Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.

Robert Osborne

For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that, the real goal is then to win an Academy Award. Because when they do, they know that their obit is going to start out, 'Academy Award winner so-and-so.'

Ronald Kessler

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Malcolm McDowell

It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.

Shawn Amos

Like any self-governing group of people, the Recording Academy has made missteps over the years. Still, it has corrected course and done more to open its arms to the future than nearly any other industry group around.

Jahangir Khan

Let's face it. There is no setup in Pakistan to train and groom young players at the grassroots level in different sports. Those of us who did make a name for ourselves and became champions did it with our own initiative - there was no academy to back us till we reached a certain level on our own.

Mark Ishikawa

Screeners have been distributed to Academy members and many of them are already appearing online.

Sean Conway

Senator Allard wants them to look at the Air Force Academy from leadership through process.

David DeMartini

Much like he had an opportunity to work with Puzo and kind of evolve the book into a screenplay - which obviously required some modification to what Puzo had done - I just hope that he respects that we were targeting a different customer and we're trying to keep this fiction alive. The book's a great book; the movie's Academy Award winning; and hopefully the game will get a tremendous amount of acclaim as well. Just respect each of those works for what they are, I think that's the best way for us all to look at it.

Dawn Anderson

Life is full of choices. They could have called for help. They could have stopped and walked away. They made their choice that day, now they must pay the consequences.

Albert Camus

Life is a sum of all your choices.

Nicolle Devenish

make it clear he's now energized and ready to talk about the choice people have next November.

Chris Simpson

Mainly they'll talk about with them the importance of education the importance of the choices they make,

George Bernard Shaw

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

Bill Young

Let there be no doubt, our choice -- the choice of President Bush, the choice of the United States Congress, and the choice of the great people of a great nation -- is to fight back. The world will be impressed by our response and we mobilize for this fight.

Wim Kok

Let's be realistic. The voters gave us a huge thrashing. The people of the Netherlands have made a different choice.

Jack Lamb

Many parents, you could offer all types of choices, and they're going to choose what is most convenient.

Luis Derbez

Severing diplomatic relations is an extreme choice and the Mexican government does not intend to do so for now,

Pete Orr

Last year, you're a rookie and everything you do is a better-than-everybody-expected kind of deal. Now going into the season, there's a lot expected of you. I think that's a little different and the pressure is going to be a little different.

Lindsay Whalen

Last year we were 18-16, and the playoffs start, and the next thing you know, we're in the finals. Pretty cool. This year, we expected to win.

Alan Greenspan

modest, but it can be expected to be not negligible.

Shayne Graham

My job's no different. I'm held to the same standard, and I'm expected to do well. If I don't do well, they're going to look for somebody who can.

Jerome Bettis

Nobody expected us to win, nobody was picking us to win. That's fine ... as long as we believed.

Dane Bradshaw

Nobody expected us to get this far. It hurts now because we think we should've made the Sweet 16, but we accomplished a lot.

Rui Farias

Nobody expected us to be good this year. We had some serious talent on last year's team, and some of those seniors never left the field.

F. Schumacher

Nobody expected this and now that it's there we will work very hard to fight back again. It's not a big surprise and that's the way it goes. It is honestly a surprise it did take that long before it happened.

Tony Bina

Nobody expected much from us. People didn't think we'd make state or do well here.

Tom Chiappetta

When you put that mix together, we got our own little world here.

Elizabeth Bowen

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Omar Vizquel

On the road, it's going to be a mixed feeling. But at home, he'll get the support.

Richard Shelby

because they all go into the mix of the economy.

Paul Fernandez

She used to rely a lot on her power. Now she has a variety of pitches she can mix in.

Nathalie Dechy

She served very well and mixed her game. I had a lot of opportunities but simply couldnt take the lead,

Reginald Knowles

Town officials can piggyback for some mix on some adjacent town roads.

Zygmunt Bauman

In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

Vint Cerf

There is an odd mix of permeability and impermeability in the Net. You won't be able to communicate with everyone, and not every application will be accessible to everyone.

Peter R. Grant

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

Linda Martin

Lacy tends to be calming. She is not part of the therapy, but she's therapeutic.

Peter Hook

Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!

Jeffrey Hirsch

There tends to be a lot of housecleaning from institutions in September,

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

John Gordon Sinclair

I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.

Aaron Klug

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

David Brooks

Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.

Barbra Streisand

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

Daniel Handler

Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.

Charles Kennedy

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Alex Flinn

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

Ambrose Bierce

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

Alice James

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Alice Duer Miller

It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.