Famous Quotes & Sayings

Candice Accola

It's always weird when you see a movie, and there's no reason for someone to, like, jump on stage and be a singer, and then they just do that... But if it came organically, I would grab that mike and jump on stage for sure.

Colm Toibin

People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.

Cobi Jones

I know a lot of people didn't understand why I came back, and people are still going to say it was stupid and it was the wrong decision. But I'm happy.

Dinaw Mengestu

My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of political upheaval, and there was a lot of loss that came with that, so my parents were reluctant to talk about those things. So I had, by and large, an American childhood.

Djimon Hounsou

The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat.

Damien Chazelle

I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.

Damien Chazelle

There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.

Glenn Greenwald

Somehow, when the authoritarians on the Right search for icons of manly warrior power to venerate, they find only those who like to melodramatically play-act as such, but who ran away when it came time to actually perform.

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

Paul Pierce

In college, I probably lost a total of about 11 games, and then I came to the Celtics and in my first three weeks we went on a nine-game losing streak.

Paul Merton

I was flying to the Maldives in 2000 when the plane went through turbulence - after that, I didn't fly for four years. Then a job came up in India, so I did a simulator flight and learnt about what goes on in the cockpit. I'm fine now.

Paul Keating

When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.

Nikola Tesla

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

We played well in the first half and got out to a 7-2 lead and looked like we had the opportunity to run away with it. Then (we) came out at the start of the second half and proceeded to make mistake after mistake after mistake which wasn't very encouraging. I really think from our performance perspective we have to get away from these sort of highs and lows of concentration and focus and get back to maintaining a high focus right through all four quarters.

We played well enough, hard enough to win. It came down to not defending a great player.

We had some looks there in the third quarter and missed them and then they came down and scored. For some reason, we just came out flat coming out for the third quarter and let them get their looks. They made their looks and we missed our looks.

We had some great talent on the team. I was really impressed. Things really came out great in the end.

We had some good performances by individuals. We just came up a little short.

Josh Howard

We had some good looks. Guys were finding each other, we were just playing great Mavericks basketball. We came out and put them away early.

Katie Smith

We had some good looks and we couldn't knock our shots down. They came out to play and simply outplayed us.

We battled well in this one. I am proud of how we came out and played a tough team.

John Gibbons

We battled, we hung in there and gave ourselves some chances. They came through.

We battled the White Sox three straight games and came up on the losing end. As for the Indians, they're always a good team. It was good for us to get this win tonight, especially for Mr. Rogers.

We battled them the whole way. We played well, they played well, unfortunately we came up a few runs short.

was not a blockbuster blowout but it went fine. Clearly there was good demand for it so it came and went as expected.

We actually prepared, we did that specifically in practice. We knew what we wanted to run. We came out, and we executed it really well.

Ken Paulson

we actually had reporters who had a pretty good sense of where the information came from with '60 Minutes.' It was a source that we knew and we had been talking to that we hoped would shed light on things for us.

To me this is a real look at what's going on over there. It's right from their cameras to the site.

David Cronenberg

Yeah. I mean, technology wants to be in our bodies, because it sort of came out of our bodies. In a crude way, that's what I'm thinking.

Allen Iverson

Yeah, I came down wrong. But we've got a game tomorrow and we've got to come to play.

Yeah, (he's a champion), if his test doesn't come back dirty, ... But it came back dirty, so he can't be a champion. You can't cheat and win. You get caught.

Adam Burish

Yale had won one game all year and they came in and they dominated us. We had to scramble in the last couple of minutes just to tie it up, 1-1. It's embarrassing. The fans don't deserve to have to see that, and for the work that we put in as a group, that's embarrassing to us. That sticks in the back of our heads - I know it sticks in my head.

We are glad that the DOT (U.S. Department of Transportation) took another look and came to the proper decision.