Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendi McLendon-Covey

If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.

Val Kilmer

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation.

Clark Gregg

When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting jobs. As I got more jobs, I was able to make my own films. That ethos of making my own work has provided me with a lot of opportunities.

Brady Corbet

After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I work with, then I can have the best sort of master class possible.

Bradley James

The post-'Merlin' era is an exciting time to look forward to. Variety is the spice of life. That's the fantastic thing about acting - all the different challenges it can provide you with. To limit yourself just to one would be foolish; therefore, I'm looking forward to different things that come my way.

Big Sean

My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master's from NYU. She wanted to be an actress, so when she graduated, she had a dream, and she started following it. She moved to New York and took acting classes with people like Denzel Washington.

David Suchet

When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can.

Victoria Justice

I think it's really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That's something I strive for.

Cary Goldstein

The police followed the lead and apparently it all fell into place. They have the evidence with which to do this, ... They're going to put on a thorough, competent case because they're not going to risk losing this.

Bruce Lipton

For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.

Charles Sturt

We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm.

Edward Sapir

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

Dick Thornburgh

Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island.

Gloria Estefan

Apparently Pope John Paul II and his boys - is that what you call them? - loved one of my songs and thought I was putting spiritual messages in my music. I'm not religious as such. Dogma and I don't get along.

Sonny Perdue

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

David Hackworth

Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away.

David Carradine

In the second installment, I pretty much dominate the show. Somehow or another, though, I manage to apparently dominate the first show pretty well with just my voice and my hands and a shot of my boots kicking cartridges out of the way.

Rick Perlstein

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.

Ellen Key

In order to overcome the spirit that creates war, mothers must begin in the tender years of childhood to teach children that right must be the foundation of all might, that authority can be exercised without the help of fists.

James Rubin

We have made clear that we believe that we already have the authority for a military strike, should such an option be chosen.

Robert Lindner

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt

Cesar Millan

Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority figure. The way I view her energy, seeing her on TV, is a very calm, quiet energy. You need, in order to gain control, higher energy than your dog.

Ariel Sharon

We are concerned that this welcome quiet will be shattered any minute as a result of the continued existence of terror organizations which the Palestinian Authority is doing nothing to eliminate or dismantle.

Gilles Duceppe

When they don't have the moral authority to govern, we have to express what Quebeckers think, and I think Quebeckers don't want the Liberals any more. So we're expressing the voices of all those that elected us.

Lysander Spooner

It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as a new institution; or even give any authority to the state governments to establish it as a new institution. The greatest sticklers for slavery do not claim this.

Louis A. Johnson

Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.

Warren Stephens

What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.

Warren Stephens

We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.

Warren Stephens

We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

William Kirby

The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.

Zubin Mehta

Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.

Elizabeth Warren

I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people.

Elizabeth Warren

Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.

Elizabeth Warren

Other countries around the world make employees and retirees first in the priority. For example, in Mexico, the bankruptcy laws say if a company wants to go bankrupt... obligations to employees and retirees will have a first priority. That has an effect on every negotiation that takes place with every company in Mexico.

Elizabeth Warren

Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

William Hamilton

I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

William Kirby

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

William Hung

Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed.

William H. Gray

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

William John Wills

We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do.

Whitey Ford

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Bruce Braley

I have represented farmers in federal court during the Iowa farm crisis. A farmer from Butler County. I don't think Sen. Grassley had that life experience. It's just a simple difference of who we are and where we've come from.

Cary Fukunaga

I have these plants in my house that are dying, so having a robot butler to water them when I'm away would be pretty handy.

Lord Byron

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler

Steve Irwin

We need to increase the perception for people who live in Apollo, Butler and everywhere else that it's OK to come into the city.

Larry Hays

With Tomlin and Hynes out we're looking for something. If those two guys come back healthy the fact that we're finding some other people - Butler had a good outing last night -- it's going to help us later on hopefully. Richardson's had two great games in a row. We need him to be ready to go next Thursday and do it again.

Dave Anderson

We're hoping Butler will only be out for two to four weeks,

Karen Joy Fowler

Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.

Karen Joy Fowler

Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.

Madeline Albright

Let me make this perfectly clear: I do not tell Chairman Butler what to do, ... Chairman Butler has made it perfectly clear that he makes the operational decisions and that he takes orders and instructions from no one. The Security Council itself talks to him about policy, but not on operations.

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.

Will Chase

The thing I like about 'Nashville,' it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it's performed at a concert or during a rehearsal.

Zubin Mehta

The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.

Zubin Mehta

Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.

Bill Hader

My wife and I got to go onstage at a Flaming Lips concert at Webster Hall once. We dressed up like Scientology aliens and danced around. We had a shootout onstage with Santa Claus.

Charles Hazlewood

I want to prove that Holst's 'The Planets' can be as much of a sensory overload as a concert by the Grateful Dead, and just as exciting.

