Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Freeman

My initial reaction is that there are some real people who will benefit from this, which is good, and I applaud the Republicans (24 of whom joined all 49 Democrats on the House floor in approving the bill). But it's only a partial step forward.

Bill Strathmann

More and more people are doing their giving with a few clicks of a mouse rather than writing and mailing checks because it's faster, easier and more cost effective for the charities they support. That's especially true in December, when people make most of their donations. This December, we're seeing the online giving trend on a remarkable scale with double last year's contributions, despite the fact that people already gave so much online for disaster relief this year. We applaud Yahoo! for helping to encourage this outpouring of online giving and ensuring more resources get to many charities that need our help more than ever.

Greg Erwin

Obviously, Sacramento has been very successful, and we applaud them for that success,

Jim Calhoun

I feel so good, (even) with my own sadness. I can only imagine, and probably better than most, the feeling they must have in that locker room and on that campus. Those kids, many of them were passed over by Big East schools and others, and I tip my hat to their courage ... to the incredible coaching job that Jimmy did and to everybody at George Mason University. ... I applaud them. I share in some degree Jimmy's joy because as a friend, I know what he must be feeling in his heart.

Jim Calhoun

I can only imagine the feeling they must have in that locker room, on that campus. They couldn't have imagined this, but they've done it. I applaud them. They deserved to win.

Alan Keyes

I wish I could applaud all of you in the media for such fairness, ... But I certainly can't.

Theo Epstein

I'd like to see them applaud him in recognition of all he accomplished here. We wouldn't have won the World Series without him.

M. Hopper

I am excited, and I applaud the city council for its creativity and bold decision to put the issue squarely before the courts in a way that is not reckless.

Vicente Fox

Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.

Richard P. Feynman

Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate.

John Nichols

We're not doctors. We have to tell people that all the time. They look at us when we walk in the door and they assume we know everything.

Tom Ford

Let's assume you've taken 27 semester credit hours in the Fall and the spring - you need three hours to get to 30. If you get 3 hours during the Summer we'll rebate you $50 a semester credit hour so that we offset some of the cost you had to pay in the Fall and the Spring.

Robert Parry

Let's assume inflation averages 1 to 2 percent. Then you could see maybe the natural funds rate would be -- I don't know -- 3.5 percent, something like that,

Thomas Mesereau

Let's assume he has the opportunity to make a documentary for TV for $7 million. It's not going to make much of a difference, is it? Not worth committing a crime over?

Hilary Clinton

Let's just assume that everyone running is honorable and just say what the differences are and let the people decide, ... That's what I hope will happen in this election, because in our lifetime, we may never get another chance like this.

Stanley Hauerwas

Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone's enemies - sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.

Kevin Hart

'Leading man' just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

Source Unknown

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

Ronald Reagan

Let us resolve that we will stop spreading dependency and start spreading opportunity; that we will stop spreading bondage and start spreading freedom.

Tania Kotsos

Low inflation is bullish for bonds in Hungary and therefore for the forint. We could see some gains in the currency on anticipation of a lower-than expected inflation figure.

M. Wolfe

Low inflation contributes to the solid performance in Canada's bond market. It is certainly something bond investors always want to see.

Amanda Padilla

Last year, there wasn't much team chemistry or leadership; it was just in small groups. We have a good bond this year and will work well together.

Leonard Kaplan

Seventeen-year highs are impressive, with the bond market showing us that inflation will be returning with a vengeance.

Pete Hastings

Separation from GM is critical, if they're able to secure an investment-grade rating, that's great news for bond investors.

Mike Ryan

Sentiment in the bond market has really soured.

Takuji Aida

Mizuno's comments seem to be a message to the bond market that it should not be surprised by a rate move anytime.

Cindy Chu

Much of the bond between mother and daughter can be traced back to early childhood,

Martin Freeman

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

Sharon Kay Penman

Many people don't know that New Jersey is a fertile breeding ground for writers, some of them quite renowned. And I would wager that most would be truly startled to learn that the star in the Jersey firmament is - drum roll here - Newark.

Val Kilmer

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

Lisa Wathne

One very obvious indication elephants don't do well in captivity is the fact that zoos are having so much trouble breeding them.

