Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wentworth Miller

Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.

William Kirby

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.

Wendy Kopp

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

Vivek Wadhwa

If anyone tells you that you're too old to be an entrepreneur or that you have the wrong background, don't listen to them. Go with your gut instincts and pursue your passions.

Val Kilmer

You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.

James Lovelock

What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: 'Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?' If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours.

Elizabeth Warren

I'll work with anyone - and I really do mean that - Democrat, Republican, independent, Libertarian, contrarian, vegetarian.

Elaine Stritch

I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well!

Ben Carson

But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.

Venus Williams

No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.

Doug Beard

The people at the Bradley Center have been tremendous to work with. Our event management experience certainly comes into play.

Brendon Urie

I love being the center of attention. I'm shameless about it.

Big Sean

My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City.

Don Yaeger

Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, and his name always comes up when the conversation centers on the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But his greatness comes with an asterisk: He never won the Big Game.

Vince Gilligan

'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.

Judith Butler

The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.

Wole Soyinka

Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.

Stephen Coonts

When I got into it I realized that it needed Jake Grafton to give it an American center of focus that wouldn't be there without a strong American hero,

Yolanda Adams

I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.

Werner Herzog

Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.

Wayne Rooney

Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

Warren Farrell

I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Walead Beshty

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

Walter Crane

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

Warren Stephens

We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.

William Kirby

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

Vijender Singh

When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.

Elle Fanning

When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.

Boris Boehm

The overall performance of the market in the last couple of days has been impressive. Investors are locking in profits.

Bryan Cogman

The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.

Dom DeLuise

Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech.

Nicki Minaj

I can't see myself without pink lipstick. I can go without it for a couple days, but if there was no more pink lipstick in the world, I'd be useless. Seriously.

Bob Nelson

We played well in the first half, but in the second they hit their shots and we didn't and we also had some turnovers. They had a couple pretty good shooters who hit from the outside.

Ed DeChellis

We played well enough to win, but in the last couple of minutes, we didn't execute. Strickland made some big shots. ... He was guarded, but that's what seniors do.

Darren Sharper

We played well early on. The first couple of drives, we knocked them out. But we got a little worn down as the first half went along.

Mike Ford

We played well defensively. We had a couple of breakdowns, and they capitalized on them.

Magdalena Neuner

I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

Noreena Hertz

Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.

Lupe Fiasco

Once you've been on tour six, seven years, you get an idea of what works and what doesn't work universally. There will be some crowds that we just can't play a song, but we've got 90% of a show that we know is going to be a hit with the Lupe Fiasco fan. I think the catering has already been done.

Terry Pirtle

We have a local mix of 4A and 3A teams, so I hope the crowds will be really good.

Tim Tierney

We have an idea what to expect when we get down there. We know what the floor is like. We know what the crowds are like. We didn't get to play, so we didn't get the full experience of it. But now we're ready for that.

Jiro Yamaguchi

We get more exposure to crowds we don't normally play in front of.

George Burger

We had wonderful crowds and they were larger than we could have hoped for,

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Let me never become a slave to crowds.

Callie Khouri

The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.

Jeffrey Sweetin

When Denver started to emerge, I believe, is when law enforcement started directing resources to the border.

Ed Schultz

We've got offers from a number of markets to move the show. Denver would like us. Miami would really like us. Seattle is very interested.

Gerard Warren

We're going to go into the game and simply play Denver Broncos football, and that's how it's been all season long.

Jim Shires

In the back seat, we found items that had been taken from a courier truck stolen in Denver on March 6.

Julius Peppers

Pittsburgh? Nah, I'm not surprised. Pittsburgh is a tough team, just like us. I'm not surprised by that. And Denver -- they're 13-3. And Seattle? Nah, no surprise. And yeah, we expected to be here.

Michael Bennet

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.

Mike Kudla

I thought I had it, but right after the guy from Denver said you tied it. I had 46 right there, but I couldn't quite get that last inch up.

Bill Belichick

That was a game of big plays tonight. Denver made more than we did.

Bill Vandenberg

I would like to think that Denver voters were smart. To vote for a massive new courthouse and jail because someone is popular is shortsighted.

Leon Bridges

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

Matt Strauss

We've been exploring how to do this everything from kiosks in malls to having crews live on the road going to different venues.

Scott Hand

we are interested in exploring future opportunities in the region.

Elliott McCullough

We're exploring options. We want to make this as painless as possible." ()

Jill Lajdziak

We're exploring different alternatives. We're not ready to talk about that today.

Chuck D.

