Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Rutherfurd

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

Casey Wilson

Even before I got on 'SNL' I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how I would start. I don't mean to sound arrogant - I just thought I would be best suited to the form.

Robin Wright

I dislike arrogant men and diva behavior in either gender.

Jonah Hill

I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.

Bronson Pinchot

'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.

Brian Eno

It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

Rene Portland

We had so many walks. I haven't seen that many walks since I coached a grade school team when I started coaching.

Bill Parcells

I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

Jeremiah Trotter

These next three weeks are going to tell the tale of this team. It's imperative that we go down there to Washington and get this win. We lost our first game in the division to the Cowboys, so this is a must-win. A must, must-win.

Richard Engel

The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.

Terry Stotts

Everybody knew that our division was going to be tough.

Carl Crawford

We all want to be measured up in this division and see where we stand. We'll have a good idea after this road trip.

Chris Terry

This was a big division win for us. Brandy pitched very well.

Rob Kurz

There's only 105 teams in Division I still playing. We're fortunate to be one of them, and we really want to end the year on a positive note.

Mike Martino

We want to be able to pay our own way. We are a revenue-producing sport. We do it ourselves, there's no paid coaches, no salaries. We travel well, we have nice equipment. We do great trips with the kids. We treat it like a Division I program.

Slobodan Milosevic

Slobodan Miloševi?, more than anyone else, caused a division within the Left and Centre Left, dividing the pacifists, anti-imperialists and anti-Americans from the anti-fascists and the internationalists. He reminded too many of us that inaction can be as toxic and murderous as action. He prepared us - for weal or woe - for the new world.

Heather Buck

Right now, I don't know what I want to major in, ... I would like to play Division I, but we will see how things work out.

Yoko Ono

Thank you George, it was grand knowing you.

Charles Breithaupt

This is going to be a grand experiment.

Jan Karon

Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

Adolf Hitler

History is as Old as My Grandfather

Andre Leon Talley

I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

Sophia Myles

I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

Victoria Azarenka

My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.

Toby Keith

I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and that's where I got to watch her band play -- she had a seven or eight-piece band, and I would sit in the kitchen and peek through the door. I was kind of a 12-year-old bottle washer.

Nik Wallenda

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Rich Brooks

That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game.

Eugene Levy

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Gary White

We want to go to the place where history started.

Philip Kerr

I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.

Javier Aguirre

This team knows that they are part of history but it also knows that they have done nothing yet.

Amir Salem

This verdict will go into the dustbin of history.

Margaret Chan

When is the next time? We don't have a time frame. I suspect it will likely to be November, if history is anything to go by.

Peter Dolan

We see a promising pipeline taking shape - one of the most promising pipelines in our company's history.

Patty Douglas

To me, it's perfect. We're here, and Jerry is getting stronger again, and we are so grateful.

Bill Gray

Jerry Lamb was one of my heroes. He wouldn't let us lose.

Dennis McNally

I think Jerry would be very pleased by this.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Chris Lynne

Zach had a lead, but we lost that with seven seconds left.

Dean Koontz

I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her.

Daniel Handler

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

Elijah Wood

I watched the Lost series in the US and it's great.

Pat Robinson

We have residents here who have lost people. It's very sad.

Taylor Swift

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Mitch Albom

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

Rastislav Spirko

We don't have any more time for some losses. We know where we are. We want to get to the national tournament and play here.

Jalal Talabani

We have the right to be proud in saying that today was a day of national consensus, ... So congratulations to our people for their constitution.

Franz Beckenbauer

At least six Bayern players, who have won almost everything, are in the national squad.

Seth Grahame-Smith

I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

I started, actually, in journalism when I was - well. I started at the 'New York Times' when I was 18 years old, actually, but really got into journalism when I was 15 years old and had started a sports magazine which was trying to become a national sports magazine.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Frank Rijkaard

This was a big result for the players and the club.

Andrew Bird

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Alannah Myles

I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.

Rickey Henderson

I don't want to be one of those great players who never made it to the (World) Series.

Sam Lewis

During the playoffs the teams really come at you and we're going to be the team to beat.

Sarah Brightman

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

Brian Bosworth

When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.

Jane Austen

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

Chris Cornell

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

Douglas Adams

So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked. He looked at me as if I were stupid. 'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.

Doris Lessing

The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.

Colin Powell

The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions.

Claude Chabrol

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.

Claude Chabrol

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

Daniel Radcliffe

The idea the actors are the most important people on a film set I think is very stupid. Actors are the most replaceable people there. There are literally millions of us. There's very few people that can operate a steady-cam. The numbers are a lot, lot fewer for that, you know?

Miranda Lambert

I'm wide open and raw emotionally to the crowd.

Larry Vanderhoef

I'm worried about that, ... It's a widening gap.

Thalia

You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.

Frances Chaney

It would be just too embarrassing if we won again.

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Aristotle

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Albert Einstein

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

T. S. Eliot

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

Tom Waits

We have a deficit of wonder right now.

Socrates

Wisdom belongs in wonder.

Socrates

Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.

Michael Faraday

Nothing is to wonderful to be true