Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Kane

Acting is pretty much my whole life.

Mark Durkan

We want to see a credible report telling us there is no current or ongoing illegal activity from the IRA.

David Siegel

We ... want to resolve the dispute over the dismissed workers; however, that will not include the reinstatement of those who instigated and incited the walkout action and who harassed and intimidated those employees who chose to come to work during this difficult time.

Ashley Goforth

We want to promote activism through different mediums.

Kitty Lagareta

We have seen David McClain in action for the past year and a half and feel strongly that he is the right person and the best person at the right time to take the university forward.

Andy Brough

We have seen continued bid activity and earnings have been reasonably robust. The market has had a great run in the first quarter.

Tom Harp

We have seen a definite correlation between illegal activities of all sorts. Between criminal code activity and civil code activities, we see a correlation.

Dan Dinges

We have secured the rigs necessary to complete our program, a program that focuses on more development activity and less risk. The current forecasted activity level calls for 391 wells, with increased activity in each region including expanded drilling on each of the acquisition plays purchased in 2005.

Elizardo Sanchez

We have to get used to this because it seems that human rights activists and dissidents are not well liked by governments, especially those that maintain their nation's human rights in the appalling situation that Cuba does.

Bruce Buck

We are almost certainly going to appeal. We believe that attending the meeting (with Cole in January) did not go over the line... we think that the sanctions are totally disproportionate to the alleged sin.

Ali Liebegott

Since becoming an alleged adult, I've always felt like I should exercise - or should at least want to exercise - and make a feeble attempt at health, thus staving off terrible things like the coronary heart disease and high cholesterol described to me in 1980s margarine commercials.

John Roberts

Mr. Jones suggests in his letter that you would have reacted differently to an alleged civil rights violation, and in a thinly veiled threat, asserts that the alleged insensitivity of the administration to fundamentalist Christians will not go unnoticed by that sizable voting block,

Ariel Sharon

The Prime Minister's Office and the Defense Ministry have no knowledge whatsoever of an alleged approval to build 3,000 dwelling units in Ariel and we really don't know where this number comes from,

Jeffrey Kerr

PETA has no involvement with alleged ALF or ELF actions. PETA does not support terrorism. PETA does not support violence,

Richard Scudamore

I am sure the inquiry will wish to speak to him and anybody else who has raised similar comments. There is a great deal of speculation regarding alleged irregular payments in transfer dealings. I cannot sit here yet with irrefutable proof it doesn't happen or that it does. That's why the inquiry has been called. We don't have the power to insist Sven-Goran Eriksson sits and talks to us but having said that I would imagine he has no reason not to.

Philip Morris

Given the decision to decertify in a case also based on alleged fraudulent misrepresentations to consumers, we think it is clear that this court will decertify

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.

Bill Thomas

If this alleged attack occurred in a manner in which described by the prosecutor and law enforcement, then there will be DNA present.

Sarah Koenig

If you go to probably any jury trial in Baltimore that involves violence, either an assault or murder, and watch the voir dire, to me, that's when you get a sense of what it's like to live in Baltimore.

Charles Schumer

...the only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers...

Tullian Tchividjian

At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

There is no question that Australia's most dramatic assault on the world market has been with its value wines. These are generally not from specific appellations but blends made by huge enterprises like Penfolds, Rosemount or Casella Estate - the group behind Yellow Tail.

Loren Thompson

Much of the Marine Corps equipment was purchased with the prospect of a shore assault in mind.

Jeff Wilson

Mr. Bates pled guilty to a count of manslaughter, two counts of assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury and guilty to making criminal threats and to transportation of more than one ounce of marijuana. They are all felonies.

Dan Quayle

mothers and fathers are sick and tired of seeing the values assaulted that they are trying to teach their children.

Ryan Tritch

Men have a lot of power to stop sexual assault and it doesn't make you less of a man.

James Thompson

We actually got several of the sexual predator and sexual assault cases down in Provo last week.

Matt Gallagher

There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen.

Jennifer Grant

Can't blame men for wanting him. And wouldn't be surprised if Dad even mildly flirted back. Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.

William Williams

The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assertion with broken means but an assertion, always, of a new and total culture, the lifting of an environment to expression. Thus it is social, the poem is a social instrument.

Jon Nadler

We stand by the assertion that a quarter percent better fed funds rate will NOT make the critical difference to medium-term and/or long-term gold investors.

John F. Kerry

Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.

Margaret Mitchell

There are proposals where there is little or no evidence available from the executive to support the assertion that the reforms proposed will safeguard the interests of children and support stable families.

Dave Borison

Firmware upgradeability is an outrageous assertion to be made at this point.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly

bell hooks

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.

C. S. Lewis

The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all.

C. S. Lewis

Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort.

Mark Twain

We have nine children now half boys and half girls.

Mark Jackson

We have never won the national title. There will be some good teams there and it will be hard. The boys had a couple of days off after the Auckland final but are now back into training.

Gloria Smith

We want our students to be A students and we know they can do it. There are special items for B students such as bracelets and things for boys like fire trucks and chess sets.

Aaron Sorkin

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,

Alan Trammell

I'm a big boy. I've been through enough that I understand how things are.