We're exploring all sorts of options for waste. There's so much of it.

Mark Patterson

The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.

Bailee Madison

What do I love about acting? I love traveling, meeting new people, exploring and just doing what I love.

Diane Setterfield

My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.

Ellen Key

The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.

Donald Trump

Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth.

Ken Anderson

We played 13 tonight and they all rose to the occasion. We kept working and fighting to make this happen. I'm proud of these girls.

Joe Biden

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

Michael Vick

When I got hit, it was painful, but I got up and was able to walk, ... I was able to go back out there and fight it out like I always do.

Le Corbusier

You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.

Johnny Gonzales

We did what we had to do to win. We are fighting for that third playoff spot and the kids worked hard for the victory.

Jim Brandt

We are not engrossed in total sunshine, but we're in good shape. We have a pretty good set of sunshine laws. The problem is fighting off exceptions. Every time the Legislature meets, there are exemptions considered. Accumulation of exemptions is our great potential problem.

Alan Cohen

You empower what you fight.You withdraw power from what you release.

Chuck Palahniuk

The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

Al Feldstein

When I was a kid, I used to sneak down the stairs when my folks were listening to 'The Witch's Tale' and 'Inner Sanctum' on the radio. I went to see 'Frankenstein' in the movie theater and got the pants scared off of me.

Jeff Collins

Those folks are our partners. You can get to Fort Smith in about 50 minutes.

Paul Johnston

We have a mandate to return the hurricane protection system to pre-Katrina levels by June 1. The folks out there are really working like crazy. We've got folks pounding steel 24 hours a day.

Patty Loveless

When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

Matt Howard

We needed to make sure we had a product to serve those folks in the quarter-of-a-million range.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I don't want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, 'I have to support it because there's black folks in there.' I want them to go because it's a good movie.

Al Jarreau

I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.

Matt Rosoff

There are some folks who have been there for a long time and who will resent the way things are being run as a bureaucracy. And maybe they were there for the big stock run-up and they're seeing the stock not move now.

Robin S. Sharma

Unsuccessful people are the ones who are impressed by celebrity, by people's names and titles.

Lorenzo Romar

We have always been impressed with Stanford. They are a solid team and never give you a game.

Don Cooper

We can see what they look like and give them a little experience. Yeah, we've been impressed with all of those kids.

Mike Holmgren

Where I am impressed even more with him this year is his pass protection,

Nicolas Cage

I'm very impressed with 'Drive.'

Michael McNamara

The increase was stronger than expected, and we were impressed with the rebound in spending especially after the snowstorms in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.

Tyra Banks

The judges see a model in person, but for two weeks in a row they have been less than impressed with your photos. So what the judges see now is a lot of potential, but they haven't seen that potential put into your photos.

James Graham

Maurice, I am very impressed by that piece of work,

Jean Seberg

My first marriage was not happy. I married him because I was impressed that he knew which wines to order and how to leave his visiting card. Ridiculous reasons.

Nikki Sixx

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

Pervez Musharraf

We are not deterred. These kinds of things were expected,

Paul Downs Colaizzo

I'd say there are two kinds of theater: one you end with an answer, one you end with a question.

Juicy J

Three-6 Mafia, we were always doing different kinds of things, and we like rock music, we like whatever - not saying they was rock, but they had a little rock-n-roll with some of their music, a little rock with it.

Terry Jones

Those kinds of things I think will stay and get more sophisticated. I think it's going to be very tailored for the customer.

Al Gillen

Those kinds of things are incremental improvements that really were pretty important.

Matt Hasselbeck

We haven't been parading around town doing all kinds of things. We're here for one thing and that's to play football. We're not here to do all this other stuff.

Haley Barbour

Those are the kinds of things that will be discussed,

Candice Hansen

Those are the kinds of things that we have theories about, but we really don't have data.

Ken Barse

We have three lines that are working hard. They know we can't put all the weight on the shoulders of our top line.

Ian Mckellen

I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

Ted Waitt

We're really just formalizing, internally and externally, these lines of business,

Charles Dickens

You are in every line I have ever read.

Alan Rickman

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

Alan Bennett

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

Dave Barry

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

Camilla Belle

I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.

Brett Lee

We spoke about a number of things from conventional swing to reverse swing and different lines and lengths.

Nancy Roman

I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.

Valentino Castellani

We are having a party. A wonderful party.

Walter Benjamin

This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.

William Shakespeare

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Bryce Courtenay

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

Catherynne M. Valente

And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.

Casey Stengel

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.