Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.

Robert Osborne

For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that, the real goal is then to win an Academy Award. Because when they do, they know that their obit is going to start out, 'Academy Award winner so-and-so.'

Ronald Kessler

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Malcolm McDowell

It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.

Shawn Amos

Like any self-governing group of people, the Recording Academy has made missteps over the years. Still, it has corrected course and done more to open its arms to the future than nearly any other industry group around.

Jahangir Khan

Let's face it. There is no setup in Pakistan to train and groom young players at the grassroots level in different sports. Those of us who did make a name for ourselves and became champions did it with our own initiative - there was no academy to back us till we reached a certain level on our own.

Mark Ishikawa

Screeners have been distributed to Academy members and many of them are already appearing online.

Sean Conway

Senator Allard wants them to look at the Air Force Academy from leadership through process.

David DeMartini

Much like he had an opportunity to work with Puzo and kind of evolve the book into a screenplay - which obviously required some modification to what Puzo had done - I just hope that he respects that we were targeting a different customer and we're trying to keep this fiction alive. The book's a great book; the movie's Academy Award winning; and hopefully the game will get a tremendous amount of acclaim as well. Just respect each of those works for what they are, I think that's the best way for us all to look at it.

Richard Greene

LBT pushes the state of the art in telescope performance, and it is a tremendous honor to be named the director. I'm excited by the challenge of completing the ambitious vision and satisfying the partners' scientific aspirations for this powerful, path-finding telescope.

Jack Greenberg

McDonald's is proud of the tangible difference we have made for the environment in just 10 years. As we head into the new century, McDonald's will continue to set new, ambitious targets for environmental progress.

Doug Scofield

No, not really. Even with this ambitious schedule, there is plenty of time to do other things. We just want to do it early and often and around the state.

Jacques Diouf

None will reach the more ambitious (1996) World Food Summit goal of halving the number of hungry people.

Chris Evert

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

Rowan Woods

On one level it is quite an ambitious sprawling narrative.

Michael Learned

I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did in those days. I've never been a pushy, ambitious type of person anyway.

Scott Turow

I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there's a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here.

Guus Hiddink

I'm an ambitious coach and I want to be successful here in Russia. There is a lot of technical potential within Russia's national team and if the players are aware of their potential I think they can increase their level.

Jonny Gomes

Like I always tell people, I'm a baseball player, it's what I do,

Robert Fick

Like I always say, I'm just glad to be in the lineup, playing baseball.

Paul Archey

Major League Baseball is very interested in playing games in Europe. We're investigating possibilities in Europe where we may be able to play regular-season games as early as the 2007 season.

Bud Selig

Major League Baseball is fortunate to have a man of Jimmie Lee's experience, intellect and dedication already on board to handle such a complex and important position as the chief of our baseball operations. Over the years, he has demonstrated considerable skill in working through the labyrinth of our minor league system. I have great confidence that he will be an enormous success in this key position.

Gary Wadler

Major League Baseball can't put its head in the sand and do a sound-bite press conference and say everything's going to be fine. Everything's not fine.

Mark Snyder

Major League Baseball and Holiday Inn are going to hit a home run. I just had to say that.

Mike Butters

Lets put it this way. If this was baseball, our magic number would be six.

Billy Beane

Lenny was so perfectly designed, emotionally, to play the game of baseball. He was able to instantly forget any failure and draw strength from every success. He had no concept of failure. And he had no idea of where he was.

Higinio Velez

Let's fight together so this event won't be held every four years but rather every two, so the baseball world won't have to wait so long to enjoy this.

Robert Osborne

Seeing New York in the movies is what made me want to live in Manhattan one day. I eventually got my wish, and the city has never disappointed me.

Marc Morial

A great American city is fighting for its life.

David Keller

Light rail has given Salt Lake City a new kind of ambience. It feels like a real city.

Michael Stern

Like in every city, some are healthy, some suffer. We try to establish a criteria and separate one mega city from another. The crucial points we look for are that the city has to be a critical place (whether regionally or globally speaking) and it needs to have a critical system which the entire city depends on,

Mike Woods

Life in the city is schedule after schedule.

Jennifer Post

Making it easier for people to travel throughout the metropolitan region includes giving them confidence about knowing how to use mass transit. And because thousands of people travel in and out of New York City every day to the Hudson Valley, Connecticut and New Jersey, it makes perfect sense for us to take a broad, regional approach.

