Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura San Giacomo

I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.

Robert Reich

I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand the term.

Tim Finchem

What tournaments want to do, typically, is support charities in their community that need the money and charities that are impactful to their community. The better the job the tournament does for the charities, the better they are able to sell the tournament and raise money for the charity.

Edy Ganem

Mainly, I have actually been getting involved with an organization called MALDEF. It's a Latino organization. And I would like to get involved with charities that have to do with children or homelessness or education, or all of them together.

Daniel Borochoff

There is a lot more needed to get these people back up on their feet. We had concern with charities overdoing it in 9/11.

William Wordsworth

The primal duties shine aloft, like stars;The charities that soothe, and heal, and blessAre scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.

The Talmud

Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.

Kat Graham

I've always been involved with charities and things like that, but when I started communicating with the fans and hearing their stories about the lives they lead, it really made an impact on me.

Leila Janah

A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value.

Barry Trotz

We're in pretty elite company. I told the team that if we can do something special, go for it.

Michelle Malkin

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

Mamata Banerjee

I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.

Dan Glickman

Shutting down illegal file swapping networks like Elite Torrents is an essential part of our fight to stop movie thieves from stealing copyrighted materials.

Chuck D.

The fact is this is an elite group of individuals. The fact is we want an elite group of individuals,

Bob Blecher

Last year was the first time Patrice had to be a leader on the field. This year, being a senior and one of the area's elite players, I think she's more willing to take on that responsibility.

Becky Lofstead

We're kind of capitalizing on last year's run to the Elite Eight.

Chris Bosh

To be a part of the world's elite instead of the just league's elite is a little more special.

Gloria Reuben

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.

Charles Caleb Colton

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

William Shakespeare

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

Charles Lamb

The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.

Benjamin Franklin

Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.

Brad Richards

We're just not doing enough right now. We're not trying to win games, we're just hoping. You can use a lot of fancy words but there's no other way to put it.

Richard P. Feynman

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

Travis Fimmel

You don't get recognized that much unless you want to get recognized, like if you go to the fancy joints and that. It's like, L.A. - there are 10 restaurants. If you want to be seen, you go.

Lillian Hellman

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

John Fuller

When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public reading. Then there was poetry and jazz, which I don't think worked, though I love jazz.

Audrey Hepburn

Living is like tearing through a museum.

Antony Gormley

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

Diego Maradona

Pele should go back to the museum.

Bill McKibben

The earth is a museum of divine intent.

Bill Maher

New Rule: Since our new national position on science is, "Screw it, we prefer witchcraft," let's not just retire the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Let's drive it to one of the five stupidest States and have the locals beat it with sticks. Putting it in a museum is too dangerous. Someone could steal it, fly it into space and notice we revolve around the sun.

Billy Crystal

Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so extraordinary, and I didn't care if they were true or not after a while. ... I don't know if he really got high with Humphrey Bogart or not. It didn't matter because he was painting these fantastic pictures.

Brad Pitt

It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

Daniel Handler

Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it would be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it.

Eli Broad

Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Nell Newman

I know I could make a difference by supporting the right causes.

Teresa Johnson

He wants to win and we're just supporting him.

Marcel Dionne

The only thing is we didn't have the supporting cast.

Debbie Smith

I think the winds are changing. We're all tired of supporting the scandals.

Robin Butler

I'm still undecided about who I'm supporting for governor, but I'm a person who supports the anti-Nussle campaign.

Steve Gillis

They say they're supporting the troops, but they're not.

Robert Maillet

You need supporting actors to help to tell the story. For me, I'm lucky to be a part of the films. Being an actor, I'll take any role, whether it's supporting or leading.

Waris Ahluwalia

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.

Robert Lowe

The E.U. has a long tradition of supporting the Palestinians.