Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Harkaway

I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was relaxed and casual about her well-being during this tender time - and the novel clearly has its center in that panicked parental desperation that accompanies a first child and in the admittedly comedic extremes to which it drives us.

Jonathan Agnew

He didn't quite manage to get his leg over.' - about Ian Botham, though admittedly on the cricket pitch at the time

John Cornyn

I think the president does have an opportunity now after admittedly a very bad week to turn things around and to show why the people of this country re-elected him just one short year ago,

John Scofield

In the States, this type of jam-band phenomena has opened it up for groups to improvise, admittedly more in the groove area, as opposed to the straight-ahead jazz thing - which is good for me, as that's one part of where I'm at. It's been so great playing these gigs and seeing kids come out and the whole college scene.

John Adams

It has escaped no one's attention that celebrating Minimalism in the context of a symphony orchestra is admittedly a problematic fit. Most of the best Minimalist music is not scored for conventional orchestra. But the Los Angeles Philharmonic, being an orchestra that is not only a hundred-piece ensemble but also an amalgam of distinct, highly talented performers, found many ways to make a successful survey of this magnitude.

Stuart Fraser

The background has been encouraging so I don't think it's just a Christmas rally to expire completely in January. We've seen good confidence numbers from the U.S. and Germany, stronger growth, inflation well contained. The oil price is admittedly sticking a bit around $60 but it isn't going up anymore.

James Joyce

Ever looked sufficiently at a quite everyday looking stamped addressed envelope? Admittedly it is an outer husk: its face, in all its featureful perfection of imperfection, is its fortune: it exhibits only the civil or military clothing of whatever p

Richard Flanagan

Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.

Kathleen Hanna

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

Keira Knightley

I really believe that in this industry women have to be very true to themselves about what they're comfortable with.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Dave Mirra

I was like, 'Dude, I can't believe it,' ... I don't know where I fit in, but I'm psyched. Whatever.

Jason Schmidt

I was laughing at myself. Every time I'd throw one 85 and Jeff Kent would pop it up, I was like, 'Oh my gosh,' ... There are other guys in the league who can do it, and it made me a believer in how you can get guys out doing it.

Hal Miller

I was lucky to get away from that with only a few small injuries, ... The next day I looked at the car and just couldn't believe I had survived it.

Iain McKie

I was in the police for 36 years. I always believed fingerprints didn't lie. Now ... I know different.

Hosni Mubarak

King Hussein was a great leader and brother and a dear friend ... he believed in justice and peace,

Shannon Sharpe

He didn't play because he was talented. He played because he cheated the system.

Alexis Kendrick

You could look at it that way, but we were confident in the players we had. Every year we have to make adjustments. We didn't feel cheated at all. I'd give anything to play with these players again.

Martin Biron

It was hard for a while because a lot of people spent money, invested money and felt like they got cheated a bit. Now they felt like they should give those guys (in ownership) a chance, and it has paid off. The more people that are there, the more exciting it is, the harder the team wants to work, the more the front office wants to create a good situation for the city, for the fans. So it's like a big wheel, and it makes a big difference.

Matt Moore

It's not like I got cheated or anything. It's better how it panned out. Ultimately, he got what he wanted and I got what I wanted.

Craig McDonald

It's taken a while and we can't undo the 2002 elections, but we can hold those who cheated in those elections accountable. There's some satisfaction that the criminal process is working its way out.

Susan Faludi

They feel cheated of a useful role in society, and that's what manhood has historically been grounded in,

Preity Zinta

I've never cheated or been cheated upon. I've seen my parents together and secure. So I feel the same way. Infidelity stems from low self-esteem. You want to cheat when you don't feel good about yourself.

Patti Stanger

When a man gets cheated on, I'm like, 'Meh, he'll find somebody else.' When a woman gets cheated on, that's a deep wound. I think when a man is widowed, like Liam Neeson, I think that has more of an effect - you had a great love and the universe took her.

Bill Reed

That's why these things are checked. He cheated himself out of two points.

Andruw Jones

Hank Aaron's in the Hall of Fame; it's a good record. But I don't worry about it. My goal this year was not to hit 40 home runs, but just to improve my consistency. When the season's over, that's when I'll look at that stuff.

Gary Hatch

He's been one of my hall of fame guys. Stephen worked his tail off to become a starter. It didn't happen until his senior year.

Jerry Colangelo

He was looking though the glass at the photos that were up on the wall in their hall of fame. He said, 'Dad, I want to come here and do what you did to follow you.' I said, 'No, Bryan. That was my life. You're going to have to live your own life.

Robert Pattinson

I suppose I should understand it [fame] better by this point, but I really don't.

Rod Stewart

There is this power that comes with being famous.

Zachary Quinto

My return to the theater in New York was so specific. I didn't want it to be about leveraging my exposure or my fame, so the first show I did in New York was an ensemble piece at an Off-Broadway theater, and I wanted to make sure that it was just about the play and about the experience.

Oliver Hudson

Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.

Pierre Corneille

To myself alone do I owe my fame.

Pierre Corneille

To myself alone do I owe my fame. [Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.]

Christina Lee

I was just bawling. That's when I realized this guy was for real. His heart is so pure.

Jay Alford

I was looking to them as the guys that make the plays and run around and get to the ball. So that's what I'm trying to do this year.

Joey Miller

I was looking at these guys on TV last year. Now I'm one of them. It's really awesome.