Leon Uris

My guiding thought throughout was that the real Marine story had not been told. We were a different breed of men who looked at war in a different way.

Preston Wilson

When you're able to come back in the fashion that we did, it breeds confidence.

Twyla Tharp

Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.

Josh McCown

When you compete and put that out there, it's going to breed some success." ()

Kylie Bax

My aim and my passion is to own and breed race horses.

Issa Rae

Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking.

Albert Schweitzer

When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Curtis Sanford

Like Dougie (Weight) says, it's learning to win again. It's doing the little things that it takes to win, tonight was a prime example of that. The last two games were good examples of a lot of the leadership and a lot of the character in the room.

Michael Shea

Make no mistake about it ? I wanted the characters to know what we're doing,

Rocky Gibson

Luke's number will be called in situations like that. He showed a lot of character to drive the length of the floor and score.

George Lois

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters - with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes - is glamorous and 'vintage.'

Phil Jackson

Looks like that's the character of what we have right now.

Stephnie Weir

Many people have done really well pulling their characters out; I think 'Wayne's World' really hit the mark.

Guy Ritchie

So It's really about characters and sub cultures again. About gypsies and things that I couldn't squeeze in the last one, I stuck in on this one.

Gina Cahill

Many of these dogs are sweet and energetic but just need the right care. But many people just come in and don't take the time to get to know the animals.

M. Wolfe

Many people want them for older dogs who get too tired to go for long walks any more. They miss going for walks with them and they want their pets to get fresh air. This is a way to do that.

Polly Foley

Scott Sword was responsible for controlling his dogs that night and he failed to do so.

Ron Aiello

Military canines make contributions every day while they serve in our military. They are hard working and do a great job of saving the lives of their handlers and the troops who walk in their footsteps.

Mark Everett

No dogs have been impounded because no dogs have been positively identified as being involved with that particular incident.

Julie Furbacher

One-on-one sessions can help if people don't have time for obedience classes. I can even train dogs if the owners aren't home, and that could be a real time-saver for people.

Edward Dubovi

One hundred percent of dogs will be susceptible. I would expect to see this infection moving through groups of dogs until a large percentage gets infected.

Edward Dubovi

One hundred percent of dogs will be susceptible.

Christine Clifford

My dogs are very special to me. I would not have come to Haddon Township if I had known that.

Kent Thompson

The only downside I can see is that we can't prepay until 2014, rather than 2010.

Gary Linden

We have a market all of a sudden. The downside is, we don't have product. It's not fun not being able to help people in their time of need.

Scott Silver

We haven't gotten any negative feedback. It's all positive; there's no downside to it. We see the results of husbandry training on a regular basis.

Penn Jillette

Well, see, there's a downside to that, too,

Jerry Frament

The only downside that I see is possibly a low appraisal.

Brian Moody

The only downside is that they're not as big as SUVs and can't go off road as much.

Mike McGrath

The only downside is that your yard will smell like an Italian restaurant for a few hours. If that's a downside.

Alan Greenspan

Greenspan will note the economy's robust growth pace in a low inflation environment, ... the downside risks of the international weakness . . . most recently Brazil.

Alan Williamson

There is much risk on the upside than the downside due to net long positions. There's more on the go for platinum.

Tina Brown

I've always been very enamored of European newsmagazines - the 'Spiegel' kind of magazine, which has an energetic, high-low approach to news.

Monica Lewinsky

I was enamored with him. And I was excited. And I was enjoying it.

Paul Holmgren

Kiel is a big kid and we think there is some potential that has yet to be tapped into. He is a player that our scouting has been enamored with because of his size.

Thaksin Shinawatra

petty, vindictive and not very well-informed autocratic leader who is enamored of his own sense of grandeur.

Kevin Bacon

I'm not as enamored with actors as I am with musicians, especially like these guys, ... These are some of my heroes, and to be in the same room listening to them play or to what they have to say is fun for me.

Skyler Samuels

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew up with, and I loved it.

Reese Witherspoon

I just think they have a unique love story, in that they were working side-by-side for 12 years and completely enamored of each other and couldn't be together. It was a really good story.

Robert Brooks

I've not been enamored with the industry in general. What I understand about it, I don't like what I see.

