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.

Jamie Dixon

We want our people to improve. We want them to get better. This is the most important award for us.

Charles Stross

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

Alex Miller

The CPRC has been chosen as the recipient of this award for their long history of promoting GIS both locally and around the world, ... As pioneers of GIS in Saskatchewan and having contributed to more than 100 laudable GIS projects, the CPRC continues to provide cutting-edge GIS research and specialized application to environmental and cartographic projects in the Canadian plains.

Guy Pearce

The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, 'okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it's a good film, and it's up for an award - well, I guess it should win the award then.'

Sharon Stone

I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.

Taylor Lautner

I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.

Tom Lehrer

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

Chantal Kreviazuk

Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think.

Bill Stevens

We are honored to receive this award from General Motors. It is especially gratifying as Motion Industries serves to set the benchmark for quality.

Ian Collins

We have a special player in Andy. He always brings his best.

Mick Cornett

We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.

Claude Julien

There is certainly an element of confidence that he brings to their side. He certainly makes that one line become very dominant. That's what they were.

Atharva Veda

Very few are those perfect ones who do this good deed. The wealth of the Lord's Name is inexhaustible; it shall never be exhausted. In this world, it brings a constant peace, and at the Lord's Gate, it brings honor.

Emmett Shear

Our app for Xbox 360 brings Twitch video to the television and into the living room of millions of Xbox Live members for the first time. The app will let every Xbox Live gamer find and watch streams of their favorite games from their couch.

Charles M. Schwab

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.

Dane Cook

I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.

Katherine LaNasa

Sometimes you can just not spend that much money or do a minor change with color on a certain room, and it just can open up and brings people a lot of joy. They can go from hating a room or hating a house to loving it.

Lauren London

I think that in any family - black, white, Chinese, Spanish, whatever - family is family. You know that there's dysfunction, and that there's this cousin who doesn't like this auntie. But, at the end of the day, like I say, love brings everybody together.

Noreena Hertz

Philanthropists today want input into how their monies are being deployed. The big question is, can governments use this insight to sell the rich the idea of paying more tax rather than spend more on charitable giving?

Nigel Wright

She was probably the most charitable person you could ever meet.

Michael Atherton

My suspicion, in England at least, is that the more charitable view will prevail.

Dana Williams

Ninety-five percent of the charitable groups out there are doing very, very good work.

August Strindberg

Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Jeff Nobers

The PGA Tour is very dedicated to charitable giving. That is the hallmark of the tour. The players' wives, when they are at a tournament, try to get into the community effort somewhere.

Terry Lundgren

While the store's name will change, much of what customers love will stay the same, including Marshall Field's traditions and its outstanding record of community and charitable giving.

Robert Taft

we were respected as the most disinterested and charitable nation in the world.

Pat Niksich

We are doing what we are able to do. The St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry and Conference exist solely on donations and we will continue, through the giving spirit of this community, to be able to offer charitable help to those in need.

Kevin Decker

We want to redeem ourselves after losing to Greenwich. We're ready to start the season and continue the streak. We want to make it 29 in a row.

Susan Hill

We have no intention of leaving and we intend to continue to provide the services that we're providing. It won't be easy, but we're staying.

Phil Zepeda

We have never seen an outpouring of support like this in our existence. It's just tremendous, and the outpouring of support just continues to come.

Greg Scott

We want more students to join. We hope those numbers continue to increase.

David Schmidly

We want him to get well, get back on his feet and we will look forward to the time when he will return and continue his contribution to our university.

Ryan Anderson

We wanted to win Metro to continue our legacy. It's keeping the tradition going that was passed on from (former players) Jamal (Crawford), Rod (Stewart), D. Hudson and David King. It's all about passing the torch and keeping it going.

John Hargreaves

We have produced record results...these have been delivered by providing our members with outstanding value for money and through continued store expansion,

Jim Tressel

We've seen him mature and grow into the role, and he is just going to continue to get better and better. He can be a very efficient running back here at Ohio State.

Mark McClellan

We've seen enrollment continue at a steady pace, faster than what we saw before the late December surge.

E. P. Thompson

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

Jill Soloway

Watching 'Girls,' it was really angering for me at first, because I really had spent decades hiding unlikable, unattractive Jewish girls in likable, attractive, non-Jewish actors and characters.

Peggy Jones

We're extremely honored to have Sonia Sanchez at this year's festival. For decades now, she has been an original, serious voice who movingly describes the African-American experience.

Robert Reich

The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes.

Mahmoud Abbas

It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

Douglas Coupland

My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.

Jim Whitehurst

My goal at Delta is to return our service levels to industry leading, which they were for decades until the mid-'90s. If we do that and keep the hearts and minds of our people as we do that, it will ultimately lead to financial success.

Juan Felipe Herrera

My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.

Kevin Browne

Four generations of our family have lived and worked here at Shafer Shores. Through the years we have thrived on repeat guests, many of whom measure their time here in decades rather than years.

Bradley Chicho

Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.

Al Gore

has been a friend, and it's my fervent hope that he will also be our nominee in the year 2004.

