Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Bay

Usually on the first day it's pretty lackadaisical and everybody is feeling their way around a little bit, but I really got the feeling that everybody was over that. Everybody came in a little more ready, a little more focused as far as getting some things done.

Usually only 40 people vote, so I was very pleased that so many people came out to support me.

Waikiki was unbelievable during the 1950s. There was virtually nobody there, only the rich people that came in from California. We had it all to ourselves.

We're still trying to learn to play without BW, but that's no excuse. They just came out and whipped us.

Mike Shanahan

We've done a good job through the season, but that fourth quarter wasn't one of our better quarters when it came to run defense.

We've done a good job of preparing for change. In the early 1990s when new employees came we were reacting. Now we're preparing for the influx.

We're really pleased to have Peter guiding our Olympic Team. Peter knows what it takes. He played on our 1988 Olympic team and came back as captain of the 1994 Olympic team. He's coached our last two world championship teams. He's passionate about the game and we're confident he'll do an outstanding job as our head coach.

Ross Mathews

There are two industry secrets to surviving a long day on camera on the red carpet: First, no drinking the night before - ever. You can celebrate after with some bubbly. Second is make sure to use shoe insoles. I don't care if you are a guy or a girl, dress shoes are painful. Worth it, but painful.

Polly Bergen

I came to Southbury because I wanted to live a more simple life. When I was a child, I saw lots of movies about happy people living in Connecticut. And ever since then, that was where I wanted to live. I thought it would be like the movies. And it really is. It's exactly what I hoped it would be.

Going on unemployment was a total low point for me, but it was also the point when I promised myself I'd write every day from 9 to 5. I tried to make the most out of every situation that came along.

Paul Harding

The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the protagonist from one novel you've read has a cameo role in another. I think that recognition is a very, very powerful phenomenon; it is one of the deepest and greatest pleasures of reading.

Paulo Costanzo

I started out more interested in drama, but comedy just came naturally to me, and it's become what I'm most known for, even though my sensibilities still lean towards the dramatic for the most part.

Paul Westerberg

I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.

Paul O'Grady

I was Popeye mad when I was a kid, and I'd eat spinach until the cows came home.

Piet Mondrian

To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.

I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning.

Patrick Macnee

I missed so much of the Swinging Sixties by working. From 1961 to 1969, I got up at 4.30 A.M., a car came for me at 5.30 A.M., and I was taken to our studio at Teddington or Elstree, and we filmed until I got home at 9.30 P.M., five days a week.

Mo Rocca

Something that came as a shock to me is that we do not have a constitutional right to vote. And that's not just a fun little historical factoid. It actually has huge ramifications. It's the reason our system is so decentralized - in other words, chaotic.

Mo Rocca

No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show.

Mark Hamill

When I was involved with 'Star Wars,' I was very interested in all the backstories, and I used to pepper George with all kinds of questions about anything that crossed my mind, because I was very, very into it. But when the job came to an end, I had to move on.

Pete Townshend

Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.

Peter Jackson

I remember when I was - I must've been 17 or 18 years old - I remember 'The Empire Strikes Back' had a big cliffhanger ending, and it was, like, three years before the next one came out.

Peter Jackson

The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot.

Peter Jackson

Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process.

Powers Boothe

When I first came to Hollywood, I played about as many guys who save the day and get the girl as I played heavies. It's just that heavies are more interesting and last in people's minds.

Powers Boothe

I wanted to be in 'The Emerald Forest.' I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!

Pierre Niney

One night at a party, a really drunk guy came up to me and said, 'Whoa you look like Yves Saint Laurent' because I was wearing a turtleneck. I'd love to track that guy down and tell him that he gave pretty good casting advice.

Alex Rodriguez

We do not do anything different. The procedure is handled the same way as any other procedure. The only difference is that we will have cameras in the room.

J. J. Johnson

We were 18-1-1 in the regular season, but that wouldn't have meant anything if we didn't win tonight. We came out firing in the third period. à We just wanted it. We wanted it a lot.

We went up there and escaped with a win. We didn't lead all game, but we came out on top.

Without any question, I think they had a point to prove tonight and certainly made a statement. In the previous two games, we just didn't play well and I really respect the way they came out today. I think they had something to say and they said it.

Without a governorship you came out of your mother's womb, without a governorship you've lived to this day, and without a governorship you'll go - or they'll take you - to the grave.

We have to put in 32 good minutes. Tonight, we only played 16 good minutes and that?s what it came down to.