Herman Edwards

Some people get enamored with a person's lifestyle,

Kevin Henkes

I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within.

Sam Curry

We have a scorecard, and there are 22 points that we go through examining how the software behaves. In this case, XCP is falling down.

Russ Marlan

What we're examining in this investigation is if there were alternatives to automatically releasing him.

Sally Lawson

We really followed our noses. No one was examining this problem of spontaneous pain.

Brian Billick

Kyle's, for instance, would've happened in a swimming pool. The way that thing got pinned and turned had nothing to do with the turf whatsoever, ... What we're examining very closely, quite frankly, are the shoes. The players all want, just like the padding, as little a shoe, as light a shoe, as fast a shoe as they can get. But the shoe also is a very strong support mechanism for the foot.

Gary Karr

We are examining our systems to make sure there is not some hole where people are not getting picked up.

Jonathan Littman

This show is not about the process of prosecuting somebody. It's about going into this world and examining why people do what they do..

Mark Kelly

We've increased patrols ... on that side of campus, and we're examining other things over there as well, from lighting to security fences.

Carlos Castaneda

Being timid prevents us from examining and exploiting our lot as men

Israel Horovitz

My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues.

Rohit Shetty

Since the first 'Singham,' many films have that kind of action. So we have to work harder to create something new.

Rohit Shetty

When I see films like 'Lagaan' and 'Rang De Basanti,' I feel, 'Why can't I do work like this?' Then you think and realise you need to learn more to make this kind of a film or write this kind of a film. Also, somewhere down the line, you need to be brave.

Rohit Shetty

My films have become bilingual. When everyone saw 'Chennai Express,' they said it was a bilingual. But I am proud that 'Chennai Express' is the highest-grossing Hindi film down South.

Marco Brambilla

I'm a huge cinemaphile. My interest in filmmaking came out of experimenting with different genres, and I wanted to go back to working in a way that was more personal, which, for me, was artwork. Commercials and films are more collaborative.

John Curran

Like a lot of films at the end of 2008, they hit a wall with financing, which is why I moved back onto 'Stone.' In doing so, I had to let go of 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' to at least give them an opportunity to move forward with somebody else.

Jody Hill

Like, I'm a big fan of films from the '70s, like Cassavetes and things, where they just keep the dialogue really loose and just kind of roll, you know what I mean?

Mark Lisanti

Many of the actors in these films had a glimmer of hope of being the next big thing at one point. They're still well-known enough from that spark to get name recognition.

R. W. Apple, Jr.

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

John Cornforth

Liam needs competitive matches and this will do him a world of good.

Chad Roland

Mike was one match away from making the championships.

Yurii Pidopryhora

One theoretical model shows that young stars could power an outflow that matches what we see very closely.

Clifford Garnto

One match could swing one way or another, you just never know until you get out there.

Todd Woodbridge

Naturally, Wayne and I were miffed. We'd been setting ourselves for this match for weeks,

Mark Johnson

Whenever you win two Big Ten matches on the road, no matter who it is you're up against, you have to feel pretty good.

Mike Newell

We had a very tough match on Saturday but they are all tough matches.

Andy Roddick

I feel like Taylor might have actually played the better match tonight,

Eidur Gudjohnsen

I can't say strongly enough that when you have a big match like this you need a referee who is up to it.

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.

Don Cornelius

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

Richard Carroll

Chimps are portrayed as the super-ape and gorillas are the big brutes in the forest.

Darin Lee

Murphysboro presents a whole different challenge. It's going to be a very, very tough sectional.

Joe Sims

If they can come up with something that is satisfactory, we'll present it to the DOJ. If they don't, well see them in court.

Chief Bender

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

Derrick Jensen

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

Daren Beaudo

When a statute is presented I'll have something to talk about.

Terry Wogan

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

Alessandra Ambrosio

My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'

Ewen Bremner

As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge.

Scott Trost

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

Nancy Buirski

If they get to a screening and it's sold out, don't get too discouraged.

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.

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.

Dana Addis

We have to work on moving, setting screens and shot selection.

Patricia Clarkson

I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!

Diablo Cody

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

Bruce Vilanch

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