Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Keith Cieplicki

The only frustrating thing is that we haven't had all the pieces in place. The group that's healthy has gotten a lot better. They have great team chemistry, so really, and it's even hard for me to believe, that I've really enjoyed coaching this team. None of us like losing, but it's a pretty mature group. I hope for their sake we get a few more wins.

Shek Borkowski

The payoff is to make the national team. The pay is very good there, as well as in the reserve pool. So the reason these players come here is so they can train under high quality coaches and hopefully get a shot with their national teams.

Joshua Johnson

The past two games the coaches were trying to see who was going to be their go-to guys.

Carmelo Anthony

The past two days, George (coach George Karl ) has been stressing that if the playoffs were today, this is who we'd play. We wanted to make a statement right away and tell them this is what they'll see if they play us.

John Schweitz

The 3-pointer is normally not part of our game plan, but today it was. I don't like to do it, but I have to coach to our players' strengths. I'm a fool for not doing this sooner.

Denis Fitzgerald

The announcement has been made now to end the ongoing speculation in regard to the coaching position next year.

Matt Hasselbeck

That was fun n a little sloppy at times, but some of the most exciting plays I've seen all year. Coach Fox promised, by the end of the week, 'We'll put a smile on your face.' All the Seattle guys were smiling.

Jennifer Wilson

That was the kind of do-or-die games that the fans love. But for coaches and players, that was a tough game.

Jamar Smith

That was vital to the game because until then we'd just been trading baskets. I wasn't nervous because coach told me I'm not a freshman anymore. I'm a sophomore.

Gaines Adams

I feel like by me putting on a couple more pounds will help my game tremendously. Putting on 10-15 pounds will help me stop the run better and be a more dominant pass rusher.

Yo-Yo Ma

I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.

Elle Fanning

When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.

Boris Boehm

The overall performance of the market in the last couple of days has been impressive. Investors are locking in profits.

Bryan Cogman

The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.

Carl Reiner

I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.

Bill Bryson

You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

Bette Davis

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

Ashton Kutcher

I have someone that cooks for me... that's the best thing ever. I just want to show up and I want my house to be like a hotel... so I want to have a couple of options... I like to have a couple of options.

Preston Sturges

If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?

Alex Pareene

I think Matt Yglesias is wrong to declare that the world of 'This Town' is dying, unless he thinks publicly financed elections, strict lobbying bans and Scandinavian-style wealth distribution are imminent.

Grover Norquist

We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause.

Reuven Rivlin

We have no say in anything. What will we do if the Palestinians declare a state? How can we even stop them?

Guy Hohenhaus

We're looking for an exit, at what point in time do we declare this over.

Lyndon Johnson

Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope, some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both. This administration declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

Ely Culbertson

Yes, God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare a peace upon the world, and win it

Jane Lowe

We have had the extremes of kids walking out of mediation hugging and kissing to those who just declare a truce and then everything in between.

Norman Schwarzkopf

When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It's interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish's can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo.

Mike Journee

We are discussing this possibility with the Legislature.

Marcey Evans

We are discussing (packages) with other locals as well.

Paolo Scaroni

We are discussing next steps to strengthen the alliance... maybe even in power.

Tom Edwards

We hope this signals a breakthrough, and we look forward to discussing with the union the steps that will enable the ports to re-open.

Billy Graham

I loved him very much, and had the opportunity of discussing so many things with him, and we wrote each other several times during the years.

Paul Moran

I hate even discussing moral victories, but I was happy (last night). I obviously would have liked to win, but if there is such a thing as a moral victory, we had it. We didn't quit.

Jim Daniels

I expect there will be people who do feel a need to react negatively because we're discussing sexuality. I hope most people will see this and acknowledge that these are responsible and appropriate discussion points.

Michael Lange

I would welcome the governor going door-to-door with me and discussing the issues of the next session.

Peter Ueberroth

We're pleased that they're even discussing it in the hallways.

Billy Donovan

We could have had potentially seven or eight first-round draft picks in our league right now.

Roger Goodell

The draft is one of my favorite events because it is about football. People are focused on how their teams improve. It's a celebration of football. And most importantly, it represents a very important time in the lives of these men who are entering the NFL, and their families.

Brock Spack

Usually the first day of the draft is on the day of the spring game, so you miss it. But we have some equipment people keep an eye on it and they will come and let us know.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.

Billy Knight

You can get booed on draft day and loved on the parade.

DeAngelo Williams

I'm staying away from the speculations. People think it's the day before the draft and I know where I'm going. I don't. I'm also not going to spend all day tomorrow speculating. I'll just get the call, and I'll probably be playing a video game or listening to the draft.

