Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Rossellini

It took me a long time to be accepted as an actress, I think, because of the modeling and because of my mother.

Richard Rogers

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as I've often said, people who are excluded from society tend to express themselves in ways not acceptable to society.

Robert Jarvik

I accepted the role of spokesman for Lipitor because I am dedicated to the battle against heart disease, which killed my father at age 62 and motivated me to become a medical doctor.

Kevin Mitnick

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

Kurt Student

In this respect I expressed my doubts about using the Corps directly on the South coast, to form a bridgehead for the Army - as the area immediately behind the coast was now covered with obstacles. These doubts were accepted by Hitler.

Mahmoud Abbas

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

Jeff Cogen

We're not doing anything different, but it's being done in a different atmosphere, an environment in which people are acceptable to our message.

Nayef Rajoub

Let Rice mind her own business. Palestinian elections are an internal Palestinian matter. We don't interfere in American elections, and we will not accept American or foreign interference in our elections.

Mother Teresa

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream,realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game,play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, singit. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure,dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it!

Isla Fisher

I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had to make friends quickly. It was difficult at the start because I was very bookish - I was literally sat in the corner reading books, with no friends.

Isabella Rossellini

There are consequences with age, so you have to evolve. I've loved becoming a filmmaker. But I would love to continue modeling, and there isn't really any job for me. It's being marginalized - that's the sad part.

Isabella Rossellini

The problem with middle age, at least when it comes to modeling, is you seldom see a model who is past 27, 28. If they use anyone older, then it becomes automatically a 'personality' story.

Isabella Rossellini

I don't look at 'Vogue' to ask what I'm going to wear. Because it's something on a body too young. I have to look at the social pages to see women my age. To see how Amanda Burden is dressed and say, 'Hmmm. Maybe I should try that.'

Robert Palmer

My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened to must be square. So I had to find my own rock n' roll, as it were, and I found it in black soul music.

Robert Osborne

My age and my phone number are both unlisted.

Ronald Kessler

Despite constant vilifying by the media and congressional threats to take away the tools needed to uncover plots, FBI agents and CIA officers work silently around the clock and risk their own lives to keep us safe.

Ronald Kessler

Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's greatest law enforcement agency would not necessarily keep him in office.

Ronald Kessler

Agents who have left the Secret Service to join other federal law enforcement agencies report that training in firearms and counterterrorism tactics in those agencies in many cases far exceeds the quality of what the Secret Service offered.

Richard P. Feynman

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Manish Jha

Mobile ESPN has defined a new wireless category, and with that, we are positioning the service and our marketing around the idea that life will never get in the way of sports again. This is more than a phone -- it is like putting ESPN in your pocket.

Roland Martin

My life has never been defined as Roland Martin, CNN; Roland Martin, TVOne; or Roland Martin, 'Tom Joyner Morning Show.' I'm appreciative of all of those platforms, but I've done all different things. I'm still Roland Martin.

Paul Stupin

Music is tremendously important for our show. The series is partially defined in the audience's eyes as a wonderful vehicle for incredible music.

Carmen Ejogo

Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is. I'm mixed, yes, but in the world I'm defined as black before I'm defined white. I've never been called white.

Lee Evans

I'm a lot more confident, ... I think more so this year, my role is defined and I know what they expect of me.

Chris Eigeman

I'm a Jesuit when it comes to structure, but I really think that structure is defined by character. Everything serves that master.

Peter Morgan

Since (Koizumi) defined party membership exclusively in terms of members' views on postal privatization, this does not necessarily imply that the party agrees on much else.

Robert Morse

This stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet, and a great many Hamlets have since murdered Shakespeare

Tony Dungy

Like '94 with Warren Moon and Joe Montana, you'll see two future Hall-of-Famers in Saturday's game.

Alexandra Robbins

...make sure you are still living in the present, rather than for an uncertain future.

Jam Master Jay

Make sure to save for the future and keep making money!

Bernard Kouchner

Let's talk about the future, not about the past. Next time I will be sure that they will not tell me that there is a Serb side and an Albanian side. Here's a hospital that will reach through this bridge.

James Schamus

Look out that window and you see a lot of people, including a lot of young ladies, ... That's the future of our film.

Justin Ossola

Leadership: that's what we learn here at USNA. Our goal is to teach people how to motivate whomever they're leading to do the right thing. Leaders of the future must have a strong moral foundation.

Brian Cashman

Let's get what we can get accomplished and let's concentrate on the future at a more appropriate time, which is after we get through the season.

Alfred McEwen

Learning more about where the water is today and where it was in the past will also guide future studies about whether Mars ever supported life.

Matthew Cooper

Sea level rise is a significant and growing threat to New Jersey, ... Future Sea Level Rise and the New Jersey Coast.

Phil Garner

make your pitches, (it) doesn't matter if we walk him.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Willie Revillame

Mr. Lim has always been there for me. No matter where I go, he's always there to support me.

Mark Zandi

One of the things voters will have to sort out is which statistic matters more.

Lindsay Meggs

One of the things we talked about is it didn't matter about how we won, we just needed to win.

Meryl Thomas

One of the things I've always tried to do as president of the (Penn Hills) PTA is to get everyone moving in the same direction, no matter what the project was.

Jorge Posada

None of this matters if we don't go out there and play the way we're supposed to,

Sushma Swaraj

Now we can only pray in God's temple for him to get better. It is a matter of prayers and medicines. The medicines are being administered internally and the prayers are being sent from outside.

Andrew Barrett

Next week is going to be more normal, when we get back to the real matter at hand, which is earnings.

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.

Chris Tarrant

Of course, completely, ... My previous producer always said we were there to learn.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

This is what happened to me when I received the governorship. The corrupt previous governor didn't do the handover. We received the Miranda governorship completely dismantled.

Norman McLaren

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.

Kim Yuna

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.

Hideo Kojima

As a game creator, I'm not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.

George Papandreou

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

George Foster

We'll have to go back and resample all the previous sampled locations.

Michael Giles

Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling.

Ali Kerimli

even all the previous falsifications were not enough for them to win.

Richard Harwood

If they rule to reject our contract, we will strike.

Laird Barron

My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.

Peter Zumthor

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

Roxane Gay

I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.

Charles Stanley

God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.

Charles Spurgeon

If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.

Alan Watts

The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!

Derek Jeter

Everyone fears rejection.

Dick Clark

I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.

Mallory Ortberg

There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

Larry Jacobs

No one state is the same. You wouldn't want to look at that ranking and think 'Minnesotans are getting screwed' because that really isn't the case.

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

David Wojciechowski

For sure he's going to play. It's a state championship game.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Wendell Byrd

When we say local, we say the state of Virginia and Maryland.

Al Mollozzi

When the state inspectors look at us, they will see that the systems are in place. You have to have a system whether you have one person or 100.

Sourav Ganguly

Only time will tell. It's not right for me to make a statement now.

David Jensen

Iwish the state would have done that, and Ithink they will in two years,

Alexandra Adornetto

Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have to make me sound like a full-time babysitting project?" Xavier: "I happen to be an experienced babysitter. I can show you my resume if you'd like.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

Elizabeth Drew

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

Eliot Spitzer

Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.

David Jenkins

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

Edward Witten

I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.

John Sweeney

I have a very understanding wife, and she understands this is part of the job.

Trinity Morgan

She's understanding the value of that. She worked ridiculously hard.

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.