Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Becker

We are not an all-ages dance club. We are a skills-building youth music and arts program that also does concerts.

Edward Gibbon

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Liane Balaban

Anything we can do to encourage our young people to celebrate the arts and believe in a career in the arts is wonderful for Canada and for Canadian youth.

Mark Helprin

The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.

Heather Watts

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

Heather Watts

I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.

Bill Hartley

We're happy to end our participation in this season of' Arts Nights, City Lights' with an evening of music and fun for the whole family.

Kurt Angle

I've been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms - they wanted me ready to fight in four weeks, but you've got to be out of your mind. So I decided to go back to my roots, back to wrestling.

E. O. Wilson

work closely with other arts organizations, civic and community groups, and local businesses to form alliances and supportive networks.

Carol Leifer

When do we put on the lingerie? Always at the beginning of the relationship - first couple of months, strutting around the bedroom wearing a teddy. Yeah, six months later, you've stopped shaving your legs and you look like a teddy.

Carol Vorderman

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.

Dean Treanor

We have no idea what's going to happen or who they want back. I know some guys I want back, so discussions will take place over the next couple of weeks.

Barry Trotz

We have needed big goals in our last couple of games, and he has gotten them for us. He plays with a lot of energy. He is a feisty type of guy. You need all kinds of players to be successful as a team. He is part of a good mix.

Larry Sabato

When you're worth a couple hundred million it's less of a problem than most people.

Billy Beane

When Frank is healthy, he is a huge right-handed presence. And that's been a big issue for us the last couple of years.

Ron Gardenhire

When he got in a couple of jams, he made some pitches when he had to. But he pitched, and that's what we've been talking about. It's something that he's learned, to not overthrow, and now he's just pitching.

Denny Butler

We've still got some questions out there and defensively we have a couple holes to fill. Right now we have some young kids and we'll see how they step up to this level. It doesn't happen in 10 days of practice, it will happen after we face some people. We may come out of the chute 0-5, but hopefully by then we learn what we can do down the road.

Aaron Spelling

I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.

Vitaly Mutko

We want to return our team to the glory days of the Soviet Union.

Debbie Martinez

We have seen a lot of heavy traffic in the last week or two. The warmer days in early November were slower than usual, but it has picked up and doubled up since the weather has cooled off.

Todd Kapala

We have seen a good three or four days of trading so (investors) are taking profits at this point.

Chris Saunders

We have no excuses. They just didn't play good today. I don't think playing two days in a row makes any difference.

Ricky Craven

The fact is that some days are not your days and some days you get lucky. Over the long haul, that probably evens out.

Tim Tebow

I train about six days a week. I'm training at the same intensity as I did when I was playing football. I've done it for my entire life, and I love it.

Thomas Massie

I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

George Nichols

We are going to look back at 2000 as the glory days that crashed.

Elon Musk

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

Jordan Metzl

We were always encouraged to do whatever it was we wanted to do. There was never a goal that was too high or too crazy.

Uzo Aduba

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

Johnny McDaid

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

Tom Lantos

(We) strongly encouraged them to understand that in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, the focus of the American people will turn inward,

Lev Yilmaz

We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with those whom he led. He was not afraid of close friendships. He spent many hours with his disciples, and his relationships with them were intimate.

Kate Bush

Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.

Mahesh Acharya

There is no need to be excited or encouraged by the appeal.

Paul Rice

She always encouraged her kids to do whatever they wanted.

Jon Groth

We were too passive offensively today until the ninth, when we put up some runs. I was glad to see us come back late. It ended just short of where we needed it to.

Alfredo Palacio

The people of Ecuador, particularly the people of Quito, today have ended the dictatorship, the immorality, the great power, the terror of fear,

Tim Fish

I really started self-publishing on a serious level in 2002. Those smaller books did well, ended up moving from doing a series to compiling everything into a trade paperback in about 2005.

Ewen Bremner

I turned down plenty of films which proved to be hugely successful. And, of course, I've also had plenty of experiences where everyone thought we were doing brilliant work and it ended up pretty horrific. Same as any actor, really.

Roxanne Cardejon

We started out with only one tumbler and we ended up with seven at the KIF championships.

Angelo Babbaro

We started out last year also at 3-0, but we ended up going 3-3, so we've got to keep up the intensity.

Darren Rommerdahl

We started off a little slow but got better as the game went on ...When we ended up getting our opportunities, we were hungry enough to go and get some goals.

John Shaw

We started flat, we played flat and we ended flat. I don't know why, but maybe my younger players just weren't ready for it.

Ignacio Bunye

We are thankful that the incident ended peacefully.

Carol Leifer

My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.

C. S. Lewis

The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.

David Parrish

We want to rebuild a strong neighborhood that's got potential. If we picked a spot that had 73 parcels and 50 homes and 40 were just falling apart, that would be a total redevelopment.

Charlie Chaplin

Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

Bashir Ahmed

The people in tents are at a big risk of falling victim to hypothermia.

