Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. M. G. Le Clezio

When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

Ron Williams

Tom was one of those perpetual-motion reporters, always running from one court to another, ... And if he wasn't in the courthouse or at a trial, he was on the phone. He had probably the best stable of lawyers and court contacts anyone has ever had.

David Guarino

Tom's campaign had nothing whatsoever to do with this. He knows the Murphy family but had no contact with them about this case.

Steve Alic

We're monitoring the hurricane and we continue to be in contact with both the Chiefs and Dolphins.

B. F. Skinner

What happens is the cases that we are talking about here have involved elderly people or people with compromised immune systems who come into contact with this water. It can enter the body through a cut or scratch or some kind of abrasion and if it is not treated with antibiotics it can lead to bloodstream or other kinds of infections.

Yao Ming

Usually I like going to the paint because I could get close shots, or physical contact and get a foul. Today, they didn't call it so I was afraid to go inside.

Finn Abrahamsen

We fear that in a pressure situation he can repeat this action (stabbing). We advise people to exercise caution and contact police if they meet this man.

Allard Beutel

We're getting into contact with people. We're trying to take a head count.

Peter Fleming

We're not asking to let Stanley out, ... We don't want him killed, that's all, because we think his message is important. Williams has without question gone through a personal redemption, has repudiated his past and has made contact with thousands of kids, teachers and parents across the country.

Justine Bateman

When I was in my teens and 20s, I looked to older Italian and French women. They always seemed so incredibly attractive to me because of their confidence. And because their faces had evidence of age: lines, dark circles, and half-lidded eyes, it made that confidence so rebellious. And that was incredibly attractive to me.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

Danny Smith

We're going to have a big dance floor, a nice, upper-scale restaurant, and private cigar rooms with stained French doors where people can smoke, dine and watch TV. That's downstairs. Upstairs we'll have a sports bar with pool tables.

Jim McIngvale

We're going to get the French guys back over here, give them some wine and get these courts back in the shape they're supposed to be in.

Paul Guen

We were superb. We showed no weaknesses, it was a highly deserved success. Now we are going to try to take some rest before next week's French Cup match.

Sophie Marceau

What's nice is that when you have to put a wig on, funny costumes, You know it's like being a little girl playing with accessories.

Mukul Krishna

Unless the French government comes up with something more concrete, saying that the $8.50 will be collected and distributed in such a way so that all the stakeholders welcome this new distribution medium, this won't go through.

Kuntoro Mangkusubroto

We express our appreciation to the French Government and the four toll road companies for the grant.

Vince Paul

We feel that the genre of African dance it's not unlike the genre of French classical dance or modern dance it's simply a genre. It's not a novelty. It's become one of the standard art forms of dance.

Pat Brown

When we were younger, education was not an option; it was something that we were expected to do. I wanted to do something positive in the community where I grew up.

Rebecca Ferguson

When I was on the X-Factor, I found that I grew a lot as a performer. I knew I could sing but I didn't believe in myself enough... I needed to hear that I was good.

Jody Williams

When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn't want to do. I didn't want to grow up, have 2.2 kids, get married, the whole white picket fence thing.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

Kenny Ortega

I grew up in a wonderful blend of a lot of old culture.

Katie Lowes

'Scandal' has been, for me, the most consistent time I've ever logged in front of a camera. I grew up in the theater, and I feel very confident and comfortable on the stage and in front of a live audience, but the camera is a very different medium.

Daniel Harris

We grew up with them. Two summers ago it was like the most wretched thing you could smell on a hot summer's day.

Jill Soloway

We grew up watching Woody Allen and Albert Brooks movies, and we see this neurotic, annoying, unlikeable male at the center of a story, and people root for him anyway. I think that's really what we have been craving as women is the hero who doesn't look perfect and doesn't act perfectly.

Charles Koppelman

We grew up watching gangster movies. We wanted to make a film that people would quote to each other like 'Diner' and 'Godfather,'

Ron Brown

We've appointed a committee to look at our needs. We post the meetings and the public is welcome to come and voice their opinion. The public is always welcome. We need to find enough property where we can build as we need. We'll get it done.

James Sutherland

We've announced the tour program six months ahead of what we normally would and that's just (because of) the sheer demand and public interest that's out there right now.

Tony Vecchio

We've always taken a special interest in the health of coastal ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. This fascinating lecture is a way we can educate the public about the importance of our coastal environment and its fragility.

Sheryl Crow

When we were rumored to have split, and when our publicists called these magazines to say we haven't split, the magazines were all so disappointed because that's really what's selling, rooting for a couple and then they split. That's what sells the magazines.

Mike Lloyd

When it came to the second reading, there was no public comment, and we felt there was no need to delay it any longer.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

Mark Twain

When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.

Dick Cheney

Tom's made it very clear, publicly and privately, that he feels an obligation to fill out his term as the governor of Pennsylvania. He's got kids in school; he doesn't want to move them at this stage,

Charles Schumer

Tom Ridge is a decent man and a fine public servant, but unfortunately was not given the leeway or resources to tighten up homeland security in the way it should be done,

J. M. G. Le Clezio

When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

Curtis Stinson

When we have that meeting things will be said and guys will speak their mind. That's how you come together as a team, when guys start speaking their mind. We're going to try and get that chemistry together.

Louis MacNeice

The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself.

Anthony Zinni

There are certainly generals out there who don't like me speaking out.

John Connor

There are certain housing codes, building codes that the landlord is required by law to adhere to, but generally speaking the landlord should be expected to maintain the apartment in such a manner that it is fit to be lived in. Tenants are entitled to heat, running water, freedom from insects, rodents, mildew and mold, a roof that doesn't leak and windows that don't leak.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you.

Nikki Grimes

In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character. I was not as free as when I write fiction.

Steve Largent

When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.