Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zac Efron

A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what I'm about.

Willie Aames

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

William Shatner

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

Wendy Kopp

Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.

Virginia Postrel

Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual circumstances that distance him from ordinary American life.

Vanilla Ice

I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.

Billy Graham

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

Zubin Mehta

One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.

Wynton Marsalis

When you create change with your point of view, you have to be ready for what comes with that.

Ellen Key

What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?

Elizabeth Hill

The overall plan moves the state in the wrong direction in terms of reaching its longer-term goal of getting its fiscal house in order.

Niall Horan

You have to think outside the box! Can you imagine One Direction and Eminem?! That would be hilarious.

Nicolas Roeg

Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.

Abraham Maslow

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

Ozzie Newsome

When you're riding high on a three-game winning streak, if you don't play well that fourth game, you can get your butt beat. And then things can go in the other direction for a while.

Nancy Gibbs

There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

Tony Tate

We are hard to stop when we are hitting shots. Once I get in the zone it's hard to get me out of it. When we all get going and moving in the same direction we are hard to beat.

Mike Patterson

Yeah, I knew what direction I was going.

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Vicente Fox

The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy,

Bruce Jackson

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

John C. Calhoun

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

Chester Bowles

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Ernestine Rose

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.

Darell Hammond

The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.

Francois Arnaud

I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense.

Dick Thornburgh

It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.

Tom Golisano

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

When the commander-in-chief sends Americans to fight and die, it should be only to protect our vital national interests, not for his own personal, political gain.

Shinzo Abe

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.

Phil Ramon

We had some National Guardsmen here, but they were unarmed.

Jalal Talabani

We have the right to be proud in saying that today was a day of national consensus, ... So congratulations to our people for their constitution.

Saina Nehwal

I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.

Frank Jordan

We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.

Virginia Foxx

We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.

Ferran Adria

I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.

Alan Cohen

You don’t need to get anyone else to agree with your truth. You just need to live it.

Alan Cohen

The more you know your beauty, power, and worth, the less you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The less you know your beauty, power, and worth, the more you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The more you know, the less you NEED.

Nandan Nilekani

Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.

Agnes Obel

It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.

Russ Oaks

There are other projects with pressing needs that have taken priority at this point in time.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Zubin Mehta

I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

David F. Houston

We are investigating the circumstances under which the statements were made.

Mark Bowman

We have wrestled better, but everyone is very tough in the state tournament.

Rodney Stark

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

Andrea Morgan

We don?t have that kind of state support.

Heather Wilson

New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Walt Mossberg

Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

Common

Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token, I'm acknowledging that I'm not always the perfect man; I'm not always doing the right things. That's who I am. I'm working to be better.

Samuel Butler

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Christian McKay

Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.

Pink

Pink is what I do. Alecia is who I am. The world has taken Pink and turned it into this thing, a brand - a snarl.

Walter Benjamin

It seemed that most women, because they had been caught, gave up on the movement and were just trying to pass the time until they could be released. Men in prison struggled to maintain their pride, including their manhood, because that is all they had left after everything had been taken away.

Walter Benjamin

I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.

James Thurber

Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.

Ralph Waite

I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.