Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wesley Clark

My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.

William Reynolds

The Pentagon has agreed to make five witnesses available. Although there was no talk at the time when they made that offer, the assumption was that it would be in an open committee hearing.

Karen Miller

The PEB is a situation out of our control, ... We hope we would be able to use our rights. We believe the fact that both Delta management and ALPA have agreed to ask to be released, that it should allow the process to move forward.

David Zayas

As an actor, I've always found that my job is not to judge the content in which I've agreed to perform in. What I try to do is just find the truth in every moment that they've written.

Noreena Hertz

From solar to electric cars, from geothermal to reconfiguring the grid, the scale of investment needed in green technologies in order to meet whatever agreements on emissions reductions are finally agreed will be immense.

Sela Ward

Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book.

Vladimir Putin

The leaders of the world's largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles.

Tagg Romney

My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or not, said, 'George Romney is a good man, and he sticks to his principles: a man of honesty and hard work, integrity.'

Tadanobu Asano

I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

Don Yaeger

Seeing the intensity and power she brings to the game, it's hard to imagine her being anything but single-minded in pursuing tennis. But Serena Williams has other passions, too. In fact, there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day, week or month for one of the world's most gifted athletes to chase her many interests.

Duane Joubert

We played a pretty good game. We played consistent, and we did a great job shooting. Hughes Springs has some great athletes on their team, but we came out ready to play and we led the whole way.

David Pelletier

We probably have a different viewpoint. But the one thing we have in common is that we were all athletes being thrown into this mess together.

Fumie Suguri

We pledge to do our best to win medals while making efforts to deepen exchanges with athletes of other countries and contribute to world peace.

Ban Ki-moon

Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this country opened its doors to people and athletes from more than 160 countries. Korea did so in part because it believes in the power of sports for peace and development.

Dennis Quaid

Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic.

Keith Burns

When youre on the runway getting ready to go on the Coliseum field, you think about all the big events that have been held there, all the great athletes who have competed there,

Steve Meyers

Where ever he's been, he's a winner. He's a wonderful young man with a lot of great experience. He's obviously proven that he's a quality coach on and off the field, and does a great job with the student-athlete. He makes baseball fun. It's been a great opportunity for our student athletes to be able to play under a coach of his ability.

Nancy Gibbs

As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.

Vince Vaughn

I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

Rebel Wilson

I was sporty in high school. I played tennis and hockey, and was basketball captain. Then I went to university and stopped doing sport and started eating ice cream.

Dave Grohl

I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

Jim Les

We play in a major basketball conference. There are some awfully good players here. Some players who were snubbed a little bit at the higher schools, and they've got a chip on their shoulders.

Dave Forney

We played with composure and we controlled the clock. It was real basketball and it's taken us a long time to get here.

Jeff Schaffer

We played well. We're finally starting to come together. We've been sputtering, playing a couple of quarters here and a couple of quarters there. Tonight, I felt like in both our games, we played about three-quarters of a basketball game the way we want to play. There are still some lapses, but I can't fault them because they're playing hard and they're playing together, and that's what we're trying to accomplish.

Tre Kelley

We played all 40 minutes of that basketball game. We held them.

Cathy Inglese

We played a full 40 minutes of sound basketball.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We played about a quarter and a half tonight. But we played the fourth quarter with some fight to get back into it. The shot Brand made late in the game was a big-time shot and he made it at a very critical time in the basketball game.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.

Warren Bennis

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

William Cavendish

The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.

Vivienne Westwood

The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and paid a heavy price in doing so, is both awe-inspiring and humbling.

Vincent Cassel

I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.

Abraham Lincoln

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Abraham Lincoln

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

Abraham Lincoln

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

One thing George R. R. Martin does is surprising things to main characters. But he says so himself.

Gore Vidal

Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?'

Muhammad Ali

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.

James Gleick

Memes can be visual. Our image of George Washington is a meme. We don't actually have any idea what George Washington looked like. There are so many different portraits of him, and they're all different. But we have an image in our head, and that image is propagated from one place to another, from one person to another.

Luke Rhinehart

I am George Cockcroft. But when I come to England or Europe, where the name Luke Rhinehart is better known, then I use that name.

Ben Stein

I have a great pic of my father and Rev. Graham laughing hysterically at some joke with George Pratt Shultz looking on back in 1972 or so.

Terry McAuliffe

There is a visceral dislike of George Bush, and it's going to bring these guys together.

Cathleen Schine

Everyone who moves to New York City has a book or movie or song that epitomizes the place for them. For me, it's 'The Cricket in Times Square', written by George Selden and illustrated by Garth Williams.

Casey Affleck

The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie.

Paul Shaffer

Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.

Terrie Williams

We're working to meet immediate and possibly long-term needs for 1,000 or more evacuees, and still provide the necessary services to the people here in Clarksville we're already serving and will need to serve.

Lee Bermejo

Generally, when it comes to covers, I try and add elements that may not take your immediate attention but really become important the more you look at them.

Sergei Ivanov

We are also ready for an immediate start to official talks with the United States on SALT 3.

Jeffrey Nelson

We have no immediate plans to run that service. What runs on our network are our services.

David Smith

The immediate plan for the next 18 to 24 months is to reach out to Philadelphia and surrounding areas, especially Harrisburg.

Colin Boyes

The immediate monetary impact is one thing, but now people are saying we will be paying for this for months and years to come.

James Head

We homeowners need help. We need immediate relief.

Vijay Bakaya

Our requirement is for 35,000 tents because winter is approaching and there is an immediate need for shelters.

Mo Rocca

One could say, that #‎ Masons were raised right.

Nicolas Boileau

Be a mason instead, if you have a talent for that.

