Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Peter Blatty

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.

Wendy Kopp

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

Vikram Seth

I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say.

Wyclef Jean

When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song. Pras did not affect me because, in the realm of politics, he has never stood up for anything.

Colm Keaveney

There is little or no point being chair of the Labour Party and being ignored when engaging with Labour ministers when you're trying to articulate something that affects ordinary people in society.

Steven Fisher

The overseas migration hasn't affected us to the same extent it has affected the semiconductor distributors.

Dilip Ratha

The over-regulation of banking sector can be avoided because they affect the entry into the market of poor migrant workers. The remittances give a lifeline to people in poor countries.

Paul Fireman

The overall industry outlook is not improving in the short term, and the economic conditions in Asia Pacific and Latin America continue to negatively impact our business, ... The domestic market is suffering from heavy promotions at retail, which is affecting our performance. And the well publicized conditions in Japan and Korea, our two largest markets in the Far East, has caused reported sales to decline approximately 50 percent when compared to last year.

Gilbert Arenas

The people affected by Hurricane Katrina really need to be taken care of. It's rough. Everyone wants to help, but it's not going to be easy. We've got to realize that these people lost everything they had. For some people they didn't have food or water for days. I'm just trying to do my part and help out as much as I can. While everyone's watching on TV, they need to be helping at the same time.

Ezekiel Emanuel

For months, my parents had been trying to prepare me for the arrival of a real sibling. They had given me a doll to play with and encouraged me to take care of her. And when the baby, a little boy they named Rahm, finally arrived, they encouraged me to help take care of him, too.

Andrew O'Hagan

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.

Hans Jonas

It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.

Gary Dilts

With the three products of the LX platform selling at a record pace and the arrival of the Dodge Caliber, Chrysler Group is back in the car business in a big way.

Nandan Nilekani

We're going to showcase the arrival of the global Indian entrepreneur.

Alexander Yakovlev

We were in an open field waiting for the arrival of an official, ... We discussed everything, we interrupted each other and said, 'That thing must be changed and that one's intolerable ... everything's intolerable.'

Stephane Simean

We're following the evolution of tennis. On the women's side, there has been a very positive change, with the arrival of many new stars.

Jorma Ollila

The handset market is entering a new growth period spurred by the arrival of an increasing number of mass volume products with colour and multimedia messaging capability, all enriching the customer experience,

John Buford

The inhabitants knew of my arrival and the position of the enemy camp, yet not one of them gave me a particle of information.

Ben Carson

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

Bruce Coville

Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.

Christine Gregoire

We must work to help all families and all communities realize their dream of a better future.

Victoria Osteen

God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.

Nat Wolff

I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.

Ernst Fischer

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Emil Zatopek

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.

Charles Soule

I've been a Marvel reader since I was just a kid, and I've dreamed of being a Marvel writer for almost as long, so being tapped to officially join the team is truly something.

Steve Richey

We didn't play that well. Justin Duke hit some big shots for us late. We're going to have to buckle down and play hard to keep winning.

Seimone Augustus

We didn't run our offense effectively. We just stood around too much and made it too easy for Duke to guard us.

Billy Donovan

We had won 17 games, but going into tonight we were 0-0. I knew Duke had lost, but these are different guys. They are more wrapped up in trying to become a good team, to become better individually and really sacrifice for one another.

Dave Cottle

We haven't practiced well since the Duke game, and unfortunately, maybe we needed a loss to recognize that. We didn't handle success as well as we would have liked.

Prince Andrew

The queen is a great mother and a great parent, and so too is the Duke of Edinburgh (her husband Prince Philip), and we used to have wonderful fun racing up and down here at weekends, we'd do all sorts of things.

Dierks Bentley

I also was a huge 'Dukes of Hazzard' fan. I used to have T-shirts that said 'Dierks of Hazzard' custom-made.

William Price

We've always had a sense of humor about ourselves, ... Heck, we need it when things like 'The Dukes of Hazzard' come around.

Rashad Anderson

We're ready to play. No matter if it's Duke or any other team in the tournament.

Edwin Edwards

The only place where David Duke and I are alike is we are both wizards under the sheets.

Walter Smith

From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.

