach Galligan

An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.

Shelli Rushing

We'll have another public workshop here in three months or so to start talking about getting into more specifics about the plan. We're supposed to wrap up the plan by the end of the year.

Alan Trammell

Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Eric Fellner

You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.

Paul Weller

I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I don't necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.

Suranand Vejjajiva

We probably have to take it into consideration for our next step.

Chris Houston

We practically have a whole new team, so this is a rebuilding year. We plan to have some success here next year and the year after that, definitely.

Bob Newhart

I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.

Jim Christian

We had an unbelievable run in 2002, and that team will always be special in Kent State history. But this team will be in the very next paragraph.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Tessa Jowell

The policy is not wrong and... time will prove it right,

Gary Orfield

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Nigel S. Wright

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

Chris Zimmerman

We're working on what the specific policy would be.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Kyle Chandler

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

George Allen

Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing, and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Alastair Reynolds

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

Enrico Colantoni

You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

William Maxwell

My wife has to tell me I haven't said anything all day. I've stopped talking, and I'm totally unaware of it.

Richard Greenberg

I thought if I stopped writing, ... the world would explode.

Vijay Batra

We have stopped work on the footbridge after objections from Pakistani soldiers,

William Patterson

I stopped going to the conferences because most of (us) are all gone.

Sarah Palin

We're red, white and blue, and President Obama, we are through with you.

Banksy

The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it'll be paraded round Sotheby's by people wearing white gloves.

William Shakespeare

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

Alan Shearer

No money in the world can buy a white England shirt.

Alan Keyes

Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their moral perversity to awaken the American people to the tyrannical spirit that envelopes the Clinton White House.

Charlie Gonzalez

Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.

Charles de Lint

You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.

Charles Dickens

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

Alan Watts

Black implies white self implies other