Michael Stoops

Las Vegas has always gotten an F (in those areas). Someday I hope the city will quit criminalizing homelessness and they'll get off the list.

Peter Ueberroth

Leaders who aren't on the radar will emerge. If the city is going to recover, they must emerge.

Jim Brandt

Many of the previous powers the City Council enjoyed are now largely irrelevant under the current conditions.

Peter Fonda

LSD was designed for you to look inside yourself. Quite a liberating experience if you can pull it off.

Jim Kennedy

made a good-faith effort to respond to the questions despite the fact that they were designed more for a partisan purpose than a constitutional one.

Amity Gaige

Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.

Mark Keller

Miss Copley, you're not going to like any of this, ... Your stay is too short. It's designed for punishment. Period.

Todd Spencer

Of course, the licensing process is designed to simply slide as many people through with a minimum of experience and quality.

Andy Weir

My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we designed a moon base.

John Clifford

Needless to say, we are very pleased with these results, ... Our enhanced surveillance program is designed to provide information about the level of prevalence of B.S.E. in the United States, which by any measure is extremely low.

Theo de Raadt

I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality.

Steve Owen

From an outsider's perspective I can understand it seems odd to open a new facility while another one is closing. But Red Rock is designed for a state contract.

Roy Williams

Let's be honest, we made shots. When you make shots, the whole game looks prettier.

Paul Maguire

Let's be honest, this is a game where The Citadel gets a nice paycheck.

Werner Erhard

Life is a game. In order to have a game something has to be more importantthan something else. If what already is, is more important than what isn't the game is over. So, life is a game in which what isn't is more important than what is. Let the good times roll.

Reggie Torbor

Luckily we all can play a lot of positions or we'd be in trouble right now. But we can't send the commissioner a letter and say, 'We've got some people hurt. Let us play Wednesday.' The game is going to go on.

Gregg Bahen

Lucky for us, games are played on the field. It was a physical game and our kids are going to be sore tomorrow, but, without a doubt, they'll be happy tomorrow.

Craig Faire

Mackenzie played phenomenal here. She really stepped up her game.

Bussy Adam

(MacKenzie) has been stringing great practices together. He had a great game last Thursday and then (Saturday) he got started a little slowly, but then he got into his groove and started to shoot better.

Matt Strophy

Mackenzie got the game ball. This was her first game back from an MCL/ACL tear in August.

Jena Torres

Let's just say we've had a lot of five-inning games this year.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men are just less inclined to grow up because it's much more fun being a child.

Robert Palmer

The music I heard growing up, since there was no TV or cinema or record covers, I didn't know if it was black, white, hip, square, male, female... whatever. I'd hear melodies and things and got intrigued on that level.

Albert Schweitzer

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

Gopal Ahluwalia

Like all of us, as you grow old you need more maintenance and more fixing.

David Watson

Make your day what you want it to be. What's special is loving each other and growing as a couple.

Pam Dixon

Making money on identity theft is a growth industry and it's just not pretty.

David Hilal

Licensing is the story. All that other growth from services and maintenance comes from having new software business.

Kevin Regan

Last year was the first time we did this tournament and it successfully raised nearly $3,000. We want to grow it this year knowing the more we raise the better for the Le Mars community.

Ren Jing

Many people laughed at us in the beginning. They asked, 'Why are you spending so much money just to grow grapes?' But they aren't laughing now.

Isabella Rossellini

I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me.

Lucia Shook

Like everyone else I need all the help I can get.

Ted Stevens

Luke would have been a big help to us as our captain. That was a big loss.

Kris Benson

Making one mistake instead of two helped me,

Jon Hogenson

Making it to the second day shows our kids we can do this. Playing in that competitive level helped us.

Fernando Torres

Let's hope what we've done this week helps us to get something positive in our next games.

Justin Huber

Levi's been more of the outside guy; I'm more of the inside game. That helps us out a lot. It helps keep each of us rested and ready to go.

John Prescott

Legislation in itself will not end the dispute, but it is prudent to take these powers to use if necessary to help reach an agreement.

Ken Tutt

Losing last year I think really helped us win this year. And it makes it that much more special.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

Deepak Chopra

A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk."

Ellsworth Kelly

I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

Tom Stoppard

I don't draw on my inner life in my work.

