Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrea Seigel

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

Liana Wallace

One of the things we are hearing from parents is that this is a much-needed facility for teenagers, where they can go for entertainment and are not hanging out somewhere, getting into trouble.

Christopher Dixon

One school says that they (Japanese) will be very fascinated by it. The other says that it will be treated politically. My view is that the Japanese are always very interested in American entertainment products.

Margot Robbie

No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.

Ken Warwick

No one can say that guy wasn't entertaining.

Terry Carter

More than 5,000 tickets were purchased for the event that was originally scheduled in July. We want everyone who is holding a ticket to know their ticket will get them into this major entertainment celebration on Friday, October 28th,

Jay Ryan

My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this entertainment world. They just think it's mental. They have no idea what I'm doing in America.

Sean McManus

Maybe it's partially because of my sports background, but I am unbelievably competitive. Being in third place, whether it's sports, entertainment or news, is not acceptable.

James Curtis

Obviously to be successful and stay on TV, the show has to be entertaining, ... You can stick to what's real about the relationship between these individuals. That, in and of itself, is entertainment enough to warrant being kept on the air.

Bruce Bochy

You know what, that's one of the greatest feats in all of sports, ... You know what, it's not that easy. Especially with all of those rookies they've played.

Frank Moore Colby

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Who killed Johnny Keats? "I," said the Quarterly, "So savage and tartarly, 'Twas one of my feats

Richard Shelby

Let's follow the money, ... If we follow the money, we're going to get to the truth, and I think the truth will not be very nice.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Learn the Constitution. Then when someone wants to be elected, hold their feet to the fire and make them follow it because that's what we need to get back to. It works so well when we follow it.

Sandra Sanchez

Many people think that they just simply are not following the steps. There are no legal channels.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.

Hank Ketcham

Mischief just seems to follow wherever Dennis appears, but it is the product of good intentions, misdirected helpfulness, good-hearted generosity, and, possibly, an overactive thyroid, ... The Merchant of Dennis The Menace.

R. Bakker

Men are forever pointing at others, which is why I always follow the knuckle and not the nail.

Charles H. Townes

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

John Travolta

My kids probably stay up too late. My wife goes to bed around 3 A.M., and I follow around 7 A.M., but it works.

John McGraw

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other ninety-nine percent are followers of women.

Kristy Curry

Let's not make a mess of this. It started with our seniors today, for whatever reason. They didn't handle the situation. We will be better from today, I promise you that. The film clips are already being clipped.

Michael Gardner

Love is like handing someone a gun, having them point it at your heart, and trusting them to never pull the trigger.

Ehud Barak

lay its hands on the lowly murderers and will punish them with all severity of the law.

Digger Phelps

Let's get serious. Glen Davis, he's so tough in the paint. They can't handle him.

Salvation Army

Mother Nature had the upper hand in this situation.

Casey Neistat

One of my first questions when I interview prospective employees is, 'Do you know how big a sheet of plywood is?' Most people don't, and say they are different sizes, but it's 4' x 8'. Anyway, working with your hands is a very American thing that we kinda lost here, but it's an important skill to have.

Bruce Carter

Obviously we don't have a Superdome. We have to take a look at what we have in our county. We can handle hundreds or thousands, but not tens of thousands.

Brett Favre

No one is going to hand us anything, especially now,

Dorn Whitmore

Only a handful said they didn't like what we were doing.

Nada Doumani

Maybe it was an illusion to think people would understand after 23 years that we are unbiased. I can't understand why we've been targeted.

Elbert Hubbard

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

Elbert Hubbard

Time is an illusion-to orators.

Dean Gilmour

Shakespeare was such a lover of theatre, and theatre is an illusion.

Ben Wagner

I don't have any illusions that I'll become rich off this project.

Sydney Smith

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Mel Gibson

I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

Graffiti Graffiti

Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.

Alexander Pushkin

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

John Danley

Life is a distasteful party, but it is the only one I'm invited to.

Tony Hall

Mugabe, especially, should not have been invited. He would be the last person, I think, an organization should invite to talk about hunger.

