Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Meron

What the Toronto festival premiere did was to reinforce why we wanted to do this. People approached us and said they had no idea how talented Liza was. In the past few years, her skills have been too obscured by the tabloid headlines. It is fantastic to see her being celebrated for what she should be celebrated for.

Christine Harforth

Mendelssohn's music for A Midsummer Night's Dream consists not only of the celebrated Overture, the famous Wedding March and the scarcely less familiar Nocturne and Scherzo.

David Liss

Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

Edward Hirsch

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

George Parnham

Only one mental health expert testified that Andrea knew that what she was doing was wrong, and that was the celebrated Park Dietz. Every other mental health expert ... testified that she was either incapable of knowing what she was doing was wrong or did not know what she was doing was wrong.

Julie Christie

One of the most celebrated people in the world desperate not to be recognized,

David Adams

Ian Bostridge is an enormously talented artist, hailed as one of the foremost interpreters of the Schubert repertoire today. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to present Mr. Bostridge and celebrated pianist Julius Drake in this uniquely intimate performance.

Hugo Chavez

celebrated by waving flags, dancing in traditional dress and wearing berets commemorating Ernesto 'Che' Guevara.

Joseph Zwilling

Because St. Patrick is the patron saint of the diocese, the day should be celebrated as a feast day.

C. S. Lewis

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

Eid Kabalu

We have no confirmation (of their presence in Mindanao). As far as the MILF is concerned, there have been no sightings. We have no personal knowledge that they are here,

Steve Howard

Whenever they focus on risk, the Houston region will fare well.

Greg Gilchrist

When you're winning, you don't have to make excuses, or when you're losing, you shouldn't come up with any, either. As far as I'm concerned, we just got outrun today.

William H. Macy

When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.

Bob Grantham

We want our property tax rates lowered significantly and substantially and meaningfully. So far we have not seen anything in that direction.

David Jones

We want it (the fire) far enough out and in an open spot.

Mats Sundin

We were back on our heels far too much.

Tony Woody

We were a step late all night long. We did not do a good job of matching their intensity. They played hard. They played like a team that wanted to go a little farther (in the playoffs).

Tim Loomis

We wanted to wait until the second half to do what we needed to do to stop him.

Josh Beckett

We've still got little more than half a month to go, probably three-quarters of a month actually. We've got to keep winning. This thing ain't over yet.

Charles Stross

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

Jason Hafner

When you get to state, half of the kids will swim slower than they did at districts, half are going to go faster. It doesn't mean a whole lot what you see on paper.

Bruce Morrow

We used to turn up on the day of the match, meet for half an hour and then go and play,

Tom Hopper

London's so busy, London's manic half the time.

David R. Brower

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

Eugene Fama

People are always saying that prices are too high. When they turn out to be right, we anoint them. When they turn out to be wrong, we ignore them. They are typically right and wrong about half the time.

Jane Austen

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

Carlos Fuentes

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

C. S. Lewis

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

C. S. Lewis

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

Jimmy Johnson

We have to find some speed and turn things around. Thankfully, we had a strong start to the season, so this last month we really didn't have to race our way in. But we've got to find it in a hurry.

Agnetha Faltskog

Abba's last tour was a success but awful for me.

Joe Minucci

We were at the lowest of lows last year. We couldn't get any lower. This year we are looking to make a playoff push, and trying to win the division.

Alan Rudolph

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Shearer

Yes, I do like to be in control. I do like everything to be laid out, to know what I'm doing. I'm very impatient. I like things done yesterday, which is probably a fault of mine. I like things to be neat and tidy and organised. I say what I want and show what I want and I keep things private.

David Alan Basche

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged just so.

Dennis Lehane

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

F. Stone

There are probably more (now) than there were 100 years ago. It's kind of neat that they've come back. (Decades ago) they were very, very rare -- anywhere.

S. Hughes

Every time I've seen the bats, it's been from the bridge. It's kind of neat to see them from the water.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit of a pick-pocket on-set. If something is small enough to go in my pocket, and it will be neat memorabilia, it's gone.

Tony Wilson

We get a lot of really neat toys,

Nick Reid

To go out on top with a big win like this, it just hasn't sunk in yet. We've come a long way. It's pretty neat to be part of the foundation.

Bob Hill

Here's what I really remember about Mike. On Thanksgiving he had us all over in Milan. We all had Thanksgiving at his apartment. It was just a neat day.

Carol Roth

The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending.

Carlos Fuentes

[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

Carl Crawford

Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

C. S. Lewis

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

Agnes Repplier

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

Agnes Repplier

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

Aasif Mandvi

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

Carlos Queiroz

Messi could be the best player in the world - if he was human.

Carlos Moya

I honestly think I am a better player than I was four years ago, when I was No. 1 in the world.

Carlos Beltran

I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.

Carlos Gonzalez

We have a lot of young players and some veteran players who make you feel good and give you a lot of tips. They always want to make sure you're ready to play.

Carlos Castaneda

Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one is simply a pawn on the chessboard. What decides everything is a conscious impersonal energy that sorcerers call intent or the Spirit.

Justin Vincent

We have so many players from New Orleans. It's always in the back of our minds.

Alan Shearer

I like the tag of being the world's most expensive player. It's an honour and a privilege.

Alan Shearer

For me, Paul Scholes has been the best midfield player in the Premier League. By a mile. He has the lot. He scores and creates goals, he can pass the ball, he can head it, and rounds all this off with a competitive streak.

Alan Shearer

One of the biggest fears of players in a shootout is letting your teammates down.

Richard Walker

We've still a lot to do before the season starts.

Brian Dawkins

I will never have my best season.

Billy Donovan

We're right back to where we were before the season started.

Steve Spurrier

Six and five, ... We thought 6-5 would be a wonderful season for this team.

W. S. Gilbert

She's been killing it all season and is only getting better.

Keith Willis

on paper, we'll be okay, but we can't play the season on paper.

Gilles Lupien

We've said no to the offer. We're going to wait until the season is over, and then we are going to talk. We want to wait until at least April.

Celine Dion

This is the season for families. Hold yours close.

Gerald Anderson

Now our team is back to where we want it to be. We should have success like we were having at the start of the season when we were all healthy.