Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Pratt

My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid $700 bucks.

James Bond

Now the choice has finally been made, you've put the story on the front page and produced the sort of collection of special reports that usually accompanies a major news event, not the announcement of the casting of one tired old film role.

Sigrid Agren

I was shopping with my mother in 2006 and saw that there was a model casting going on. A couple of months later, I was one of the fifteen finalists in an international contest.

Carol Williams

I wish the public would get out and test it because it is going to be a lot easier than trying to do it on paper. You can't make a mistake on it. You can't over vote. And if you have a change of mind, you have an opportunity to change your vote before casting it. I think it is a great thing for Gregg County. Once they try it they will find that it is very easy and they are going to be excited about it.

David S. Goyer

I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to pigeonhole people, and there's nothing an actor loves more than to do something different.

Catherine Tate

Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.

Taye Diggs

But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.

Vinessa Shaw

When I realized that nothing is perfect and no one is perfect, I was able to overcome my initial fears. I was holding myself to some weird standard that I was putting outside of myself, i.e., the director or casting director - they're not expecting perfection. I had all these strange trappings I would put myself in.

Elizabeth Warren

I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it.

Robert Sternberg

Leadership and civic engagement are an important part of the Tufts education, ... People often get themselves into power who are very bright, but not necessarily wise, and maybe even foolish.

Brian Callaghan

No one community is immune to it. We try to be vigilant and on top of our responsibilities. Fire, police, youth leaders, churches, different civic groups, parents, schools, and the kids themselves all have the responsibility to keep kids safe. We all own it.

Eddie Quinn

Number one, that civic center's got to go,

Carolyn Bricklemyer

She's a wonderful mother and role model through her faith and civic involvement and a very special grandmother. She has five grandchildren, and each of them think they're her favorite.

Marta Tienda

Significant educational investments will not only foster improvements in their health status, civic engagement and economic productivity, but also contribute to U.S. prosperity.

Georgia Zern

This would be an excellent program for civic groups.

Wole Soyinka

We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.

Kendall Wall

We're really seeing the results now of what we've been marketing for two years. They're not the kind of events that get a lot of attention, but they're the kind of events that actually make a lot more money for the civic center.

Doug Dittko

We have two concerns. One, the civic and environmental community was not part of the process and two, we don't feel the town did the extensive search they should have done.

Robert Rodriguez

Leonard Bernstein was a true American hero, ... He could do anything. He was a composer, a conductor and a concert pianist.

Anthony Blair

Maxwell, what are you doing for the concert party?

Matt Jordan

My friends hate me because I can get in to all these concerts now.

Kim Kardashian

As kids, we were at concerts like Michael Jackson every weekend. My first concert was Earth, Wind and Fire.

Rascal Flatts

I would be cautiously optimistic you could get your concert in,

Casey Neistat

If I'm in the stands at a U2 concert watching Bono, how can I capture this moment without interrupting it and making it fake?

Matisyahu

I felt a real strong connection and still do with Hanukkah. So it started out by doing concerts on Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights tour, and then, yeah, let's make some Hanukkah songs. Let me make a Hanukkah song that kids can listen to, party to and get the spirituality of it, because it is not just about dreidels and having fun.

Julian Bond

She was trained to be an opera singer. She gave concerts to raise money for him, and when he died she continued to try to keep his legacy alive.

Al Ross

She was at a concert in Dallas and the emcee got sick. She volunteered to emcee and she stole the show.

Charles Spurgeon

You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.

Dave Parker

When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown

Francois Fenelon

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all

Francois FTNelon

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.

William Butler Yeats

Where got I that truth? Out of a medium's mouth, Out of nothing it came, Out of the forest loam, Out of dark night where lay The crowns of Nineveh

Beatrix Potter

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

Elizabeth Montagu

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

Brendan Flanagan

Last year was like going to Disney World for the first time. This year, I've got past all the distractions . . . kind of like a horse with blinders. That's what I try to be.

Warren Spector

My greatest joy is seeing parents and kids playing Disney 'Epic Mickey' together, handing the controllers back and forth, helping each other out.

Tommy Kirk

Disney was a family film studio. I was supposed to be their young, leading man. After they found out I was involved with someone, that was the end of Disney.

