Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Kreutzer

As long as I can look at Joe and say, 'Is my food cold or late?' Or (if) the quality goes down, (and) all those are answered no ... to my satisfaction, I'm a happy camper.

Derek Johnson

We had the wind in our sails. We had all the momentum and moving fast but they just kept coming back. They flat knocked down their shots, and then that 3. They answered every run we threw at them.

Paul Jerrard

We answered back fast and put a lid on their momentum. That was key to put their momentum at bay.

Kami Roeder

She was just more confident. We told her she has the potential to do whatever she wants and she answered the call.

John Nicks

She's answered that a hundred of times, so a hundred and one more times wouldn't have made a difference.

E. Hicks

I was told that after I answered their questions, then I could speak to my dad. I just wanted to talk to my parents.

Victoria Pino

I tried calling him back, but he never answered the phone.

Leander Paes

They are all hardworking and fun to be with. But a captain is only as good as his team and not the other way round.

Bruce Dickinson

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

Gennady Zyuganov

I don't think you have to be a specialist to see what his state of health is ... if during the crisis the captain is not on deck, that means he is seriously ill.

David Fulton

I expect he will make a very good captain and I'm not sure why it's taken so long (for him to become India captain),

Lanny Wadkins

If a Captain makes the right or wrong pairings, he has a heck of a lot of impact on the outcome. I haven't played on a Ryder Cup Team when the Captain didn't have an impact.

Mike Adams

He wanted me to be more vocal, ... I've got to be a captain out there. I've got to take control.

Julie Casey

Counselors will be on site from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m..

William Kidd

My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.

Erin Morgenstern

I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write.

Terrence Holt

It was funny. We were going back and forth with each other, talking the whole game.

Paule Marshall

You're going to be gone so maybe you aren't the right one to talk to.

Stanley A. McChrystal

There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.

Mason Cooley

Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

Jay Wright

I don't think we understand how hard people are going to come at us. These guys have never gone through a season like this, ranked early, getting so much attention. Everyone else wants to make their name off you. You can't imagine how hard people come at you.

Alan Noble

Hopefully, when he wakes up the headache will be gone and he will be back to his normal self and go back to thinking about the hatch again.

Bruce Dungan

I don't think speed is something that has gone away. It will take some time; it will take some study.

Kate Johnson

I don't think it could have gone any better.

Kevin James

I don't know if we knew what to expect. I would say it's gone pretty well.

Jim Calhoun

I don't know if these guys could have gone another minute.

Author unknown

I should've known it wasn't going to work out between my ex-wife and me. After all, I'm a Libra and she's a bitch.

Judy Gold

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

In some places it's known as a tornado. In others, a cyclone. And in still others, the Idiot's Merry-go-round. But around here they'll always be known as screw-boys.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Oh my gosh. That's terrible. I had no idea. I've known her since I was a little girl. That's really awful.

Carlton Forrester

It's always nice to be vindicated. We've known for a year now we've done everything right.

Michael Morchower

It looks to me like Richmond will be known as scapegoat city.

Pete Wilson

You can only be loved to the extent that you are known.

Kevin Hart

I've been known to preach.

Joe Frazier

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Baruch Spinoza

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

Great men can't be ruled.

Ayn Rand

If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.

Ayn Rand

If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

Ayn Rand

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Charles Spurgeon

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

Daniel Defoe

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

Confucius

To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

Ambrose Bierce

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

Ambrose Bierce

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

Ambrose Bierce

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

Alice Walker

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

Brandon Lee

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

Jane Austen

I would much rather have been merry than wise.

Baltasar Gracian

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Baltasar Gracian

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Charles Fort

[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

Aristotle

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Aristotle

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Ben Jonson

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Don Rickles

When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.