Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wentworth Miller

I acted all the way up until Princeton. It was just one of my favorite extracurricular activities. Then I got to Princeton and had a really conservative vibe. All my friends were planning on law school, med school, or Wall Street, and suddenly acting seem like a really risky proposition.

Bill Hader

The first time I ever acted was in 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and my first line was, 'I didn't know Shakespeare had a sister.'

John C. Calhoun

I want no presidency; I want to do my duty. No denunciations here, or out of this House, can deflect me a single inch from going directly at what I aim, and that is, the good of the country. I have always acted upon it, and I will always act upon it.

Rand Paul

If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.

Gabriel Byrne

I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.

Todd Park

Government is truly beginning to embrace the power of innovation for the people and by the people, the idea that if government collaborates openly with and unleashes the ingenuity of the public, it will get much more done, much faster and at much lower cost than if government acted alone.

David Hare

'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again.

Natalie Cole

I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.

Lord Robertson

But we acted pre-emptively in Kosovo in 1999 to stop Milosevic from doing what he was doing and increasingly doing the ethnic cleansing in a systematic way.

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.

William Henry Moody

At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat.

Vivek Wadhwa

In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists.

Ellen Key

The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last thing to be realised by the educator is that he really has before him an entirely new soul, a real self whose first and chief right is to think over the things with which he comes in contact.

Chris Steele

The police chief wouldn't put his officers out on the street if their guns didn't work... so our firefighters want to know where is the fire chief to protect them on this issue.

Gary Goddard

The police chief will be the determining officer ... on a case-by-case basis,

Giuseppe Pisanu

The police chief has very clear instructions about that. I wish however that tomorrow's derby is tranquil.

Sherry Llewellyn

The police chief has indicated that this investigation is a top priority. We are working right now to develop a timeline of what happened.

Neil Strauss

Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.

Jack Kent Cooke

I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.

William Cullen Bryant

A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine.

Zubin Mehta

I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

Chris Bohjalian

On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.

Walter Kirn

The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.

Francis G. Slay

I plan to see St. Louis as a global competitor. As an international trade hub, as an incubator of new companies, as a place of culture and the arts, as a magnet for immigrants, for entrepreneurs, for animal lovers, and for gays, as a city of parks and trails, and as the sort of place that figures in young people's dreams.

Charles Platt

The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions, and businesses.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

Wade Mackey

We played well in Rapid City last Sunday.

Mark Petersen

We played around with our lineup. We had no heavyweight, but fortunately it worked out in our favor. Jerry has a nice young team and it was a great city rivalry match.

Caleb Cushing

These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.

Horacio Gutierrez

What we have submitted to the Commission responds to all the requirements they have made known to us.

Geoffrey Rudd

We are concerned about the fraud allegations. We are waiting to see what the elections commission comes out with. For the time being, we have not seen widespread fraud.

Dayle Stewart

We are continuing to work with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on these issues.

Philippe Reines

We're eager to work with them. The 9/11 Commission would not have happened without them.

Candy Olson

We can't just keep hoping the county commission will do right by these kids.

Laura Martin

We have the Racial and Cultural Diversity Commission which translates and publishes our press releases into Latino magazines.

Michael Copps

Today the Federal Communications Commission empowers America's new media elite with unacceptable levels of influence over the ideas and information upon which our society and our democracy depend,

Romano Prodi

We need to take a good look at the accounts, speak to the European Commission and to take a rapid decision.

John Thune

We prayed a lot about it as did a lot of other people and finally concluded that this was something that we needed to do.

John Sergeant Wise

When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.

Mark Harrad

Well, we're not looking at it right now. There have been many economic studies of various kinds, and all past studies have concluded that a true a la carte pricing system would be very negative for the consumer they would pay more for far less.

Tony Juniper

We are not taking an ideological view ... We have analysed the pros and cons ... and we have concluded that (nuclear power) is the wrong answer.

Alan Dershowitz

The jury concluded that Fuhrman planted the glove.

Marion Blakey

We have simply concluded that the gap between us is too large to continue these negotiations.

Michael Cohl

We have received the deposit money from Hong Kong and the band's lawyers have a signed contract having concluded negotiations last week.

