Famous Quotes & Sayings

Omar Bongo

Let's be clear: I do not advocate the virtues of a new African diplomatic model and do not pretend to be its theoretician.

Steve Davis

Loretta's extensive business and public service background, coupled with her community involvement and role as a nationally recognized advocate for cultural diversity, make her an ideal choice to lead the New Mexico team.

Ralph Rivera

Many parents today are concerned about the content found in video games today and the effect these games may have on their children. AOL has long been an advocate for parents on the Web and we believe the Family Gaming Guide will be a valuable resource to help parents determine which games their children should be playing.

Steve Cassidy

Sen. Hillary Clinton has proven herself to be a tireless advocate for New Yorkers and our firefighters.

Courtney Boone

Sen. Stevens continues to advocate for the promise that was made to Alaskans by Congress 25 years ago.

Russ Newman

Senator Figueroa has been a champion of quality health care and the inclusion of psychological services. We are delighted to present this award to someone who has not only spearheaded efforts to expand mental health services in the state of California, but has also been a friend and an advocate of the psychology profession.

Greg Aiello

Mr. Wilson is a strong advocate and passionate. We're very aware of his views and the governor's views about how important the Bills are. We're working with all 32 clubs to make sure revenue sharing works for all the teams.

Andy Baker

Maynard Ferguson loves doing this kind of stuff for high schools and colleges. He is a huge advocate of music education.

Terry McElroy

Obviously this department is a big advocate of prescribed burning or controlled burning.

Ken Keyes

Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.

Mark Connolly

Leave our boundaries alone. Let us solve our own problems.

Tom Schlesinger

More than any of his predecessors, he has gone public with every issue under the sun. I'm not sure there's a right answer, but I think it's worth talking about in a public forum what ought to be boundaries of the Fed governors' comments.

Andy Serkis

I have a company in the U.K., a performance-capture studio. We're looking to push the boundaries of performance-capture technology in film and video games, but also in live theater, using real-time performance capture with actors onstage, and combining that with holographic imagery.

Fran Allen

So many of us were single and young, there were no boundaries between work and home. It was a tremendously productive period for all of us.

Sue Monk Kidd

Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and boundaries we create and how to make them more permeable.

David Blaine

I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder.

Giles Foden

Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all national boundaries are quaint curiosities.

William H. Seward

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?

Michael Redd

Mo is big, Charlie (Bell) is big and Joe is big. To have all three of them healthy at the same time, with the core group we have, is going to take a lot of pressure off all of us.

Rob McClure

My initial introduction to him was - this is a funny story... My Aunt Marian, my entire life growing up, told me that I looked like Charlie Chaplin. That didn't really resonate with me when I was younger - I hadn't seen a lot of his films.

Travis Reinsch

One thing about Charlie is that he's been proving people wrong all year long. When Charlie puts his mind to it, it can happen.

Tom Brady

One thing with Charlie is you always knew where he was and what his expectations were. That's going to be missed, too.

Sam Rivers

My early influences I'd say were, well, just about all the old great masters like Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, naturally Charlie Parker and quite a few others that are still around like Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Illinois Jacquet and of course my great friend Dexter Gordon.

Dick Smith

If Charlie had gone on, he would have been right at the top. He was a great musician.

Rand Paul

I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.

Morris Peterson

I wish Chris was healthy, but unfortunately he's not. We're just going to keep doing the things that we have to do. It's going to take more than me, Charlie (Villanueva) and Mike. It's going to take the whole team.

Ken Joyce

If these guys keep it up, Charlie Poe might be the one that gets promoted.

Blake Ress

Many of the people in the legislature send their kids to private schools and I think they would defend them, defend the current system. I don't know that we've done enough research where we can defend this before the legislature or in court. If we're going to go this way we better have some facts to back our decision.

Herbert Hainer

Many of our current efforts will now focus on turning around the Reebok brand.

Cindy Clark

Several teachers also go to training all year long. Even in the summer, they go to week-long training sponsored by different groups. We want them to keep up with the current research.

Atul Lele

Momentum is on the mining companies' side, at least for the short term, as current commodities prices feed through to earnings.

Mark Levine

Mr. President, please reject the Left's current efforts to influence your selection. Your political enemies wish you ill.

Xiao Qiang

Much more relevant is current affairs, social and political news. You don't necessarily have to touch taboo areas.

John Robertson

Much more inflation. Because this government is always going to be printing its way out of its current difficulty.

Robert Gruber

Most wine importers hedge about 12 months; in other words, to the end of the current price list.

Norihito Kanai

Mazda, like other automakers, is benefiting from the weaker yen. Currently they don't have many new models, but next fiscal year starting in April, they will release new SUV models in the U.S., which should help its earnings and sales.

