Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathy Baker

Sag is a drag, but perky is in. We love our actresses and want to see them at their best. After observing the 2006 Academy Awards, we've got plenty of uplifting examples of perky in Hollywood. This, in our opinion, is the top 10.

Prior to the arrival of the new class of cadets this June, we will implement changes to ensure the safety of all cadets while reinforcing academy ties to the active Air Force military culture,

The way that Wheaton Academy plays, it played right into Ryan Wagner's game. He's long and lengthy, and he can score around the basket. Our wheel was working, and we were getting a lot of baskets inside.

This approach will reduce the initial training academy costs. And incentives should be explored to attract quality applicants.

A lot of the people who watch the Academy Awards don't go to movies. So what's on stage is the only performance of yours they're going to see.

A lot of the lads have been at the Academy this winter so we have been training quite hard in indoor school, so to get outside and get a bit of Caribbean sunshine and get some competitive cricket is very exciting for everybody. So we are looking forward to it.

The Youth Baseball Academy will serve as a sanctuary for kids interested not only in how the game is played but how the game can be a positive and productive part of their lives. The Compton academy is part of Major League Baseball's Urban Youth Initiative, which is an ambitious and important project that is designed to grow the game and to help inner city kids make better lives for themselves.

You meet interesting people and do interesting things as a cadet. I like the people and the training. I'd like to go to the Air Force Academy after I graduate, and I think this will really help.

This is despite a 53% decrease in the U.S. SIDS rate since the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended in 1992 that babies be placed to sleep on their backs, ... This reduced rate reflects nearly 3,000 fewer infant deaths per year, or over 15,000 fewer deaths since the original back-to-sleep recommendation.

Bud Selig

This is an important and very historic development for Major League Baseball. Baseball has always served as a bridge that links generations. We created this academy to shore up that bridge in the urban community.

David Warner

There were certain young actors I had trained with at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who had always got the big parts and I was always the spear-carrier. Suddenly the roles were reversed and I couldn't understand why, and nor could they.

There were about 12 people in the stands the last time these two played. It was at an (Albuquerque) Academy tournament in 2003. There was never a rivalry between us. But this is going to be a lot of fun.

Val McDermid

It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.

Melissa Rosenberg

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story.

Nicola Sturgeon

The teachers who taught me at Dreghorn Primary and Greenwood Academy were fantastic.

The Super Bowl is one of those television events like the Academy Awards that really dominates and monopolizes the audience.

Thank you to all the members of the Academy for embracing our film about love, and about tolerance, about truth, and thank you to people all around the world who have been been touched by this message.

These children have enough on their plates as it is. At Arlington Heights Academy they have trust with someone who has been helping them all along. You want to take that trust away for a dollar amount?

These emission cuts must begin in the next 10 years if we want to pull this off with a minimum of economic impact. As the National Academy of Sciences has emphasized, delay makes the job much harder. A slow start will mean a crash finish.

Alan was selected after a comprehensive search and review process. Our paths have crossed frequently over the past 15 years and I believe Alan's wealth of experience should be of great value to our Academy in advancing the many exciting initiatives we have for the future.

We've got a lot of runs that have been playing for a month, and some of these markets are over-encumbered. So there's a weakness in some of these theaters that are playing out. It's a function of normal attrition, despite the Academy awards stuff. It's the core markets that it's important to sustain.

This very possibly has something to do with the fact that this week the Academy will announce this year's winner.

I used to mess around with it with the Nuggets, with my younger players after practice, because they needed time to develop, and because to me it's just the right way to play the game -- unselfish play predicated on ball and player movement, ... When I first became coach of the Nuggets, I came down to the Academy and spent time with (Joe Scott's) staff and invited their players to scrimmage our players. I knew the Air Force players would make our guys chase them defensively. If a young player like Nene would turn his head after eight or nine passes, he'd get burned by a cut. It really helped us.

Mike Pompeo

There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development. Whether it's the honor code, or the interactions you have, both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership, every place you are is a character test.

There's less of a degree of luck in something like the Academy Awards than, say, a basketball game. There are a lot of other things that can't be handicapped (in a basketball game).

The tree-hugging Tolkien freaks, once they get around to seeing the movie and reading the books, tend to go on to read other things that he did. In 1936 he gave a British Academy lecture called Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, which is still one of the most fabulous things that's been written.

The family that is left never considered what she was doing as historically significant. I had short notice and had to get ready in a hurry. I was so excited. It was like I was going to the Academy Awards.

In a year when the average box office of the movies nominated by the Academy was the lowest since 1984, we believe our list of the top movies better reflects the taste and spirit of the American people.

It's tough trying to make improvements when as an academy you are so much in the media spotlight. But I'm proud of what we have achieved so far.

Daniel Levy

Damien has a long and impressive track record of scouting and signing many talented and successful youth and senior players. I believe he will be a huge asset to the club with his forward-thinking approach to international networking and partnerships. His achievements at St-Etienne show he is also ideally suited to bring best practice to our training facilities, academy and medical divisions.

Crash provided jobs for actors and other LA-based workers, who are increasingly frustrated by runaway productions that travel to far-flung locations. Moreover, because Crash was a story dealing with complex racial relations in Los Angeles, it was something that LA-based Academy members could easily relate to.

The beginning of black studies was the idea that it would be a collaboration between the academy and the community.

Taking our productions out of the Academy is something we've been considering for a while. In the RSAMD theatre, we could normally sell out several times over.