Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Regan

We want to totally reconfigure this model so that the purchasers have available information before they make a purchase. Our concern is how soon can consumers get the info how soon can NMVTIS get the information. If we're dependent on federal agencies, we're not going to get it as fast as if the private sector is allowed to leverage that info manage it and interpret it and send it back out.

Bud Morris

We want to show the community that there are things happening at our college that are directly benefiting the community. This will also allow our students to interact directly with the public.

Lorraine Toussaint

My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.

Michael Weatherly

I had done a couple of plays, but I was a clueless boob. 'Cosby' allowed me to have something on my resume that was real and then the producers of 'Guiding Light' let me play a preppy killer just the following month. Suddenly I had two gigs on my resume that made me look like a real actor, although I was far from it.

Mads Mikkelsen

I've never been specifically attached to westerns, but there are those I like - one of the best westerns I've seen is 'Unforgiven.' I think the genre has something extremely powerful that can allow them to talk about good and evil in a very straight way.

John Bolton

The outcome document represents an important step in a long process of U.N. reform, ... We cannot allow the reform effort to be derailed or run out of steam.

Clint Stretch

The other thing it does is allow him to keep the focus on Social Security in the waning days of this Congress, ... If you put this proposal out at the end of July, the conversation shifts.

James Kelly

The position of the Teamsters continues to be unrealistic. That position does not allow us to compete, ... make the difficult decisions that we have to make going forward.

Julie Andrews

The pleasure is in being allowed to play in so many different sandboxes.

Charles Kennedy

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

Mike Greene

The point is not to lecture. We approach this from the premise that U.S.-China relations are good and we're committed to making them better.

Michael Stern

We are pleased to be able to work so closely with Brian, his team of trainers and coaches, and especially the elite athletes that look to TEST Sports Clubs to improve their performance. Our cutting-edge approach to athlete nutrition matches is a perfect complement to TESTs approach of using science and creativity to open new horizons for elite athletes.

Lawrence Byrd

We are at the beginning of the road. In order to grow we need to change the way we approach the way we do business.

John Kilduff

We are at levels that in the past several years had caused gasoline prices to approach the $1.70-type national average record levels.

Lee Bermejo

As much as I enjoy seeing other guys do the superhero approach to the Batman universe, personally my own vision falls a bit left of center.

Nick Woodman

Bootstrapping allows you total creative freedom. For example, if you decide to approach your business in a certain way that makes it a two- or three-year process to get to your first product, you can do that, versus being rushed into it by investors.

Terri Laux

We approach each season knowing that it is going to be a long two months and every game in the MAC is important for us. I think that we need to get three or four wins this weekend and focus on taking care of the little things and eliminate the mental errors that we've been having.

Josh Bernstein

We're not going to solve this problem with a patchwork approach at the state level. It's a national problem, and the need is to repair the national system. We're not going to erect barriers between states.

Mark Bishop

We want to tell stories and produce integrated brands in which the content created is delivered to audiences in new and exciting ways. Wireless is an emerging platform which we feel is a core component of our business moving forward.

Lisa Gansky

The Mesh is about creating and managing what's perishable. It provides businesses with the ability to reach an audience of one, at a precise time.

Paul Dergarabedian

The Potter franchise is just irresistible to moviegoers. The combination of the Potter books and the love audiences have for the movies conspired a big opening weekend.

Brian Peccia

The potential for this play is to sweep the audience into this world that they're not familiar with. Our general consensus about that hillbilly lifestyle is that they're inbred and ignorant, but they're not that type of people. They believe what they believe, and they believe it very strongly.

John Pavlik

We are looking forward to going back to where the whole thing started. In a sense, it will be an exciting return to yesteryear, but it also brings the awards to a theater that has been specifically designed to make the show exciting for the audience in the theater as well as a brilliant television program.

Dixie Carter

We're in a very, very fortunate situation where every week we have a full 'Impact' Zone out of Universal Studios-Orlando, and probably 90 percent of that audience is from all over the country and from different parts of the world. We're lucky that those people get to come to us.

