Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Waters

As he put it, 'the biggest nightclub in central London'.

Jeff Pentland

Sometimes the biggest successes aren't the guys you hear the most about.

Bobby Bragan

I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.

Gary Mitchell

This is probably the biggest name show we'll have all year.

Roy Williams

This could go on three or four or five weeks. I only had to put up with it for one week, even though it was on the biggest stage.

Josh Childress

That's my biggest goal now, two in a row. Last year I said if we won two in a row I was cutting my hair. I'm not saying that now.

Arlen Specter

biggest challenge of the year and perhaps the decade.

Ben Lloyd-Hughes

My mum still says the biggest mistake I ever made was not being Benedict Lloyd-Hughes. She's very upset. But the only one who calls me Benedict in real life is my granny.

Robin Wilcock

At the time it was one of the biggest stories.

Antonin Scalia

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

David Roberts

During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.

Veronique Keyser

The death of millions of Jews, homosexuals, Roma, is in no way comparable to cartoons or the burning of flags. We cannot talk to you if you deal with this in this manner.

Rip Hamilton

You know you're doing it right when you feel burning in your hips and nothing in your groin. It gets my hips and my groin all on one page. I had groin trouble early in my career. I was using too much of my groin because my hips were tight.

Sylvia Plath

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

Theodore Roosevelt

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

Joe Gibbs

You always have a burning desire to do well, ... It wouldn't matter if it was the first year, second year, third year.

Tony Rode

He's actually inside and, at one point, comes out of the vehicle pretty much on fire. He was burning on his arms, legs and hands.

James Hansen

What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to burning coal in your automobile.

Mike Reeves

As a general rule, people in this country don't know much about dairy cows. My job is to teach them with these animals. Without these animals, we don't have all the things we like every day like milk, cheese, pudding, yogurt, butter and whipped cream.

Damian Lewis

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

Alexander Pope

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

Shailene Woodley

For me, my rule in this industry is I've got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.

Sue Monk Kidd

When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.

Leanne Mrock

Not as much as we used to. There's a lot of butter in there.

Jon Gruden

We gave him one extra day, and he'll be ready to go today, ... He's going to be ready to go today and he's going to play in the game, so he's all right.

Tom Johnson

We just do extra patrol of the buildings. We do not go into any of the rooms unless there is a specific problem or a special request.

Lindy Ruff

We made a lot of things happen real slow. We always took the extra second to shoot.

JayDee Luster

I'm always needing to prove myself. Being a small point guard, we have to work harder than most and we've got more to prove. You've got to work extra hard to get to the next level no matter what.

Flip Saunders

For whatever reason, we just weren't as mentally alert. We had a lot of mental breakdowns on defense, and offensively we didn't make the extra pass as often as we normally do. You hate to say it, but we just didn't have it tonight.

Brian Duffy

If we were flush with extra money, I'd say hey, let's do it.

Clay Martin

I didn't think we played very well to start off. I was proud of the way we settled down and held them scoreless for the next seven innings while we were able to score in the sixth and seventh and win in the second extra inning.

Venus Williams

I didn't feel I was really on my game, ... My feet were slow and she played really well. You have to have that little extra step and I didn't feel like I had that today. I had to fight myself to get it out of me.

Brendan Barber

Millions are still putting in up to an extra day a week for free.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Alan Vega

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Denis Diderot

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

Adam McKay

I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be to get from fat to chubby.

Joe Strummer

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

Paul Pate

Could you imagine reducing our fatality rates by 60 percent?

Tom Izzo

Fatigue had zero to do with the loss. We did not do a good job of handling our lead in that situation.

Arabian Proverb

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Abraham Lincoln

In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Elif Safak

No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.

Jerry Calhoun

Boeing has always provided a competitive package of total compensation that addresses the needs of all employees.

Orson Scott Card

A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.

Orson Scott Card

We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.

Robert Kiyosaki

Have the courage to say what needs to be said to who it needs to be said to. You'll both be better for it.

Christine Baranski

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Alicia Silverstone

All the things I've loved the most in life were my biggest risks.

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Andy Stanley

You won't take risk without courage.

Sumner Redstone

One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.

Michael Eisner

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

Seamus Heaney

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

Michael Porter

Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

Sherilyn Fenn

I like taking risks and I decided to put every bit of me into the role.

Randeep Hooda

I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Jane Hamilton

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

Barry Eichengreen

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Jane Smiley

The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.

bell hooks

In 2014, when Hillary Clinton was not yet running for president, I stated that I was not in agreement with her politics. More recently, when asked my thoughts about Hillary Clinton during a public conversation with Gloria Steinem, I stated, "she embodies the very best of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't vote for her."

Diana Vreeland

All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.

Al Gore

Cigarette smoking is a significant contributor to global warming!

Jami Attenberg

You can quit smoking, and never have to have a cigarette again to survive. But with food, it is a daily challenge.

Mike Marsden

I do not support a total smoking ban.