Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kareem Evans

We are at Armstrong Middle School, and we are actually trying to get into Bowman Middle School.

Ellen Stofan

As a card-carrying space nerd and NASA's chief scientist, I love space movies, from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to my all-time favorite - 'The Dish', an Australian comedy that celebrates that first moment when Neil Armstrong stepped down onto the surface of our moon.

Thomas Gibson

When my sister and I were kids, swimming down in Charleston, there was this pizza parlor that had this old Dixieland band play, and I just loved Louis Armstrong and the sound of his voice, and I got up there with the band and started singing Louis Armstrong songs when I was a kid. I have no idea why, but I did it and I loved it.

Pete Townshend

English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.

Blake Lively

The New York that Frank Sinatra sang about, people will never know that place. The New Orleans that Louis Armstrong sang about is the New Orleans that's still there - it's preserved.

Trombone Shorty

I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing.

Michael Barrett

I have always favored a mix. I don't believe in segregating music into categories. I think that exercise tends to be very arbitrary. I like to quote the jazz great Louis Armstrong on the subject: 'There are only two types of music, good and bad. I play good music.' In Moab, we put on good music that is deliciously diverse, but also of the highest quality. Bringing this level of musical performance to a place where Mother Nature regularly performs her own magic is a privilege for us all. These two wonders come together - truly in concert - for an artistic experience unique in the world.

Seth Shostak

Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to bulldoze the spot where Neil Armstrong stepped off the Eagle lander. But even innocent visits could be damaging.

Stephen Rodrick

Lance Armstrong has a 17th-century, 15-foot Spanish fresco of the crucifixion hanging on the wall of his Austin mansion. This doesn't mean - and some of you Armstrong acolytes might want to sit down for this - that Lance is Jesus.

Alan Moore

I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

David Mitchell

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

Michael Moriarty

I know a lot about Canadian politics. I lived in Canadian bars for six years.

Orrin Hatch

The position that you have been nominated for is chief justice of the United States. Do you plan to use that role as a bully pulpit to encourage members of the bar to take seriously their responsibility to undertake pro bono work as you have done throughout your legal career?

Kathleen Blanco

We are praying that the hurricane dissipates or that it weakens. This state can barely stand what happened to it.

Jim Evans

We've already turned down arbitration. We wish to settle our differences at the bargaining table, and are ready to return to the table to do so.

Ray Corn

We vaulted the best we have vaulted and probably ... had one of the best (floor) performances of the year. The debacle on bars and beam really cost us.

Adam Sieminski

We believe that the oil ministers are inclined to defend a $55 per barrel floor in the near term.

Britani Pittullo

We are going to see if she can come back on bars for the rest of the year. Until then, we're going to really miss her.

Richard McGrath

We want to set the right example and send the right message. Even though this money is coming from contributions, we still think it's very important to be cost-efficient and responsible with expenses.

Luke Pasqualino

Pretty good, you know it's nice when you get people coming up to you saying 'Can I have a photo or an autograph'; it's a compliment, I think.

Michael Strahan

The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.

M. Night Shyamalan

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

Michael Farr

The post-Labor Day rally, I wasn't sold on. The fact that we didn't really crash over summer, I thought was a terrific blessing. I think sentiment is going to drive the market from here. The numbers are there, the numbers have not changed. The economy has not changed, it is still good, slowing down a little bit. We've got a nice stable platform. Earnings for second quarter were fabulous. They ought to be pretty good, I think, coming in here to the third quarter.

James Awad

The positive today is that oil is coming down, the negative is that the housing numbers are worse than expected.

Mark Potok

The point of doing all of this is so that we as a society can move forward. And the time is really coming when we really are going to turn and face the future.

Terry Borr

The pleasant surprise was how our defensive line played. One question I had coming out of preseason practice was how we would play defensively.

Carly Rager

We are seeing a lot of the taffeta coming back with side pleats and drapes.

Javier Clemente

I think those that spit have descended from the trees.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists

John Anderson

The SWAT team descended on that vehicle in a pretty significant way, ... I think they would have fought it out if there had been less of a presence, but I think they realized it would be fruitless.

Gary Gibson

We've got a living dinosaur here. All the modern games of football and rugby must have descended from this game - and others like it.

Rhonda Honegger

They descended on us like angels. We don't know how they found out about us, but that is how everything has happened in every step of this playground. Things just fell into place.

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Glenn Parker

We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Globalization is a fact of economic life

C. P. Scott

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Robert Fraser

We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.

Lauren Worsham

After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.

Jim Peters

The planes they have there are all low and slow. A safe landing rests solely with the pilot.

Richard Zuschlag

We won't go into the Superdome landing zone until security is restored.

Angela Ahrendts

Store windows are like landing pages on the website.

Linda Relis

I was so nervous, I couldn't watch till the landing was over.

Mark Roberts

Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.

Martin Freeman

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

Steve Squyres

We're using the same landing technique that Pathfinder used.

Kamika Smith

Rocks were landing right on the viewing area.

Tamora Pierce

Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.

Dean Thomas

Neil has had a scan and we are just awaiting the results but he could be out for quite a while.

Peter Lawwell

Neil has apologised and we know that his reaction was wrong.

Hector Elizondo

I was working for Neil Simon on Broadway.

Donita Stewart

She is very independent, and suddenly she couldn't do the things that she's always done.

Feist

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

Gillian Armstrong

It only happens once - that an actor is suddenly recognised as the star they are.

Elizabeth Warren

I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

Sam Worthington

I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

Clarence Thomas

My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.

Gary Jones

Suddenly you've got this big-screen, movie-screen, home-theater experience, wherever you are.

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Bill Hader

'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.

Virat Kohli

'Border' was the first movie that I watched on the big screen. It always takes me back to my childhood.

Ted Sarandos

Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream.

Cristela Alonzo

I couldn't afford therapy, so I just watched 'Frasier.' Season 4 was a breakthrough.

Hiroyuki Sanada

I was very comfortable on the set of 'Lost'. I was so nervous when I went on to the set because I had just watched all the 'Lost' episodes. I was, like, a fan. A big fan.

Ron Gardenhire

Have you watched us bunt? Does it look like we have it down now?

Gary Johnson

I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

David Edwards

I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Ann Brashares

It was wrong. But it was worth it.

Source Unknown

When the well's dry, they know the worth of water.

Chris Fecera

We actually renovated it so we could show about $20,000 worth of merchandise here.

Mark Edwards

We're doing what we can. We think it's a worthy cause.

Henry S. Haskins

When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Benjamin Franklin

One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults

Melissa Etheridge

No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it.