January Jones

'Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.

Patti Smith

Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

Tony Batista

Let's find out. I'm back. It feels good.

Gary Ambrose

Set the ground rules and make sure it feels right.

Robby Cunningham

Secretary McDonough has looked at the investigation of the armory incident, and he doesn't like what he sees. Some of these guys have been on paid leave, and he feels as a guardian of taxpayers' money that this is not the way to spend it. He doesn't like people on the payroll who aren't working.

Norm Hewitt

Monday felt surreal, when we thought we had lost him. Today feels surreal. Our prayers have been answered.

Karl Numinen

Mr. Beauchamp feels horrible about what happened that day.

Toba Beta

Movie without romance feels like food without flavor.

Meredith Grey

Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.

Francis Bacon

Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

O. J. Simpson

I can't imagine any party who would be more hostile. She's not a friendly witness,

Lauren Morgens

She's super-super friendly to everyone. As long as you pet her, she's your friend. She's not a one-person cat.

Jim Woods

She was a fun, friendly person. Here every day, and she was a hard worker. She is going to be missed.

Mark Greene

She's usually pretty happy-go-lucky, just friendly and always up. But she's in a different place right now.

Ingrid Newkirk

She has worn fur, so the innocent did not get hurt. It wasn't friendly fire.

Franz Beckenbauer

Since Jurgen Klinsmann took over, the team has only played friendly matches, but now, for the first time, they are taking part in a real competition.

Ian Mckellen

What's nice for me, having identified myself for years as being rather shy, is now, wherever I am, in public, there tends to be a friendly face who's pleased to see me, and I like that.

David Hanson

My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.

Erik Zanen

Life is one big gift you keep on recieving.

Seneca

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy

Ken Johnson

Many times in life you take struggles and disappointments to realize the potential and gifted talents that they have.

Charlize Theron

McDormand is an incredible gift to the cinema, ... There's something so organic about her character, straight from the gut.

Harvey Fierstein

Maybe when you need the perfect gift for John Waters,

Caroline Rhea

My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.

Caitlyn Jenner

My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports.

Dick Gephardt

gifted national leader and a model public servant.

Donald Light

From the viewpoint of mass tort law firms, this is a gift from heaven: a huge number of people who have suffered terrible losses, with 24X7 media exposure.

Thom Yorke

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

Debra Wilson

I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.

Eddie Van Halen

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

Eddie Van Halen

A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, all the strings should be off.

Dave Navarro

And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.

Dave Navarro

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

Dave Mustaine

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

Dave Mustaine

My guitar was a loyal person to me.

Billy Unger

I love Aerosmith. I love Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, anything from that era, Led Zeppelin. So my guitar style is very much like Slash or Jimmy Page. I love playing that kind of music. It's where my heart's at.

Donald Tusk

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.

Jason Falkner

I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.

Bruce Jackson

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

Chino Moreno

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.

Clyde Tombaugh

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.

Jesse L. Martin

We want to start a 'Flash' band. Everyone can play an instrument and sing.

Bobby McFerrin

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

K'naan

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

Jeremy Davenport

New Orleans is where jazz was born, and jazz is my passion.

Debra Wilson

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

Dizzy Gillespie

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.

Dizzy Gillespie

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

Chuck D.

I had just seen the movie 'Young Man With a Horn' about jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke. So I told him I'd take one of those.

John Reynolds

I do a lot (of business) with local jazz players.

Baz Luhrmann

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

Paul Horn

You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.

Chris Carter

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

Phillip Bloch

Like any other celebrity, Ken needed to keep up with the times.

Melissa Wagoner

Sen. Kennedy spoke to Sen. Stevens in support of this provision.

Stephanie Cutter

Senator Kennedy has been waiting for the right invitation.

Eric Fellner

Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace.

Patrick Moynihan

Move on; I mean, I've had enough of everything, but particularly Kenneth Starr, ... Meet The Press.

Robert Sean Leonard

My greatest desire was to be in a sandbox with Kevin Kline or Kenneth Branagh - to be with the people I admired - and I have.

Maria Shriver

When I look in the mirror, I don't just see a first lady, I don't just see a Kennedy or a Schwarzenegger, I don't just see a mother, a daughter, a wife, a sister and a friend, and thank God, I don't see Warren Beatty.

Tamara Feldman

I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.

Tina Brown

Unlike the Kennedy dynasty, who always knew how to pay off people who might make trouble, the Windsors can't bring themselves to part with any royal trinkets.

Barry Alvarez

I'd like for him to be matched up that way all day. I don't think we'll have that luxury.

Scott Bogumil

We're really excited. We wanted to keep playing at night and we matched our goal.