John Doherty

Kevin threw three picks early, but he stayed the course, ... He's our No. 1 man and he kept the rest of the guys pushing. He didn't let anything get to him.

Sonny Lubick

Jake really helped himself. He will be a guy who is hard to keep out of the lineup next fall.

Tim Hanson

Jake is a very talented freshman. Our varsity lineup has some guys that will be running varsity for the first time, so it will be interesting to see.

Hines Ward

Ken has done a phenomenal job of distributing the ball. Every week, it's a different guy stepping up.

DeShaun Foster

Just like those two guys were different kinds of backs, we got the same thing here,'' Skipper says.

Scott Olsen

Just like my last start. You want to go out there and match what the other guy is doing.

Jay Alford

I was looking to them as the guys that make the plays and run around and get to the ball. So that's what I'm trying to do this year.

Joey Miller

I was looking at these guys on TV last year. Now I'm one of them. It's really awesome.

John Doherty

Kevin threw three picks early, but he stayed the course, ... He's our No. 1 man and he kept the rest of the guys pushing. He didn't let anything get to him.

Tim Hanson

Jake is a very talented freshman. Our varsity lineup has some guys that will be running varsity for the first time, so it will be interesting to see.

DeShaun Foster

Just like those two guys were different kinds of backs, we got the same thing here,'' Skipper says.

Frank Haith

Having vocal leadership is important to this team. He's taken that role on, and the guys respect what he says. To me when you don't have him on the court, that's what you're lacking.

Adrian Griffin

Guys get hurt and other guys have got to pull their weight and pick up the slack. We don't make excuses. Obviously we are better when everyone is healthy.

Liz Phair

Guys don't really don't wanna hear if it's really smart, and women feel uncomfortable if you reveal stuff they're going to have to remember they did themselves.

Jason Donald

Guys didn't come here to play the opponents we played in the first 10 games.

Michael Schiavo

He wanted to go out into the hall and have a fistfight. It was ludicrous.

Shirley Sippel

He'd be playing that old piano at the town hall waiting for the meetings to start.

Shawn Amos

Harlem's Apollo is probably the most well-known music hall in the world.

Nancy Cartwright

I will not whittle hall passes out of soap

Mark Dobson

I am ecstatic. I want to keep representing the residence halls as true as possible.

Dorothy Jones

He was the first one to give us money for our Halloween party.

Richard O'Brien

He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise. He had a pickup truck, and the devil's eyes. He stared at me and I felt a change. Time meant nothing, never would again.

Richelle Mead

Right. Because there’s no bigger sign of commitment than a Halloween dance

William Friedkin

Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.

Tom Driscoll

We're opening up the day after Mother's Day.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Richelle Mead

Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for.

Winston Churchill

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Anders Igel

Our acquisition strategy is still very much the same as before, but we are opening up our thinking a little.

Cynthia Johnson

In the past two years, since so many burrito places have been opening up, people have been going there.

Peter Hall

I have to pour it on the opening weekend, then go back into battle.

Frank Robinson

I promise you tomorrow you'll see the Opening Day lineup.

Richard Eyre

I'm never comfortable at theatre opening nights. If it's my own production I'm too wound up to be able to enjoy the performance and too wary to enjoy the event as a social occasion.

Joe Davis

He kind of proves that you can still serve long after you take off your uniform.

Thomas Peterffy

You win a few, you lose a few.

Jim Mattox

He's been there 30 years, he doesn't have to prove anything to anybody,

Jim Funk

We've got to prove to the world that we are open.

Brian Carlwell

I think we proved that we can play with tough teams. I don't feel like we were lucky. I feel like we won the game.

Michelle Monaghan

I will say that 'Source Code' proved to be a very tricky film to shoot.

Bayan Jabr

I will punish them if (an investigation) proves they are responsible for any violations.

Giorgio Rocca

I don't have to prove anything to anybody. I just want to have fun, and you can see it in my results.

Dallas McPherson

I'd like to be the guy, but I don't have any expectations. I know I have to go out and prove myself all over again.

Jason Taylor

I don't know that we've proven anything yet. I think we took a step in the right direction.

Travis Ramsey

He has made a point. he has proven what he can do.

Ed Parkinson

I'm sure it's going to take a while; there's a lot of evidence. This is a circumstantial case, but I think that we've proven murder.

Jose Canseco

All I have is the truth, and I've proven that.

Tom Higgins

It's tough to win with young quarterbacks. It's proven in the CFL,

Tom Goguen

Sun has a proven track record of doing this.

Richard Herman

They've proven their study habits; they've proven they can accommodate to college.

Paul Woolpert

We've proven we can win on the road, now we have to prove we can win at home.

Michio Kaku

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

Patrick Freitas

He just stayed up every time. He had the respect of the gym.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Lenny Wilkens

I think that you have to communicate with people, and I think that respect is a two-way street.

Rebecca West

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Tupac Shakur

America wants its respect.

William Blake

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

Waylon Jennings

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

Winston Churchill

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Samuel Johnson

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Paul Dergarabedian

You could say the 'NC' stands for 'No Cash,'

Wendy Palmer

It stands for the big three in my life. God, me and family.

Joan Maloney

It stands for a time, not a place.

Dale Tea

As it stands now, I don't know what it means.

Robert Lansing

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.

Jim Hawkins

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

Clem Metz

She just stands there -- like some employees.

Faith Hunter

There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.