Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Wood

I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.

David K. E. Bruce

My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.

Reinhard Selten

My first contact with game theory was a popular article in 'Fortune Magazine' which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter, and when I studied mathematics, I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.

Gus Hosein

One article that says privacy will be protected is not enough. We want clear language in each article stating privacy is important. National governments will pick and choose. They will go to wire-tapping first and get to Article 15 later.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Graham Thorpe

My ex-wife did three or four articles about me in a tabloid newspaper which was very sad,

Jan Hus

Moreover, concerning the articles that they have extracted from my books, I say that I detest any false interpretation which any of them bears.

Peter Cooper

Money is so unlike every other article that I believe a man has neither a legal or a moral right to take all that he can get

Dara Horn

Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.

JoLaine Jones

My friend from Birmingham invited me to lunch with a bunch of folks from Florida. That's when I met Dave.

Rafa Benitez

Maybe Birmingham will be more concerned about their league position and this might not be as important to them as staying in the division.

Sarah Miller

I found out that two of my students have lost everything, one of them will not be returning to St. Peter's because her parents had to place her with family members out of the area. I found out that another one of my students has moved to Birmingham with his mother as well so he will not be returning.

Jim Gibbons

If America's movie stars want to be human shields, let them shield the gang-ridden streets of Los Angeles, or New York City, let them shield the lives of the children of North Birmingham whose mothers lay them down to sleep on the floor each night to shelter them from stray bullets.

Susan Terpay

There are two corridors we?re using to go around the line. Between Birmingham and Atlanta, we usually run 25 trains a day, so it?s causing some delays.

H. Hunt

On paper the Birmingham event was our worst showing of the season. But it showed the true character of the team that we stayed with it and had a good race car for Robert in Round 10. Electrical problems are the most frustrating to deal with because they're so hard to find. It's not like a suspension problem, that's relatively easy to diagnose.

Charles Hazlewood

I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music.

Bryan Robson

The possibility of playing Birmingham in the next round is an exciting proposition for fans in the midlands - but I've not looked too far ahead, because we've got to get past Reading first. I am confident we can do a job in the replay, and I hope the team will see things through.

Aaron Hughes

/> Birmingham game on 16 October, but I don't know whether that is possible, it is too early to say, but that is the target.

Kristin Lehman

For 'Motive,' it wasn't a question of making it look un-Canadian, but instead, we wanted it to be the product of a bunch of really skilled people making something. And that's what you have.

Kristin Cast

Oh my God, I used to get heartburn and all sorts of indigestion and stuff because I didn't feel well. And you know, I sit a lot because I write, and I gained a whole bunch of weight. My vanity just got to me, and I was like, 'I've got to do something!'

Mark Johnson

We're not deep enough where we can have our starters standing on the sideline. We had a bunch on the sideline late in the ballgame. That was the big momentum changer. ... Bryce played well.

Mark Johnson

We're not deep enough where we can have our starters standing on the sideline, ... We had a bunch on the sideline late in the ballgame. That was the big momentum changer. ... Bryce played well.

Dave Chappelle

like I'm hanging out with a bunch of people.

Mark Richt

Last year, they played a bunch of close games. Learning how to win doesn't happen overnight. Coach (Bobby) Johnson has done a good job of teaching that in a real methodical way.

Jim Sparks

Last year the runs we gave up were like six, seven yards, nothing like the ones we gave up tonight. Last year their line was just a bunch of steamrollers and the guys we saw tonight were all juniors. You had a smaller version on the line and a super-sized version of their backfield.

Barrett Kaiser

Max worked way too hard to secure these dollars to let a bunch of bureaucrats get in the way.

Michael Leunig

Meat workers may have been looked down upon socially, but at least they were well-paid and were a fit and lively bunch as a result of hard, honest physical work.

Jackie Cooper

I got schooled over at NBC on a soap opera, and I had a Sunday-afternoon show, an hour show sponsored by the Ford Foundation, a documentary, half live with film integration. I directed that.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have never directed anything for the stage. I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed.

Melanie Mayron

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

Jonah Hill

I directed my first music video for Sara Bareilles. I like writing and directing. I co-wrote '21 Jump Street' and I'm in that. To me, they all inform the other one. I think writing makes you a better actor, acting makes you a better writer, directing makes you better at both. To me, I'm just trying to learn as much as possible.

Nicole Holofcener

I'm being photographed, worrying about my hair - and yet here I am, I've directed a feature film, why do I care about the way I look? Who cares? Does Tim Burton care? Does Joel Coen?

Will Yun Lee

The two most exciting things for me to get to work on 'The Wolverine' was getting to work with James Mangold, the director who directed '3:10 to Yuma' and 'Walk the Line' as well as getting to work with Hugh Jackman.

Brian Cox

I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Form as a goal always ends in formalism. For this striving is directed not towards an inside, but towards an outside. But only a living inside has a living outside.

Patricia Richardson

I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.

