Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Kessler

Despite constant vilifying by the media and congressional threats to take away the tools needed to uncover plots, FBI agents and CIA officers work silently around the clock and risk their own lives to keep us safe.

Ronald Kessler

If FBI agents can't be trusted to wiretap within the law, why trust them to carry weapons or make arrests?

John Boyega

Like any other actor, my agent called me with an opportunity. It just so happens that the opportunity was the lead in 'Star Wars.'

Anne Donovan

Leah or Erin could develop into what we need, but at this point, it's foolish to think that two inexperienced players are the way to go. Expect to see other free agents at the point position come through camp.

Mike O'Connell

Many of the free agents could have gone somewhere else for the money. But I think they liked what we had.

Greg Couch

Several teams were interested, but his agent ( Tom Condon ) told him to rest and wait for the right one when he was healthy.

Michael Hirschorn

sensitive approach and generally happens through agents and managers.

John O'Connor

Mr. Looker was arrested this morning following a transfer of a package of information, including certain photos, to an undercover FBI agent for $50,000 cash.

Harold Lewis

Me, every agent that I know, and every team that I deal with says we don't know what to do. We're hoping that it gets settled and resolved. And there's no reason it shouldn't be resolved.

Richard P. Feynman

The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.

Robert Kazinsky

The catering on 'True Blood' was so good - I'd be eating amazing doughnuts all day, then realised I was in danger of turning into a right fat faerie.

Kou Shibasaki

It's quite amazing what 3D is doing to movies. Just simple things like a paper plane flying at you or flower petals fluttering about are wonderful.

Mallory Ortberg

Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at me!'

F. Schumacher

Like everyone we expected the track to dry out a lot faster than it did. Instead the track was incredibly slow to dry out. It was amazing how slippery the circuit was, and I can't remember seeing a race like that. We came straight back in and that enabled us to score some points. The team did a great job but we just got one decision wrong.

Aleksandr Sebryakov

Life is amazing once you get to know it.

John Aguirre

Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz with amazing melodies.. Rock my world with the basics.. And make me sing acoustics.. Life is short.. Feel it with music..

David Sutcliffe

Los Angeles is an amazing city to live in, but the traffic is unbelievable. It's overwhelming at times. It's the source of a lot of frustration.

Paul Phillips

Last year, we considered it an amazing trip because no one died that we knew.

Jami Gertz

Less than Zero was not an easy movie to make. It was hard-fought for me to get. Even on the audition they did not want to see me.

Shameik Moore

My auntie and uncle live in Inglewood, and I used to stay with them when I would come to L.A. to audition for pilot season and other things like that.

Lesley Gore

Frankly, if 'American Idol' was the way I'd have to audition as a singer, I'd be standing behind the counter in a 5&10 right now. I couldn't have done it that way.

Lamorne Morris

I had this job at Hollywood Video, and during my worst audition ever, I forgot all of my lines in front of Chuck Lorre at the callback for the 'Mike and Molly' pilot.

Kurt Braunohler

Auditions are just torture. I'm trying to get better at it. It's a very difficult thing to do. You go into a tiny room with a camera with somebody who is doing this with 100 other people, and they're so bored, and then you have to be like, 'Hey! I'm gonna show you what I got!'

Robbie Williams

I was supposed to go on to college and to university-which is a really good idea!... but I didn't have any qualifications. So I had to audition to everything and... I got into this band called Take That... I don't know if you've heard of them... And-that's how it happened.

Kim Cattrall

I got to L.A., and they said I had to lose weight, let my hair grow and buy some dresses. I was nailing auditions with my readings, but they wouldn't hire me because I wasn't putting on the glam. It just didn't occur to me.

Lou Pucci

I got on a plane to audition for this part, ... I could relate to it really easily, which is good.

Conan Stevens

I managed to get onto 'The Hobbit,' which is a story in itself. I missed the main round of auditions but managed to get a foot in the door at the last second - just as I came down with dysentery.

Kurt Braunohler

Auditions are just torture. I'm trying to get better at it. It's a very difficult thing to do. You go into a tiny room with a camera with somebody who is doing this with 100 other people, and they're so bored, and then you have to be like, 'Hey! I'm gonna show you what I got!'

Kim Cattrall

I got to L.A., and they said I had to lose weight, let my hair grow and buy some dresses. I was nailing auditions with my readings, but they wouldn't hire me because I wasn't putting on the glam. It just didn't occur to me.

Conan Stevens

I managed to get onto 'The Hobbit,' which is a story in itself. I missed the main round of auditions but managed to get a foot in the door at the last second - just as I came down with dysentery.

Charlie Puth

I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.

Oona Chaplin

People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.

Sela Ward

Well I started studying to help me with these commercial auditions and I just loved it.

