Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Poulter

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

Wendy Kopp

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Zubin Mehta

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

Yani Tseng

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Colin Baker

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Chris Carter

I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

Debasish Sen

The police have been asked to carry out investigations and carry out the required proceedings.

Stu Loeser

The picture focuses on Brooklyn and Queens, and reinforces our message that Mayor Bloomberg has made all of New York safer, ... We hadn't asked or considered where the photo was taken from, and we don't plan on using it again.

Eric Swensen

(The outlook) is fantastic. After this, we know that placing at states is a goal that's within reach.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Martin Jol

We played well in the first half but needed a second goal because we did not kill them off, and Robbie Keane got it.

Buddy Carroll

We played well as a group. We had some nice goals.

Marty Miller

We play all year setting goals. Now our goal is to get to the (World Series) championship game.

Nick Nuttall

We are not going to meet the Millennium Development Goals on water or health unless we protect them.

Henry Thomas

When we raise these rates, people will use less. That's a goal we want to achieve.

Celia Weston

My goal has always been to make a living and to have the respect of my peers. It's never been about stardom. It's about a good and challenging part.

Pierce Brosnan

It's the ultimate goal every day you wake up, to be happy. At the end of the week, you want to be happy. Happy in love, happy in work, happy in life, happy with yourself. It's pretty simple.

Rebecca Romijn

I've always said that sexy is having a really strong sense of yourself and never taking yourself too seriously.

Havelock Ellis

I regard sex as the central problem of life. And now that the problem of religion has practically been settled, and that the problem of labor has at least been placed on a practical foundation, the question of sex—with the racial questions that rest on it—stands before the coming generations as the chief problem for solution. Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Dick Cheney

I support the President's plan to amend the Constitution, banning same-sex marriage.

Warren Farrell

He and she become selective at different points; she can be selective when he wants his primary fantasy - sex; he can be selective when she wants her primary fantasy - commitment.

Dear Abbey

If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.

Banksy

If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.

Banksy

There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.

Jay Leno

Riding a Ducati is like having sex with an aerobics instructor - you know, I'm exhausted and panting and it's going: 'Are you done, already?'

Kat Graham

I run away from super-bandage-style Herve Leger dresses. I think it's sexier for a woman to be in something sheer and loose.