Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Jackson

We've thrown away a golden opportunity. It's bitterly disappointing. Now we have to hope others around us slip up. You can just imagine how the players are feeling. We played well in the first half but we didn't get that second goal.

Isaac Mizrahi

I am going to meet people and I love doing that, and I'm not going to put a mask on to meet people now because of whatever interesting controversy was raised at the Golden Globes.

Christopher Guest

I have a half Lab and half golden retriever named Henry and then the other one, Lucy, is half Akita and half something else.

Yossi Beilin

It is a golden opportunity when the American administration is ready to be so much involved and has invested so much in the peace process, ... I am still optimistic about getting the solution in the very near future.

John Milton

Last came, and last did go, / The Pilot of the Galilean lake, / Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain, / (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

John Bliss

Golden Valley is a very tough team and they always play us very tough. We're going to have to step it up.

Danny Aiello

(for which he won numerous critics' prizes and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe.

William Wilberforce

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

Anton LaVey

I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.

Bob McLaughlin

Regardless of the numbers, everyone is held accountable for every single child.

Mark Blondin

Our members spoke out and held the line.

Avi Cover

People in policy positions need to be held accountable. We're waiting to see more acknowledgement of those mistakes.

Bill Riley

Our pitching has to come through. It hasn't held up.

Stephen Ames

Overall I held it together. I just couldn't make enough birdies.

Gary Turcott

Our big kids played solid. I don't know if anybody's held them (Argos) to 71 points.

Tracy Egeland

I think they held up pretty well. We had a lot of skating, a lot of skill work. I think they did pretty good.

Rob Moore

That's what impressed me the most. He got in those situations and rose to the occasion. He held his own.

Donald Bough

That's been our trademark. We held on. Antilles had the momentum.

Andy Roberts

Our replacement technicians are highly trained and experienced mechanics.

Steve Clarke

Swansboro-Richlands always, since I moved here, has been highly competitive and a physical soccer game,

Mark Schlosser

It is amazing. It says what kind of people are living in this town. It just speaks highly of them.

Robert O'Meally

Jazz is a highly disciplined music that is very impatient with people who don't play, well, any sort of lazy imitation that can go with it.

Richard Kite

It is highly uncharacteristic for there to be legitimate pedestrian traffic in that area.

William Gaillard

I think people should keep in mind that these are not highly paid people, they're not like the players or the coaches.

Marc Guggenheim

I think 'Green Lantern' has the potential to be a very highly regarded superhero movie. We're approaching it with such respect and such care.

Alberto Melloni

He is the most highly ranked member of the Curia that the U.S. has ever had.

Casey Hampton

I was joking with Hines about that. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of like a consolation prize. With the MVP, it doesn't really matter what people think of you on other teams, it's about what your teammates think of you, and obviously our teammates think very highly of us.

Jim Hunter

Part of the magic of NASCAR and NASCAR racing is the accessibility.

Bill Crawford

True 'magic' is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one's experience. Maybe we could all use a little 'Harry Potter' in our lives.

Carrie Fisher

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

Howard Davidowitz

The advertisers are gone. It's a question of getting them back. But getting every one of them back is priced into the stock. The stock is priced as if everything she does is magical and perfect.

Basil Fawlty

I was up at five, you know, we do have staff problems, I'm so sorry,it's all done by magic.

Owen Miller

I think Ole Miss has worlds of potential. They've won there before, and it hasn't been too long ago. There's going to be a lot of work, but there's no magic formula. You've got to be productive every day and work at recruiting every day.

Larry Coyer

I don't have a magic answer. If you play cornerback in this league, they're going to get you once in a while.

Doug Henning

I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.

M. Wolfe

For whatever reason, $199 tends to be a magical price point.

George Allen

I think they will step down if they're indicted. I do think that's appropriate if they're in the midst of an indictment.

Ian Paisley

I was telling the truth, I said I was very, very worried. At that time I was in the midst of trying to get a way whereby this would not happen. And it has happened. My words have been proved to be right.

Gail Tsukiyama

When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.

Agatha Christie

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

Adam Braun

We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.

Ji-Hae Park

In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.

Jose Rivera

in the midst of a heated political battle.

Stan Conte

I don't know how serious it is. We're still in the midst of it. We're doing some testing and will know more tomorrow afternoon.

Rick Carlisle

It's been tough. We're still in the midst of the playoff picture and we'll have to win our way in. We aren't going to back our way in, that's pretty clear.

Uma Bharati

Party workers are at cross-roads, in a state of shock and confusion.

Beck

Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Too bad. There's a party on the coast. I thought we could go." He actually sounded sincere. ( a bit after) I affected a yawn. "Well, like I said, it's a school night." In hopes of convincing myself more than him, I added, " if this party is something you'd be interested in, I can almost guarantee I won't be." There, I though. Case closed- page 77

B. J. Novak

It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

Bill Shorten

Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.

Bill Shorten

I want to build a Big Labor party. A party of big ideas. A party which is deeply connected to the community. A party which reflects our diverse nation.

C. S. Lewis

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

C. S. Lewis

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

Cecelia Ahern

I was the life and she was the soul of every party.

Jeff Crowe

I think they need to sort it out.

Ben Windsor

That's the whole thing, we work well together and we're all sort of into the same stuff.

Suzanne White

That's the sort of story we need to tell.

James Mercer

I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.

Gordon Fischer

I think he does sort of have this patina of independence. But I don't think he is all that independent from the White House.

Glen Mathison

I think it would be irresponsible to speculate at all that this was some sort of attack.

Rudolph Penner

I think they're going to squeeze out all sorts of other spending items.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Greg Simmons

I was the one commissioner that stood up on that matter.

M. Wolfe

He was unique. He stood out from the crowd.

Do Won Chang

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.

Hermann Maier

This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again.

Aminatta Forna

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

Annika Sorenstam

We stood at the tee and I told Suzann, 'We can turn this around and be 1-up. Suzann said, 'No, we could be 2-up.' I said, 'Yeah, you're right.

Sam Dumont

We stood around a lot and watched and waited for someone else to do the scoring.

Ron Schiller

What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.

Tammy White

We all stood at the window and cried,

Pele

When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

Richard Francis Burton

Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.

Samuel Schmid

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.

Whit Hartz

You're pretty much surrounded by sharp, poky things.

Aaron Copland

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

Sharon Long

Some of it will go to have the Tupelo Symphony back with us this year.

Eduard Hanslick

So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.

Edward Abbey

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

Edward Abbey

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

Edward Abbey

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

Atul Gawande

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

Aleister Crowley

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

Alfred Schnittke

I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.

Tim Sims

He was just wild enough to keep them off balance.

Bryant H. McGill

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

Edward Abbey

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

Edward Abbey

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

Aldo Leopold

Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

Alyson Hannigan

There's a very wild side to me, but it's calming down.

Brigitte Bardot

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

Baltasar Gracian

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.