Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

Gurinder Chadha

Our films have the ability to tell global audiences who we are, and this is something the government should feel compelled to protect. My film, 'Bend it Like Beckham,' for example, would not have been made without the backing and support of the U.K. Film Council.

Todd Wagner

Our core business strategy is to create new opportunities for the consumer, ... what we¹re doing has never been done before. As studios and exhibitors search for ways to retain audiences frustrated with the theatre experience, we believe the competitive solution lies in increasing value for customers.

James Baker

Our autumn programming promises to be our strongest line-up to date. We're confident that Sky One continues to bring the best from the US with 'Weeds' set to mirror its emphatic US reception from audiences and critics alike, 'Threshold' exhibiting the potential for an 'X-Files' style cross-over success and returning series 'Nip/Tuck' and 'The 4400' continuing to captivate audiences.

Des McAnuff

Our audiences will feel like they are experiencing Sinatra's life first hand,

Van Toffler

Our audiences want to connect with our content on every platform they interact with-linear television, broadband, online, radio, and now on PCs that run Windows XP Media Center. Today's announcement helps fulfill our multiplatform entertainment promise, ... The distinction between TV and broadband programming is becoming less important to our viewers, and the Media Center Edition platform is helping to take the entire entertainment experience to the next level.

Brian Graden

our audiences are home in a way they're not during the school year.

Frankie Avalon

Our audiences are all ages: kids who just love the show, love the movie, grandparents bringing their grandkids, it really covers the spectrum.

Kurt Braunohler

Other than Caroline's in New York, I pretty much haven't done clubs. That was primarily because I always liked the people and audiences at theaters and bars better.

C. S. Lewis

Autumn is really the best of the seasons

C. S. Lewis

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

C. S. Lewis

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

Bill Bryson

It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green fields, leaves in a thousand luminous hues. It is a truly astounding sight when every tree in a landscape becomes individual, when each winding back highway and plump hillside is suddenly and infinitely splashed with every sharp shade that nature can bestow - flaming scarlet, lustrous gold, throbbing vermilion, fiery orange.

Age Hareide

I think people understand that these are training matches and that in the USA we fielded a domestic league team. It is in the autumn European qualifier that people will judge me.

Rob Andrew

I think it pretty much puts paid to the autumn internationals, so it will most likely be over two years that he hasn't played for England.

Rob Andrew

I think it pretty much puts paid to the autumn internationals,

Jim Nantz

Chris Schenkel was a giant. As a boy, I would listen to him. When a game would get really exciting in the fourth quarter, he would say, 'Is there a better way to spend an autumn afternoon?'

Lesley Garrett

Last autumn I made a programme about the history of the Strauss family and of the waltz, which involved a trip to the beautiful city of Vienna.

Jack Schweers

Regardless of who we're playing, we want to play as good as we can this time of year. We had a good practice (Monday), and we hope to be at our best (in the sectional).

Paul Bush

Regardless of whether you're looking at grapes, apples, cherries or any kind of fruit, you'll get the best color around here.

Rick Barnes

Regardless of what people are saying, N.C. State has not offered me the job. Texas is one of the best jobs in the country, and I'm happy here.

Kevin Marsh

Regardless of how I played, this was the best week of my life. It would have been the best week of my life if I had finished up on Wednesday, really. Being here for the first time you just want to soak up the experience as much as you can. But it also makes you hungry to get back, and prove that you really do belong.

Gloria Estefan

Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.

Laurieann Gibson

Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Jim Shannon

Rebounding and defense were big keys for us. They're much bigger than us, but we more than held our own on the boards. And we got after them on defense. It was our best defensive game of the year.

Bob Myers

Rebecca and Christina are probably two of the best girls in the state; there's a very good chance they'll place in the top five at states. Those girls are just great leaders. I think we're going to win it all. The girls we have are good, they have two great leaders to follow.

