Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Alda

I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.

David Puttnam

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

Byron Katie

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

Bryce Courtenay

Never take advice from a donkey.

Cary Grant

If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.

Simon Woodroffe

There are bound to be viewers wondering how she can dish out advice, ... But I think she is very ballsy and will come back. You learn very little from success, but you learn a great deal from failure. If I had a small business and wanted some advice, I would ask Rachel.

Gregg Laskoski

We strongly advise everyone to make sure they have a well-charged cell phone when they evacuate. But you should make sure that all the regular maintenance, all the stuff you tend to put off, is taken care of. You don't want to be calling for emergency road service during an evacuation because of a tire.

Jamie Dixon

We stressed getting off to a good start and being ready to go, but my advice didn't go very far.

Suzy Buchholtz

We're in a position where we have some advice to give. We're not counselors. We do a lot of advising. Sometimes, it takes an outsider to say, 'No.

O. Singh

The outbreak is under control and the influx of patients to hospitals has come down. Fogging of insecticide in affected areas has started. People have been advised to sleep under mosquito nets.

Todd Kort

We've advised them to look at alternatives, but most companies are staying put.

Liz Compton

We strongly advise them not to, especially in areas that are laden with canker. It's at your own risk. We certainly encourage people to replant with non-citrus fruit trees.

Otto Schily

Wherever he is extradited depends on the country where he is. We are well advised to give the U.S.A. the first choice because the attacks took place in America. We will not make any demands (to go first).

Nonso Anozie

I wouldn't say I'm moving to America; I certainly would say that I'm just staying there; and I certainly wouldn't advise anyone to come here unless they've got an extensive CV in the U.K.; you have to build your career wherever you started from.

Steven Taylor

We have assessed our situation and are making adjustments as needed based on the crisis in the Gulf that has impacted our state and our nation. We are making every effort to ensure we continue our delivery of service to students without interruption, understanding that some measures may have to be taken given the daily status of the situation. We will keep staff, parents and students advised of any measures that will impact them directly.

Greg Smith

When folks do have fires in the evening, we do advise them to stay with their fires and have a means of extinguishing it. They should also leave 10 feet of clearing area around the fire.

Mike Simpson

What I advise clients is, sell, pay the tax and be happy. Don't ask me to find a replacement unless it's land.

Fred Eckhard

United Nations security had a general concern about the secretary general's visit to this region. But in the end, the chief of staff advised the secretary general to make the trip anyway.

Gary Owens

We want to throw high percentage stuff this year, but it's like I told Gary the other day, if we call a pass and it's not there, pull the ball down and run with it and we'll come back and call another play. We just don't want him trying to force things and make mistakes.

Sam Allen

We want to show that we're just like our neighbors. We go to ball games, we go to the grocery store, we go to church. We just happen to be Democrats.

David McCullough

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

Buddy Ebsen

You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have; I never will.

Camille Paglia

Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour.

C. L. R. James

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

Eric Foust

The other thing that killed us was that punt. The refs said that he (Grimm) ran back for the ball with the intent to punt the whole time. How's our kid supposed to know that that this guy's intention is to punt? That was the turning point in the football game.

Howard Davidowitz

The performance of the company over the last few years has been very erratic. It's also a smaller player. It was time for Milstein to take it easy and make a gigantic pot of money and turn the ball over to someone else.

Marty Schottenheimer

The point I've made very clear to him, and I made very clear to you: You will not play quarterback or any other position that possesses the ball for me. You have to take care of the ball because it's the difference between winning games in this league.

David Strickland

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

Louise Leakey

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Lisa Cholodenko

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Maajid Nawaz

I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

Mackenzie Astin

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

Richard Cohen

The other side said (there are) 799 federal and state laws mandating the use of English. ... We would say those kinds of laws are not at issue here. I think that English is the official language of this country in a practical sense already. And I think that most people who come here both learn English and want to learn English.

Ben Folds

The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen?

Duncan Chase

The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.

Tarun Das

The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.

Paul Clarke

We want them to have fun. We have our section leaders hold at least five sectional rehearsals during the summer and we encourage two of those to be totally social such as going bowling or swimming together. This should be a very fun time of their lives and we want to them to enjoy this time.

Jeremy Jones

We want to send our seniors out on top so we're going to treat it like it was the Rose Bowl or the national championship game.

Jerome Bettis

The perception is that it's not the greatest city, but Detroit is an up-and-coming city. After the Super Bowl is over, people are going to see that it's a lot better than advertised.

Mike Aresco

We value the loyalty this bowl has shown us. In this case, we know what we have in this bowl game and we like that. We know it's going to be there over a long period of time. We also like that the bowl works really well on TV. It looks great. The stadium, the surroundings, the weather is always pretty good ... All those things together make it a really good fit for CBS Sports.

Kevin Hall

We started teaching Kevin how to count rolling bowling balls, ... One, two, three, four.

Keith Brooking

We have to get some pressure on Jake, and we've got our work cut out for us in trying to keep a handle of (Pro Bowl receiver) Steve Smith. It's a big job, but if we execute the game plan our coaches drew up for us, we should be OK.

Andre Hall

We have to get a win. The bowl game isn't as fun if you don't win. You've got to bring the trophy home.

Brandon Siler

When he first got hurt, he said he was coming back for the bowl game. I said, yeah, he'll be there because he said he would. Tough guy, tough guy. It shows he's a tough guy, being that small, playing at this level and playing as well as he does. That shows you right there he's that tough.

