Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nina Jacobson

Suzanne Collins, it was such a big thing for me to make the handshake with her and to say, 'You can trust me. I will not screw up your books. And I won't let them be diluted and softened. And I won't let them be exploited and made guilty of the sins that are being commented on in the books.' I take that really seriously.

Carlos Alazraqui

For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

Doug Young

We made sure we had enough volunteer operators on hand so no one ever had to wait on hold after hitting a glitch in the system. Several people commented on that. They were surprised when they didn't have to wait for service.

Brenda Hill

Parents have commented over and over on how welcoming the people of Lufkin ISD have been,

Ralph Kauffman

Respondents also commented on hurricanes Katrina and Rita and their impact on the energy supply and on the availability and cost of construction materials and truck transportation. The overall indication is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector in October, but with a high level of concern about the impact of energy prices,

Larry Brown

One of the referees even commented to me about how hard they were trying.

Richard Gough

I have always maintained a high level of fitness, and that is why I am still able to handle the demands of playing in the Premiership. People have always commented on my fitness, and it's something I pride myself on.

Laura Anne Gilman

A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.

Will Estes

I had a director who told me a story about a fan who had commented on how nice it was to see her sister laughing and how happy the show made her. I like to make people happy and make them laugh.

Charles de Lint

I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to leave it in a better state than it was when I found it. At the same time I know that this can never be. The world has grown so complex that one voice can do little to alter it any longer. That doesn't stop me from doing what I can, but it makes the task hard. The successes are so small, the failures so large and many. It's like trying to stem a storm with one's bare hands.

Charles Dickens

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

Charles Caleb Colton

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

Charles Dickens

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

Charles Dickens

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Charles Stross

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

Spencer Roecker

We knew they were very athletic, but they weren't hitting their jump shots in the first half.

Cameron Bennerman

We started hitting (the 3s) for one thing. If they go in, they count. They add.

Shawn Russell

We started hitting our outside shots. That opened things up on the inside.

Eddie Mathews

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

Neneh Cherry

When me and my brother Eagle-Eye were kids, life was about hitting the road, getting on the bus. We loved it.

Lora Staveness

When we did get looks we weren't knocking them down, and they were hitting their shots and locating their shooters.

Nick Reid

Unless it's hitting somebody when they're not looking.

Ryan Doumit

Unfortunately, it's taken us until the ninth inning to get back into every game. Timely hitting has to come sooner than the ninth.

Alan Trammel

We're just not hitting right now. It isn't that we aren't trying.

Ama Dwimoh

We know who did it. We know what happened. Now we need to hold them accountable - and we will.

Dave Sanchez

We started today in third. We just couldn't hold on to that lead.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Joe Torre

We're in a situation where we can't be thinking about holding our own. We have to make an impact. The only way we can do that is by winning the first game.

Kevin Towers

We're not going to rush him. We're not going to hold him back, either. But I'd like to see him get more innings at the professional level.

Dwane Casey

We always hold out hope. Mathematically we're still in it. Every time we walk out on the floor, we're playing for something and we're playing for improvement.

Monica LeMoine

What the school hoped to do for these kids was to hold them accountable for their actions, which they'd never really had before.

Tyler Brand

We wanted to try and hold them under 15 points in the first half. We got out in the passing lanes, got some steals and were able to get our offense going off that.

Ertharin Cousin

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

David Byrne

The operators are not button-pushers, ... It's a give and take with the performers. In my work, technology is a performer.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Nikki Cox

I'm a McDonald's girl - several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Bill Hall

Several students have called and said, 'I have a video, do you want it?'

Edward Gramlich

I think it is more than several weeks for me!

Kevin Jenkins

We take 'em from anywhere. But there are several institutions similar to us that play basketball.

Matthew Lillard

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

Mayor Hassig

There are several threads here of futures you can choose.

Luiz Scolari

There are several teams, and one of them could be Corinthians.

Noam Chomsky

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow it.

Veronica Corpuz

We're going to try and work through this to make sure no more productions will be canceled or postponed.

I. Stone

What we're really trying to do is to make sure when they get to kindergarten, they are better prepared, because for many of them, there is nothing until they get to kindergarten.

Jamie Shea

When we are sure what happened, we will tell you what happened.

Rich Rodriguez

What makes it tough is they're better for sure than they were two years ago,

Ralph Neas

We're going to make sure that Americans understand what is at stake.

Ed Paulk

We're just making sure there is nothing we are missing. It's just being proactive.

Abby Wambach

I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.

Rick Adelman

We're just trying to make sure somebody's on him all the time.

Larry Bloom

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

Rod Wright

I was just as surprised as anybody, ... I didn't know if I was going to make it.

John Putnam

I wouldn't be surprised if they walked away.

Michael Long

I wouldn't be surprised if they surprised us again.

Jim Hickey

I wouldn't be surprised at all if he starts,

Karen Ignagni

I think everyone is surprised by the robustness of this number. We had a sense, but we had no data.

Howard Opinsky

I was as surprised as everyone else was to see it.

Michael Morris

I think we all were surprised by the price.

Felipe Alou

I won't say surprised but I'm kind of disappointed.

David Levine

I was very surprised in the ambulance when they started talking about e-mailing some doctor.

Eden Sher

I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

Benjamin Walker

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

Cecile Richards

We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.

Celia Imrie

There are actresses who've had expensive work done and look great, so I'm not holier-than-thou about it. But it wouldn't be for me, perhaps because I've already been in hospital and wouldn't want to volunteer myself for it again.

Boris Johnson

Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.

Barbara Bush

The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.

Abraham Lincoln

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

Dalai Lama

I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

Alexander Pope

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

Charles Dickens

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

Charles Stanley

When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

Charles Stanley

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

Charles Spurgeon

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Alan Alda

If you don't listen deeply, the connection won't take place.... [You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you're listening to, where you're not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you're actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.

Al Pacino

An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.