Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Scott Sherrington

Reflex inhibition acting against a reflex titanic contraction may diminish the contraction in one or other or all of several different ways.

Brian Cashman

People keep acting like we have some kind of easy schedule the rest of the way because of the records of the teams we're facing, ... Well, don't be so sure. How much of this season have we spent playing to the level of the opposition?

John Tory

Some of these powers, both governance and otherwise, should probably apply to some of the other larger cities in Ontario, that are maybe not as large as Toronto, but are certainly big governments deserving of acting in a more independent fashion.

John Gordon Sinclair

Some of the best times I've ever had in my life have been because of acting and through acting. But I'm not interested in the game of acting and being an actor and auditioning and all that stuff.

Craig Biggio

Some guy in the crowd was trying to be funny and he slapped her upside the head, acting like a 12-year-old, and he ran, ... It was his misfortune that he messed with a Jersey girl. She chased him down and caught him.

Jim Scott

Our goal is not to develop the world. I don't want the agency to have anything come out that makes it look like we don't know what we're doing or acting imprudently.

James Augustine

Our fans are spoiled. We're 20-4 and people are acting like it's the worst year in history. We have two home games in a row now and we have to be ready for them. We can turn this thing right back around.

Mat Staver

Our youth deserve to know the truth about homosexuality - that people can choose to overcome same-sex attractions and that acting on those attractions results in devastating physical, mental and spiritual consequences.

Eric Dubin

Robert Blake realizes the importance to his future acting prospects of not being proven a murderer in a court of law. He also wants to avoid the stigma that O.J. Simpson got after his civil conviction.

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.

John Cassavetes

People have said that my films are very difficult to watch, that they're experiences you are put through rather than ones you enjoy, and it's true.

Jonas Armstrong

I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn't start pursuing acting until I was 17.

Dan Gilroy

I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.

Cary Fukunaga

'Jane Eyre' was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story.

Rod Marinelli

That was a full day for an hour of watching a man work, where I could have watched numerous films that day on other players -- and we're going to get film of that workout anyway.

Francis Coppola

I think it was more like the original Francis before The Godfather who just wanted to make personal films and use sensible-sized crews and equipment.

Tom O'Neil

I think this is the year of the smaller films with independent spirits.

Dawn Hudson

I think that's terrific that independent films are getting more and more mainstream press.

Dirk Benedict

It is marketing that makes films popular. Cross-marketing. Selling movies with hamburgers and Coke.

Source Unknown

Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Alan Thompson

I think sometimes people think, 'We'll leave it for Grant to do'.

Jason Keller

Kentucky may not be on the top of the international terror hit list, but grants like this make people safer on a day-to-day basis.

Todd Bailey

Basically, the grant is like a theory and we have to prove it.

Ollie Nutt

Basically, I realized that there were a lot of things that I would have liked to have done but I never really had the time. Working with volunteers, working on the grant processes. Now I have that time.

Vance Moss

Here, it's taken for granted ? antibiotics, drainage equipment. There, as a surgeon, we have to use the basics.

Craig Lambert

I was hurting on pitching with two pitchers missing so I threw Grant out there and he did great -- he threw strikes and didn't give up any runs.

Elizabeth Thomas

Had we not participated in those meetings, DASA might not have granted certification.

Omar Sharif

Picasso: Masterworks From the Museum of Modern Art.

B. R. Ambedkar

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Dean Miller

I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Fred Greenstein

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.

Tom Wilson

Some of them, quite frankly, are nothing more than a driveway.

Kevin Spacey

'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

Mary Kelly

The (anti-virus) system worked, which was quite a relief.

Carl Jacobs

That was quite a ride. We'd be thrilled to repeat it.

Tom Miller

That was quite an accomplishment for us. This is a very tough tournament.

Paul Johnston

That's the really big trend, ... Year 2000 has been the big thing that has really worked quite well.

Steve Griffin

That suggests to me there is something quite clandestine going on or something strange.

Terry Grant

I was quite shocked when they called me.

Carol Patterson

I was quite disappointed the vote went the way it did.

Morris Gleitzman

Melbourne is my type of city, much more so than Sydney.

Beck

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

Barry Lopez

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

B. J. Novak

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

Simeon Rice

That's the type of thing we can do on defence. We want to do something special.

Michael Rispoli

That's what I play - blue-collar Italian-Americans. You got to be typecast in order to work. I've been blessed.

Phil Jackson

I think he must have some type of injury.

Larry Coker

I think he can be that type player.

Jeremy Kreitler

It allows users to do things without having to type anything.

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Nancy Wilson

We've done so many versions of this song.

Patrick Marber

Everything is a version of something else.

Phil McGraw

The truth doesn't have versions, it just is.

Wallace Stevens

It is never the thing but the version of the thing.

Carol Windley

Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person human. Without writing, we just wouldn't have that kind of access.

Heather Mills

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

Sarah Pinborough

I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner with something in book 1, you have to be cleverer to get out of it.

James Gray

I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'

Max Hastings

I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.

David Dein

He has written his own part in Arsenal's history,

Van Morrison

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

Victoria Justice

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

Wole Soyinka

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.