Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Humphries

One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.

Rose Rosetree

Here, her aura grows. It fills the auditorium when she performs. She knocks people over energetically, and wakes up and empowers their auras.

Jonathan Miller

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.

Larry Groce

This one in Huntington just came up because we couldn't do it here (Charleston). Marshall really didn't officially invite us like the other two universities. David Hardesty and WVU have made it clear that they want us to come there several times a year if we can. We like to travel and we like to go around West Virginia. We love to come to Huntington, and that auditorium is a great space.

Karen Zelley

We redid the auditorium and we have a better sound system now. We have increased the supplemental position for this.

Peter Coyote

We put on shows at Golden Gate Park with the Dead and Jefferson Airplane, and the groups were part of the community they emerged out of, not some superstars. We had multiple stages, diversions, communal entertainment. There is something slightly fascistic about sitting in a huge auditorium focusing all the energy on one group far away on stage.

Johannes Rau

I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment.

James Sutherland

In 2009 Schaeffer Auditorium will be completely renovated and all structural issues will be corrected.

Ron Martin

It has classrooms, an auditorium and a lot more storage. Now we'll be able to spread out and do everything we are able to do.

Red Cavaney

Lee has been a legend in the pantheon of industry leaders since the beginning of time. He commands this tremendous aura of respect when he speaks. People do listen.

Dave Kinney

Barrett-Jackson has created that same mystique and the same aura that Tiffany has with its blue box. Some people have to have that blue box, and some people have to buy from Barrett-Jackson because of the aura surrounding the name.

Curtis Hunter

I didn't like the aura of our body language on the court. We seemed that we were getting defeated, and even though the game was a large margin, we didn't play smart basketball. We're just trying to get these guys to understand that's not how you go out.

Ismail Kadare

If I manage to write something that I consider good and valuable in a particular place, that spot automatically has a special aura for me. In Albania, there are two cities where I have written the majority of my work: Gjirokaster, my home city, and Tirana.

Tom Riley

There's a certain aura when a superstar like Brad Pitt walks into a room - I've seen it myself - but it comes from everyone else going, 'Aaaahhh!!' That's what you have to deal with, people looking at you and whispering. That would be the strangest thing, feeling the change as you walk in a room and trying to ignore it. But I think I could cope!

William Collier

Workers like that are at their computers, they tell me, up to 12 and 14 hours a day, ... So the slow rotation setting on the Aura turns you at one degree every four minutes. At high speed, you move 120 degrees in 15 seconds.

Kara Walker

I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.

Daniel Handler

Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability.

Boris Pasternak

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

John Hutton

From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.

Denis O'Hare

Whether it's writing a monologue or writing standup or writing a screenplay or writing a play, I think staying involved in the creation of your own work empowers you in a way, even if you don't ever do it. It gives you a sense of ownership and a sense of purpose, which I think as an actor is really important.

Kristin Armstrong

Sometimes when we have so much going on, it's easy to forsake the things that seem like personal luxuries - for example, our morning run. But it isn't a luxury at all, when it is the thing that allows us and empowers us to face everything else.

Scott Hamilton

It empowers the skater to participate in the result in a way she never has before. It is a step in the right direction.

Les Brown

Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.

Maajid Nawaz

In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.

Sam Francis

What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.

Bob Greenly

He tackles very well in the open field. He fills on the run and is getting better at pass defense. He's big (6-1, 241), strong and mobile.

Bob Greenly

He tackles very well in the open field, ... He fills on the run and is getting better at pass defense. He's big (6-1, 241), strong and mobile.

Edmund Burke

If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain

Richard Engel

If Syria collapses completely, the United States and the world would have to consider who, and what, fills the vacuum.

Tim White

It fills the gap in the fossil record there in Ethiopia.

Werner Herzog

It fills me with joy to see Dieter (Dengler) again.

Matt Mackowiak

We don't agree. We feel it fills a special niche.

Brene Brown

I love to take, process and share photos - it fills me up.

Henry Johnson

Leadership requires talking about the right things and doing the right things, and sometimes you take your knocks when you do that.

David Jones

To use a hackneyed term, it knocks my socks off.

Dan Campbell

We know if we can go up there and (win), then it pretty much knocks them out. But if we don't, then we give them new life, they're still in this thing.

Dan Rohn

Gonzalez was tough early, but we made some adjustments and got some big knocks (hits). That's what you've got to do to win ballgames.

E. B. White

That's been one of the knocks on me, ... that people think I'm not strong. So that's one of the things I want to work on in my last year.

Ricky Stuart

It knocks around our cohesion a little bit. We've got to find a new combination there now.

Ian Stewart

I had a full-strength squad until three of my first team picked up knocks at training on Thursday.

Justin King

All the knocks that were on him - none of them were true. He's been impressive.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Rick Riordan

Percy!” he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If you’ve never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and rubber cleaning gloves, I’m telling you, it’ll wake you up quick.

Ryan Reynolds

Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.