Mariah Carey

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

Suze Orman

You must trust yourself more than you trust others. Pay attention to your inner voice - it will tell you if how and in what you are investing is right for you.

Pauline Trigere

Fashion is what people tell you to wear. Style is what comes from your own inner thing.

Steven Page

Those of us that have the opportunity to have a mouthpiece, then let's keep talking about it. Right now if you look in the newspaper, there's a lot of meaningless stuff. A lot of stuff about the inner workings of Parliament and nothing about what we can do to make the world a better place.

Gretchen Rubin

One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm.

Robert Wilson

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'

Jacqueline Novogratz

Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.

Andre Heerden

Modern people are interested in modern media, like DVDs.

George Shaffer

Mr. Robles is not the type of person who wants to run away from this. He is very interested in cooperating with the investigation and the process.

Steven Rodney McQueen

My influences come from real life. I'm not interested in cinema for cinema's sake. I'm interested in life - what one does and how one interacts.

James Matthews

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success

Gary Brown

One of the things that interested me is that Matt is a tremendous businessman. He's as safe a place to invest as the stock market and he's got a unique, patented product.

Jon Snodgrass

One is still sonar. The Navy is still interested in our production capabilities.

James Tenney

None of these worlds was incompatible. All of these people were around, and if you were at all interested in painting, poetry, or dance, you met them.

Alexandra Adornetto

I hope the two of you will descend from your love bubble long enough to learn something today," he sniped cuttingly and the other kids snickered. Embarrassed, I ducked my head to avoid eye contact with them. "It's all right, sir," Xavier replied. "The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.

Laurence Steinberg

Life without parole for kids presumes that they can't be changed.

Steve Mullins

Letting kids out of our schools who don't know how to read and write, it's always been morally indefensible and now it's economically indefensible as well.

Johnny Depp

Luckily the kids are pretty well-balanced and well-grounded and not monster-like at all.

Jennifer Ebelhar

Let your kids select the vegetables they want as pizza toppings.

E. Hicks

Lou has really put us on the map. He has been so important to this program because he's shown other kids in the school that you can wrestle and be successful at St. Mary's. Just because we're a small school and we have to roll out the mats in the cafeteria to practice, it doesn't mean we can't be competitive.

Ned Yost

Look who did the damage. That's where we're at right now. We've got those kids and they're producing.

Tim Giel

Last year, we had only six kids wrestle at the section tournament. This year, we have 11 kids entered.

Andy Coulombe

Last year when we came, we had some kids who went two-and-out, but this year every kid won a match.

Steven Jackson

let the league know the Rams are planning to do something this year.

Frank Haith

Obviously we're disappointed. But we've got to get ourselves emotionally ready to come back. That's what this league is all about. This league is that good.

Rocky Nelson

Now we are ready to open our Middlesex League season. This worked out well and this is where I thought we would be.

Dennis Eckersley

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down

Jack Schrader

From top to bottom, I just don't see how there could be a better league in the nation.

Bill Belichick

There are only three teams in the league that have a better record than they do.

Byron Scott

(NBA commissioner David) Stern and the league put us all in a bind. We understand the situation. We're going to play another year in Oklahoma City, and then after that we have no idea what's going to happen.

Mat Sprague

I would have rather had a league title for the school and the kids, but it's an accomplishment I'm proud of.

Ebenezer Ekuban

I'm at a loss for words. I've been in the league seven years and I've never experienced anything like it before.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Douglas Smith

Mr. Dubois is not going anywhere. This is his home. He lives there. There are serious equities here.

Michael Leunig

Murk can be described as an enfeebled fog with a personality disorder; it is more troubled than ethereal, sulking moodily over our lives at the end of the day.

Jeffrey Skoll

My goal was to be at the point - no older than 40 - where I would have enough resources to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged people.

Billy Joel

Now, we lives our lives...So nonchalant...We spend our time...So 'Bon Vivant'...Our stylish nights...So well-arranged...Those tasteful words that we exchange...We know it's all a passing phase.

Mark Allen

Now that day has passed, they can get on with their lives again.

Lisa Pierce

I feel terrible for those people. They're still trying to get their lives back together. I see it and I just can't stop watching it. Like a train wreck.

Kevin Doll

We've never had an opinion on whether Livestock should or shouldn't be here. If they do have Livestock, they obviously have to have security there. That's where we come in.

Maurice Herzog

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Jeremy Corbyn

Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership.

