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.

Carlos Ghosn

Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.

Ben Howland

We want to recruit the very best players in the country. That's why we're here right now: We have great players.

Anne McLellan

We want to reassure the president and the people of the United States that we are their best friends and their neighbour, and we will be there to help them in a situation that truly is without parallel in our country or theirs,

Jerry Colangelo

We want to quicken the game. We think these changes are the best way of doing it.

Ritchie McKay

We want to put our best players on the floor at any given time. Some teams happen to be guard-oriented like us.

Juergen Klinsmann

We want to push that back. It would be best for us to work with a large group of players for longer. Hopefully, we'll have time until shortly before the tournament.

Richard Clarke

We want to provide the best possible entertainment for our fans and that means creating a winning team and maximizing their chances of success.

Sam Cowart

We have to get to the point where we find out what we do best and execute it to a 'T,'

Parry Aftab

We have to get our kids to utilize the best Internet filter, and that's the one inside their heads.

Xavier Chambon

We want to put books in everyone's hands.

Ron Cooper

We have no problem with the audit. Our books are open to everyone.

James Patterson

The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.

Rene Descartes

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Joseph Annotti

There is case after case on the books that have upheld the validity of flood exclusion language, exactly the language Mr. Scruggs is contesting.

Joe King

When I'm not playing football, I'm usually studying. I want to go to college, so I got to keep reading books and doing my homework.

A. S. Byatt

You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Mark Frauenfelder

When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more of my time than I like. Meanwhile I hope that the second time this expenditure of time will be much less, otherwise I would never be able to reconcile myself to it, even practical (astronomical) work must give far more satisfaction than if one brings up to B a couple more mediocre heads which otherwise would have stopped at A.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his precious time.

Agnes Smedley

Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.

Agnes Repplier

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

Agnes Repplier

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

Agnes Repplier

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

Alan K. Simpson

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

Alan K. Simpson

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

Deepak Chopra

Being joyful is our natural state of being.

William Channing

Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see

Meg Stuart

We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.

George Karl

In coaching, you don't ever really have that joyful fun, but there's no question that it's enjoyable.

Martha Beck

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.

Mitt Romney

There is no day more joyful in my life than when I see all my family around me. That's the best it gets.

Marianne Williamson

The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.

Common Prayer

A joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful

J. Tillman

With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.

Carlos Castaneda

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.

Carlos Castaneda

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Carl Forti

We have no knowledge who they are, no affiliation.

Ralph Boyd

We have no knowledge of who they are and who they represent, and we have no relationship to that organization in any way, shape, or form,

Agnes Repplier

The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

Agnes Repplier

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

Charles Wagner

Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.

Jim Steinberg

This will pretty much put the libraries back together.

Stephanie Hall

We're so excited. This is the first real new money for libraries from the province in a long time.

Martina Kominiarek

We also benefited in the past year at all of our libraries from donations.

Peg Burington

What we're doing is dispelling that stereotype as libraries being this place where it's very quiet and you have to tip-toe around.

Richard K. Morgan

I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.

Donald Brownlee

The most interesting thing about comets is they are libraries with the stored records of our formation.

Carlos Fuentes

I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.

C. S. Lewis

Am I lost or just less found?

Charles Caleb Colton

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

Charles Spurgeon

The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost.

Pat Robinson

We have residents here who have lost people. It's very sad.

Jasmine Guy

One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

Alan Greenspan

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

Chris Cornell

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by

David Castillo

When you've lost something, and you find it again, it has so much more meaning.

Tina Barrett

I'm just the little mouse in the background.

Carlos Castaneda

Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Charles Spurgeon

Abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds.

Donald DeMayo

Where (those charges) stem from is a mystery to me.

Edmund Burke

Where mystery begins religion ends.

Ben Sherwood

There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.

Austin O'Malley

Most mysteries are soluble in time.

Bryan Magee

It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.

Demetri Martin

I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.

Nick Harkaway

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.

Gary Roberts

Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week,

Tony Haffer

For rain fans, it's going to be a nearly perfect day.

Geoffrey Zakarian

When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I'm also a control person. I don't go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking scenes. So if I want to be with my guests, I have to do everything - or nearly everything - in advance.

Billy Collins

I'm a nearly uncontrollable Geoff Dyer fan, who I think is one of the most comically brilliant writers today.

Hillary Clinton

Everybody feels they have been trespassed upon, and nearly everybody has trespassed on somebody else, maybe not intentionally.

Crystal Kennedy

We don't pay her nearly what is comparable.

Clive Sinclair

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Dominic James

We have positive places around this community. One of them is Townsend Center.

P. J. O'Rourke

The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.

Diane von Furstenberg

Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.

Dhani Jones

Turks and Caicos is one of my favorite places to go. I've been to some really cool places and it started out when I was young by wanting to go to different places.

Bill Murray

Morocco is the greatest. I should be getting money from the Moroccans because I'm just telling everyone that it's a wonderful place to go.

Darrel Hoffman

When I look back, there are so many places where we can improve.

Lynsey Addario

Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, 'Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there's a risk of getting killed?'

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

Cory Doctorow

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

Bruce Vilanch

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

Diablo Cody

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

Scott Trost

We made a little adjustment. We switched off on screens on him. We made him work for all his shots.

Joe Sakic

I didn't do much. I was just trying to get a screen in there. He shot it, and it just went off my stick.

Buck Henry

We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.

Eleanor Parker

I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.

Hill Harper

Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks.

Sidney Poitier

If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.

Christopher Darden

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

Dodie Smith

I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious...

Josh Kornbluth

How do you think I'm doing? ... Wandering Josh.