Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacob Artist

When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to act, so that was a fun conversation with the parents. I truly have some of the greatest parents ever.

Edmund Stoiber

The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly, and it has to be accepted . . . that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.

James Meeks

We applaud him because his statement was swift, it was responsible, and it was contrite, ... We accepted the contrition and the spirit behind it and our board, in our session, unanimously accepted this statement as well as accepted Rev. Jackson's apology.

Eddie Thompson

We've all be impressed with the way Gordon has conducted himself. I'm delighted he has accepted the manager's job.

Barry Hyman

We've accepted the fact that the earnings growth for the quarter is around 20, 21 percent year-over-year for the S&P. But there's been this behind the scenes look or under the surface look at revenue. And we haven't got the best of forecasts for the second half of the year in many companies going forward. And if you don't have that pristine look -- where you come in this earnings season totally clean -- you've gotten battered. And I can't even name more than a handful of stocks that have come through.

Mitchell Rhodes

We are a discipleship school, not an evangelistic school. For a student to enroll here, the parents and the kids both have to have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior.

Martin Jacques

Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have been accepted in the pantheon of the greats. But to achieve commercial recognition is somewhat different: it requires a form of adulation that also spells identification and role model.

Steve Pederson

We appreciate the fact that they have accepted coach Callahan's explanation of this gesture. We also recognize that any kind of gesture is not in character either with coach Callahan or our program.

Hanan Ashrawi

We accepted the (U.S.) initiative, trying to be helpful in getting the peace process back on track. We are not willing in any way to renegotiate the initiative ... I think the clock is ticking very fast.

Danny Martin

The other side of resurrection is about changing the world. It's not just about yourselves.

Greg Abbott

We are pleased to have a chef of such stature share our vision. Dale's Kitchen gives our technology wonderful exposure throughout the foodservice and packaging industries. The Fresh Flow(TM) Tap is changing rules.

Don Worstell

We struggled formulating a game plan and I thought about changing to something different. But we haven't played that way all year. We needed to do what we do and if we have to we will make adjustments.

Al Edwards

When you talk about changing the rules, that takes time, and it always involves more than just a committee.

Ben Bradlee

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth,

Lisa Graff

Being a writer can be a very lonely profession, but having a network of people who can sympathize with everything you're going through - from contract issues to the terror of changing your novel from past- to present-tense - is an invaluable asset.

Bernadette Perez

What he's doing is completely changing my life.

Jim Dyke

What has become clear is this really isn't about protecting kids. This is about changing television. A politically active, savvy group of Americans has figured out a way to make TV in their own image.

Jordan Leopold

We'll be changing pairings but we'll find a way to do it.

The League

We've already been looking at - for the past six or seven weeks - a number of hunts and we will now be deciding on which ones to put our resources into. We will definitely be monitoring hunts in Wales.

John Sullivan

With the meltdown of the Net and the rise in unemployment, we'll see a return to punishing job hoppers. That's mostly because when the power shifts back to human resources, HR people with no power seem to get off on deciding what is acceptable,

Vladimir Kozhin

The public can always have a say in deciding the future of the buildings, but the president will take part in decision-making, too, because it is a unique architectural compound.

Tom Lehman

I started playing golf because I wanted to be good. After a while, you have to come to a decision of, 'Am I good enough or not?' If you say 'yes,' then it's a simple step towards deciding to be as good as you can be.

Dan Bartlett

The process was done by the book. If you start deciding these issues in a guilt-by-association method, you will have a situation which has deep and harmful ramifications to the economic interests of this country.

Timothy Noah

Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks.

Roger Andrew Taylor

We're a real democracy. We go through a whole process where everybody is involved in deciding on everything from a drum groove to a guitar sound.

Geoff Smith

Jack is known for deciding the time has come for a change.

Adam Fisher

I think I still got my point across, irrelevant to the jury deciding or not. Plus, with the jury you never know. I mean, there's always that risk. And with the settlement presented to me I was happy,

Rich Rodriguez

I don't think any one game defines a season. I don't like to put all those eggs in one basket. Never have. Don't see as I ever will.

John Abraham

I think it defines the whole film, too,

David Christensen

He redefines pain such that not even a newborn could experience pain in the way he defines it, and then concludes that fetuses can't experience pain and that's absurd.

Steve Mitchell

I think this is probably the most important project this town is going to do in the next two years. It defines what the town will be.

Jim McCarthy

It defines a neighborhood. It's kind of like our keystone piece. If it's not broken, why replace it?

Gary Vest

Obviously, most people who filled out the surveys don't know what we do. The law defines the kind of projects we do.

F. Sionil Jose

You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.

Leila Janah

Bling is passe, and I like my style to reflect just that. Ruthless editing defines true style perfectly.

Douglas Alexander

A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.

Charlie Daniels

I've been to Iraq three times. I've been to Afghanistan, I've been quite a few places, and I want to tell you something, these kids, they're the best we've got. They're the best Americans, they're the most loyal Americans we've got. And we owe them when they come back.

Charles de Lint

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

Alanis Morissette

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Alan Hansen

You'll never win anything with kids

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Al Purdy

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Al Madrigal

Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

Al Lewis

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Brad Lancaster

We want the kids to do as well as they can. There are so many opportunities (for various activities), and that's good. But, how do we make sure it's not a distraction.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

Joseph Domenech

It is going more and more toward the Western part of the world.

George Borjas

What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.

Tom Wilkinson

Most manufacturers are working toward a two- to three-year period.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Bill Schmidt

Very enthusiastic and very intelligent. I know he'll work at it.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.