Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steny Hoyer

What the panel seems to offer with one hand, it apparently wants to take away with the other.

Raymond Jones

We've spoken to them and apparently their house wasn't too badly hit.

Steve Fitzgerald

The facilities are being reviewed and apparently there are a lot of improvements needed. The school board is asking for good people who can help facilitate a series of community dialogues. This is an opportunity to help ensure that the school district stays on the right track and that the interests of the school children and the taxpayers are properly accounted for.

Thomas Pogge

It's easy to complain that pharmaceutical companies place profits over people and apparently care more about hair loss than TB. However, many in the pharmaceutical industry would be glad for the opportunity to reorient their research toward medicines that are truly needed, provided only that such research is financially sustainable.

Kage Baker

I saw the Kino print of 'The Man From Beyond,' but apparently a superior new print has been produced by Restored Serials. Maybe a few snippets of missing footage will close up some of the plot holes, but I have my doubts.

Laurieann Gibson

'Boom' is my heart. The 'kack' is my soul. Apparently when I choreographed I didn't realize that I said 'boom-kack' 'boom-kack.' I had no idea I was doing it and then I realized that it's every time I felt like the fight in my soul - the boom and the kack - was like my heart. It was like the love of it - my heart and soul.

June Jordan

The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

Fred Thompson

We've got assistants to assistants to assistants to deputies to assistants to deputies to assistants, ... Who in the world is accountable for what? Mr. Richardson apparently thinks all you have to do is appoint a new czar.

Derek Hall

We've tried to emphasize that a little bit in some of our communications materials -- apparently not enough. We have plans to get that message out.

Paul Jackson

The creation of this new role reflects a new emphasis on major one-off entertainment evenings. ITV is the home of big, talked-about events that unite mass audiences and we are keen to find more new and exciting opportunities in this area.

Steve Robinson

The Cows have continued to stay popular with our audiences. They are endearing personalities that are staunch supporters of chicken, and our customers not only find them humorous, but they enjoy watching to see what they might say or do. You never know where the Cows might show up next.

August Wilson

I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also, I was, and remain, fascinated by the idea of an audience as a community of people who gather willingly to bear witness.

Suzy Menkes

I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies.

Samuel L. Jackson

I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

Stefan Sagmeister

I had given a presentation on design and happiness for quite a long while at design conferences. I had found thinking about the topic helpful for my own practice, as it forced me to consider the fundamentals, and the feedback from the audience was always enthusiastic.

Til Schweiger

The Russian male audience, they loved 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door,' and they like my comedies, but the Russian male audience is action, action, action.

Tom Goodman-Hill

You have to make decisions - you know what you think. That doesn't mean the audience are aware of your decisions or what you think - the lines you're saying may have ambiguity.

Tom Bissell

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.

John Dillon

The external environment continues to be very difficult, ... We have continued to reduce our capacity to match demand from our customers, improved our operations and began to realign staff resources to better our financial results.

Yu Zhiliang

When I entered the Manhattan School of Music, I felt great pressure living and studying away from home. Then I began to compose pieces, like writing diaries. Each piece is inspired by my own experience or the true stories of friends around.

Sharon Kay Penman

When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe.

Stephan Pastis

I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing about themselves, but the truth is as far from that as it can be. So I began to think about how to put that kind of character in a book for kids.

Aasif Mandvi

The longer I spent time on 'The Daily Show,' standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world - most often from somewhere in the Middle East - the more I began to realize that 'The Daily Show' was radicalizing me.

Ashwin Sanghi

Physicists explain creation by telling us that the universe began with the Big Bang, an intense energy singularity that continued expanding. But who created the singularity?

Ted Chiang

The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.

Tom Curren

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

Dennis Rogers

We know we couldn't hold the great start we began with. But we must start playing how we did in those first few games.

Carlos Ghosn

Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.

Ben Howland

We want to recruit the very best players in the country. That's why we're here right now: We have great players.

Anne McLellan

We want to reassure the president and the people of the United States that we are their best friends and their neighbour, and we will be there to help them in a situation that truly is without parallel in our country or theirs,

Jerry Colangelo

We want to quicken the game. We think these changes are the best way of doing it.

Ritchie McKay

We want to put our best players on the floor at any given time. Some teams happen to be guard-oriented like us.

Juergen Klinsmann

We want to push that back. It would be best for us to work with a large group of players for longer. Hopefully, we'll have time until shortly before the tournament.

