Famous Quotes & Sayings

Humberto Moreira

We want them to get precise, objective information so they can pass it along to their other loved ones.

Luke Bracey

You can make movies and not particularly get along with the people you're working with but, when they say 'Action,' your job is to make it look like you're in love.

Mohsin Hamid

For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world.

Andy Reid

We appreciate all that Corey has done for this organization over the last five years. With the great amount of depth and talent we have along the defensive line, we chose to give Corey and opportunity to sign with another team.

George Fellows

We are proud to expand our support of junior golf by extending our relationship with the Junior World Championships. Our sponsorship of this prestigious event, along with our ongoing support of high school and college programs around the country, further demonstrates our commitment to the players who are the future of this great game.

Richard Waugh

We've all heard horror stories about a proposed concrete barrier about to be dropped in the center lane along Southgate. The center median is necessary, but it won't be the concrete type used in highway construction projects.

Gary Tucker

We are pleased to announce that Little Sioux Corn Processors, L.P., plans to construct an ethanol plant at a location south of Akron, Iowa, along Highway 12.

Glen Sather

We are looking to develop the next generation of great Rangers players, ... Our goal is to continue to improve as the season moves along and to continue to develop the many great young prospects we have now.

Ricky Stokes

We are looking forward to working hard and having a winning season. This should be an exciting team and brand of basketball. I think we will all have a lot of fun along the way.

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.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Charles Sturt

If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Alan Watts

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

Alan Watts

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

Alan Perlis

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Jerry Green

We have to get used to being examined and poked and touched.

John B. Larson

With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.

Koren Zailckas

I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there.

Marcia Gay Harden

I examine other people's characteristics, so when I'm playing characters, I don't always have to make them me; I can transform into others.

E. T. Bell

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

Mark Land

We're obviously pleased to be finished with it. It's made us better. We examined all of our processes and controls, and I really think we have strengthened our financial reporting and controls.

Joe Paterno

He's gonna go back with us. The doc wants to get an MRI on him, but he's got some ligament problems. They want to examine him more.

Richard Henning

I think what's perhaps most disheartening about this petition is that these issues were examined recently by the board.

Ken Holland

He has some damage. He's going to be examined Friday and we'll know more about his status after we get some more opinions.

John Marshall

We've already talked; we've done some pre-work on Jacksonville. I'm on the phone with him all the time. It's Ray's game plan, and we're just executing it.

Mike Sewak

We're executing on offense right now. We kept putting the pressure on them today.

Russell Ahr

We know where he lives and where he hangs out. We?re not limited to executing the warrant today.

Bill Belichick

We're looking at another really good football team this week in Denver. They're probably one of the hotter teams in the league right now. They're playing very well in all three phases of the game. They've been a good team to watch just because they're executing so well. They haven't had a turnover in three games.

Kevin Pittsnogle

Mainly, we've been in every game at the end. But we haven't been executing like we know we can at the end of games.

Rob Kurz

We really got into a nice rhythm. We did a pretty good job of executing our offense.

Mark Bloom

We didn't do a very good job of executing in that game. We need to do better this time around. If we do that, we can compete.

Abyee Maracigan

We were a little shaky in the first half. But we started executing our plays and started wanting it more.

Don Montgomery

On the first play from scrimmage, we got more yards than we had all year - total, ... But were doing less and were executing better, and the formations were using fit Todd (Woods) better.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

Lisa Gansky

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

M. Night Shyamalan

'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

Ledawn Gibson

We started off kind of sluggish. I felt like we could've come out better to play, but after we made some adjustments we were able to get things going.

Barnett Newman

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

Matt Hasselbeck

We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense.

Stan Clark

We always felt we did the proper thing.

Shirley Manson

We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing.

Petr Sykora

We have to finish the season on a good note. It doesn't matter what the outcome of the game is, but we have to feel good about ourselves. I don't think we felt like that tonight. We have a lot of guys who are injured so we need to get healthy and ready.

Charles Stewart Parnell

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

Chinua Achebe

One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems - where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require? Will the doctors, who are leaving in droves, coming to America, going to everywhere in the world - Saudi Arabia - how many of them will be there? The universities have almost completely lost their faculties and are hardly ever in session, shut down for one reason or another.

Dave Chappelle

The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.

Edmond de Goncourt

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

Edith Wharton

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

Eddie Long

I'm not leaving you if you don't leave me

Deborah King

That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that?

Cedric Richmond

Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.

Carol P. Christ

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Pat Risley

We're 10-6, but you really have to look at our losses. All of the losses go right down the poll.

Arlen Specter

There are some losses that the president has sustained, but by and large, I think that the president has won.

Peter Cardillo

Obviously, we are not going to see some substantial gains, but I think we will be able to retrace some of these losses by the end of the week.

Dontrelle Willis

I don't even know what WHIP means, ... They were so similar, I have no idea. Maybe because I had more losses than him. That's the only thing I can see off the top of my head.

Stanley Chou

Wall Street's losses overnight weighed on market sentiment.

Sam Powell

We had some unfortunate situations. We had some eventful losses that we probably shouldn't have had, a suspension, and on top of that, we had a young team.

Rick Carlisle

Every win is important when playoff position is at stake. We've had a string of road losses that's been really tough on us so getting back on track was important.

Levance Fields

We've just had some mental breakdowns. We have wins with this young team and we have losses with this young team. It is what it is now. We have to get better.

Lori Miller

Our family's outcome is better than the increasingly-heart-breaking losses experienced by many families.

Patrick Marleau

We want to play them in their end and always have the puck and start making plays in their zone. When we're successful, we get results like this.

Wayne Chrebet

When it comes down to it, everyone is just trying to get their plays and get to the season healthy. I don't think it'll be anything too crazy.

Chauncey Billups

We're going to run some decoys for him. We're not going to run plays for him.

David Gower

Vaughan now plays more on the crease than he did,

Karl Dorrell

Make one or two more plays than they do.

Sarah Snook

I'm the youngest of three sisters. We were always performing plays for each other.

Edward Hall

Oh, come off it, I've only directed three plays for the RSC.

Jeff Banks

We had backups ready to go. We charted his plays to see how many times he touched the ball, worried about overusing him.

Arthur Clough

Shady in Latin, said Lindsay, but topping in Plays and Aldrich.

Brian Dawkins

I will never have my best season.

Steve Spurrier

Six and five, ... We thought 6-5 would be a wonderful season for this team.

Richard Walker

We've still a lot to do before the season starts.

W. S. Gilbert

She's been killing it all season and is only getting better.

Walter Brower

The PD is over now. We've got a new season to play now, and we need to go 3-0 to get to where we want to be.

Derrick Brooks

(We) still have a lot to accomplish. That's something to think about when the season is over.

Ashley Scott

I worked with her on the second season of Dark Angel in Vancouver, one of my first real jobs.

Ricky Ford

This season has really been a tale of two seasons for me,

Dema Kovalenko

We didn't come out to play, we didn't come out with any urgency. We've got to do better because, if we do this in the playoffs, the season is over.