Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ugo Betti

Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Seamus Mallon

Let me describe it as a momentous meeting. It was a good, workman-like meeting.

Elle King

I used to be afraid to use the word 'pop' to describe my music, but underneath my tough, bad-girl sound, there's some fun.

Lawrence Hargrave

To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.

Kevin Connors

She has handled some of the most sophisticated matters that we've prosecuted. I would describe her as incredibly hardworking; fair but tough.

Nancy Brook

Since he died, there has been this thing going on in my head, the idea that there is a hole in the heart of the universe. It is easy to say that he was loved by all, but it really doesn't describe him adequately.

Jeffrey Skilling

She is helpful in trying to help me describe to people what I am trying to say.

Jeannie Thompson

Moments like this are why you get into coaching. The girls have such a passion for the game, and to be a part of this team in a moment like this: There are really no words to describe it, just seeing how much fun they had and how much they enjoyed being out there tonight.

David Liss

Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a 'narrative junkie.' I love novels, I love comics, movies, TV. If it's a good story, I'm hooked.

James Blake

Last year, watching this on TV, this is kind of what I was dreaming of, playing a night match at the Open again,

Scott Tucker

This project is awesome, ... It's what I've been dreaming about - having a show worthy of public consumption, which is educational and promotes some interest in the world around us.

Adam Hall

Since I was about eight years old I've been dreaming of this day, it is very emotional, I'm overwhelmed,

Ella Wilcox

Why sit ye idly dreaming all the day,While the golden, precious hours flit away?See you not the day is waning, waning fast?That the morn's already vanished in the past?

Bernardo Bertolucci

For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.

Nico Rosberg

Winning at Monaco feels unbelievable, because it's such a special race and it's also my home race. My first memories were of watching Ayrton Senna here with his yellow helmet, and one day dreaming to win the Monaco GP.

Emily Riney

We?re dreaming of the day Sam opens his eyes.

Daniel H. Wilson

Right now, I think robots are where it's at. And yes, I'm biased. Robots and space, because with home rocket kits and Lego Mindstorm sets, people can get involved. I was raised on Transformers and GoBots, so I can't imagine what kids who are building real robots are dreaming about.

Greg Nichols

Her work ethic has everything to do with this, ... Dreaming is the first step. Then you have to work you tail off to realize that dream. That's what a lot of people don't get. They just see the result. The harder you work the luckier you get, and she is getting really lucky.

David Walliams

I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.

David Icke

A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?

David Duke

I was lucky enough to have a loving present father in my family.

David Duchovny

We like to keep the sexual tension underplayed, especially between the Smoking Man and me. Once we thought he was my father . . . it got more interesting.

David Brainerd

I hoped that my weary pilgrimage in the world would be short; and that it would not be long before I should be brought to my heavenly home and Father's house.

David Brainerd

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

Benazir Bhutto

I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.

Benedict Cumberbatch

There was a moment of extraordinary humbleness and humility and pride, as well, with my father when he turned to me - and I think it was after I played Salieri in "Amadeus" at university. And he said, You're better than I ever was or ever could be, you should do this for profession. You'd have a good time.

Benedict Cumberbatch

It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.

Barnett Newman

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

Matt Hasselbeck

We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense.

Stan Clark

We always felt we did the proper thing.

Shirley Manson

We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing.

Tomas Vokoun

We had been scoring a lot of goals and maybe we felt like we just couldn't lose. We started playing loose, but now we're not scoring four or five goals a game per night. And in this NHL, you're not going to win many goals scoring two goals a night.

Gia Coppola

When I graduated, I felt a little burned out on taking pictures after so many years of churning out so many for classes.

Michael Burgess

When I got up this morning, I felt good. This is a big win for us.

Gene Luen Yang

When I got the job with 'Superman,' it felt like somebody threw me into the ocean. I was just trying to figure it out, to figure out how to tread water. Lucky for me, I'm part of a great team.

Van Horn

When the jury returned the verdict, I felt high, but then I realized, I still had lost a son.

Carrie Zaitz

When I looked through that first telescope my paradigm shifted up course. I realized it was a really big universe and I wanted to know all about it.

Jason Terry

When I looked at the mistakes I made in the playoffs, it was more because I was indecisive. This year, I'll be more deliberate, more assertive.

Dustin Moskovitz

The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.

Derrick Byars

Man, I looked up at the clock, was that right? That was kind of weird too, looking up there and seeing they only had 30.

Eric Rignot

We did not look at one or two glaciers. We looked at all of them.

Gail Simmons

When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.

Sandra Lerner

My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.

Richard Rodriguez

She had scars all over her legs. She looked about 30 (years old).

H. Hart

Since we've made the changes, the offense hasn't looked bad, ... We should be able to do it even better this week having another week to get everything set.

David Walker

The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and mothers?-Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families. They certainly think we are a gang of fools.

David Walker

Now, I ask you, had you not rather be killed than to be a slave to a tyrant, who takes the life of your mother, wife, and dear little children? Look upon your mother, wife and children, and answer God Almighty; and believe this, that it is no more harm for you to kill a man who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take a drink of water when thirsty.

David Hockney

It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.

David Dinkins

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

David Dinkins

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

David Duke

Mother's love outlives everything

David Duchovny

I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.

David Duchovny

The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.

David Duchovny

There's two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Make Thou my spirit pure and clear/ As are the frosty skies.

Russ Rader

Most truck and SUV bumpers are purely decorative.

Bruce Roper

Silliness, pure silliness. There was Roy Rogers' Sons of the Pioneers, there was the Sons of the San Joaquin. It was in that spirit, and tongue-in-cheek, but we've had it for all these years and it's served us well, I think.

Joel Bruckenstein

I'd like to see him have more pure value exposure,

Donald Harrison

I suspect what it is is pure stress.

Jeff Corbett

There are no pure, pure climber's stages, no 10-mile, 14-percent brutes. And there are no bone-flat sprinters' stages, either.

Doug Green

We're pretty kid-friendly. With the pure kids' shows, all the songs are up-tempo. We keep it moving.

Mary Tyler Moore

I can't eat pure sugar. I can't have candy.

Velimir Ilic

Our victory is as pure as a diamond,

Audrey Meadows

Fans always ask, What did the bedroom look like? All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Deborah Harkness

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

Dennis Hopper

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

Channing Tatum

I went down to Miami, and somebody saw me on the streets, and that's how I got into modeling.

Alan Vega

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

Talulah Riley

I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.

Gabrielle Zevin

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

Jandy Nelson

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

Aubrey de Vere

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Clem Metz

She just stands there -- like some employees.

Jim Hawkins

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

Lee Whitnum

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Robert Mueller

I will tell you we have no one person, specifically, that stands out at this juncture.

Faith Hunter

There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.

Robert Frost

Time and Tide wait for no man,but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.

Margaret DiNinno

Right now that's where it stands to be.