Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Hull

I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years.

Brett Hull

If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.

Babe Ruth

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Babe Ruth

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Ashton Eaton

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.

Arthur Ashe

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think most of my lessons come from sports. That's why I always emphasise to young kids to get involved in sports because it's where you learn about discipline. It's where you learn to keep going, where if you think you can't make it, you can.

Ayrton Senna

I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.

Brian Boitano

As an athlete, I hope we can remain focused on the Olympic spirit which celebrates achievement in sport by peoples of all nations.

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Boris Vallejo

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Barbara Kingsolver

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Benjamin Bratt

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

Carl Zimmer

Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.

Alan Dershowitz

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

Jane Austen

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet

Jonathan Cohen

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Richard Blumenthal

We think that as of right now, unless the federal government tells us otherwise, we can continue to do as we have done with our system, ... We believe that our regulation embodies a valid state policy that articulates our belief that school boards are in a better position to muster the facts and expertise in any contest with ordinary parents.

Thomas Paine

In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.

Franz Humer

I maintain the belief that it is not that easy or productive or value-creating going for a mega-merger,

Mark Bruener

My belief and desire to play has changed dramatically since I got here. Football is fun again.

Tom Maeser

My guess is we have people who have these beliefs here but they are not going to publicly demonstrate here as much as they would somewhere else.

Michael King

Fundamentalism is not a phenomenon limited to religion. Any belief system can become intolerant and give rise to violence. Whether one likes it or not, humanity is 'wired' for myth. Mutual tolerance is the only way.

Chris Grisanti

If AT&T, for example, is any indication, the shareholders have a lot to gain (from this effort). The executives?have the belief that the parts are worth more than the whole. And to get one piece of that sexy Internet business in this kind of a market, they could very well be right.