Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael O'Brien

I knew there would be some controversy over the 'Potter' series between religious people and secular-minded people - that was inevitable - what astonished me and continues to astonish me is the intense controversy that erupted very early on among Christians themselves, in all the churches. It cuts across every denominational line.

Jessye Norman

I knew that I was loved. And that's such an important thing. And, of course, at such an early age, you take it for granted. Of course your parents love you. Of course Mrs. Hubert across the street loves you and your godmother loves you and your grandparents love you.

I like the concept. Bear has lagged its peers in terms of international expansion. Having a joint venture with a large bank in China with commercial relationships across Asia would probably be viewed positively by investors.

Shahzia Sikander

I like driving. A lot. I think that's something I just enjoy the most. I can, at a moment's notice, drive across the country if, you know, I had to.

I'm proud of Tyler. The Tyler I came to in September of 1985 I don't think would have responded the way she did in September of 2005. The unprecedented cooperation across racial lines shows just how far we've come.

I'm quite sure that would have been it. He would have just walked across the road and gone through the little road that goes through the woods to go to Gedney Pond.

Immigrant communities and groups across the country are coming together to send a loud and clear message to decision makers in Washington D.C. that we are not the enemy but part of the solution.

I'm not going to claim, 'We're not having any picks, but we're a great secondary,' ... No. We need to create turnovers. But I don't care how many balls you catch, if you're getting toasted up the sidelines or beat on comebacks or beat across the middle, that turnover won't help you win the game.

I'm not going to call it robust but we're seeing manufacturing hiring across the board. We have a unit that focuses on the blue collar side and it's been on a roll for three or four years now.

Michael Fitzpatrick

I'm expecting builds across the board. Imports should continue to arrive at a high rate, which will raise crude stocks, and refineries continue to return, which should do the same for the products.

Chauncey Billups

I'm excited to have the USA across my chest. I'm glad they thought I was capable enough to regain our dominance. So I am proud of that, and I am definitely looking forward to it.

I met a man across the street, he's in a wheelchair and he patrols the neighborhood, yeah, and I met another lady across the alley and yeah, I want to meet them all.

Sonny Perdue

I'm extremely pleased with the progress that our minority students are making, ... They are outstripping the gains made across the United States by a greater margin than even our student population as a whole. That bodes well for our state.

I'm really proud of them. I've never seen a team step up so much in every event. Across the board we got personal records, everybody doing just a little bit more than we expected. We blew the second place team, Longwood, out of the gym by 20 points. That kind of point spread is shocking.

Mark Morris

I'm really drawn to West Coast composers and I think it has a little something to do with looking across the Pacific instead of looking across the Atlantic.

Mark Duffy

I just asked for our players to give a full out effort, and told them they'd be able to walk away with their heads held high if they did that. And the effort was there for all three periods from everyone right across the board. This was a big, big game for us.

Candice S. Miller

I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator.

Chris Knight

I learned from working around the working man, ... I worked around people who had a hard time. A whole lot of my inspiration just came off of growing up around a small town and the things we did. I used to talk a lot with my grandparents about those things. I read lots of books. Every little thing came across as inspiring.

I learned that in juniors. It's more of a respect thing. A guy goes to battle for you, and you just kind of help him out, pick his stuff up and bring it over to him instead of shooting across the ice.

I hope we learned a lesson after we got slapped across the face. When you let momentum get away from you, it's hard to get it back and you can't rest until you get back on the bus.

I hope the United States can make joint efforts with us in safeguarding China-U.S. relations and the peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits.

I hope that residents of Aberdeen and surrounding areas will come watch South Dakota's best competition of swimmers and see what competitive swimming is about. People across the state are excited to compete in Aberdeen's new pool.

I love to play Texas hold 'em. I've found it's such a craze across the nation that I thought it would be a great way to raise money for our nonprofit organizations.

Rove McManus

I love doing the show and hopefully that passion comes across on screen as well. I just enjoy myself every time I am out there.

T. E. Lawrence

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars.

Michael Huff

I love making plays. Whether it's hitting somebody across the middle, getting a 'pick' and going back scoring, or blocking a kick. Whatever it takes to help a team, that's what I'll do.

Michael Leunig

I must warn you right here and now that I am a 'wet leftie,' a 'leftist' and also a member of the 'bleeding heart liberal left.' I had no say in it whatsoever. I woke up one morning, and these things were tattooed across my forehead.

I'm sure that cities across the country will be naming schools and auditoriums after Wilson, ... It seems fitting that Pittsburgh be one of the first.

Inflation is rising in more sectors than it is falling. It is doing so across horizons of one month, six months and 12 months. We are left in all this wondering what the Fed is up to and what it is waiting for.

Inflation decelerated across a broad spectrum of core CPI areas -- about 40 percent of prices in the core showed declines in their year-over-year growth rate. That's a big proportion. The Fed is concerned and has a reason to be concerned.

In girls basketball, there's still a little more separation in the talent level among the teams. In boys, there's more parity across the board.

Roy Clark

In Georgia it's a little different because of the East Cobb program. It's such a strong program that we see a lot of kids that come through here on a lot of different teams from across the country that come here to play in tournaments.

Christine McVie

In general there's a lot of sameness in the songs and videos today. It all runs in to one mishmash... I'm definitely of the old school. I like melodies and I like real instruments. I like to see a smiling face across from me rather than a bank of computers. I like to play with real people.