Tom Benson

We drafted Terrell Owens in the first round ... YOU hammer out his extension.

Duane Starks

We're all professionals. They went through the same draft process to get to where they are as I did, so I'm going to make plays, they're going to make plays.

Jim Knowles

We hope he gets drafted on the first day. It's great for us and the Ivy League in general.

Tim Burton

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

Gail Carriger

As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.

Gillian Armstrong

Sure, you always put some of your own experience into a film.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

Ellen Key

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

Edward Norton

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

Elaine Stritch

These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.

Don Marquis

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

David Byrne

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

Irving Ravetch

You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

Imani Hakim

I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.

Zayn Malik

It's nice to look out and see your family supporting you.

Walter Brennan

I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.

Wendy Cope

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

Billy Graham

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Billy Graham

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney - for his family and our country.

Zubin Mehta

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Wesley Clark

The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.

Brittany Curran

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

Dean Geyer

I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.

Cilla Black

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

Christopher Dodd

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

Alice Walker

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Bill Vaughan

The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

Lukata Mjumbe

The applicants will still be responsible for their bills. The program will only help them up until March.

E. O. Wilson

The association earns money by helping to sell them and working at the store on the day of the event.

Magic Johnson

I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.

Megan Fox

Having an infant is difficult. It's a lot of work, and I didn't hire any help because I overestimated my own abilities.

Nancy Wright

Whoever hired us had to really know what they were doing. Our personalities match. I feel like I've known them forever.

Junichiro Koizumi

I think many older people like me will really suffer. I'd like to hire them, but unfortunately we're not doing so well lately.

Jennifer Laster

We have a fiber-optic line outside our hospital, but we're told we need to hire an IT person to 'manage the line' -- another expense.

Phillip Jones

I was hired two years ago, and I was shocked to find out there was no money being spent to market Dallas.

Russell Allen

We put a big sign in the window and hired a broker, so it's not like there was some secret deal.

Floyd Keith

We don't give favoritism just because an African-American was hired at the institution. That wouldn't qualify for what we're trying to do (by assessing the hiring process, not the outcome). That search probably could have been done better.

Robin Ryan

Today, we hire specialists not generalists. I don't need 10 people contributing the same skill.

Zadie Smith

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Generally, I have a strong interest in trying to help people who are maybe not as lucky as I am. I've been well rewarded in this world. I'm more worried about the next one.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Carrie Brownstein

For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.

Carl Sagan

UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cecelia Ahern

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

Bertrand Russell

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

Jim Edmonds

The always-important last at-bat. That's big, especially here.

Charles Hayward

The $5 million will not last us until the summer.

Thomas Carter

That was it, that was the last straw,

William Allan

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

Bruce Weber

I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.

Brittany Howard

A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.

Brian Kernighan

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

Bonnie Bassler

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.

Nancy Gibbs

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead.

Bertrand Russell

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

Seth Numrich

Theater has been my way of learning about everything.

Benjamin Rush

In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.

Gerald Anderson

I was thinking about leaving here, but not because of Fred,

Tom Gonsalves

I was upset because we have been in tougher situations than this, and we lost our composure. They were leaving the person they were guarding, and doing their own thing on defense.

Robert Earl

I think I'm ready. It'll be tough leaving school behind, but I think I'm ready for that phase of my life.

Todd Turner

I wish the legislators would see how much money is leaving the state.

Michael Woods

Give yourself plenty of time to get wherever you're going. If you're leaving at your normal time, you've left too late.

Chris Aguila

He wasn't leaving a lot of stuff over the plate.

Michelle Langsford

I have been with him from day one, and I was not leaving his side when he needed me most.

Lauren Emerson

I didn't want my teammates to feel like I was leaving them because I was injured.

Jim Jennings

We are where other leagues, the NFL and NBA and NHL, were in the 1950s and 1960s.

Pat Riley

Frustration is part of this game. You have to press on. That's it. You can't let that get to you. Welcome to the NBA playoffs.

Todd Speer

I can't overemphasize how important that relationship with the NBA will be to our league.

Chris Bosh

I learned very quickly that the NBA is a very rough place, physically and mentally. There's no mercy.

Chris Bosh

I want to go get a stop on defense so James can do it again. It was a big spurt for him. That made then get out of their game plan and play him closer. But when he does that, we want to make sure we capitalize and get timely stops. And that's what got us right back in the game.

Chandler Parsons

We're a walking billboard... You want to look good to everyone who is watching.

Mark Cuban

Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.

Bess Myerson

I really don't like talking about diets.

Bill Walton

Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?

Fabio Capello

We had other options but Vieira was the one I wanted,

Alan Knipe

We have a lot of options with him.

