Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

Gurinder Chadha

Our films have the ability to tell global audiences who we are, and this is something the government should feel compelled to protect. My film, 'Bend it Like Beckham,' for example, would not have been made without the backing and support of the U.K. Film Council.

Todd Wagner

Our core business strategy is to create new opportunities for the consumer, ... what we¹re doing has never been done before. As studios and exhibitors search for ways to retain audiences frustrated with the theatre experience, we believe the competitive solution lies in increasing value for customers.

James Baker

Our autumn programming promises to be our strongest line-up to date. We're confident that Sky One continues to bring the best from the US with 'Weeds' set to mirror its emphatic US reception from audiences and critics alike, 'Threshold' exhibiting the potential for an 'X-Files' style cross-over success and returning series 'Nip/Tuck' and 'The 4400' continuing to captivate audiences.

Des McAnuff

Our audiences will feel like they are experiencing Sinatra's life first hand,

Van Toffler

Our audiences want to connect with our content on every platform they interact with-linear television, broadband, online, radio, and now on PCs that run Windows XP Media Center. Today's announcement helps fulfill our multiplatform entertainment promise, ... The distinction between TV and broadband programming is becoming less important to our viewers, and the Media Center Edition platform is helping to take the entire entertainment experience to the next level.

Brian Graden

our audiences are home in a way they're not during the school year.

Frankie Avalon

Our audiences are all ages: kids who just love the show, love the movie, grandparents bringing their grandkids, it really covers the spectrum.

Kurt Braunohler

Other than Caroline's in New York, I pretty much haven't done clubs. That was primarily because I always liked the people and audiences at theaters and bars better.

Walter Miller

Price is a big concern in school districts all over the state. We didn't necessarily look this carefully at our contracts before.

Chris Svarczkopf

Our parent meeting is pretty explicit about how careful we are. Your son's health is No. 1. It's more important than any victory or any play or anything like that.

Paolo Bonaiuti

Such a narrow difference demands that there be a careful verification of the vote count.

Eugene Major

Statistically then, the risk is approximately 1 in 1,000, which is substantially higher than in the normal population. We're also careful to say we do not know what the risk is for individuals with long-term use of the drug.

John Reynolds

Some of these security fixes are simply impractical, while others could harm trade. We need to think carefully about what we do as all this moves forward.

Chris Hope

Our goal is to keep him from making big plays, but you also have to be careful with focusing everything on him. Because the thing is, they have a team full of stars. (Running back) Rudi Johnson might get going while you're focusing on Chad, then you go after Rudi, and Chad comes back and strikes. He can cause a lot of problems for you.

Adam Brown

Our feeling is that this is his first meeting (as chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee) and ... we would be very surprised if he says anything that deviates from the party line -- he will be careful not to roil the markets but leave enough room for the Fed to do whatever it is going to do.

John Zaller

Our collection department is very careful to track each individual artifact, even from the smallest piece of coal, very carefully and to report on the condition of these on a daily basis.

Enrique Manzanilla

Restricted use pesticides must be handled carefully in order to protect the users and the environment. Companies selling these chemicals must make sure that they do not fall into inexperienced hands.

Thomas Poore

People have been waiting since 1992 for students to be in the hallways of John Paul II High School. That is exciting to me.

Randy Bachman

People have made a living deconstructing Lennon and The Beatles songs because of their compositional sophistication. But what's so exciting about John is that he never had any of that training on musical theory; something just spoke to him, and he just knew what sounded right.

Garth Illingworth

Suddenly whole new programs open up, things you can do that you could never do before. It'd be great scientifically, it'd be great for the nation, for educators, for students, and it'd be just great for the public at large, because Hubble is so exciting for people.

John Oliver

Some of my students have gone off to be involved in these space missions. They work on it for four or five years, then wait four or five years more for it to come back. It's so exciting if it works, and so disappointing if it doesn't.

Jeff Dohn

Some of the younger kids are nervous and the older kids are trying to lead them the right way. Every season is exciting because of the different personalities. Hopefully we'll find our way and find what we do best.

Gov. Carcieri

RISC is the hope for taking the state back. It's exciting because it is long overdue.

John Patrick Shanley

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.

Joe Sakic

Pierre's done a good job filling holes. We're going to have a talented team, an exciting team. We're looking forward to the challenge.

Katie Nelson

I was about to cry. It's exciting that I got first. I would have been thrilled to be in the top three.

Felton McClellan

Regardless of the fact that we lost everything materially, we are so blessed.

Rachel Laws

Regardless of the fact that it's Senior Day, we have to win our last home game because we haven't been winning lately and we really want to stop this streak.

Katsuya Okada

Our policies weren't wrong, but I have to reflect on the fact they did not get across.

Jim Mott

Part of it is losing to Herkimer and part is the fact that we're 1-3 now and really need a quality win. Hopefully the kids are mad and will come back ready to work tomorrow.

Michael Lynton

Part of this is the fact that the movies may not have lived up to the expectations of the audience, not just in this year, but in years prior,

Mark Shapiro

Part of what makes Peralta even more valuable to us is the fact that he plays up the middle.

