Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Hecht

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

Tourism leaders are gaining a better understanding of the value of .travel, and as more and more tourism entities are actively using their .travel domains in large-scale marketing efforts, nations that have not yet have been able to register all of their names are telling us that the additional time is critical. We believe the extension is in the best interest of the global tourism industry, which is who we serve.

to work actively to end the violence and maintain calm.

Elizabeth Blackburn

I've only actively promoted what we always hope is good science.

Cassandra Clare

We as artists are actively encouraged - by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society - not to think about money, strategy, how to manage your career, how to create a brand, because we're supposed to focus on the art.

Tom Sturridge

As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents - aside from 'Gulliver's Travels.'

I think what's happening now is there's an undertow of feeling in town that you guys are not actively trying to hurt us, but you are not doing anything to help us.

I think basically we realized that each of us individually was actively pursing this issue,

We're know of no other suspects. We're not actively looking for anybody.

We are continuing to negotiate actively with the representatives and hospital industry to keep talks going through this session.

Frei Otto

I have never been satisfied with a piece of work I have been actively involved in, and would never want to be.

Gene Luen Yang

I finished 'American Born Chinese' in 2005, so after that, I started actively researching the Boxer Rebellion.

We learned that marketers prefer to target by context and behavior over demographics and that they are actively using both advanced targeting methods.

Alex Trebek

When you're in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you're busy doing as opposed to busy thinking. As you get older, even as you don't have as much time, I think you tend to think more and reflect more on what is happening in your own life.

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.

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.

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.

The only thing we are going to say is that we are actively investigating this case. We have seven detectives working full-time on this case.

This shows that we are actively going after the network. We've taken down the number two in the network and that is going to have an impact,

John Hawkes

The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I'm on computers every day without actively seeking them out.

Andrew Demetriou

This year the umpires have been instructed to actively police tagging, blocking and any contact in marking contests not directly aimed at winning the ball.

Igor Ivanov

We are comfortable that Syria is actively participating in the implementation of the resolution relevant to the investigation into the assassination of the former premier.

We are closely monitoring the situation at this time, and we will work with our domestic and international partners to actively pursue these dangerous terrorists.

We have been actively involved in the diesel particulate filter business since the 1980's in Europe and went into high volume serial production on light vehicles in 2000. This win with International continues the growth of Tenneco's diesel particulate filter business, expected to be over 1.5 million units annually in 2007.

Roger Smith

We did a thorough search of every sector of the four terminals, and they didn't turn up anywhere. We're not actively searching for them. We have determined there's no danger.

We believe that all kids and families are different and it's up to each family to determine what is right for them. But we do believe that parents should be actively involved in their kids' media lives.

We are seeing things like the Chinese and Brazilian governments actively backing Linux as their key operating system environment. We will work to provide the right servers, tools, expertise, and training to get our business partners on line and moving ahead with new products, based in this case on Red Hat Linux.

Bill Shorten

If I am elected leader, my shadow opposition team will actively incorporate the policy contributions of all our members by instituting policy action committees as recommend by the 2010 National Review.

With all the talk of telecommuting, ... it's not a hugely widespread practice, even among techies. A survey like this one about telecommuting would naturally draw a high percentage of telecommuters. But we found only 48 percent of respondents saying that they actively telecommute.

Tim O'Brien

To be memorable and to have dramatic impact, informational detail must function actively within the dynamic of a story.

While relying on its own research and development, China also actively participates in international cooperation. The European Union is one of our most important partners in the field of nuclear power development.

Donald Tsang

Both the central government and this administration are actively leading this community towards universal suffrage in an orderly fashion. I am 60 years of age. I certainly want to see universal suffrage taking place in Hong Kong in my time.

David Bowie

I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation.