Famous Quotes & Sayings

Babe Ruth

After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!

Derek Smith

We provide information service delivery to those hard to reach areas, conduct workshops whereby rural youths learn how to use PCs, draft CVs and business plans, as well as give them advice on how to start up their own businesses.

Dan Castellaneta

If you really want something in this life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers

Toba Beta

In any fighting without rules, there is always rule of thumb. One of them is not to be fooled by the snapping and the look of enemy.

Zeke Grader

The failure to follow scientific advice and the fish kills of 2002 is now being put onto the backs of family fishermen by taking away their livelihood.

Elaine Shannon

The FBI is depending heavily on advice and consultation from the technical people at the victim companies in this case,

Martha Stewart

(The contestants are) going to get real business lessons, real business advice and, day in and day out, tasks that are difficult and challenging and they're going to be aware of what it takes to be an apprentice at Martha Stewart Living.

Jason McElwain

I'm not really that different. I don't really care about this autistic situation, really. It's just the way I am. The advice I'd give to autistic people is just keep working, just keep dreaming. You'll get your chance, and you'll do it.

John Driscoll

The City of Placerville has suffered greatly from losses in several bond issues as a result of reliance on the advice of a financial advisory firm that also underwrote our bond issues.

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Catherine McCartney

We've spoken out and said you can stand up and you don't have to be afraid of anybody. But it won't mean anything unless the people in the communities take that opportunity the next time the IRA comes to their door and say to them 'I'm not going to allow you to bully me'.

Chinese Proverbs

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

Rob Varley

Bob cares a lot about the success of Cocoa Beach. He's a regular guy who isn't afraid of hard work. Let me tell you -- it was very difficult for the tourism industry after Sept. 11. We were hurting.

Wesley Hill

What I try to emphasize more than anything else is don't be afraid to make a mistake. That's how you learn what you can't do, and what you don't like to do.

Robert Green Ingersoll

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

Nate Robertson

Leyland's not afraid to yell at you from the dugout. It's situational things, not pitch selection. When he says something, I take it to the bank. I trust what he says.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Leadership is not about being afraid to lead or make mistakes, ... the whole culture is about being safe and risk averse.

Susan Chapman

So many bad things have happened, they are afraid to hope. Until it's actually voted on by the commission, they're afraid to have any trust in the process.

Andre Morgan

Our main focus was to come out (in the first half) and execute. I guess we did execute, because (Jacksonville) is a very competitive team.

Gerald Mueller

If your focus is on the past, on being compensated for something that happened in the past, you're not likely to get what you want.

Reggie Evans

If you do your normal routine, you tend just to focus on that. You're not really thinking about (the test).

Howard Davidowitz

If you are in a no-growth segment or a negative growth segment, your focus has to be on cost-cutting.

Frank Haith

In the first half we played well defensively and that was the key. I thought, in the second half, we lost focus a little defensively. In the second half, they got some uncontested shots. They're good players and they're going to make uncontested shots if you give them to them.

Joshua Young

Instead of waking up in the morning and wondering where am I going to get the money for the drugs, I focus on my family.

Clark Crum

I just thought it would be nice to get it out of the way. I knew I was ready to make my choice, and I wanted to focus on the season and my team.

George Lopez

It helps me focus on our Lord and helps me get through the day.

Brian Anderson

It helped out a lot. I didn't have to worry about going here and going there. I was able to focus on the team we were playing.

Marcelo Enriquez

South is a very good team and I knew they were going to be much more competitive the second round.

Joe Linta

Special teams will be his meal ticket. He's got good speed and good hands. He's a real good 51, 52 or 53-type guy on the roster who can do a lot of things for you.

Kyle McLaren

Special teams was good tonight, especially the penalty kill.

Kelly Wood

One good shot from the opposition (centre guard) and that's all they needed to win. We had to hit at least three-quarters and it hung straight. That's curling.

Thomas Fuller

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands

John Sharp

One can say all they want about politicians, but politicians to other politicians, their word is almost always good.

Rob Hermann

Once you get to this point, you just want to see the local guys do well. Dustin is a good kid, and we love to help as much as possible.

Chris Chambers

Once you wrap that screen around, and you get really good sound you get immersed, ... You mentally make the leap that you're in this game. It's really amazing.

Stephen Malkmus

One day I'm going to write a straight-ahead story. I really want to, but I can't at the moment. I'm not very good at it right now.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Russ McKenzie

Brandon is the picture of hard work and perseverance. Most kids would have quit in his first two years, with the beatings he took in the room. But he didn't.

Dick Colliver

We've had to reevaluate our position. It's having a hard time in the market.

Brooke Julicher

We've had a lot of injuries. A lot of our starters and key players have been out. It's been a lot of camaraderie and hard work that has kept us with a winning record so far.

Justine Henin-Hardenne

We'll have to look at the calendar. It's always very hard to predict what's going to happen; let's go step by step.

Patrick Tyler

Everyone was evacuated so it's hard to find out what's happening.

Kevin Beck

Everyone works as hard as they can. It's not something I have to stay on them about.

The Beatles

Everyone worked very hard on this. I'm very comfortable with everything.

Carlos Tevez

Everyone worked very hard for this. I'm very excited. This first title is very important to me.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Deon Grant

We didn't play bad, ... But we sure didn't do a lot to help ourselves.

Michael Allen

None of these people are lazy, ... Why wouldn't you want to help somebody like that? All they needed was a jump-start.

Kathleen Tierney

More than 80 percent of the housing was destroyed. It's an island; there was nowhere to go. They didn't know when help was going to come. Law enforcement was rendered ineffective. They didn't know when they'd see another meal.

Paul Lanclos

I wish he'd stick to the script more. But when you have that type of athlete, nine out of 10 times when he does things like that he's going to help you.

Howard Shell

If we don't do something, we're ignoring a problem. We're going to do this to see if we can help the situation. We want to help solve the problem.

Cathy Curran

If they plan to stay, we will help them look for jobs and housing.

Marcus Slaughter

If we can get two quick fouls on him, that will help us out a lot. They're a different team when he's on the bench.

Haloti Ngata

She was in and out of the hospital, so I wanted to help her out.

Oscar Hammerstein II

The dearest things I know are what you are.

Ellen Hopkins

The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

Lord Kelvin

To measure is to know.

Maika Monroe

You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

We don't do what we know is wrong.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Nature knows best how to organise.

Haruki Murakami

Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Joe Wright

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Rick Baker

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

Reggie Bush

I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best.

Tom Hodgkinson

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.

Toni Morrison

I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me.

Tom Verlaine

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

Scott Adkins

I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will

Fannie Lou Hamer

I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Jack Nicholson

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.