Jimmy Johnson

I found most of the Disney executives to be less than forthcoming,

Jonathan Freeman

I grew up on Disney movies and, as a kid, I always liked the villains.

Greg Cipes

I grew up watching Mickey Mouse and going to Disney World, like, 2,000 times. Mickey Mouse is like my guru.

M. Wolfe

I have a Disney movie stuck in it and I can't get the tape out. It's Bambi, so at least it's a classic.

Bonnie Houdek

She wanted this one last, special trip. She had always been to Disney World, but never to Disney Land, and she wanted it for her girls.

Olivia Holt

Working with Disney is really and truly like working with a family. Everyone is so supportive and so wonderful. I've worked with Disney since I was twelve, and they've given me so many opportunities that I'll forever be grateful for.

Patty Vavra

Like I said before, it's a really strong event for us, especially in relationship to depth.

Alicia Figgs

Life in us is like the water in a river that eventually runs out.

Boris Yeltsin

Let us do everything to...ensure that those tragic events never happen in our land again.

Jack Warner

Leah was solid in all three of her events. She will impress a lot of people this year.

Allison Forsyth

My main focus is the giant slalom, that's the event I know I can be on the podium in if I ski best.

LaClaire Carter

My legs were really tight today, so I didn't run all my events. I saw what I can improve, and I need to work on my start in the 60.

Jeff Callahan

One of the things I really like about this event is how it gets people together. I think relays keep more people involved and interested in how your teammates are doing.

Moira Kelly

My dream is to eventually open a children's theatre.

Wayne Vutech

More and more people are cognizant of the event now.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Dustin Johnson

I love being on the water, wakesurfing and wakeboarding. I'm not thinking about golf. I'm just wondering if my cooler's got enough ice to make it through the day.

Kim Yuna

I have learned from the first Olympics, of course. When I went to my first Olympic Games, I experienced all of the pressure and was able to win the gold medal. I try not to feel the pressure, and I try not to be nervous when I am on the ice and when I compete.

Samir Haj

She tested it and played well. She had to ice it after the game, because it's still tender.

Mewelde Moore

Oh yeah, Monday's going to be great, ... Other than me sitting in an ice tub for 20 minutes, it's going to be real good.

W. Hull

If they think they can successfully ice 30 teams in the markets they're in right now and have a viable product, it's just not going to happen.

Whit Hartz

Unlike rock, which is pretty consistent, ice is always changing, sometimes by the hour.

Abhishek Bachchan

I have no hang-ups in life. I don't care about groups and camps. I have been brought up with certain values and ethics. I have never been egoistic about my stardom and lineage. I don't have any qualms about breaking the ice with my colleagues. I can walk up to any actor and greet him, irrespective of what kind of equation I share with him.

Charles Caleb Colton

Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.

Bear Grylls

That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.

Chuck Morris

Ticket sales are very solid, to say the least.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Linda Thomas

Our sales are expanding. We've had to turn down stores for milk.

Keith Pearson

Overall, sales have been good. Things have been going smooth.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Tom McMillan

There has never been a three-week stretch of season ticket sales like this. Ever.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Catherine Lee

It's not an appraisal, it's more of a sales tool.

Rita Ora

My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn't hear myself.

Jim Tutwiler

I have a Rembrandt etching. I have a Renoir etching, and we've already sold two Renoir etchings at this show.

John M. Smith

Soldiers train here in their specialty, and then go on to their assignments someplace else.

William Peter Blatty

Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down.

Veronica Saffo

Those are the same vests our soldiers are being issued.

Chris Bohjalian

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Cal Thomas

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Frederic Bastiat

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Melissa Gregory

We still have the ticket he never used.

Hugo Burge

Those are important in making ticket decisions. The better you do them, the more tickets you will sell.

Edwin Louis Cole

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

Ben Affleck

I'm in the worst place you can be. I sell magazines and not movie tickets.

Douglas Coupland

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

Amber Heard

I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.

Donald Barthelme

The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.

Larry Peterson

I think she had to get a ticket to get back in the ballpark.

Erik Paulsen

Minnesotans are ticket splitters. They look to the candidate, not the party, which is the way it should be, and that's only going to help me.