Tom Woodruff

We have a lot of options in the infield.

Jill Mesaros

We have been working the past two years on several options which we will be weighing in making our decision.

Group Inc

We don't have many other options left. This is it,

Kim Moore

I feel like there's still some options open.

Frans Houten

There are various M&A options we will explore.

Rand Paul

I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.

David Shore

I think these options are awful. I think they've got to throw this away and go back and look at it again.

Darius Kasparaitis

You kind of look back and wish we had won at Pittsburgh (last Thursday), but that's not the situation right now.

Damaso Marte

I have inflammation in the shoulder. We don't know what it is, but I'm going to Pittsburgh to be examined.

Barry Bonds

I don't ever remember having any bad times here in Pittsburgh.

Edgar Wright

We like to imagine that Shaun is in George Romero's universe, that it's happening at the same time as the Pittsburgh outbreak.

Audrey Hepburn

Auntie Mame, who was the british lady?" 'Oh, she's from Pittsburgh' 'But she had the acc-' 'Well, when your from Pittsburgh you gotta do something

Deborah Smith

Pittsburgh isn't the Pittsburgh of 20 years ago.

David Tepper

I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburgh and work in the steel mills.

Pat Bowlen

We know we're going to play them in Pittsburgh this season, just not that first week.

Daniel Briere

It's just the same. It's just not going away. It's not improving. It hasn't been worse than it was since the Pittsburgh game, but it's not getting better, either, so that's the frustrating side.

Carl Rogers

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

Gary Flake

We can streamline the whole process of how we innovate.

Nathan Moss

I'm still in the process of making up my mind.

Justin Ramsey

We have an in-depth ability. We realize that it's not about solving a specific problem, it's about understanding ... the process in general.

Gregg Hartley

We formalized the process of reaching out to them. You could talk to Tom or Tom's people, or Roy or Roy's people. It was all the same.

Ron Gardenhire

We are in the process of tracking him down to find out what's going on. We don't know when he'll be in.

Javad Vaidi

We are in the process of negotiating on the modalities of this participation.

Dan Considine

We'd rather see reductions be made through a process like this than any kind of confrontational process.

Jeremy Nichols

Unfortunately, this is the way the process often works.

Roger Short

Typically, we provide at least one, two or three (candidates) that are very strong.

Rachel Johnson

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

Dawn Medley

We provide them with different options. It's not just a cookie-cutter decision.

Jon Davis

We provide everything students need: knowledge, equipment; we've got it all.

Thomas Kelly

We provided about a quarter of the community's blood.

Abdullah Gul

We are ready to provide every sort of help,

Fred Becker

I think it's always important to think about what the other side is going to do before you do something or how the other side is going to react, and he will be able to provide that to our thought process.

Joseph Kabila

Whatever happens, if there are summits we will be there, provided it takes place after the funeral,

John Buskirk

That was a tremendous punt return. Robert's punt return really kind of put us over the top. That put us in a real, real strong position.

Peter Jackson

'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.

Peter Sis

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

William Shakespeare

Ready to go but never to return.

Robert Anderson

My tax return is in a sense very ordinary,

Mike Leach

On that play, we had a return on, ... I thought (Douglas) did a tremendous job.

Carlos Menem

Here we are. What Evita (Peron) said is being fulfilled: I will return and be millions,

Rick Perry

I can't say in strong enough terms that those who evacuated that they should not return at this time,

Chad Harbach

There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.

C. S. Lewis

Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

Colleen Kennedy

We have a lot of seniors this year,

William Shakespeare

This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

Paul Lancaster

Without (Christie) in the first half, we'd probably have been down 10. That's senior leadership.

Ebonie Halliburton

He wanted us to concentrate more. He wanted us to show more senior leadership. I think we did that tonight.

Diane Watson

Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women.

Catherine Ashton

I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

Charlie Gonzalez

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

Alan Clark

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

Earlon McWhorter

We're willing to look in the mirror, see what we see and do what we have to do to make this university better.

Derek Bok

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

Bill Gates

I didn't completed my University Education

Bill Gates

I didn't even complete my University Education

Ben Barnes

I actually went to university.

Adolf Hitler

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.

Adam Ross

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

Vince Young

We're not going to be scared. We're going to be pumped. Nervousness is not a part of the University of Texas.

Margaret Garcia

We don't know. Mia didn't play soccer. She was a cheerleader all her life. She cheered for (the University of Colorado).

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Joe Riley

We're going to try it for two weeks to see if it works.

Annika Sorenstam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

John Batina

We've been doing that for two weeks now.

Lori White

They thought in two weeks it would be in the back of the closet.