Pauline Marois

I hope that one day the people of Quebec will one day be a part of the concert of nations. This is an internal debate. This will happen when Quebecers are ready.

David Gilmour

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

Zubin Mehta

Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.

Zubin Mehta

Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable.

David Hare

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

Manouchehr Mottaki

We are not going to use oil as political leverage in conducting our foreign policy.

Peggy Noonan

There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.

Oscar Suris

We had to take the difficult step today of conducting involuntary separations because we weren't able to meet our cost-cutting objectives solely through voluntary separations,

Mike Zafirovski

We have a team currently conducting a full review of our R&D priorities and investment areas. You can expect us to continue to share details related to R&D prioritization as decisions are made over the next 12 months.

Ellen Smith

The people who were inspecting the mine will not be the people conducting the investigation.

Ron Everhart

This is a group of guys who are very loyal, hardworking and trustworthy. They've hit the ground running. They've gotten a great start on recruiting and have been monitoring study hall and conducting individual workouts.

Dennis Kucinich

Recently, it has been reported that U.S. troops are conducting military operations in Iran.

Dave Bristow

We've talked with students and the teacher and are conducting an investigation, but so far we haven't found anything to back up the allegations that were made. What we found so far seems to support the teacher's allegations.

Dee Stanley

We operate off the law and the premise that all documents we have here are public documents, whether on public computers, on public file, generated by public employees.

Bruce Jackson

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

Ricardo Diaz

was not really after the significance of the documents but by the manner these were obtained.

Richard Butler

We'll need to do the whole spectrum of our work. Documents are part of that, ... We also need to do our inspections, and they're off and running again. It will be a little while yet before we have the whole spectrum of our work done.

Jean Paoli

We are acknowledging that end users who merely open and read government documents that are saved as Office XML files within software programs will not violate the license.

Stephane Dujarric

We are pleased that these documents are out now. This is one part of the program, this is one part of the story.

Robbie Robinson

We're waiting on a few final documents before it's ready.

Juan Fernandez

We have an obligation to submit all the documents requested by the authorities.

Jim McSweeney

In the last three months, we have been able to provide documents that no one else in the world has.

Dev Hynes

Everything I do, I build a kind of confidence net - 'I'm able to execute this; it's fine.'

Kevin Corrigan

We played well at times, but we didn't relentlessly execute like we needed to. In the end, we were able to gather our poise and play hard down the stretch and pull out a win when we needed to. But I'd like to see us play more consistently than we have been over the full 40 minutes.

Marcus Aurelius

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Tom Higgins

We'd like for him to have come on out and execute at a much higher level and it just didn't happen this evening.

Leila Janah

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

Tony Cordani

We didn't really execute well offensively. The shots that were falling the other night weren't falling tonight. It just wasn't our night.

Jerry Eaves

We just didn't have the mental outlook to execute at the end.

Jozef Stumpel

We just didn't have it. This was a key game and we didn't execute the way we needed to.

Paul Thompson

We just didn't have good execution. TCU did a good job of putting a stop to us, and we couldn't execute as well as we needed to.

Mark Bloom

We didn't do a very good job of executing in that game. We need to do better this time around. If we do that, we can compete.

Mike Carey

We just didn't do a good job of executing down the stretch, but it wasn't from lack of effort. It wasn't from we didn't try. It was just inexperience.

John Anderson

We just didn't do a good enough job of executing pitches consistently through the weekend. And I think a lot of that just relates to game experience.

Matt Godsil

We've been executing very well. It's hard for (opposing defenses) to key on one guy because the next two or three guys are pretty dangerous, too.

Jim Bolla

We've been executing really well (the last five games). So hopefully we're getting things turned around at the right time. Like I told the kids, we're trying to peak for the tournament now.

John Boland

Tyco doesn't seem to be executing as it should be, ... People were looking for an upside surprise, and this is not it.

Gary Forrest

We were in the process of executing a federal search warrant when this happened. It's all part of an ongoing investigation.

John Marshall

We've already talked; we've done some pre-work on Jacksonville. I'm on the phone with him all the time. It's Ray's game plan, and we're just executing it.

Russell Ahr

We know where he lives and where he hangs out. We?re not limited to executing the warrant today.

Paul Wolfowitz

Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result.

Gillian Armstrong

It often takes a couple of years to get a script right and then takes a couple of years to get financing together.

Joe Brand

We've also been looking into some new, innovative financing tools. We realize since there is no funding today that it will be some time before a freeway is built. There will have to be some interim improvements.

Doug Anderson

We guarantee we can find financing for everyone. If we are unable to find someone financing for any reason then we will pay them $100 for their time.

Don Bluth

Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it.

George Hood

We have a plan and financing to make this project a reality while providing wide public benefits.

Luis Carriles

Listen well to that, ... I didn't say they were financing me. I said they were financing those operations, that's it.

