Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mandy Close

The past two games were battles, so we have to be ready to go to battle (again). We'll prepare this full week for them, we'll come out with a lot of energy and be ready to go.

Max Evans

The Apache and others who fought the great cavalry battles took the cavalry's horses and methods and improved on them. These great horse warrior tribes are now cowboys and they naturally raise their young to be cowboy kids.

Geoff Hoon

The armored battle group that will deploy brings important qualities of extensive training, experience and hard-edge combat capability. It is not the case, as is often implied, that there are 130,000 U.S. troops that could take on this task, ... In fact, fewer than a third of U.S. forces in Iraq have the requisite combat capability, and of those even fewer have the armored capability that is needed.

Skip Pighetti

That was a very intense match. Kevin only weights 190-something so every time he goes out there he's giving up 30, 40 pounds. It's an uphill battle for him every time he steps out there. He wrestled as hard as he could. He just came up a little short.

Ted Dever

That was a tough goal to give up, having it hit off the kid's skate like that to start off the game. It was good to see the kids not quit and battle back. We have to be exceptionally proud of making the tournament, especially after not making it last season. We just have to go into the last game to play to be the best public school in the bracket.

Valentino Rossi

That was the best battle of the year!

Kevin Fry

That was Taylor's biggest hit this season. I like how he battles and puts in the extra time to improve.

Joe Nathan

That was a huge loss. It's one of the more disappointing losses, especially for our team to battle back like that.

Seth Kilbourn

We have a lot of work to do moving the American public to be more supportive of marriage for same-sex couples. And while we do that, we will win some battles and lose others. It is a long road ahead.

Ezra Taft Benson

When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.

Ellen Key

The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Barbara W. Tuchman

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

Bethany Mota

In the beginning of my YouTube channel, I feel like I was doing what everyone else was doing, and I kind of felt very pressured to fit in with everyone.

David Hewson

Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community.

Chris Abani

I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.

Rick Pitino

This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wild West... There should not be guns in our society, and we all know that; politicians know that.

Ingmar Bergman

Theater is the beginning and end and actually everything, while cinema belongs to the whoring and slaughterhouse trade.

Fadela Chaib

That would be the beginning of a human influenza epidemic but we are not there yet.

Jimmy Harris

We found a way to win and that's the main thing. I don't like the way that we let them comeback, but we did find a way to win. Blake Roberts came in at the end and shut them down for two innings.

Bill Spencer

I felt okay after the 22 miles, actually better than I thought I would. Blake felt worse than I did, so in a way that made me actually feel better.

Deke Thompson

I would take Blake shooting a wide-open 3, I would put me back on the line again. I'd do everything the same way.

Howard McNeill

He leads the team in scoring, and he has opened the door for Drew Garner, who has scored in double digits in goals. Blake Riggins has done a remarkable job as keeper with his physical presence. He is a great athlete.

Sherry Scarberry

He was very emotional when he first saw Blake in the hospital. But now he helps out with his brother's exercising and pushes his wheelchair, too.

Dick Franti

He did a great job on both ends of the floor. Danny Blake knew the double-team was coming all night long and he handled it well.

Cary Goldstein

What we're seeing is the trashing of her nationwide. She was a good woman and ... my information is that Mr. Blake shouldn't be the first one to cast stones.

Eric Dubin

Yes, if it came with a tag saying that Robert Blake is a murderer.

Jim King

Yes, he told me that Mr. Blake was willing to put up with Bonny in order to take care of the child,

Theophile Gautier

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Imelda May

I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

Imelda May

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

Ice T

When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

Ice T

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

Gillian Armstrong

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

Venus Williams

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

Bill Gates

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Chino Moreno

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Inga Cadranel

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

Ziggy Marley

Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're just like your father.' That happens in Jamaica all the time.

William E. Conway, Jr.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world, and I am going to give away every penny before I die.

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Chuck Palahniuk

I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Clay Shirky

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

Evel Knievel

Nothing's worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.

Wentworth Miller

Acting was something I needed like air. It wasn't something I could walk away from.

Terri Mitchell

The overall plan was to play our zone because we have so much respect for the athleticism of St. John's that we really needed a containment mentality.

Nikolai Khabibulin

That was a save I needed to make to keep us in it. I didn't make it, but the worst thing is to get frustrated.

Mike Frosco

That was the play of the game. That was a big win for us. We needed that one, because it swept them for us.

Bob Zeh

That was typical of our night. Whenever we needed a big shot, we couldn't get one.

Lynne Roberts

We just didn't make stops when we needed to. We never could really get over the hump.

Brandon Morrow

We just didn't get the runs we needed this weekend. We've just got to roll with it.

Michael Kramer

We were going to play somebody. After the (Christmas) layoff we needed this time and if Sterling hadn't made it, we would have scrimmaged ourselves.

Peter Sis

The birds never needed passports... We always thought, the birds can go wherever they want, and we couldn't, really. The birds were very much the symbol of... free movement for me.

Charlotte Bronte

No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.

Chris Bosh

I had a turnover and three missed shots down the stretch. I just have to make sure I calm my nerves.

Charles Scott Sherrington

The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.

Alan Furst

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

Charles Bukowski

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

Bella Heathcote

I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper!

Edna Ferber

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

Mark Lowe

My nerves are still frazzled. I can't talk without stuttering, muttering and mumbling.

Alexander Payne

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.

Evan G. Galbraith

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Orlando Bloom

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

Andrew Coburn

You can go 20 years without a hurricane. All it takes is one.

P. Herbert

It drains you; it takes a toll on you.

James Woods

Without a doubt, if I had it to do all over again, I would do whatever it takes to be a one-person studio. You need to learn how to write so you can control the material. If you own the material, you can do it all.

Paul Gray

We have to re-evaluate it. It takes time, but they need to look at it again.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

CC Sabathia

As long as we win games while I'm on the mound, I feel good.

Catullus

Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

Cecil Rhodes

To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

Carrie Underwood

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

Carl Sagan

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

Carl Sagan

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as 'night walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.' But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer universe, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder. And it has the additional and important virtue-to whatever extent the word has any meaning-of being true.

Bethenny Frankel

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

Bette Davis

I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

Bette Davis

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.