Alan Vega

We started out in England with a couple of shows, and then in Berlin and then France. It was really amazing. The audiences have been wonderful.

Martin Henderson

Where typically the cops are generally the good guys, 'The Red Road' blurs the lines intelligently and shows corruption from all sides of the law. It provides unpredictable drama where the audience is kept guessing about how these characters will each choose to act.

Richie Sambora

When you walk out in front of an audience of over 70,000 people, you've got to be on your game. They deserve it.

David Suchet

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.

Aisha Tyler

I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.

Aisha Tyler

I like grown up comedy.

Bob Newhart

I feel more comfortable in comedy.

Bernie Mac

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

Bernie Mac

Comedy has been so good to me.

Bernie Mac

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

Eddie Izzard

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

Byron Katie

If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!

Bruno Schulz

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

Earl Weaver

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

Charles de Lint

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

Benjamin Hoff

Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

Barbra Streisand

A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.

Italo Calvino

Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.

Shane Voss

We want our players to be scholar-athletes. We emphasize that all year.

Michael Chertoff

We're going to go back and look at all of this after-action, when we have time, but I've got to emphasize something: We are still in the middle of an emergency.

John Otto

We knew we wanted to take the strong points of our groove and emphasize them as well, and we knew we wanted to just totally experiment.

Tom Holland

On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable.

Paul Vachon

We've seen teams with strong inside games, and we've seen teams with strong outside games. They have both, and we haven't seen that, so we can't emphasize anywhere.

Melanie Gruer

The prime minister emphasized that it makes little sense to negotiate a victory that we've already won.

Sandra Langley

We did what we had to do to force the tempo. We used a full-court press, and we switched defenses. Without Tracey, we're not as big as we were, so we have to emphasize our speed right now.

Bill Rancic

Each time you go to the grocery store with your kids, it is a potential learning opportunity. In order not to overemphasize materialism, focus on other things to do with money. In 'Beyond the Lemonade Stand,' I try to emphasize the importance of saving money, and of using it to help other people.

Bill Fennelly

Right now, it's the old shoot-not-to-miss syndrome and passing up shots. We've emphasized that you don't pass up shots; if you miss, you miss. We've had a hard time scoring, but it's never been because of our inability to make a shot.

Julia Brown

We've actually improved upon what's on the ground out there today.

Wyclef Jean

There are celebrities who have charities, but you don't see them on the ground. Angelina is on the ground doing things.

Khadga Oli

We strongly oppose this. The imposition of a curfew is unnecessary, illegal and illogical. There is no ground for this.

Bill Murray

I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.

Bill Murray

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

Bill Murray

Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.

Travis Plunkett

We're going to see people in a debtor's prison without walls, ... They'll essentially slip through the safety net, hit the ground and then sink into an underground economy.

Ann Crowley

What they put on the ground to live in, they ought to pay for, ... That's what I believe.

John Hughs

We're going to have to go in and rebuild it from the ground up because it went to seed before we got it. There are literally trees and shrubs growing up in the greens, and it's going to take a lot of work and money to get it back into shape.

David Giuntoli

Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down.

Bill Johnson

We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours.

Bob Black

Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

Benjamin Franklin

Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?

Boris Yeltsin

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

Jan Karon

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

Tina Fey

The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they're doing well, you don't really need to be in control all the time.

Edward Abbey

The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!

Aristotle

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Charles Caleb Colton

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Alanis Morissette

I think everyone's hungry for the truth

Alan Watts

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

Alan Watts

Duality is always secretly unity.

Alan Arkin

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

Al Pacino

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

David Byrne

I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

Carine Roitfeld

I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.

James Jannard

Anyone who wears glasses can be an Oakley consumer.

Tarik Minor

Persistence wears out resistance, or at least that's what protesters say.

Johnny Gimble

The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Gary Ballough

Whether it's us or them, it'll be a race.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.