Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Rossellini

I became an actress way into my 30s because I thought that I had to find my own way, and that's why I worked so much in modelling, until I realised that the differences between acting and modelling weren't that great. I always say that modelling is a little bit like being a silent actress.

Isabella Rossellini

Once I realised that my job as a model was to emote in front of the camera, I thought, 'Well now, I just have to add words, and I can do films.' But also, my success as a model made me more confident about becoming an actress because, just in case I failed, I thought, 'Well, you know, if I failed as an actress, I can do another job.'

Richard Rogers

So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state.

Rick Perlstein

I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.

Robert Kazinsky

I'm a massive Trekkie. I've got original artwork from the '70s. I've got outfits. Yeah, I have actual 'Star Trek' outfits that I wear. I'm a massive, massive 'Star Trek' fan.

Robert Rainy

A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.

Robert Toombs

We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.

Rohit Shetty

My audience loves seeing me pump large amounts of money into action and sets. And it works. I'm not saying that films made within a budget are wrong. But when audiences come to see my film with their families, I guess they are spending at least 10 per cent of their monthly income. I don't want to cheat them.

Mahmoud Abbas

We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

Nathan Barankin

Many of California's gambling laws were written in the 19th Century, and some of them need to be modernized.

Craig Benson

I do not support gambling in this state.

Artie Lange

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

Charles Lamb

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Charles Lamb

Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.

Charles Baudelaire

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

Edward Looney

We're seeing a lot of good kids with gambling problems.

William Shakespeare

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

Richard P. Feynman

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

Karen Cason

Let it be known you are a lackey, a crony...

French Proverb

Many are esteemed, only because they are not known

Jennifer Robinson

McGill is a university known around the world for a lot of things, mostly for the quality of our students and our professors and the successes of our research and teaching.

Jacquie Small

No one would have ever known (that she was ill) because of her drive. She was in a lot of pain, and people didn't know it.

Chris Crutcher

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

Tom Stoppard

If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.

Plaxico Burress

I can't even get a read on him or how he's feeling. As long as I've known him this year, he's been the same, no matter what. What's so special about this game?

Eddie Palmieri

I can tell you that it's just a sad day, a sad day for the Latin music industry, ... Tito was known all over the world.

Michael R. Bloomberg

making sure there are things going on that are unpredictable.

Mike Holmgren

Let's just wait on that and make sure what's written and what's said is correct.

Andrew Burke

Look. We will give you the servers. We will give you the DRM. We will give you the middleware within the box. And we'll make sure that all of those work effectively together.

Josh Beekman

Now they want to be sure when you come in that you're going to graduate.

Larry Bloom

When he has time off, he isn't really sure what to do with it. He's a little lost.

Kenneth Lay

I did everything I could humanly do during this time. Did I make mistakes? I'm sure I did.

Jeff Hanna

If anything, it was, 'Are you sure you want to do this?',

John Currie

We need to make sure they all understand that this is a different Northeastern than it was 20 years ago,

Joe Wineke

We need to make sure our vote is out there.