Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Mills

We were able in the Recovery Act to get a program where we increased our loan guarantees to 90 percent. Because we had that program, a bank wouldn't have to take that much risk.

Julia Glass

At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many people are drawn to sensational memoirs for the same reason they watch 'The Apprentice': they like to witness actual suffering, before-your-very-eyes humiliation.

Jimmy Cliff

I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.

Laura Wasser

Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.

We want the best and brightest students. I have a very inclusive definition of best and brightest. Of course that includes ACTs and test scores. But it also includes the character prospective students display. That shows there's a place for them at the university.

We are honored to have Ford Dealers help us to create a call to action to Georgians during the Tour, which is to win the race to defeat cancer.

We are holding active consultations with the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG) about how to let the people in Taiwan share the Olympic glory.

We are holding active consultations... about how to let the people in Taiwan share the Olympic glory.

We did get a report from the detectives that his credit cards haven't been used and there's been no activity in his bank account.

We desperately need to bring the ecosystem back into balance. The smaller trees in that area act as ladders to take fires into the taller Sequoias.

We design for activity as much for space.

John McEnroe

I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into politics? Sometimes I have delusions of grandeur that that would be an interesting, good thing. I'm talking about actual politics, like being a congressman, but then I see how unbelievably nasty it really is, and maybe I'm not quite knowledgeable enough to actually do it.

John Kasich

Ohio's doing what it can do, but I wish they'd get their act together in Washington.

Jean Paul

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.

Jeff Foxworthy

We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy.

It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.

Lucy Powell

For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts; and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.

Lupita Nyong'o

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

Jane Asher

Acting has been very useful to me.

Jane Asher

I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

Jane Austen

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

Jamie Lee Curtis

It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work.

James Wolk

I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.

Acting is not just doing! It is who you are being and what you are experiencing that causes you to do - to need to act. Then doing turns arounds and changes your being. But doing without being is lifeless.

Jason Biggs

Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.

Jason Bateman

Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.

Jared Gilman

I'm a huge movie buff, so I'm a fan of a lot of actors and actresses.

Janine Turner

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

Janina Gavankar

Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.

Jane Krakowski

When I do scenes with Alec Baldwin, he just stares at my boobs. That's how good of an actor he is, he finds a way.

Lisa Edelstein

I heard I won 'best butt crack' on television recently. It's true. I did it, you guys. I made it. I wish I got an award, the actual award. What would it look like? Of course, it's a closed set.

Paul Allen

What we're doing here in very broad terms is outlining the actions we're going to take. It's premature for us to try to comment further at this point.