Richard Clarke

We want to provide the best possible entertainment for our fans and that means creating a winning team and maximizing their chances of success.

Sam Cowart

We have to get to the point where we find out what we do best and execute it to a 'T,'

Parry Aftab

We have to get our kids to utilize the best Internet filter, and that's the one inside their heads.

Maria Bamford

I'd like to create a lovable character for schizophrenia; it doesn't have a celebrity spokesperson because by the time somebody's schizophrenic they've lost all their teeth.

Gretchen Rubin

'Potato-chip news' is news that's repetitive, requires little effort to absorb, and is consumable in massive quantities: true crime, natural disasters, political punditry, celebrity gossip, sports gossip, or endless photographs of beautiful houses, food, or clothes.

Kendra Wilkinson

I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous, so I poke fun at that.

R. Robinson

She'd be a reigning celebrity in that environment, ... But she doesn't want that. She is still the humble, gracious lady she's always been. I'll tell you, knowing her has certainly turned me around in terms of my own aspirations about where I wanted to go and what I wanted to do. You grow where you're planted.

Janice Min

She made this connection with her reality show back in 2002; people just sat back and took her in, so the real strength of her celebrity is her personality,

Laurence Kardish

She is a star by virtue of her passion. A Hollywood celebrity might choose roles that enhance their image, but Isabelle Huppert chooses roles that make her vulnerable.

Kathy Hotchner

She is a critic of everything. And I think she is very insightful. Underlying the humor is a commentary on contemporary celebrity culture.

Lash Fary

Seven years ago it was a much harder pitch ... (but) our industry has been fueled by pop culture magazines. They need celebrity content.

Keke Palmer

I have a few celebrity friends, but I'm really not into the whole Hollywood scene. I like to separate myself from my work. It stresses me out if I do too much of the same.

Greg Tacon

The facilities are great, the kids are great, but there's an underlying pressure that's there and nobody talks about it. That's the way it is, and it sucks. We all want to win, but the kids and the relationships are why we do this. If it's the winning that drives us, I don't want to be part of it.

Erwin McManus

The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, and if you can make every job meaningful, then you will guarantee that every job will be done to its highest level of excellence.

Kyrie Irving

When I'm playing the 1-guard, teams do a great job of just loading up and preparing for my drives and preparing for my three-point shots.

Timothy Noah

What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university.

Elizabeth Holmes

It drives me crazy when people talk about the scale as an indicator of health, because your weight doesn't tell you what's going on at a biochemical level.

Lynsey Addario

The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist.

David Jones

The point about labor market weakening suggests the Fed's ... worried about that. That drives home the point they're going to keep these rates unchanged for a long period of time.

Nick Woodman

Fear drives you a lot harder than success does.

Willie Nelms

We're not going to stock the latest DVD that you can get at Blockbuster. Our mission drives what we buy.

John Cornyn

Obviously, an indictment is a serious thing. But we do have such a thing as a presumption of innocence,

John Conroy

This is not an indictment we're going to run from.

Richard May

Now do you want to have the indictment read out, or not?

Bob Simon

He said to us that nothing in the indictment is false. Everything is true. He admits that on camera.

Jim Haslett

It's not an indictment of Aaron, it's an indictment on our record and where we're at. It's an opportunity to see what Todd can do with the situation.

Leonard Sand

They are presumed innocent. The indictment is just an accusation.

Patrick Baker

I'm very vague on the details. At this point we have an indictment and that's all.

Raymond Johnson

The indictment is merely an accusation, and Jeff is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

Harry Reid

The Libby indictment provides a window into what this is really all about.

Gerry Eckenrode

This program is all about winning right now. The kids have a keen sense of refusing to lose.

Tom Stoppard

When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary. I wanted it to be in hardback. I didn't care how thick or thin it was, and I didn't actually care what it was about.

Peter Capaldi

What's now shocking is I can't say anything publicly without it having a life. Not because I have extraordinary views but because people are keen on conflict, so they'll make that the story.

Jonathan Powell

Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved.

Imtiaz Ali

I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

Richard Engel

There are many Israelis who are not keen on Barack Obama - they did not want to see him elected.

Hugh Grant

Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric.

Cherie Lunghi

I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.

Virat Kohli

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

Ricky Gervais

Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

Alan Moore

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

Brian Jacques

Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being.

Benjamin Haydon

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Bernard Cornwell

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

Desiree Rogers

I don’t do ordinary work. That is not me in the least.

Dean Koontz

He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.

Charles Lyell

In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.

Charles Kuralt

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.