Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie du Toit

It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

Natasha Trethewey

Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It's not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens.

Grace Slick

Starship was a whole different thing. It was pop rock. It made more money and had more hit songs than Airplane. There was no cultural or social ethic behind it. For me, it was like selling out. I was the only one selling out. The rest enjoyed doing what they were doing.

Feist

I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative.

Felicity Kendal

I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

Brad Paisley

It's a very smart, progressive bunch, these people that make country music. They're not country hicks sitting behind a desk with a big cigar giving out record deals and driving round in Cadillacs with cattle horns on the front grille: it's a bunch of really wonderful, open-minded, great people down on Music Row that make this music.

Carolyn Kizer

I wrote poetry off and on in high school, when I could manage to get out of gym classes and sports - using my allergies as an excuse - and climb the hill behind school till I found a nice place to settle down with a notebook and look at Spokane spread out below.

Leland Orser

I was working out at a gym in Montreal when I was doing 'The Bone Collector.' I walked in and said 'Where do I sign in?' Somebody behind me, without even seeing my face, said 'Excuse me, are you on 'Star Trek'?' They recognized me from my voice.

Mandy Moore

'Wild Hope' just felt like such a selfish venture to me. It was a way for me to get out of my head, get some clarity on certain situations, and finally be a part of something that I was completely behind creatively and proud of.

Nico Rosberg

No matter how good a driver you are, you have to have the right car and the right team behind you in order to succeed.

Lee Norris

I love acting; I don't want to give up on it at all, but it would be nice to step behind the camera once in a while as well.

Liberty Ross

What I have always loved about modelling is the chance to play a part. I am quite shy naturally, but I like getting into somebody else's head space, understanding how people work and the psychology behind their actions.

We got on the board early in the second game, and I think that helped to relax Bethany. She got relaxed and settled in and the defense made some nice plays behind her.

Lee Myung-bak

The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation.

I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?

Debbie Ford

You can satisfy your soul's mission by committing to leaving something behind on this planet that will make a difference to those who come after you.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.

We're less than 1 percent behind last year, at this point.

James Farrior

We're not going to be able to get behind by so many points and then try to fight back and play well after that. We need to start off fast and keep it going. When you fall behind this team, it's going to be tough to come back.

We still have the FA Cup and we still have the league and a Champions League qualification place to secure. We must put this behind us quickly. My players are very upset by losing the chance of retaining their European title, but the world must move on and we have other things to achieve.

Davin Joseph

We still have a chance to win the conference and possibly be in a BCS bowl. We might be behind the 8-ball right now, but we're nowhere near a losing team.

Those people are here, by and large to stay, and behind them will be coming others, so if we want to find solutions, it isn't by building walls.

To try to make an issue out of the fact that Ron has worked as a lobbyist, it's out-and-out sleazy. Here's a candidate who is way behind in the polls trying to make an issue out of nothing. Everyone knows that Ron has worked as a lobbyist, and there nothing wrong with that. His lobbying has nothing to do with this campaign.

Traditionally, we've been a second-quarter team. We're trying to instill in them that you can't fall behind in big games.

Trading is the biggest business in the world, one of the fastest-growing and one of the best, and Merrill has been behind the curve here. This quarter shows that Merrill is catching up to where it needs to be.

Trade concerns and concerns over repatriation (of yen by Japanese investors selling U.S. treasuries) are the main components behind the yen's rise,

Traces of chemicals or fumes could be left behind on curtains, stoves, refrigerators, carpet or even in the drains.

Towns get hammered with exorbitant increases in special education costs year to year. Another significant problem is the continued lack of full funding needed for the No Child Left Behind Act. More and more of the burden is being thrust on property tax payers and towns.

This state is $32 billion behind in fixing roads. Why not let private enterprise own and build roads?

Today's consumers are much more interested in a quality wine that they know is going to taste good. They are much less concerned about where it comes from and the story behind it.

John Money

To be a girl is to be sweet, to be a sugar or a honey, to have dolls, to play house and be the mother. To be a girl is not to fight, but to wheedle and cajole, to manipulate behind the scenes and deviously control by being pretty and coquettish.

Russell Wilson

I'm so blessed to have gone to Wisconsin. It's a great school and great coaching staff with incredible fans. I had a lot of great teammates that wanted to be successful. I played behind a huge offensive line. I think that proved a lot, too, as a 5-11 quarterback showing I could play under center with those guys in front of me.

Olivia Thirlby

I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.