Kevin Stallings

From what you read and what you hear, it sounds like we should've been invited to the women's tournament.

Chris Eigeman

I was going to be in an acting school in London, and then I promptly got thrown out of an acting school in London. Well, it wasn't that I got thrown out as much as I was not invited back, which is the same thing, just more polite.

Jared Padalecki

I have a house, with two big plasma-screen TVs, two dogs, a grill, chessboard. I like to keep it low-key: invite friends over, order some Papa John's pizzas and Coors Light, play poker and ping-pong and chill. I'm pretty private.

David Perez

If they have nowhere to go, ... I invite them to go to California.

Valerie Cruz

I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

Irwin M. Jacobs

We try to preach innovation. We provide resources; we invite speakers in from universities to talk about new ideas.

Becky G

I wrote 'Wish U Were Here' for Cody Simpson, and he invited me to perform with him on tour and be in his music video. He was shy at first. I think it's the surfer boy in him that makes him so mellow.

Tom McClintock

sends a powerful message that it is the official policy of this state not to recognize or respect this nation's immigration laws." ()

Jay Sekulow

for speech that was a ... secular message or an invocation. So it's neutral on its face. It says, 'Say whatever you want to say.'

Christopher Klaus

If we in the U.S. can't protect ourselves, what message does that send to the rest of the world?

Shirley Eaton

I don't even want to be on Twitter. I think it's abhorrent, people sending messages to say they're doing the washing-up or whatever.

Erik Whittington

The pro-life message will not be silenced in our schools.

Thalia

I always focus on myself in what I want, where I want to go, who I want to reach, which message I want to put out, how I want to dress.

Takashi Murakami

In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.

Tamora Pierce

I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.

Isamu Akasaki

I was overwhelmed by so many interviewers and then messages of congratulations. So many congratulation messages. I feel this shows the authority and the greatness of the Nobel Prize.

Angel Guzman

Now that I have this opportunity to show them that I can pitch, I have to just go out there and make pitches.

Brian Aldridge

Obviously, it does give us an opportunity to start off (conference play) with a win and not a loss,

Jeff Suppan

Obviously, if you get the opportunity that's great,

Laveranues Coles

When you're a quarterback, I think that's the most important thing for you to get the opportunity to get out and not only show the world, but show yourself and prove to yourself that you still have everything.

Chris Cuomo

We in the network world are used to having time constraints and saying only what you have already thought through 150 times, because you don't have that much expansive opportunity.

Daniel Adair

I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.

Uday Kotak

The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.

Charles R. Swindoll

While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short term, but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.

Dick Van Dyke

Anyone who doesn't sing and dance at every opportunity is missing out on the joy of life.

Chief Bender

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

Derrick Jensen

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

Daren Beaudo

When a statute is presented I'll have something to talk about.

Terry Wogan

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

O. Henry

The plaque we presented was to commemorate the installation of the floor.

Michael Levine

Women are presented with wedding gowns. That's all we can say right now.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Bob White

That's our frustration - the way it's presented to the community.

Charlie Rose

The younger generation watches what's interesting, not whether it's presented by someone who is as old as I am or someone who is as old as a 21-year-old. It's the material. If I did a series of conversations on things most interesting to Millennials, they would respond to it, and I do.

John Davis

Look what he's done for our community, for the sports program alone. He's a coach. Try and top him. You're not going to top him,

Donna Ferber

One of the things I try to do with this program is to normalize their experiences. One of the things women often tell me about the workshops is that they feel heard.

Edsger Dijkstra

Beauty is our business.

Robert Gottlieb

When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.

Henry Spencer

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.

Rolando Gonzalez

If we don't have the members, our program will not be as strong.

Chris Whittle

If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.

Joy Austin

The question every day is whether the program that we're providing is unique and reaching residents.

Atom Egoyan

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.

Albert Schweitzer

The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

Albert Schweitzer

Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the world. Any philosophy not representing this, not based on the indefinite totality of life, is bound to disappear.

Albert Schweitzer

Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Albert Schweitzer

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Albert Schweitzer

I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.