Jon Simmons

Watching the other bowl games, they've got guys shifting all over the place. Everybody's throwing in new stuff for the bowl game. Hopefully, they'll run what we've been practicing.

Greg Johnson

We are going to stand fast and see that due process is carried out, recognizing the fact that there are some problems in that regard.

Ron Wilson

We're in pretty good shape. We want to finish as high as we can. Our goal is to run the table here. The hardest game is always the next one that you play. My job is to keep everybody focused and in the moment and not get too carried away with ourselves.

Lovie Smith

When you say the defense has carried us, that's what they're supposed to do. That's the strength of our team.

Don Lyons

What a great bunch. They wore the Lady Monarch uniform with pride. They carried on the fine tradition. I know its hurts right now, but when they reflect and look back on what they've accomplished, it's really matched by very few teams.

Mary Berry

What historians will do is not focus on her role as the wife of Martin ... or that she carried on his legacy. They will focus on how she managed to be the leader of institutions and movements by her own right. And not just in organizing the King Center.

Madeline Albright

Unless the commitments necessary to end the violence are carried out in a way that is sustainable and mutually reinforcing, it will be difficult for the parties to change the realities on the ground,

Ron Sanders

We're extremely pleased with the out-of-the-gate success of the DVD release of 'Goblet of Fire'. We knew fans really connected with this installment in the Harry Potter series, and that continued loyalty to the franchise has carried over to these phenomenal DVD sales figures.

Corey Brewer

We knew, with our style of play, we had to make free throws. We worked hard on it in practice and just carried it over into the games.

Martin Sawyers

We know from inspections carried out on the entire pipeline and throughout Westport that we do not have any major leakage at all. The reality is we're putting it down to a dry spell and a very unusual spell.

Charles Caleb Colton

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

Charles Dickens

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

Charles Spurgeon

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

Alan Bishop

There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.

Alan Bennett

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Al Ries

If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect's mind. A word that nobody else owns.

Akio Morita

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.

Childe Hassam

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

Peter Beattie

The plan is to extract 7.5 million metric tons of bauxite every year in order to produce 2.1 million tons of alumina each year from the refinery.

Adam Clarke

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.

Joe Aquilante

With a multi-car team like ours, we have different people working on stuff. It?s a continuing, ongoing process. We keep working on the cars, trying to extract speed.

Brent Mitchell

Patrick is trying to extract as much as possible out of Toll.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Gerard Hopkins

Where no storms come, / Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, / And out of the swing of the sea.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A great acacia, with its slender trunk And overpoise of multitudinous leaves. (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew And intense verdure, yet find room enough) Stood reconciling all the place with green.

Ann Jones

We want people to keep everything green and clean.

Deryck Whibley

Green Day was more of the influence than Blink.

Nancy Walker

Mainly, we just want the green space with the openness,

Billy Collins

All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time.

Eric Morecambe

Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.

Mayor Barse

We are looking for the removal of radioactive materials instead of sealing it. This is a Vineland issue.

Ken Banks

We'd like to do more of these instead of ships. If people go back to these over time, they'll see them develop.

Ross Levin

We're spooning money into the market now instead of dumping it in.

Martin Brodeur

We're going to shadow a line instead of one player.

Matt Pfau

When we get open, we shoot right away, instead of taking a look at where the goalie is at and placing the ball. (Scoring) is going to come as the season goes.

Melissa Dennett

We would settle and think that it was OK instead of going, going, going.

Kelly Clark

Unfortunately, it went 9 yards instead of 10.

Norma McCorvey

They could have been nice to me instead of treating me like an idiot." ()

Odette Annable

If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.

C. L. R. James

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

Bryan Clay

I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again.

Frank Newport

There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.

Cecily Brown

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

David Walker

We have to get some movement on it shortly,

Bob Harper

CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this - or any type of physical activity.

Harry Shum, Jr.

When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other.

Arundhati Roy

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

Irfan Pathan

The pitch had a lot of moisture on it. There was a lot of movement off the wicket, more than there was in the air.

Casey Stengel

You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

Casey Stengel

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

Early Wynn

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

Early Wynn

A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

Carl Relyea

We have a solid pitching staff and should be solid defensively. We should be a competitive team in a very strong division.

Marc Gustafson

We want him to pitch in surroundings where he's comfortable and we can travel to see him pitch.

Pedro Martinez

We want him to pitch as much as possible.

Buddy Bell

Walk A-Rod? And pitch to Giambi? How about that one?

Mickey Hatcher

The pitch Moyer threw had to be a foot-and-a-half off the plate.

Walter Leger

The other teams have left, and they're still not really back. We haven't left, and we're not going anywhere.

Alain Vigneault

We've already made the decision. Most teams put five, but we're going to put six.

Paul Davies

When the three of us are on, we're really tough. There are not a lot of teams that can keep up with us when we play like that.

Steve Rodecap

We're just still searching, just trying to find out what teams are the best.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Most teams that you have, they have one or two go-to guys. They've got a go-to team.

Matthew Faltys

Most of the teams at the top just didn't give up as much ground.

Tyler Mitchell

When we started out as freshmen, we were ok, but there were other teams out there who were a lot better than us.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Eric Ferguson

SEC teams are going to make runs. That just happens. It's part of the game, man.