Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Sacco

The people whose work I've admired are people like George Orwell and others like Michael Herr and, of course, some of Hunter S. Thompson's work.

Alan Hovhaness

There are certain composers I have always admired very much, but I have always admired nature mostly and the music of the Orient.

Randy Forbes

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Caroline Kennedy

U.S. Rep. John Murtha and Alberto Mora exemplify the kind of courage my father admired most. When others were unwilling to do so, each man recognized a moral obligation to speak out against policies he believed were misguided and contrary to our national interest.

Robert Osborne

I went to California at a perfect time... when many of those people that I had admired so much in films were not working that much. They had free time on their hands to talk to... me, and they liked me because I knew so much about them.

Malcolm McDowell

I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

Lance Gross

Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.

Katharine Graham

I always liked Barbara Howar and admired her spunk. I know that she considered me - and Alice Roosevelt Longworth - an exception to her negative feelings about Washington widows and single women, whom she basically found dispensable.

Tao Okamoto

I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of Broadway musicals.

Lenny Roybal

We've won some close games this year, and that's made us better. We made a lot of mistakes late to let them back into the game, but we responded.

Gordon Hartwell

We want to try and shut down the inside game. We have to try and close the paint, which is what we tried to do all season, anyway.

Shafiq Rasul

We want to show the world what is happening there. We want the place to be closed down.

Mark Regev

We want to see maximum movement at the crossings, but that decision has to be weighed next to the very real security threats that there are, ... If we opened every crossing and there were a wave of suicide bombings, then we'd just have to close everything down again.

Muddy Waters

Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

Rob Morosi

The other two ramps which will be closed are from the southbound Lodge to north and southbound Telegraph.

Scott Warren

The other students help us out, and it's a way to help them out in return. It helps me get closer to other students doing this.

Jamie Sandison

The performance of European equities corresponds closely to the strength of the dollar.

Bob Grove

We value the partnership we've had with them over the years. They do a great job. We're interested in negotiating something a little closer to market value.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

Lisa Gansky

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

M. Night Shyamalan

'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

Ledawn Gibson

We started off kind of sluggish. I felt like we could've come out better to play, but after we made some adjustments we were able to get things going.

Barnett Newman

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

Matt Hasselbeck

We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense.

Stan Clark

We always felt we did the proper thing.

Shirley Manson

We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing.

Petr Sykora

We have to finish the season on a good note. It doesn't matter what the outcome of the game is, but we have to feel good about ourselves. I don't think we felt like that tonight. We have a lot of guys who are injured so we need to get healthy and ready.

Donte Whitner

We stopped him from getting outside the pocket, and we were making him uncomfortable. Once he spiked the ball, I knew we'd got to him.

Lauren Miller

'Bridesmaids' proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

Natalie Massenet

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

Nathaniel Smith

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Chris Schwartz

When we were down early, I wasn't worried about it because I knew we were trying. It was just a matter of our shots going in. Then, when they started going in, (the Rough Riders) couldn't stop us.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Mike Rumph

When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.

Phillip Needham

We've also moved into Manitoba and Saskatchewan this year.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Paula Creamer

We're fine. I mean, it happened. It's done, and we've moved on.

Jose DaCosta

We made an adjustment. Usually we play with one forward. We moved a second player up.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Kym Whitley

Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is.

Louis Bolden

Some motorists are moved to tears and others stop to chat.

Joan Johnson

She didn't want to be moved anymore, ... She said she wanted to stay here, and she didn't want to go back home.

Thomas Haden Church

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

Rick Perlstein

Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.

Douglas Brinkley

One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.

Dan Kaiser

We had to take two schools out of the Reagan area.

Douglas Brinkley

Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American.

David Brainerd

It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

Gail Sheehy

We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.

Larry Marshall

She has truly been remarkable in every respect.

Pete Carroll

He shocks me every day with something. He's done some things, remarkable things, with the ball.

Gilbert Metcalf

He made a bet. I think he was successful. That was a remarkable achievement.

Bobby Cox

He's been outstanding from day one, ... He's done a remarkable job.

Bud Selig

He's had a remarkable career. Whatever happens, happens.

Joe Shields

We have seen this kind of thing in other galaxies, but it?s very remarkable for the Milky Way.

Bill Bryson

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Daryl Manning

We shared some stories, got to know each other.

Jennette McCurdy

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

John Lovelock

We don't think it was being shared for profit.

Alice Stewart

They called the Hogs. They shared stories about their time there.

Charles Dickens

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.

Jeremy Rifkin

It is not uncommon to suppose that the free exchange of property in markets and capitalism are one and the same. They are not. While capitalism operates through the free market, free markets don't require capitalism.

Jay Groves

This is not uncommon for this to happen.