Mark Jula

We matched them hoop for hoop in the third quarter. We needed a stop and then they got some breaks.

James Morris

For too many ordinary people, political progress must now be matched by substantial humanitarian assistance.

Bruce Aidells

It has a coarse texture and a rich, beefy taste only matched by hanger steak.

Jon Monti

We thought Beecher would be patient. We matched that patience when it was necessary.

Jim Seals

Everything matched psychologically and physically. Then it was a matter of just putting me into the (donor) system. I got a week's notice and went to Spokane,

Mike Anderson

We mixed and matched our defense; some zone, some man. I thought we did defend. They only shot 37 percent, but the thing about them is they are so long and athletic, they would just go get it.

Edward Kennedy

By some measures, we've matched or surpassed where HBC is today.

Albert Schweitzer

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

David Circle

Let them know that you support music programs.

Dan Hill

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

Janice Stockigt

Several of its themes and musical motifs are strikingly similar to those present in other Vivaldi works.

Grimes

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

Laura Mvula

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

H. Hart

Music is feeling. Once you start thinking about it then you overdevelop it. It should come from the heart, the soul, and the subconscious. Music is all about the moment, and if you think about it then you're already in the next moment.

Rutina Wesley

Music is definitely influential on how I approach my scenes.

Daron Malakian

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

Michael Redd

Oh, yeah, naturally it's going to be disappointing,

Chester Brown

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

Starsmith

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

Mitchell Baker

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

Leon Askin

We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany.

Edmund Hillary

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

John Key

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

Chris Cornell

Rock will always have CBGB, whether it's open or closed, ... It will just naturally be replaced by something else.

Jeff Barker

People are naturally curious, they want to see what's going on.

Mike Sanford

Leon is playing better and better every week.

Shaun McGinn

So he started playing every day and, since then, he's been doing very well.

Jim Tressel

Maurice is going to be playing tailback on our scout team.

Willie Thornton

Obviously. we're playing better. We're still not where we want to be. We're still a work in progress.

Kimo Oelhoffen

My apologies to him. It's unfortunate it happened, but that's the risk we all take playing this game.

Joel Edgerton

Polo is like playing golf with a saddle, and there are a lot of moving parts.

George Robertson

When the nation's very survival is at stake, there is no room for playing politics,

Rashard Lewis

I feel like we weren't playing hard. We were just kind of going through the motions.

Steve Rothchild

I feel like we're playing better right now. We just have to take things one at a time right now.

John Humphreys

Now they have a pretty strong portfolio. This is a powerful tech story for the company, and they need that.

Charles Spurgeon

Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ . . . They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place.

Diane Lane

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

Dennis Prager

The words 'I'm sorry' are so powerful that it's almost difficult to overstate

Dennis Prager

Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness

Democritus

Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.

Deborah Tannen

any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.

Dee Dee Myers

During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.

Dee Dee Myers

Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.

Justin Baldoni

My little secret before I do every scene is I say a short little prayer.

Vernon Keenan

No one has ever encountered a scene like this,

Gia Coppola

My grandpa showed me how to build stamina onset behind the scenes on 'Twixt.'

Mark Spragg

When I look at the film, unlike when you see it, I'll be thinking of the scenes that were cut,

Debra Winger

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.

Rutina Wesley

I did my first Broadway play, 'The Vertical Hour,' in 2006, with Julianne Moore, who's always been one of my favorite actresses. My scene was with her, so it was nerve-racking.

Neil Marshall

I don't think they're gratuitous with the nudity on 'Game of Thrones.' It's very much part of the world. There's a lot of it, but that's the world they come from. It never is there to distract from the scene or the actors or story.

Hannah Murray

I can remember on the first day on 'Chatroom,' it was just one scene for the whole day, which was a really nice luxury to have.

Charles Dickens

The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.

Geno Auriemma

She's stretching it out. She does whatever she has to do.

Lewis Carroll

He taught us Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils.

Doris Lessing

I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.

Brian O'Driscoll

A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.

Bob Murphy

We didn't know how to train correctly, that's the truth. Today, we do know how. We do a lot of strengthening, a lot of stretching and it helps, even at my age.

Liz Phair

I love stretching myself musically.

Catherynne M. Valente

I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching for something new and difficult that I haven't done before.

Vernor Vinge

Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.

John Barry

If you have a successful run, everything comes to you. Nothing succeeds like success.

Cecilia Bartoli

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

Alain Resnais

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

Bruno Walter

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

Bela Lugosi

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

Bruce Lee

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

Adam Baldwin

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

Chuck Norris

The fact is that everyone has ki, which is really little more than a technique of visualization allowing one to utilize the internal energy that we all have and letting it flow through the body...

Ansel Adams

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

Donald Rumsfeld

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.