David Pottruck

Recent trading volumes are propelling the company to its best quarter ever in terms of revenues and profits.

Greg Erwin

Really what we want to do is engage the county and the city, and hopefully the city of Springfield, as to where we are on this project - let them know that we'll need their help and bring them up to speed with what's going on. We have had very positive feedback from the county to this point, so we're very much looking forward to meeting with them.

Laura Campbell

Relieved is a strange thing to say - you really don't feel that. It kind of brings everything back. It's a different kind of grieving.

Vishal Wanchoo

Our relationship with MP4 demonstrates GE's continued commitment to personalized healthcare by providing transformational medical and information technologies to bring our customers closer to their patients.

Wade Henderson

Organizations like those who have set up these protection initiatives are trying to sound the alarm. We want the country prepared to bring these elections systems under heightened scrutiny.

Michael Laws

Patched gang members are criminals...that's what they are, that's what they do...they exist for no other purpose but to bring mayhem and disorder.

M. Wolfe

Pastor's School brings more than a million dollars in tourist money to Northwest Indiana.

Rob Portman

Pascal Lamy will bring a new aggressiveness to the job,

John Rogers

Pay By Touch is changing the way the world transacts. We are truly honored to showcase our innovative payment service at The Tech, because it brings this significant payment shift into perspective. More consumers will have an opportunity to experience a revolutionary technology that we expect will become common practice for everyone within the next few years.

Matt Kane

Paul has been a nice surprise. He grew up playing goalie and brings a lot of experience.

Maury Povich

Paul has been a very integral part of the success of this program. We are energized about the upcoming season and I feel confident that under Paul's leadership we will continue to grow the show and further expand our audience.

Tom Collins

People need to be reassured Newport is a safe place. This isn't something that happens every day in this city. We are pretty confident the investigation is heading in the right direction.

Mike Scioscia

Some guys need opportunities. He has worked very hard with his stuff and feels very confident with it. He is at a point now where he understands the importance of location and consistency. He has made great strides.

Li Nina

Our team is strong as a whole and no matter who misses the Games, we are confident of good results at Turin.

Mike Ashley

Our goal is to be a top-five qualifying team by mid-season, running 60s and 70s, so, no one on the team is disappointed at all. We're all confident that better things are on the horizon.

Matthew Wilson

Our goal is $15,000 and we feel very confident that with everyone's help, we can reach that.

Jim Greene

Our continued passion is to share the story of JESUS through media, with everyone, everywhere in his/her own language. We are confident that this relocation will position The JESUS Film Project to be even more effective in the 21st Century.

Josh Marien

Overall, I'm pleased. I was confident we were going to win.

John McKay

Overall, I am confident that the whole Scottish team can win at least four medals in Melbourne.

John Chambers

recovery continues to gain momentum on a global basis.

Jorma Ollila

Our position in the fastest-growing market in the world continues to be strong.

Joseph Farah

Our rankings, relative to other sites, rise and fall over time, ... But our traffic continues to grow ? at a pace even faster than the explosive Internet itself.

Tom Slater

Paul Burnside, what can you say, he just continues to have great relief outing for us.

Claudia Baucus

Our management team continues to work with our unions toward a consensual plan of reorganization, and that's where our focus is right now.

Melissa Eisenstat

Oracle continues to be a margin expansion story and we expect that trend to continue this quarter. We expect the increased operating leverage to come in the form of lower sales and marketing expenses.

Yvette Girouard

Stephanie Hill was just phenomenal today. Leslie Klein continues her tear. Camille Harris showed power from the second hole that we have been lacking.

Kathleen Taylor

Our strategy continues to focus on obtaining long-term management contracts with owners and investors who share our vision, and who are ready to invest in our future.

Lee Scott

Our sales were lower than we are satisfied with but the economy continues to improve and we are well positioned for the holidays. With the help of our associates, I look forward to another record quarter and a successful holiday season,

Lorraine Abercrombie

Our market is not characteristic of the nation in so many ways, but one of the more unusual facts is that we are continuing to see increased sales activity, while many others are not.

