Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Bob Thornton

I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah, sure I could get with a dialect coach and work for six months trying to talk like a Frenchman. But there's some French actors. Just get one of them, you know.

Archie Panjabi

I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.

Andrew Scott

I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.

John McWhorter

Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don't speak it, or who haven't been raised in it, to understand when it's running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue.

Henry Sweet

The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.

Callan McAuliffe

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

Martin Henderson

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.

Odeya Rush

I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!

Emily Carr

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.

Christina Guerland

Rebecca stepped into a really difficult situation, and she did a phenomenal job. They really struggled with her.

Marlon Defillo

Our police officers are working under some very trying times. So it's a difficult time, but it doesn't excuse what our jobs are supposed to be.

Patrick Norman

Our music is something you have to hear. It's always difficult to describe. It's with our own slant, but it's rock 'n' roll nonetheless.

Lawrence Yun

People have been saying that for 20 years. But in San Francisco, it's very difficult to build, so there's a supply constraint. Seattle is also encountering a supply-constraint situation.

Lee Hunter

People later sent me hours of video and newspaper clippings of it, but I haven't look at them since. It was such a difficult weekend.

Lewis Altfest

People in their 40s and 50s are saving for their kids and for their retirement. They have the most difficult time saving because they have the most overhead expenses.

Pavan Duggal

Such rules have proved to be ineffective and enjoy little support on the ground. It is also very difficult to implement them.

Mike Halpert

Spring is oftentimes very difficult to forecast. Tomorrow it might snow and a weekend ago, it was 85.

Valentino Rossi

Starting from the third row will make life difficult tomorrow as it will be hard to overtake,

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Josh Pool

Our line did a lot of work this week. We ran the plays over and over again. (David) English had a really good game. Our linemen really stepped it up.

Rachel Ward

People in Hollywood, they're looking for pretty girls, and if you take it seriously enough and work hard enough, you get the Guernsey.

Martin Fleischmann

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

Jimmy Vasser

Outside of the car, she's English and very proper, ... But inside the car, she's forceful. She doesn't sit and wait. She goes after it.

Ahmet Necdet Sezner

Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.

Matthew Arnold

Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Matthew Arnold

Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery.

Roy Harper

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.

Lillian Carter

Regarding Men: When they stop lookin', They ain't worth havin'.

Jesse L. Martin

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

Jennifer Taylor

People have had that old mentality that (child care) is just like a baby-sitting service.

Saeb Erekat

start thinking in the mentality of a partner.

Raoul Walsh

Some men are all right in their place if they only knew the right places.

Steve Erickson

Overall I think I'm playing a lot better. I've worked a lot more this year and I'm more confident. I'm mentally stronger.

Kevin Simpson

Over 20 women have called wanting to be a mentor to a young lady.

Nicole Vaidisova

Physically I was well, mentally I was well. I just never got into my rhythm.

Shane Montgomery

Most of the pressure we saw Saturday we had seen before. We just had some mental breakdowns. You see that sometimes in your first game.

Ken Hitchcock

Patrick is a natural center, not a wing, and we have too many centers. That's all this is about. We had too many centers.

Chris Cornell

Rock will always have CBGB, whether it's open or closed, ... It will just naturally be replaced by something else.

Bebe Neuwirth

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

David Attenborough

I think there will be radical changes. But I don't actually think that within the next 100 years the natural world will be reduced to rats and cockroaches, nor do I think that the plant world will be reduced to some kind of desert.

Miguel

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

Shamir

I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Jeff Sessions

has the very natural qualities to make a superior judge.

Jennifer McMahon

People often ask if my books should be read in any particular order, but they're all standalone novels, so picking up any one of them would be fine.

Mark Loughridge

Our pipeline for the first quarter is up year-to-year, with particular strength in our long-term businesses.

Jim Tracy

That was a part of the reason. There was one situation in particular that Kent picked up on. For competitive reasons, I'm not going to say what it was.

Don Stewart

I think that the staff are all very well versed in the process and in this particular nominee, but so are the senators. I think you will see, and already have seen, quite a lot of support out of the senators.

Scott McGehee

Juliette in particular - there is so much in her face,

Seth Shostak

In general, when moviemakers talk to scientists, they usually see them as a resource to solve particular technical problems or script problems for them. So, something like: what sort of weaponry would aliens be able to wield?

Jim Martin

There are so many parts of this project that are intertwined that they have to be staged and set up in a particular order, and they would like to get this particular ramp done first so other ramps can follow.

David Gray

For this particular location, people come here and it's really about wine,

Kelly Pleasants

We have to be particular about what we can take.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Mike Bianco

Right now, sugar is not so sweet. Everybody's raised their prices.

Ron Gardenhire

That was (coach Paul) Molitor yelling at the umpire, not me. I just raised and said, 'What?' and he told me to get out of here.

Jessica Stroup

I'm such a tomboy - I was raised in the South - and I also really wanted to work in New York, being so different from California, though it was a freezing-cold winter.

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Robert Milmore

If another bidder comes in the stakes could be raised on TWA to where AMR doesn't think it's worth it.

Sharon Cody

I was raised with a sense of not throwing things away.

Sally Field

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person.

James Gimpel

He hasn't spent that much because he hasn't raised that much.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.

Jim Williams

Roger's been running for a year and a half. And there hasn't been an unkind word said.

M. Wolfe

Replays and reruns are running out of steam,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.

Bede Griffiths

I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If you keep running from me, you're never going to figure out what's really going on.

Becca Fitzpatrick

The Patch I knew didn't run from anyone.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.

Becca Fitzpatrick

After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.

Sachin Tendulkar

I think I have already spoken a lot. Now it is time for me to play.

Roy Makaay

I have already spoken to him about Bayern.

Charles Osgood

Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

Nadine Gordimer

Too much will be speculated about him, too much spoken about him, too much written about him,

Dick Jauron

I haven't even thought about it, and we haven't spoken about it.

Charley Casserly

I haven't spoken with him yet, but I will.

Mike Vogel

They're very quiet. You can tell that there's something that they're about to do. They have the track walks before the race. They go and do their thing, and not a word is spoken between any of them. They're just staring at the track.

Shawn Roop

I've never spoken to her. We communicate with e-mail and faxes. That pretty much sums up what the Web can do for a company.

Stephen Hess

Besides, he's already spoken extensively about the hurricanes.

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Gary Anderson

We need a better dredging system that we have now.

Jim DeMint

I think they'll make this a competitive thing that will get the system better and better by the week,

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Bob Ray

We have to have a system for response.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

Al Gore

Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

Blaise Pascal

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Carson Kressley

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.

Andy Fisher

Our understanding is that it is not yet in place.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Bill Shorten

I think they understand that what's being done is in their interests.

Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Charles Jackson

I think a lot of us don't understand circumstantial evidence.

Cervantes Saavedra

It is not the hand, but the understanding of a man, that may be said to write

Emma Stone

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

Vince Young

Just interview. I don't feel like I have to show a lot. I think they understand me, have been watching me for a long time.