Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Grasso

There are a lot of key questions to answer before we can complete this transaction. It's quite right to point out that companies that trade actively during the conventional session may trade with much less liquidity in off hours.

Bruce Karatz

There are signs of cooling in the hottest markets on both coasts and a shift in investor activity from buying to selling, resulting in less demand and increased supply in certain markets. Once these factors work their way through current housing supplies, however, we expect the market to move to a new equilibrium which will provide a platform for continuing and sustainable growth by KB Home.

There are many shaded spots here, and people who come will have a place to relax. But many come here because there are several activities they can do --- jog, do aerobics, study, rehearse for school presentations...

Walter Murch

There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.

There are many factors at play in helping our young people build balanced lifestyles. Because of our long-time partnership with America's schools, Coca-Cola wants to play a positive and effective role in helping to promote healthy, active lifestyles among students nationwide.

Silvio Berlusconi

There are no words for an inhumane act that ... cancels centuries of civilization to bring us back to the Dark Ages,

Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.

Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.

Danielle Panabaker

I have a really hard time watching my sister act in anything, but especially anything where it's a strong emotion.

Dave Matthews

Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.

Francis Spufford

If you're a believer, God is not a thought-experiment requiring a special sub-creation to be tried out in. He's an actual, er, actuality already, embedded in a necessary and true story about guilt, hope, and liberty. I don't want C. S. Lewis doing his resourceful best to render Him as a fabulous special effect.

Franz Boas

This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning.

Debra Winger

I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it's saturated - it's not good.

Hill Harper

I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.

Howie Mandel

Regardless of what I do, whether I write a book or whether I act or whether I host, I'll always do stand-up comedy because those moments, that's what I crave. If I do something funny, and I hear a crowd laugh in that moment, we're all sharing the exact same experience and the exact same feeling.

Alanis Morissette

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

Al Sharpton

We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice; the only way to prevent future injustice is to create the society we would like to see, one where we are all equal under the law.

Al Sharpton

In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.

Al Pacino

I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot onstage. On the other side of the pot was a little girl who had dark hair, and she and I were representing the Italians. And I thought: Is that what an Italian looked like?

Dylan Bruce

I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were so valuable. Seeing yourself every day on television, you learned what worked and didn't work, what was bad acting and what wasn't. Memorizing scripts became second nature.

David Duchovny

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

John Berger

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.

Douglas Wilder

Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers.

'Evening Shade' was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had barely had an acting class. So as Burt Reynolds continued to bring me back for the next three years, I learned so much from him and all the other legends that were on the show.

Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Brooke Elliott

I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work.

Bryan Greenberg

I got the acting bug really young, when I was around, like, 10. I pretty much just wanted to be Michael J. Fox. He was in 'Teen Wolf' - that was, like, the coolest role, and then he did 'Back to the Future,' and that was the coolest role.

Barbara Lee

We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

Bill Engvall

I dream of acting with Kevin Costner. I would love to do a movie with him. Not something funny, but a dramatic role.

Bill Condon

And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.

Bill Paxton

What's been nice is that I've been able to direct from a very idealistic place. I've never had to make my living as a director, which gave me a chance to choose material I feel passionate about. The directing allows me to not have to grab any acting role that comes along. I can pick and choose a little bit.

Barton Gellman

The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.