Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Peter Laviolette

I would think that we're going to take the best players available.

Pat Brisson

Jack thought long and hard about it. It was very flattering for him that Carolina was so interested but Jack just feels his development is best served by staying another year at school. It was a tough decision but Jack feels good about it.

Chris DiMarco

Jack's the best, the best of all time, and to make that putt for him is what it's all about, ... We wanted to get a win for him so much. Last night, we had a great, emotional dinner. Everybody got up and talked, and I think everybody said they wanted to go out and win this for Jack. And to do that is unbelievable.

John Bogle

Jack Brennan is the best person I could possibly have found,

Stacy Keibler

I would say my best feature has to be my legs - they are 41.5 inches long!

Ed Oakley

I would say it's in his best interest, at this stage of the game.

Wendy Hastings

Kirsten has such great determination on the court. She runs down every shot and always give 100 percent.

Vladimir Lenin

Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.

Winston Churchill

The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion.

Winston Churchill

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.

Zachary Quinto

I remember our conversations [with Zachary Quinto] always being frustrated that we weren't doing what we wanted to do, but also filled with the determination that we were going to overcome that.

William Godwin

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.

William Tecumseh Sherman

The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth-right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

Vince Lombardi

To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.

Richard Dawkins

I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.

Sara Gruen

Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

Wyndham Lewis

Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

Michael Froomkin

The elephant in the room is the issue of transparency.

Jacques Monod

What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.

Daniel Bard

You try to keep it on the back of your mind and do what you can to keep the team first. I think we've all done that. But it's always there, kind of that big elephant in the room that nobody talks about.

Michael Rothman

It's like trying to shoot an elephant with a BB gun,

Rahul Gandhi

I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, "Do you have elephants on the road?" Nobody is saying that today.

Paul Dickson

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

John Cornyn

I think you'll probably see not only his erudition, but his sense of humor.

Greg Evans

Laugh at yourself once in a while; give yourself a break.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

Wayne Dyer

I am realistic – I expect miracles.

Samuel Goldwyn

Coffee isn't my cup of tea.

W. C. Fields

Indeed, moderation is my middle name (though I do not often use it in signing legal documents)

Yakov Smirnoff

In Russia, if a male athelete loses he becomes a female athelete.

Jennifer Jones

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

Milarepa

Towards the end of our stay in Uruguay, Osho had started choosing questions of mine that had a humorous potential, ones he could use to make everyone - including himself! - laugh. In the first few weeks after I arrived, the tone of his discourses was quite serious: a lot of politics and talk about the world situation and so on. It provoked my mischievous side, so I would try to provoke him as well - and that divine smile of his - with my questions.

Udonis Haslem

J-Will is always running. We just have to run with him. Sometimes we just can't keep up. ... If we can run with him, he's going to find you.

Donna Myers

What you are doing is running the seniors out of Worthington.

Denny Rinehart

Gonzalez will be a factor. Erica Hicks can run anything she wants to.

Lindsay Whalen

It could be worse, ... I'm already kind of running around and jumping. They kind of said to me, 'Just see how you feel.'

Derrick Williams

We talked all week about establishing the running game. We established out running game, and now we can see that we can run and pass.

Al Wolski

We're on our way back. We're going to try to run the table and see what happens.

Oliver Purnell

I think we will probably be in the NIT. It's disappointing we didn't make a run at winning (the ACC) tournament.

Jim Hendry

I think we've got more versatility. We're more athletic. I think we're going to run a lot better and play a lot better defense.

Andy Johnson

I think we tried to play at their pace, and we can't run with them. It got away from us in the second quarter.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Andre Iguodala

I was just trying to put on a show.

Robert Fick

I don't give a ----. I was trying to make a play.

Reginald Delk

I don't know. We're soul-searching right now, just trying to get a win.

Shay Espinoza

I don't know why, but that's what they were trying to do: take my baby.

Russ Ortiz

I could see that they were serious, ... Winning's important. I wanted to be a part of what they're trying to accomplish.