Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Wilson

We've been working on this for about a year. Trying to figure out what to do. We couldn't really put the concept together the way we wanted to.

We've been working on keeping the outside contained and working our responsibilities,

We've been working on cycling the puck. I try to tell them puck control and I think it's paying off. Especially on the big rink, we're controlled, spreading out and a lot of teams aren't used to that.

David Nelson

We've been working on a mandate for about eight years and were unsuccessful. We've come up with a plan that's much better. It gives consumers choice.

We've been working for years to improve the quality of Route 1 in that area. A large maintenance yard isn't really consistent with the long-term vision of improving Route 1.

Haywood Nelson

I love people who are fearless, and I'm a spiritual guy, so I connect with people spiritually.

Hayley Hasselhoff

People have this conception of plus size models as girls who aren't fit or don't work out or don't really take care of their bodies.

Hayley Hasselhoff

It's all about confidence and how you feel about yourself. There's no such thing as a perfect woman. I like imperfections - that's what makes you unique.

Harri Holkeri

I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.

We're doing the little things that are giving us opportunities to score. Now we are getting some turnovers. When your confidence grows, it snowballs.

Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy.

For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.

Wood Harris

With film, you can feel confident that you're doing good work, but never know what it's going to look like.

William S. Paley

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

William Strunk, Jr.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

William Scranton

Obviously, I'm not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the trouble, which was the water and where it was.

William Sanderson

I've been kinda fascinated by misfits, outcasts, and downtrodden people. I've identified with them. 'Blade Runner' probably got me more work than any. It convinced some producers that I could play something other than a rural crazy, I guess.

Will Packer

I definitely want make an impact in television. I want to make a continued and greater impact in feature films, and I want to be somebody who continues to be at the forefront of creating a wide variety of content that I could be proud of and that engages people on all levels.

W. G. Sebald

Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.

Wallace Shawn

Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.

Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.

J. G. Ballard

Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.

Dallas Willard

When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.

Allen West

Of course, for me, having served 22 years in the military and to have the opportunity to continue to serve my country is a great honor and is a privilege. So that's what makes it special each and every day.

Manfred von Richthofen

We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.

The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act.

I am so not a pageant girl, but I signed up for the Miss Junior Florida contest because I thought it would be good experience.

Amish Tripathi

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.

Alison Moyet

I have lost and put on big batches of weight in my life many, many times. But what concerns me is the idea of being an obese old woman, because I don't like the idea of being physically incapable in someone else's hands.

Alison Jackson

Warhol was the ultimate voyeur, constantly observing people through the lens. He watched and listened, but did not participate. Behind the camera, Warhol was in control.

Andie MacDowell

I can't see as well as I used to. Which is actually convenient because everything I see is in extremely soft focus! I think that's God's little gift to me.

Amanda Burton

Forgotten was presented to me by the drama department at LWT as a concept and I found it immediately intriguing and very powerful. I was completely led by the power of the piece and its dramatic potential.