Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madeleine Stowe

Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.

Charlize Theron

I havent lost my culture, just my accent.

Carter Jenkins

The accents are really really funny. I think I could convince somebody I was from New Zealand.

Casey Kasem

I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing,

Callan McAuliffe

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

Claire Forlani

My accent depends on whom I'm around.

Antonio Banderas

If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something.

Ashley Jensen

Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.

Jamie Bell

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.

Greg Harrison

When we went in there, they really started blitzing everybody. They saw Morelli as an inexperienced, second-string quarterback and they brought the house against us. But as a whole, I thought we picked it up well. We had a couple, little miscues, but nothing that can't be corrected.

Jermaine Spencer

When we went in the locker room, we said we weren't pushing. We weren't getting as hard after them as we should. In the second half, we brought the fight to them. Instead of backing down and letting them do what they want to do, we made them step up and play -- play defense and make tougher shots.

Mona Simpson

When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend with one of her clients and his little sister while the parents went away on vacation. She brought me along.

George H. W. Bush

We remember the integrity and the sense of duty that he brought to every task before him,

Matt Hammons

We're going to miss those guys because they brought a lot to our team.

Kevin Morrow

We're going to miss Marlene and everything she's brought to the department and the university.

Scott Browne

When we brought out Richard Petty, people started coming up and asking for autographs, ... and we didn't expect that.

Ashley Goforth

When we brought in speakers this year, we were looking for them to be informative as well as entertaining and fun.

Harry Tholen

When we brought guys in, I don't think anybody got a hit, and they did make a couple errors.

Jaime Pressly

We're making light of all the serious, politically correct stuff that society has created. Basically, Earl redeems himself (after) the mistakes he has made in judging people.

Jean Ross

We're going to put together a corrected list that will run in the newspaper.

John Hughs

What we're seeing is this kind off continuing correction in tech stocks that began a few weeks ago. The money is leaving tech and going to what we call value stocks.

James Chessen

What we're recommending is that people take out as much cash as they would need for a long weekend. And if you're relying on credit cards, request copies of your credit report before and after the century change so you can spot and correct any Y2K errors immediately.

Mike Adkins

When we finally get all the numbers posted and even in the next day or two when any mistakes are corrected and adjustments are made, I think it'll wind up being double that.

Kevin Smith

We wrestled well enough to win the tournament, but we were rusty at times. We have to clean some things up and correct some errors. We didn't wrestle as well as we should have in certain matches, but we'll fix that.

Don Cox

Years ago it was a really good way of making a living, and we're finally trying to correct that as an industry to get the cost back up (for wages).

Madeleine Stowe

Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.

Cesar Rodriguez

With no intention of causing her death, I carelessly corrected my stepdaughter's actions. I took it upon myself to defend the safety of my other five beautiful children.

Jonathan Eunice

Web-services technology is complicated stuff. You've got all sorts of standards governing security , reliability, and message bundling, and there are 30 or 40 major specifications and standards involved as well as a couple hundred slightly more minor ones. In a considerable number of cases, you will have to learn many of these dialects and it's a bewildering array to learn indeed.

Madeleine Stowe

Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.

Henry Sweet

The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.

Callan McAuliffe

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

Brad Pitt

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

Eric Kandel

My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values.

John McWhorter

The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the indentured servants who spoke those dialects that we often learn about in school.

John McWhorter

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

John McWhorter

It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students' repertoire rather than teaching them out of what's thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open.

John Goodman

When I was in high school playing against those guys I really didn't feel friendly towards them at all. I tried to make myself think I hated Unionville at the time, and there was definitely a lot of trash talking. You run into those guys all the time. It's pretty important to have those bragging rights so you can walk with your head a little higher. But now that I'm out of school and you see those guys there's no hate there. I have a lot of respect for them.

Carl Safina

When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

Mary Roach

When I was a kid, I hated everything. I was really skinny, and I'd have a milkshake with an egg in it. Growing up, I ate, like, five different foods. I was not an adventurous eater. But as soon as I left home, that all changed and from that point on, I've been a pretty enthusiastic eater of new and strange food.

Michael Feldman

When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don't know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person.

Greg Ellis

We would've hated going into the bye at 4-4, ... It's a big swing for us, even though it's only one game. We had some good things out there, but there are still things that need to be fixed. It's easier to go back and fix them on a positive note, going into the bye with a win.

Hermann Hesse

What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

Rick Barry

What's really amazing is some of them hated Bill more than they hated me.

Issey Miyake

Yellow, blue and black -- the glittery things, you know, shiny, showy things. I hated it before, this time I had to work on it, this kind of feeling.

Madeleine Stowe

Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.

Tim Conley

We're going to throw some people into some different events. We might try Michael in the 400, and we might switch our distance runners around a little bit. We're looking to qualify as many people as we can for the Meet of Champions later this month. This week and next week will be a great opportunity to do that.

Kenny Ortega

Whenever you went into any place where there was Michael Jackson footage at Sony, it was like going through Homeland Security.

Larry Sherrill

What a great defensive stand here at the end. Michael Young sealed the deal for us. It's a great victory for our players. They worked hard and they deserve it.

Rachel Sklar

What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.

Sean Faris

Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long.

Madeleine Stowe

Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.

Amy Wright

The perceived conduct of Vision House owner Michael O'Sullivan is counterproductive for offenders under community supervision, so I must relocate this small group to more appropriate housing.

Joe Sacco

The people whose work I've admired are people like George Orwell and others like Michael Herr and, of course, some of Hunter S. Thompson's work.

Nolan Sotillo

I always liked performing in front of my parents' friends. My dad bought me a karaoke machine, and I would put on a Michael Jackson song like 'Thriller,' and I would come out with, like, a hat and a jacket, and, like, moonwalk in my socks, so I was always performing.