Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Cleave

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.

Leslie Cockburn

I have a great spouse, Andrew Cockburn, who's also a journalist.

Dana Addis

What a blessing it is for a coach to have guys like Andrew and Horton. We don't have to worry about them when they're on the floor.

Gil Reyes

We're in uncharted waters. We don't know how Andre's going to feel. You can get Andre off his feet so that shuts down the body, but how about the mind? That's what we have to try to come up with - I'm not sure if we can find a way.

Vince Trombetti

We're hoping that Andrew will get through. He should get through.

Orlando Griego

We knew they were going to defend Andre hard. So I had to attack the basket.

Ernie Chatman

There are tough conditions with the heat (90 degrees). Andrew ran the best race he has run this year. Robert ran the best race he has ever run.

Kate Baldwin

I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind.

Jared Leto

Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.

Monica Lewinsky

I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things.

Vicki Long

The only reason it became a class is we needed insurance to book these buildings.

Tommy Tuberville

We are proud of Blake Field, ... He became our starter with an hour's notice. He did a great job handling the football.

Sara Labberton

We believe that she had the best of intentions, but that she just became overwhelmed with the number of cats and the cost of cat food and medicine for the cats.

Louie Anderson

One time, I came off stage and a guy named Roman Decare, God rest his soul, he was a comic. 'Louie, if you do that family stuff, and you're a clean comic on stage, you'll become famous.' And, for some reason, a switch clicked, and I started doing the family stuff, and it became a giant part of my life.

Louie Gohmert

It was no accident that just minutes after Israel became a nation, the United States... became the first nation in the world to recognize what was prophesized throughout the Old Testament about Israel returning after its absence.

Luke Nosek

As I became a venture capitalist, it's almost like I went to the dark side for a while.

Li Bingbing

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

Mark Harmon

I used to hang out in my dad's workshop on weekends. Later, when I was starting out as an actor, I became a roofer and a framer to make money. But what I really enjoyed was the finished work. I like the longevity.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.

Bob Thomas

We want them to swim fast, and this is the best way to do it, in short races.

Farley Flex

We want them to be as comfortable as possible. So they can give us their best performance.

Steve Davies

We want to take care of our district games and then, game seven, eight, nine, 10 make sure we're playing our best football.

Jeff Matteson

We want to surround our families with as much support as possible. There are some great people working with kids in this town. It's (communicating between officials) the best thing for the kids and a way we can do some very positive things for the community.

Nick Saban

We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put a player in the best situation possible so he can have success.

Venancio Figueroa

We want to stay competitive and make sure we're providing customers the best value.

Galit Chait

We want to skate our best. I hope to skate well and give our best performance here in this competition.

Jeff Horner

We want to show people we're the best team in the conference. We want to win the Big Ten Tournament and show that maybe we did deserve a little bit of the Big Ten title.

Bill Cowher

We've all had heroes, and I know Jack Lambert was for me because I was a defensive guy.

Dennis Richardson

We are a hard working, defensive driven team. We were very competitive in all our matches this season.

Jim Elliott

We are a good defensive team and we are getting better. This is a team that hasn't played together for a long time and we are still trying to figure out who we are on offense. But we are getting there.

Sal Follo

We are a defensive hockey team and we have a system that we are going to stick to and it has kept us in game all year; even the games we lose are only by one goal.

Terri Holmes

We struggled early, but the nice thing about it we rebounded in the third inning on great defensive play.

Jason Mathenia

We strive to deny the other team any opportunities in the defensive third. We've taken pride in that this year and it's really paid off.

Jared Jeffries

We're in a rhythm right now, especially at the defensive end. We're getting stops, and we're getting out and running. And we're taking good shots. That allows us to get back at the defensive end.

Josh Smith

We started hot, but couldn't maintain it. We got tired and couldn't sustain our defensive intensity. They wore us down and killed us on the glass in the second half.

Kris Kalivas

We spotted them a good 10 (points) in the first quarter. We played a real nice second quarter, defensively. Unfortunately, we didn't duplicate that defensive effort the rest of the ballgame.

Pat Haden

Where some people were bemoaning some of these things that surround the program, I think he has embraced them and turned them into positives.

Suzy Buchholtz

Luckily, our girls have embraced foster care. They like new people.

Kathryn Stockett

When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils.

John Barrie

We're an institution that never has really embraced its history. We hope that everyone, whether it's students, faculty or alumni, will come away from this with a sense that this is an institution with a pretty profound history.

Marian Salzman

There is a straight (heterosexual) man who embraced a mention of femininity. He responded to those marketing messages but ultimately had a reaction that's pushed him back to traditional masculinity.

Chris Cichocki

We set the 20-win mark a week or so ago, and we can still make it if we play well down the stretch. The team has embraced the idea.

Jodi Olson

She was just very supportive, and I thank her for that. I know a lot of people think it would have been bitter. It wasn't. She embraced me, and we cried, and she was very nice.

Gwyn Howat

Maybe because snowboarding used to be a minority sport, it embraced all kinds.

Quentin Tarantino

The fact that England has embraced me as one of its own is really cool,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

Shinzo Abe

The other side has not responded to any of our requests regarding the abduction issue, so it is highly regrettable.

James Browning

The potential profits are so high there's a win-at-any-cost mentality.

Mark Thompson

The perception is that it's too high end, too futuristic, but I think we will see prices and use models to support it.

John Connaughton

The people who pay the highest income tax are also the most mobile. They simply leave North Carolina.

John Remington

We are always trying to look for unique ideas, and we wanted something new for New York. We thought that hey, it's an island, let's do something on the water...New Yorkers have pretty high expectations.

Marty Natalegawa

We've always been on a high state of alert. The perpetrators of the previous bombings are still very much at large and the risk is still very much with us,

David Hockney

You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.

Carol Shields

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

Diana Wynne Jones

In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.

Brendan Fehr

I do have a lucky pair of underwear.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

A fabulous pair of shoes? I have to have willpower.

Daniel Handler

They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.

Bobbi Brown

I won't usually make plans with people I don't know on Fridays because all I want to do is stick my hair in a ponytail and put on a big sweater, some tights and a pair of sneakers after a week working in the city.

Big Sean

I'm a sneakerhead. I probably have a couple hundred pair of shoes. I got all sorts of shoes.

Nia Vardalos

I do recommend it for all girls, and boys, out there: put on a pair of fishnet stockings and find your inner sexiness!

Jerry Jones

The position that's on the table by the players just isn't acceptable.

Justin Vincent

We have so many players from New Orleans. It's always in the back of our minds.

Dwight Freeman

We're starting to do some things but we can't let up. It's a do-or-die situation, so the players are playing with a sense of urgency.

Mike Carey

We're just not comfortable with our go-to players in the stretch.

Pat Gillick

We're getting better. We have players who are pretty focused.

Thomas Doll

We know we have signed quality players - but they will need time.

Jim Leyland

Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference.

Zeke Moreno

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

Tom Bailey

We won't be one-dimensional on offense, ... We have linemen who can give our skilled players time to make the plays.

Alan Watts

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Alan Autry

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Chloe Grace Moretz

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

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.

David Riesman

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Moore

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

Alan Moore

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Bennett

My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.

Alan Alda

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Barney Frank

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

Bob McDonnell

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

Dennis Hastert

We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.

Adam Carolla

Welfare is monetary methadone.

Amartya Sen

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

James Surowiecki

Corporate welfare isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.

John Hagee

Mercy requires that we learn to love others, to value their welfare more than our own!

Atharva Veda

O Scholar! Work for the welfare of the nation!