Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Xun Zi

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

Yotam Ottolenghi

My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs.

David A. Bednar

Faithfully obeying God's commandments is essential to receiving the Holy Ghost. We are reminded of this truth each week as we listen to the sacrament prayers and worthily partake of the bread and water.

Brunello Cucinelli

I say to my industrialist friends, when you have guests from out of town, I don't care how important they are, you should feed them the essence of Italian culture: spaghetti, bread and olive oil.

Troy Young

The 1-3-1 zone has been their bread and butter all year, so we prepared for it heavily.

Patrick Fugit

There are these girls who live in Maryland: they're the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of America. They've sent me videotapes of themselves just eating and talking about Hanson, and a loaf of bread that was really moldy by the time it got here.

Michael Brown

We have to keep a close eye on the manufacturing industry. That's really the bread and butter of the United Way.

Peter Thiel

Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites. Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition, all profits get competed away.

Jody Williams

Most likely the coat was sold for milk or bread or helped a neighbor,

Robert Walters

We've got chicken, hamburgers and shrimp, ... but we're running out of paper plates.

Bill Gates

I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger.

Eric Schlosser

I really like hamburgers and French fries, and I don't consider myself some kind of gourmand.

Chad Johnson

I sat down to meet him at Islands, a froufrou hamburger place in L.A.,'' Silver recalls.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.

Bill Engvall

Ketchup is great on hamburgers, but if some gets on your shirt, that does not make your shirt also a hamburger.

Phil Savage

The thing is, all these figures, it's like paying $6 for McDonald's hamburgers for the rest of us. It's at a whole different level.

Joan Rodgers

Also, my husband says their hamburgers are like the ones his mother used to make.

Ken Ramirez

In the wild, we've seen whales end up looking like hamburger meat.

Demetri Martin

When a couch potato is sliced up and then deep fried that is couch french fries.

Augustus Hare

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

Mary J. Blige

I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.

Bob Cook

As I read these scripts, I get sucked in. It's like potato chips.

Jim Fowler

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

Francis Bacon

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

Billy Corgan

Are you all ready to have a rockin' mashed potato time?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Vane passed the mashed potatoes across Bride to Fury, who stared at them with a fierce frown "What are these?" he asked. "Potatoes," Vane told him. "What did they do to them?

Myrtle Reed

Marriage is the cold potato of love.

Dick Ebersol

I was just swept away with how that sounded. It just rolls off your mouth.

Dan Kelly

Anthony can be a sucker for rolls sometimes.

Clark Gregg

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

Brian d'Arcy James

I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.

David Hewson

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.

Peter Riegert

You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.'

Freddie Roach

I thought it was something I could go to the sideline and shake it off.

Tim Walton

Just trying to shake some of the cobwebs off.

Bryan McClendon

I didn't want to think the worst. I was thinking 'Get up. Get up! Shake it off." ()

Koy Detmer

We're going to take the reps the way they want us to and see how it shakes out.

Kenneth Branagh

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.