Marc Ratner

The police did a marvelous job. So did (ring announcer) Michael Buffer. He kept everybody calm. He told everyone to stay in their seats and that everything was under control.

Anna Nicole Smith

One thing about living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

Brian Van Holt

I'm very excited to work with everybody on 'The Bridge' - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show is really good. I'm very lucky to be a part of it.

Beeban Kidron

Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.

Bill Hader

I remember I could do - I did Bart Simpson once on the bus. I did, like, a really good Bart Simpson voice on the bus, obviously before I hit puberty. And everybody went, 'Whoa, that sounds just like Bart Simpson.'

David Suchet

That's the thing about film acting and television acting. You just release yourself and do what is true for the moment, and ignore everybody and everything and all the technical razzmatazz that goes on.

Desiree Rogers

I do feel strongly that we have got to do a little brand-positioning work. Wouldn't it be great to have something that everybody could say: 'Yep, that's Chicago.'

Donald Trump

Everybody has their detractors. Some people say arrogance, or whatever they may say. I only have one thing in mind, and that's doing a great job for the country.

Bobbi Brown

When I first got into making makeup, I didn't necessarily want to start a company. I just wanted to make a lipstick that looked like lips, only better.

Lauren Bacall

You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.

Charlie Chaplin

my lips never know my problem they just always smile

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either.

David Walton

It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Keep your lips and other body parts to yourself or you’ll be headless. (Apollymi)

Lisa Kleypas

- No, no... She shook her head for emphasis. No. His lips twitched. - One 'no' is enough, darling.

Helen Fisher

You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it,

Mahatma Gandhi

I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.

Bobbi Brown

When I first got into making makeup, I didn't necessarily want to start a company. I just wanted to make a lipstick that looked like lips, only better.

Walter McManus

This is like putting lipstick on a pig. They're a higher-cost producer than most of their competition. To be the low-price leader, you really need to be the low-cost producer as well.

L'Wren Scott

There's lots of things you pull out lipstick for.

Fred Bentley

This is not just putting lipstick on the big chicken.

Gia Coppola

I don't really wear makeup. I don't like the feeling of it. I just put mascara on, and that's kind of it.

Dave King

All I do is talk to Husker fans, ... I've never painted for somebody who's not a Husker fan.

John Burnside

Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

Kathleen Carroll

While it's true that power is being restored and schools are being painted and progress is being made

Blake Anderson

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.

Richard C. Armitage

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

Morgan Fairchild

I get really tired of getting painted up all the time. Basically, I'm a bum.

Jamie Wyeth

I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.

Jennifer Taylor

It is unusual. It is not your typical painted furniture,

Michelle Sheridan

They painted signs that read 'No dumping' and 'Save the fish' so the river would be a lot cleaner.

Yuvraj Singh

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

Yoko Ono

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

Yoko Ono

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Willie Aames

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

William Shatner

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

Wentworth Miller

They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.

William Sleator

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

Will Poulter

I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.

Ben Chaplin

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

Ben Barnes

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

Nick Jonas

I've always been quite driven. I take after my father.

Charlton Heston

It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it.

Damien Chazelle

As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.

Laurence Housman

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.

David Buckley

When the universe was very young it was smooth and had a uniform distribution but now it is quite clumpy,

Vikram Chatwal

My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

Ken Dixon

We're kind of blase about 'just ride the bus,' but you don't realize how tough it is. It's quite a trip, especially if you have kids.

David Carradine

Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

Lisa Tuttle

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

Mary Leakey

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

John Kruk

When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.

Todd Blackadder

Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.

Quinton Ross

That was incredible. It seemed like he made every shot tonight. Every time he got the ball, he made a shot.

William Adams

My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

Jim Colborn

I was very impressed. He seemed to get stronger as he went along. He stayed in his delivery.

Lindsay Davenport

I was, today, trying to get a lot of just first serves in and not tried to go for too much, ... (It) seemed to work.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.

Elizabeth Warren

I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Ben Elliot

When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.

David Hewson

The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.

Samuel Butler

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Glenn Beck

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

Peter Ustinov

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

Lindsay Price

The truth is, if you're lucky enough to work, you're a lucky actor.