Elliott Pollack

It is my fervent hope that they don't do the same thing this time. The level of single-family housing growth in Phoenix and Tucson is not sustainable.

Bob Roach

I would like them to pay. Our fervent hope is that they feel pain.

Pat Hanlon

Any time people who are ardent, fervent supporters of your franchise have a place to go to share in that fervor, I think it's a good thing.

Deborah Sampson

In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.

John Ricci

But if (nursing homes) don't have vaccines by the end of the month, they will probably start making more fervent pleas.

Thomas Monson

Nothing penetrates the human heart as does a personal, fervent prayer and its heaven-sent response. "

Gore Vidal

I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.

Rachel Joyce

In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.

Tony Gwynn

Harold is the Pied Piper of Little League baseball,

Bob Storman

This is turning into a crusade. You're seeing the grass-roots movement that got Harold Washington elected. ... The numbers are going to go up. You're going to have more troops on the street.

Tom Stoppard

As a writer, Harold has been unswerving for 50 years,

Jim Graham

Security is a cat-and-mouse game, it's an ongoing process.

Coleen Rowley

This was a lied-into war that is a quagmire now, ... It could be worse than Vietnam. The truth is we can't win, and there's still an ongoing deception.

Rick Fox

This will be an ongoing process and will take up to a year to close.

Craig Johnson

We perceive this to be an ongoing threat that will be there for many years to come.

Virginia Kice

We have an open and ongoing investigation so we're not talking a lot about it.

Russell Ahr

There is an ongoing investigation. This isn't over.

Joschka Fischer

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

Saxby Chambliss

has been ongoing throughout most of the year.

Efraim Levy

If they don't get their sales up, it's not going to be enough. There is going to be ongoing restructuring.

Bob Dylan

I'm not a playwright.

David Henry Hwang

You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.

Sarah Ruhl

Any woman who is a playwright is already a feminist.

Brian McDermott

Being a playwright is lot of work. There are a lot more venues around here this year than years ago.

Jesse Eisenberg

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

Cherry Jones

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.

Bruce Sevy

I do think it is a service to the playwright and that's a service to the theater indirectly.

Sam Shepard

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

Tina Ambani

There was a time when I could only relate to happy works. With time, my taste has evolved.

Alanis Morissette

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

John Winn

When you trace back so many incidences of weapons and violence, they do relate to bullying.

Chaka Khan

If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.

Kiesza

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

Tibby Johnston

Most stories are related to respect. So they know that we need to respect everything.

Anwar Robinson

Everything I do is music-related.

Edward Hirsch

Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.

Ellen Wong

I wasn't able to relate to anyone on TV growing up, so I wanted to bring my own experiences to the screen.

Lindsey Bruno

We have so many young players. My role is to keep them focused. That's not always easy. But we must be doing something right.

Ricky Gervais

There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.

Brian Chesky

I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly.

Ben Roethlisberger

We know we're going to be the underdogs and we probably like that role a little more.

Catherine Deneuve

I choose my roles carefully.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Caroline Kennedy

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Ryan Martin

I was just trying to keep my serves inbound. I wasn't really going for aces.

Nancy Stern

We had a lot of reinforcing in the basement. It took several years to get it where we wanted it, but it serves us well.

Steven Smith

We don't feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students.

Steve Smith

We do not feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students.

George Stroumboulopoulos

If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.

Edmund Hillary

I'm definitely a Queen supporter. She was great.

Erik Paulsen

I'm not a supporter of ObamaCare. I voted to repeal it, to defund it, et cetera. But we do need to move on.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I am sure that my supporters will understand me.

Christopher Meyer

O'Bleness is a hospital. We are supporters of that hospital,

Rafa Benitez

I was with our supporters at the end. I could see him but he didn't want to.

George W. Bush

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

Serena Williams

I'm a big supporter of this product for women. And [my relationship with the brand Berlei] was so organic. I would go to the store and buy 40 or 50 bras every year because I could only get them in Australia at the time. And then eventually they heard that I would come and take all the stock.

Jose Mourinho

The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.

Sean Young

I have a lot of supporters.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Adam Ferrara

When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Jane Austen

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

Charlotte Bronte

I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express." - Jane Eyre

Charles de Gaulle

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles Dickens

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.

Azim Premji

Over these years, I have irrevocably transferred a significant part of the shareholding in Wipro, amounting to 39% of the shares of Wipro, to a trust.

Brandon Cox

Respect people who trust you. It takes a lot for people to trust you, so treat their trust like precious porcelain.

Dick Armey

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

David Allen

Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you.

David Cross

Maybe if you live in Brooklyn, you don't need to hear that? But please, trust me, in most of America, they do need to hear it. And they're quite thankful that somebody came out and did it. For an hour and a half in that theater, for once, they're in the majority.

Al Jardine

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality

David Hilbert

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

Nancy Astor

My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Charles Bukowski

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

Walter Salles

The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

David Whyte

The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears

Justin Tuck

This camp, being my first, it's a vital one.

Kenzo Tange

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Jean Paul

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Brian Keene

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

Marianne Williamson

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.