Famous Quotes & Sayings

Palaniappan Chidambaram

I don't envy China. I wish to emulate China.

David Leadbetter

The focus now is on scoring. It's tough to emulate a tournament when she's at home, tough to get into any kind of competitive situation.

Shannon Bailey

The thing about Bailey, is that he just has so much fight in him. The whole time he was in his coma, his right hand would emulate the motion of hitting the throttle of his bike.

Ozzie Guillen

After Contreras did that, I knew Freddy would come down and try to emulate him. He gave me the innings, too.

Alfee Reft

This is a reflection of my coaches, teammates, my family ? people who have all had influence on me, obviously. It's me being surrounded by wonderful people and trying to emulate that ... uphold that standard. It's a big honor. It leaves me without words. Very, very humbling.

Rod Smith

(Cosell) was the best. When you heard that voice, you knew a big-time event was going on. Still, to this day, no one could ever emulate the things he had done. No one could ever try because they'd be wasting their time. He made it exciting to watch Monday Night Football .

William Wordsworth

What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.

Tyler Oakley

Since the beginning, I have always tried to just be me. There have been moments in my career as a YouTuber where I've recognized that I'm trying to emulate something else, or I'm being heavily influenced by a YouTuber or something like that, and I realize that's not what I want to be putting out.

Sarah Pinborough

My first six books were horror, I think because when I was young I loved Stephen King. John Wyndham, Daphne Du Maurier, and it's natural to try and emulate the books you first loved.

Graciela Daniele

Knowing what goes on in a Latin family at mealtimes, ... I wanted to reflect the madness and the warmth and the fun of a Latin family. So, we made this new song.

Stephen Graham

I wouldn't rule out L.A. life, but I love England. I have a lovely house and nice garden, I walk my kids to school - family is most important to me.

Laura Kidder

I wouldn't recommend the place for a family vacation just yet.

Lapo Elkann

I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.

Dionne Bromfield

I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.'

Ari Fleischer

Kennebunkport has a very strong sense of family for him.

Stephen McDowell

Just to see my family come from Indiana. I had my grandparents. I had people there, family from Indiana come all the way down there just to support me. That meant a lot to me.

Elisa Shackelton

(Kansas) is really a great state, and the people there are very friendly, and there is an incredible sense of community. But, I grew up at the foot of Pike's Peak and I really missed the mountains. My family is all here. This is where I play, live and work.

Corey Simon

Just really being able to sit down with him and pray with him about what was going on in my family and in my life really put things in perspective in terms of where he puts this game and life in general.

Gordon Drummond

James has been a tremendous influence at the club, not only with his performances on the field, but also with his coaching,

Bob Kinniebrew

I would say that every person who is successful in the mortgage and title business, Mel had an influence on.

Curt Schilling

He obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied. I don't know that there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs.

Peter Fisher

I think that's their major source of influence.

Todd Oldham

I want to thank him for being such a kind influence to me personally. There's a lot to learn from someone who celebrates life in that bigness.

Everett Muhlhausen

He was on the run a lot. My wife and I tried everything to keep him at home. There was a big influence from friends to keep him on the run. We were having a real struggle.

Sgt. Maynard

He was likely under the influence of narcotics. We are still waiting for results from the toxicology report.

Jim Haslam

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

Ned Barnholt

He had a tremendous influence on everyone in the valley. He was a role model for everyone to live up to.

Steve Clarke

He leaves a strong legacy for the country.

Stephen Hunter

I have never connected with 'Gone With the Wind.' 'Lawrence of Arabia' leaves me cold.

Gordon Roberts

He's a worker. He never misses a day. He's (in the weight room) first and leaves last.

Dave Tippett

I thought tactically we were pretty good, but we were a little sloppy at the end, which leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Walt Whitman

Are you the new person drawn toward me?

Walt Whitman

Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.

Walt Whitman

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.

Walt Whitman

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Corey Dillon

I take (low rushing numbers) personally. That's a reflection on me.

Richard P. Feynman

Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and back surfaces. In this intuitively easy analysis, the 'front surface' and 'back surface' arrows are mathematical constructions that give us the right answer, whereas .... a more accurate representation of what is really going on: partial reflection is the scattering of light by electrons inside the glass.

Russell Banks

Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.

William Whewell

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

William Wordsworth

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

William Shatner

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

William McNamara

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

William J. Clinton

We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior.

William James

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

Pele

When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

Whit Hartz

You're pretty much surrounded by sharp, poky things.

Richard Francis Burton

Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.

Bryan Ball

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

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Derek Stafford

He comes out every day. He comes out just like we do. He's just trying to get better.

Drew Brees

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

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Steve Foley

It hurts, man. We've done everything we can do to this point; trying not to aggravate it.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Keith Cooper

I was ducking this way, then ducking that way, trying to get away. I had no idea what was going on.

F. Schumacher

I think it is huge. I'm excited. I think the verdict is strong. The courts, I believe, will uphold it even at the appellate level.

Ted Cruz

We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.

Brian McDonald

From what I understand, they'll probably uphold it.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Jim Rash

I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Russell Banks

There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are.

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Duvall

Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Roald Dahl

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.