Famous Quotes & Sayings

What the Toronto festival premiere did was to reinforce why we wanted to do this. People approached us and said they had no idea how talented Liza was. In the past few years, her skills have been too obscured by the tabloid headlines. It is fantastic to see her being celebrated for what she should be celebrated for.

David Liss

Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

Natasha Trethewey

My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

Wilbur Smith

The first story I ever sold was to 'Argosy' magazine, which no longer exists. That issue also contained work by several other more celebrated writers, like Ray Bradbury - so I felt I had at least one toe on the ladder.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.

Edward Hirsch

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

Only one mental health expert testified that Andrea knew that what she was doing was wrong, and that was the celebrated Park Dietz. Every other mental health expert ... testified that she was either incapable of knowing what she was doing was wrong or did not know what she was doing was wrong.

Julie Christie

One of the most celebrated people in the world desperate not to be recognized,

Mendelssohn's music for A Midsummer Night's Dream consists not only of the celebrated Overture, the famous Wedding March and the scarcely less familiar Nocturne and Scherzo.

Ian Bostridge is an enormously talented artist, hailed as one of the foremost interpreters of the Schubert repertoire today. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to present Mr. Bostridge and celebrated pianist Julius Drake in this uniquely intimate performance.

Hugo Chavez

celebrated by waving flags, dancing in traditional dress and wearing berets commemorating Ernesto 'Che' Guevara.

Because St. Patrick is the patron saint of the diocese, the day should be celebrated as a feast day.

Deborah Moggach

I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What's that all about? I haven't even thought about turning 60 yet, but so many of my friends have celebrated it by now that it's lost its terror. And I don't mind being 58; it's just such a surprise when one doesn't feel it at all.

I extend my greetings and good wishes to all our citizens on the joyous occasion of Deepawali. The festival of lights, celebrated with gaiety and enthusiasm all over the country, signifies the victory of good over evil and is an appropriate occasion for us to resolve to follow the high ideals in life.

Clare Balding

The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.

We were exceptionally pleased at the number of families who celebrated with us. These families are special to us. They represent not only the history of the hospital since its opening, but also our future and the future of the community on the Outer Banks.

Billy Graham

Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas.

There is some nice history in here. You can see how they celebrated 100 years ago.

Winston Churchill

I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit . . . which I most desired to see was the one described as 'The Boneless Wonder'.

Stella Young

Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.

Mardi Gras is celebrated all up and down the coast, so it seemed like a real symbol of the region to me.

Fernando Alonso

I was told that 50,000 people celebrated my win. They were dancing in the fountain in the city center, and even in Madrid as well.

Ram Kapoor

Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.

Henry James Sumner Maine

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.

John George

We have always celebrated diversity here and it is great to see everyone thanking and honoring the King's day.

Rodney Stark

Leading Christian theologians such as Augustine and Aquinas were not what today might be called 'strict constructionists.' Rather, they celebrated reason as the means to gain greater insight into divine intentions.

We celebrated late into the night. She would have loved it.

We celebrated by talking about what we have to do next.

We celebrated a little bit, but it's not like we won the division.

Bobby Jenks

When I saw that out call, it was the greatest feeling. I just reacted to instinct. I celebrated without thinking.

We went on and celebrated and had a great, great party.

The May payrolls report will be the celebrated one next week, and there may be some controversy around it.

Ronald Reagan

Our Constitution is to be celebrated not for being old, but for being young.