Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Catherine Fisher

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Cary Sherman

There will be no breakout. When we changed for the single, we never specified what the breakout for sales to streams were.

Ludovico Ariosto

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

Eddie Irvine

The people who don't know me only see me through sound bites, and everything's changed around. Things I've said are changed to suit the magazine or newspaper concerned. The people who know me have a very different view, I would say.

Tammy Cox

We stopped at the edge of town, changed our clothes, and took the decorations off the car.

Theresa Adams

We started out in a 2-3, which wasn't a very good defense ... because they can shoot the 3, and two of them can drive to the goal. So we changed it to a 3-2 and it worked much better.

Faye White

We started off well in the second leg and got a goal, which is what we needed. We can't complain about the first part of the game but it all changed when they got a penalty,

Leos Carax

I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself.

Lauren Worsham

My brother sings. My brother is a singer-songwriter. His name is Parker Ainsworth. He changed his last name to his middle name.

Tim Roberts

There are some good individuals there. You can either help yourself or hurt yourself for seeds (in the Individual District) Saturday.

Chuck McMeekin

We're in a quandary on what we can and can't do. Either you let the garbage sit outside or people are going to put it in their neighbor's yard.

Stephen Harper

What the prime minister doesn't seem to face is the election is either going to occur now or it's going to occur in January, ... We're not going to wait another four months.

Ivan Radenovic

Whenever we played them, we played well in either the first half or the second half. This time we've got to put it together for 40 minutes if we want to win.

Philippe Val

When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left.

Tim Parmeter

When he gets the opportunity to be in the open court, he's so good with the ball. He makes good plays by either scoring or kicking it out to other people.

Ed Beattie

We were behind, and that forces things to happen. It either makes things better or makes it a little worse, and it made it a little worse tonight.

Brian Norberg

We were an all-zone team early, but we've gone back to a man-to-man late in the season. I feel we can play either one. In the post-season it's nice to be able to fall back on a zone if the man isn't working.

Will Muschamp

We were trying to improve fundamentally. You either take a step forward or a step back every day. You've got 15 opportunities, and we need to get better all 15 times out.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

August Bebel

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

Anthony Trollope

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

Bobby Fischer

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

Bear Bryant

You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

Ann Coulter

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

Helen Suzman

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

Aberjhani

Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

Justin Trudeau

When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.

Sam Davis

Obviously, you'd rather play a team that doesn't get after it quite that well on defense. They put a lot of pressure on the perimeter and get a lot of steals from opponents with their half-court pressure.

Edgar Cayce

Keep the Pineal Gland operating and you will Never grow Old, You will always be Young.

Craig Heller

Sitting where we're at right now, I'm very pleased. I've been waiting for somebody to pinch me and wake me up.

Brian May

I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody

Kim Miller

The pins were not where they were supposed to be. If the pins had been in place, the seats would not have come loose.

Joe Ciccarelli

We still haven't been able to pinpoint these shootings to anybody.

Nicklas Lidstrom

Tough to say. It's tough to pinpoint what's different, really.

Laura Osnes

I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.

Vince Neil

Yeah, blindfolds, just like pin the tail on us. We're the donkey.

Aaron Small

Please, somebody pinch me when it's all over.

Kristin Turk

I didn't really think I'd be that big of a scorer until my sophomore year. And I really didn't think it would come to this extent.

Ted Purdy

I wish they wouldn't give the Nationwide Tour any points. Because it kills us when we start making (PGA Tour) points. It's like a sophomore curse.

Ted Purdy

I wish they wouldn't give the Nationwide Tour any points, ... Because it kills us when we start making (PGA Tour) points. It's like a sophomore curse.

Cheryl Parsons

Todd's just a sophomore but was actually on the stage as a 10-year-old when we did the Titanic.

Dave Holmes

That's super for a 15-year-old sophomore in her first trip down here,

Alan Watts

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Alain Resnais

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

Al Hirt

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.

David Guetta

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

David Crystal

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

David Cross

It's just an easy catchall to describe a style because there are a lot of alternative comics who are completely different from each other.

C. Z. Guest

Style is about surviving, about having been through a lot and making it look easy.

Carolina Herrera

It's very important to have a definitive style as a designer.

Carolina Herrera

British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.

Larry Coker

We were totally inept, to put it bluntly.

Eugene Levy

At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.

Parris Chang

We won't be totally disappointed because there will be other goodies in the package,

David Schultz

The real breakthroughs will be in a totally different category.

Jordi Molla

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Abby Wambach

Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.

Tubby Smith

We're not the same team. We're totally different. Whatever it is, we've got to keep it up.

Andray Blatche

Right now, I'm totally back, because I can do everything.

Dan Gable

Great wrestlers make other wrestlers great

Kurt Angle

Wrestlers in the U.S.A. are very aggressive. All they want to do is attack, but they'll make mistakes.

Jerry Lawler

Koko B. Ware is a crossword wrestler: he enters the ring vertically, and leaves horizontally.

Owen Hart

It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.

Kelly Hu

I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I signed on to work with a wrestler.

Randy Savage

Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.

Ric Flair

I didn’t have any plans to become a wrestler until about a year before I started.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.