Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diana Gabaldon

Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.

Alain de Botton

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

Al Gore

When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the kinds of things that our ancestors survived.

Susan Collins

When help is needed, you are there and you take action, ... Thanks to all of you for the service you provide.

Gillian Armstrong

When I was a young filmmaker starting out, I was really snobby about all the affirmative action for women filmmakers because I felt it should be about your talent, and I made a film that won awards, and people wanted me.

Saleem Altaf

We had basically asked the BRG to review his action in three months time instead of keeping him out of the game, which is his livelihood, for a year.

Bob McGehee

We had a very successful year in 2005, with ongoing earnings of $3.33 per share, significantly exceeding our 2005 guidance of $2.90 to $3.20 per share. These positive results reflected the benefit of positive weather as well as actions our management took to manage costs.

Karen Murray

We can no longer ignore heart disease. While awareness is important, it's time for women to take action now -- to love and protect their hearts while maintaining healthier lifestyles. To that end, Go Red encourages women to not only join the movement but also take simple, everyday steps to protect their hearts.

Douglas Fairbanks

Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity - two magic potions in themselves - the very essence of laughter - the unrestrained emotion within us!

Kathy Olivier

We had awesome focus and intensity. If we could do that for 40 minutes, we could beat any team in the country. Cal?s freshmen are amazing, but our focus and intensity made the difference.

Heather Cunningham

We had awesome, awesome swims today. We had best times for just about everybody. We looked really great in that respect and we have an opportunity to earn some more points tomorrow, but we have to stay where we are or move ahead.

Robbie Freeman

When I came here there was just a handful of people in the stands at games. This year's Purple Growl game (the school's winter homecoming, which drew more than 4,000) was incredible, though. It's awesome to see the change.

Zach Callas

Luke has been an awesome training partner. Having him as a drill partner has helped me learn a lot, and being teammates, we always encourage each other.

Nick Vitucci

Mac has been awesome for us. He gave the whole team a shot in the arm. He instills a lot of confidence in our team. He was dedicated to come back here and it shows how much he cares about organization. None of the players want to disappoint him.

Cindy Morris

Leukemia is the number one killer of our children in the U.S. so to be able to raise money for research to find a cure is truly wonderful. Plus, it is just an awesome group of folks.

Pete Rogers

Lee Sparks had an awesome day. He won a major decision in his first match and pinned his next two opponents to finish in first on the day.

Lea Thompson

'Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.

Tift Merritt

Music is like a really sacred, awesome thing. That first 45 minutes to two hours that you're on stage spending time with music every night is always really great.

Don Roberts

The reality is the bulk of this construction is going to be occurring in mid-2007 and beyond, ... At the end of the day, this isn't something (investors) should hang their hats on.

Gerald Batto

She and her mom were so involved with kids, she decided the bulk of it would go to the children's hospital. She wanted to make sure it helped children.

Julie Zawisza

may sell product from the three bulk lots that we just released.

Allen Smith

We started getting the bulk of it after dark, so it is hard to judge (the damage).

Kenneth Branagh

I'm very conscious of the fact the directing career has taken some odd turns. Maybe there's enough bulk where I'm now pigeonholed in the 'eclectic box.'

Jim Morrison

Now the bulk of the first-quarter corporate earnings are out of the way, the markets will move on the back of the economic data coming out, so we could be set for a choppy weak. Our clients are still suspicious of the rally in equities and prefer to remain short.

Bruno Paulson

Bulk annuities did compensate this quarter, but this weakness remains an issue given that annuities supply 50% of Legal & General's new business profits.

Michael Doucet

If Ontario needs a first-rate post-secondary education system, then in our view, the bulk of the funding for that should come from general revenues of the provincial government.

Michael McCabe

One of the more obvious options for smaller firms is the opportunity to outsource certain business processes so that in a sense you off-load a bulk of the compliance work.

David Twohy

Had we had all the money in the world to spend and we were doing another studio movie, we probably would have jumped quickly into the Necromonger universe and done an Orpheus Descending movie there. We didn't have that kind of resource. So, we said, this time, "If not that, this time, then what is it? What does this new movie look like?" Quickly, just in talking about it very simply with Vin [Diesel] in his kitchen, we decided on a survival, left-for-dead story, where Riddick could, as a character, reclaim the animal side.

David Viscott

If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.

David Walton

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

David Henry Hwang

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

David Horowitz

The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?

David Horowitz

Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don't like to have another point of view in the room that they don't squash and the way they try to squash it is by character assassination and name calling.

David Hume

How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be the foundation of morals, if particular characters had no certain or determinate power to produce particular sentiments, and if these sentiments had no constant operation on actions?

David Hume

[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

David Duchovny

We all know people for that length of time and people change. They mature. There is a certain expectation that a fictional character does not change. But you can't go back and play him the same way.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

I'm so excited to be working with 360, not only because I am in love with everything they create but also because each collection always includes the key pieces I look for.

Brooke Warrick

We were trying to characterize the lens through which people see the world. A community is a collection of symbols and images. And we wanted our symbols and images to be better than the other guy's.

Tony Davis

We found quite a collection of debris in there -- worms, frogs, salamanders and granular calcium, which resembles white sand, at the bottom,

Barton Gellman

U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

Jim Angell

We're getting a collection of Irish and Scottish music going, which is fun and it really gets people stomping their feet. They're not so much singing along, unless they know the words and then they get started.

