Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Amy Sedaris

It's driving me crazy! It's awful. I saw four last night during the Academy Awards. Four little baby mice running all over my apartment.

It was an inexcusable mistake, ... I regretted it probably some kind of nano second after it was out of my mouth. I apologize to everybody who was listening and to the people at the academy who have been great to me and to my partners in the booth.

J. Taylor

It's such a radically new way of thinking and the academy is forward thinking yet it is a traditional ceremony, but I believe recognition will come with time because we are going to see more of this.

Everyone at Starbucks Hear Music feels a strong emotional connection to Genius Loves Company, ... We truly appreciate the recognition the Recording Academy has given this album and are thrilled by the response the public has shown to this project.

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.

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.

It's the magnitude of it I think that's making it difficult for people to grasp what's happened. London has been in touch. The Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, the Guildhall School, have all been in touch to offer their sympathies as well.

Dominic Keating

It's the end of an era for the franchise, that's for sure, ... It's the end of producer Rick Berman 's stint. Then another man will put his paw print on another version four years from now. Try his luck -- 'Starfleet Academy 90210 In Space' -- something like that.

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.

Richard Meier

I've experienced Rome since I was a student there in 1955 and at the American Academy in 1976. It is a place that I have spent time in, loved and absorbed. It never occurred to me that I would someday build in Rome. It didn't seem that it was in the realm of possibilities.

Joaquin Phoenix

It was terrifying at times. One of my first fires I went into at the academy -- and this was controlled fire by the way, this was with two instructors on every floor -- I still panicked and called out 'mayday' right in the middle of the fire,

Vincent Bugliosi

Anyone who would look at me and say that Scalia would have done the same thing for Gore as Bush, I will personally nominate them for an Academy Award.

Another very significant program that was enabled by the school building changes was the fifth grade band program. All students at Norrie and at All Saints Academy take band, they have to try an instrument.

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,

Oscar nominations are really important for a picture of quality, for a film that is not thought of as mainstream. We try to stay true to who we are, I'd like to think it basically says that slow and steady can win the race -- these Academy Award nominations validate that theory.

James Stewart

After the awards, I didn't win, my father called me up and told me that the man from Johnstown had put all kinds of signs in the theatre saying, 'This year's Academy Award winner... ' because my father had said I was going to win. And I didn't. But this guy asked if it would be alright if he took the Oscar and put it in the lobby and put a sign saying, 'This is what it would look like if he had won'.

Alphonso Jackson

The National Fair Housing Training Academy will be a major component in fully enforcing the letter and the spirit of the Fair Housing Act and further ensuring that fair housing is central to the American way of life,

Michael Behe

The National Academy of Sciences treats intelligent design in a way what I consider utterly misleading. Talk about scholarly malfeasance!

Sherwood Boehlert

The National Academy of Sciences has made clear that mileage can be increased significantly with current technologies and without reducing safety.

The National Academy of Sciences guidelines for stem cell research prohibits payment to egg donors, and scientists in the U.S. have embraced those principles. There is a right way and a wrong way, and we must be sure to perform this vitally important medical research the right way.

The National Academy is structured in a way that allows it to tap universities, private enterprise and other research organizations for experts.

After playing 80 minutes in a scoreless tie against Fayetteville Academy (on Friday night) we had a letdown physically. Our legs were king of dragging. We had enough left in the tank to pull out the win. It wasn't always pretty, but we'll take it.

John York

The relationship with the 49ers Academy started before we got here. Denise and I both love coming here to be part of teaching the kids. If you can get some of the students to realize the importance of education, and you can look out and see in their eyes that they are paying attention, they have the best chance to improve their lives.

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.

This is one of the greatest honours I can imagine, to me like winning an Academy Award,

Bob Parsons

The web-only version is popular, but our 'Road to the Super Bowl' section is also getting a great deal of interest. People want to see why so many of our ads were rejected in the first place. The bottom line is not to please the critics or win an Academy Award. The important thing is to reach the customer.

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.

I told the girls being seeded 8th - we have nowhere to go but up. We beat Westford Academy in a dual meet already and when it comes to Sectionals - our kids usually rise to the occasion while some of these higher seeds can't handle the pressure and fold.