Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gil Morgan

That was the main thing. I knew if I could do that, I was definitely assured of playing with Doug.

Rod Graves

The 10th spot is a very good spot for us to be in. I think that if we stay there we're assured we'll get an excellent football player.

Jay Taylor

We need to have some kind of mechanism in place to assure our customer base that they are not going to be a target of an outfit like the CIW.

Pat Roberts

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.

Bryan Golie

We're talked at some length about whether taking all these fish will damage the resource, but our fisheries people assure me they can keep up with the demand.

Chuck D.

My clients are not conspiracy theorists. Our problem is just that you have to assure some sense of integrity in the system.

Joe Nemechek

We need to put it together and get on a streak. But whatever happens you can be assured that we will follow the soldiers' creed of never giving up.

Gary Jackson

You can be assured we are looking for another low-cost carrier. We're working diligently.

Yolanda King

It is certainly difficult for us to see Mother in a weakened state. Because our faith is so strong and we are seeing daily improvement, it helps. We are completely assured that she will come to a full and complete recovery.

Yolanda Adams

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

Yanni

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

Irving Stone

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Elizabeth Warren

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Brian O'Neill

The overall performance of the Grand Caravan was similar in all three tests, except for the fuel tank, ... Based on these tests, the 2001 models manufactured before the redesigned fuel systems are rated poor for crashworthiness because of the leak.

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.'

Young Jeezy

I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

Yolanda Adams

You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.

Yanis Varoufakis

My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

Tina Turner

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

Thich Nhat Hanh

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Imelda May

I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.

Isabella Bird

Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.

Gin Wigmore

I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who plays for a man named Bob, to wrestle my emotions and bring out the raw grit hiding in my tightly guarded sub-conscious.

Young Jeezy

When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

Patrick Sparks

That was something between me and the team. To have your teammates cheering me on like that, it means a lot.

Rob Jeter

I thought it was Milwaukee fans making all of that noise. That's great that they were cheering for us. I am sure they won't be cheering for us (today).

Jim Haslett

I'm hoping there's 65,000 people that are cheering the Saints on and it's loud.

Todd McCullough

I wish I had another year with this program. But I know it's on the right track. I can see myself next year sitting on the couch in my old Gator uniform watching and cheering while they win championships. I know it's going to happen." ()

E. Hicks

I was the No. 1 guy cheering for Todd,

Joe Horn

It felt like an away game. The crowd obviously was cheering for their home team. But that's irrelevant. We lost a football game. . . . I felt personally like we fed them on a platter, and they ate. . . . Regardless of where we're living, regardless of Hurricane Katrina, we lost. No excuses.

Dennis Roberts

We hope the stands will be full of fans who are here cheering our team on,

Alex Johnson

While cheering for the big game can be a great way to express enthusiasm for your favorite team, you could be paying for this for days or weeks after the big event.

Alejandro Moreno

Unfortunately, that is the way things work out sometimes in our profession. You're not out there cheering for someone to get hurt, but the fact of the matter is that's how opportunities come about, and I was able to come in and do the job.

Xavier Becerra

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

Timothy Noah

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.

Giles Foden

I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.

Gilbert White

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

Donald Trump

Obamacare is, number one and maybe least importantly, it's costing the country a fortune.

William Shatner

I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog.

William Whitelaw

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

William John Wills

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

Valerie June

I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.

Xavier Becerra

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

Pete Saco

The penalty is extremely difficult. I've been doing this for 13 years and this has to be up there as one of the toughest two or three decisions I've ever had to make. I lost a lot of sleep over the weekend about this. It wasn't fun.

Cecelia Ahern

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

Ashton Kutcher

I try to make good decisions as decisions come up.

Bill Bradley

Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.

Derek Thomas

That was the game. Seven or eight straight times the fouls were called on their end and one time on ours and we're going to the basket. It was very frustrating because I felt like the kids didn't get to make the decision of who won the game. Eleven free throws; we predicate ourselves about getting to the line and we get to the line 11 times.

Derek Thomas

That was the game, right there. I felt like the kids didn't get to make the decision to win this game on their own.

Rod Marinelli

That would be nice. He just kind of made his decision to move in a different direction. That's kind of how I left it. I wish him the very best. The thing I can tell you is, he's got terrific talent.

Jurgen Klinsmann

That was the toughest decision of my career.

Igor Luksic

It's definitely the development that has changed the way Montenegro is seen in the eyes of the world.

Will Yun Lee

Whenever you're fighting with weapons, there's a level of reality because people don't understand that these are still metal or hard rubber with sharp points - that if the timing's wrong, you could definitely get hurt. There's nothing like working with an actor who doesn't know what they're doing, because you're always in fear of losing an eye.

Will Champlin

I'm definitely a fighter, like Christina Aguilera would say.

Billy Graham

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

Emma Roberts

New York is a fun place to shoot, but it's definitely hectic.

