Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Strickland

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

Louise Leakey

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Lisa Cholodenko

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Maajid Nawaz

I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

Mackenzie Astin

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

Richard Cohen

The other side said (there are) 799 federal and state laws mandating the use of English. ... We would say those kinds of laws are not at issue here. I think that English is the official language of this country in a practical sense already. And I think that most people who come here both learn English and want to learn English.

Ben Folds

The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen?

Duncan Chase

The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.

Tarun Das

The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.

Nedra Turney

Lufkin was bursting at the seams. Some of those folks were at double capacity.

Lea Salonga

The nice thing about doing a pop opera - in the way that doing, say, 'Miss Saigon' or 'Les Miz' would be - is that, because the convention is set from the beginning that this is an opera and everything is sung, there is never that feeling of 'Why is this person bursting out into song?' because the whole thing is sung.

Charles Bukowski

If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.

Kenneth R. Miller

Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet bursting with evolutionary possibilities, a continuing creation in which the Divine providence is manifest in every living thing. I see a science that tells us there is indeed a design to life.

Vilfredo Pareto

Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

Vilfredo Pareto

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Yu Yongding

More seriously, China's economy would take a big hit if the US dollar weakened sharply due to such factors as a bursting of the US property bubble. The loss for China's foreign exchange reserves would be extremely serious.

Jamie Wyeth

My father's work is rather mysterious, not much said, and my grandfather's is robust, bursting off the walls.

Shay Doron

I love bursting people's expectations. This team does it day in and day out.

Charles Stross

I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch.

Al Alvarez

Divorce transforms habit into drama.

Chris Albrecht

How do you get the protagonists and antagonists together, in the same space, without somebody having to die? So, we ended up having to tell two distinct stories, which is never the ultimate way to create a great serialized drama. So then, of course, we had the tragedy with Andy [Whitfield], which made everything very difficult and pushed back.

Chris Albrecht

I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is a great way of world-building.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.

Chinua Achebe

To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What is required, we are told, is plays and films. Books are out of date! The book is dead, long live television! One question which is not even raised let alone considered is: Who will write the drama and film scripts when the generation that can read and write has been used up?

David Sedaris

The drama bug strikes hardest with Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs. These are people who, for one reason or another, desperately crave attention

David Sedaris

In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters make emphatic pronouncements. They ball up their fists and state their goals out loud. ‘I will destroy Buchanan Enterprises,’ they say. ‘Phoebe Wallingford will pay for what she’s done to our family.’ Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder, I turned to look in the direction of Hugh’s loft. ‘You will be mine,’ I commanded.

Denis Leary

There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he is, and he's terrific on his show. But I know Louis would play a fantastic dramatic role in something, too. He just needs somebody to grab him and say, 'Come in here and do this.'

Lyle Kessler

'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.

Edith Wharton

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Chris Chan

We're making money on the freighters at the moment, but not a dramatic return.

Ross Levinsohn

We're going to take some pretty dramatic steps to provide industry-leading safety.

Dan Ahrens

We're more than happy to profit from short-term fluctuations, and we think this morning's dramatic drop is very short-term,

Attorney Crank

With the large increase in workers in the extractive industries in our state, we've seen a dramatic increase in drug activity.

John Bolton

very dramatic news about the extent of Syrian involvement and involvement by top officials in the Lebanese government in this assassination.

Ram Kolluri

We're looking at the headline news, but the market is being supported by the girders of the economy, a basic, strong foundation, ... I don't expect a dramatic rally from here, but we are very much on track for a high-single-digit, low-double-digit total return for the year.

Charles Dickens

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

Charles Caleb Colton

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

Alan Rickman

I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.

Chloe Grace Moretz

If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.

Chip Kelly

If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations.

David Kim

All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.

Catherine Deneuve

When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.

Charles Dickens

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

David Rudisha

I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working.

H. Hart

We are pleased to finally restore a more competitive schedule into and out of Yuma.

Sergey Lavrov

We are awaiting final confirmation from the American side,

Gayla Benefield

We're not going to rush into anything that has final on it.

Thomas Hanke

We have no indication at the moment that anything went wrong during the production of the agent. Only an examination of the production process and the substance itself which was injected will provide final certainty.

Lamar Butler

Whenever we talk about the Final Four, you have to mention us making it to the Final Four. This is history.

Carlos Beltran

When he finally learns to exhale, and let the game come to him.

Pat Riley

We were a minute and a half away from the Finals -- big deal, ... It's about winning a championship.

Henry Thomas

We struggled from the perimeter, we struggled inside we struggled on the boards. We struggled every place tonight.

Atharva Veda

WHEN you scatter seeds on the surface of the soil, they do not germinate; you have to keep them inside the soil.

Chauncey Billups

We were trying to go to him, inside and outside. We were going to keep going to him until he got tired.

Natassia Malthe

I'm very kinesthetic, and when you're that way, you just feel it in your body. I know that other actors think with the logical part of their brain, but I wear my character inside my body, even when I'm away from the set.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I'm always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.

The Mighty Hannibal

If I'm talking to you, I can't see you, but I can see inside of you and what you're thinking. That's a mixed blessing.

Takeru Kobayashi

The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.

Alan Barton

She's made big shots all year long and she doesn't get rattled. She's at the top of the press and then she's got the responsibility of getting inside and matching up on the post. She does a lot for us.

Al Pacino

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

Chloe Sevigny

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.

Chloe Sevigny

I've been an outsider all my life - I don't care.

Darren Shan

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

Antony Sher

I love playing outsiders, I always do.

Bill O'Reilly

I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No.

Buddy Trask

We were at the rim, and didn't have to rely on outside shooting and we made the big plays when we had to make them. We always want to make it interesting though.

Chris Boyd

We were trying to live outside regular society three months.

Charles de Lint

I've always been interested in the outsider.

Alan Bennett

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation practice begins by sitting down and assuming your seat cross-legged on the ground. You begin to feel that by simply being on the spot, your life can become workable and even wonderful. You realize that you are capable of sitting like a king or queen on a throne. The regalness of that situation shows you the... dignity that comes from being still and simple.

Chick Corea

You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.

David Krumholtz

Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.

Dave Barry

Black Stache had no love for the Queen, no love for women of any sort, except for his ma. He had a real soft spot for his ma, and was truly sorry for the time he’d marooned her.

Dave Barry

Shawn's (Shawn Weatherly - former beauty queen) acting ability is such that she could not convey the concept of falling if your pushed her off a cliff.

David Suchet

I think we have reached a level in society - with Helen Mirren playing The Queen - when we're not surprised any more. We don't mention names. Yes, it's obvious by inference. But we don't mention names and the film is not up to point fingers at Royalty.

Catherynne M. Valente

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

Catherynne M. Valente

Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek the grimy queen of dread machines, if you your errant shadow miss.' Now that's quite good! As a Prophetic Utterance, Third Class (Vague Hints and Mysterious Signs), you couldn't ask for better. It's downright plain-spoken!

Michael Collier

We're still in the preliminary stages of getting information.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

Donald Trump

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

Stan Eby

My sense is there will not be a rehearing and trade will continue. But we have to be watching all the time.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

Donald Trump

We're going to renegotiate trade deals.

Donald Trump

We're going to make great trade deals.