Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Michalowski

He wanted to be seeded No. 1, but I like the position he's at. He can accomplish anything he puts his mind to. He's very positive with what he wants to accomplish and that's more than half the battle.

Michael Chang

He is quite incredible - it made me think a bit about me winning the French Open at 17 and how professionals accomplish things so young. I had the feeling Tiger Woods did not quite know what was going on and it was like that for me at the French. It was only afterwards that I realized the significance.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys.

Kerry Emanuel

I will go out on a limb and say, eventually, we will accomplish this,

Bob Ryan

I will fight for the issues, I will fight for the constituents in my district, and I'll fight my best fight. We need to accomplish business on the council.

Keiko Ihara

I will probably not continue racing for 20 more years. But I will go on until I accomplish my goal, that is F1, to repay those who have supported me.

F. Stone

When they got there, they assumed control of local operations and using plain speak allowed it to happen. If we can't find a common, logical level to communicate on, then how are we going to be able to accomplish our objectives?

Dai Qing

Under his 13-year leadership. (Jiang) did not push China towards democracy. He could not accomplish that.

Al Groh

He was pretty spectacular. All the teams that accomplish anything during a season have a quarterback that picks his team up and carries it, and he surely did that.

Wayne Dyer

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.

Jonah Rapino

It seems like it's the classic of classics. I think we had been avoiding it for a little while.

Dusty Baker

They're avoiding him because he can hit you out of the ballpark. It doesn't have to do with anything but that. That's it. I don't believe any manager would let personal feelings - no matter how they feel - get in the way. They're trying to win games.

Bob Dozier

It's a tough area. South of the school, there are high- and upper-middle-class citizens - lots of doctors, lawyers, teachers and principals. North of the school, where Jerome lived, you have the inner city. It's a pretty tough area. Jerome and his parents did a great job avoiding the pitfalls of that.

Tim Jackson

In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society.

Sen Sears

Avoiding the sex offender registry ought to be a felony. If you have that felony status, police could (immediately) arrest.

Jon Daniels

Avoiding the arbitration process for the next two years with a core player such as Mark is an important step for both he and the club. We're hopeful the contract is the continuation of a relationship that will last well beyond the term of this agreement.

George Washington

Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic

John Eisenhower

Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.

William Temple

Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor; where there is more sense than wit; more good nature than good humor; and more wealth than pleasure; where a man would choose rather to travel than t

Pat Jr

We've got to look at what Georgia did and what led to a successful decision there. The one thing about our leadership in Texas Gov. Perry and some others they don't necessarily put the most money on the table, because we pride ourselves here in this state on having other competitive factors that make a company choose Texas.

Veronica Roth

I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

Vikram Seth

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

Brian Townsend

Our real goal is to really make our city where people choose to live, regardless of their demographic or social makeup,

Kelli Johnson

Passengers have to choose another route or another airport. We've seen a dramatic loss in seats.

Jill Pendley

Our lives a series of defining moments,strung together by passing time.Surrender fully to this moment,because it is not the moment itself that defines us,but how we choose to live in it.

John Lubbock

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking

Mark Ambrose

In your free time, you will choose who to hang out with. If you were to show me your friends, I could tell you your future.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

John Hawkes

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

Jerry Dorsey

He decided, for personal reasons, that he needed to be off the board.

Mark French

When he needed to be, he was very good. They had some quality scoring opportunities early, and he made some real nice stops.

Alyn McCauley

We make it tougher than we needed to. We got away from things we wanted to do.

Norm Boyles

We made the plays when we needed to, and Tiffany buckled down when she needed to.

Bernie Bickerstaff

He needed to make those plays in the end to make up for some of those things he didn't get done early.

Wayne Dyer

I Will Consult with God and Know that I will be Guided to Do What is Needed.

Ruth Ozeki

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

Ciputra

Other than much needed infrastructure development, local administrations in Papua must encourage entrepreneurship and creativity.

Jon Darbyshire

In the past, it was something they needed to address, but they didn't have to.

Salman Rushdie

If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through a second language and end in a third. It's the very playful, very natural result of juggling languages. You are always reaching for the most appropriate phrase.

Lake Bell

I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack .

Adolf Hitler

The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the really good periods of German life the German woman never needed to emancipate herself.

William Shakespeare

For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase...

T. S. Eliot

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

Ronald Fisher

(Coining the phrase 'test of significance'): Critical tests of this kind may be called tests of significance, and when such tests are available we may discover whether a second sample is or is not significantly different from the first.

Thomas Bernhard

...He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.

Steve Harvey

The best timed joke or the best timed phrase comes at spontaneous moments and just relies on me as the host to be very quick, and that's what I do.

Socrates

To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Gibbs

I think we realized what was at stake,

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Alexander Milinkevich

It is important that the Russian authorities realize that we are sincerely willing to respect Russia's interests. But we are not going to sacrifice our interests, either.

William Garay

You've got to realize that water is probably 50 or 60 degrees.

Chris Paul

It just seemed like we were scoring and they were scoring, we were scoring and they were scoring. And it can't be like that. We realize that we can score at times at will, but at the same time they were scoring every time.

Steve Jobs

Oh, I never realized that those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped!

Brian Silverman

It's like a dream. I never realized how big it is.

Audrey Rust

It makes you realize how important it is to do this well.

Thomas a Kempis

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Michael English

The streetcar will always have detractors. Is it going to go away? No. Is it going to be expanded? Yes, sooner or later.

Sue Black

The sooner I can alleviate everyone's fears, the better.

George Andrews

We tried to get foam on it as soon as we could. Any spark and that whole tanker could have blown,

Roy Halladay

We tried to do everything we could to get back as soon as possible,

Chuck Palahniuk

No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

Theodore Roosevelt

The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.

Greg Poehler

I feel like the longer I hold out - I feel like as soon I move to L.A., I just become one of a million.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.