Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Paquin

Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone's problems that you don't necessarily actually know anything about.

Donna Frye

Whether or not (Torrey Pines) is a believable example, do believe me when I say today that (people) have expressed interest in buying Torrey Pines Golf Course and some of the other lands that I believe should remain in public hands. I'm just saying the potential exists.

Morris Hite

The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value.

Tom Shales

ABC's intelligently hilarious sitcom 'Modern Family' depicts a gay-male marriage in which both partners are refreshingly dimensional, believable human beings. The writers dare to make them flawed and thus fully delineated, but they're not flawed in the silly, stereotypical ways that once dominated such portrayals.

Katie McGrath

Maybe people don't see me as believable playing a person of today. I guess I'm just more realistic in a corset and funny hairstyles.

Maeve Binchy

You don't wear all your jewellery at once. You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.

David Martin

This was critical, because this had been a shortcoming of other previous studies with acupuncture -- the simulated acupuncture treatments were not believable to the patients.

Erwin Chemerinsky

I think the most difficult task for Simpson is to come up with a clear, consistent, believable story for where he was between 9:45 and eleven on the night of the murders.

Tim LaHaye

Jerry and I really made it a matter of prayer that he could be gifted to and inspired by the Holy Spirit to write what I call a believable conversion.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

William Hamilton

I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

William Kirby

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

William Hung

Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed.

William H. Gray

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

William John Wills

We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do.

Whitey Ford

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Gary Meyer

The only reason we are talking about this (wheel tax) is to get a vote (for the EMS budget), and I have a real problem with that. The feeling I'm getting here tonight is that I'm buying (Williams') vote so that he'll get the Capital Improvement Plan in gear for 2005.

Nikki Reed

I do feel like by buying rats from a pet store, you are saving them because if not, they would get fed to a snake or something.

Emma McLaughlin

Studios will tell you that they can't turn a profit on female-driven entertainment. Which is like the Gap saying no one is buying clothes anymore. No. No one is buying your clothes.

Rachel Corrie

When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.

Todd Phillips

It's heartbreaking when you hear a kid buying a ticket for... I don't know, whatever movie you're up against. And you see them sneaking into your film. It's just heartbreaking. But in the spirit of full disclosure, that is what I did as an 11-year-old sneaking into 'Stripes.'

Big Sean

I waste a lot of money buying the same pair of shoes.

Candy Olson

When I get information about buying land in the future, I'm going to want to see any and all appraisals that we've had.

David Glocke

When 10-year notes drift up to 4.80 percent, that will be a buying opportunity for some people.

Kaskade

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

Dev Hynes

It's funny because I think, as a general rule, that people seem to think that if you do lots of different things over the course of, like, a timeline, it means that you kind of disregard what you did before. But that's not true of me. I still genuinely like everything I did as much as I liked it when I released it.

Donald Trump

The USGA is terrific. I've designed my course in Bedminster to the highest standards of the USGA, and it's a very special course.

Francis Fukuyama

I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.

Ernie Els

Something I've really enjoyed learning more about is course design.

Clive Sinclair

Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.

Dinaw Mengestu

'The Duino Elegies' are notoriously cryptic, and part of the reason why I have always loved them is because they invite multiple readings over the course of a lifetime.

Don Winslow

We always think of borders as something that separates two peoples but of course they unite them. It's something you have in common, literally.

Billy Mayfair

We played about five holes with no wind, and then it started blowing. We played pretty much the whole back side with at least a 10-15 mph wind. It plays tricky. We just don't know the golf course well enough yet.

Rick Clancy

We plan on revealing more in the course of quarterly earnings announcements or as specific developments dictate.

Susan Wojcicki

First there's my role just as an executive being responsible for advertising, regardless of gender. I think that's a position that I take seriously. That's the first role. But I think for my role as a woman at Google, you try to set a good example and be a role model for the other women in the organization.

Adrian Peterson

It feels good when guys reach out to be inspired - and you have shown people an example of how you can come back and be better than you were before when adversity strikes; and when the world predicts the opposite, you show them you not only can be successful but be great.

John Gall

We are looking for him to lead by example and put his experience to the test this year.

Ross Mathews

When I was growing up I didn't know what it meant to be a happy, successful grown-up gay person, and now I do. I feel like I'm setting an example for people everywhere.

Mikko Hypponen

Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.

Rick Neuheisel

Today was an example of what Anthony can do. We let Kyle have the day off and rest his arm, and Anthony picked up, and we didn't miss a step. That's a luxury.

Hugh Evans

When I was 13, I did become a Christian. And so it was when I was 13, that I thought... I just... I really saw a good example in Jesus and how he was just so... such a tremendous radical love and service of the poor. I just thought, 'Man, why can't we all do the same?'

Brian Billick

We have a great example for the young guys. He placed that much value at one more opportunity.

Diego Maradona

You are an example for him because you are a conqueror.

John Saul

Dictionary: Opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

Luc de

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.

Oscar Arias

On Dec. 1, 1948, after the triumph of the revolution, which insured the final victory of the will of the people expressed through elections, President Jose Figueres abolished the army in my country.

