Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theophile Gautier

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Imelda May

I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

Imelda May

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

Ice T

When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

Ice T

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

Gillian Armstrong

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

Venus Williams

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

Bill Gates

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Chino Moreno

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

Chad Nightingale

That was the Kentucky Derby of (high school) track and field meets. Every minute you'd turn around and another top national mark would be broken. It was unbelievable.

John Asher

We do not condone the sale of Kentucky Derby tickets for higher than face value.

Bob Baffert

You always want to come to the Derby with a good horse. And we're back here now with three really good horses. It feels nice.

Dale Romans

We've got to make it through this race the right way before we can start thinking about the Derby. Obviously this is a huge test for us. Every 2-year-old you've got, the Derby is always in the back of your mind - especially one as talented as this one. Let's just hope we can take that last big step toward going home.

David Dunn

We've got to look to go into the derby next week at Villa and get three points.

Barclay Tagg

He was full of himself. If everything looks good on Wednesday (of Derby Week), I'll enter him and if everything looks good on Thursday, I'll ship.

John Asher

He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves,

Beau Greely

I don't even know it happened yet. I've won some grade Is and I've had a few seconds, but this is something really special. And he's my first Kentucky Derby horse.

Jack O'Connell

I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.

Glenn Ford

One thing led to another and I didn't have to take tickets any more because I now worked for Mr. Rogers. He said if I was going to take care of his horses than I'd better learn how to ride. He was very kind to me.

C. S. Lewis

God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.

C. S. Lewis

No one can teach riding so well as a horse.

Bill Bryson

No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would appear to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space.

Bill Bryson

There is more difference between a zebra and a horse, or between a dolphin and a porpoise, than there is between you and the furry creatures your distant ancestors left behind when they set out to take over the world.

Bernadette Devlin

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

Arrigo Sacchi

I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first.

Arsene Wenger

If you want to win a horse race, you need your horse to be 100%.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And I imagine, that [ten hundred thousand] of these little Creatures do not equal an ordinary grain of Sand in bigness: And comparing them with a Cheese-mite (which may be seen to move with the naked eye) I make the proportion of one of these small Water-creatures to a Cheese-mite, to be like that of a Bee to a Horse: For, the circumference of one of these little Animals in water, is not so big as the thickness of a hair in a Cheese-mite.

Ring Lardner

He give her a look that you could of poured on a waffle

Marcia Gay Harden

Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.

Steve Elkington

It was a romp from the start. We poured it on and poured it on.

Mark Fox

I poured a sidewalk. I walked through it. That wasn't very smart.