Gene Nelson

We hope to come to a comfortable financing solution,

David Wyss

We don't seem to be having any trouble financing our large and growing trade deficits.

Sundar Pichai

Google teams have lots of autonomy, including from people like me.

Alex Gibney

There are many people, including me, who admire the original mission of WikiLeaks.

Karnail Singh

We are looking at various angles, including previous attacks.

Roy Keane

I've had influences from many people including the coaches and players I've worked with.

Delores Killette

We will also be communicating often with customers. We will use every means possible, including the mail, to let them know about service improvements, the reopening of local post offices and other information about local mail service.

Marc Schlosser

We are seeing some very positive results in patients, including those at this center.

Kelly Callahan

We had limited it to just the older, Model A-type vehicles, but this year we're including some other varieties.

Paul Tagliabue

We are in the process of working out the specific arrangements, including the day and kickoff time and plans for television coverage.

Carlo Ponfoort

The positive surprise is insurance in Europe, which has performed quite well, including in the Netherlands.

William Lashner

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

Dennis Franchione

The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.

Adrian Moss

The past means nothing. It really doesn't matter until you get out there and play.

Simon Cowell

The past is the past, no matter how successful it's been. For me, it's only tomorrow that's interesting.

Nick Jonas

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

Cynthia Ozick

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

Paul Hawken

Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption... It doesn't even matter if it's a green product or a green house... It's still consumption. What matters in this world is the fulfilment of people's needs and the fulfilment of their aspirations.

Camille Little

We played well when it mattered and pulled it out, and that's all that mattered.

Cal Nichols

We plan to play a season no matter how that happens.

Darell Hammond

The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.

Francois Arnaud

I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense.

Dick Thornburgh

It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.

Tom Golisano

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

When the commander-in-chief sends Americans to fight and die, it should be only to protect our vital national interests, not for his own personal, political gain.

Shinzo Abe

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.

Phil Ramon

We had some National Guardsmen here, but they were unarmed.

Jalal Talabani

We have the right to be proud in saying that today was a day of national consensus, ... So congratulations to our people for their constitution.

Rastislav Spirko

We don't have any more time for some losses. We know where we are. We want to get to the national tournament and play here.

Dave Freudenthal

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Jesus Dureza

Our panel of 22 officials are here for the meeting. I think we are on the right track.

Tom LaBonge

I don't like to see public officials attacked,

Ann Coulter

The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.

Mark Spitz

The officials I was with, I don't know if they were unaware, but they didn't say anything to me. The whole thing turned into what did I see and what did I know.

Emma Roberts

I like to go to parties if I know who's going to be there, and if it's people I want to be with. I don't just go to go. And I always drive myself, because I hate being stuck places - there's nothing worse that going out and then being stuck!

Joshua Hoyt

The political parties have to understand that this is something that is not going to disappear.

Latin Proverb

Those who do a thing are consenting parties

Mike Journee

We're working with all the parties to see how we can do recharge when we've got all this snow in the mountains.

Lee Dean

We're working to try to get the parties together and get the situation resolved.

Lorna Luft

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

Rosa Hawkins

We do weddings and we do private parties and we do all of that stuff.

E. B. White

For parties and big gatherings, this is what we sell.

Jan Pronk

The parties sometimes are talking, and a day after, they're shooting.

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.

Cheng Chin

We are controlling the fundamental property of material.

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?

Robert Williams

When I get out of here I'm not going to look back. All I want to do now is resolve this. I just want to go anywhere.

Richard Kaplan

We have very little tolerance on this, ... While they're doing what they need to do, we are doing what we need to do. We're not resting until this is resolved with or without First Student.

Henry Mazurek

We will resolve it. Whatever time it takes.

Arthur Phillips

How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something

Benjamin Franklin

Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen.

Bill Richardson

We want to resolve this diplomatically, but we are not ruling out any option.

Javad Zarif

We want to resolve it through negotiations. But we want to resolve it with our rights intact.

Terry Liew

You can re-educate your muscles. If you are flat-footed, you could actually resolve that problem. It will take time but you can do it.

Eric Holland

We're working with those states to resolve those issues.

R. Ingram

Mr. Smith was the first person in the door, so to speak,

Bill Donovan

Tubby Smith always went out of his way to be friendly. He had me in his office. He would talk to me while we waited. He always made me feel at home.

William Cowper

And the first smith was the first murderer's son.

Mark Goddard

The question I always get is, Why didn't you throw Dr. Smith off the Jupiter? I get that all the time.

Gideon Sam

I just want to say thanks very much Graeme Smith for that wonderful win.

Jonathan Toews

I never cook. My favorite place to eat is Smith & Wollensky in Chicago.

Barry O'Farrell

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

Trip Adler

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

Karlie Kloss

Whether running, biking, swimming, or dancing, I just like to always be on the move.

Kevin Smith

It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works.

Lucy Hawking

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

Vanessa Hudgens

You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.