Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Thompson

I will be approving the appointment, however, because I think it will be irresponsible if we don't have proper leadership in the high school.

Joshua Cohen

I first read Dostoyevsky when I was 14 years old and was entranced. Dostoyevsky truly is a writer for 14-year-olds, and I mean that in the most approving way - approving of his energy, and rage, his endless pessimism, and endless innocence.

Larry Snow

For me personally it is a vindication. ... I said this $13 million was meant to scare voters into approving the referendum. There was no cash-flow crisis.

Eric Schmidt

He seems to understand the industry's need for straightforward communication on the drug review process and the fact that time is money. Also, he realizes that there is a risk and a benefit to approving any new product and that decisions should be based upon this balance.

Gus Van Sant

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing.

Alan Hansen

If the sheriff is cutting the program on drug testing, why are we approving a contract to show videos to inmates?

Michael Copps

More (conditions) would clearly have been better, ... This is better than approving these mergers without any conditions.

Gene Cisewski

Too often, vouchers caused checks to be written without board members looking closely at the vouchers. We need more time to look at them before approving them. Comparisons need to be made.

Jack Jennings

Both the President and Congress moved in exactly the wrong direction last year by approving a cut in education, and this year aggravated the situation by approving another cut just as the demands of the law were becoming greater.

Jon Favreau

People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.

Jen Lancaster

Remember when Japan was cool? We used to run around with 'Mr. Roboto' on our Walkmans, 'The Karate Kid' in our Betamaxes and wore T-shirts embossed with the characters for 'storm sewer' and 'dishwasher.'

John Lasseter

Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development.

Kelli O'Hara

Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow.

Joshua Sasse

I want to try and portray characters that are in real life, that you see day-to-day. If I were to just stay in my little village in Wales, I would have gotten a very small taste of a very big plate.

Gina Rodriguez

I will play the characters with last names like Sanchez and Gonzalez until the day I die, but I also want to play the 'Michelle Smiths.'

Julian Fellowes

I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice, some are not, but it has nothing to do with class or oppressors versus the oppressed.

Joseph Bruchac

I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters.

Steven Levitan

I think every time there's a show like 'Modern Family' or 'Will & Grace' that portray gay and lesbian characters and is successful, it just further opens the door.

Leatrice Eiseman

Particularly in high-end design, there was always that sensibility that they have continued to do: To keep it classic and understated.

Gerard Charles

Susan is using a lot of references to film noir and to the classic ballets. It?s going to be very layered choreography.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Some of the young kids look for one hit to be a star; that what they're known for the rest of their life... I never wanted to be known as one thing; that is the reason I do classical theater, write, direct and the blessings God has given me... I want to share.

Aleksey Igudesman

Our first show, 'A Little Nightmare Music,' encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.

Matt Reeves

Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally. Our starting point was 'Godzilla' - the original movie was released less than 10 years after Hiroshima, and it's a classic in Japan.

Aleksey Igudesman

I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.

Carlos Delgado

I was able to play. I just want to be smart this time of year. As much as I'd like to play in the Classic and represent my country, if I'm not 100 percent, I'm not good enough to play, I won't.

Kunal Nayyar

I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.

Dan Ayres

It is a really classic Northwest way to ring in the New Year, that's for sure. If the weather is good, it's going to be great.

Frank Fish

Regarding the volume of weapons, it's directly in proportion to the number of students that we're training. We don't have a stockpile of weapons that we've just cached up here to use later for some foul purpose. These weapons are used specifically for this particular client.

John Connor

reflect some guarded optimism in the direction the market is taking.

Ken Walsh

Our No. 1 job was to hire the most dynamic, energetic director that we could (for the job), and we feel we got our No. 1 free agent.

Ralph Kauffman

Our members seem to have digested the energy price increases, and so the direct effect of energy price moves is less.

Jake Barton

People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.

Tai Hui

People have more faith in Hong Kong's logistics. Low value products are shipped directly out of Shenzhen to the world, higher value products come out through Hong Kong. It's the guarantee of safety.

Sophie Turner

Stephen Daldry would be a director that I would love to work with as well as Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, and I'm very lucky to have worked with Isabel Coixet, who is also one of my favourite directors.

Susan Davis

Stamford is proposing a low-volume program. Stamford's program would have a direct impact on St. Vincent's program.

Susan Davis

Stamford is proposing a low-volume program, ... Stamford's program would have a direct impact on St. Vincent's program.

Shakira

Guys don't like women telling them what to do. It reminds them of their mothers, or something like that.

Larry Brown

He reminds me so much of Isiah (Thomas).

Bobby Locke

He reminds me of Tracy McGrady without the flash.

Funkmaster Flex

He reminds me a lot of myself when I was young,

Jennifer Morrison

For us it's a visible reminder of the season.

Anthony Biondo

For three state titles. It was kind of a reminder for me.

CeeLo Green

My first rap name was Ralo. Because my first name is Carlos. I likened myself to what Busta Rhymes was doing when he first came out. And what Onyx did when they first came out - they reminded me of me.

Rabih Alameddine

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

Gene Ween

You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk.

Lindsay Williams

I was just shooting to get it off of my foot.

Sam Flood

That's top secret. If I told you, I would have to shoot you.

Phil Loy

I tell you what. I was worried all week about Riverdale. When they shoot well, they can give you all sorts of trouble, and tonight they showed it.

Lucy Johnson

I think they're doing as much as they can b/c they're not just going to just stand there while someone shoots somebody or stabs somebody and do nothing about it. They can't be at the same place at one time.

Andy Jones

I don't know about him being the worst (foul shooter on the team), but he's down there.

Tom Izzo

I didn't like that we shot that many there early. You never want to shoot that many threes.

Greg Brunner

He was better shooting tonight than he has been.

Mel Sachs

He didn't shoot a gun. He didn't even have a gun.

Suki Waterhouse

I take my camera to shoots and ask all the photographers and assistants to show me what to do with it.

Scott Gomez

Our tournament starts now. If you lose, you go home. It's as simple as that. This is what you play for.

Bela Bartok

With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.

Barry Ritholtz

Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

Robert Kraft

We need a deal, it's as simple as that.

C. S. Lewis

A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death.

C. S. Lewis

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

Cecelia Ahern

What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.

Cecelia Ahern

Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.

Carrie Mae Weems

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

Willie Parker

Man, watching Jerome all day long, he just is what he is.

B. J. Novak

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Stacy Keibler

I think there were a lot of women out there watching and voting, and there were a lot of men out there watching, but not voting.

Bill Burr

When I watch 'Breaking Bad,' my stomach is in knots.

Matt Berninger

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.

Chord Overstreet

I watched 'Full House.' I loved 'Full House.'

Connor Franta

I watched a million coming-out videos, and that was kind of how I accepted it myself.

Miguel Cabrera

I was thinking, 'Whoa,' ... I say to myself, 'I better watch out. I've got to be ready.'