Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Pratt

What I do know is our state and country is currently backwards and upside-down, and we all are to blame in one fashion or another.

Cassandra Clare

I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try to do is kind of do it like 'House'; write down the symptom and write down the other symptoms. Try to work backwards to figure out what the problem is.

Drew Goddard

In the 'Buffy' room, it was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, 'Tell the story, tell the characters, complicate their lives, make things get worse,' but we never worked backwards from the plot, and it was always a great lesson.

Sean Astin

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.

Sal Souto

We are going backwards in our view. Things are getting worse in this country for the working people.

Annie Jacobsen

Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?

Mitchell Baker

We don't spend our days thinking about Microsoft or trying to get revenge on Microsoft. That's a really negative and backward way, and that's not how I want to live.

David Littmann

We have the least (economic) resilience (of all the states), we never built up a surplus. We don't have the momentum, and we will go backwards; the economy of Michigan will get worse relative to the other states, we will go backward 1 to 2 percent.

Gareth Thomas

Understandably, Mrs Catesby was very shocked and upset by the experience and thankfully only sustained minor injuries - a bruised hip and elbow from when she fell backwards in the assault.

David Makovsky

This is a consequential election, with monumental events. It's all about one idea: borders.

Huston Street

That says everything right there. That's how monumental that win was.

Michael Ramsey

This is a monumental problem. It overshadows all the other problems we have.

Viktor Vekselberg

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

Dries van Noten

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

Dave Wannstedt

We probably know each other better from an offensive-defensive standpoint than a personal standpoint.

Lewis B. Smedes

The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police.

Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Anna Kendrick

If I could play the ukulele like Zooey Deschanel, I would find my own personal M. Ward, and we would do a side album; but I don't, you know?

Judith Miller

voluntarily and personally released me from my promise of confidentiality regarding our conversations.

Richard G. Scott

The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ.

Alan Sugar

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

Benedict Cumberbatch

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

Edward Snowden

We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back

bell hooks

... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.

Bob Iger

I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.

Lisa Kudrow

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

Marlon Brando

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

Kenneth Brown

This protects students' privacy rights as well as professors.

Eduardo Saverin

I don't like showing my privacy online.

Bob Dylan

After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.

John W. Snow

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

Dallas Roberts

Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.

Lisa Busch

We play as a team and someone always steps up. Tonight it was just my time, my chance, to be there for the team and do that.

Adam Miller

We are just taking it step by step. This was another big win for us.

Terry Mulkey

We're just going to take it one step at a time and do it right.

Gerald Celente

Wal-Mart stepped to the plate, ... They didn't have to do that.

Erik Crawford

We had opportunities to step up and make plays, and we didn't.

Reggie Hamilton

Trey is Trey. I know that Trey is going to step it up and make big shots.

Jerry Colangelo

You know, usually everyone just does a two-year term. I've had two terms, and the right thing politically is to step down.

Pat Burrell

We need you to come up big. It's time to step it up.