Nico Tortorella

I've been acting since I was 8 - I used to play hockey and there was a kids' theatre down the street from my house and one day I just walked in and signed up for auditions for 'The Wizard Of Oz.'

Chris Hemsworth

I got a film fairly quickly and felt like I was on a roll. I would walk into auditions sounding like Crocodile Dundee, thinking, 'This is going to be a novelty for them.' Then I realised that there are a million other Australians here, and I should just shut up.

Lauren Socha

No one understands my accent. I'm constantly going to auditions and being told they don't like how I talk. You have to live with criticism, and I don't take it personally.

Chris Pratt

My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid $700 bucks.

James Bond

Now the choice has finally been made, you've put the story on the front page and produced the sort of collection of special reports that usually accompanies a major news event, not the announcement of the casting of one tired old film role.

Sigrid Agren

I was shopping with my mother in 2006 and saw that there was a model casting going on. A couple of months later, I was one of the fifteen finalists in an international contest.

Carol Williams

I wish the public would get out and test it because it is going to be a lot easier than trying to do it on paper. You can't make a mistake on it. You can't over vote. And if you have a change of mind, you have an opportunity to change your vote before casting it. I think it is a great thing for Gregg County. Once they try it they will find that it is very easy and they are going to be excited about it.

David S. Goyer

I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to pigeonhole people, and there's nothing an actor loves more than to do something different.

Catherine Tate

Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.

Taye Diggs

But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.

Vinessa Shaw

When I realized that nothing is perfect and no one is perfect, I was able to overcome my initial fears. I was holding myself to some weird standard that I was putting outside of myself, i.e., the director or casting director - they're not expecting perfection. I had all these strange trappings I would put myself in.

Elizabeth Warren

I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.

Samuel Freeman Miller

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

Mark Knox

Many of the facilities, tools and systems developed over the past 10 years can still be used for HD DVD. That translates to a much more rapid time to market, and a smoother and more economical transition.

Margaret Murphy

Sections of it are developed but it's not at announcement stage yet.

Marvin Hoot

None of us is going to be here in 20 years, on the board. This is going to be developed by the people, for the people.

Henry Harris

No one has ever done this before. These results would not have been possible without newly developed ultralight, high-temperature sail materials and beamed-energy propulsion methods.

Werner Christen

Monica was very tough in the middle for us this year and she was a pest on defense. She did exactly what we needed her to do this year. She was pretty much our main weapon early in the year. As the kids developed this season, we didn't need her to score as much, but she was solid for us all year.

Nick Swartz

From what Michael told us, he's had this for a while. During this off-season, he was doing some running drills and developed some soreness in that area.

Jacob Frenkel

If a quarterback is injured in a big football game, the game doesn't stop. But it is disruptive and a significant distraction on a professional level because Lay and Ramsey have developed a relationship.

Kofi Annan

Let us remember that every person who is infected, whatever the reason, is a fellow human being with human rights and human needs,

William Blake

Let man wear the fell of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep.

Robert Browning

Lied is a rough phrase; say he fell from truth

Ronald Reagan

My fellow Americans, there's an old saying that ""nothing spreads so quickly as a rumor,"" so I thought it was time to speak with you directly, to tell you first hand about our dealings with Iran.

Brian Fritz

One reason we have (etiquette) rules is because some people don't follow them. It's not a huge problem, but it has to be addressed every once in a while out of respect for fellow members and the club.

Don Reed

One thing we all work together on and that is helping our fellow man when needed,

Justin Martin

Monday morning we woke up and it was listing toward the north about 10 or 15 degrees. I figured, before it fell on the two adjacent barns, we better get it down.

Tony Torrez

My helmet, I was being cool. It wasn't strapped on. It fell off.

Daniel Snyder

My father took me to my first game in 1971, and I fell in love with the Redskins and the NFL right then. I was hooked. And we didn't even win that game.

Tracy Rocker

Since that first day, he's been the Keith Jackson we've been waiting on. He's doing what he's supposed to do.

Conor Maynard

My parents listened to a lot of music when I was really little. They used to listen to people like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and I used to be really into that.

Vijay

I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!

Robert Sanger

Was Michael Jackson ever on a single call?

Victor LaValle

It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.

Kenny Ortega

Whenever you went into any place where there was Michael Jackson footage at Sony, it was like going through Homeland Security.

Aidan Turner

When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue.

Joe Sims

I wouldn't be surprised to see Judge Jackson rule by the end of this week. He hasn't shown a lot of patience here recently.

Bob Hartwig

Jackson was not targeted for any other reason than the physical condition, the location of it and being able to put students in other schools.

Chris Hernandez

Luckily, the Lord was with me, and I put them down.

Granth Sahib

Lord is all-powerful, the Master of all virtues

Lord of

Lord Elrond: You will unite or you will fall.

Margot Asquith

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

Rig Veda

May we become the lord of virtuous power and strength.

