Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Catherine McCartney

We've spoken out and said you can stand up and you don't have to be afraid of anybody. But it won't mean anything unless the people in the communities take that opportunity the next time the IRA comes to their door and say to them 'I'm not going to allow you to bully me'.

Chinese Proverbs

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

Rob Varley

Bob cares a lot about the success of Cocoa Beach. He's a regular guy who isn't afraid of hard work. Let me tell you -- it was very difficult for the tourism industry after Sept. 11. We were hurting.

Wesley Hill

What I try to emphasize more than anything else is don't be afraid to make a mistake. That's how you learn what you can't do, and what you don't like to do.

Robert Green Ingersoll

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

Nate Robertson

Leyland's not afraid to yell at you from the dugout. It's situational things, not pitch selection. When he says something, I take it to the bank. I trust what he says.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Leadership is not about being afraid to lead or make mistakes, ... the whole culture is about being safe and risk averse.

Owen Meredith

Let any man show the world that he feels Afraid of its bark and 't will fly at his heels: Let him fearlessly face it, 't will leave him alone: But 't will fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone

As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.

Pixie Lott

I don't think I'd get caught up in the crazy side of the music industry because it's just not in my nature.

Jessie Evans

We dug ourselves a tremendous hole we couldn't get out of. Obviously, we caught them in the second half, but we expended a lot of energy doing that.

Riley Wallace

We got exactly what we wanted. Julian likes that shot that he took and Matt caught it and was a little strong on it.

Mike Quarto

We got caught up on a switch, and we shouldn't have switched. And it went from a 17-point to a 14-point lead, just because we didn't recognize who the shooter was.

Kevin Furtado

We got caught up in the emotion in the first half and made some dumb fouls. But we played smarter in the second half.

Ray Allen

We got caught sleeping. We were so focused on the pick-and-roll coverage. Everybody turned and we said, 'Oh, you know what.' We got out to contest the shot, but it was too late.

Alex Tanguay

We got caught sleeping. We've been playing so well in the first period over the course of the last 10 games and tonight, maybe we were a little over confident.

Luc Robitaille

We got caught making some stupid, stupid mistakes. We don't usually make those kind of mistakes, and it cost us tonight.

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something

Scott Milburn

As we move forward we will of course be looking for opportunities to find savings on top of what we have already proposed.

Rick Clancy

We plan on revealing more in the course of quarterly earnings announcements or as specific developments dictate.

Maurice Greenberg

While we of course expect to incur losses resulting from insurance claims, it is far too early to estimate their magnitude,

Mike Joyner

Understand that when these unfold there's so much information taking place that dispatch can't keep up with it. So they'll go back and review the tape and find out exactly where the course of the pursuit took him.

Franz Beckenbauer

The two designs are completely different. The first is totally futuristic, the second is more classical. You can of course get very excited about doing something completely out of the ordinary, just like the Olympic stadium in its time. But each to his or her own taste.

Frank Butler

A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.

William Poole

We've been on a course of raising interest rates. The language in the last (Federal Open Market Committee) statement suggests that there was more to come...If we had wanted a different interpretation, we would have said something different,

Algernon Blackwood

My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.

Rod Smith

We had a good season, but it's still a failure to me. That's in my eyes, that's nobody else's opinion, that's my opinion because I know what it's like to hold the trophy at the end. But anything less than that is a failure to me. . . . When we needed it the most, we didn't get it. Their team was better.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.