Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Baxter

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Ruben Studdard

People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you.

Red Auerbach

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Tupac Shakur

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

Vera Wang

The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.

Venus Williams

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.

Valentino Rossi

I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

Robin Williams

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

Robert Townsend

It's been my experience that the people who gain trust, loyalty, excitement, and energy fast are the ones who pass on the credit to the people who have really done the work. A leader doesnt need any credit... He's getting more credit than he deserves anyway.

Lukas Krajicek

Just to get to play the first game of the season is what I've dreamed of, and it happened.

Friedrich Schiller

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Ray Young

Just thinking about it gives me the chills, ... It's one of the things I dream about at night.

Lucy Jones

Hector Mine was a dream earthquake. All the fun of a magnitude 7 without any of the guilt.

Michael Ende

Guido clung to this thought like a drowning man clutching at a straw. He was rich and famous now, he told himself, and wasn't that what he'd always dreamed of?

Lauren Bacall

I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress.

Rob McClure

I was a huge fan of 'Avenue Q' long before I ever dreamed of being a part of it. I saw it off-Broadway at the Vineyard and waited at the stage door for autographs!

Scott Verplank

It gives them their escape. They can dream about other things.

Robert Collier

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

William Gilmore Simms

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

Robert Ringer

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.

Saint Augustine

The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

Will Self

The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.

W. Clement Stone

If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you.

W. C. Fields

I note the derogatory rumors concerning the use of alcoholic stimulants and lavish living. It is the penalty of greatness.

Zhuangzi

One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.

Yvette Clarke

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.