Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emma Roberts

I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.

Paul Muite

The people behind Goldenberg and Anglo Leasing scandals or land grabbing would be free to confess publicly and return whatever property they stole from Kenyans.

Michael Reavis

The past two years, I've competed at the all-around without my team. Now that the team is going to be behind me and I'm going to be competing for my scores to count for the team and for the all-around, it definitely makes it easier to compete and it makes it a lot more special.

Bruce Weber

I've always been shy and that's partly why I chose a life behind the lens. I like people to look at my work and hopefully it speaks for itself.

David R. Ellis

They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were actually on these trailers that manipulated side to side and stuff like they were getting hit, and actually put the actor right in the middle of the chase.

Christien Meindertsma

My work is all about how we consume. To me it's important to know where things come from. Generally, our products today are so cheap, you know there's something wrong. Things are not made in a good way. I want to make things that are. I want to make the story behind products visible.

Christine Gregoire

It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future.

Barack Obama

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

Natalie du Toit

It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

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.

Walt Mossberg

There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.

Vivek Wadhwa

Whenever I write about immigration, I hear heart-wrenching stories of computer workers who are unemployed and facing severe hardship.

Bill Calder

The Pentium name is the quintessential name of the gigahertz era. The gigahertz era is over.

Brian Kernighan

Programming language is very specific to instructing a computer to do a particular structure of a sequence. It's the very way you tell the machine what you want it to do.

Brian Kernighan

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

Neil Kurshan

Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone.

Rick Perlstein

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

Nina Easton

Jobless workers, especially those out of work for months and years, don't have the skills to multitask in a fast-paced economy where medical workers need to know electronic record-keeping, machinists need computer skills, and marketing managers can no longer delegate software duties.

Nick Jonas

I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!

Theo Jansen

In a way, Strandbeests have turned into migration animals, and the step counter gives them an idea of where they are. While counting their steps, they know more or less where they are between Kijkduin and Scheveningen.

Wolfman Jack

I don't want people mistreating me. I found out when you're vulnerable and your heart's open, then people step on you. You're really stupid for letting that happen. And the only way to counteract that is to be like Wolfman Jack. Because if you do nice, kind things for people, then how are they going to mess you over?

Nicholas Johnson

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

Joe Johnson

We've been having letdowns in the fourth quarter. They made a little run, but we managed to come back and counteract it with our own run. I thought we played big in the fourth quarter.

S.K.R. Amarasekara

We are now sensitizing the government and international organizations on the need to provide more resources to us to counter any possible outbreak.

Jim Day

The positive in the three losses is that Shane has been forced to grow technically to counteract Brennan's style.

Matt Hayes

We want to relax and play our game. We want to play our game and not make mistakes. If we do that and don't panic and have a good counter to what they do, we will be fine.

Paul Johnson

We have to have a plan to try and counter that. We know that if we don't come and play really hard and with a lot of intensity that we'll get embarrassed. And we don't like to get embarrassed.

Eric Cunliffe

If you make a low-ball offer you won't even get a counter offer in a hot market.

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

William H. Macy

I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.

William Joyce

I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.

Wendelin Van Draanen

You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

Vanessa Hudgens

My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!

Wyclef Jean

As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I always doodled as a kid while I was talking on the phone or watching TV.

Bronson Pinchot

I think I'm going to pull a Charlie Chaplin and have kids when I'm 60.

Brendon Urie

Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Look at me! Look at me! Look what I can do!'

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cynthia Ozick

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.

Andy Williams

We played 90 minutes of hard-fought soccer, which we didn't do for one minute last week.

Nigel Newton

We have made a number of big purchases in the last six months. We're in a position to do so.

Jim Rogers

We did very well with the last legislative session and I think we will do very well in the next session so long as we can prove our case.

Kenichiro Sasae

We are not necessarily satisfied, ... working up to the last minute.

Etel Adnan

I love Nicolas de Stael particularly, and my work can remind people of him. But looked at attentively, our works are not similar at all.

Cilla Black

It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.

Goldie Hawn

Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.

P. G. Wodehouse

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'

Catherine Hicks

People always want you to look pretty. I would like to live in the Midwest in a small town and never put makeup on. But they won't let you do that. Once I went through a period when I did do that, wore no makeup, wore my hair any which way, and people looked at me like I was a bum.

Martin Garcia

When I got it, it looked pretty bad. It had a motor, but it wasn't running.

Rich McKay

When I got here, I looked at him and said that my previous opinion of him was not fair,

Steven Cohen

We have looked at time-temperature indicators ... doneness indicators and things like that.

Wayne Hale

We have looked at that and it is a doable thing but the margins are small. It's better to have a plan, than to not have one.

Frank Gillett

The pay-for-use model is an innovation, but there is a very unflinching standardization.

Naomi Campbell

I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.

Alan Alda

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.

Nils-Axel Morner

Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.

Vernor Vinge

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

Andie MacDowell

I think role models exist, but they usually don't get the light because people like scandal.

Daria Werbowy

I suppose it's the feminist in me, but I didn't always associate modelling with an intelligent career. I used to put myself down for doing it.

Paul Marciano

When models started getting skinnier in the nineties and were becoming sick-looking, I didn't get it! I think that's sending a totally wrong message.

Ryan Holmes

For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized.

Taurean Green

We have to play a year older than what we really are.

Neil Gaiman

How would you feel about life if Death was your older sister?

Jessica Raine

You know that book 'Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking', by Susan Cain? That's like my manifesto. The older I get, the more I think I could be a hermit.

Richard Sloan

Many studies, especially some of the older ones, have significant methodological flaws, which render the conclusions questionable.

Jane Fonda

When you're an older woman [in a movie], you are the brunt of the joke.

Bill Jones

We did not have many seniors, so most of our team is returning. We're a year older and we should be bigger, stronger and faster.

Casey Self

My partner is 11 years older than me, and I'd like for him to be able to retire.

Armistead Maupin

I wish someone older than me and wiser than the people in Orlando had taken me aside.

Brandon Flowers

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

David Hewson

I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.'

Chris Crutcher

If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.

Wendell Perkins

What you've seen out there is nutty. It doesn't make any sense.

Mitch Hedberg

Where are all the 'during' photos? I've never seen one.

Michael Strahan

When you watch him on film, he's scary. I've never seen somebody who's so quick, fast, powerful.

Lauren Beukes

I've seen so many screw-ups of representations of South Africa, and it makes me so angry every time.

Chris Kaman

We didn't play soft. There were a lot of fouls called. Some that we weren't used to and some that I haven't seen in my whole life.

Brendan Coyle

I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.

Cesc Fabregas

If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me.

Lisa McMann

So, ah, I'm not sure if you know this, but you're not wearing a shirt." "Distracting, isn't it?

Peter Kovacs

We showed up with just the shirts on our backs, and they took us in. That's how we got back into operation.

Neil Young

You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.

Travis Johnson

He took like twelve shirts from my closet.

Nate Parker

You can be addicted to White Supremacy and all of the benefits, you can be addicted to male privilege and all of the benefits that comes from it. It's like someone pointing at you and you have a stain on your shirt and you don't even know it.

Thomas Carlyle

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

Ray Parlour

John Terry wears his shirt on his sleeve

Shaun White

Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.

Fergus Henderson

I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.

Banksy

We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves,

Frank Cook

When you shop for a house, you're there about 10 or 15 minutes,

Cathy Guisewite

The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.

Edgar Guest

I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.

Diane Ackerman

We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer.

Delta Burke

And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing.

Mark LaNeve

When we are on consumers' shopping lists, we like our chances.