Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Egan

I grew up listening to Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, and Angela Lansbury, so I grew up wanting to sound like Patti and Bernadette. What I realized, though, is that I can't sound like that, and what makes their performances magical is their uniqueness.

Robin Oakley

Basically what it boils down to is whether Angela Merkel detaches the Greens from Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder into a coalition with her and the Free Democrats, or whether Chancellor Schroeder detaches the Free Democrats from Angela Merkel's side.

Donna Karan

She has very big shoes to fill, but if anyone can do it, Angela can.

Terry McMillan

She has a certain kind of power and sensuality and strength. The way I perceived Stella, she has it, ... And there's a softness in Angela that I don't think you've seen in other movies.

Paul Johnson

Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France's leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country.

Marissa Chovanec

Yeah, and I will continue to watch them play on TV. Their abilities and their leadership will be missed, and it's not that you can say they will be replaceable, because they won't be. Sam was that way, and Angela is like that candle. They light it for the younger players to learn from for years to come.

Henry Giroux

What is invaluable about Angela Davis' work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations, but connects every aspect of her scholarship and public interventions to what the contours of a truly democratic society might look like.

Henry Giroux

Angela Davis's legacy as a freedom fighter made her an enemy of the state under the increasingly neoliberal regimes of Nixon, Reagan and J. Edgar Hoover because she understood that the struggle for freedom was not only a struggle for political and individual rights but also for economic rights.

Tasha Smith

I love Catherine Maladrino, Angela Dean and Nicole Miller. Catherine Maladrino designs that beautiful, high-class red carpet stuff. Nicole Miller makes beautiful dresses you can wear every day. And when you just want to go and shut it down, you turn to Angela Dean.

Isabella Rossellini

You don't do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.

Marc Faber

The positive aspect of my negative view is essentially that you shouldn't own cash and government bonds, but you should be in assets like real estate or equities or precious metals or in commodities.

David Perez

Like anything, if you are looking to reach less acculturated fans, the first aspect is to give them an understanding of the game, because they did not grow up around it, ... From the market research done, there is a real openness and willingness for them to become more American, and football is part of the American experience.

Gene Luen Yang

Like all of us, I don't think Facebook is 100% evil, but there are aspects of it that move towards evilness. It's true of all the major Silicon Valley companies, that there are aspects to all of them that move towards evilness, but I don't believe they're 100% evil.

John Glenn

Let me castigate the press a moment here. Too often you get into the human aspects of this and you don't get into the scientific stuff that gets into everybody's house all over this country.

Vincent Van Gogh

Love is eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shed

Vincent Van Gogh

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence

Judy Shaubach

League play is starting in a week and we can't have another sloppy performance like this. Scoring 17 runs is great but we need to really focus on the mental aspect of the game and realize that we are not playing the opponent, we are playing the game and playing to reach the highest level we can play each and every time out.

Robert Pitofsky

Many posted privacy statements are hard to locate, read, and understand, ... Further, other aspects of what have come to be known as fair information practices, like the requirement that online participants have a reasonable opportunity to see what information has been collected about them and to correct errors that creep into a database, have barely been addressed.

Kojo Annan

I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda.

Joe Flaherty

'SCTV' was the concept of a group ensemble doing satirical things. 'Saturday Night Live's sketches were broader than ours, more universal.

Mark Zandi

So far, the surge in oil prices has yet to do any significant damage to the broader economy. We may see some softening in the consumer spending numbers soon, but unless that translates into a weaker job market, the economy should be able to weather these higher energy prices.

Randall Baumberger

Mirage is clearly an industry leader in loudspeaker sound quality and design. Mirage's premium speakers complement our industry-leading home entertainment selection, and we're excited to offer an even broader selection to our customers.

Larry Johannessen

Newer teachers also have a broader perspective on literature.

Brad Wilkerson

give everybody a broader sense of where they can come in and get involved and have a chance to purchase some great items for a great cause.

Evan Osnos

For years, China expected foreign companies not to publicly voice their complaints about hacking or intellectual-property violations in order to protect their broader interests in the country.

Benjamin Franklin

for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Brian Schott

From a safety and family-friendly standpoint, it was no longer an event that felt good to us. We also wanted to look at an end-of-season event that could have broader participation.

George Lois

A truly great magazine cover surprises, even shocks, and connects in a nano-second.

Todd Rutherford

We still feel there's something intangible that connects all the music. Lots of people, regardless of the song, can hear it and know that it's Gram Rabbit.

Theodor Mommsen

The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects the three divisions of the Old World.

Steve Griffin

We're about deploying a piece of software that connects people. Our software is so much more than music or media.

Jessica Aiken

It connects with the soul. People connect with the environment and their surroundings and this painter really strove to do that with the landscape by finding the peace in it.

Tom Beckett

It connects the past, the present and the future for us. It's a spectacular hire.

Bill McDonald

He's been a pretty reliable guy. The troops like him, and he connects pretty well with the public,

Thom Mayne

We're producing spaces that accommodate human activity. And what I'm interested in is not the styling of that, but the relationship of that as it enhances that activity. And that directly connects to ideas of city-making.

Dana Taylor

Nick is an explosive player and it will be difficult to keep him off the pitch. He goes forward very well, dribbles well and connects with his teammates.

Lynn Swann

Minorities give their vote to the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party has given them lip service in terms of being involved in the party and in being major players.

Sitiveni Rabuka

Mr. Speight undermined the democratic process. The government has been incapacitated, illegally.

