Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Creech

It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.

Gustave Flaubert

She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.

Ralph Alvarez

Although I never knew Ray Kroc, his vision and legacy lives within all of us. By focusing our full-time best efforts on operations excellence, we can keep Ray's vision alive for the next 50 years.

Mark Haley

They did what they had to do to stay alive in this series, but you know the attitude of our kids. They'll be out there battling (tonight).

Howard Schultz

It's a great American story and I think it shows the entrepreneurial spirit, that the entrepreneurial opportunity in America is alive and well,

Robert Levy

You know, we hope to. We hope to get a call saying they found her and she's alive and, you know, she'll be back.

Robert DiClemente

With surging productivity keeping alive chances of further disinflation, even another Fed rate cut cannot be ruled out,

Chris Stringer

We've now got about 10 Neanderthal specimens of around 40-50,000 years old that have yielded DNA that is clearly distinct from anyone alive today.

W. Hull

We've been deeply involved in the International Home Furnishings Market for many years, and we're committed to keeping it alive and thriving in High Point. We feel that SHOWPLACE is a landmark property with tremendous potential, not just during April and October, but for between-market use as well.

Demi Lovato

I allowed social media to define what I thought of my body. And now I realize that no matter how thin you are, someone will call you fat. No matter how beautiful you are, someone will call you ugly. But you can't spend your time worrying about that. You're just not going to please the world.

Demi Lovato

I tried to conform to what everyone thinks is beautiful. But my genetics gave me a curvy figure, and I've come to understand that in the Latina culture, that is beautiful.

Demi Lovato

If I could turn back time, I would tell myself that I'm beautiful every day, because we all are! And we need to start believing it!

What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk?

Greg Foreman

Very little bothers me more than seeing or hearing something so astoundingly beautiful that I am unable to put it into words.

Buddha

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

Paul Hornung

Every year we take two or three people in. This year we took in Reggie White. It was really incredible, it was a beautiful ceremony. And all the guys that played under Lombardi were in this group and we raise a lot of money for charity. It's really worked out good.

Ray McDaniel

The response has really been quite amazing. This music speaks to many 25- and 30-year-olds. They've found it very beautiful and uplifting.

Leo Tolstoy

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts

John Milton

Black it stood as night, / Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, / And shook a dreadful dart.

Oscar Wilde

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

Michael Rooker

Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!

James Allen

Many times they would lynch someone by a railroad track so that passing trains would see and pass the word on and also as a form of intimidation to people in surrounding black community.

Curtis Preston

Security is a frustrating business. And the hardest thing to do is stop an internal black hat. The risk can't ever totally be eliminated -- it can only be minimized.

Alphonso Jackson

New Orleans is not going to be as black as it was for a long time, if ever again.

Shawn Harrison

I don't want the money to disappear down the black hole of city government. Put it (the money) in New Tampa where it was intended to be used.

E. O. Wilson

For us, to have her here for Black History Month, is just a real coup.

Tom Fuller

silver screen theme. It's black and white formal with lipstick red to pull it all together.

Bella Thorne

My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.

Source Unknown

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Amy Poehler

Dreams never wear you down.

Amy Poehler

I want to be around people that do things. I don't want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.

Allen Ginsberg

Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!

Alberto Gonzales

I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Come, Time, and teach me many years, I do not suffer in dream; For now so strange do these things seem, Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.

Alexander Pope

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

Alex Haley

Your attitude is everything. Believe in yourself and trust your material. To be a successful writer, write every single day where you feel like it or not. Never, never give up, and the world will reward you beyond your wildest dreams.

Jon Stewart

Sometimes it's hard to face your own...life.

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Michael Dixon

I'm just looking forward to the next challenge.

Robert Jones

I'm very appreciative of Sheriff (Ben) Johnson for the opportunity to serve as major in his administration. I'm looking forward to the new challenges.

Romeo Crennel

I'm sure he's disappointed because I know he wanted to be part of a victory. But he's still part of the team and we're looking forward to a speedy recovery.

Paula Abdul

Im grateful this ordeal is over, and Im so looking forward to getting back to the job I love,

Frank Catalanotto

I'm excited. I don't know what to expect, but it should be fun. I'm looking forward to playing with the different guys -- guys I've never played with before and some of these Italian guys.

Simon Dyson

I just want to keep playing as I have been doing and shooting sub-par rounds. I think if one of us shoots four- or five-under on Sunday, (he) could take it. I am looking forward to it. I have been in a share of the lead every day and feel I have responded well.

Ilian Evtimov

I'm actually looking forward to it. We didn't play over there last year, and really, I kind of missed it.

Don Pierson

The larger corporations have such significant resources, they take their initiative and move forward without significant needs.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Tommy Hill

It wasn't what I wanted. I'd rather leave here with a third than (leave) with nothing at all like I did last year. I guess I wrestled a lot better once I lost because it gave me the drive.

Marc Bulger

It was sort of a wakeup call. It gave us a little spark that we didn't have. I can't say how much that turned the game.

Bobby Keys

I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old.

Peter Bienert

We worried and we hoped constantly. We never gave up hope.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Anne Sexton

There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail.

Ambrose Bierce

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

Tom Stoppard

Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolate That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage, And mitigate the gloom of Age? Religion bids the tempest cease, And, leads her to a port of peace; And on, the lonely pilot steers Through the lapse of future years.

Martin Luther

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Mason Cooley

Hope likes justification, but can do without.

Adolfo Cambiaso

Memo is unbelievable, the way he is fit. I don't think I'll be playing that long, for sure. I hope I quit before that. I'll be around polo and horses and things like that, but not playing.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope

Bobby Cox

Roger should have won in the low 20s this year and John should have won 18, 19 or 20.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Ron Moody

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.

Don Herold

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people

Yusuf Islam

Perhaps people will remember my voice and what I was able to do with it.

Jeb Bush

Perhaps people are saying, 'I'm going to hunker down,'

Mike Huckabee

Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.

Kurt Vonnegut

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

Kurt Vonnegut

If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?

Mike Connors

It went pretty much straight into the ground.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus

Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.

Doug E. Fresh

I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energy is strong. I look at it as: I'm just following the energy. That's how I sum that up.

Anne Bancroft

I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

Angelina Jolie

I went through what I imagine thousands of other women have felt. I told myself to stay calm, to be strong, and that I had no reason to think I wouldn't live to see my children grow up and to meet my grandchildren.

Amy Carmichael

If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think of as my strong points; if I adopt a superior attitude, forgetting "Who made thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou hast not received?" then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amy Carmichael

The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love.

Amy Carmichael

Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Eric Schmidt

Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.

Eli Manning

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

Malcolm Gladwell

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

John Lasseter

To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There are so many great artists out there. And the goal is to make great movies, you know? So to be successful, quality is the best business plan as I always say.

Rick Baker

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

Tom Hodgkinson

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.

Tom Verlaine

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

Scott Adkins

I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will

Fannie Lou Hamer

I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Travis Barker

I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30 to 45 minutes on show days. That's the first thing I do when I wake up, I have breakfast and then I'll hit the gym.

Zach Galifianakis

I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.

Zach Galifianakis

I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.

Max Azria

I'm very visionary, very big picture.

Will Smith

If you look at somebody like 50 Cent, ain't nobody telling 50 what to do and how to do what he does. He has a vision of who he wants to be, and he instructs everybody along those lines.

Karel Reisz

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.