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.

Zac Efron

A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what I'm about.

Willie Aames

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

William Shatner

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

Wendy Kopp

Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.

Virginia Postrel

Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual circumstances that distance him from ordinary American life.

Vanilla Ice

I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.

Billy Graham

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

Zubin Mehta

One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.

Wynton Marsalis

When you create change with your point of view, you have to be ready for what comes with that.

Bob McDonnell

We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.

Winona LaDuke

I'm interested in what kind of food we're going to eat as the climate changes. I'm interested in what kind of economy we're going to have in another 1,000 years.

Norman Foster

Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.

Alex Steffen

The most climate friendly trip we are ever going to take is the trip we never had to take because we were close to what we wanted.

Christopher Garman

What you've been seeing is a very favorable financing climate in which investors are on the lookout for paper, yet corporations seem largely unwilling to step in and issue new bonds.

Jack Lavin

We're listening and responding to business. We're setting a climate that's pro-growth. We need to look at the reality, not the rhetoric.

Todd Dawson

Transpiration can have a cooling effect on an area's climate just like when you perspire-heat is wicked away with the water.

Hilary Rhoda

I imagine Heaven would have very nice weather - perfect climate where you can wear a leather jacket or shorts and a sweater.

Hendrik Poinar

It turns out that there are swaths of habitat in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could house a mammoth. Remember, this was a highly plastic animal that lived over tremendous climate variation.

Brady Corbet

I don't think that there's anything that we shouldn't be allowed to photograph, really, unless there's something that's really deeply harmful to the subject in the photograph.

Ranbir Kapoor

There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.

Nick Clegg

We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people in the press, just as there should be in any other industry where things go wrong. But let's not try and think it is for politicians or governments to tell people what they stick in newspapers. That is deeply illiberal.

Lynsi Torres

I am a deeply spiritual and religious person both privately and publicly.

Brian Bruce

We are deeply shocked by this tragedy. Our sympathy and condolences go out to all those who have been affected.

David Wimhurst

We are deeply saddened by this, and it's one more victim in a long line of victims this territory's seen.

Jeffrey Lurie

We are deeply saddened by the passing of one of the greatest men ever to play the game of football,

Robert McCullum

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Bradley and it is an extremely difficult time for us as a team. There are no words to express our feelings and Bradley's impact on this team. Our prayers go out to his family and loved ones." ()

Alex Wright

We are deeply saddened by his death. We send our condolences to the Mzimela family. He will be given a full departmental funeral.

Chris Carter

I'm not involved on any social media; it's really not my style.

Tinashe

I think, in general, more women need to be involved in music and in the industry - that's been an issue.

Earl Campbell

There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do.

Kris Allen

When you're on tour, you're trying to get the crowd involved and really sing and perform to them. When you're going to write and be in the studio, it's like, 'Now I have to think about me.' That's the mind-set you have to work with.

Steven Seagal

I would only ever be involved in a reality show that was about real life and had lots of action.

Sandro Veronesi

There are programs for the scrapping of appliances, but no one thinks about what's involved in the waste management of brassieres.

Nicola Monaghan

As a writer, it is my job to tell a story. I don't want to get involved in social commentary; I just want to show issues from a different point of view. I want to show issues from a perspective that may not be highlighted.

Natascha McElhone

It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.

Nicholas Winton

Ever since I was quite young, I was in St. John's Ambulance or the Red Cross; latterly, I've been involved in voluntary work with the mentally handicapped and Abbeyfield Old People's Homes.

Elizabeth Warren

I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.

Ralph Nader

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Patrick Murphy

I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.

Sergei Lavrov

A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics.

Tommy Lee Jones

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

W. C. Fields

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

Adlai E. Stevenson

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Karl Rove

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

Karl Rove

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

Chang-Rae Lee

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

Uzi Landau

We must not give in to the prime minister's regime of intimidation.

Stephen Glover

Where is our prime minister? All that can be said is that he is out there somewhere.

Benjamin Franklin

I am in the prime of senility.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We have no problem with the prime minister's offer.

Brian Mulroney

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

Ehud Olmert

Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Doris Williams

Women can do a lot of things when they have to, and she was a prime example.

Kevin Eggan

This technology is not ready for prime time. This is not a replacement for the techniques we already have.

Walead Beshty

There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

Brina Palencia

I had a very close relationship with my grandmother. She actually helped raise me.

David Steinberg

Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested.

Bethany Mota

I'm all about building a relationship with viewers and getting to know them.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

William Shatner

The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.

Alan Cohen

When we enter into any relationship with the premise that we are empty and the other person will fill us in, we are sure to fail. We can only win when we proceed from wholeness.

Erica Jong

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Nikki Reed

I have a long-standing relationship with Autism Speaks. I've been supporting them for many, many years now.