Charles Dudley Warner

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.

Charles Dudley Warner

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

Damon Lindelof

Whenever we do a story or we show the monster or we find the hatch, that all has to be consistent with what we know the ending to be. We have a goal that we are working towards.

Dan Hammerschmidt

We were a real explosive offensive team at times last year, but we weren't as consistent as we need to be. I'm hoping our leadership and experience will make us more consistent, everybody buckling down and being tougher.

Chad Fox

We have a young defense, ... Part of that growing up is playing consistent every down. At times, the defense plays stellar, lights out. Other times, it slips here or there and doesn't look so good. We'll get it.

Russ Knocke

The process for sharing this type of specific threat information with state and locals was consistent with protocols for how we share the information and for how that information is vetted by the intelligence community.

Herman Edwards

The problem with that is you've got to win. You can't expect teams to keep losing. There's some teams in the division that are good teams and we can be a good team, too, but we're not playing consistent enough to be a good team.

Terry Francona

As a manager, the more consistent you are, the better off you are. It's easy to be up when things go well. When things don't go well, the players will follow your lead. So you have to be consistent and upbeat, which takes some work sometimes.

Ted Cruz

If we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.

Chuck Wilson

We're just trying to be consistent with the little things that we do and continue to try and do them well. Last week I was happy with the fact that we didn't jump offsides and make stupid mistakes.

Maajid Nawaz

I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact.

Bob Tucker

We have motor escorts in other places - maybe two (officers) to take us to a main event - but not for practices, players' dinners, and other events like we have here.

Steve Jocz

We were trying to joke around as much as possible. Well, as much as you could in that . . . eventually it got really not funny.

Geoff Coulson

We've seen worse, but I'm sure there are people in parts of Toronto who were not happy to see any rain after the events of Aug. 19.

Darren Dopp

We've seen this in other industries we've investigated. There's a moment where everyone is frozen with self-examination, and then things improve. These reforms will eventually expand opportunities for artists.

Roland Swenson

We've seen big events go down very fast.

Wendy Cheung

There are a lot of events happening this month and we hope lots of people will come to them.

Trinny Woodall

When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all.

Karen Mitchell

We use more than 1,000 volunteers just on this event. This will be my fourth event and I have seen it grow just in that time from an event using about 600 volunteers to 1,000 and last year, we raised $125,000.

Umberto Eco

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Enya

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

John Eaton

We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.

Louis MacNeice

A poet should always be 'collaborating' with his public, but this public, in the mass, cannot make itself heard, and he has to guess at its requirements and its criticisms.

Kage Baker

The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

JR

If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an advertisement for anything other than the work itself and for the people it's about - no 'Coca-Cola presents.'

Louis Navellier

One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.

Louis Sachar

With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.

Jeff Justice

The outcome itself shows it was an unreasonable risk.

Stephen Graham Jones

Where 'Paranormal Activity' really comes into its own is its rhetoric of legitimacy - how it uses itself to authenticate itself, and thus furthers the pretence of being real.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out.

Bill Johnson

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

JoAnn Carrin

We're confused. We don't understand the judge's reaction. We're perfectly prepared to prosecute this case.

John Drinkwater

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

Chuck Palahniuk

My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd.

Kurt Vonnegut

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

Gena Pharis

To be perfectly honest, it's never been too rough. From the start, everyone's been really good.

Richard Foster

In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.

David Schwimmer

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

Robin Oakley

are not remotely on the same scale as the U.S..

Jeffrey Skilling

I never did that. I don't think I did anything remotely like that.

Jasmine Guy

There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.

Barbet Schroeder

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

Pat Buckley

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.

Jake Gyllenhaal

My character's the one that kind of initiates these sexual encounters, which to me was, like, totally foreign.

Ann Landers

Are you better off with him or without him?

Adrienne Rich

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs ...

David Bowie

Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.

Anita Bryant

[On homosexuality:] I'm more inclined [now] to say live and let live.

Francis DeBernardo

That shows the Vatican has no understanding of sexuality or homosexuality.

Madhur Bhandarkar

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

Robert Rodriguez

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

Oliver Luck

My sense is that we're going to have a similar crowd.

Bobby Johnson

To tell you the truth, we're sort of similar to Wake Forest,

Charlotte Church

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

Steve Ron

We all have to wait. We're in a similar situation.

Wang Guoliang

His voice and tone were similar to the secretary-general.

Ladell Betts

Hopefully, we can get something similar like we had in the first game, when we had a 1-2 punch,

Jordan Foreman

He has a big body, he's strong, so it's somewhat similar to what he (Davis) does. He's been a big help.

Trinny Woodall

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

Larenz Tate

'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; we did not know what to expect. I was a kid, and my father took me, and we didn't leave. It was so disturbing, but we loved it.

Jason Swearingen

We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.

James E. Faust

Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Barbara Green

She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Gary Gambardella

She was a fortune-teller, and she took this woman for a fortune.

Penny Sweet

When he started getting sick, we were unaware of what was really wrong with him.

Rajneesh

The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness.

Eric Hoffer

Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Jean Paul

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Brian Keene

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

John Irving

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.