Manolo Blahnik

The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade.

Bernard Laporte

Luckily England lost. Otherwise they would have come to Paris with the Grand Slam in mind and been even harder to beat.

David Roach

Madison is the quintessential New England town. And it's because of our secluded wooded areas. Preserving this would ensure higher property values.

Gordon Strachan

Scotland have a system which is getting better, but it's players who win and lose games. Look at England. They have a system, but if the opposition players jump higher, tackle harder and shoot better, your system is in trouble.

Douglas Alexander

Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family.

John Doolittle

My heart goes out to all of England this morning. Americans remember the horrors of 9-11, and our prayers are with our friends in London.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

My father came to England from India in 1957, and my mum came in 1960.

Mike Allen

New England in particular seems to have slowed relative to the rest of the nation.

Deion Branch

I can't speak about their team, but I know we have hidden stars, ... Everybody knows on our team when they talk about the Patriots, it's not just one guy. They just say 'New England Patriots.'

Roger Penrose

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

Roger Penrose

So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein's general relativity.

Roger Penrose

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

Aldous Huxley

Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.

Jonathan Coe

Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.

Iain Dowie

Let's see which English striker can score 21 Premiership goals this season,

Alice Meynell

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Piers Anthony

Much of what is published is actually science fantasy, seeming possible but actually impossible, such as faster than light space travel.

English Proverb

May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb

Jake Hutton

Last year was like a different language. This year we all knew what we were doing.

Dan Monson

Last year's team, you didn't know if we were going to win or lose, but you knew we were going to fight. We have some different ways to score now, but do we have the same type of personality?

Cameron Bennerman

Last year you kind of knew what was coming, from whom. But this year, you're not really sure who's going to do what.

Bob Cavanagh

Last year we knew we were going to be on par with the year before. This year we're going to have to make more adjustments and people are going to have to step up.

Howard Stern

Les said, 'I knew I could sue you later.

Kevin Osborn

Mom told me last night that every time you get the ball, when you let go of it, you've got to know it's in and you're making the next one. I didn't know when my night was going to come, but I knew I just had to come in with confidence.

Susan Bennett

Mrs. Rucker enrolled before she knew whether we would have the program.

Matt White

Obviously, you don't want to go back down, but I knew I was going back down, ... It isn't a shocker.

Chris Collins

No one nationally thought it'd be a year where BC would be No. 1. We knew we would be.

Judi Larkin

One player is in Australia. And another is out with a shoulder injury. Also, being in the northern part of the country, we struggle with our weather.

Steve MacFarlane

Obviously, we would have like their support. Once Northwest is done with us they're going to go after them.

Chad Myers

One way or another there are going to be pounding waves on the northeast coast.

Tom Parsons

If American or Northwest don't go along, fares will roll back.

Jamie Bell

I'm a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

Rick LeLacheur

Sixty-five percent of our traffic comes in the northeast corner.

Chelsea Cain

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.

Vladimir Putin

Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.

Sarah Hall

I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.

Dick Van Dyke

I wanted to be a radio announcer.

Dominic Chianese

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

Nicole Polizzi

We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like prison, with cameras.

David Dunn

We can always use more radios and more frequencies.

A. N. Wilson

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

Al Lewis

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

Bill Maher

Republicans look to find the future and they find radio.

Aisha Tyler

So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.

Billy Gibbons

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

Kevin Mitnick

I keep my stuff updated all the time. Being in the security industry, I keep up to date with securities.

Lisa McGiffert

When you read stuff like this, you wonder who you can trust.

Dominic Monaghan

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

Aaron Carter

My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

E. B. White

I wish they had stuff like this when I was little.

Troy Williamson

I feel pretty good. There's still a lot of stuff that I need to work on. I'm just trying to get better as I go along.

Chad Cordero

I did stuff I thought I'd never do, ... It was totally unexpected.

Kevin Federline

I don't know. Why does all that stuff come out?

Roderick Wilmont

I don't know what's going on. I'm here to play, that's all. I see the stuff on TV. I know as much as you all know.

Robert Wilson

To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'

Carrie Coon

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

Didi Conn

I love working in the theater.

Jim Zwerg

We were having a celebration for the integration of the movie theaters when we got word of the bus-burning.

Charlie Kaufman

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

Austin Peck

Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.

Brian Baumgartner

I come from straight theater.

Jane Krakowski

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

Angela Lansbury

The theater is magical and addictive.

Lars Mikkelsen

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

Vince Young

We're not going to be scared. We're going to be pumped. Nervousness is not a part of the University of Texas.

Margaret Garcia

We don't know. Mia didn't play soccer. She was a cheerleader all her life. She cheered for (the University of Colorado).

Derek Bok

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

Ben Barnes

I actually went to university.

Adolf Hitler

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.

Adam Ross

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

Ryan Lynch

I think this will show the university that we are a responsible community.

Bill Gates

I didn't completed my University Education

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.