Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Kane

Acting is pretty much my whole life.

Mark Durkan

We want to see a credible report telling us there is no current or ongoing illegal activity from the IRA.

David Siegel

We ... want to resolve the dispute over the dismissed workers; however, that will not include the reinstatement of those who instigated and incited the walkout action and who harassed and intimidated those employees who chose to come to work during this difficult time.

Ashley Goforth

We want to promote activism through different mediums.

Kitty Lagareta

We have seen David McClain in action for the past year and a half and feel strongly that he is the right person and the best person at the right time to take the university forward.

Andy Brough

We have seen continued bid activity and earnings have been reasonably robust. The market has had a great run in the first quarter.

Tom Harp

We have seen a definite correlation between illegal activities of all sorts. Between criminal code activity and civil code activities, we see a correlation.

Dan Dinges

We have secured the rigs necessary to complete our program, a program that focuses on more development activity and less risk. The current forecasted activity level calls for 391 wells, with increased activity in each region including expanded drilling on each of the acquisition plays purchased in 2005.

Elizardo Sanchez

We have to get used to this because it seems that human rights activists and dissidents are not well liked by governments, especially those that maintain their nation's human rights in the appalling situation that Cuba does.

Peter Chandler

We've seen pockets of strength in the Canadian markets, so the Canadian market actually acted a lot better than the U.S. market did as a whole.

Jon Erlandson

The fact that productive kelp forests are found adjacent to some of the earliest coastal archaeological sites in the Americas supports the idea that such forests may have facilitated human coastal migrations around the Pacific Rim near the end of the last glacial period. In essence, they may have acted as a sort of kelp highway.

Ken Hitchcock

We know how important Game 3 is and know we're down 2-0. It was a frustrating loss for everybody. And we acted emotionally, me included.

Tanya Roberts

What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.

Eliot Spitzer

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

Eric Maskin

I probably learned most at MIT by teaching and working with Peter Diamond, who acted like a big brother to me during my time in the department.

Charles Studd

Noah walked with God; he didn't only preach righteousness, he acted it. He went through water and didn't melt. He breasted the current of the popular opinion of his day, scorning alike the hatred and ridicule of the scoffers who mocked at the thought of there being but one way of salvation.

Kandyse McClure

This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.

Viktor Yushchenko

The plot . . . involved discussion of the ownership of one of the major Ukrainian TV channels and in order to bring about this, the prime minister acted in such a manner,

Bobby Wallace

When I met his dad (Chuck), we talked about Toby, but that didn't have any bearing on me hiring him.

Jerome Bettis

The outcome will have a bearing on my decision. If it is my last game, all the people that saw me start my career get an opportunity to see me end it. My career will have come full circle.

Tina Brown

'Wingnuts' is the first book bearing the imprint of Beast Books.

Flip Saunders

Whether we play well or don't play well come Sunday, will have no bearing on how we've done this season. As I recall, we lost our last couple games in the exhibition season and got off to a pretty good start in the regular season.

Larry Richardson

What they'll determine or what they'll recommend will have a lot bearing on saving cats that might want to migrate north of here.

Howard Johnson

She has held some very prestigious positions and brings a wealth of experience to our university and to the College of Business Administration in particular, ... She has the bearing of one who has handled positions of high visibility and demand with excellence. There are not many people that have the breadth of experience that she has.

Robert Fraser

Look out for all the T-shirts bearing the images of the candidates making the rounds at the arena. While Mr. Patterson and his anticipated farewell message will hold centre stage, no less visible will be the number of supporters each candidate will be bringing to the table.

Thomas Mann

Separation would likely do more harm than good for congressional Republicans. They need to try to rehabilitate the president's political standing, which will have a large bearing on the size of their seat loss in 2006.

Heather Boushey

So far, the debt payment ratio (of loan payments to income) hasn't been higher this decade than during the 1990s, but it's been partly held in check by lower interest rates. In some sense, we haven't seen the whole burden bearing down yet.

Kevyn Adams

We want everybody out there, and we miss the guys who are out, but there's a mentality in the room where we're focused on what's in front of us. It's just something that builds over the course of the year.

Maureen Forrester

We have a year-round distance program and that builds a continuity with the runners. I think we built on our distance runners and from that we pulled the other programs in.

Ben Amerson

The process builds faith. You have to trust God and pray a lot - for yourself, for Habitat, for the other families.

Marsha Jones

The reading builds on the older child's skills, while improving the younger child's also.

A. S. Byatt

You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.

Lloyd Cutler

I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled.

David Poile

The perception has been sort of an 'us-against-them' mentality in the NHL for a long period of time. I think this addresses that perception, and builds the idea of a partnership.

John Burnside

The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.

John Fote

We are a team that kind of likes momentum and kind of builds off that momentum. We seized the opportunity tonight. We took advantage. That?s how we played last year.

Carol Leifer

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.

Carol Moseley Braun

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

Carol Vorderman

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

Carol Vorderman

I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.