Leon Redbone

I just do a random roulette wheel version of what I've recorded or sometimes tunes I haven't recorded. It's a collection of whatever happens, happens.

Joann Smith

Richard's collection is truly runway-ready. We hope our customers will enjoy our new look just as much as we do.

Stuart Scott

I grew up on hip-hop. I grew up on Run-D.M.C., Whodini, LL when I was in college, so I'm more of a music fan. I probably have the most eclectic collection of music in my Grand Cherokee. Literally, in a span of a week, I'll go from 2Pac to Boyz II Men to Sister Hazel, right down to West Side Story or the Wiz. I love show tunes.

Sean Hayes

I'm a hamster person. No - that's so bizarre, I don't know what that means. Please don't say that. Now everybody is going to go, "Do you like hamsters? Why did you say hamsters? Do you have a collection of hamsters?" I'll never live that down. Please don't use that.

Dorlene Kaplan

So it's finding out how compatible you are in terms of the things that you're going to be doing, the places that you're going to be going, how much time you're going to be spending together.

Jim Ferree

Obviously it's not something compatible with oil and gas activity.

Ken Dulaney

Pocket Office is about a quarter compatible with Microsoft Office.

John Monks

If the ECB wanted to give a warning signal to trade unions on upcoming wage negotiations by increasing its interest rate, this was totally unnecessary. Trade unions in Europe already understand the need to have wage increases compatible with the objective of price stability.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The critical question is: How do we ensure that the Internet develops in a way that is compatible with democracy?

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

LAWFUL, adj. Compatible with the will of a judge having jurisdiction.

Rebecca MacKinnon

It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.

James Woolsey

We must encourage the commercialization of technologies that are compatible with existing infrastructure. What makes plug-in hybrids promising is that they are; we don't need a Manhattan Project to make this happen.

David Cohen

It is a great opportunity for family members who want to donate but are not compatible with their own family member to be able to donate.

Lykke Li

When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.

Danny White

One thing we don't have to worry about with Joe is his toughness. If there is any way for him to do it, he'll play.

Jacoby Jones

My favorite team while I was growing up was the New Orleans Saints. My favorite player was Joe Horn.

Ken Marino

The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

Steve Nash

Obviously, I'm going to miss Joe a lot. He wanted to try something else. What can you say? You wish him the best.

Gregg Williams

From the day that Joe Gibbs walked in here, he had their trust because of what he had accomplished in the past.

Susan Cook

I don't remember Little Joe ever stealing a car,

George Burley

We have plenty of back-up on the left-hand side so we have let Joe speak to Leicester.

Jack Warner

I give notice that Joe Public will be back on the scene in a big way. You won't have a two-team league no more.

David Duchovny

You're kinda striding the line of what's yours and theirs. What's yours (points to us), what's mine, what's ours as creators of it and what's yours as owners.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I did smoke a joint and I did inhale. The bottom line is that's what it was in the '70s, that's what I did.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Lines are very difficult to learn.

Bear Grylls

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

Deepa Mehta

While we're working on the script, I never see any films. I make it a point because I don't want to get distracted. I don't want to be influenced, and before I know it, have somebody say, "My God, she plagiarized that line."

Diana Nyad

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

Channing Tatum

If I want to do action, you don't really get to do it. They don't let you, there's too much on the line to let you jump out of a building.

Billy Bob Thornton

Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.

H. Hart

When the offensive line is playing well, I don't think it really matters.

Reid Hoffman

Most often I am only interested in an idea if it's going to get hundreds of millions of users. That's the scale that I am always trying to play to.

Brian Chesky

Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.

David Suzuki

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

Ginni Rometty

We're about to scale something now that couldn't have been scaled before.

Geoffrey West

Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe.

Anne Hathaway

On the scale of someone who's really laid-back about stuff and someone who worries a lot, I fall more towards the latter.

Ann Voskamp

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

Dinsha Patel

Today, there is a large scale corruption in Gujarat.

Cindy Moore

We are scaling it back. It's going to go off but not on the scale of $20,000.

David Duke

We Aryans are those of European descent who are racially conscious and who have committed our lives to our people's survival and evolutionary advancement. We shall do our duty. We shall not surrender our freedom and our very existence to Jewish or any other power. We shall preserve our heritage and our hard-won rights and freedoms. We shall guide our people up the evolutionary stairway to the stars.

David Bromstad

Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Within twenty years, he was the world's biggest movie star, the husband of Maria Shriver, and an emerging Republican leader who was part of the Kennedy family.

Benicio Del Toro

When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.

Ben Stiller

The big-name stars . . . are always going to be playing what they've played before if they want to remain so-called A-list stars. That's why someone like Johnny Depp is doing more interesting roles not caring about the size of the movie.

Benedict Cumberbatch

When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.

Audrey Meadows

Everyone in show business has had the experience of the fan who is so excited at recognizing their favorite star, they say, 'Oh my gosh, you're my biggest fan!

August Wilson

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

David Hume

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

Brian De Palma

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

Janice Dickinson

I have a very vivid imagination.

Kirk Hoza

A vivid picture. One of the worst things I have seen.

Mike Pence

The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.

Ernst Mach

A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough.

Nikola Tesla

I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.

J. K. Rowling

Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.

H. G. Wells

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

Friedrich St. Florian

I remember saying that wars must not be glorified, but wars must be remembered.

Harry Dean Stanton

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

Heinz Guderian

It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw.

Karl Liebknecht

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.