Steve Johnson

Our load factor (the percentage of seats filled in October last year) was only 56% of what they offered. With that as one of the arguments, you'd look at providing fewer seats.

Andy Kopplin

Our No. 1 goal is to get that money out as expeditiously as possible. The limiting factor will be the number of contractors available.

Willie Geist

People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.

Paul Burke

Our leadership has been out in the communities doing what they are supposed to do -- mobilizing, organizing and preventing further roadblocks.

Madeline Albright

Our message to India and Pakistan is that there should be no further nuclear testing, no deployment or testing of missiles, no more inflammatory rhetoric and no more provocative military activity,

Adam Adelman

Optimism in the numbers will be a roadblock for further gains. The upside in tech is limited.

Jim Porter

People have died. Lives have been changed. Property has been destroyed. Yet, a group of trial lawyers are using this disaster, not as a reason to help the people of this state, but instead to further their own personal agenda.

E. B. White

That couldn't be further from the truth, and I say that with emphasis.

Katharina Von

Overall it is satisfactory but we hope that there will be further improvement between now and 2009.

Jim Rees

Our visitors instinctively know that he's great. But they think he's stiff, formal, lackluster, and sometimes they use the word 'boring.' Nothing could be further from the truth.

E. Hurley

Rising oil prices are being looked at as a further weight on global growth as opposed to inflationary,

Jeb Bush

We need a little further wind at the back of this economy,

Eric Chavez

Regardless of what happened today, we've got to sweep. We'd need a miracle going for us to sweep them, but you never know. It was a miracle last year with Boston.

Micky Arison

Pat told me what had happened before practice Friday, and I stayed to watch. It looked like any other practice I've ever seen him run.

Stuart Sternberg

Other than what happened on the field, it couldn't have been a more successful home opener.

Dustin Pedroia

Right when I swung, I was like, 'Oh, my God!' because it was the worst pain ever. I knew right away that I'd done something. It's frustrating because it happened on my very first swing.

Brian McCann

Right place, right time. It was a whirlwind; it all just happened so fast.

Donald Rumsfeld

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do no know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know

Mark Mann

(Pitching coach) Vern Ruhle doesn't want him to throw too many pitches in an inning. That's what happened last time out. There was no physical problem.

M. Wolfe

I'm hoping this is going to help me get through what happened 45 years ago.

Ivan Ljubicic

We never lost hope. It happened to us before, and we managed to come back. When we got the feel on the return I knew everything was possible.

Michael Morrison

Roger is an incredible designer, and he comes in and reinvents places for people,

Becca Fitzpatrick

Anyone ever tell you you're an incredible kisser?

Patricia Arquette

I want to thank you for this honor, for putting me in this incredible company,

Maurice Cheeks

Kobe makes shots like that. We kept saying they were incredible shots and they were incredible shots for most people, but with Kobe I don't think they were incredible because he does things like that on an every-day basis.

Randy Falco

Last night was an incredible night for network television, with more people tuning in than on any night in more than three years.

Mark Dahlberg

That was incredible when I got my mail. There were tons of envelopes.

Don Silver

That was the start of an incredible year,

Jonny Gomes

That was an incredible outing by Doug Waechter.

Neal Marshall

That was an incredible jump in performance for a race that she doesn't do that often. Maybe we made a mistake and she should have skated the 500 at the Olympics - just joking.

Barry McGee

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

Charles Darwin

The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not be looked at as a well-filled museum, but as a poor collection made at hazard and at rare intervals.

Alain de Botton

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).

Edward Abbey

Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.

Dear Abbey

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Adam Carolla

If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.

Damien Hirst

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

Conan O'Brien

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.

Daniel Barenboim

The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Deborah Harkness

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

David Linthicum

What this provides us is a quick turnaround. We get there, we get to go do the tips on the show, and we come back tomorrow.

David Morris

Flintshire provides one quarter of Chester hospitals' work - look at an atlas.

Scott McClellan

Dick Clarke, in his own words, provides a point-by-point rebuttal of what he now asserts. This shatters the cornerstone of Mr. Clarke's assertions." ()

Daniel Edwards

Spears provides inspiration for those struggling with the right choice.

James Goss

They had talked about that possibility. Between publishing and broadcasting and interactive, that provides them with enough to do.

Elaine Deck

Someone has to be the first to reach out.

Lonnie Bunch

That support allows me to reach out and do the work we need to do.

Debra Moore

He just said he tried. (He) just couldn't reach his girls. It's just sad.

Trevor Rabin

When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.

Larry Harris

I feel we reached out and stole a Clipper.

Drew Kesse

He immediately reached out to us. We're very grateful.

Evander Holyfield

Of course, it is me being able to reach my goal,

Abner Louima

When they want to seek our vote, they know where to reach us,

Phil Anderton

We are going to take the appropriate time to reach our long-term aspirations.

Beeban Kidron

The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.

Beck

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

Beck

When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.

Barry Ritholtz

History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

Barry Lopez

Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

B. F. Skinner

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

Billy Corgan

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

Carrie Snow

It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

Beth Simone Noveck

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

Rabih Alameddine

Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

Chris Rainier

I am a storyteller who uses a camera.