Carlos Mencia

If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister!

Carlos Fuentes

Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency

Carlos Fuentes

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

Carlos Castaneda

The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.

Carl Andre

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

Ronnie Milsap

For a long time, I was shy about recording gospel music, because I didn't necessarily want to show the inside of my soul, Milsap revealed. But now, the spiritual side of me is really shining through.

John Styll

People will always need hope, inspiration and ultimately salvation, and gospel music provides a path to all those things.

Elaine Pagels

The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.

Ed Young

The Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Great Physician, heals people and makes them whole again. And we've got to be out there as God's people, obeying the Great Commission.

D. A. Carson

The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.

Leslie Harlow

Unbeatable Harold. It's a wonderful the-underdog-gets-the-girl type of film, with a lot of gospel numbers.

Marvin Meyer

We will be talking about this Gospel for generations to come.

Stanley Hauerwas

From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal reach.

Ellen G. White

The gospel is a message of peace. Christianity is a system which, received and obeyed, would spread peace, harmony, and happiness throughout the earth.

Carol Vorderman

All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've done. I've loved numbers since I was two or three, and I get really excited about them. Now, I'm allowing myself to get excited about things. If you're doing it for a TV network or any major corporation, you have to put a lid on it a little.

Carlos Mencia

And for all of you at home, you are all welcome to visit my store. You are also welcome to park off you motherparking parks, and go park yourself. But remember, don't park in a handicapped spot.

C. S. Lewis

The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

C. S. Lewis

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.

Steve Squyres

We have no idea yet how widespread Home Plate-like material may be. We have not seen anything like this before, but it doesn't mean there isn't more stuff out there.

Robin Cook

We want peace, but it must be a peace that makes Kosovo safe for the refugees to go home

Alan Titchmarsh

I love Chatsworth, Winchester Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle... Every time I'm in the vicinity of something old and worth looking at, I try to go. You don't even have to leave your home town to see some places. How many Londoners have seen the crown jewels? Not many, and they'll blow you away, I promise.

Alan Shearer

When I go home every night, I can look in the mirror and say I have given 110 per cent for Newcastle United. If people aren't happy with that, I can't give any more.

Alan K. Simpson

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

Joan Baez

I was going to say thank you for inviting me but I already had my plane ticket.

Gloria Steinem

Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them.

Emma Roberts

What is Twitter?! I don't know what Twitter is! Everyone keeps inviting me to Twitter and everyone's going on about twittering and tweeting and this whole thing, and I just don't understand it.

Nacho Figueras

Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.

Kevin Russell

How many people did you say you were inviting to dinner?

Laura Stankiewicz

Vince Vaughn is very personable. He was just so comfortable on stage improving, inviting students on stage and interacting with the audience.

Mike Richter

Thank you for inviting me here for Mark Messier night, sponsored by Kleenex.

Sidney Poitier

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

Eric Hoffer

The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.

Shannon Elizabeth

I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner.

Seymour Papert

I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.

Zig Ziglar

Everyone who's a success, is a continual learner.

Eric Rasmussen

The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.

John Webster

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Oscar Wilde

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Dada Vaswani

What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.

Marianne Williamson

'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.

Niels Bohr

You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

Frank Sinatra

To think that spring had depended/On merely this, a look, a kiss/To think that something so splendid/Could slip away in one little daybreak . . . .

Lord Salisbury

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Patrick O'Brian

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

David Roberts

Nobody realizes that Mormons were the first Americans to settle Las Vegas.

Quinn Allman

Mormons think they live in their own world, ... and that Utah's this place where it's supposed to be perfect. 'God is here.' But he's not. Not any more than he is in Compton.

Trey Parker

I've never met a Mormon I didn't like. They're really nice people. They're so Disney. They're so Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Rodney Stark

Mormons are an extraordinarily educated and professional population. They have all these virtues: They work hard, don't skip school, have no scandals. Consequently, you find them in a lot of consequential places.

Mitt Romney

Endorsed by Bob Jones, despite calling Mormonism a "cult".

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.

Sam Smith

We should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up, or we shall not come out true Mormons.

Carol Vorderman

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

Carlos Mencia

When I go onstage, I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. It's one of those questions where any and everything is possible. I literally could be talking about somebody I was hanging out with two seconds ago or something from the news. Literally, there's really no rhyme or reason for it. I want to be free flowing like that.

Carlos Ghosn

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

C. S. Lewis

People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.

C. S. Lewis

Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

Agnes Repplier

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

Aaron Stanford

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

Alan K. Simpson

Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're a nation of immigrants and all of that. The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.

Charlotte Bronte

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

Paul McNulty

Ms. Lewinsky's testimony has never been more important than it is now,

Cam Newton

I'm a living testimony that anything is possible.

Christopher Low

It's the same tone that he took in his testimony two weeks ago.

Mark Strand

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

Michael Ramsey

The value of the testimony of such witnesses is about zero.