Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Barton

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

Mark Harmon

I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, 'I gave it everything I had,' it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.

William Shakespeare

What a disgrace it is to me to remember thy name.

Horace

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

Peter Kellner

You have got football hooliganism, a number of players who regularly disgrace themselves and a national team that never quite makes it.

Anna Held

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

Saint Teresa of Avila

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

Sally Regenhard

We are hoping that the federal government will not leave these victims behind. This is not only a disgrace to the city, it's a disgrace to the nation.

S. Walker

Having been there - I repeat, having been there - I do not wish jail for any person. I really feel sorry for George and his family. ... I wish no man to have that and no man to have that disgrace that I had.

Hoshyar Zebari

We have presented our visions and our priorities to you. Now it's your turn to look at those elements and those priorities to see where you can help,

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

Dianne Wiest

I'm more aware of time. The element of time.

Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

Jan Garbarek

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

Christopher Bailey

There are some elements over there that I feel once there is light and activity...they will go away.

Anton Corbijn

There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Jiro Yamaguchi

What we're seeing is a result of Koizumi's diminishing popularity -- the 'Koizumi effect' is wearing off.

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Al Gore

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Johnny Depp

That would really send my popularity to the depths.

Donald Fagen

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

Ravi Shankar

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

Tom Golisano

I'm not possessed about owning the Buffalo Bills, just as I wasn't possessed about owning the Buffalo Sabres.

Mahatma Gandhi

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Kyle Williams

He possessed many qualities that I wish I had.

Mike Alden

He possessed a lot of qualities that we wanted in a consultant.

Elizabeth Smart

I am possessed by love and have no options.

Freddie Mercury

I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody?

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Jason Clarke

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Janice Hahn

I was born into public service.

Jane Russell

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Barbara Hershey

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

Edward Norton

I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

Michael Bias

I didn't want them to be concerts. I wanted them to have a theatrical arc.

David Hewson

If you think about what 'The Killing' is, it is the theatrical production, not the script.

Neil Tennant

Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.

Liza Minnelli

No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.

Virginia Madsen

It's almost like I get to be more theatrical when I work in voiceover.