David Schwimmer

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

David Sedaris

If finding an apartment is like falling in love, buying one is like proposing on your first date and agreeing not to see each other until the wedding.

David Guterson

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.

David Crosby

I produced her first album, and I was breaking up with her at the time. That was not comfortable. Falling in love with Joni Mitchell is a bit like falling into a cement mixer!

Emilio Butragueno

We want to reflect and in the next few weeks we'll make a decision.

Jovon Johnson

When you run a blitz, a lot of things have to happen. It might take a few games for it to feel natural.

Ryan Gentles

We were trying to do less media and fewer big things. We could have done as much as the first album, but we just turned some down on purpose.

Jimmy Chupp

We have played a lot of passing teams, so it's kind of like the first few games got us ready for this.

Benedict Arnold

We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt Water.

John Breeding

We've sold quite a few already this year.

Kathy Drea

We've seen this happen in other states. After the first few pass (restrictions) and people see the sky doesn't fall, then it goes very quickly.

John Glover

We have responded to several grass fires in the last few weeks, but there have been no structure fires. For us, it has been considerably more than we normally run.

Jacques Santini

There is a lot of fatigue, so we need to take things step by step, ... There is a lot of physical and psychological pressure when you play every few days.

Carl Andre

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

Charlotte Bronte

After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

Charlotte Bronte

I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.

Myles Brand

We have resolved all differences. We found a way to go forward. This is a significant agreement.

Bill Taylor

The process has been reviewed, and it's been found to be safe.

Kyle Waters

We used to send out material before school started but we've found that just being visible gets the word out.

Tony Goldwyn

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.

Tim Tebow

When your identity is found in Christ, your identity never changes. You are always a child of God.

David Selby

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

Carlos Beltran

I'm a family man. I just love being around my family.

C. S. Lewis

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

C. S. Lewis

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

C. S. Lewis

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

C. S. Lewis

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

Agnes Smedley

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Agnes Repplier

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...

Agnes Repplier

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Aaron Stanford

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Carl Bernstein

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

Raheem Brock

We wanted to win this game. If you miss it by a step, it makes you upset.

Aaron Spelling

You know what shows today are missing? Stars.

Aaron Spelling

I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

Charlotte Bronte

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

Charles Studd

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

Charles Studd

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

Bruce Scott

When I missed that I re-adjusted my sights for 2006.

Carlos Gutierrez

We used to try to see what other work we could grab. Now our mission is to be seen as a high-technology plant.

Carlos Mencia

If your gonna drop out of school - tough grades are not your goal - then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole.

Carl Crawford

I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.

C. S. Lewis

But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more probable," said the Profesor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools.

Agnes Varda

I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.

Agnes Varda

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

Aaron Tveit

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

Aaron Tveit

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

Aasif Mandvi

There's no school that you can go to and learn how to be a "Daily Show" correspondent and how to interview people and, you know, essentially leave your soul outside the door and go in there and kind of, you know, destroy people's lives sometimes.

Aasif Mandvi

Bradford specifically there were a lot of Pakistanis there. Even today it has a very large Pakistani population.It was something that I experienced - getting chased home from the bus stop after school by English kids, boarding school, being targeted for praying to what they call Allah wallah ding dong.

Bill Owens

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.

Peter Shaffer

Things rust, you know, like the heart. My cardiologist said, 'It's a pump; use it - that's the sole advice I've got to give you.' It's the same in playwriting. Don't theorise about it. Do it.

Aldous Huxley

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

Leonardo da Vinci

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

John Milton

Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

Henri Poincare

Experiment is the sole source of truth.

Zadie Smith

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Dave Foley

I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.

Ed Belfour

I have been dealing with back problems since 1995 when I was with the Blackhawks, and I've only missed part of one season because of it. That was last season in Toronto.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Personally, I love Toronto.

Mike Myers

I'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then there are times when unfair, unkind, untrue things are written about you. That bothers me less now.

Madonna Ciccone

Me and Mr. Brainwash in Toronto signing his mural at Hard Candy Fitness Opening! #artforfreedom

Jeffery Deaver

Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.

Mats Sundin

And when things are not going well in Toronto, you're going to hear about it. And you're going to say things are not good at all, where it's really not that bad.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Kensington Market is a must visit place in Toronto.

Griffin Dunne

I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.

Brad Meltzer

There's nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us - or admitting we can't do it all ourselves.

Brad Meltzer

The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?

Bobby Womack

Leave them wanting more and you know theyll call you back.

Michael Taylor

I'm always wanting to score. I want to win the game.

Ron Gardenhire

I can't see Rad not wanting to go out there.

AJ Michalka

You kind of need to weed through who is wanting to be a true friend.

Oscar Isaac

I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'

Hill Harper

There's nothing wrong with wanting a partner and doing the things to have one. To protect ourselves, we have to say, 'I don't need one.'

Marilyn Monroe

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.