Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

Tina Brown

Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals.

Idina Menzel

Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'

Idina Menzel

I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!

Isaac Brock

When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!

Isabella Bird

The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.

Giles Foden

Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences.

Gil Gerard

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.

Natasha Trethewey

My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

Valentino Castellani

The 20th Olympic Winter Games of Turin celebrate passion, a characteristic for which Italians are well known and now it's reaching its climax in Turin,

John George

We have always celebrated diversity here and it is great to see everyone thanking and honoring the King's day.

Rodney Stark

Leading Christian theologians such as Augustine and Aquinas were not what today might be called 'strict constructionists.' Rather, they celebrated reason as the means to gain greater insight into divine intentions.

Tom Thayer

We have the gala to celebrate the opening of our season,

J. M. Roberts

You are an Original that can't be Duplicated! Embrace that and Celebrate Your Uniqueness because God does.

Bobby Jenks

When I saw that out call, it was the greatest feeling. I just reacted to instinct. I celebrated without thinking.

Dan Bennett

I'm in my ninth year in this district, and I've always said we've got great kids and great families. There aren't many times we get to celebrate what those things are all about.

Stephen Davis

We get to celebrate our relationship in a play about the family.

Wayne Cornelius

We've made it much more costly and risky to come and go crossing the border, and because of that we make it more likely (undocumented immigrants) will spend a longer time in the U.S. and settle permanently here.

Philippe Petit

For years, I have been working on crossing the Grand Canyon. Actually, there is nobody who says 'no,' but since this is a project that comes from me and not a commission, I have to find the money, plan the logistics, etcetera.

J. J. Johnson

We have a long laundry list of questions for him to answer. We fully expect to have a hearing on Global Crossing this fall.

Robin Anderson

We're crossing our fingers. We've got to hope this won't become a ghost town.

Rob Glaser

We have some hard problems to solve: The applications are quite complex, the delivery systems can be difficult to master, and the applications that were once the domain of high-end users are now crossing over to the mass market. But I have no doubts that we and others (content delivery companies) will be up to the task.

Tasnim Aslam

Because of the widespread devastation the information about crossing procedures took some time to trickle down.

Akira Sasaki

I had wanted to perform strongly and pump my fist after crossing the finish line. I feel greater than my last second-place finish because this time making it to the podium was a much more vivid target.

Karen Turner

He was going door-to-door looking for school crossing guards and went to my in-laws' house, ... They said they were too old, but told him to see me.

Jimmy Rollins

He looked like Ricky Williams crossing the goal line, ... He had nothing left. It was a good time for an oxygen tank.

Don Shelby

You just have no idea of what you are about to see envisioned here in Winona,

Rafer Alston

You always envision a night like that, where you come out and hit on all cylinders.

Scott Morgan

We envisioned it to be the kind of store we'd hang out in if the place wasn't ours.

Richard Sommer

I envision watershed protection as a big thing.

Scott Moore

I envisioned myself as one of those guys who spent 20 years flying the same aircraft. I didn't plan on flying several types of helicopters, it just kind of worked out that way.

John Wade

I envisioned having a nice reunion, but I had no idea how great it would turn out.

Anne Donovan

To finish the season on this note is not how any of us envisioned this.

Val McLean

What we envisioned is a place where the kids can study, and we'll have a place to watch videos of them on the field, as well as a place for them to store their stuff.

Brittany Murphy

I always envisioned her looking like a spindly blonde, but she looked like me.

Edward Snowden

If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.

Nancy Gibbs

Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

Adam Scott

That would finish off the year, and I'd be pretty happy.

Joe Godinho

That was the third time he had to wrestle his kid in the last three weeks. It was a tighter match, but Kevin finished strong.

Chris Johnson

That was the first thing that hit me. I knew I had to find a place to try and finish my senior year, so I'd have a chance.

Jeong Jang

That was the first long putt today. Good finish going into tomorrow.

Lauren Bechtold

That was something that's exceptional to be able to hear. To finish with all of these girls, it was incredible.

Brian Curran

That was a huge goal. Samy had a great all-around game and that was a nice way for him to finish it off.

John Ellinger

We have two games left, we need to win an away game. We want to win, we don't want to finish the season with 12 straight losses.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Benjamin Levy

I think I'd like to run a marathon someday,

Julie Gerberding

We are planning for a marathon and not a sprint. We will be collaborating with many people...for many months,

Bill Rodgers

I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.

Don Kardong

You entered a marathon with hills? You idiot.

David Lipe

It was one of those marathon tennis matches. With the tournament all day (today), it's going to make it pretty tough on these guys.

Justin Osmer

We view this as more of a marathon than a sprint.

Haile Gebrselassie

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

Roxane Gay

After the Boston Marathon bombings, people shared grief and outrage on social media.

John Conley

This has been a planned separation. We weren't surprised. We didn't have the rug pulled out from under us. There's been a six-year trend to have the marathon stand on its own two feet.

Todd Rundgren

You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.

Ian Mckellen

I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

Gail Carson Levine

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

Zoe Sugg

I know that I do have influence over the people who watch me, and it's quite a pressure. I have to stay positive, and while I would never use the words 'role model', I am mindful of the responsibilities that come with a substantial viewership.

Zadie Smith

I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.

Webb Simpson

To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.

Wynton Marsalis

Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down, and when I'm sleeping, my mind solves the problems. When I wake up in the morning, I have more clarity on the issue.

Emma Roberts

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

David Byrne

The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

Maurice Greene

If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.

Tom Woodruff

We may tweak things a little bit. When we get runners on base, we have to get them around to score. We will do what ever it takes.

Donna Martin

We had ample opportunities to score. We need to have better at-bats with runners on base.

Chris Bryant

That's been the story of our year. We just can't score runs when we need to and get runs in when we've got runners in scoring position.

Nick Johnson

It's very frustrating. We had some opportunities, and we didn't get it done. I had runners on second and third with one out. You have to find a way to get it in.

Andrew C. Bradley

Sam pitched very well for us, we just have to get some of those runners to score.

Bill Rodgers

That's fine; we runners are, after all, up for a challenge.

George Carlin

You never see a smiling runner.

Nancy Gibbs

A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.