Robert Barnes

You know who you can know, and you know who you can like, and there are affinities that are expressed without ever having an explanation.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues.

Kelly Clark

We let them go because they expressed an interest in working with law enforcement. We haven't seen hide nor hair of him since. He didn't hold up his end of the bargain.

Unknown

May the love you've expressed to each other today always be the first thoughts during any trying times in the future.

Kevin Bishop

We hear from seniors, pharmacists, everyone in the program about some major headaches involved. There are a substantial number of people who expressed dissatisfaction with the program.

John Updike

Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.

Edward VIII

I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days.

Fred Couples

When you see her hit a golf ball, nothing prepares you for it. It's just the scariest thing you have ever seen.

Pat Riley

We didn't do as well as we've done this year, but it was just really great to be there, ... There's a lot of great golfers there and we'll be back next year.

Andy Jones

We're evaluating it on an ongoing basis. Our research tell us that golfers want to see the commercials -- particularly equipment. So we're watching it closely.

Dan Jenkins

Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.

Vaughn Taylor

Today was a pretty boring, uneventful round of golf, but I'm thrilled.

David Tom

You knew where she was the whole time. It was like a Tiger-type following. You know where he is. You know where she was on he golf course. That says a lot.

Greg Zenerovitz

We don't have any matches down there. We're just going to play golf.

Donald Trump

The interesting thing is that everyone in golf is just nice. You learn a lot about people playing golf: their integrity, how they play under pressure.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Generally, I have a strong interest in trying to help people who are maybe not as lucky as I am. I've been well rewarded in this world. I'm more worried about the next one.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Charlie Trotter

Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.

Ginnifer Goodwin

There's nothing I want less than a piece of cheese or a burger. I have nightmares I'm being force-fed these things. I have no interest in converting anyone. It's purely how I want to live my life. I don't judge anyone.

Teri Garr

People aren't so interested in seeing movies about women's problems.

David Hockney

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

Richard Nichols

We feel as though the town is at a turning point. If we don't slow things down now, these lands could be lost forever.

Henry Fuseli

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.

Jessica Young

This is a landscape bird. It specializes in using very small pieces of a very large landscape.

Dieter Rams

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Brian Setzer

Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music

Bridget Riley

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

Steve Sell

We have the potential to be terrific. But how can you predict?

John Shelton

We have the potential for some big problems, but we think right now it's just potential.

Rick Bohlander

We've got potential to play with any of them. We've just got to play a whole lot better than we did the other night.

Viktor Vekselberg

We have a very interesting and very serious potential international partner.

Mickey Williams

We have a ton of potential, but we also have a ton of injuries.

Tom Clark

The potential is there for transmissible outbreaks and we want to be able to respond to these as quickly as possible, but also to have up-to-date information,

Chip Taylor

The potential for these waystations is just terrific.

Bobby Collins

We feel that the potential is unlimited for Wise County.

Rand Baker

We're starting to wrestle up to our potential. There were some tough teams, and it showed us where we need to get to by (the state tournament).

Tom Smothers

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

Nicola Sturgeon

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

Lauren Bacall

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.

Andrew Morton

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

Wale

I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.

Khalil Shikaki

There is little to no public support for the old guard.

Mark DiCamillo

There is a vein of the public that is leery of big industry.

Keith Gilbertson

We never had to go to public lands.

Kari Appler

We know the public is wildly enthusiastic about both.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Noah Hawley

I remain a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Ian Shepherdson

The only soft spots in the survey remain inventories and employment, but they will recover.

Jimmy Johnson

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

Ray Giacoletti

We haven't done anything. We need to remain hungry.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Mike Lynch

Our visibility is improving, but at the same time still remains low,

Peter T. King

In the real world in which we live, it's a dangerous world. And you know the old saying is that we have to be right 100 percent of the time; the terrorists only have to be right once.

Katie King

We'll probably keep saying all that to ourselves, but it sure doesn't make this feel much better.

Natasha Henstridge

You know what, they've been saying that for two years, since they've been dating. At this point, it's like, let them have it. Come on. They're together.

Kevin Smith

We're not saying we're a sequel. No, no, no.

Denis Breslin

We're not saying a whole lot right now.

Harold Williams

We are saying we won't look into the provenance.

Eric Dubin

Wait, are you saying because they spoke Spanish they were illegal?

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

Benjamin Franklin

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

Alan Cohen

No matter what has happened, let today be new.

J. Stoltzfus

Today was a make-nice day, and I think it went well.

Ted Jr.

Today was a big, big win for us.

Paul Roos

Today that didn't happen, we've got to work out why?

Ludwig von Mises

What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

Peter Diamandis

Today we have made history. Today we go to the stars.

Giselle Davies

Today we have a totally different and accountable system.

Thomas Froehlich

We've made an announcement today and there is no other decision.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Barry O'Farrell

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

Trip Adler

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

Karlie Kloss

Whether running, biking, swimming, or dancing, I just like to always be on the move.

Kevin Smith

It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works.

Lucy Hawking

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

Vanessa Hudgens

You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.