Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Adams

What we have here is a bright, talented and ambitious group of players.

Terry Brown

I will bring new vision and ideas on ways to help the freshman class be successful and unite as a whole. I want to be class president because I am hungry - hungry in a way that RDH won't fill. I am hungry to see the class of 2009 reach its full potential as one of the largest and most ambitious classes in school history and truly make a difference in our campus community.

Kim Young-ha

From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar economic basket case to a humming, modern nation - military schools were the track of choice for ambitious young men.

Dan Futterman

He was enormously manipulative, very ambitious and not always truthful. I didn't want a biography that worships the title character. I wanted a movie that portrays the truth.

Dan Futterman

He was enormously manipulative, very ambitious and not always truthful,

Kevin Kerr

I am excited to be able to congratulate the men and women who have worked hard over this past year and demonstrated the outstanding work that Greeks do at Penn State. We are hopeful that these chapters will be pioneers and role models as we move forward with our ambitious plans for enhancing the Greek experience at Penn State.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.

Todd Howard

Our most ambitious project ever is finally done. We're excited to get the game into everyone's hands and let them experience it for themselves. We hope they enjoy it. I think it's our best game yet.

Todd Howard

Our most ambitious project ever is finally done.

Jeremy Siegel

I was looking back on when Nixon resigned and actually the market held up very well around those days. It began to tank actually after Ford came in as president and the economic news began to dim.

Detective Lopez

Kenyon Martin is sitting on the bench when a fan begins to heckle him. Martin stands up, turns around and addresses the fan. Then he sits back down.

Swami Sivananda

Know that wealth, sex-delights, power, learning are all bondage. This is the beginning of wisdom.

Andy Cerroni

Jake Wagner had one of his better games for us on Thursday. He's beginning to gain more and more confidence with each game.

Allison Jones

I would say take any work you can get. Don't pass on something if it's a commercial. Take it. Work really does lead to other work. Especially if you're just starting out, work begets work.

Diane Phillips

Just like a Super Bowl football team, you need a game plan to pull off a successful party. That plan begins with the decision to throw a party and doesn't end until you return the last rented or borrowed item.

Leon Panetta

Just when we should be getting ready for the 21st century, our education system is beginning to fall down in terms of preparing our students for that future.

Caroline Williams

I think in the very beginning we all were really pushing the ball, and Dee was doing a really good job of hitting the open person, whether it was me or Tina. We were all just seeing each other really well and running the floor.

Neal Cotts

I think in our case it's come together pretty well. I think Ozzie instilled that from the beginning in spring training, that we're going to be together six months and make the best out of it.

Richard Lazarus

John is conservative in his political beliefs. He is somebody, though, who has not defined his life driven by his politics or driven by his ideology.

Samuel Wilson

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

Robert Hughes

if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

John Hickenlooper

I hope there's some cowtown left, because as much as we are going to be defined by the future, the past is also part of who we are.

Sorin Cerin

The Being as an opposite of the Void is defined as Knowledge opposed to the non-Knowledge and this way it is a non-Knowledge which receives the meaning of Knowledge precisely because it has the possibility to reflect the only thing that is true in its Self, namely non-Knowledge!

Ryan Holmes

Don't be scared to try new things, but remember to hold on to the vision of your company and the initial successes that defined your brand.

Rob Konrad

You think about the guys who have been there the whole time and really defined the Miami Dolphins' defense... you think about Zach (Thomas), you think about Jason (Taylor) and you think about Sam. Sam was such a perfect fit under the press-and-go system under Jimmy. He was a guy that, just by his presence, made quarterbacks throw the other way.

Luke Ford

It's silly and demeaning to rate teachers using only the poorly defined 'learning gains' on the FCAT.

Nicholas Sparks

Maybe I’d like to be defined by what I am.

Jeri Ryan

I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.

Marvin Emerson

When you look up the word team in the dictionary his picture is there.

Sri Chinmoy

Impossibility is a dictionary word.

Mark Strand

To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.Observe with care, my son, the distinction I reveal: A gentleman is gentle and a gent genteel. Heed not the definitions your ""Unabridged"" presents, For dictionary makers are generally gents. --G.J.

Erin McKean

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Harold Bloom

I saw the Oxford English Dictionary there for the first time.

