Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Childs

I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.

Lily Cole

Kate Moss has had such a phenomenal career and I wouldn't even like to compare myself to her. It's amazing that people are going to put my name close to hers.

John Planamenta

Just winning two state titles in anything, any year is an amazing feat. So to have it done in the same sport by the same school is truly an impressive feat. I think it really speaks to the level of talent in the area.

Larry Walker

I think it'll get talked about a lot more if we win two more games. Obviously that's an amazing feat, but two more wins is going to make it even better.

Jimmy Tillette

He leads us in scoring. He leads us in rebounding. Most amazing to me is that everyone is guarding him and for the year he's shooting 52 percent in the league. To me Merritt is amazing.

Taylor Branch

He (Johnson) had an amazing spiritual quality about him,

Grant Achatz

Here's the irony in what I do: When I go out to eat, I like classic French food. I like amazing Japanese food that has such a history that it goes back hundreds of years. And I also like really innovative food as well.

Grace Gealey

I find that when I put too much makeup on, or I use a certain brand, my skin will break out. I tend to gravitate towards water-based foundations because my skin absorbs them a little better and it doesn't break out as much. I use Hourglass Mineral Veil. It's so amazing.

Sam Worthington

Actors get to go to these amazing worlds. In 'Terminator,' I was a cyborg with feelings; in 'Avatar,' I lived for 15 months on a fantastical planet, and in 'Clash of the Titans,' I get to fight a scorpion the size of a dump truck. It's a bizarre job, but you explore yourself.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Peter Laviolette

I would think that we're going to take the best players available.

Pat Brisson

Jack thought long and hard about it. It was very flattering for him that Carolina was so interested but Jack just feels his development is best served by staying another year at school. It was a tough decision but Jack feels good about it.

Chris DiMarco

Jack's the best, the best of all time, and to make that putt for him is what it's all about, ... We wanted to get a win for him so much. Last night, we had a great, emotional dinner. Everybody got up and talked, and I think everybody said they wanted to go out and win this for Jack. And to do that is unbelievable.

John Bogle

Jack Brennan is the best person I could possibly have found,

Stacy Keibler

I would say my best feature has to be my legs - they are 41.5 inches long!

Ed Oakley

I would say it's in his best interest, at this stage of the game.

Ed Schroeder

In the long haul, you are looking at the rebirth of one of the historically successful industries of Pensacola . . . the fishing and diving industry.

Phil Nuytten

We should be there and diving . . . Saturday morning.

Li Hua

There is no similarity between diving and other sports. Every sports team has its own way to solve problems and you can not mix them up at any time.

Hannah Storm

I get to get paid to go scuba diving for four months in the Caribbean? Fine!

Chan Gailey

How about that speed down the sideline? Diving was more of an exclamation point to it.

Christopher McDougall

We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.

Bill Engvall

I'd like to see the Amazon rainforests before they're all gone, and also the Galapagos - that's another one I'd like to do. I'd love to go diving in those areas. Basically, places, like, that are kind of going away, and I'd like to see them before they all become condos and high-rises.

Theo James

Diving into Internet speculation is like playing with the devil. It's tempting, of course.

Aaron Paul

I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.

John Green

The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

Maya Angelou

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

Maya Angelou

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

Judith Ivey

She encounters all these different men, ... in the Adirondacks to help her out (or) not to help her, and so on -- and they're all suspicious.

Daisaku Ikeda

A moment’s encounter can decide the direction of one’s entire life

Mike Huckabee

I'm not against anybody. I'm really not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic. I honestly don't care what people do personally in their individual lives.

Dave Auday

Going into the season, I knew they were going to be the one seed in the Foothills League. I honestly thought we would be the No. 2 team and we proved it today.

Larry Brown

I don't know when I will be back. Hopefully it'll be sooner than later, but I honestly don't know.

Ryan Walker

I honestly think a lot of them didn't go out with the intent of excluding us.

Kelly Packard

I honestly didn't think we were going to come back. I really didn't.

Kevin Pietersen

I'm flattered. I honestly didn't think I was going to get this award,

Angie Harmon

I left Law and Order because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.

Leslie Mote

The first half, honestly and truly, we didn't do anything wrong. It seemed like offensively everything we did worked. It was just clicking.

Sam Palmisano

You can see the competitive reaction quite honestly as an endorsement of the IBM strategy.

Jon M. Chu

I don't feel like I need to be on an island to be enjoying myself and relaxing.

Napoleon Hill

Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.

Orhan Pamuk

I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.

Jeff Greene

When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing.

Nellie Bly

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.

Nellie Bly

The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.

Matthew Fox

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

Julian Baggini

From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.

Nicole Polizzi

It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka.

Paul Watson

All of the great whales are endangered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

Bill Condon

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

Bill Bryson

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

Bill Vaughan

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Herman Melville

It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

J. K. Rowling

Dudley had reached roughly the size and weight of a young killer whale.

Kurt Vonnegut

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.