Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam McKay

I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.

Adam McKay

If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

Sonam Kapoor

Many people make fun of me because I'm always so dressed up, but they don't understand that there's a little girl inside me who always wanted to be that dressed up but never got to do that because I was always a certain weight.

Bruce Robinson

My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.

Bryan Robson

I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.

Brooke Nevin

I don't think anybody in my graduating class would have figured that I would be doing full-on single-camera comedies or sitcoms, or anything like that, but it certainly has been a part of my career.

Bob Mould

When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!

Bobby Lee

I guess I am in handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm... average?

Bing Gordon

Once you find out that someone likes a certain game on Facebook, now you know what kind of virtual gift you can get them. You can send them a little decoration. Social games give you goals where you can help and reward your friends.

Billy Beane

The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.

Bert Blyleven

When you're not at the top of your game and you feel like the other team is laughing and embarrassing you by doing certain things, it's time to retaliate.

Benjamin Booker

In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.

Jon Katz

Dog rescue remains a gamble, of course. For all the good will, hard work, and noble motivation, nobody can really predict with certainty how a traumatized, dislocated dog will respond in a new environment.

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

Jodie Foster

I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.

Traffic is already increasing. We didn't use to leave from the first pickup point until 5 a.m. Once we are delayed by a certain point, we move the leave time back by about five minutes.

Yes, there certainly was pressure, but there was also still a game to be played and we had confidence knowing we have been in this position before.

While voracious consumer spending has helped maintain overall economic strength, companies are still hampered by stiff pricing competition from abroad, ... The inability to raise prices has cut into corporate profits, which, in turn, has most certainly contributed to increased job cutting.

While this was nothing to sneeze at, it was certainly less than on previous occasions.

While there is evidence that GDP growth has touched bottom, the recent tax increases on certain consumer goods, electricity and metro price hikes, more moderate real wage rises, and rising unemployment are probably going to impact consumption in 2002.

Neil MacGregor

While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.'

While there are certain social graces or politeness which involve not hurting another's feelings ? if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all ? it is very confusing to children. The whole issue of honesty can be very frustrating for parents to teach.

Jo Bonner

While the level of support we can each provide certainly varies, it is very important at this time that we all do what we can to help our neighbors - not only our immediate neighbors here in Alabama, but those further away in Mississippi and Louisiana.

We watched the euro get significantly weaker over the last couple of weeks and that certainly has an impact on companies that don't have that much growth, but are very large and very exposed as IBM is internationally,

Jack Rio

We want to win any game we compete in. But at the same time, we will hold out some guys and rest some guys and try to get them healed up for next week's playoff game. We'll be smart about how much we play certain people. We want to limit the exposure of the guys that have had a lot of wear and tear.

We'd certainly love to have that at a major-league ballpark. Has that been discussed yet? No. Will that be part of it? Absolutely.

We'd certainly hoped not to see it in Africa.

We are elated...saddened by the fact that one of his colleagues didn't make it out and we're certainly thinking about that, but we're really happy, just relieved.

Two months ago, a hike in May seemed not so likely; now it seems like a certainty.

Finding out at 9:30, 9:45 at night and not really being able to do to much about it, that's the only disadvantage. You never know what certain players are doing what and who's playing good.

Finally, if it's really only five pounds, it may be due to physical changes such as perimenopause, certain medications, or even from muscle if you're very active,'' Nonas says.

Dirk Benedict

Films are about emotions. They are, for the most part and certainly in today's mainstream film world, NOT about ideas. Not thought-provoking. They are all about EMOTION. FEELINGS.

Don DeLillo

Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself.