Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carice van Houten

I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

Al Sharpton

There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people.

Dick Morris

Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood.

Conor McGregor

I don't look at a man who's expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

Francis Collins

My own area of expertise is the genetics of human disease. I was fortunate to be part of the team that found the genes for cystic fibrosis, and Huntington's disease and neurofibromatosis.

Kevin McCall

We believe the area has a lot of growth ? a lot of opportunities for us. We can serve our customers well by being in that market.

George Foreman

With Premier's Perception Advisor, we'll receive quality feedback from patients just a few days after their discharge. Furthermore, we'll be able to focus our questions in areas where patient satisfaction is low to get to the root of a problem and identify solutions.

With an average forward speed of only about three miles per hour, many areas were subject to hurricane and tropical storm force winds for more than 24 hours.

Stephen Lewis

Yet, when the men get infected, which so happens in the cities, and they go back to the rural areas to die, it is of course their wives -often infected and sick themselves- who look after the men until they die.

There are probably two areas that were not really fulfilled and I have to credit Laura with really making a difference in my life. One is the power and the importance of the Bible and spending time reading it ... The other really key part to my life is having a relationship with Jesus and understanding that prayer's important, the Bible's important, but that relationship is really what counts.

There are probably 30 to 35 areas like this throughout the county.

Diane Ackerman

Like many animals, wild ponies can sense a drop in barometric pressure. When a storm threatens, they know to seek shelter in hilly areas and huddle together with their rumps facing the oncoming wind.

John Berger

A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you on to see. Following up its logic in order to check its accuracy, you find confirmation or denial in the object itself or in your memory of it.

Ben Horowitz

I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing a proper company culture will help you get your company to do what you want in certain important areas for a very long time.

Bruce Boxleitner

They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.

Al Sharpton

Everything from who sits on your local board of education to the prosecutors and judicial appointments in your area and much more are all impacted by who holds political office.

Bill Bryson

In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they shouldn't get.

Anthony Carmona

I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.

We have several students who have come from other private schools because of the type of education we offer and also the fact we are much less expensive than many of the other schools in the area - sometimes as much as half the cost.

We have several area foundations that have supported us as well as grants from our area members.

We have seen in various areas where it's starting to stand out and we've had citizens commenting on it.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

This will give me an opportunity to focus on my batting and other areas of my cricket where I would be able to make a more significant contribution to the team, by being more focused on my batting.

This will finally bring us up to the 20th century and also create opportunities for our youth to gain life-long skills in the area of technology.

The parts of the metropolitan area are so interdependent, in so many ways, that nobody is being helped by keeping those divisions going.

The parkway provides major traffic benefits in the future, and if the area grows as forecast, the Triangle Parkway is an essential ingredient to supporting that because local roads like (N.C. Highways) 54 and 55 would be overloaded big time.

John Jackson

The park maintains the pristine nature as best as possible in this area of Palm Coast.

The Parkersburg/Marietta area employment outlook is stronger than the fourth quarter forecast when 23 percent of the companies interviewed reported an increase in hiring activity, and 17 percent planned to decrease the hiring pace.

The parade was the first time some people came back to the area for a long time.

The only thing we have to go on is a witnesses who saw a small, white compact vehicle leaving the area right after the shooting.

The only thing we can think of is they were dumped here by the glaciers when the continental ice sheet melted away in this area 11,000 years ago.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

There are hardly any left in New York City. The San Francisco Bay Area is very fortunate to still have a lot of independent bookstores.

William Martin

There are going to be some trade-offs and drilling in presently restricted areas is going to be one of those areas.

There are going to be areas of the state where the economics may be poor, and those are the areas where we need government intervention. The opportunity is there for the government to partner with private industry in those areas where market economics are considered questionable for natural development.