Ben Affleck

I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen.

Helane Becker

The pilots definitely have the power in this relationship. If they don't want to fly, you don't fly.

Patrick Callahan

The pendulum is definitely returning and has been for a year.

Mike Connors

The penalty is definitely one that fits the crime.

Vince Sinisi

One of the greatest guys I've ever played with. He really opened up to us and was one of the guys. He treated us all like professionals. He talked strategy a little bit, pitchers that he had faced and knew, or pitchers I faced. He'd just sit there in the dugout and talk baseball.

Aaron Rowand

It all started the first inning when he got on base. Everybody in the dugout was like, 'All right, it's show time,'

Jeff Conine

We're in the dugout hitting instead of maybe giving up another run,

Steve Liddle

We told him in the dugout that if we knew you didn't want to hit that bad, we wouldn't have started you.

Paul Byrd

He gives me the signal from the dugout through the catcher. There's times when you throw over there on your own and times, ... when you don't have a choice.

Skeeter Barnes

He looked like he was just looking into the dugout and get his five innings and get out.

Alex Rodriguez

I don't know why he got ejected. We had 14 people in the dugout yelling at the umpire and I guess he just picked out the manager. There was no warning or anything. I think it helped us.

Mike Hargrove

I couldn't look at that last pitch. I found something on the dugout floor to look at.

Chris Pedretti

Travis and Tommy are the two experienced guys we've got that had over 100 at-bats. So really, they're leaders for us on the field, in the dugout and in the clubhouse.

Yotam Ottolenghi

What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.

Walter Savage Landor

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

Carrie Fisher

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

Bethenny Frankel

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

Caroline Haberfeld

The airfares are less expensive, and it's very easy to get there. It's very convenient. It's English-speaking and the value is good.

Saddam Hussein

The American government made several errors ... one of which is how easy it would be to get rid of Saddam and how hard it would be to unite the country,

Austin Kearns

That was the worst wind I've ever seen here. It wasn't easy out there by any means.

Steve Goff

That will be the toughest match of the day (for us). We're planning to serve them tough and keep them from getting an easy pass.

Andriy Shevchenko

The 1-1 from the first leg is a good result, but we must think we are starting from zero. We must not think that Bayern can be an easy opponent.

Gin Wigmore

I'm very open with people, very warm, when I meet them. My fans in particular find that strange and refreshing.

Gene Ween

Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don't stand out too much, but they're still total freaks. I like that - they're smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us.

Viswanathan Anand

There is technology where you can watch the match live online and also on TV. If people understood the game, I'm sure we would have a lot of chess fans by now.

Ken Sawyer

The Penguins and our fans will always be very grateful to Craig.

Becky G

I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.

David Stern

I'm persuaded that sports is the one place where the rules are pretty well set out, where fans are equal. And if you got game or you're a good official, you make it here, whether you're white or you're black.

Bill Vaughan

I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.

Sue Wilson

The abusive person usually doesn't understand the game and are usually the loudest. Fans see officials abused on TV, and they think it's fine to do it on the high school level.

Ken Hitchcock

We have unbelievable fans and they're disappointed. We have to stick together.

John Breaux

We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.

Susan Danly

Here is someone who sits in Maine and works here in Portland, but this show takes you to San Francisco and takes you to Rome through imagination and architecture.

Willie McCovey

I've always had a connection here in the city from the first day I arrived. I stayed in the city. I made San Francisco my home. I was seen in the offseason at a lot of different functions, and people liked that.

Robin Williams

Look at us -- we're a San Francisco wedding cake.

Danny Meyer

I run in London, in San Francisco - any city that's got a waterfront or park.

Alfonso Felder

Of all cities, San Francisco should be able to find a way to keep these theaters.

Tom Lehrer

San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.

Jeremy Allen White

I mean, 'Girls': I love 'Girls,' I watch 'Girls.' But it's a show that's very coastal. People in New York and people in L.A. and people in San Francisco will watch it. But I think in Middle America, for the most part, it probably isn't watched as much.

Maggie Lynch

They work in tandem so you can't really get a street-cleaning ticket in San Francisco unless we're really street cleaning.

Bethenny Frankel

I've always been told I have a giant placenta.

Richard J. Codey

Today is a great day for the state of New Jersey. We are keeping the Giants and Jets where they belong.

Ned Colletti

He has not informed the Giants of that decision.

Barry Bonds

I feel great. I'm just doing what the Giants tell me right now. I don't want to make any predictions about the future, but I feel like I'm getting closer. The swelling is pretty stable.

Wellington Mara

Giants ownership has left at least $150 million of team net worth on the table.

Al Pacino

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

Bill Murray

You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great.

Beth Moore

The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.

Dennis Miller

Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger.

Yahya Jammeh

Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.

Harvey Rosenthal

The only reason they're putting them there is that mental health law allows them to.

