Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Humphries

I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.

Edward Carey

Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.

John Gibbons

Beckett settled in, and can really overpower you when he throws strikes.

Buck Showalter

Kam was outstanding. He gave us a great chance to win, but he ran into Beckett. Two big body, quality starters, and obviously Beckett was at the top of his game.

Stephane Dion

I would be very surprised if it was true. I was with British Environment Minister Margaret Beckett just a few days ago and she said that the prime minister had been misunderstood,

Marlon Byrd

He got me out with fastballs, changeups, curveballs. He was on today. ... That's the Beckett from the World Series a couple of years ago.

Marlon Byrd

That's the Beckett from the World Series a couple of years ago.

Cory Lidle

Everyone I've ever talked to who has played with Josh Beckett says no one likes him. And that's why. There's no reason for him to say anything. He chooses to, and people don't like him for it.

Brian Seymore

I couldn't tell what happened, really. I missed it. I tell you, though, that kid's a good player and I hate it for Coach Beckett and his staff.

Rick Perlstein

It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses to remember the right-wingers of the last generation as sort of cuddly.

Jeffrey Kluger

You do not want to talk to me on the phone. How do I know? Because I don't want to talk to you on the phone. Nothing personal, I just can't stand the thing. I find it intrusive and somehow presumptuous. It sounds off insolently whenever it chooses and expects me to drop whatever I'm doing and, well, engage. With others!

Henry Giroux

America's addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify.

Sheryl Sandberg

Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she's cheered on and supported.

Malcolm Gladwell

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

James Grant

What the MOVE index measures is the level of complacency or confidence in the interest rate world. The market chooses not to see much risk in anything.

Evangeline Lilly

My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.

David May

Someone in the church, who chooses to remain anonymous, contacted me because they have a trucking company and wanted to take a trailer full of stuff to hurricane victims on the Gulf.

Charles Schumer

We hope that whoever the administration chooses to succeed him will be given the tools needed to really do the job.

Joey Kalmus

With the wind that was blowing, I didn't see how he could throw strikes, but he did. I'm very proud of what Josh Reed did.

Joe Godinho

And Josh looked really tough in doing it.

Mark Shapiro

We've got to get him more work. He's another switch-hitter and a solid receiver. It wouldn't be the worst thing for Josh to play more.

Ben Howland

Josh Shipp's minutes tonight were critical. He was spectacular.

Lonnie Brown

Josh played 32 minutes and led the way for the whole game.

Trent Suzuki

I talk to Josh about 77 times a day.

Reed May

We made some personnel changes. We put Josh at slot, and that helped. Plus (Levi) Shiner is back. We're playing like we should finally. We're starting to put things together.

Richard Davies

I don't condone what Josh did, but I do like the resolve.

Billy Mitchell

I told Josh if he had a shot, take it. We were down by a lot. He had some looks. I told him 'don't worry about being unselfish, take the shot.' He took it and he made it.

Adrian McKinty

A specific editor in a specific place likes the book, and you're in. A different editor on a different day goes, 'Oh, this isn't for me', or doesn't even look at it, and that's it.

Kurt Vonnegut

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Luka Sulic

I like to swim a lot, while Stjepan likes to take long walks with girls. He's the very romantic type. Yes, musicians are romantic.

Miranda Hart

I am essentially a middle-aged woman who likes making up weird snack combinations and galloping.

Nicky Oppenheimer

Any father likes his son to take over from him if possible.

Karisma Kapoor

My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.

Peng Liyuan

My daughter likes Korean drama more than I do.

Peter Senge

Nobody likes to throw stuff away. It's just antithetical to our sense of being a person. But we're all habituated to that way of living today.

Christopher Cotton

We've been going back and forth. My wife likes something with 'laser' in it. Laser Trail? Laser Corridor? We have to work on it.

Yuvraj Singh

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

Yoko Ono

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

Yoko Ono

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Willie Aames

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

William Shatner

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

Wentworth Miller

They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.

William Sleator

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

Will Poulter

I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.

Will Chase

I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

Colm Meaney

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

Jamie Dixon

We played well in the first half, and we should have been up by more. Teams lose. It's how you respond, and we've always responded well.

Paul Dowe

We played well enough to win. The bounces just didn't go our way.

Willie Randolph

We played well enough to win. I'd rather win, but you can't be disappointed.

Paul Doerrfeld

We played well enough to win, but if we play one of the top teams in the state tonight, we're not even close.

Jose Theodore

We played well defensively and we waited for our chances. That's how we're going to have success and that's the way we have to play at home.

Amy Newman

We played well, but we could have still done better,

Aaron Bender

We played well, but had too many errors. We had a five-out inning in the fifth.

Esther Rolle

I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Lisa Unger

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Calvin Coolidge

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

Jon Jovi

We can be the world's AFL team, for sure. There's no reason we couldn't be.

Todd Clark

The problem, ... is there is no reason to stay long in to the weekend.

Jack Rio

We were at a disadvantage in the first half. I'm not going to stand here and say that was a reason we didn't play well.

Charles Caleb Colton

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

Charlie Brown

We still have a ways to go, but this says a lot about our kids.

Fred Ray

This says a lot for our offense. We can make plays. We just need to keep it going.

Patrick Chappatte

You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.

Glenn Wilson

Well, she took the money. It says a lot about her credibility.

Dustin Moskovitz

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

Donna Berger

I was very amazed. The sign says the crew, they all ate, slept on the deck.

Shirley MacLaine

because he says what he actually would do. But he's got no chance.

Bill Bailey

Two solipsists walk into a bar, and one says to the other...

Jeffrey Kessler

When someone says it's not about the money, it's about the money.

Nancy Gibbs

Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.

Mark Ford

We never had a plan. We just walked around and talked about it, and he did it.

Mike Maroth

We got together and talked some things out.

Tim Thompson

When you started thinking your going to make a mistake, you've talked yourself into making it.

Ben Maynard

We had always talked about being in there at the same time.

Jody Gravelin

We haven't even talked about winning the league. We just want to play to our potential.

Chris Daly

What they talked about were the qualifications for manslaughter,

Ken Reed

If you talked to me in November, I would have told you there was no way I would do what I have done.

Robert Bennett

In fact, I even talked to the parents. They were there at the same time.