Jerry Martin

Our major focus is on continuing to work together. The more they are familiar with each other's facilities, the easier it is to make tremendous strides.

Steve Hines

People in the healthcare sector are continuing to see good job opportunities.

Gregory Mankiw

Such a decline would be an unwelcome headwind for the continuing recovery but it would not reverse the upward trajectory that we've been on,

Jordan Cox

Spiritual momentum comes in continuing to do the things we know we should. If we stop, it will take far more spiritual force than if we keep moving.

Andrea Koncz

Starting in 2004, we started to see salaries rise again. In 2002 and 2003 we saw a lot of decreases because of the economy, but it's really good news that we're continuing to see increases.

Joel Sawyer

Our state is spending more than it ever has before on higher education. At the same time, tuition is continuing to increase by double digits year after year.

David Burks

Our taxes are continuing to go up and up and up.

Alex Beuzelin

Overall, in the short term this is not going to deter the Fed from continuing its measured rate tightening campaign,

Joe Dubuque

Other wrestling fans that think it's a fluke and other kids should have won it. That pushes me, that people doubt my ability. Nobody here, nobody in Bloomington, but other wrestling critics kind of overlook me.

Jonas Armstrong

I was proud of 'Robin Hood,' even though critics wrote negative things. But I had to laugh when this big, shaven-headed Hungarian stunt guy first saw me. He said, 'You Jonas? You playing Robin Hood? You need to go to the gym today.' So I thought, 'I'm going to show people.'

Winston Churchill

I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.

Stephen Hunter

But you can still find good films if you read your local film critics and are willing to drive a bit. You have to be a proactive film viewer to have the most provocative cinema life.

Robert Graves

Bullfight critics row on row crowd the enormous plaza de toros, but only one is there who knows, and he's the one who fights the bull.

Stephen Cohen

But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views.

Kurt Vonnegut

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ''Science Fiction'' and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Beverley Mitchell

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

Quinton Foreman

I think the critics are a lot right. And I think they are a little wrong.

John McCarty

from trading in sex ... as well as violence to exploiting material ripped 'straight from the day's headlines' to casting, if not a completely sympathetic eye, at least an emphatic one on its lead gangster ...

Arthur Schlesinger

Her mother was an overwhelming force, ... Her father was emphatic and imperious.

Jim Courier

He's going to have to be a little more emphatic at times,

Lee Peterson

If it doesn't fit their theory, by God, they don't want to investigate it. I just can't be any more emphatic than that.

Christopher Shays

It obviously was disappointing and a little unsettling that the one person so emphatic about not taking steroids was one of the first since then to be disciplined.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I was just about to ask you the same thing. I know you followed me. Don't look so suprised. It's called a rearview mirror. Are you stalking me for a specific reason?

Becca Fitzpatrick

I know you followed me. Don't look so surprised. It's called a rearview mirror.

Billy Corgan

I realize I'm a mirror.

C. S. Lewis

The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature...a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly.

C. S. Lewis

It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

Carrie Brownstein

I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and I like that fluidity with online content.

Alex McLeish

I t is look in the mirror time for everyone at Rangers,

Richard D. James

I wanted to do gigs where you've just got mirrors on the stage, and then you light the crowd so they look at the stage and all they can see is themselves. It's just like, "There you go, it's you, you cunts."

Channing Tatum

The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.

Alex Wong

PCCW still has more upside potential but I think we will see some resistance when it reaches HK$15.5,

Mike Keenan

We've talked so much about the potential of our young players, ... This will make the team a better team.

Tim Ghriskey

It is a stock that has the potential to disappoint.

Keith Hennig

Jess has the potential to be something really special.

David Cronenberg

I wrote a script that I thought had a lot of potential,

John LaMattina

I think this will be the norm. When you have something new, there is the theoretical potential for harm.

John Montgomery

I think this has the potential to be one of the sexiest projects we have seen in years.

Wendy Hall

KBR remains a potential subcontractor for this important work,

Paul Herbert

I think it could be significant, and a potential drawback.

Barbara Mikulski

I will stand sentry to support Medicare. I will stand sentry to make sure the promises made are promises kept.

Bob Martin

He didn't make promises he couldn't keep. If he couldn't do something, he would tell you.

John Sparkman

We can't make promises that we can give you assistance.

Bob Beauprez

We need to stay to the promise. Promises made need to be promises kept.

Mahmoud Othman

When he promises something, he'll get it done. If he can't do it, he won't promise it.

Benjamin Franklin

Promises may get thee Friends, but Nonperformance will turn them into Enemies.

Gil Gutknecht

This is the first salvo in what promises to be a very interesting battle,

National Press

Undelivered Promises and Betrayals of the Uruguay Round.

Kenneth Roth

These promises of proper treatment are unenforceable. Any suspect who reveals mistreatment risks being sent back to the torture chamber.

Jimmy Johnson

The reception was a lot more than I thought it would be,

Laura Barrett

I've never had this reception before. This is just not the way to treat your constituents.

Tracy Kidder

Returning to Northampton, I thought: here's a town that seems to be working pretty well, and I wonder why.

Marat Safin

It wasn't my day today on the serve, Gisela was returning winners on my serve so it was kind of embarrassing for me,

Pat Davis

They just got us with the big play. Right now, we're down to zero returning starters, so we're just trying to get better every week.

Joe Torre

That was back when just getting to the World Series was enough.

Mike Fisher

I think it's tough (to take a 2-0 lead). The series is still tied and we know we can be much better.

Max Mosley

It is not too different from the Nissan World Series or the GP2 championship.

Max Mosley

It is not too different from the Nissan World Series and GP2 championship.

George Karl

I think he'll be able to play sometime in this series if we need him.

Thomas Perry

It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job.

Phil Garner

Getting this World Series start is probably going to go a long way in getting him over the Tennessee loss.

Dylan Minnette

I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'Goosebumps' books.

Ryan Miller

I don't want that to be the way this series is remembered.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes

Cecil Beaton

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

Carl Sagan

I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.

Carl Sagan

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

Author unknown

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you!

Anton LaVey

I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses.

Ayn Rand

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.

Cameron Crowe

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

Bart Schouten

I think it's the strongest team we've ever fielded.

Sonny Rollins

I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons.

Charles Darwin

It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.

Jack Thompson

We are teaming up with the financially strongest partner,

Chris Moneymaker

I'm comfortable with the hold 'em, Omaha and stud high-low. But the other two games aren't my strongest games. I'm not comfortable at all with razz or stud.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Lex Luger

I used to be known as one of the strongest guys on the planet.

Brian Fitzgerald

This is one of the strongest teams we've had in many years.

Mark Schubert

It's one of the strongest teams we've had in years.

Barry Manilow

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

Bernard Arnault

It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

Bill Bruford

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine.

Bobbie Davis

That's the kind of style I like - up-tempo and fast.

Maureen Shea

I was told to see what she had, make adjustments, and be aggressive. That's my style anyway.

Michael Vick

I think I could play with anybody. It's all if they could play with me. He would have to understand my style of play and what I do. And if he can do that, he can be here. Other than that, this is my team.

Alex Villalobos

I think that if we play our style and do what we have to do and make them play our game, we'll be OK.

Nick Cave

For me, what we didn't want was the American-style hero,

Woody Hayes

Success - it 's what you do with what you've got.

Paul Meyer

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile goals.

Reo Hatfield

Our success has been obvious, at least from the word on the streets, and I feel like we have opportunities that are still arising.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

Barry Mann

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

B. R. Ambedkar

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Bill Shoemaker

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

Bill Condon

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.