Barry O'Farrell

If you've stacked on the weight over time, and if you don't have any health issues, you don't realise. So you'll see yourself in the mirror and, yes, you know what the scales say, but you don't actually see what other people see.

Barack Obama

And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

Richard Lamm

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

Carl Rogers

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

Ashley Tisdale

I love pancakes, and I actually do love healthy stuff. Like, I love gluten-free or whole-wheat pancakes. Breakfast is my favorite meal.

Bill Vaughan

The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole.... Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core. The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life. Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.

Brad Goreski

I have been so lucky to have the support of 'InStyle' magazine. My first big women's fashion story was for them.

Carrie Vaughn

You're lucky to have a friend who will kill for you." So. I once had a friend who died for me, and now one who killed for me. Why didn't I feel lucky?

Carl Safina

From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.

Bill Bryson

Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.

Bette Davis

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

Danny Way

That was the scariest ... thing I've ever done in my life. I'm lucky I'm alive.

Michael Skibbe

That was a lucky win - you can see we still need work as a team.

Peter Jackson

I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders.

Sourav Ganguly

(Michael) Vaughan is lucky that Gilchrist has not shone with the bat. We were also similarly lucky in 2003-04 when Gilchrist couldn't get going.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

John Maynard Keynes

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

Joshua Jackson

I would say trustworthy too, but he owes me money.

Howard Dean

He got us into it. He owes it to the American people to get us out.

Benedict Lucchesi

I don't know that I owe them an apology,

Mack Brown

Three years ago I would have said, 'Tell me why I owe YOU one?

Ellen McLaughlin

The more you head into the maelstrom, the more vulnerable you are, of course. But it's what you owe to whatever gift you have.

Hans Jonas

Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.

Matt Hasselbeck

Some of us Seahawks feel that we let the NFC down this past week. So we've got to step it up a little bit. We owe these guys.

Ashton Kutcher

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

Jerry Berman

We have tools out there which are 100 percent available.

Ronnie Arnold

We're within 2 percent of the 65 percent now.

David Baltimore

Were we to go with 60 percent at NIH reviews, many of us scientists would be very uncomfortable with the quality.

Joel Fox

We re-use 85 to 90 percent of it.

Dick Vermeil

We just want to make sure he's 100 percent ready in his own mind, as well as physically.

Bob Kelly

You can get 170 percent more Terminal Services users on a single server with Windows 2003 Server x64 than you can with 32-bit Windows.

Andrew Cuomo

You just want to win by one. To win by over 50 percent is especially gratifying.

Beth Young

I'm still waiting on that one. We shoot about 30 percent and that would take about 300 shots. I think we try to take that many shots sometimes.

Gary Hart

This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.

Christian Bale

I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.

Neil Peart

I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?'

Cecil Beaton

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

Prince Royce

I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.

Andy Hernandez

Most of (the protests) are immigrant-driven marches. That's why you haven't had any big ones in San Antonio.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I worked for 'The Chronicle' in San Francisco, and immigration is a big issue in that region.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane.

Yuri Kochiyama

I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.

Arsene Wenger

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

Arsene Wenger

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.

Arsene Wenger

One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.

Bill Bradley

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Bill Bradley

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

Roy Oswalt

The 20 wins is nice, but it's a whole lot better that this team is in the playoffs,

Craig Biggio

The '98 team was probably the most disappointing.

Aaron Small

The 7-0 thing is nice, but more importantly, it's a team win,

Jim Pace

That was the most disappointing thing about this game. We have a veteran team and we should know what to do in those situations.

will.i.am

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

Boy George

I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Malala Yousafzai

I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

Caronica DeBose

You know, I haven't even though about it. I have not even thought about it.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Bill Bruford

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.

Dmitry Rogozin

After analyzing the sanctions against our space industry, I suggest to the USA to bring their astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline,

Diane Watson

The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.

Al Neuharth

USA TODAY hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation.

Eddie Izzard

In the UK a lot of people don't like to try. There's a different cultural thing. Here [in USA] if you try and fail, you get up again and start again and keep going. People respect you for it. Even if you keep failing, they respect the tenacity.

Arne Jacobsen

I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.

Kurt Vonnegut

The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

Bill Maher

I never thought I'd say this, what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush.

Bob Barker

The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.

Cecelia Ahern

The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered.

Carl Sagan

Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you.

Carl Sagan

Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

Bette Davis

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.

Bill Burr

I do enjoy them. I get to meet the next generation of comics and help them out. Big comics doing small shows was something that used to happen a lot more back in the day. I wish there was more of that.

Bertrand Russell

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

Bertrand Russell

The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.

Bertrand Russell

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation ... it is common to wish well to oneself, but in our technically unified world, wishing well to oneself is sure to be futile unless it is combined with wishing well to others.

Bertrand Russell

If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.