Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop.

Brian Keith

We started slowly, but then began to put things together. We were 3-9 to begin the year, but we have gone 9-4 the rest of the way.

John Timoney

We stopped the rescue operation around 11 o'clock (Thursday) night, ... As the tide came in, the structure began to move, and other parts began to collapse again. We made the decision to pull our divers out.

Helen Scannell

We started from scratch. Immediately people began dropping things off - and they were nice things. Our goods are gently used. We are not a junkyard or garbage drop.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.

M.I.A.

Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.

Natasha Trethewey

Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.

Natasha Tsakos

I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.

Ma Jian

While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.

Sanjay Kumar

There are companies that are cutting their costs by over 50% by offshoring.

Joanne Harris

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.

Margaret Cavendish

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.

Jonathan Brown

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.

Alan Sugar

I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?

Dinah Sheridan

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

Edmund White

When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

Gerald Schatten

What's invaluable about Bernie is that he has gotten a number of us eggheads together and has translated what is scientific gobbledygook into English so that our neighbors and friends can understand it,

Joe Cocker

Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

John Ruskin

The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the well-informed, the improvident, the irregularly and impulsively wicked, the clu

Linus Torvalds

I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even if they happen to be working in the Portland area.

Uzo Aduba

My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

Kristin Gore

In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.

Eric Nylund

'Ghosts of Onyx' is the end of one chapter in the 'Halo' saga - and hopefully the start of an entirely new one!

Mark Geragos

We might as well open it up entirely and pollute the entire state.

Fred Wilpon

We're a sports service, not entirely a Mets service.

Terry Zwigoff

Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it's not a good career choice for anybody. I don't recommend it.

Laura Spencer

Auditioning is an entirely different part of what we do as actors.

Charles Spurgeon

Whenever there is a cross to be carried by any of Christ’s followers, He always bears the heavy end on His own shoulders.

Alan Parker

If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around...

Frank Lesh

We want to see whether or not the following months follow on up out of here after September gets out of the way. We could be looking at the highs right now.

Blaine Taylor

We've all had fun following George Mason. But we've got a lot of other good teams in our league.

Robert Straus

We still think there's at least 10 percent upside in tech. The sector's had a tremendous run, so it's not surprising that it's taking a rest. There will be follow through. When that follow through will take place is anybody's guess.

Robert Straus

We still think there's at least 10 percent upside in tech, ... The sector's had a tremendous run, so it's not surprising that it's taking a rest. There will be follow through. When that follow through will take place is anybody's guess.

Mark Barrowcliffe

A dog doesn't care if you're tired or it's raining. It wants to go out - and if it doesn't go out, it's going to be mournfully following you around the house for the whole evening.

Nick Woodman

Dedicating myself to actually following through was my single biggest achievement.

LaMarcus Aldridge

We have to follow the game plan. The pressure starts to pick up when it gets late, and we tend to just stand around, so we have to have more movement and a better mind-set.

David Mitchell

Assured her I’ve never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now,

Deepak Chopra

EVERYTHING that happens in the universe starts with an INTENTION

Viviane Reding

We have no intention to regulate the internet,

Meir Sheetrit

We have no intention of starving the Palestinian people.

Nick Saban

We have no intention of moving or trading Jason Taylor .

Marty Dickens

We have no intention of leaving this building.

Moshe Sharett

I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them.

Brett Favre

My intention... isn't to create controversy.

Deepak Chopra

Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Caleb Colton

A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.

Alan Rickman

Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.

Edith Wharton

It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.

Ed Sheeran

The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

Charlotte Bronte

It would not be wicked to love me." "It would to obey you.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

William Shakespeare

Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!

Charles Portis

The wicked flee when none pursueth.

Chinua Achebe

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.

Diana Gabaldon

It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.

Anthea Turner

Of course, we all have to be taxed, but once you start to earn more than £150,000, and start paying 45 per cent tax, you are penalised. It is like a witch hunt.

Christine O'Donnell

I am not a witch. I'm nothing you've heard. I'm you.

Brian Blair

is not going to be a witch hunt; it's a fact-finding mission.

Peter Schiff

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

Madchen Amick

I really loved Witches of Eastwick, the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.

Michael Cunningham

a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm

J. K. Rowling

No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.