Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Gray

Special teams are just as important as the offense or the defense. Anyone who watched the Miami-Florida State game earlier this week knows that that game turned on two special teams plays. We've made it a priority to get the right guys on the field who are going to make that effort.

Elon Musk

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

Sean Hill

Once you see the names involved, anyone who is a fan of hockey wants to hear what comes of it. Whether you're a player or a fan of the sport, it's pretty interesting. Everybody's paying attention to it.

Wilma Bennett

Once you knew her, you didn't forget her. She was a great woman always willing to help anyone who needed help.

Jason Williams

No way will we take anyone for granted. This team has come in every day of the season the same way -- win or lose. We just try to go out to the next practice and focus on the next team.

Carlos Emmons

No way I'm giving anyone $40,000 for a number. You can burn the number up for all I care. There's definitely a limit.

David Duncan

Thanks for 21 years of fun, excitement and all those great experiences. You shaped me more than anyone -- more than a friend, maybe more than a brother. You were a part of me, and you will be deeply missed.

David Williams

So that excludes those students who are within a 50 mile radius of Madison County and it also excludes anyone who is not a new freshman. That language was new freshmen, not all freshmen and not returning students.

Todd Davis

So now anytime anyone is going to do anything with your credit they have to contact you first.

Abby Cohen

We expect profit growth to decelerate in the second half of 2004.

Manuela Preuschl

I still expect a strong rise in unemployment in January and I think we won't see any real improvement until the end of next year or even the start of 2003.

Tiger Woods

I started off well, making a few birdies, but after that I didn't do much expect read putts and get the pom-poms out,

Zhang Ning

We've reached our goal and now we expect to keep on moving.

Terry Glenn

What can you do? It was just everything going wrong at once. I'm not making any excuses. If I'm out there, then I expect to make plays. But it's tough when you're hobbling around out on the field.

Randy Burditt

We talked (Monday) about it being a new season from here on out, and I expect them to play like this from here on out.

Andy Mangin

We just ran out of gas. Our goal all year was to get better every game and we did that. I expect to be back here next year.

Baron Davis

We just played in spurts. You can't play in spurts on the road and expect to win.

Lloyd Carr

We just made too many mistakes in the red zone. You can't get the football down there and give it away like we did and expect to win a game like this.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Steve Lawson

If you please God, it does not matter whom you displease. And if you displease Him, it does not matter whom you please.

Steve Guttenberg

No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around.

Steve Aoki

On my YouTube channel, I put up 3-4 videos a week, and I spend a lot of money to maintain that content. When I travel, I travel with a videographer and a photographer no matter what.

Stendhal

A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

Shelley Winters

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.

Shahid Kapoor

Life is just too short, too unpredictable and too complicated. Be happy no matter what, a smile sometimes is all you need

Shahrukh Khan

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

Serinda Swan

To be a part of something like 'Tron,' good God! It doesn't matter how big or small your role is, you're like, 'Yeah, I was in 'Tron.''

Bobby Collins

Is that all? That seemed like a 25-turnover night to me.

Andy Goldsworthy

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

Michael Jackson

Look at how many great actors or entertainers have been lost to the world because they did a performance one night and that was it. With film, you capture that, it's shown all over the world and it's there forever.

Chris Hardwick

What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in the New Age night.

J. C. Ryle

Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.

Isabel Allende

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

Irving Berlin

God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above.

Jeff Lindsay

And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister.

Jeff Lindsay

And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Dolly Parton

After you reach a certain age, they think you’re over. Well, I will never be over. I’ll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I’ve done that in my past, and I’d do it again.

Dick Morris

The stagnation of the Japanese economy in the past 20 years is eloquent testimony to the fact that government usually gets it wrong. Sometimes it makes the wrong decision because it fails to anticipate the market (as Japan did when it downplayed laptop computers and stressed mainframes).

Desmond Tutu

Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack.

Desmond Tutu

As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.

Desmond Tutu

Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often you have to carry an albatross. And it won't happen until people are able to have a certain level of trust and try to speak to each other, not as caricatures but as people.

Derek Walcott

We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

Dean Karnazes

Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is when you recognize that the shackle holding you down are largely once you have placed upon yourself, the prison is self constructed

Andre Agassi

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

Adam Savage

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.

Ama Ata Aidoo

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Tom Hiddleston

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'

Todd Whitaker

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.

Sloane Crosley

Because, ten-year-olds of the world, you shouldn't believe what your teachers tell you about the beauty and specialness and uniqueness of you. Or, believe it, little snowflake, but know it won't make a bit of difference until after puberty. It's Newton's lost law: anything that makes you unique later will get your chocolate milk stolen and your eye blackened as a kid. Won't it, Sebastian? Oh, yes, it will, my little Mandarin Chinese-learning, Poe-reciting, high-top-wearing friend. God bless you, wherever you are.

Socrates

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

Meredith Brooks

I classify myself as a student and a teacher. This year, I'm back into the student. I try to stay balanced. I learn so much every time I walk about my door.

Mercedes Lackey

The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?

Michelle Obama

I was blessed throughout my entire career. I had people rooting for me. It started with my parents, but it extended to almost every teacher that I had. Even when I was a young lawyer, there were other women and men in the firm who took me under their wing.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Don Meyer

Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

American working men are principals in the three-member team of capital, management, labor. Never have they regarded themselves as a servile class that could attain freedom only through destruction of the industrial economy.

Colleen Atwood

On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.

Claudio Reyna

The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much I could do.

Chuck Daly

I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.

Christy Turlington

I'm flattered by the offers I receive, but there's no real strategy to the way I choose what to do these days. If I'm in a good mood and have the time, I'm more likely to consider it. Often the photographer and team are important factors, too.

Andrew Bogut

The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Ted Jr.

I think it's probably his time to go, and I think he will go.

Stephen Toulouse

It is on the table. Every time any kind of exploitation is going on, it is on the table.

Rick Barnes

He had it going. They were having a tough time with him.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Douglas Conant

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

T. S. Eliot

Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow

Matt Mullenweg

I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

Mark Martin

I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.

Mark Brunell

If we don't win this one, we're done.

Frederick William Faber

For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.