Mo Ibrahim

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

Ayad Allawi

major negligence on the part of some members of the multinational forces.

D. James

Major market indexes are going to remain in a range, ... I don't see a big trigger on the upside.

Jaren Jackson

Major is not a big scorer but he can play defense.

Kathy Jordan

Many students major in things, and when they go to work they say, 'This isn't quite what I thought it was'.

Jeff Burns

One of our major points is promoting four-hour rounds or less. Our members really like that.

Ang Lee

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

Jim Ford

Now, we've also got new major fundraising efforts.

John Calipari

Let me tell you, we played well. Don't think we didn't play well, we're not much better than they.

Dan Dersam

Leah played exceptionally well in the first half. In the second half, they did everything but tie her shoes together to try and stop her.

Colin Cushman

Megan played great. We're a young team, so I'm not too surprised that we had some problems.

Michael Lehmann

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

Scott Rolen

No different than any other year. Played it the same as every year, no swings the first time out.

Jim Tressel

Obviously, it was a different scenario than we've played under recently.

Robert Price

We had been at Warehouse C-11 in Atlanta, where we had played before,

Rafael Nadal

For sure I didn't play 100 percent. But he played very good, too.

Roberto Luongo

From my standpoint it's disappointing. I think I could have played a little better.

O. J. Simpson

So far, we've had a pretty positive reception.

Byron Scott

One positive of having a young team is they don't quit,

Jermaine Dye

No one ever said this was going to be easy. We've got to stay positive and just find a way to get some momentum.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

Allan Houston

Now we are trying to do something positive for them.

Tyra Banks

I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Diane Sawyer

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Stanley Hauerwas

I'm a happy and productive person. I'm very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I've got a lot of energy.

Drew Rosenhaus

We had a productive meeting. We talked about things important to us, and they talked about things important to them.

Dave Barry

I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?

Daniel Goldstein

Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

Ayn Rand

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

Nick Saban

He has been one of our most productive players.

Mario Hernandez

We feel this will be one of the most productive work sites for them.

Condoleezza Rice

The United States does have, in fact, productive relations with Russia.

Hal Mumme

We haven't been as productive as we'd like. We just have to keep working.

David Bowers

One of the things that stands out about this project is how it was funded.

Sean Patterson

Now we look for projects we can do together.

Barbara Jones

We had been talking about doing more projects together.

William McDonough

I can think of no more important project than this one because its ambitions are so high.

George Lucas

I have hundreds of projects that I want to do, and I'm running out of time - so they'll never get done, I'm afraid.

Michael Hooper

The project will be done by the end of the year.

Jim Carr

The project has halted. We are 16 years out from the start of negotiations on this project.

Vince Staples

Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.

Christo

All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.

Russell Pearce

We need to fix Washington, D.C. and states need to fix their sanctuary policies. That's the problem.

A. J. Jacobs

This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.

Lady Gaga

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Bible Bible

And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

Daniel Johns

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

Bob Davie

It was total devastation. When I walked up to the church, I said 'Uh oh, this is the end.' The sanctuary was just demolished.

Jean de la Bruyere

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

Neil Gaiman

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

Steve Turley

More compensation won't make any of us serve any harder, so in terms of the taxpayer getting more for their dollar, it just won't make a difference.

Steve Carter

If they can serve it from Sallisaw, and show they can serve it well, that's OK. But I would like to see a station there at some point, once it makes sense.

Robert Grosseteste

And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.

Phil Klay

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

Guru Singh

Those who do not serve the True Guru, come and go regretting.

Eric Lewis

Labels serve a purpose. They help one be identified. And I want to be identified.

Kim Cattrall

If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.

Andy Roddick

Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows?

David Ferrer

His serve is lethal, ... When it's on, it's really tough to contest.

David Guterson

I'm not an urban person.

Camille Paglia

History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.

Armand Assante

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

Bruce Sterling

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

Aubrey O'Day

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

Adam Savage

We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.

Aldous Huxley

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

Rose Davis

I don't think we've ever had the urban involvement that we've had with this year's hurricanes.

Jeremy Corbyn

To give everyone a house and garden is very difficult in urban areas.

Chris Evans

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

Alexander the Great

At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

David Rakoff

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

In [my] youth I was smacked around.

Dick Clark

The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

Charles Fourier

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

William Shakespeare

For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.

Elizabeth Arden

Hold fast to youth and beauty.