Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sally Phillips

My mother always worked and thought staying at home was a bit twee, and that you should get your act together and do something useful. Now I think that's the most useful thing you can do: bring up some non-criminals.

Christopher Moore

My mother is very active and involved with the tribe, so I can't help but be involved, too. I go back when I can to teach music classes with middle-school students and hopefully serve as a role model.

Rachel Simmons

Many girls intentionally perpetrate acts of aggression that go unseen by parents and teachers. Because they are so skilled at being subtle, girls can communicate a thousand words without saying anything. By rolling their eyes or turning their back on another girl, they can shut that other person out without being noticed by anyone else - even a concerned parent or teacher.

Many financial institutions are implementing contingency plans involving a variety of actions that will help the people of the Gulf Coast,

Many faculty members are very supportive and they allow their students to attend some of the activities held during class periods.

Louise Fresco

Many countries where the disease is endemic have already taken action but they are overwhelmed by the situation and require urgent assistance. Fighting the disease in animals is key to our success in limiting the threat of a human pandemic. We know that the virus is being spread by wild birds but we need more research to fully understand their role.

Locally, you can never go wrong with Don Gavin. I can recite Don Gavin's act word for word, and it never grows old or tired for me. I have been very guilty of using his jokes in casual conversation . . . but it's made me very popular.

Mickey Edwards

Lobbying is a constitutionally protected activity because the opposite of lobbying is to treat public officials as demigods.

Looking back, I could see just my actions that day, I was being very encouraging to everybody and telling people I love them and I was just so glad that I met them. And I didn't realize I was saying goodbye. But looking back, I realize I was.

Lonely people differ from non-lonely individuals in their tendency to perceive stressful circumstances as threatening rather than challenging, and to passively cope with stress by failing to solicit instrumental and emotional support and by withdrawing from stress rather than by actively coping and attempting to problem solve.

Look at these prices only as a benchmark, not your actual dollar cost.

Looking beyond the question of legitimacy of action, there is a problem of rules and therefore a credibility risk for the country,

David Brown

Looking ahead, this swift regulatory response, an increasing number of private equity deals and a continued surge in outbound investment bode well for future M&A activity in, and by, Chinese companies.

Alan Greenspan

Looking ahead, the consensus expectation for a pickup in economic activity is not unreasonable, though the timing and extent of that improvement continue to be uncertain,

Brad Smith

Look for fire activity in Southeast Texas to pick up as fuels are approaching critical fuel dryness. A combination of cured grass fuels and dry Hurricane Rita debris is a situation we have not yet experienced. It is a situation that we have not been looking forward to.

Let me state our view clearly and without equivocation: We condemn punishment of any activity internationally recognized as free expression, whether that punishment takes place in China or anywhere else in the world.

Markets want to hear some kind of hint that they'll back up these words with action, specifically intervention in foreign exchanges to drive the euro higher.

Market expectations appear to be accelerating and unless the central bank takes action soon, it may lose the market's confidence.

Matters were drifting. There was a need to take action.

Marine drilling has got leverage into activity in the Gulf of Mexico and we think it's got the most leverage (to benefit from) an increase in the activity in the Gulf,

Marks & Spencer has got its act together, ... There has been a UK retail boom in December but January has gone off to a slow start.

Market volumes fell off slightly from what was a very active January.

Gretchen Wilson

Many young people attend your concerts and purchase your music and T-shirts, ... Because your actions strongly influence the youth in your audience ... I ask you to take steps to warn young people of negative health effects of smokeless tobacco use.

Martin O'Malley

Maryland is among the nation's most vulnerable states to the effects of sea level rise from climate change, and we are taking strong action to reduce carbon pollution.

John Brady

MasterCard International has always worked aggressively to identify and eliminate any illegal activity involving the use of its global payment network, including child pornography. The systems and processes we have developed to combat the use of payment cards for any illegal activity, including our ongoing involvement with global law enforcement communities, provide us with some excellent tools and resources to help eliminate what has sadly become a complex and growing industry based on the exploitation of children around the world.

Anne Heche

That's probably the most boring conversation you could hear - an actor talk about politics. I won't go there.

Anna Chlumsky

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

Albert Camus

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

Anna Silk

Doing something completely different than acting for awhile is really important.

AnnaLynne McCord

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

Claire Danes

Money or no money, acting is my calling

D. B. Sweeney

As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

Conrad Veidt

It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.