Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Reid

Let's have a real investigation and a vote here in the Senate. What the president has agreed to is no review.

Edward Norton

Lewis and Clark's expedition is as great a story as you could ever hope to tell, and like so many people, Brad and I have both been drawn to it for years, ... We both always agreed that compressing that story into a feature-length film ruined the spirit of it ... so we sat down and said, 'How can we really do this justice?'

Kofi Annan

Libya has also agreed to a trial in a third country and believes that it ought to be possible to find answers to all other outstanding issues relating to this matter,

Adnan Pachachi

Leaders of political parties have agreed to postpone parliament. There are still some issues that have not been resolved yet.

Steve Lewis

Scott has told us that he wants to stay in Wales, but he has some issues to sort out in Australia and he has kept us informed about his position. We have agreed to meet at the end of the Six Nations to thrash out his contractual position.

Charles Schumer

Sen. Graham and I do not think it would be appropriate to vote on this bill while the president is there, so we have agreed to delay the vote,

Kevin Bishop

Senator (Lindsey) Graham has not agreed to delay a vote on the China currency legislation. No decision has been made and any insinuation to the contrary is nothing more than uninformed speculation.

Arlen Specter

Senator Leahy and I took a look at it and agreed that it was insufficient,

James Rubin

Secretary Albright just got off the phone with Prime Minister Netanyahu and they agreed to meet here in Washington on Wednesday to discuss ways in which we can overcome remaining differences

Mary Martin

Miss Merman is a great broad...that is, she's a great Broadway star.

Toni Tennille

I'm not going to be rockin' n' rollin' when I'm 50 years old. But you can be in your prime on television, compose songs, or write a Broadway play when you're 50.

Dick Van Dyke

I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.

Jay Johnson

I can't speak for all the puppets in my show but I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't looking forward to my spring Broadway debut, but we are all very excited to be playing the Hayes immediately after Sarah Jones' successful run there.

Sam Tsui

I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.

Jack Klugman

I was reluctant to take the TV role, ... How does a TV series follow a classic Broadway comedy?

Jillian Rose Reed

Singing is more of a hobby than really something I want to do for a career. But I love musical theater, so I'm hoping I can go back to it and do a role on Broadway for a few weeks. That would be a dream come true. My dream role would be Roxie in 'Chicago.'

Derek Hough

I'd like to do Broadway if the right project came along, but my mission in life is that I want to help change people's lives.

Tim Tompkins

Times Square itself is being prepared?much like a Broadway theater.

Albert Schweitzer

There is no higher religion than human service.

MaryEllen Elia

Luckily, in this community, we have a pretty good working relationship with all of those entities.

John Best

Making a left turn onto Sawmill Road (from Sawmill Forest) is difficult if not downright dangerous. The last thing this community needs is another fatality due to shortsightedness.

Richard Opper

Lewistown is not unique in having contamination problems, but what is unique is the way the community faced up to the issue. They got together and faced it head on.

James Browning

Look what's happened to our community we're starting to come back and not just Rome but this whole region. Look what happened with BRACC, the grant today. Ladies and gentlemen we've been kicked, beaten, and bloodied, and now it's our turn to come back and with this team of people with the governor, and lieutenant governor it's impossible for us to fail,

Mike Kearney

Last year was the first year that the community 100 percent funded it on its own. So we put some of that away, and would like to eventually start an endowment ... but we're just so happy that we finally crested the hill and that we are well on our way.

Dan McAllister

Last year we raised $140,000; but our goal this year is to raise $250,000 to ensure that the neediest and most deserving students get what they need to graduate and become successful community members.

Ted Kennedy

Many in the scientific community are concerned that the president's decision will delay development of cures for dread disease for many years, at the cost of countless lives and immeasurable suffering,

Henry Hubble

Many in the investing community weren't expecting these earnings.

Robert Rodriguez

Leonard Bernstein was a true American hero, ... He could do anything. He was a composer, a conductor and a concert pianist.

Anthony Blair

Maxwell, what are you doing for the concert party?

Matt Jordan

My friends hate me because I can get in to all these concerts now.

Kim Kardashian

As kids, we were at concerts like Michael Jackson every weekend. My first concert was Earth, Wind and Fire.

Rascal Flatts

I would be cautiously optimistic you could get your concert in,

Casey Neistat

If I'm in the stands at a U2 concert watching Bono, how can I capture this moment without interrupting it and making it fake?

Matisyahu

I felt a real strong connection and still do with Hanukkah. So it started out by doing concerts on Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights tour, and then, yeah, let's make some Hanukkah songs. Let me make a Hanukkah song that kids can listen to, party to and get the spirituality of it, because it is not just about dreidels and having fun.

Julian Bond

She was trained to be an opera singer. She gave concerts to raise money for him, and when he died she continued to try to keep his legacy alive.

Al Ross

She was at a concert in Dallas and the emcee got sick. She volunteered to emcee and she stole the show.

D. James

To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

Peter Riegert

It never occurs to me that acting with a superstar is something to worry about. I figure the bigger the better because more will be demanded of me.

Sidney Blumenthal

Ken Starr's prosecutors demanded to know what I had told reporters and what reporters had told me about Ken Starr's prosecutors. If they think they have intimidated me they have failed. And if any journalist here or elsewhere wants to talk to me, I'll be glad to talk to you.

Jim Zorn

He could have lashed out or just gone in the tank or been so frustrated and demanded a trade. That's not how Matt reacted.

