Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shawcross

A few weeks before the jubilee began in 2002, Queen Elizabeth died, and the public outpouring of grief and affection, with hundreds of thousands of people queuing for hours to pass by her coffin, showed how widely and deeply loved she was.

Clive Thompson

The computer industry began with home-brew boxes that everyone had to program for themselves, but that was a huge hassle. The computer revolution didn't explode until the first Macintosh arrived, with its point-and-click simplicity.

Jefri Sirait

The police already began posting some officers here today (Friday) to secure vital company assets.

Robert Carroll

The pillars broke off and ripped through the side of the boat, and literally began tearing out the entire side of the boat where people were standing, waiting to get off, ... We all jumped from our seats and began running for our lives in the middle of all this debris, and people screaming and falling over each other.

Ken Goldstein

The overall Leading Economic Indicators began to edge down in July, suggesting the economy was losing steam this summer and would continue to slow down in the fall.

Anne Sullivan

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

David Rabe

I wrestled with my Catholicism for a long time. It took a long time to escape. It began with a sense that it was repressive, stern, judgmental. It was passionate, but it was terrifying. There were individual priests and nuns who were helpful, but the religion was cold.

Noah Feldman

During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur.

Noah Feldman

The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History taught the framers that, just as Rome changed from republic to empire with conquest of new lands, territorial acquisition would lead to the centralization of political power.

Christo

We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage.

Tite Kubo

I have three assistants, but there isn't a head assistant. All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

Steve Breen

Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint.

Banksy

I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as being 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.

Brandon McArthur

We are just taking it one pitch at a time, one inning at a time. We are actually drawing closer.

Chris Cooper

We're drawing up a plan that will fix it. But for now, we're staying on top of it with sand and salt.

Gary Sick

We know that they have had the drawings for P-2 centrifuge and they've publicized that.

Todd Krill

We were going forward and took two steps back. We've got to regroup. We're going to watch the tape of the Madison game tomorrow and go back to the drawing board.

Wendy Kopp

Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.

Wendy Kopp

People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.

Wendy Kopp

Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.

Ezra Taft Benson

Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education, and a higher standard of living.

Bill Harris

The political parties don't fight over whether education is important. They know it is.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Wole Soyinka

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.

William Godwin

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

Charlie Trotter

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

Chris Van Hollen

Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess.

Jon Constant

We didn't do a good job of finishing the game. It was a tough loss for us, but I think that we learned from it. We've got to finish.

David Wright

We're not going out there and setting our goals to try and knock teams out of the playoffs. We're trying to just make sure to finishing on a strong note that can springboard us into next year.

Don Helvey

We're not finishing when we need to finish, but we finish when it counts. The kids know how to play the game and they've been taught that they need to stick with it until the last whistle.

Jeff Gundy

We still have the same problems we had last spring: one-on-one defense; pick-and-roll defense; (we're a) high-turnover team; when it turned into a street fight, they fought harder than we did; and can we finish? Right now, we're not a finishing team. That's on me, that nothing's improved.

Taro Aso

understands that it was not a recalling of the envoy but an announcement of the finishing of his duties.

Mark Larson

We are putting the finishing songs on our regular release.

Gary Murphy

We played really good for three and one-half quarters. We were just one or two possessions away from finishing the deal, but we just couldn't get the rebound we needed or we couldn't handle the ball.

Ryan Wilson

We had always jokingly talked about Web sites in the past, and since finishing school, my gears sort of shifted. I knew he'd be a good source for input and ideas.

David Carradine

I studied music formally. I was probably less formal about my study of acting than anything.

Nimrat Kaur

I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her.

Lawrence Summers

We are not contemplating formal requests from any other country,

Nina Garcia

Don't be afraid to mix things up by pairing a military-style jacket with a velvet skirt, vintage with modern, off-the-rack with couture, formal with casual.

Bill Nye

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.

Marlene Walz

There are a variety of ways of assessing kids' skills that aren't necessarily a formal assessment.

Clay Lowery

Upon receipt of the formal filing, CFIUS will move promptly to initiate the review process and fulfill D.P. World's request for a 45-day investigation.

Trent Reznor

When Twitter made its way to my radar I looked at it as a curiosity, then started experimenting. I approached that as a place to be less formal and more off-the-cuff, honest and 'human.'

Michael McDermott

We feel that his due-process rights were violated. He was never given a formal hearing, he was never given a right to refute anything.

Zac Efron

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Until a person has a home, they are always going to be dependent upon the system.

William Stone

If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.

Zubin Mehta

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

Edward Snowden

I do not expect to see home again, though that is what I want.

David Bailey

When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.

Alan Levenson

The overall affordability of a home is still ample,

Norma Aviles

The pictures and the memorabilia, that's the only thing we have left of him.

Pratibha Patil

There is simply no way our nation can progress if its women population is left behind.

Eddie Lee

We promised the unit when they left that we would welcome them back the same way.

Clint Hurdle

We probably didn't get the number of runs we should have been able to get. We left a lot of people on base.

Cory Hardrict

I have my name Cory on my left arm, and I have my mom's name on my right with a cross. She passed away while I was still in high school, so I got that on my right arm.

Sylvia Bennett

We're not going back, ... Why should we go back when they left us.

Jerry Foster

We still have snow shovels left. We still have salt left -- in limited quantities. It's going to go fast.

Dave Wannstedt

We still have a lot of work to do. It was real obvious there were a lot of plays out there that we kind of left on the field, particularly on offense.

Jason Marquis

We still had, what, six outs left to go when Tony was tossed?

Clive Sinclair

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

Ron Polk

We had nearly as many hits, but they put them together. That's what it's all about. We just spaced ours out.

Andy Duncan

We had nearly 100%of people saying they were proud to work at C4 and more than 95% said we were going in the right direction. It's staggering,

Gerard Mestrallet

We had already made a lot of progress on the project. It was nearly finished.

Romola Garai

There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.

Tony Prentice

Our whole team wrestled really solid. It was a tough tournament. There were state placers in nearly every weight class.

Roger Cox

The announcement you have today is not nearly enough. It's the tip of the iceberg.

Joe Adams

Steroids are not really needed, ... You can get nearly the same results through training.

Kristen Holloway

My nights and weekends are nearly all spent on the troops.

Francis Lockier

The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.

James Sensenbrenner

We're doing this to stop the next terrorists and to take necessary steps to protect the American people,

Patricia Birch

What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

Jim Lewis

Yeah, that's awful. That's not necessary at all.

Lynn Woolsey

unless we take all steps necessary for nuclear disarmament.

Javier Solana

We have not been able to reach agreement. A precondition to constructive confidence, which is necessary now, is stopping all uranium enrichment activities.

Sam Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with respect to strategic reserves,

Samuel Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves,

Ron Dittemore

We're satisfied that the necessary precautions have taken place or we wouldn't launch.

Persis Khambatta

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

Pierre Bonnard

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

Jennifer Roberts

We send volunteers to paint over graffiti, but it bogs down when you have to go through a property manager.

Damien Hirst

The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

Gail Carson Levine

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

Christopher Wheeldon

Those Degas paintings tell a story that's poignant and very dark,

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

Bruno Tonioli

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

will.i.am

It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.

Bikram Choudhury

Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?

V. S. Naipaul

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,--just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.

Eric Betzig

Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.

Nick Park

I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming.

Ansel Elgort

I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

Frederic William Farrar

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

Bethany Mota

I remember when I was in the sixth grade, my friends used to come over and we would give each other blindfolded makeovers, which turned out interestingly to say the least!

Michael Mosley

In the sixth grade, I auditioned for a play called 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.' I got the lead, and I was terrified, but I went and did it.

David Keith

From sixth grade on I was a real Pillsbury doughboy. Overweight, long hair, thick glasses.

John Ferguson

This is the sixth year we've (hosted the memorial).

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Amy Pascal

I didn't make 'The Sixth Sense' because I thought the ending wouldn't work!