Dave Thomas

There are no strangers in Freemasonry, only friends you've yet to meet.

William Howard Taft

The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.

Ivo Daalder

The overt message is that preventing nuclear proliferation is important.

Thalia

I always focus on myself in what I want, where I want to go, who I want to reach, which message I want to put out, how I want to dress.

Takashi Murakami

In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.

Tamora Pierce

I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.

Walid Jumblatt

We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

Din Syamsuddin

The reaction has been sufficient...in getting the message across.

Jeb Bush

Today's message is really to prepare and stay aware, ... I understand it can be really frustrating.

Boris Tadic

Unfortunately, today we are getting messages from the tribunal that they are not responsible. I think they are responsible for what happened.

Isamu Akasaki

I was overwhelmed by so many interviewers and then messages of congratulations. So many congratulation messages. I feel this shows the authority and the greatness of the Nobel Prize.

Wentworth Miller

Acting was something I needed like air. It wasn't something I could walk away from.

Terri Mitchell

The overall plan was to play our zone because we have so much respect for the athleticism of St. John's that we really needed a containment mentality.

Cary Fukunaga

After 'Sin Nombre,' I just needed to take a break to go to completely different worlds.

Jay Allen

When I got in here, there was a lot that needed to be done.

Phil Davis

We did what we needed to do. We still made some mistakes, but we were able to overcome them.

Kevin Reed

We did what we needed to do in the first half.

Royce Chadwick

We did the things we needed to win. We just didn't do enough of them.

Bonnie Tyler

When I was in the recording studio, I needed to concentrate on what my voice was doing, which is rather difficult if you can't actually see what you are supposed to be singing.

Jake Goldy

We played well. Our problem has been defense. When we needed to get a stop tonight, we couldn't get a stop. That's been our story all year long.

Lupe Ontiveros

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.

Khare Hawkins

You do have to be fashionable because you do represent us. If you are part of this troupe, you must look the part at all times.

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Agnes Martin

Anything can be painted without representation.

Kesha Rogers

I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.

Billy Corgan

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

Mariano Rivera

You always want to represent your country, but I wouldn't be ready.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

Guy deBord

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

Paul Harvey

Now you know the rest of the story.

Scott Adkins

I'm always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new 'Universal Soldier.' You can't rest on your laurels; you've got to keep improving.

Andrew Klink

We are going to win the rest of our games.

Peter O'Toole

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

Fred Jacobs

We need to take steps to restore credibility to the administration and accountability to the university, and we have to do it tangibly.

Ludwig von Mises

Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.

Eric Brown

We're not trying to say these things aren't available. We didn't want to restrict the player.

Tassos Papadopoulos

We are satisfied with the terms. The rest is procedural.

Lee Humphrey

We've got some time to rest up. I think we'll be fine.

Nile Rodgers

There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist.

Mike Hargrove

We'll probably send him to the instructional league. I'm not sure, but we've been talking about it.

Henry Spencer

Is manned space exploration important? Yes - not least because it simply works much better than sending robots.

Adam Rita

We had to send him back. His work visa was pending. He was on a temporary visa.

Jerry Gonzalez

We're making sure that we're sending the right message.

Paddy Gallagher

We'll send him away from there and see how it sets up. There is a lot of speed in the race, but, going long, I think he's one-dimensional and has to be up there.

Will Rogers

If you send somebody to teach somebody, be sure that the system you are teaching is better than the system they are practicing.

Bashir Ahmed

This is a good-will gesture, ... Today is a start and we will send a lot more aid.

Ron Gardenhire

Most of the time you send Rad back out there. But this isn't most of the time any more.

Lisa Busch

We play as a team and someone always steps up. Tonight it was just my time, my chance, to be there for the team and do that.

Ludwig von Mises

Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.

Ludwig von Mises

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

Helio Castroneves

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.

Mike Canales

We'll find a guy. We'll wait and see who steps up.

Alan Bean

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

Bryan Clay

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

Bear Grylls

It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.

Antonis Samaras

Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in.

Patrick Sparks

We play two top-10 teams (this) week. It's in our hands.

Richard Corso

We play more of a team offense. She's not going to know who's going to go off.

Kerry Loughran

We play a team game. That?s how we win championships.

Camelia Sams

We play a lot of tough teams out of the district. It's tough, but we need the practice.

Matt Gordon

We did what we had to do to win. They (Lincoln) are a tough team - they play real hard. I give them credit.

Jonathan Toews

When you see him up close, you see all the little things he does and as a teammate it is appreciated.

Dick Cheney

President Bush gave me a tremendous opportunity to serve as the vice president. I enjoyed very much having the opportunity to be a part of his team. He told me at the outset, he wanted me to sign on to be a part of his team - and he was true to his word, kept it. He was tough. He was decisive. He was also a pretty good politician.

Romeo Crennel

We still have a long way to go, ... We're going to be competitive with this team at some point. When that is, I don't know.

Mark Teixeira

We still feel like this is a team that can compete. Unfortunately, this was our start, and we've got to turn it around.

Lars Mikkelsen

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

Vince Young

We're not going to be scared. We're going to be pumped. Nervousness is not a part of the University of Texas.

Earlon McWhorter

We're willing to look in the mirror, see what we see and do what we have to do to make this university better.

Derek Bok

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

Bill Gates

I didn't completed my University Education

Bill Gates

I didn't even complete my University Education

Henrique Capriles Radonski

The best university is the university of life.

Frantz Fanon

Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made phrases, which seem in a common-sense way to fill a need-or have a hidden subtlety, a permanent rub.

Ray Giacoletti

To give back to the university like that is unbelievable.