David Rebovich

Menendez has the experience and leadership positions in Washington already. Menendez in the Senate is also helpful to the national Democratic Party, who want someone strong in there.

Hashim Thaci

No one can stop the future of democratic Kosovo.

Uzi Landau

The prime minister wants to appoint these two because they served him through all the democratic manipulations he has been involved in,

Vicente Fox

What I am hoping for is votes from intelligent and democratic PRD supporters who want change,

Jason Willett

On the Democratic side, we've had somebody looking at it for a long time. From the party's perspective, when you've not had the governor's office in 10 years you're ready for a race like this for quite some time.

Dana Rohrabacher

January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a free and democratic society as they place their votes for a transitional Iraqi government.

Bayard Rustin

The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.

Chris Gabrieli

Time is a resource, much like money or autonomy, which can be invaluable or can be squandered.

Andrew Friedman

He's been invaluable in our discussions and our planning going forward, and the working relationship has been outstanding.

Rich Rodriguez

He understands everything we're trying to do. He's invaluable to us, more so for his leadership than anything else.

Timothy Dean

Our students won't simply be placed at the back of a section. They'll be right in the middle of the action, near the front. It will give them invaluable experience.

Steve Sampson

(Cronin) got invaluable playing time tonight and I thought he played very well for his debut.

Patrick Cox

It's really an invaluable natural resource. We wanted to make sure it's in a protected state.

Daniele Audetto

They have been invaluable in the development of the team, in every aspect.

Keith Reynolds

You never feel like you're really ready for this until it happens. Preparing for a big to-do like this is an invaluable experience.

Ron Rivera

It's an invaluable time for him because he can learn so much. It's a little disappointing we didn't get the job done.

Rick Perlstein

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

Bill Flott

Make it your top priority in this next week to get these issues resolved.

Christopher Klaus

Many of the issues come from software vendors trying too rapidly to get the software out of the door,

Gerardo Copca

Many issues that had lagged are rising this week.

Christopher Richter

Setting those two issues aside, we would have seen a pretty nice rise.

Matthew Fassler

Mr. Edmondson's personal issues ... are tangential to the firm's recent lack of execution, results and direction.

Ron Pollack

Of all the policy issues going on right now in Washington, this is probably the most important.

Richard Boucher

Non-proliferation is one of the most important issues on our agenda.

Gene Green

On issues like this, we are trying to pull together,

Mo Ibrahim

Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

Jeff Chambers

MSU is on a limited budget. We don't have enough money to tape every athlete.

Joseph Volpe

Maybe with 'Parsifal,' because it's only three performances and a limited rehearsal time, we'll be able to get someone really good.

Pete Sepp

Obviously we need to start considering limits on this sort of taxation.

Margaret Gillett

Now we have space to move around in. We were pretty limited before.

Rick Dinse

I can't set a time limit on this,

Earl Nightingale

There is no limit on earnings.

Deepak Chopra

To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being.

Ray Garcia

The only limit is to make it underneath the bridge,

Richard P. Feynman

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

Albert Schweitzer

Do something good and someone might imitate it.

Gunther Cunningham

Let's not talk about it. I might throw up while I'm talking.

David Carr

Seven weeks might sound like a short time. But I can get a lot done in that span.

Mike Stiller

Seventy-five a week might sound like a lot of fish, but it isn't.

Robert B. Parker

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

Carol Thorp

Motorists might see prices stabilize over the next week or two, but that could only be a temporary pause.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Movies might take five-six years, sometimes 10 years to produce. For television, when you have an idea, you put it to a network and within a week or so they have an answer.

Tom Tremont

One owner pays seven times more than another might pay.

Timothy Noah

Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.

Eleanor Clift

John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante

Lena Headey

If I was into politics, I would be rich.

Elliott Abrams

Four years is a long time in politics.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Dan Aykroyd

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

Oliver St. John

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

Oliver Kahn

This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

Sergei Lavrov

A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics.

Elbert Hubbard

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Dick Bronson

If we're in trouble, this should tell us, and it should be done in a public way.

Robert Lopez

If they're here illegally, they shouldn't be accessing public services.

George Galloway

I care about public perception, yes. I don't care about my enemies' perception.

Tom Smothers

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

Nicola Sturgeon

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

Andrew Morton

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

Keith Gilbertson

We never had to go to public lands.

Eduardo Paes

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

Le Corbusier

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

Noam Chomsky

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

Ludwig von Mises

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

Ludwig von Mises

Socialist society is a society of officials.

Ludwig von Mises

The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

Ludwig von Mises

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

Gary Knowles

We are doing it for their own protection. They are subjected to not just violence, but also social diseases.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Basil Hume

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

John Rhys-Davies

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

Chen Guangbiao

Society needs hundreds of hundreds of thousands of Chen Guangbiaos.

Sylvester Stallone

Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.

Sam Kinison

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

Abu Bakr

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Yoshihiko Noda

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

Albert Schweitzer

Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.

Carrie Fisher

I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

Craig Bruce

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

Chris Hemsworth

I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.

Barbara Green

Those who complained truly feel that they are discriminated against, they truly feel that way.

Marianne Williamson

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.

August Wilson

I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.

Herbie Hancock

I was trying to make something truly collaborative,

Robert Wilson

My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.

Malcolm McDowell

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

Jorge Cruz

We're not doing anything bad. We just need the work.

Adoniram Judson

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

Kathryn Minshew

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Kathryn Bigelow

My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.