Iyanla Vanzant

[God is] all that is. Everything. Everything. Breath, life. Just get Webster's Dictionary and throw it on the floor. It's everything... God is everything.

Werner Herzog

I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour.

Andy Xie

Growth rates could decelerate by another 1 percentage point due to further rises in oil prices.

Stephen Bernstein

Holding him without due process is improper, and either ICE or the prosecutors should explain why.

Richard Shim

I think it's a smart move, one that was probably due a long time ago, but they were just so stubborn.

Patty Clausen

I think it's due to the economy. People are hanging onto their money, because they don't know what's going to happen.

Rick Meckler

I think that the idea of never-ending, short-term-rate increases no longer seems as likely to people. But I would not be surprised if the Fed still increases, but signals to the market that they are prepared to stop increasing if the economy slows due to the hurricane.

Takehiro Sato

We look for a rebound due to the recycling of oil money, such as in high-ticket orders from oil-producing nations.

Jennifer Grey

I have been suffering for so long and didn't even recognize it. I just stopped doing so many things that I used to love to do due to my pain.

Wayne Marshall

I don't have to kill up myself to do a duet with any foreign rapper because we have the local talent of Sean Paul.

Carmelo Anthony

I couldn't sleep last night due to the pain. I tried to go out there and play tonight, but by the third quarter it started tightening up on me.

Sam Worthington

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.

Michael Keaton

Have I ever been to a party with a ton of famous people in it? Yes, several times, so I guess that's a Hollywood lifestyle.

Richie Sambora

I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting. Nashville has been famous for writing great songs.

Richie Sambora

I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting, ... Nashville has been famous for writing great songs.

David Baum

It isn't about how famous you are or how much money you have.

Joe Newman

We looked at the NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL, CBA and NBDL and there were little or no minority ownerships. Unless you were a famous star, all of those leagues were excluding minorities.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't want to be famous for being famous.

Kim Weston

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.

Henry Adams

Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.

Ellen DeGeneres

Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex.

Peter Matthiessen

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotation confesses inferiority.

John Irving

Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

Carl Jung

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

Elbert Hubbard

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Aristotle

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

Alvin Ailey

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Will Grace

JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Brett Albanese

There are a lot of species that have not been seen in the last 10 or 15 years.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

David Malpass

What you have been seeing over the last year is the policy of Jiang Zemin, not Deng Xiaoping.

Voltaire

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Marshall McLuhan

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

Patrick Henry

Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.

Mark Twain

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

Leo Tolstoy

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

Karl Kraus

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

Julius Nyerere

African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.

Emma Goldman

Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

Jerry Jones

The development could be virtually anything, from a five- star resort to a vacation-club development.

James Blankenship

We wanted to come out and win the second half. That is an old cliche, but sometimes you've got to resort to that. And that's where we were at halftime.

Vanessa Mae

But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.

Richard Cobden

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

Patrick Freitas

He just stayed up every time. He had the respect of the gym.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Lenny Wilkens

I think that you have to communicate with people, and I think that respect is a two-way street.

Rebecca West

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Tupac Shakur

America wants its respect.

Richard Dawkins

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

Robert Towne

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Sanford I. Weill

One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.

Walter Annenberg

Be respectful to others as you grow... If we lack respect for one group, then there is a tendency for that attitude to spread. It becomes infectious and no one becomes safe from the ravages of prejudice.

Rodman Philbrick

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Morley Safer

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

Emile Zola

What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.

Kingsley Amis

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

Karl Pilkington

You can only talk rubbish if you're aware of knowledge.

Alan Shearer

It was a tremendous turnaround because we were rubbish in first half.

Anton Chekhov

In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish that is their strength.

A. N. Wilson

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

E. M. Forster

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Darryl Stallworth

I submit to you that it is a no-brainer. By the victim's own admission, it was a robbery.

Kit Williams

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

Andy Stanley

To understand why, submit and apply.

Vidya Balan

It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.

Winston Churchill

It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.

Mel Brooks

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

Leonard Cohen

Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this

Ato Boldon

I feel like the torch has been passed to me. The question is what am I going to do with it.

Carl Lewis

By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation,

Angela Ruggiero

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

Rosanne Cash

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

George Bernard Shaw

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

Burn Gorman

I had a great time doing Torchwood, I really did.