Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.

Robert Osborne

For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that, the real goal is then to win an Academy Award. Because when they do, they know that their obit is going to start out, 'Academy Award winner so-and-so.'

Ronald Kessler

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Malcolm McDowell

It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.

Shawn Amos

Like any self-governing group of people, the Recording Academy has made missteps over the years. Still, it has corrected course and done more to open its arms to the future than nearly any other industry group around.

Jahangir Khan

Let's face it. There is no setup in Pakistan to train and groom young players at the grassroots level in different sports. Those of us who did make a name for ourselves and became champions did it with our own initiative - there was no academy to back us till we reached a certain level on our own.

Mark Ishikawa

Screeners have been distributed to Academy members and many of them are already appearing online.

Sean Conway

Senator Allard wants them to look at the Air Force Academy from leadership through process.

David DeMartini

Much like he had an opportunity to work with Puzo and kind of evolve the book into a screenplay - which obviously required some modification to what Puzo had done - I just hope that he respects that we were targeting a different customer and we're trying to keep this fiction alive. The book's a great book; the movie's Academy Award winning; and hopefully the game will get a tremendous amount of acclaim as well. Just respect each of those works for what they are, I think that's the best way for us all to look at it.

Richard P. Feynman

The universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind of a radius to be associated with it.

Richard P. Feynman

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

Robin Chase

One reason Zipcar succeeded was its branding: cool, hip, smart, urban, fun, innovative. Who wouldn't want to be associated with that?

Larry Blakeney

(Lucas) was one of the best players I've ever been associated with. I told the team the other day that he was one person everybody should find out something about, so they could be like him.

Pam Brown

Make sure that there are no restrictions associated with the boulevard project before any money is spent on planning or plants. Certainly, (you) would not want to be hit with having to remove it after the fact.

Peter Oppenheimer

Mac unit sales exceeded our internal expectations despite what we believe was a pause in sales associated with the Intel transition.

Janet Frank

Life Flight is only in the business of treating the patient who needs help. There will be a bill associated ? but that comes later in the mail.

Tom Crean

Louisville played excellent and they played hard. It was a very hard, intense battle, one of the most intense battles I've ever been associated with. They had a couple more big plays than we did at the end.

Marc Ganis

Many of the revenues and expenses associated with the new stadium are unshared and are the single largest factor in determining the difference in revenues between the clubs.

Ronald Kessler

In typical Washington fashion, nothing gets reformed until a disaster happens.

Ronald Kessler

As you can tell from the titles of my books, I like to probe secret organizations, secret subjects. And this sometimes gets me into trouble.

Sergei Liakhovich

Like each of the L.S.U. players, I am a tiger. When I step into the ring, nothing gets in the way of my prey. Brewster will find that out on Saturday night.

George H. W. Bush

making sure that humanitarian relief gets to the people who are suffering in Liberia.

Aaron Rowand

Scotty gets on, he makes things happen. We end up scoring a run and just that one run turns into five.

Pierre Turgeon

Seven overtime goals in the playoffs, that's just unbelievable. When you need a goal, all of a sudden he gets it. But for him, it's all about the team. He's just a nice guy and a good teammate.

Dave Rogers

So, for all of their complaining about how we did things, The Onion gets a big investor whose son saw our paper and liked it. And now they've got Jeff working for them. I think they owe us a thank you.

Darren LaMarca

So he gets on the witness stand and comes up with all the filler needed to tell the story, a good novel.

John Heavener

So, it's a win-win for the consumer, a win-win for the state and also a win-win for the retailers. We hope that gets reauthorized.

Susanna Phillips

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

Nita Ambani

Sachin has been an integral part of Mumbai Indians and a source of inspiration for the team ever since the inception.

Margaret Spellings

Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.

Bill Callahan

My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I'm going to learn from those mistakes.

Chris Byrne

What we're really trying to do is to be an integral part of the Pennsylvania jazz scene.

Khloe Kardashian

Messaging is such an integral part of our lives, and Begroupd will help solve problems everyone can relate to.

Benjamin Feingold

We're essentially treating 'Seinfeld' the same as we do big theatricals because it's become an integral part of American culture. Everyone knows 'Seinfeld.

Kareena Kapoor Khan

If I want to kiss, I shall kiss. If I am told that a lovemaking scene is integral to the script, I will consider it.

Steve Evans

Paul has been an integral part of my management team and has played a key part in our recent success,

Piero Grasso

With this arrest, the Mafia has been beheaded.

Daniel Radcliffe

Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.

Douglas Horton

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Davy Jones

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.

Davy Jones

Once you're in, you're in. It's like the Mafia. Once a Monkee, always a Monkee.

David Chase

When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

Fidel Castro

This mafia not only operates from Miami. It has set up an organization that operates from Mexico, using remote places for new routes.

Gerald Celente

The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.

Noam Chomsky

International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.

Alexandra Adornetto

I honestly can’t tell you. We’ve never had a situation like this before, “I admitted. “So you being an angel doesn’t meam…” He hesitated. “Doesn’t mean I have an answer for everything,” I concluded for him. “I just assumed it would be one of the perks.” “Sadly, no.

Alexandra Adornetto

Beth: "You're ridiculous." Xavier: "I think you mean irresistible." Beth: "Yes, ridiculously irresistible.

Albert Schweitzer

What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we regulate this activity from outside; we must leave entirely to each individual its shaping and its extension. From every point of view, then, world- and life-affirmation and ethics are non-rational, and we must have the courage to admit it.

Albert Schweitzer

Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.

Antonio de Mendoza

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

Cindy Sheehan

Mr. President, you mean you're willing to kill more Americans because you've killed so many already?

Christopher Lawrence

Mozart's symphonies are quite special. One of our landmarks is our recording of all of his symphonies, which means that we've recorded not 41, but 68 symphonies. Many people are unaware that there are many unnumbered symphonies.

Andre Agassi

means as much to me as doing it in the finals.

Terrence McNally

My first play was written when I was 23, and I'm 66 now, so that's 43 years of doing this where I sort of know where everything is. It doesn't mean I do everything right, but I know where everything is. Here, I'm very much a visitor. New York is my turf and I'm used to working with my actors.

Dale Groutage

Sen. (Craig) Thomas has had at least 17 years to promote that technology.

Charles Pickering

Mississippi, in trying to promote racial harmony, is on the right track at the right station doing the right thing.

Todd Rundgren

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

Patricia Edwards

If they promote this correctly, it could be huge.

Neil Kinnock

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

Lydia Lenker

Those are agricultural products. We do promote Tennessee products.

Karine Vanasse

When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, it's a vision of somebody else, so I have to promote their idea.

Casper Dien

When I do a film I go out and promote it.

Bob Ray

I went out and really promoted it (the tournament) this year. It's our third year and we got everything together in our heads.

Dick Van Dyke

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

Abdurrahman Wahid

I do not like violence.

Abraham Lincoln

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

Aaron Allston

No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles

Camille Paglia

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

Camille Paglia

Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. ?

Athol Fugard

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

Chazz Palminteri

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

Bo Derek

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.