Liana Liberato

Every role that I have taken on has demanded some kind of emotional range. I really, really would love to do a comedy, but that opportunity really hasn't opened up.

Kasan Mulyono

Residents only demanded a larger quota of local workers, and we have met that.

Malcolm Gladwell

I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

Steve Holloway

She is a playmaker. At halftime, she told her teammates to follow her and she would lead us back. We have demanded a lot of her as far as being a leader, and she has taken this team on her back.

Jusuf Kalla

I have several times demanded that the recruitment of legislators should be transparent and accountable.

Peg Klieforth

No day is the same and that is the excitement of it for me. There is never really any time which is boring.

John Major

I can't remember an occasion when there was so much excitement and anticipation about a game of cricket. It has been a truly phenomenal series.

John Maloney

I'm a little disappointed in the excitement about GM closing. I don't feel it, but I know others do. We need to help these people keep their jobs.

Brendan Witt

I'm all for change. It's about excitement and entertainment, right? The way to do that is with more goals and more scoring.

Dani Shapiro

I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.

Kurt Barnard

Tommy has one problem and that is his name. There's no excitement left. It has become, for many young people, boring.

Pearl Cleage

I worked in Maynard Jackson's first campaign, and I remember the excitement we felt when he won.

Chet Williamson

There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life.

Sherry Murphy

What a huge opportunity for our community. We're just giddy with excitement over this.

Cathy Schulman

We are humbled by the other nominees in this category. You have made this year one of the most breathtaking and stunning maverick years in American cinema.

M. Thompson

We're just humbled by the miracle of the whole thing.

Norm Coleman

I am so humbled by the love and outpouring of support.

A. R. Rahman

I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.

John Jay

We got humbled (today). We need to scratch and claw to get our way back into a competitive mindset.

Dennis Lobenberg

The response has just been overwhelming to this point. I'm very humbled by the overwhelming support we've been receiving.

Michael Long

We're very humbled to be in your presence.

Nomaindia Mfeketo

I'm humbled that it comes from our country's and our continent's youth.

Manny Fernandez

We have all been humbled by Hurricane Katrina,

John Philbrook

Man-hours, especially in the last two quarters, have jumped dramatically. Our position has always been to have enough work here so we don't have to travel to find work. Well, we are in that situation now.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Steve Reinprecht

Making the run that we made, we're going into the season with a different attitude. We want to win our last game, that's the mindset here.

Steve Hadley

made that request last week in his public statements very clearly.

Bobby Bowden

Leon's got a chance, ... Last week, he couldn't have done it.

Jim Bolla

(Losing on senior night) last year was kind of a bummer. But as least we got a win tonight and we've got a lot of people out there supporting them.

William Jefferson

Louisiana is last on the things that we ought to be first on, and first on the things we ought to be last on. We can do better than this,

Ron Zook

Lou turned up the wick considerably this year from last year.

Sullivan Sykes

Last year we had the potential, but we could never get over that hurdle. This year we play more as a team.

Jeff Koenings

My first response --- shock and awe. It's like, Where did this come from?

Larry Steach

When this all started, I didn't know what to expect. But, the response has been phenomenal.

Barbara Smith

I'd like to see the developers' response to the neighborhood's concerns.

Shaukat Aziz

We are satisfied with the response but we want more,

William Shawcross

Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.

Phil Harding

We have had a tremendous response from our dealers and customers.

Jeff Friedman

Well, our response is for the negotiating team, during negotiations.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.

Kurt Vonnegut

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Stephen Leacock

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something

Sammy Cahn

The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

Felix Rohatyn

At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

Dick Cheney

We are not going to simply stand by.

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Enrique Pena Nieto

One single visit is not enough to be able to say that you know Mexico.

Mitch Leigh

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

Ken Kutaragi

My homeroom teacher told me I wasn't cooperative, ... I used to get mad, thinking I was being singled out.

Charles Olson

what can we do when even the public conveyances sing? how can we go anywhere, even cross-town how get out of anywhere

Eileen Caddy

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Elena Roger

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

Dave Mustaine

I'm not a great singer

Ahmet Ertegun

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

Daniela Hantuchova

I feel fantastic. It's something really special. Now I can concentrate on my singles career.

Chris Elliott

But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.

Chris Farley

I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But they do. It's still life on life's terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

Chris Evans

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal.

Charles Spurgeon

Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost!

Charles Spurgeon

You may fear that the Lord has passed you by, but it is not so: he who counts the stars, and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting his own children. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature he ever made, or the only saint he ever loved. Approach him and be at peace.

Dick Wolf

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

Dick Van Dyke

They did ask me to do 'Dancing With The Stars;' I said I can do one show, but on that show you have to come up with a new number every week, and I told them that I think I'm a little past that stage.

Diane Keaton

Being a movie star is a rare job. Nobody gives you any guarantees that you'll get to do it forever. It's a very lucky and privileged position to be in.

Diane Keaton

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

Christopher Little

Ms. Rowling is thrilled to have been vindicated so clearly,

Tom Kloza

I can tell you traders aren't thrilled by that idea.

Harold Lewis

Bart is just thrilled to come back home.

Frank Nelson

She's not real thrilled about me being away so long, but she's very understanding.

Roz Foster

We had no idea it was still there. We were thrilled to find it.

Michael R. Bloomberg

thrilled if I won by one vote or more.

Graeme Murphy

I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male.

Scott Coffey

I am thrilled with the results. I am thrilled he is going home.

Carolyn Clark

I am thrilled for her. It's her dream.