Michael Seraphin

Results were mixed at best. The only thing they really concluded was that they could reduce the prevalence of the disease but not eradicate it.

Neal Shapiro

Reflecting on all of this, I've concluded that it's time to move on to a new challenge,

Asfandyar Khan

We dispersed the protestors who ransacked the office of the deputy superintendent of police. The situation is tense and curfew is being strictly enforced in the town.

James Rubin

We have no reason to think this is any way related to Deputy Secretary Talbott's visit.

Asfandyar Khan

We have dispersed the protestors who ransacked the office of the deputy superintendent of police. The situation is tense and curfew is being strictly enforced in the town.

Mark Roe

There aren't enough deputy sheriffs. I don't want them to keep going there.

Kevin Doll

He never complained to the deputy of being injured, and he never filed a report.

Haley Barbour

Today, I saw reporters cry, ... And mayors. And deputy sheriffs.

Dennis Scheib

If a deputy was to go before a judge and say this person did this to me, a judge would sign a warrant. But because it's Paul Howard, the district attorney, nobody wants to touch it.

Sheriff White

For most of us it made no sense. It made no sense whatsoever as to why somebody would shoot a deputy just doing a traffic stop.

Jefferson Powell

Despite all of the references to 'senior policy maker,' the principal deputy solicitor general isn't really that,

Troy Bell

The police officers received training. The officers had some discretion in terms of the minor violations. That discretion has been removed.

Cam Newton

I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.

Robert Clifford

Typically, much of the resolution of issues like this is placed in the sound discretion of the trial judge.

Adrian Anderson

What this system endeavours to do is to provide some factors which outline the discretion, which explain the discretion and make it accountable and transparent.

Adrian Anderson

What this system endeavours to do, ... is provide factors which explain the discretion and make it transparent and accountable (and) some parameters by which people can follow how they've reached their decision.

Marty Markowitz

I think these things are up to the discretion of the borough president,

Ned Riley

It is another piece of good news in that it leaves the Fed in an unfettered position to exercise more discretion in monetary easing. Because the economy has displayed such weakness and inflation has been non-existent with the exception of energy-related prices, the short-term inflation number may be less relevant.

Joe McInerney

It's left up to the discretion of the hotel.

Bryan Sierra

It's at the judge's discretion whether the documents would be admissible.

Suzy Buchholtz

We send them all through McDonald's. It's a great place to teach kids the ethics of working. We require them to put half their paycheck in the bank.

Edith Sitwell

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

Bertrand Russell

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

Libba Bray

Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

Jennifer Crider

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has never been a party to an ethics truce and has always said that individual members have the right to file a complaint.

Alain Badiou

There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.

Bob Davis

We're having an ethics session in the first place because of these folks that got in trouble.

Wentworth Miller

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.

William J. Mayo

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

William John Wills

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

Frederic Ruffy

The pattern has given rise to the adage, 'Sell in May and go away' with respect to stocks.

Buck Leonard

I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. When an offer was given to me to join up, I was too old, and I knew it.

Nayvadius Cash

I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift, and I'm making the most of my opportunity.

Nate Ruess

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

Kurt Vonnegut

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

David Carr

When I go on the field, I feel like I can make every play to put our team in position to win. If I have to make a play to win, that's when I have to step up and use what God's given me.

Stewart Davis

The police can't do anything unless they (catch them in the act).

John Blair

The police are trying to make or rewrite the law.

Lord Salisbury

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

Arthur Doyle

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

Paul Michael Glaser

Secondly, I thought it was ridiculous to have two undercover policemen driving around in a striped tomato.

Nancy Bray

We got tired of watching him, and we called police.

Bob Harris

We rely on police to keep their prisoners secure.

Danilo Magampo

We are required to turn up at the police headquarters before our 2 to 10 p.m. shift for instructions.

Charles Stross

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Donald Trump

I've become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.

Errol Morris

I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?

Tamsin Greig

In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.

Yaya Toure

To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Jim Ratcliffe

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

Matthew McConaughey

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

John Ashcroft

These individuals are being restrained and properly so. They are terrorists. They are uniquely dangerous,

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Harry Larrabee

We're very balanced. Within games, we get spurts from different players.

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Bill Richardson

What I worry about is a new fiefdom within an already big fiefdom,

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.