Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenzaburo Oe

During the last few years I have been engaged in writing a trilogy which I wish to be the culmination of my literary activities.

The teachers and staff seem happy to be there and happy in their work. The students are engaged in their work and able to talk about what they are doing in their classes.

I've never been around a university that tries as hard to stay engaged as Duke.

So much so that who he really is and the world around him has sort of passed him by. He lives in the past and he's not very engaged at all.

The BRAC issue is as important as it has always been, but things are fast and furious here, ... We are fully engaged and sustaining lives.

As I understand the law, all the jury has to do is find is that somebody at Andersen engaged in illegal conduct. They don't have to be unanimous as to who at Andersen is the agent.

Kofi Annan

that they (the Iraqis) are prepared to engage me constructively.

That's why it pays for daters to be engaged to politics.

Martin Rees

The scientific issues that engage people most are the truly fundamental ones: is the universe infinite? Is life just a sideshow in the cosmos? What happened before the Big Bang? Everyone is flummoxed by such questions, so there is, in a sense, no gulf between experts and the rest.

The rules of engagement are established. There have been one or two slips but nothing politically fatal.

Mark Regev

Though it was a significant Israeli-Pakistani event, ... it's a larger event, the sort of phenomenon we'll see increasing, of people in the Muslim world who want to engage with Israel and see that's the way toward peace.

Rene Syler

You can just be real with your kids, ... Just go: 'I'm not perfect at this either. But I'm going to make sure you learn more than I did.' So you could still engage the subject even though you don't feel totally adequate.

Jenna Bush

You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.

Mark Shapiro

There's nothing new on Brandon. We're still engaged in some conversations with other clubs. We're going to get the value for the player he is now, not the player he was projected to be.

We have to engage resources we've never engaged before. We need to be able to not just fight (the) bad, but help steer toward good.

When I started, I was one of the few engaged in integrating agricultural and environmental consulting.

Paris Hilton

I like it, ... but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.

That is not the type of engagement that we're talking about.

Jamie Bell

Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.

Bud Selig

Once I get the report, I'll make a judgment about what to do. A lot of things have been thrown around that are unfair. I don't want to engage in that. I want some verification.

Once people have the constitution, the idea is they should be able to engage with it before the referendum.

John Bolton

The negotiating process ... is like making sausage. It isn't necessarily pretty. It takes a long time, and that's the process we're engaged in.

It's not hard to get bonds, if you do it in a systematic fashion and you actually engage people for more than ten minutes.

Mads Mikkelsen

I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.

I hope the village gets engaged in it because there's a lot of serious things going on.

I'm sure sometime (today), we'll engage in discussions about that,

Shami Chakrabarti

That in my view would be incredibly counterproductive to the work of the police and security services if they are to engage with the communities who may have intelligence.

That is a phenomena we're going to have to work on. The collegiate model that Myles is talking about won't work if we don't get a renewed vigor on the part of the presidents to be engaged in the NCAA.

That is a phenomena we're going to have to work on, ... The collegiate model that Myles is talking about won't work if we don't get a renewed vigor on the part of the presidents to be engaged in the NCAA.

Josie Bissett

It's so important to engage your kids to create rituals and moments that they will always remember.

It's not a replacement baby-sitter. The goal is for this to really engage the entire family.

It seems as though the whales are much more engaged in surface activity.

Rod Parsley

Ohio was the focus of the world in 2004. It is my objective to see that 'values voters' in the state become engaged in the process.