Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicole Holofcener

I'm a director, but I gotta have the hair, the makeup and the heels. My mother would be appalled if I didn't dress up.

We are rapidly approaching six months from the point where citizens approved the referendum for the third high school. I'm just appalled that we're six months into this and have made this little progress ... Construction costs are going up by the month, day, hour.

Christie Brinkley

Modelling opened up the world to me. All my friends were bohemian artists and were a little bit appalled when I sold out and did something so bourgeois. I'd say, 'Come on, guys, with what I earn from this job, we can all go to Morocco.'

Our first reaction is to be appalled at Yahoo helping to give information that puts dissidents in jail.

Suddenly, people were shocked and appalled by the goings-on of the clergy.

I think most of us were a little bit appalled by the kind of settlement that the last director got. We're making sure, for the public's sake, we have these things under control.

Monica Crowley

Messrs. Washington and Lincoln would be appalled and saddened by what their successor, President Obama, and the modern Democratic Party are doing to the nation they dedicated their lives to keep alive.

Robert Fisk

William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it.

We just couldn't get a stop. I'm just as appalled as you guys.

Kirsten Smith

I was appalled when I heard that the entire program would be cut from Newton North High School. The classes teach every day skills that students need in the real world.

I was appalled that our own state government could so ruthlessly target teenage gamblers and view them as the gambling population of the future.

I was appalled by the lack ofÊintegrity of the Ohio State basketball program. I feel there's so many special provisions for athletes it makes one question if the degree is worth the paper it's written on.

I was appalled by the lack of integrity of the Ohio State basketball program. I feel there's so many special provisions for athletes it makes one question if the degree is worth the paper it's written on.

FAIR has always had the support of many Hispanic Americans, but given recent events, many people in that community have come to recognize that they need an independent voice in this national debate. Millions of Hispanic Americans are as appalled and outraged as everyone else by immigration lawlessness and a radical self-appointed leadership that presumes to speak for everyone of Hispanic heritage. Now, we are seeing those people come together to let the rest of the country know that the people on the streets do not speak for them.

Andrew Mason

I'm appalled that an industry has grown around teaching a practice as wholesome and spiritual as yoga, so I decided to create my own free video to help people get started.

Ashwin Sanghi

As Indians, we take great pride in the fact that we are a progressive nation. We are proud of our democracy, our secular values as well as our entrepreneurial spirit. We are appalled by the harsh laws that govern women's lives in Taliban-dominated lands. Yet we turn a blind eye to the injustices that our own society continues to heap upon women.

We are appalled by these reports and are horrified that thousands of children orphaned by this disaster are vulnerable to exploitation by criminal elements who seek to profit from their misery.

Abraham Foxman

We are appalled at the poor taste behind the decision to present this musical at the site where Jews were enslaved and killed.

Eric Alterman

We sometimes find ourselves at a loss as to whether we should be more appalled at the Bush Administration's ideological obsession, its incompetence, its arrogance, its anti-intellectualism, or its dishonesty, ... In New Orleans, we see all of these forces at work in a manner that the mainstream media finally finds itself unable to ignore.

The public was appalled by this scourge. Physicians too, von Hutten reported, were so revolted that they would not even touch their patients.

I think any American would be appalled if their private conversations were recorded without their knowledge.

David Halberstam

I think they were watching the movie 'Patton' when they should have been watching 'The Battle of Algiers' about urban insurgency. I'm a Vietnam-era journalist. I think most journalists were appalled as we moved toward war in Iraq. The worst mistake this administration made was not about weapons of mass destruction. It was the administration's view that we'd be welcomed as the great liberator.

I am appalled that my private conversations were recorded without my consent or knowledge.

I am appalled quite frankly. Those particular members of the school board are grossly misusing the power granted to them by the voters.

Marlin Fitzwater

I am appalled by the whole handling of this.

I am appalled at the complete lack of situational awareness caused by people wearing headphones. If you are completely oblivious to the world around you, you are leaving yourself wide open to many types of criminal attack.

Johnny Depp

No. 2 was just being appalled and shocked at the kind of vicious attacks,

On a day-to-day basis, I am appalled at the hazardous materials that just pass by us on the railroad.

I believe that as Americans we should all be appalled by this sort of behavior from the senior reaches of this administration,

Rhys Ifans

I am not gadgety at all. It's not that I'm appalled by technology, but I've taken my time acquiring any of it.

They (the British) are appalled to hear we have transient parking under a facility like the World Trade Center.

There isn't a person in this industry who isn't appalled by these events.

David Bellamy

I've been appalled by how much ragwort there is on roadside verges, I thought it had to be controlled,