Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our choice of Mickey is so obvious. He has been around so long he has become a part of American history. It just took a while to recognize his value as a national treasure. Mickey was a star at the same time Gloria Swanson reigned, the Telluride Film Festival's very first Silver Medallion recipient. After his crash, we thought his career had ended when he appeared in noir quickies, but he was rediscovered by Francis Ford Coppola and played Henry in 'The Black Stallion.' Mickey went on to win an Emmy for his performance of a mentally impaired man in 'Bill.' He still performs in live shows. No one has seen more of Hollywood than Mickey.

January trade numbers appeared stronger than expected, in line with global growth momentum.

Casey Kotchman

Jeff appeared to me that he had it. If I thought I could have caught it, I would have. I though he had a better chance of catching it than I did.

Chad Kroeger

I wrote all these heavy, tuned-down guitar riffs and I asked him if he wanted to play the guitar solo on it, and he was pumped to do it, ... That was the first time I appeared on a record with Dime, and now this. I just wish this wasn't the way it had to happen.

Dan Stevens

People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person. Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations. I was a pretty difficult teenager.

John Seabrook

Spotify appeared nine years after Napster, the pioneering file-sharing service, which unleashed piracy on the record business and began the cataclysm that caused worldwide revenues to decline from a peak of twenty-seven billion dollars in 1999 to fifteen billion in 2013.

Some investors focused on domestic demand-led sectors, while high-tech firms appeared to be weaker due to lingering worries over the firmer yen.

Louis MacNeice

My stepmother appeared when I was about 9. My brother was sent off to an institute in Scotland & my sister & I were sent to school. As my stepmother's ideas were then wholly Quaker, mixed with a naive & charming innocence & a little snobbery, it was one dotty epoch on top of another. I always remained terrified of my father.

My mission here is to seek the release of all political prisoners including Abiola, ... That's the direction in which they appeared to be moving when this untimely event intervened.

Jack Horner

Mary, a former student of mine, and I just broke bones up, dug things out of them and just destroyed bones, and she's very good at that, ... Mary's discoveries produced what appeared to be blood tissues and red blood cells, very similar to what we see in modern day ostriches.

I was in college and had a group called the Royal Flairs. We opened for the Stones when they appeared in Omaha during their first U.S. tour.

I was watching television and actually eating fish and chips for dinner when there was a noise up the chimney. Suddenly this thing appeared out of nowhere and bounced off some potato peelings I'd thrown on to the fire, out of the flames and on to the hearth.

Charles Smith

We are all in shock. Dennis appeared to be in excellent physical condition.

Tidewater said they hadn't seen the picture, they don't know where it is, but it was described to Tidewater. They told me the four men are sitting side by side near water, like on a beach, and they all have beards and they all appeared to be in good shape.

Brian Williams

Today's encounter was billed as spontaneous. Instead it appeared to follow a script.

We know they definitely weren't shooting at the bus, it appeared to be an accident, but it's still a violation of state statutes. He was shooting at a tree, was reloading, and it accidentally went off.

We had expected a snap-back in consumer spending after a decline in May, and that's what these numbers showed, ... Consumers appeared to be optimistic in their spending, despite the stock market and the ongoing corporate frauds and malfeasance.

Marquis de Lafayette

I am able to say that I was very much liked at the school. I even had quite some ascendancy over my comrades, and as soon as I appeared in the school yard, I was surrounded by young friends, most of them bigger than I, but who were quite willing to give the appearance of disciples; they would have defended me furiously if necessary.

Phil Schiller

I was pretty shocked at the appearance of the Galaxy S phone and the extent to which it appeared to copy Apple products and the problems that would create for us.

Liz Smith

which butchered my column. I feel like it never really appeared in L.A. before.

Most of the concessions he appeared to offer were very much cosmetic.

Spencer Abraham

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, followed just a few years later by East Germany's Soviet parent state, it appeared that after a half-century of hair-trigger tension, America's major security fears would ease.

Penny Lancaster

When the baby's head appeared it was covered in dark, sticky blood so it was hard to know which end was coming out. Rod said, 'What is that?!' He thought it looked like a lump of coal.

Robert Taylor

The 50th reunion had been a big concern as to whether or not we would have one, and if so, where. For a while, it appeared that it might be held in Latrobe, Pa., but that did not work out, so the Texas Wing stepped up.

Harry Shearer

We were never on strike. The day that story appeared in Variety newspaper, I was at Fox doing vocal services for that week's show.

John Lindsay

Roger wanted to meet him privately, so he and Rod and Tony had a little meeting beforehand. Roger appeared a bit overawed by it.

Retail investors here as well as some European investors appeared to buy banks actively.

Pipe bands greeted the Queen and the Queen mother when they visited us and a few people turned out. But everybody appeared to see this woman Madonna. She had them all in the palm of her hand.

We have decided to strictly enforce the general strike. The strike appeared to be relaxed over the last two days, but that will change from today. Life will be brought to a standstill.

The leading economic indicators began to lose a little momentum before the hurricanes and flooding. Domestically, business investment appeared to be headed toward a moderate pace in the third quarter.

And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.

Pat Robertson

That (separation of church and state) was never in the Constitution, however much the liberals laugh at me for saying it, they know good and well it was never in the Constitution! Such language only appeared in the constitution of the communist Sovi

Companies appeared to be cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices which could hit corporate profitability.