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.

Louise Arbour

Let us be clear, the proposal before the General Assembly is the fruit of compromise. It cannot be a perfect solution.

Jay Blanton

Obviously what we've heard and read, we're very excited about. But we have not seen the final numbers and we won't until the General Assembly approves the budget.

Desmond Tutu

Full houses at the Assembly Rooms. To keep Michele sweet. That's basically it.

Sam Rainsy

The only option left is to continue our struggle in the National Assembly because we want to avoid violence and prevent confrontation,

Mark Hansen

The price of gas goes up every day, and the need to do this increases every day. We'd like to see the Assembly join us.

Julia Child

When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly job - you can mix and match a different way every time.

Abdallah Baali

On management reform, you have one side basically saying that the secretary general should be empowered and should have all flexibility as a kind of C.E.O. and the other side saying that it is not ready to give up the prerogative of the General Assembly and would like to keep a close eye on the work of the secretary general.

Scott Jensen

I have always believed that public service is a noble calling. Each day I served in the Assembly confirmed my belief. I am confident my constituents will send to the Assembly another representative who hears that call. In the meantime, it is my intention to wrap up my remaining constituent cases by March 21 so that I can then devote my full attention to my wife and three young children.

Jason Davis

If we can get some energy to feed over from Assembly Hall and get it into Memorial Stadium, we'll be all right. It's set up good because those two home games can catapult us into the conference schedule.

Richard P. Feynman

Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate.

John Nichols

We're not doctors. We have to tell people that all the time. They look at us when we walk in the door and they assume we know everything.

Tom Ford

Let's assume you've taken 27 semester credit hours in the Fall and the spring - you need three hours to get to 30. If you get 3 hours during the Summer we'll rebate you $50 a semester credit hour so that we offset some of the cost you had to pay in the Fall and the Spring.

Robert Parry

Let's assume inflation averages 1 to 2 percent. Then you could see maybe the natural funds rate would be -- I don't know -- 3.5 percent, something like that,

Thomas Mesereau

Let's assume he has the opportunity to make a documentary for TV for $7 million. It's not going to make much of a difference, is it? Not worth committing a crime over?

Hilary Clinton

Let's just assume that everyone running is honorable and just say what the differences are and let the people decide, ... That's what I hope will happen in this election, because in our lifetime, we may never get another chance like this.

Stanley Hauerwas

Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone's enemies - sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.

Kevin Hart

'Leading man' just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

Source Unknown

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

Italo Calvino

I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

Mike Enzi

Mandated hikes in the minimum wage do not cure poverty and they clearly do not create jobs.

Bob Stewart

like a baptism, it clears you out for the new year.

Al Jefferson

Like Doc said, the trade will clear out a lot of negative stuff in the locker room without Mark Blount and Marcus Banks, who didn't really want to be here. It clears the negative stuff out of the locker room and off the team, period.

Nariman Behravesh

Let's be clear -- for the next couple of months the employment numbers are going to look terrible. There's going to be a lot of noise and problems gathering the data, so it's going to be tougher than usual to sift through the tea leaves and really get at the heart of what's going on here.

Harry Reid

Let's be clear about what Katrina was: a failure of leadership.

Andre Agassi

Let's be clear about something. I wasn't the winner, tennis was. I never felt I was going to win that match but somehow it just fell my way.

Sathya Baba

Make it sooner than later. Keep the goal clear before the eye and march on.

Claudio Reyna

Luckily the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. It's a player's worst nightmare really. Hopefully it heals and everything goes to plan.

J. M. Roberts

Magazines tell you you should be a size zero. Excuse me I don't want to be a zero about anything.

Jacqueline Whitmore

Many times, all it takes is a glance or a gentle 'Excuse me,' and you turn back and watch the movie.

Ned Collins

Maybe we were a little overbought after yesterday. That scared some people and they started taking profits ...With stocks trading at this level, people are looking for any excuse to worry.

Larry Pellegrini

My guess is the lateness of the session will be used as an excuse to just not stand up for it.

Jason Ritter

I do exercises on my Wii. It's nice to have games that keep you active. It's an excuse to play video games.

Jalen Rose

When you're 0-4, things just aren't going your way. We're just not getting it done, our record indicates that, and I'm not going to make any excuses for it.

Cardinal Richelieu

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him

Camille Paglia

I don't remember the fat women. Can we leave the fat women out of this? Excuse me, I have to go to the toilet.

Gretchen Rubin

When we're trying to form and keep habits, we often search - even unconsciously - for loopholes. We look for justifications that will excuse us from keeping this particular habit in this particular situation.

Rick Perlstein

There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.

Jeffrey Mount

Levee failure is not an 'if', it's a 'when'. There seems to be a willingness to tolerate the human suffering and property loss that might come with these events.

Jim Sturgess

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

Lou Marcoccio

Many organizations have failures sitting in their systems, but they won't show up until they run the transactions.

Eli Khamarov

One failure is worth seven and a half successes

Jay Hood

None of these five incidents was a result of a failure to follow standard operating procedures in place at the time the incident occurred,

Randy Thompson

Obviously, they have the most to gain (and) the most to lose in terms of the market's success or failure.

Greg Biffle

I can't say what happened because we didn't have a failure all year.

Warren Miller

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your thing.

Isabella Rossellini

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

Isabella Rossellini

It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people there. They're widely popular, so they're seen by many people.

Robert Toombs

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.

Mallory Ortberg

After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.

David Cole

Low risk is something we generally recommend that users can ignore. Medium risk is something we quarantine, and high risk is something we automatically remove.

Lord Byron

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Michael Healey

Scott taught me a lot on general high jumping stuff, using my forearms and trying to keep me relaxed. He taught me how not to always be in such a hurry and missing stuff.

Richard Suzman

Minority health in general is worse than white health.

William Wood

Most water professionals think people use too much water in general and irrigate their lawns too much in particular. But we think the state is being unreasonable in their requests.

Kevin Mitnick

Anything out there is vulnerable to attack given enough time and resources.

Thomas p Kempis

Let Your name be praised, not mine: let Your work be magnified, not mine. Let Your holy name be blessed, but let nothing of man's praises be given to me.

Luan Enjie

Sending a man to the Moon? It would be a one-way ticket if we do it now, given the thrust of our rockets at present is not strong enough.

Tom White

maybe you could have given him a letter of reprimand.

Caitlyn Jenner

My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.

Rosemary Fox

One mom said if we hadn't given her a laptop, she would have gone insane.

Dannel Malloy

No one is confused about what a Democrat is in a presidential election. In every election other than a presidential election, our voters are confused. We've given out too many different messages.

Joanne Harris

No one should be so precious as to refuse criticism of their work. But to respect an opinion, we have to know that it was given honestly and with proper thought.

Stephen Marley

Music is a talent given to me by God. A medium and a platform and a way to spread a message of righteousness... a message of love, a message of unity.

Stump Mitchell

Mack always is looking to get better, not just maintain.

Jared Bernstein

Maybe we were looking under the wrong rock.

Bill Fulkerson

Maybe we're looking at November for oral arguments.

Simon Hawkins

Obviously we weren't able to offer him what he was looking for.

Matt Campbell

Obviously, we're looking to go well past ($1,000) this year.

Chris Rudge

One would rightfully say that you shouldn't just be looking at the quantity of medals, you should also be looking at the quality of medals.

Sheperd Paine

Monogram was reissuing the kits they made in the '50s, and they were looking for something new to give them some oomph,

Johnny Damon

More times than not, he's going to come through. He threw some tough pitches on the outside of the plate to get him looking out there, then he threw a perfect pitch in. Shields was an All-Star for a reason.

Christopher Monger

Now we are looking for distribution and fielding our first sales offers,

Marty Brown

Frankly, I don't think they've worked members very much, and then all of the sudden we get an ultimatum. It just doesn't feel to me like there's been enough groundwork done.

Jay Dillon

The primary consideration was to protect the student himself, and protect the students around him, as well as the staff members that were there.

Ted Dever

When UTC took over there were 900 employees. Now there's 500 union members and soon it will be down to 350.

Nigel Farage

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

Ben Shapiro

Members of Congress have more in common with the people they hobnob in Washington, D.C., than they do with the people they're supposed to represent.

Rodney Stark

The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.

Norman Black

We are making a very substantial proposal here that we think the union members would applaud,

Steve Smith

University officials and tribe members are working together on the appeal. We were heartened by (Tuesday's) news, and we think it's the right decision. Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

Darren Shan

You stole from a member of the undead

Siv Meisingseth

One of the three stewardesses did not have the necessary qualifications to work on this plane.

Tim Jones

When this occurs we have to start investigating and if necessary start a search.

Bob Poole

If we can get it into the township and get the necessary approvals, we can get it under way as soon as possible.

Francis Lockier

The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.

Jim Lewis

Yeah, that's awful. That's not necessary at all.

Lynn Woolsey

unless we take all steps necessary for nuclear disarmament.

Javier Solana

We have not been able to reach agreement. A precondition to constructive confidence, which is necessary now, is stopping all uranium enrichment activities.

Ron Dittemore

We're satisfied that the necessary precautions have taken place or we wouldn't launch.

Carl Elliott

We are going to make the necessary adjustments to him not being around.

Nigel S. Wright

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Tessa Jowell

The policy is not wrong and... time will prove it right,

Gary Orfield

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

David Gerke

The primary word is ?fun'; it's about fun.

Phil Palmer

The paving work will be done by Nielsen Construction as a sub-contractor and not by the primary contractors.

Eric Fischl

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

Bonnie MacPherson

It can't be someone's primary residence. That's very much intact.

Thomas Kilroy

I look at my writing as the primary activity,

Phil Wold

They need to let us know what their primary source is and if they have a backup.

James Wallace

Before you can play basketball, you need to make the grades. That's my primary concern.

Richard Giannini

The one thing that has been a primary priority has been facilities. That's the vision that we've got to continue. We've made tremendous upgrades since the year 2000.

Peter Mills

the shape of this primary is not yet firmed up.

Edward Everett

I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Al Goldstein

I refuse to be silenced.

Diane Jacobowitz

He refused to sign the petition. He didn't want any part of it.

Sadaharu Oh

I was disappointed but it's up to him to decide. It was not a surprise that he refused since he had been hesitating for such a long time.

Marcus Aurelius

He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse

Donald Glover

I refuse to go back to not liking who I was.

Denis Leary

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nuture.

Zab Judah

Just don't trash-talk then refuse to sign a contract, ... That's disrespectful.

Don Moreland

I thought Walker just stepped up and (turned on his game) in the second half, just refuse to lose.