Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Follett

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

Lou Holtz

Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.

Tony Lazzeri

They didn't get along. Gehrig thought Ruth was a big-mouth, and Ruth thought Gehrig was cheap. They were both right.

Howard Rosenkrantz

The thing about Ruth jerseys is that there aren't very many of them. When one surfaces, you go for it.

Dodie Smith

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

Alice Sebold

Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.

Reggie Jackson

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

Chris Hedges

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.

Billy Graham

End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw.

Bill Evans

I would've been very happy to go into halftime at 6-0, but we had a couple upperclassmen get their bells rung and we didn't have the depth to cover it up. That touchdown was a back-breaker,

Sophie Kennedy Clark

I was a feral child. Always on the go. My mother used to sew bells into my dresses so they would know where I was.

William Faulkner

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

Jimmy Smith

I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.

Greg Gorbatenko

The Bells need IPTV. They are losing subscribers to cable. It's extremely important for them to trump the offerings of the cable guys and the only way to do that is through video.

Margaret Atwood

The bell that measures time is ringing

Pietro Aretino

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.

Justin Theroux

In the '90s, there was a big bell-bottom craze. Everyone was wearing grungy bell-bottoms. It was so repugnant to me.

Madison Smartt Bell

In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

William Friedkin

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

Will Ferrell

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

Roberto Bolano

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Robertson Davies

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

Walt Whitman

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

Wilson Mizner

I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.

Walter Lippmann

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Walter Johnson

Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.

Henry A. Kissinger

When I first saw China, there were no automobiles. There were no supermarkets. There were no high-rise buildings. There were no consumer goods. There were no restaurants that were at least accessible that foreigners could see. It was a Stalinist society, and a very poor Stalinist society. So the economic system has totally changed, and the private sector in the economic system is now the dominant sector. It didn't exist at all as late as 1979.