O. Singh

Meeting their Beloved, they meditate on the True Lord with love and affection.

O. Singh

Meditate in remembrance on the Lord and Master, O my Siblings of Destiny, everyone has to pass this way.

Granth Sahib

No one is mine, and I am no one else's. The True Lord and Master of the three worlds is mine.

Granth Sahib

O my mother. Night and day, I practice true devotional worship; I am united with the True Lord

Richard Rogers

I love my job. What would I retire to?

Robin Chase

I would love to have had much more money so that I could be a philanthropist.

Robert Palmer

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

Robert Osborne

I love to be able to meet people who are successful, and I love them not because they're successful, but usually people who are successful have qualities that make them interesting to be around.

Malcolm McDowell

I've tried it all. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

Malin Akerman

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

Albert Schweitzer

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

Albert Schweitzer

Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Kristoffer Polaha

When I met my wife, I was 24. Obviously, she wasn't my wife. She was just a girl. I made her my wife later on.

Darius Kasparaitis

screaming at us, telling us what to do like the 'Full Metal Jacket' movie.

Tommy Chong

Music has always been a big part of Cheech & Chong's career, so it's just natural. You know, I was a musician before I met Cheech and had a record with Motown, and so I've got the cred.

Kate Winslet

My husband and I met in a house fire, basically.

Laura Lopez

We met with different stakeholders, and done different surveys to get a different understanding.

Wayne Applebee

We met Thursday, (September 8) with Mr. Tate, and his attorney, but were unable to resolve the issue. We still have some work to do.

Robert Galvan

We met the trainers and after a while, we were singing together.

Cindy Sheehan

I can't say that I will regret the experience. I met some very interesting women.

Brent Mitchell

The only people that didn't like Ryan were only people who hadn't met him yet.

Michael Stipe

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

Ian Mckellen

If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.

William Kircher

The thing about working with Peter Jackson is that, at the end of the day, he is a passionate artist.

Billy Joel

Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

George Stephanopoulos

years and years of practice trying to keep up with Peter Jennings.

Andrew Adamson

I actually talked with Peter when I was scouting locations. We stayed up until 2 in the morning.

Nick Licata

Whatever Peter wants, I am with him. He understands the complexities and subtleties of planning.

Ken Hitchcock

Whatever Peter decides, he'll have our support. He's not going to play if he's not 100 percent.

Bible Bible

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. (1 Peter 4:7)

Joel Madden

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

Joe Perry

For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time ago that I can do a lot of things other than Aerosmith.

Luciano Spalletti

Francesco also realized it, and immediately said 'I'm broken.

Walter Isaacson

He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.

Waris Ahluwalia

I went through different styles but realized Ray-Bans are the classics. You can't go wrong with them. I explore and cheat on them occasionally, but I always go back to the aviators.

Yigal Azrouel

I started out making personal pieces, and realized that I actually like designing. I am self-taught, so I had a lot to learn technically.

Yoko Ono

After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

Birdman

I was a young-un when I got my first million. Then I realized if I got one, I could get two. If I could get two, I could get ten. If I could get ten, I could get a hundred.

John Thorne

When I realized what was going on, I wanted to give. If you've got things that make sense to give, then we should do it.

Julie Warner

Most actors in my position, at 47, you want your annuity show. You want your Marg Helgenberger role on 'CSI.' But that's like winning the lottery. So you try and keep yourself sane.

James Franco

My favorite role ever was Alien in 'Spring Breakers'.

Caroline Williams

Now we all know what our roles are now, each person. we're all working together better.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.

Marc Morial

She was singular in the role that she played, and she can't be replaced.

Philip Ruddock

I don't know that there is a role to look at departmental matters.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.

Tanya Fischer

I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.

Laura Osnes

That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

Joe Anderson

When you read something in script form, there are some subtleties that stand out with far greater gravitas than sometimes what you see on screen.

Charles Spurgeon

Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.

Dick Wolf

If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.

George Cukor

The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.

Ving Rhames

A lot of times, scripts are written so the character is all one way. Even with 'Bringing Out the Dead,' the character was written a little more generic.

Arthur Hiller

Anyway, he and I worked on the script together, and I must say he was a joy to work with. Very enthusiastic.

Jeffrey Klarik

When I was a kid, I wanted to be That Girl. I even wrote a spec script for it and sent it to Sam Denoff.

David Hewson

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

David Boreanaz

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.

Randy Cross

One voice is the only way to go.

Charles Spurgeon

To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe

Charles Olson

The Canadian voice is still too rustic.

Denis Johnson

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

Debra Wilson

Voice is my instrument.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal." And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.

Bartlett Sher

What's great about [Guettel] is his very distinct voice as a composer. And that distinct voice is something worth cherishing and expressing so we just didn't want to screw that up.

Elizabeth Edwards

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

Dirk Benedict

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.